Nidalee Hunting monsters no longer roots them. W's damage increased, but basic attack reset removed. Speaking of champions with lots of strengths and few weaknesses, we come to Nidalee.

Passive - Prowl. W - Pounce. Orianna Q mana cost down at early ranks. Q - Command: Attack. Quinn Q duration reduced and cooldown increased.

While giving her the ability to shut down long-ranged champions like Xerath or Jhin is neat, in reality Quinn just finds the weakest melee champion on the enemy team and controls their ability to contribute.

Q - Blinding Assault. Shyvana Q's scaling reduced at early levels. So what are we going to do about it?

Amumu can sometimes land 5-man ultimates - or he can whiff entirely - creating a high variance champion. Does what it says.

So what does this have to do with Shyvana? Champions that are more linear have variance in their output instead. Sorry you had to find out this way.

Q - Twin Bite. Twisted Fate Underworld skin visuals are more readable. W card picker standardized across skins. Though it might seem appropriate for a card sharp like Twisted Fate to employ underhanded tricks, he shouldn't be relying on hard-to-see visual effects.

Underworld Twisted Fate was a triple offender: his cards blended into the environment, were smaller than the other skins', and his Wild Cards spun the wrong way look at the edge of a card - it's just a line.

Skins should be fun, alternative fantasies, not competitive advantages, so we're addressing these issues. While we were working on skin consistency, we went ahead and standardized TF's Pick a Card Unhovered cards are now always darkened, making it easier to follow the active card as it cycles and better communicating the order the cards cycle in.

Enchantment - Runic Echoes Less damage on proc. Runic Echoes is supposed to realize the fantasy of having a scaling AP champion from the jungle, but a disproportionate amount of buyers transition into heavy tank items after the purchase.

Tiamat Recipe changed. Attack damage lowered, but now has passive cleave again. Back in 5. Ravenous Hydra Build path is less ugly.

With the lower attack damage on Tiamat, we realized we could make the build smoother by subbing out the Long Sword for a Pickaxe.

So we did that. Titanic Hydra Attack damage down. Assemble a squad of champions that battle on your behalf. Outlast all seven of your opponents and become the last person standing.

New to League? Get a rundown on the basics for the most popular game mode. Featured News. Game Updates. Choose Your. Find out the League of Legends patch 6.

Riot Games has announced that the League of Legends patch 6. Below is the North American server maintenance notice for the update:. At Pacific time UTC , the servers will be shut down and all games currently in progress will end in a draw and stats will not be recorded.

We estimate the battlegrounds will be unavailable for 3 hours. Riot Games has a long history of April Fools Day silliness e.

League of Legends patch 6. As Scarizard pointed out in the patch notes, Kalista was in a strange place as a marksman of being very strong in both 2 vs.

With her passive and ult making her literally tied to another champion, it makes a bunch of sense to try and sway her more towards being a strong 2 vs.

As a result, there are some general nerfs to Kalista's kit most notably her base attack speed. But now Kalista passively gains attack speed when her buddy is nearby.

Alistar is seemingly always present in the pro scene and Janna's been on top of the support win rate chart for some time now. Now, they're each a little more focused on their specialties -- for Alistar, his peel and engage; for Janna, her disengage.

Alistar's Triumphant Roar his "E" heals allies for significantly less now. Janna's Eye of the Storm her "E" gives less bonus attack damage to shielded allies, while Monsoon her ultimate disables for less time.

Despite the proliferation of tanky top laners in Season 6, ultra tanky Maokai has been absent. His base magic resistance has been buffed and he now has scaling magic resistance he was the last tank in the game without it, per the patch notes.