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August 11, 2026

Patch 26.16 Notes

Patch 26.16 Notes artwork

Champions Summary

Azir icon Azir BUFF Gwen icon Gwen BUFF Kennen icon Kennen BUFF Bel'Veth icon Bel'Veth NERF Camille icon Camille ADJUSTED Nasus icon Nasus ADJUSTED Poppy icon Poppy ADJUSTED

Items Summary

Berserker's Greaves icon Berserker's Greaves BUFF Black Cleaver icon Black Cleaver BUFF Eclipse icon Eclipse BUFF Runaan's Hurricane icon Runaan's Hurricane BUFF Spellslinger's Shoes icon Spellslinger's Shoes BUFF Sterak's Gage icon Sterak's Gage BUFF Tiamat icon Tiamat BUFF Chainlaced Crushers icon Chainlaced Crushers NERF Sundered Sky icon Sundered Sky NERF Sunfire Cape icon Sunfire Cape ADJUSTED

Runes Summary

Fleet Footwork icon Fleet Footwork BUFF Hail of Blades icon Hail of Blades ADJUSTED

Patch Overview

Patch Highlights

  • Faerie Court Bel'Veth, Gwen, and Lulu arrive on August 12, 2026.

Champions

  • Azir, Gwen, and Kennen gain direct power, while Bel'Veth's late-game scaling is reduced.
  • Camille, Nasus, and Poppy trade early or role-specific strength for better repeat trading, lane stacking, or tank scaling.

Items

  • Fighter and marksman options broaden through buffs to Black Cleaver, Eclipse, Sterak's Gage, Runaan's Hurricane, Berserker's Greaves, and Tiamat.
  • Sundered Sky loses healing in exchange for health, while Sunfire Cape shifts power from farming toward champion combat.

Runes

  • Fleet Footwork heals more throughout the game.
  • Hail of Blades gives melee users less immediate attack speed but gains stronger offensive scaling.

Systems

  • Marksmen receive more early magic resistance with slightly lower growth, improving their early resilience against bot-lane mages.
  • Jungle pets gain stronger AP, resistance, and health ratios, while support quest progress is normalized and early off-lane farming penalties are increased.

League of Legends Classic

  • Akali, Kennen, and Shen join Classic alongside new energy runes and a broad champion balance pass.
  • Passive gold rises as minion gold falls, early Homeguards are removed, regular jungle camps scale harder, and turrets gain health.

ARAM: Mayhem

  • Two new fighter-item Augments upgrade Sundered Sky and Ravenous Hydra, while several Gold Augments receive clearer niches and stronger effects.
  • Form-swapping, spell-trigger, revive, and Augment interaction bugs receive a broad cleanup.

Arena

  • Champion balance favors struggling picks such as Gnar, Rek'Sai, LeBlanc, Volibear, and Warwick while trimming several dominant performers.
  • Bravery and Crowd Favorites become the Wednesday champion-select ruleset, and Now You See Me gains a clone at maximum level.

Bugfixes & QoL Changes

  • Role-quest boots, item cooldowns, WASD crowd control, champion abilities, resource bars, and several visual or audio issues are fixed.

Upcoming Skins & Chromas

  • Faerie Court Bel'Veth, Gwen, and Lulu release with matching chromas.

Champions

Lane power, scaling curves, and tank patterns shift across seven champions.

BUFF
Azir icon

Azir

Azir's Q gains 15 base damage at every rank, strengthening his lane without changing its AP scaling.

Q - Conquering Sands

  • Damage: 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 / 140 (+35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55% AP) ⇒ 75 / 95 / 115 / 135 / 155 (+35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55% AP)
NERF
Bel'Veth icon

Bel'Veth

Bel'Veth loses health growth and top-end True Form attack speed, with a new resource-bar cue for Remora spawning.

Base Stats

  • Health Growth: 110 ⇒ 105

R - Endless Banquet

  • True Form Total Attack Speed: 5 / 15 / 25% ⇒ 6 / 13 / 20%
  • NEW True Form Remora Indicator: Resource bar now turns purple when True Form can spawn Remora
ADJUSTED
Camille icon

Camille

Camille trades early passive shield strength for more mana, shorter cooldowns, and stronger W damage in sustained top-lane trades.

Base Stats

  • Mana: 339 ⇒ 375

Passive - Adaptive Defenses

  • Shield: 20% Maximum Health ⇒ 10 / 15 / 20 / 25% Maximum Health (levels 1 / 7 / 13 / 19)
  • Cooldown: 18 / 14 / 10 / 6s (levels 1 / 7 / 13 / 19) ⇒ 14 / 11 / 8s (levels 1 / 7 / 13)

W - Tactical Sweep

  • Cooldown: 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 / 11s ⇒ 12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10s
  • Outer Cone Bonus Damage: 6 / 6.5 / 7 / 7.5 / 8% (+2.5% per 100 bonus Attack Damage) Target Maximum Health ⇒ 7 / 7.5 / 8 / 8.5 / 9% (+2.5% per 100 bonus Attack Damage) Target Maximum Health
BUFF
Gwen icon

Gwen

Gwen's passive healing against champions is stronger and reaches a higher level-scaling cap.

Passive - A Thousand Cuts

  • Healing On Champions: 50% post-mitigation, capped to 10-25 (based on level) (+6.5% AP) ⇒ 67% post-mitigation, capped to 12-40 (based on level) (+7% AP)
BUFF
Kennen icon

Kennen

Kennen's ultimate grants more defenses and deals more base and AP-scaled damage.

R - Slicing Maelstrom

  • Bonus Resistances: 20 / 40 / 60 ⇒ 25 / 50 / 75
  • Damage: 40 / 75 / 110 (+22.5% AP) ⇒ 40 / 80 / 120 (+25% AP)
  • Maximum Damage: 300 / 562.5 / 825 (+168.75% AP) ⇒ 300 / 600 / 900 (+187.5% AP)
ADJUSTED
Nasus icon

Nasus

Nasus gains more Q stacks from regular targets but fewer from champions, large minions, and monsters.

Q - Siphoning Strike

  • Stacks: 3, increased to 12 on champions / large minions / monsters ⇒ 4, increased to 10 on champions / large minions / monsters
ADJUSTED
Poppy icon

Poppy

Poppy gives up early attack damage and Q fighter scaling for more mana, sustain, durability, and tank-focused scaling.

Base Stats

  • Attack Damage: 60 ⇒ 56
  • Health Regeneration: 8 ⇒ 9
  • Mana: 280 + 40/level ⇒ 300 + 45/level

Q - Hammer Shock

  • Damage: 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 / 130 (+100% bonus Attack Damage) (+9% Target Maximum Health), twice ⇒ 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 / 130 (+75% bonus Attack Damage) (+7 / 7.5 / 8 / 8.5 / 9% Target Maximum Health), twice
  • Target Maximum Health Monster Cap: 75 / 105 / 135 / 165 / 195 ⇒ 85 / 120 / 155 / 190 / 225
  • Slow Amount: 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40% ⇒ 20 / 23 / 26 / 29 / 32% (+8% per 1000 bonus Health)

W - Steadfast Presence

  • Total Armor and Magic Resistance: 12%, doubled below 40% Maximum Health ⇒ 16%, doubled below 40% Maximum Health

Items

Marksman and fighter choices widen while dominant sustain and defensive options are retuned.

BUFF
Berserker's Greaves icon

Berserker's Greaves

Berserker's Greaves and their tier-three upgrade each gain 5% attack speed.

  • Attack Speed: 25% ⇒ 30%
  • T3 Attack Speed: 40% ⇒ 45%
BUFF
Black Cleaver icon

Black Cleaver

Black Cleaver gains attack damage and keeps its full Fervor move speed for melee users.

  • Attack Damage: 40 ⇒ 45
  • Fervor Move Speed: 20 for 2s ⇒ [20 Melee || 10 Ranged] for 2s
BUFF
Eclipse icon

Eclipse

Eclipse deals more maximum-health damage, offset by a small reduction to its base shield.

  • Damage: [6% Melee || 4% Ranged] Target Maximum Health ⇒ [8% Melee || 5% Ranged] Target Maximum Health
  • Shield: [160 + 40% bonus Attack Damage Melee || 80 + 20% bonus Attack Damage Ranged] ⇒ [150 + 40% bonus Attack Damage Melee || 75 + 20% bonus Attack Damage Ranged]
BUFF
Runaan's Hurricane icon

Runaan's Hurricane

Runaan's Hurricane gains move speed and substantially stronger Wind's Fury bolts.

  • Move Speed: 4% ⇒ 5%
  • Wind's Fury Bolt Damage: 55% Attack Damage ⇒ 65% Attack Damage
BUFF
Sterak's Gage icon

Sterak's Gage

Sterak's Gage converts more base attack damage into bonus attack damage.

  • Bonus Attack Damage: 45% of Base Attack Damage ⇒ 50% of Base Attack Damage
NERF
Sundered Sky icon

Sundered Sky

Sundered Sky gains health and a simpler build path, but its missing-health and base-attack-damage healing are reduced.

  • Recipe: Tunneler (1150g) + Caulfield's (1050g) + Ruby Crystal (400g) + 500g ⇒ Tunneler (1150g) + Caulfield's (1050g) + 900g
  • Healing: [100% Melee || 50% Ranged] Base Attack Damage + 6% Missing Health ⇒ [90% Melee || 45% Ranged] Base Attack Damage + 4% Missing Health
  • Health: 400 ⇒ 450
ADJUSTED
Sunfire Cape icon

Sunfire Cape

Sunfire Cape costs more and clears minions and monsters less efficiently, but its champion damage scales harder with health.

  • Damage: 20 (+1% bonus Health) ⇒ 20 (+1.5% bonus Health)
  • Minion / Monster Modifier: 160% Minion, 200% Monster ⇒ 150% Minion, 180% Monster
  • Recipe: 600g ⇒ 700g
NERF
Chainlaced Crushers icon

Chainlaced Crushers

Chainlaced Crushers lose 5 magic resistance, weakening defensive boot optimization against mages.

  • Magic Resistance: 30 ⇒ 25
BUFF
Spellslinger's Shoes icon

Spellslinger's Shoes

Spellslinger's Shoes gain 2 flat magic penetration.

  • Magic Penetration: 18 + 8% ⇒ 20 + 8%
BUFF
Tiamat icon

Tiamat

Tiamat gains 5 attack damage, making the component a stronger step toward Hydra upgrades.

  • Attack Damage: 20 ⇒ 25

Runes

Sustain improves while early melee burst shifts toward scaling.

BUFF
Fleet Footwork icon

Fleet Footwork

Fleet Footwork's level-scaling heal increases without changing its bonus AD or AP ratios.

  • Healing: 10-130 (+[10% bonus AD Melee || 6% bonus AD Ranged]) (+[5% AP Melee || 3% AP Ranged]) ⇒ 15-160 (+[10% bonus AD Melee || 6% bonus AD Ranged]) (+[5% AP Melee || 3% AP Ranged])
ADJUSTED
Hail of Blades icon

Hail of Blades

Hail of Blades gives melee users less immediate attack speed but scales harder through its bonus true-damage ratios.

  • Attack Speed: 120% Melee || 60% Ranged ⇒ 90% Melee || 60% Ranged
  • Bonus True Damage: 4-20 (+8% bonus AD) (+6% AP) ⇒ 2-20 (+12% bonus AD) (+10% AP)