LoL 14.9 Patch Notes - League of Legends Guide - IGN (2024)

The 14.9 Patch for League of Legends has arrived, bringing with it several Champion updates, Item tweaks, ARAM balance changes, Arena balance improvements, and more!

This page acts as a comprehensive breakdown of the 14.9 Patch for LoL, including a link to the full Patch Notes.

Arena Champion Balance Changes

• Ahri
  • W bonus decaying movement speed: 40% >>> 50%
  • W base magic damage: 50/75/100/125/150 >>> 70/95/120/145/170
  • E cooldown: 12 >>> 10 seconds
  • R recasts on kill: 1 >>> 2
• Azir
  • Bonus Health: 0 >>> 0-187 (levels 1-18)
  • Q Cooldown: 14/12/10/8/6 >>> 12/10.5/9/7.5/6
  • W Damage: 0-77 (based on level) (+ 50/67/84/101/118) (+55% AP) >>> 0-77 (based on level) (+ 55/72/89/106/123) (+55% AP)
  • E Cooldown: 22/20.5/19/17.5/16 >>> 18/17/16/15/14 seconds
• Gnar
  • Bonus Health: 0 >>> 0-357 (levels 1-18)
  • Passive “Tired” duration: 15 >>> 8 seconds
  • Q Cooldown: 20/17.5/15/12.5/10 >>> 18/16/14/12/10 seconds
  • Q Base Damage: 5/45/85/125/165 >>> 20/65/110/155/200
  • W decaying movement speed duration: 3 >>> 4 seconds
• Karthus
  • Bonus Health: 0 >>> 0-314 (levels 1-18)
  • Q Magic Damage: 45/65/85/105/125 (+35% AP) >>> 60/80/100/120/140 (+45% AP)
  • W Cooldown: 15 >>> 12 seconds
  • R Cooldown: 200/180/160 >>>> 60 seconds
• Lux
  • Passive AP Ratio: 45% >>> 50%
  • E Slow: 25/30/35/40/45% >>> 40/45/50/55/60%
  • R Cooldown: Cooldown: 60/50/40 >>> 30 seconds
• Shen
  • Bonus Health: 0 >>> 0-187 (levels 1-18)
  • R Cooldown: 200/180/160 >>> 60 seconds
• Vex
  • Bonus Health: 0 >>> 0-612 (levels 1-18)
  • W Damage: 70/115/160/205/250 (+70% AP) >>> 90/135/180/225/270 (+80% AP)
  • W Cooldown: 16/15/14/13/12 >>> 13/12.5/12/11.5/11 seconds
  • E Cooldown: 13 >>> 10 seconds
  • E Slow: 30/35/40/45/50% >>> 40/45/50/55/60%
• Xerath
  • Bonus Health: 0-255 >>> 0-493 (levels 1-18)
  • W Damage: 60/95/130/165/200 (+60% AP) >>> 90/125/160/195/230 (+60% AP)
  • W Cooldown: 14/13/12/11/10 >>> 10 seconds
  • R Cooldown: 130/115/100 >>> 50 seconds
• Ziggs
  • Bonus Health (levels 1-18): 0-255 >>> 0-493
  • Q Cooldown: 6/5.5/5/4.5/4 >>> 4 seconds
  • W Cooldown: 14/13/12/11/10 >>> 12/11/10/9/8 seconds
  • R Base Damage: 250/400/550 >>> 300/450/600

Items

• Hexdrinker
  • Item Recipe: Long Sword + Null-Magic Mantle + 500 gold >>> Long Sword + Long Sword + Null-Magic Mantle + 150 gold
  • Magic Resistance: 35 >>> 30
• Maw of Malmortius
  • Total Price: 2800 >>> 3100
  • Ability Haste: 0 >>> 15
  • Magic Resistance: 50 >>> 40
  • Attack Damage: 65 >>> 70
  • Lifeline Duration: 2.5 >>> 3 seconds
  • Lifeline Buff: 12% Lifesteal >>> 10% Omnivamp
• Death's Dance
  • Item Recipe: Steel Sigil + Caulfield’s Warhammer + 1000 gold >>> Steel Sigil + Caulfield’s Warhammer + Pickaxe + 125 gold
  • Attack Damage: 55 >>> 60
  • Defy Healing: 50% bonus AD >>> 75% bonus AD
• Sterak's Gage
  • Total Price: 3000 >>> 3200
  • Lifeline Cooldown: 60 >>> 90 seconds
• Sundered Sky
  • Lightshield Strike per Target Cooldown: 6 >>> 8 seconds
  • Lightshield Strike Healing: 140% base AD (+6% missing health) >>> 120% base AD (+6% missing health)
• Eclipse
  • Ever Rising Moon Damage: 8% (melee) / 4% (ranged) of target’s maximum health >>> 6% (melee) / 4% (ranged) of target’s maximum health

Champions

Akshan

• Q - Avengerang
  • Move Speed on Champion Hit: 20/25/30/35/40% (+5% per 100 AP) >>> 20% at all ranks (+5% per 100 AP)
  • Damage to Non-Champions: 40/52.5/65/77.5/90% >>> 40/50/60/70/80%
• R - Comeuppance
  • Minimum Damage per Bullet: 20/25/30 (+10% total AD) >>> 25/35/45 (+15% total AD)
  • Maximum Damage per Bullet: 80/100/120 (+40% AD) >>> 75/105/135 (+45% total AD)

Bel'Veth

• Passive - Death in Lavender
  • Bonus Attack Speed per Stack: 0.28%-1% (levels 1-13) >>> 0.28%-1% (levels 1-17)
• Q - Void Surge
  • Damage: 10/15/20/25/30 (+110% total AD) >>> 10/15/20/25/30 (+100% Total AD)
  • Monster Damage Modifier: 140% total damage >>> +45/55/65/75/85 flat damage

Kennen

• E - Lightning Rush
  • Added a range indicator for the damage radius
• R - Slicing Maelstrom
  • New animation has been added for Slicing Maelstrom
  • Kennen can now cast his ultimate while moving

Nilah

• Q - Formless Blade
  • Minimum Damage: 5/10/15/20/25 (+90/97.5/105/112.5/120% total AD) >>> 5/10/15/20/25 (+90/95/100/105/110% total AD)
  • Bonus Attack Speed: 10-50% (based on level) >>> 10-60% (based on level)
  • Critical Strike Chance Damage Modifier: 100-220% (based on critical strike chance) >>> 100-200% (based on critical strike chance)

Sejuani

• Passive - Fury of the North, Frost Armor
  • Bonus Resistances: 10 (+50% Bonus Armor/Magic Resistance) >>> 10 (+75% Bonus Armor/Magic Resistance)
• W - Winter's Wrath
  • First Hit Damage: 10/15/20/25/30 (+20% AP) (+2% of her maximum health) >>> 5/15/25/35/45 (+20% AP) (+4% of her maximum health)
  • Second Hit Damage: 20/60/100/140/180 (+60% AP) (+6% of her maximum health) >>> 5/25/45/65/85 (+60% AP) (+8% of her maximum health)
  • Maximum Damage: 30/75/120/165/210 (+80% AP) (+8% of her maximum health) >>> 10/40/70/100/130 (+80% AP) (+12% of her maximum health)

Skarner

• Base Stats
  • Mana Regeneration Growth: 0.6 >>> 0.75
• Q - Shattered Earth/Upheaval
  • Damage per Hit: 10/25/40/55/70 (+60% bonus AD) (+5% of his bonus health) >>> 10/20/30/40/50 (+60% bonus AD) (+5% of his bonus health)
  • Q no longer refreshes the buff duration upon attacking Wards or Plants
• W - Seismic Bastion
  • Slow: 20/25/30/35/40% >>> 20% at all ranks
  • Shield: 9% maximum health >>> 8% maximum health

Champion Radii

• Selection Radius
  • Alistar: 145 >>> 140
  • Aurelion Sol: 165 >>> 150
  • Azir: 88 >>> 120
  • Bard: 88 >>> 130
  • Blitzcrank: 165 >>> 140
  • Brand: 65 >>> 120
  • Braum: 100 >>> 130
  • Briar: 111 >>> 120
  • Darius: 125 >>> 120
  • Diana: 75 >>> 120
  • Gangplank: 85 >>> 120
  • Garen: 75 >>> 120
  • Gragas: 155 >>> 140
  • Jayce: 75 >>> 120
  • K’Sante: 102 >>> 140
  • Leona: 75 >>> 120
  • Lissandra: 88 >>> 120
  • Malzahar: 88 >>> 120
  • Malzahar: 88 >>> 120
  • Mega Gnar: 180 >>> 140
  • Naafiri: 111 >>> 120
  • Neeko: 90 >>> 120
  • Nilah: 75 >>> 120
  • Poppy: 95 >>> 100
  • Rengar: 70 >>> 120
  • Rumble: 165 >>> 140
  • Veigar: 93 >>> 100
  • Vel’Koz: 88 >>> 120
  • Viktor: 160 >>> 120
  • Warwick: 111 >>> 120
  • Xerath: 88 >>> 120
  • Yasuo: 75 >>> 120
  • Yone: 75 >>> 120
  • Yuumi: 120 >>> 100
  • Zac: 90 >>> 140
  • Zoe: 120 >>> 100
• Gameplay Collision Radius
  • Aurelion Sol: 65 >>> 80
  • Briar: 55 >>> 65
  • Darius: 80 >>> 65
  • K’Sante: 65 >>> 80. Pathfinding radius: 35 >>> 50
  • Lulu: 65 >>> 55
  • Milio: 65 >>> 55. Pathfinding radius: 35 >>> 30
  • Naafiri: 55 >>> 65
  • Vex: 65 >>> 55. Pathfinding radius: 35 >>> 30
  • Warwick: 55 >>> 65
  • Yuumi: 65 >>> 55. Pathfinding radius: 35 >>> 30
  • Zoe: 65 >>> 55. Pathfinding radius: 35 >>> 30

Small Champion Changes

Ahri

• W - Fox-Fire
  • Damage: 50/75/100/125/150 (+30% AP) >>> 45/70/95/120/145 (+30% AP)
• R - Spirit Rush
  • Cooldown: 130/105/80 >>> 130/115/100 seconds

Amumu

• Base Stats
  • Base Attack Damage: 53 >>> 57
  • Base Armor: 30 >>> 33

Aurelion Sol

• E - Singularity
  • Total Damage: 50/75/100/125/150 (+100% AP) >>> 50/75/100/125/150 (+80% AP)

Blitzcrank

• Passive - Mana Barrier
  • Passive Shield Duration: 10 seconds >>> 4 seconds
• W - Overdrive
  • Initial Bonus Movement Speed: 70/75/80/85/90% >>> 60/65/70/75/80%

Evelynn

• W - Allure
  • Slow: 65% >>> 45%
• R - Last Caress
  • Damage: 125/250/375 (+75% AP) >>> 125/250/375 (+65%)

Janna

• W - Zephyr
  • Damage: 55/90/125/160/195 (+60% AP) (+30% Bonus Movement Speed) >>> 55/85/115/145/175 (+50% AP) (+30% Bonus Movement Speed)
• E - Eye of the Storm
  • Shield: 80/115/150/185/220 (+55% AP) >>> 80/120/160/200/240 (+55% AP)

Jinx

• R - Super Mega Death Rocket
  • Cooldown: 70/55/40 >>> 85/65/45 seconds

Karma

• Q - Inner Flame
  • Slow: 35% >>> 40%
• R + E - Mantra Defiance
  • AoE Shielding on Secondary Targets: 90% of Primary Target’s Extra Shield >>> 100% of Primary Target’s Extra Shield
  • AoE Movement Speed Bonus: 12% >>> 15%

Kassadin

• E - Force Pulse
  • Damage: 60/90/120/150/180 (+80% AP) >>> 60/90/120/150/180 (+70% AP)

Malzahar

• Q - Call of the Void
  • Mana Cost: 80 >>> 60/65/70/75/80
• E - Malefic Visions
  • Cooldown: 15/13/11/9/7 >>> 11/10/9/8/7 seconds

Master Yi

• E - Wuju Style
  • Bonus True Damage: 30/35/40/45/50 (+30% bonus AD) >>> 20/25/30/35/40 (+30% bonus AD)

Olaf

• Q - Undertow
  • Damage: 65/115/165/215/265 (+100% bonus AD) >>> 60/110/160/210/260 (+100% bonus AD)
  • Bonus Damage to Monsters: 5/15/25/35/45 >>> 10/25/40/55/70
• R - Ragnarok
  • Passive Resistances: 10/20/30 >>> 10/15/20

Pyke

• W - Ghostwater Dive
  • Mana Cost: 50 >>> 65
  • Cooldown: 12/11/10/9/8 >>> 14/13/12/11/10 seconds

Seraphine

• Q - High Note
  • Damage: 60/85/110/135/160 (+50% AP) >>> 60/85/110/135/160 (+60% AP)

Taliyah

• Q - Threaded Volley
  • Mana Cost: 55/60/65/70/75 >>> 65/70/75/80/85
  • Bonus Damage to Monsters: 25 (+10% AP) >>> 25 (+5% AP)

Twitch

• Base Stats
  • Base Health: 682 >>> 630
  • Health Growth: 100 >>> 104
• W - Venom Cask
  • Slow: 30/35/40/45/50% (+6% AP) >>> 30/35/40/45/50 (+5% AP)
• R - Spray and Pray
  • Bonus Attack Damage: 40/55/70 >>> 30/45/60

Urgot

• Base Stats
  • Armor Growth: 5.45 >>> 5.0

ARAM Balance Changes

• Nerfs
  • Hwei: Ability Haste: 20 >>> 10
  • Nami: Healing Received: 95% >>> 90%; Damage Dealt: 100% >>> 95%
  • Smolder: Ability Haste: 0 >>> -10; Damage Taken: 100% >>> 105%
• Item Adjustments
  • Hubris: Passive: 10 + (1*statues) AD, Buff duration 45 seconds (all users) >>> 15 + (2*statues) AD, Buff duration 90 seconds (melee users), 10 + (1*statues) AD, Buff duration 45 seconds (ranged users)

Full Patch Notes

If you wish to read the Patch Notes in full, you can do so via the official Riot Games websites 14.9 Patch Notes blog post.