League of Legends Patch 26.5 Notes

Patch Highlights

Corrupted Petricite Maokai, Corrupted Petricite Xerath, and Prestige Requiem Sona will be available March 4, 2026.

Brawl Returns

Act 2 Battle Pass

Champions

Akali

Restealth Timer : 1s / .9s / .825s / .725s / .625s after your last attack or ability (at game times 0:00 / 8:00 / 11:00 / 20:00 / 30:00) ⇒ 1s / .9s / .825s / .725s / .625s (at levels 1 / 7 / 10 / 13 / 16)

Azir

Health Growth : 119 ⇒ 108

Garen

Move speed duration : 1 / 1.65 / 2.3 / 2.95 / 3.6 ⇒ 1.4 / 1.95 / 2.5 / 3.05 / 3.6
Damage per spin : 4 / 7 / 10 / 13 / 16 (+ 38 / 41 / 44 / 47 / 50% AD) ⇒ 4 / 7 / 10 / 13 / 16 (+ 40 / 43 / 46 / 49 / 52% AD)

Kha’Zix

Move Speed : 350 ⇒ 345
Bonus AD : + 110% (231% isolated bonus) ⇒ + 105% (220.5% isolated bonus)

Lee Sin

Base Damage : 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 ⇒ 65 / 95 / 125 / 155 / 185

Lillia

Monster heal bonus AP ratio : 9% ⇒ 15%
Bonus AP ratio : 30% ⇒ 35%
Base damage : 100 / 150 / 200 ⇒ 150 / 200 / 250
AP ratio : 45% ⇒ 40%
Cooldown : 150 / 130 / 110 ⇒ 140 / 120 / 100

Mel

Minion Damage Modifier : 0.6x ⇒ 0.5x
Base Damage per Bolt : 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 ⇒ 5 / 7 / 9 / 11 / 13
Total Q Base Damage : 90 / 132 / 176 / 222 / 270 ⇒ 90 / 145 / 200 / 255 / 310
Initial Base Damage : 100 / 150 / 200 ⇒ 125 / 200 / 275

Neeko

Slightly-Less-Tricksy-Neekoses : Cooldown now starts on clone expiration, instead of on cast
Fun Eliminated : Neeko can no longer use Ctrl+5, which plays the joke expression for clone only. Neeko can still joke, dance, recall, to make their clone initiate said actions.

Nocturne

Cooldown : 13 ⇒ 12
Bonus move speed : 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35% ⇒ 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40%

Orianna

Cooldown : 6 / 5.25 / 4.5 / 3.75 / 3 ⇒ 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3

Samira

The Right Tool for the Job : Samira Q will now do multiple additional checks to see if there are units on both the right and left of her. If there are, and importantly if there are no units far in front of her, she will use Sword Q. If a unit is far in front of her, she will still use Gun Q regardless of units on the right and left.
Itchy Trigger Finger : Samira Q is now properly sealed during her passive. This resolves a case where Samira Q can go on cooldown despite not being used if pressed during her passive’s animation. This also applies to an instance where her ultimate was cast after her W.
Can’t Out-Walk Me : Samira Q will now do a check to see if the enemy is walking away from her and in the very last part of her Sword Q’s range. If so, she will instead use Gun Q. This should resolve the extreme cases where champions can simply walk away from her Q at very low move speed (higher move speeds will still likely be able to do so, rightfully.)

Taliyah

Base Damage : 55 / 72.5 / 90 / 107.5 / 125 ⇒ 50 / 67.5 / 85 / 102.5 / 120
Bonus Monster Damage : 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 ⇒ 23 / 28 / 33 / 38 / 43

Varus

Maximum damage : 80 / 160 / 240 / 320 / 400 (+ 130 / 140 / 150 / 160 / 170% bonus AD) ⇒ 80 / 150 / 220 / 290 / 360 (+ 150% bonus AD)
On-hit damage : 8 / 17 / 26 / 35 / 44 (+ 25% AP) ⇒ 8 / 17 / 26 / 35 / 44 (+ 25% AP + 15% bonus AD)

Volibear

Bonus physical damage : +140% ⇒ +160%
Mana cost : 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 ⇒ 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40
Wounded bonus : + 15% per 100 bonus AD ⇒ + 25% per 100 bonus AD
Mana cost : 60 ⇒ 50

Items

Hubris

Combine cost : 950 gold ⇒ 750 gold
Total price : 3000 gold ⇒ 2800 gold

Locket of the Iron Solari

SHIELD : 200 - 360, scaling after level 1 ⇒ 290 - 360, scaling after level 8
Functional Shield Level 8-18 : 265 - 360 ⇒ 290 - 360

Ranked and Matchmaking

ARAM: Mayhem

Gold per tick: 10 ⇒ 12
Damage scaling off max HP: 1.5% ⇒ 2%
Max Health Gain: 1250 ⇒ 1500
Heal amount from immobilizing / grounding enemy: 10-150 (+ 1.5% Max HP) ⇒ 30-250 (+ 1.5% Max HP)
Base regen: 8 Health / sec ⇒ 10 Health / sec
Low HP regen: 16 Health / sec ⇒ 20 Health / sec
Shield: 100-300 + 4%HP ⇒ 150-450 + 4%HP
MR / armor gained per immobilizing / grounding enemy: 8 ⇒ 10
Aftershock and Glacial CD: 15s ⇒ 20s
Post-taunt damage mitigation: 40% ⇒ 50%
Execute threshold AD scaling: .03% ⇒ .035%
Cooldown: 75s ⇒ 45s
Invulnerability duration: 1s ⇒ 1.5s
Move speed increase: 25% ⇒ 40%
Damage reduction: 85% ⇒ 70%
Damage: 100-300 + 5% Bonus HP + 100% Bonus AD + 50% Bonus AP ⇒ 100-700
Damage: 75-350 + 450% Lethality + 450% Magic Pen ⇒ 100-450 + 550% Lethality + 550% Magic Pen
Width: 210 ⇒ 250
Removed CD reset on death
Damage: 11 - 40+7% bonus AD + 10% AP ⇒ 20 - 100 per missile
Gain 100% Attack Speed
When you have Sword of Blossoming Dawn, your attacks against champions deal 50% damage but increase Sword of Blossoming Dawn’s healing by 250%
Set Bonus: Gain Bonus effects towards allies below 50% health
(2) Gain 50% Movement Speed
(3) Your next heal or shield restores 12% of the target’s missing health (10 seconds cooldown)
REMOVED: Removed Augment Set icons from player HUD
Nexus base HP: 5500 ⇒ 3000
Nexus Tower base HP: 1800 ⇒ 3000
Garlic: Moonstone’s chain healing will not select targets with Vampirism
Silver: Diadem’s healing missile will not select targets with Vampirism
Fixed a bug where Divine Intervention had no cooldown.
Fixed a bug where Grandma’s Chili Oil buff/debuff was missing icons and tooltips.
Fixed a bug where Grandma’s Chili Oil pool effects stopped being applied when multiple players were standing in it.
Fixed a bug where Inferno Conduit’s damage did not trigger Grandma’s Chili Oil.
Fixed a bug so that Void Immolation counts as 2 burn sources for Grandma’s Chili Oil.
Fixed a bug where Zilean could infinitely proc Ultimate Revolution by self-casting Chronoshift (R) after reviving.
Fixed a bug where Empowered by the Faithful had debug buffs on allies.
Fixed a bug where Empowered by the Faithful’s shockwave could cause champions to become invisible.
Fixed a bug where champions could be knocked back further than intended when combining Inferno Triggered and Poro Blaster.
Fixed a bug where the Sonata gained cooldown reduction from Ability Haste despite being at the Set 2 bonus for Fully Automated.
Fixed a bug where The Butcher’s Bridge cannon did not show its range indicator on the minimap.
Fixed a bug where The Golden Spatula could be lost if you had full items and completed the mission after selecting Quest: Urf’s Champion and using Poro-Snax.
Fixed a bug where Poro King removed Cho’Gath ult stacks or Sion W stacks.
Fixed a bug where Upgrade Immolate did not work with Void Immolation.
Fixed a bug where Red Envelope did not grant Attack Damage.
Fixed a bug where Droppybara and Poro King worked on Aurora’s and Zaahen’s passives. Aurora’s and Zaahen’s passives will no longer be procced by augment damage.
Fixed a bug where Upgrade Sheen did not heal on proc.
Fixed a bug where using a Stat Anvil Voucher before the first augment offering caused the augment offering to break.
Fixed a bug where Upgrade Thornmail's effect exists if you don't have the items.
Fixed a bug where Upgrade Thornmail's Shield can be proc by minions.
Fixed a bug where taking Pinball Snowball broke Hexgate’s repositioning function.

Arena

Fixed Mordekaiser Guest of Honor not working on occasions.
Fixed Cosmic Drive tooltip.
Fixed Atmas’ Reckoning breaking the crit cap on Aim for the Head.
Fixed Cosmic Drive not giving the right amount of movement speed.
Fixed Multitool removing items unexpectedly when inventory is full.
Fixed Multitool removing items unexpectedly when it was moved around in your item slot in between rounds.
Cleaned up Righteous Fury VFX between rounds.
Fixed Buff Buddies tooltip.

Demacia Rising

STORY & REWARDS : Chapters 5 and 6 are now available with 16 objectives. Complete Chapter 5 to earn “The Great City” icon, and Chapter 6 to earn the “Poster Boy” Garen emote.
NEW SETTLEMENTS : 4 new Settlements have been added: Hayneath (Heartland), Hawkstone (Mountain), Fossbarrow (Border), and Dawnhold (Border).
NOXIAN INVASION : Noxian unit types have been added. Noxian threats will begin after you complete the second objective in Chapter 5 of the story.
Noxian Infantry form the backbone of Noxus' military might. They rival Demacian Guards in skill.
Noxian Drakehounds are faster than their wild brethren, trained for war. They evade ranged attacks with ease.
Basilisks target ranged units. Their thick hides and armor plates are weak to Rangers’ crossbows.
Battlemages throw AoE fireballs from range. They rely on their frontline for safety—break through the enemy troops to reach the mages.
Maulers are huge, heavily armored soldiers. They attack slowly until they reach half health and enrage, striking much faster.
CHAMPIONS : Garen and Sona are now available.
Garen is a front-line damage dealer, who specializes in dealing massive damage to highly armored enemies.
Sona supports your ranged units by buffing them with increased attack damage.
STRUCTURES : All Towns and Resource Generators are upgradeable to Level 4. Additionally, several structures can now be upgraded, including:
Petricite Mill: Levels 2 and 3 added
Academy: Levels 2 and 3 added
Marketplace: Levels 2 and 3 added
EVENTS : 22 new Events have been added to the random Event pool.
RESEARCH : 19 new Research types are available, including upgrades to Poppy and Galio.

Last Hit Indicators

Last Hit Indicators are now available in Co-op vs. AI, Tutorials, Swiftplay, Custom Games , Practice Tool, and RGM Summoner’s Rift queues.
Last Hit Indicators are on by default for newly created accounts, and off by default for existing accounts.

Gameplay Bans for Severely Disruptive Chat

Skins

Returning Sanctum Item

Bugfixes & QoL Changes

Fixed a bug where Rek’Sai’s Void Rush could fail to complete its cast if enemies Flashed into fog of war at the same time the ability would finish casting.
Fixed a bug where Senna’s homeguard SFX started and stopped suddenly.
Fixed a bug where Rengar’s passive time wasn’t consistently being extended when attacking.
Fixed a bug where Zeke’s Convergence slow was sometimes stacking with other slows.
Fixed a bug where Zac’s E could be heard in Fog of War by nearby enemies.

Upcoming Skins & Chromas

The following skins will be released in this patch:

The following chromas will be released this patch: