April 18, 2009 Patch

April 18, 2009 Patch
Singesic, the Mad Chemist & Zilean, the Chronokeeper
Release Date (US)	April 18, 2009
Highlights
New champions: Singed & Zilean
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Release Notes 2009-04-18
Patch chronology
← Previous	April 11, 2009 Patch
Next →	April 25, 2009 Patch

League of Legends

Champions

• New champions: Singe, The Mad Chemist^sic and Zilean, The Chronokeeper

Ashe

• Enchanted Crystal Arrow
  • Damage increased to 350 / 550 / 750 from 250 / 425 / 600.

Fiddlesticks

• Terrify
  • Cooldown increased to 14 seconds from 12.
• Drain
  • Range decreased to 450 from 500.
  • Break range decreased to 700 from 800.
• Dark Wind
  • Damage dealt to champions increased to 135 from 120 per bounce (it still deals 120 to minions).

Judicator

• Intervention
  • Duration reduced to 4 seconds from 5.
  • Mana cost changed to 80 at all ranks from 80 / 60 / 40 / 20 / 0.

Morgana Le

• Tormented Soil
  • Ability power ratio increased to 0.3 from 0.2.

Master Yi

• Alpha Strike
  • Bonus damage increased to 150 / 250 / 350 from 50 / 125 / 200.
• Meditate
  • Cooldown increased to 60 seconds from 50.

Minotaur

• Stats
  • Base attack range increased to 125 from 100.
• Unbreakable Will
  • Duration increased to 10 / 15 / 20 from 5 / 10 / 15.
  • Now grants 80 bonus damage.
• Headbutt
  • Added a charging component.
  • Range increased to 650 from 200.

Sion

• Feel No Pain
  • Damage block decreased to 30 / 40 / 50 from 30 / 45 / 60.
• Cannibalism
  • Attack speed boost increased to 45% from 30%.

Sivir

• Ricochet
  • Number of bounces reduced to +1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 from +2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6.

Soraka

• Astral Blessing
  • Duration reduced to 12 seconds from 16.
  • Bonus armor increased to 30 from 20.
  • Ability power ratio increased to 0.2 from 0.12.
  • Healing increased to 14 / 22 / 30 / 38 / 46 from 10 / 18 / 26 / 34 / 42.
• Infuse
  • Mana restored increased to 50 / 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 from 40 / 80 / 120 / 160 / 200.
• Wish
  • Ability power ratio increased to 2 from 1.
  • Cooldown reduced to 120 / 90 / 60 seconds from 150 / 110 / 60.

Teemo

• Trailblazer New Innate
  • Teemo leaves a trail as he moves, increasing the move speed of allies and granting him sight radius of the area for an extended period of time.
• Blinding Dart
  • causes your opponent to miss a set number of attacks instead of increasing their miss %.
• Move Quick
  • No longer slows you upon being hit (it does still remove the haste buff).
• Toxic Shot
  • Is now a passive skill.
• Noxious Trap New Ultimate
  • Teemo places a trap which, when triggered, will poison surrounding units, slowing and damaging them for the duration.

Neutral Minions

Baron Nashor

• Base damage increased to 500 from 400.
• Armor increased to 120 from 100.
• Knock-back on sweeping blow decreased to 750 from 1000.
• Global gold bounty decreased to 400 from 500.
• Added a global buff to the team that kills Baron Nashor Exalted with Baron Nashor, which increases your champion's damage and ability power by 60.
• Increased neutral minions' attack speed.

Summoner Spells

• Summoner spell cooldowns can never be reduced below 70% (from 5%).

Ghost

• Duration reduced to 15 seconds from 25.
• Movement speed bonus increased to 28% from 22%.

Items

Archangel's Staff

• Bonus ability power from mana increased to 2.5% from 2%.
• Tooltip updated to represent max cap.

Glacial Shroud

• Effect is now Unique.

Infinity Edge

• Effect is now Unique.

Mejai's Soulstealer

• Bonus ability power from champion kills increased to 12 from 5.
• Added a cap of +120 ability power (10 stacks).

Phantom Dancer

• Tooltip added.

Spirit Visage

• Combine cost increased to 500 from 250.
• Effect is now Unique.

Sunfire Cape

• Combine cost reduced to 600 from 900.
  • Total cost reduced to 2250 from 2550.
• Aura damage increased to 50 from 40.

Warmog's Armor

• Combine cost increased to 1025 from 765.
  • Total cost increased to 3000 from 2740.
• Added a cap to Warmog the Living Armor for bonus health / regen of +400 Health, and 50 Health Regen per 5.
• Health gain per kill modified to 4 from 5 (to 40 from 25 on champions), and health regen per kill modified to 0.1 from 0.05 (to 1 from 0.5 for champions).
• Elixir tooltips updated.
• Elixirs made persist through death.

Miscellaneous

• Updated animations for Dark Binding, Volley to make them easier to use.
• Fixed a number of tooltips.
• Base turrets' health decreased to 2000 from 2400.
• Inhibitor and outer turret health decreased to 3200 from 3600.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed channel bug with Drain, Absolute Zero, Infinite Duress, and Dark Binding where damage/effect would continue if the channeling unit died.
• Fixed Channel bug with Drain, Absolute Zero, Infinite Duress, which threw up errors if the target dies while you are channeling.
• Fixed Warwick's Infinite Duress Channeling bug which would cause it to break / be breakable.
• Added a buff texture to Summoner Ghost.
• Fixed proper buff duration for the following champion passives: Pyromania, Double Strike, Colossal Strength, Feel No Pain, and Trailblazer.
• Fixed Soul Shroud's buff type to fix an issue with its buff duration.
• Assorted Lua error fixes.

Gameplay Changes

HUD

• Neutral Minion Camp Icons on minimap now disappear if you see them killed, and re-appear when respawned.
• Took out the "click to upgrade" button from level ups.
• Can now level up skills with alt-q, alt-w, alt-e, alt-r.
• Pinging the minimap with unlocked camera will no longer move your camera to the ping location.
• Fixed a bug that could sometimes make you get stuck in unlocked camera mode.
• Enemy level added back to target indicator (placeholder for now).
• Ability Stats made bigger, easier to read on Player HUD.
• Added map scroll speed option to "More Options".
• Several improvements to make clicking on the minimap more accurate, and make it easier to go back to base via minimap.
• Positions on minimap should now be more accurate.
• Buff Icons are 20% bigger.

Gameplay

• Heroes now play their full attack animation when last hitting.
• Several attack animation bugs/exploits fixed with heroes.
• Instant cast and toggle spells no longer interrupt attack timers.
• Epic encounter now takes much longer to respawn.

New Features

• New inking around unit models
• New assist Functionality (gold/xp gains when assisting in a kill)
  • You now receive gold for a unit you get the last champion hit on even if a tower or minion gets the last last hit
  • New Bounty system for Champion Kills
• Towers now respond with call for help to Champion Spells
• Minions that are aggro'd onto you will now have an orange outline
• New Feature – World goes Black and White when you die.
• When Selecting your spells in Champion Selection you will now see the spells you have selected on the Main page
• You can now see the loading bars of everyone in your game during the load screen

Bug Fixes

• Improvements to Popping issues
• Fixed bug where sometimes when you alt tab'd back into the game you would have a black screen with the game cursor
• Fixed a bug where canceling attacks repeatedly caused the next attack to be delayed.
• Fixed the Bug that made it so Neutral Minions would get into a state where they wouldn’t attack.
• Fixed a Bug where Neutral Minions would not respawn correctly

Patch History