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August 25, 2026

Patch 26.17 Notes

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Champions Summary

Aurelion Sol icon Aurelion Sol BUFF Cho'Gath icon Cho'Gath BUFF Irelia icon Irelia BUFF LeBlanc icon LeBlanc BUFF Trundle icon Trundle BUFF Yasuo icon Yasuo BUFF Yone icon Yone BUFF Graves icon Graves NERF Nasus icon Nasus NERF Nocturne icon Nocturne NERF Thresh icon Thresh NERF Xerath icon Xerath NERF Qiyana icon Qiyana ADJUSTED Vayne icon Vayne ADJUSTED

Items Summary

Stormrazor icon Stormrazor BUFF Sundered Sky icon Sundered Sky NERF

Patch Overview

Patch Highlights

  • Heartsong Seraphine, Ocean Song Soraka, and Ocean Song Jinx arrive on August 26, 2026.

Champions

  • Aurelion Sol, Cho'Gath, Irelia, LeBlanc, Trundle, Yasuo, and Yone gain direct power, while Qiyana shifts strength from jungle toward mid lane.
  • Graves, Nasus, Nocturne, Thresh, Vayne, and Xerath lose damage, durability, sustain, or early lane pressure.

Items

  • Stormrazor gains attack speed, while Sundered Sky loses health and attack damage after its previous nerf landed below Riot's target.

League of Legends Classic

  • Classic adds two free rune pages, more than doubles Influence Point gains, doubles Classic XP, and lowers the price of Quintessences and minor runes.
  • Champion and pick-order swapping, the first Council vote, Rift art updates, and a broad champion, item, and bug-fix pass arrive together.

ARAM: Mayhem

  • Ultra Hydra and Upgrade Death's Dance expand fighter Augments, while several marksman Augments receive power, targeting, or visual-readability adjustments.
  • Double Tap moves from Gold to Prismatic and six Augment interaction bugs are fixed.

Arena

  • Arena returns to balance changes on odd-numbered League patches and retunes champion, marksman-item, support-item, and Augment outliers.
  • Garen, K'Sante, Kled, LeBlanc, Renekton, Senna, Tahm Kench, and Teemo gain power; Ambessa, Zaahen, and Zilean are among the direct nerfs.

Updated System Requirements

  • Riot updates League's minimum and recommended macOS specifications.

Bugfixes & QoL Changes

  • ReplayAPI spectator controls gain a controller preset, and six champion, item, rune, and custom-game issues are fixed.

Upcoming Skins & Chromas

  • Heartsong Seraphine, Ocean Song Soraka, and Ocean Song Jinx release with matching chromas.

Champions

Scaling carries gain more reliable late-game power while top-lane, jungle, support, and artillery outliers are trimmed.

BUFF
Aurelion Sol icon

Aurelion Sol

Aurelion Sol spends 5 less mana per second on Breath of Light and can use Astral Flight more often at later ranks.

Q - Breath of Light

  • Mana Cost Per Second: 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 ⇒ 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50

W - Astral Flight

  • Cooldown: 22 / 20.5 / 19 / 17.5 / 16s ⇒ 22 / 20 / 18 / 16 / 14s
BUFF
Cho'Gath icon

Cho'Gath

Cho'Gath's Vorpal Spikes gain 10 base damage per attack, adding up to 30 damage across all three empowered hits.

E - Vorpal Spikes

  • Base Damage (x3 attacks): 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 (+30% AP) (+2.5% - 3.9% (+.5% Per Feast) Target Max HP) ⇒ 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 (+30% AP) (+2.5% - 3.9% (+.5% Per Feast) Target Max HP)
NERF
Graves icon

Graves

Graves loses 10 percentage points of bonus-AD scaling on both parts of End of the Line.

Q - End of the Line

  • Initial Damage: 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 (+65% bonus AD) ⇒ 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 (+55% bonus AD)
  • Return Damage: 80 / 125 / 170 / 215 / 260 (+55 / 70 / 85 / 100 / 115% bonus AD) ⇒ 80 / 125 / 170 / 215 / 260 (+45 / 60 / 75 / 90 / 105% bonus AD)
BUFF
Irelia icon

Irelia

Irelia gains stronger Bladesurge AD scaling plus higher AP ratios on Defiant Dance and Vanguard's Edge.

Q - Bladesurge

  • Damage: 5 / 25 / 45 / 65 / 85 (+70% AD) ⇒ 5 / 25 / 45 / 65 / 85 (+80% AD)

W - Defiant Dance

  • Damage Reduction Ability Power Ratio: 7% per 100 AP (Halved for Magic Damage) (reduced to 75% value for Magic Damage in Arena) ⇒ 8% per 100 AP (Halved for Magic Damage) (reduced to 75% value for Magic Damage in Arena)

R - Vanguard's Edge

  • Ability Power Ratio: 70% ⇒ 100% (It is already 100% in Arena, so this is standardizing the value)
BUFF
LeBlanc icon

LeBlanc

LeBlanc regains a standard attack-speed ratio and stronger Distortion AP scaling, offset by lower attack-speed growth.

Base Stats

  • Attack Speed Ratio: 0.4 ⇒ 0.625
  • Attack Speed Growth: 2.35% ⇒ 1.5%

W - Distortion

  • Damage: 75 / 115 / 155 / 195 / 235 (+80% AP) ⇒ 75 / 115 / 155 / 195 / 235 (+90% AP)

RW - Mimic: Distortion

  • Damage: 150 / 315 / 480 (+80% AP) ⇒ 150 / 315 / 480 (+90% AP)
NERF
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Nasus

Nasus loses 2, 3, and 4 percentage points of life steal at his passive's three level breakpoints.

Passive - Soul Eater

  • Life Steal: 12 / 18 / 24% ⇒ 10 / 15 / 20%
NERF
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Nocturne

Nocturne loses 15 base health and 2 armor, increasing the risk around his early clears and first ultimate.

Base Stats

  • Armor: 38 ⇒ 36
  • Health: 655 ⇒ 640
ADJUSTED
Qiyana icon

Qiyana

Qiyana gains Q base damage and bonus-AD scaling against champions while its monster modifier falls from 175% to 160%.

Q - Elemental Wrath

  • Damage: 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 / 190 (+85% bonus AD) ⇒ 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 / 200 (+90% bonus AD)
  • Monster Damage Modifier: 175% against Monsters ⇒ 160% against Monsters
NERF
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Thresh

Thresh's Flay active loses 10 base damage at every rank and 10 percentage points of AP scaling.

E - Flay

  • Active Damage: 75 / 120 / 165 / 210 / 255 (+70% AP) ⇒ 65 / 110 / 155 / 200 / 245 (+60% AP)
BUFF
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Trundle

Trundle's Frozen Domain grants more attack speed from rank two onward, reaching 110% at maximum rank.

W - Frozen Domain

  • Attack Speed: 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 / 90% ⇒ 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110%
ADJUSTED
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Vayne

Vayne gains early health and regeneration but loses scaling durability, pays more mana for early Tumbles, and deals less early Silver Bolts damage.

Base Stats

  • Health: 550 + 103/Level ⇒ 580 + 98/Level
  • Health Regeneration: 3.5 +.55/Level ⇒ 4 +.5/Level
  • Attack Speed Ratio:.658 + 3.3%/Level ⇒.67 + 2.8%/Level

Q - Tumble

  • Mana Cost: 30 ⇒ 46 / 42 / 38 / 34 / 30

W - Silver Bolts

  • True Damage: 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10% Target Max HP ⇒ 4 / 5.5 / 7 / 8.5 / 10% Target Max HP
  • Minimum Damage: 50 / 65 / 80 / 95 / 110 ⇒ 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 / 100
NERF
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Xerath

Xerath loses 21 base health and 5 base damage at every rank of Arcanopulse.

Base Stats

  • Health: 596 ⇒ 575

Q - Arcanopulse

  • Damage: 75 / 115 / 155 / 195 / 235 (+90% AP) ⇒ 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 (+90% AP)
BUFF
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Yasuo

Yasuo's critical-strike damage penalty is halved from 10% to 5%, improving his scaling with critical-strike items.

Passive - Way of the Wanderer

  • Critical Strike Damage Reduction: -10% ⇒ -5%
BUFF
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Yone

Yone's critical-strike damage penalty is halved from 10% to 5%, improving his scaling with critical-strike items.

Passive - Way of the Hunter

  • Critical Strike Damage Reduction: -10% ⇒ -5%

Items

Stormrazor receives a focused attack-speed buff while Sundered Sky takes a second round of durability and damage cuts.

BUFF
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Stormrazor

Stormrazor gains 5 percentage points of attack speed.

  • Attack Speed: 20% ⇒ 25%
NERF
Sundered Sky icon

Sundered Sky

Sundered Sky loses 50 health and 5 attack damage after its Patch 26.16 healing adjustment undershot Riot's target.

  • Health: 450 ⇒ 400
  • Attack Damage: 45 ⇒ 40