League of Legends 9.23 patch notes: the pre-season is here

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9.22 Champion Changes

Senna

Senna escapes from the lantern on November 10!

Ashe

W - Volley

  • Cost: 50 mana ⇒ 70 mana

Blitzcrank

Q - Rocket Grab

  • Base Damage: 80/135/190/245/300 ⇒ 70/120/170/220/270

Ivern

Q - Rootcaller

  • Leave Room For Daisy: Ivern will now always dash into melee range of the target
  • Three's A Crowd: Fixed a bug where Ivern would land inside some jungle camps when dashing with his Q
  • Abra-Kadabra-Alakazam: Fixed a bug where allies would teleport to unexpected locations when Ivern would dash to a rooted target

Kai'Sa

Q - Icathian Rain

  • Non-Minion Multi-Hit Missile Damage: E30% ⇒ 25%

Kalista

W - Sentinel

  • Bonus Damage On Marked Targets: 5/7.5/10/12.5/15% of target's maximum health ⇒ 10/12/14/16/18% of target's maximum health
  • Mark Duration: 3 seconds ⇒ 4 seconds

Kayle

Q - Radiant Blast

  • Base Damage: 70/115/160/205/250 ⇒ 60/100/140/180/220

W - Celestial Blessing

  • Cost: 60/70/80/90/100 mana ⇒ 70/80/90/100/110 mana

Malphite

R - Unstoppable Force

  • Ratio: 1.0 ability power ⇒ 0.8 ability power

Nautilus

R - Depth Charge

  • Primary Target Base Damage: 200/325/450 ⇒ 150/275/400

Pantheon

Q - Comet Spear

  • Minion Damage Reduction: 20% ⇒ 30%
  • Execute Threshold: 25% of target's maximum health ⇒ 20% of target's maximum health

W - Shield Vault

  • Removed No Longer Walking All Over You: Pantheon's dash speed is no longer increased from boots

Sejuani

Base Stats

  • Attack Damage: 64 ⇒ 66
  • Health Regen Growth: 0.85 ⇒ 1
  • Attack Speed Growth: 3% ⇒ 3.5%

Q - Arctic Assault

  • Damage: 80/120/160/200/240 (+0.4 ability power) ⇒ 80/130/180/230/280 (+0.6 ability power)

E - Permafrost

  • Bugfix: Passive now properly resets its debuff duration when reapplying at max stacks

Sylas

Base Stats

  • Health Regen: 7 ⇒ 9
  • Health Regen Growth: 1 ⇒ 0.9
  • Magic Resist: 36.1 ⇒ 39

W - Kingslayer

  • Cost: 50/55/60/65/70 mana ⇒ 40/45/50/55/60 mana

Xayah

W - Deadly Plumage

  • Bonus Attack Speed: 40/47.5/55/62.5/70% ⇒ 35/40/45/50/55%

9.22 Bug Fixes

  • If her target dies before Caitlyn's Energized (via items like Rapid Firecannon and Statikk Shiv) Passive - Headshot hits them, Caitlyn will no longer be damaged in their stead
  • Ornn's second R - Call of the Forge God activation now properly knocks up enemies close to it
  • Gangplank's E - Powder Keg's barrels no longer trigger Teemo's R - Noxious Trap's shrooms
  • Game invites will no longer disappear if the game owner changes modes
  • Fizz's Q - Urchin Strike now properly breaks spell shields
  • Twisted Fate's R - Destiny will no longer block projectiles (like turret or dragon attacks) if it is interrupted
  • If Taric casts R - Cosmic Radiance and dies during the cast window, the cooldown will now reflect the proper time and not reflect his W - Bastion cooldown
  • Rek'Sai's R - Void Rush refund now properly and consistently works when enemy champions die during the cast and dash of the ability
  • Syndra's R - Unleashed Power HUD icon now properly shows how many Dark Spheres are available to use on cast
  • Nidalee's Q - Takedown's empowered basic attacks now properly deals damage to traps
  • When Sion casts R - Unstoppable Onslaught out of its range, the ability will now properly cast immediately instead of after he walks into cast range
  • When Q - Twin Bite is on cooldown, Shyvana's basic attacks on structures now properly reduce the ability's cooldown
  • Rift Herald's summon trinket now properly has the 1 second lockout period that all trinkets have to prevent accidental usage

9.22 Skins and Chromas

Skins

Chromas

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Sarah is a contributor for PC Gamer, formerly of TechRadar Gaming. With five years of experience writing freelance for several publications, she's covered every genre imaginable and probably a few she made up. She has a passion for diversity and the way different genres can be sandboxes for creativity and emergent storytelling, and loves worldbuilding. With thousands of hours in League of Legends, Overwatch, Minecraft, and countless survival, strategy, roguelike, and RPG entries, she still finds time for offline hobbies like tabletop RPGs, wargaming, miniatures painting, and hockey.

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