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July 14, 2026

Patch 26.14 Notes

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Champions Summary

Items Summary

Patch Overview

Patch Highlights

  • T1 2025 Worlds Winner skins and Victorious Rengar arrive July 15, 2026.
  • The release includes T1 Galio, Xin Zhao, Seraphine, Ambessa, Yunara, and MVP Miss Fortune.

Champions

  • Ten champions shift this patch: Corki, Mordekaiser, Nami, and Yunara gain power; five others are nerfed, while Azir receives interaction adjustments.
  • The balance pass spans damage, scaling, defenses, and cooldowns across roles.

Items

  • Immortal Path and Protoplasm Harness are toned down for more measured early and low-health value.
  • Rocketbelt trades ability power and cooldown for health, with a revised build path.

Systems

  • Blue Buff's ability haste now scales to 10/15/20 at levels 1/6/11 instead of staying flat at 10.
  • The scaling reward gives jungle control a stronger payoff as the game progresses.

SR Ranked Season 2 End

  • Ranked Season 2 ends July 28 at 23:59 local time; Season 3 begins July 29 at noon.
  • Solo and Flex queues plus shard transfers pause during the transition, and the 15-win Victorious mission refreshes.

ARAM: Mayhem

  • Mayhem adjusts eight augments, including stronger Dimension Shift and Poro Stampede, a new Overkill execute, and lower Dropkick scaling.
  • Augment offerings also receive an RNG pass aimed at improving variety, alongside several interaction bug fixes.

Arena

  • Arena buffs underperforming champions and augments, adds burn and crit interactions, and tunes attack-speed items.
  • Twin Fire is disabled, while Collector's execute thresholds are reduced.

Parental Controls

  • Optional Parent Permissions let guardians limit chat and friend requests and inspect the social-panel friends list.
  • The controls become available after linking a parent's email through Riot account settings.

Summoner's Rift Clash - MSI Cup

  • Summoner's Rift MSI Cup registration starts July 13 at 11:00 AM local time.
  • The tournament runs July 18–19 around 4–7 PM local time, with exact timing varying by region.

T1 2025 Worlds Winners

  • T1 three-peat winner bundles include signatures, borders, wards, Elite chromas, and an exclusive emote.
  • Bundles leave at the start of 26.16; individual skins remain available longer, with MVP Miss Fortune later entering the Mythic Shop.

Bugfixes & QoL Changes

  • Buff-bar cleanup removes redundant, brief, and low-signal effects from the interface.
  • Remake votes now start automatically, while deafen and self-mute toggles are limited to once every 60 seconds.

Upcoming Skins & Chromas

  • T1 Galio, Xin Zhao, Seraphine, Ambessa, Yunara, MVP Miss Fortune, and Victorious Rengar release this patch.
  • Standard T1 chromas accompany the skins, with an Elite chroma included in each signature bundle.

Champions

Ten champions receive targeted buffs, nerfs, and interaction adjustments in Patch 26.14.

ADJUSTED
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Azir

Azir's on-hit item and rune interactions now apply correctly, and Emperor's Divide can knock back jungle monsters.

W - Arise!

  • On-Hit? More Like On-Destroy: Scorch, Liandry's Torment, Blackfire Torch, and Hextech Alternator now deal 100% of their damage on-hit instead of 50%
  • Double-tap: Conqueror will now apply 2 stacks on-hit instead of 1
  • Laser Focus: Press the Attack now applies to the primary target hit

R - Emperor's Divide

  • Be Gone, Peasant!: Now knocks back jungle monsters
BUFF
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Corki

Corki gains attack-damage growth and stronger auto-based Missile Barrage recharge reduction.

Base Stats

  • Attack Damage Growth: 2 ⇒ 2.5

R - Missile Barrage

  • Remaining Recharge Time Reduction from Autos: 2 - 4 seconds (based on critical strike chance) ⇒ 2 - 6 seconds
NERF
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Garen

Demacian Justice loses base true damage at every rank while its missing-health scaling remains unchanged.

R - Demacian Justice

  • True Damage: 150 / 250 / 350 (+ 25 / 30 / 35% of target's missing health) ⇒ 125 / 200 / 275 (+ 25 / 30 / 35% of target's missing health)
NERF
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Jayce

Jayce loses 10 bonus move speed and receives lower Hammer-form defenses at ranks two through four.

Passive - Hextech Capacitor

  • Bonus Move Speed: 40 ⇒ 30

R - Mercury Hammer

  • Bonus Armor and Magic Resistance: 5 / 15 / 25 / 35 (+7.5% bonus Attack Damage) ⇒ 5 / 12 / 19 / 26 (+7.5% bonus Attack Damage)
NERF
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Locke

Locke's Q pressure window, nail and mark damage, and W grey-health cap are all reduced.

Q - Ritual Nails

  • Nail Recast Hold Time: 5 seconds ⇒ 4 seconds
  • Nail Damage: 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 ⇒ 50 / 58 / 66 / 74 / 82
  • Mark Base Bonus Damage: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 ⇒ 18 / 26 / 34 / 42 / 50

W - Soul Ignition

  • Damage Taken Grey Health Cap: 40 / 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 ⇒ 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160
BUFF
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Mordekaiser

Death's Grasp deals more damage, and Realm of Death steals 13% of enemy stats instead of 10%.

E - Death's Grasp

  • Damage: 60 / 75 / 90 / 105 / 120 (+40% Ability Power) ⇒ 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 / 140 (+45% Ability Power)

R - Realm of Death

  • Stat Steal: 10% ⇒ 13%
BUFF
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Nami

Tidecaller's Blessing deals more damage per hit, scaling from 20/35/50/65/80.

E - Tidecaller's Blessing

  • Damage per Hit: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 ⇒ 20 / 35 / 50 / 65 / 80
NERF
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Senna

Senna's soul crit multiplier and Q ability-power scaling for slow and healing are reduced.

Passive - Absolution

  • Critical Strike Damage Modifier: 85% ⇒ 80%

Q - Piercing Darkness

  • Ability Power Slow Ratio: 10% per 100 Ability Power ⇒ 7% per 100 Ability Power
  • Ability Power Healing Ratio: 50% Ability Power ⇒ 35% Ability Power
NERF
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Seraphine

High Note's ability-power ratio drops from 50% to 40%.

Q - High Note

  • Ability Power Ratio: 50% Ability Power ⇒ 40% Ability Power
BUFF
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Yunara

Yunara gains attack-damage growth, increasing from 2.5 to 3.

Base Stats

  • Attack Damage Growth: 2.5 ⇒ 3

Items

Three item adjustments reshape low-health value, early tank spikes, and Rocketbelt's stat profile.

NERF
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Immortal Path

Damage amplification above half health falls to 4%, while low-health healing, shielding, and regeneration amplification falls to 12%.

  • Damage Increase While Above 50% Maximum Health: 5% ⇒ 4%
  • Healing, Shielding, and Regeneration Increase While Below 50% Maximum Health: 15% ⇒ 12%
NERF
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Protoplasm Harness

The cost rises to 2600, while the minimum bonus health and healing values fall to 100.

  • Cost: 2500 ⇒ 2600
  • Bonus Health: 200 - 300 ⇒ 100 - 300
  • Healing: 200 - 400 ⇒ 100 - 400
ADJUSTED
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Hextech Rocketbelt

Rocketbelt swaps to a Kindlegem and Ruby Crystal build path, gains health, loses ability power, and has a 50-second active cooldown.

  • Build Path: Hextech Alternator + Fiendish Codex + Amplifying Tome + 300 ⇒ Hextech Alternator + Kindlegem + Ruby Crystal + 350
  • Active Cooldown: 40 seconds ⇒ 50 seconds
  • Ability Power: 70 ⇒ 60
  • Health: 300 ⇒ 350