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June 23, 2026

Patch 26.13 Notes

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Champions Summary

Aphelios icon Aphelios BUFF Bard icon Bard NERF Brand icon Brand ADJUSTED Cassiopeia icon Cassiopeia NERF Draven icon Draven BUFF Kai'Sa icon Kai'Sa BUFF K'Sante icon K'Sante NERF LeBlanc icon LeBlanc BUFF Olaf icon Olaf BUFF Poppy icon Poppy BUFF Qiyana icon Qiyana BUFF Rek'Sai icon Rek'Sai NERF Rumble icon Rumble NERF Senna icon Senna NERF Sion icon Sion NERF Vex icon Vex BUFF Zaahen icon Zaahen BUFF

Items Summary

Doran's Helm icon Doran's Helm ADJUSTED Imperial Mandate icon Imperial Mandate ADJUSTED

Patch Overview

Patch Highlights

  • Locke arrives on June 24 alongside Broken Covenant Jhin, Aurora, and Shen plus High Noon Akshan and Locke.
  • Patch 26.13 also adds last-hit indicators to Normal Draft and brings Ranked 5s back on June 26 at 8 PM.

Locke

  • Locke, the Ashen Exorcist, marks enemies with Soul Nails, trades health for speed, and turns executions into power.
  • His kit combines on-hit missing-health damage, a teleport-into-dash engage, and an ultimate that can execute targets.

Champions

  • Aphelios, Draven, Kai'Sa, LeBlanc, Olaf, Poppy, Qiyana, Vex, and Zaahen gain power in targeted areas.
  • Bard, Cassiopeia, K'Sante, Rek'Sai, Rumble, and Senna are trimmed, while Brand trades early damage for mana and Sion gives up reliable lane power.

Items

  • Doran's Helm keeps more health while giving up some resistances.
  • Imperial Mandate gets a smoother ability-power build path, trades a little AP for stronger control and vulnerability effects.

Last Hit Indicators

  • Normal Draft now joins Swiftplay and Co-op vs. AI as a queue with last-hit indicators.
  • The indicators remain off by default in non-Ranked Summoner's Rift queues while Riot gathers feedback before considering Ranked.

ARAM: Mayhem

  • Mayhem continues its augment tuning: several overperformers are pulled back while Glass Cannon, Pin Cushion, and other weaker choices improve.
  • Critical-strike and ability-augment offerings receive bug fixes, alongside a small set of augment bugfixes.

Arena

  • Locke joins Arena as a Guest of Honor, Round 15 becomes an augment round, and stat anvils gain new options.
  • The pass buffs underperforming augments, tunes champion and item outliers, and adds burn interactions plus new Void Immolation behavior.

Reporting Direct Messages

  • Players can report or block a direct-message sender from the chat header, context menu, or block menu.
  • Reports preserve the session's message history for moderation, while blocking prevents further messages.

Ranked 5s

  • Ranked 5s return June 26 at 8 PM with Tournament Draft, double stakes, open party restrictions, and unique rewards.

Discord Integration

  • Linking Riot and Discord accounts makes it easier to invite Discord friends, share lobby links, and see which friends are playing.

Bugfixes & QoL Changes

  • Bug fixes address Baron Nashor's Void Corruption stacks, Serpent's Fang's Shield Reaver healing, and Diana's ultimate visuals.

Skins

  • Sahn-Uzal Mordekaiser returns to The Sanctum through Patch 26.17; Broken Covenant Jhin supports MSI revenue sharing.
  • Winner-used MSI Finals direct-purchase skins receive 33% off for one week after the series.

Upcoming Skins & Chromas

  • Broken Covenant Jhin, Aurora, and Shen plus High Noon Akshan and Locke release this patch.
  • Matching chroma sets arrive for Broken Covenant Jhin, Aurora, and Shen, and for High Noon Akshan and Locke.

Champions

Targeted champion tuning supports jungle diversity while trimming durable and high-priority damage patterns.

BUFF
Aphelios icon

Aphelios

Aphelios gets back some gun-specific scaling, improving marks, Onslaught attacks, Duskwave, and Sentry damage.

Calibrum

  • Passive Mark Damage: 15 (10% bonus AD) ⇒ 15 (15% bonus AD)

Severum

  • Q - Onslaught Damage: 19 / 24.25 / 29.5 / 34.75 / 40% Total AD Dmg per attack ⇒ 20 / 25.25 / 30.5 / 35.75 / 41% Total AD Dmg per attack

Infernum

  • Q - Duskwave Damage: 20 - 110 (Level 1 - 18) (10 - 16% bonus AD) ⇒ 20 - 110 (Level 1 - 18) (15 - 21% bonus AD)

Crescendum

  • Q - Sentry Damage: 35 - 125 (Level 1 - 18) (30 - 48% bonus AD) ⇒ 35 - 125 (Level 1 - 18) (34 - 52% bonus AD)
NERF
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Bard

Bard's meeps deal less base and chime-scaling damage to temper tank builds without changing his AP ratio.

Passive - Traveler's Call

  • Damage Per Meep: 35 (+10 per 5 Chimes) (+40% AP) ⇒ 30 (+6 per 5 Chimes) (+40% AP)
ADJUSTED
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Brand

Brand gains mana regeneration but loses early passive detonation damage and pays a flat, higher Conflagration cost.

Base Stats

  • Base Mana Regeneration: 9 ⇒ 11

Passive - Blaze

  • Detonation Damage: 8 - 12% (Levels 1 - 17) (+2% per 100 AP) ⇒ 6 - 12% (Levels 1 - 18, scaling above 18) (+2% per 100 AP)

E - Conflagration

  • Mana Cost: 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 ⇒ 90
NERF
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Cassiopeia

Cassiopeia loses health growth, making successful lockdowns more punishing without removing her lane strengths.

Base Stats

  • Health per level: 104 ⇒ 98
BUFF
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Draven

Draven gets a shorter Stand Aside cooldown and gentler Whirling Death damage reduction to reinforce his heavy-AD pattern.

E - Stand Aside

  • Cooldown: 18 / 17 / 16 / 15 / 14s ⇒ 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12s

R - Whirling Death

  • Damage Reduction on Enemy Hit: -8% multiplicatively, down to 40% (at 11 hits) ⇒ -5%, down to a minimum of 50% (at 14 hits)
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Kai'Sa

Kai'Sa's Void Seeker returns sooner early and Killer Instinct provides a larger flat shield at each rank.

W - Void Seeker

  • Cooldown: 22 / 20 / 18 / 16 / 14 ⇒ 20 / 18.5 / 17 / 15.5 / 14

R - Killer Instinct

  • Shield: 70 / 90 / 110 (+90 / 135 / 180% AD) (+120% AP) ⇒ 100 / 150 / 200 (+90 / 135 / 180% AD) (+120% AP)
NERF
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K'Sante

K'Sante's Footwork shield is reduced through most ranks and scales less with bonus health.

E - Footwork

  • Shield: (80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240) (+15% bonus health) ⇒ (70 / 112.5 / 155 / 197.5 / 240) (+13.5% bonus health)
BUFF
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LeBlanc

LeBlanc's Mimic damage rises across her Q/E, mark/root, and W variants to reward landed spell chains.

R - Mimic

  • RQ1 / RE1 Damage: 70 / 140 / 210 ⇒ 70 / 150 / 230
  • Mark / Root Damage: 140 / 280 / 420 ⇒ 140 / 300 / 460
  • RW Damage: 150 / 300 / 450 ⇒ 150 / 315 / 480
BUFF
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Olaf

Olaf's Undertow deals substantially more bonus physical damage to monsters, giving his jungle clear a focused lift.

Q - Undertow

  • Monster Bonus Physical Damage: 20 / 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 ⇒ 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120
BUFF
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Poppy

Poppy's Hammer Shock monster cap increases at every rank to improve her jungle clear while limiting lane impact.

Q - Hammer Shock

  • Monster Damage Cap: 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 ⇒ 75 / 105 / 135 / 165 / 195
BUFF
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Qiyana

Qiyana's Edge of Ixtal gets a higher monster damage modifier to strengthen her assassin jungle route.

Q - Edge of Ixtal

  • Monster Damage: 155% ⇒ 175%
NERF
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Rek'Sai

Rek'Sai loses Furious Bite damage and bonus true-damage conversion while keeping her mobility and map pressure.

E - Furious Bite / Tunnel

  • Physical Damage: 80 / 108 / 136 / 164 / 192 (64% bonus AD) ⇒ 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 / 170 (60% bonus AD)
  • Bonus True Damage: 125% ⇒ 120%
NERF
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Rumble

Rumble trades early Flamespitter damage for a slightly better AP ratio, reducing reliable blind-pick pressure.

Q - Flamespitter

  • Damage: 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 (100% AP) ⇒ 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 (105% AP)
NERF
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Senna

Senna's soul economy shifts toward ally takedowns, with lower self drops, weaker crit damage, and attack-based Q refunds.

Passive - Absolution

  • Soul Drop Chance (Senna Kill): 10% ⇒ 5%
  • Soul Drop Chance (Ally Kill): 28% ⇒ 32%
  • Crit Damage: -10% (180% / 27% with IE) ⇒ -15% (170% / 25.5% with IE)

Q - Piercing Darkness

  • Cooldown Refund: On Hit ⇒ On Attack
NERF
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Sion

Sion's Decimating Smash starts weaker and Soul Furnace costs more mana, trimming his dependable early lane control.

Q - Decimating Smash

  • Min Damage: 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 ⇒ 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 / 90

W - Soul Furnace

  • Mana: 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 ⇒ 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 / 95
BUFF
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Vex

Vex's Looming Darkness cooldown drops and Shadow Surge's reset window expands for smoother multi-kill sequences.

E - Looming Darkness

  • Cooldown: 13s ⇒ 12s

R - Shadow Surge

  • Reset Time Window: 6s ⇒ 8s
BUFF
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Zaahen

Zaahen's Dreaded Return cooldown is shorter through early and mid ranks, opening more trade and engage windows.

W - Dreaded Return

  • Cooldown: 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 ⇒ 14 / 13.5 / 13 / 12.5 / 12

Items

Doran's Helm shifts toward health, while Imperial Mandate trades a little AP for a smoother build and stronger control effects.

ADJUSTED
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Doran's Helm

Doran's Helm gains 10 health while giving up two points each of armor and magic resistance.

  • Armor and Magic Resistance: 10 ⇒ 8
  • Health: 140 ⇒ 150
ADJUSTED
Imperial Mandate icon

Imperial Mandate

Imperial Mandate builds more smoothly, loses 5 AP, and strengthens its immobilize haste and Vulnerable amplification.

  • Build Path: Blasting Wand (850g) + Bandleglass Mirror (900g) + 650g ⇒ Amp Tome (400g) + Bandleglass Mirror (900g) + Amp Tome (400g) + 700g
  • Ability Power: 65 ⇒ 60
  • Unique - Control: 15 AH For Immobilizing Abilities ⇒ 20 AH For Immobilizing Abilities
  • Unique - Command: 6% Vulnerable ⇒ 7% Vulnerable