Rune (League of Legends)

Starting with Pre-Season 2018, Runes and Masteries are replaced with a new system called Runes Reforged.

The system allows players to customize their champion before the start of the game by choosing from a number of Runes, which add or enhance champion abilities and statistics.

The player picks a Keystone Rune and five Secondary Runes that are then combined into a rune page. Each Rune has a significant effect, with Keystone Runes being more powerful (see below for a detailed description). The active rune page may be changed before each match; pages can be edited freely outside of matches.

It is not possible to enter a match without an active, valid rune page. The game will provide a pre-constructed page for the player if the selected rune page is not valid.

Overview

Summoners may choose two Paths: one Primary and one Secondary. You may not pick the same path twice. There are five paths to choose from:

• Precision (Improved attacks and sustained damage)
• Domination (Burst damage and target access)
• Sorcery (Empowered abilities and resource manipulation)
• Resolve (Durability and crowd control)
• Inspiration (Creative tools and rule bending)

The Primary Path has one Keystone slot and 3 Lesser slots, while the the Secondary Path has a choice of 2 of the 3 Lesser slots. Each individual slot provides a unique selection of runes, similar to the branches of the former Mastery trees. You also gain an additional bonus based on the combination of your paths, referred to as a Set Bonus or Trait.

Paths

Paths	Keystone	Slot 1	Slot 2	Slot 3
Precision Edit Become a Legend	Press the Attack Lethal Tempo Fleet Footwork Conqueror	Overheal Triumph Presence of Mind	Legend: Alacrity Legend: Tenacity Legend: Bloodline	Coup de Grace Cut Down Last Stand
Domination Edit Hunt and Eliminate Prey	Electrocute Predator Dark Harvest Hail of Blades	Cheap Shot Taste of Blood Sudden Impact	Zombie Ward Ghost Poro Eyeball Collection	Treasure Hunter Ingenious Hunter Relentless Hunter Ultimate Hunter
Sorcery Edit Unleash Destruction	Summon Aery Arcane Comet Phase Rush	Nullifying Orb Manaflow Band Nimbus Cloak	Transcendence Celerity Absolute Focus	Scorch Waterwalking Gathering Storm
Resolve Edit Live Forever	Grasp of the Undying Aftershock Guardian	Demolish Font of Life Shield Bash	Conditioning Second Wind Bone Plating	Overgrowth Revitalize Unflinching
Inspiration Edit Outwit Mere Mortals	Glacial Augment Unsealed Spellbook First Strike	Hextech Flashtraption Magical Footwear Triple Tonic	Future's Market Minion Dematerializer Biscuit Delivery	Cosmic Insight Approach Velocity Time Warp Tonic

Set Bonuses

The Set Bonus is an additional passive based on the combination of your chosen paths, although not all combinations have distinct effects. The set's Title is currently only used within the in-game client, with the passive being unnamed when viewed within the out-of-game Rune Inventory.

Secondary ►	Precision	Domination	Sorcery	Resolve	Inspiration
Primary ▼
Precision	—	The Merciless Elite	The Brazen Prefect	The Eternal Champion	The Savant
Domination	The Twisted Surgeon	—	The Aether Blade	The Immortal Butcher	The Wicked Maestro
Sorcery	The Incontestable Spellslinger	The Calamity	—	The Ancient One	The Cryptic
Resolve	The Imperious Behemoth	The Leviathan	The Arcane Colossus	—	The Enlightened Titan
Inspiration	The Elegant Duelist	The Ruthless Visionary	The Stargazer	The Timeless	—

Substitutions

The following substitutions will automatically be made where applicable:

• On modes without the river, Waterwalking is exchanged with Scorch.
• On modes where wards are disabled, Zombie Ward is exchanged with Ghost Poro.
• On modes without minions, Minion Dematerializer is exchanged with Future's Market.
• On modes without structures or structures are impervious, Demolish is exchanged with Font of Life.
• On champions without mana or energy, Manaflow Band is exchanged with Nullifying Orb.
• On champions without mana, Presence of Mind is exchanged with Triumph.
• On Cassiopeia:
  • Predator is exchanged with Electrocute.
  • Magical Footwear is exchanged with Future's Market.
• On Shyvana and Udyr, The Ultimate Hat is exchanged with Nullifying Orb.
• On Ascension, Kleptomancy is exchanged with Glacial Augment.
• On ARURF:
  • Unsealed Spellbook is exchanged with Kleptomancy.
  • Cosmic Insight is exchanged with Approach Velocity.
  • Ingenious Hunter is exchanged with Ravenous Hunter.
  • The Ultimate Hat is exchanged with Nullifying Orb.
  • Manaflow Band is exchanged with Nullifying Orb.
  • Presence of Mind is exchanged with Triumph.
  • Lethal Tempo is exchanged with Press the Attack.
• This list may be incomplete.

These substitutions are noted in chat when the game starts.

Rune Pages

Rune page inventory

Players cannot begin creating/editing rune pages until summoner level 11, but all accounts have access to 5 Preset Pages from level 1 that cannot be edited. The ability to hide Preset Pages was added in V7.23.

As with the previous system, accounts begin with 2 slots for personalized rune pages and may purchase the convenience of additional pages in the store for 590 or 6300. Any Rune Pages the player owned in the previous system were transferred across to the new system, in addition to the compensation received.

In the former system there was a limit of maximum 20 rune pages per account, but this is no longer true. The current limit is 25 Rune Pages as of Patch V7.22. The presets are not counted toward the limit.

Presets and Example

Inspiration: The Timeless (Inspiration + Resolve)

Precision: The Prefect (Precision + Sorcery)

Domination: The Executioner (Domination + Precision)

Resolve: The Colossus (Resolve + Sorcery)

Sorcery: The Calamity (Sorcery + Domination)

Personalized Rune Page

Compensation For Past Purchases

Note that IP and Blue Essence are being merged into a single currency in Season 2018.

Rune Pages	Epic Capsule  Mystery Epic Skin for every 4 Rune Pages purchased with Riot Points (rounded up). 1500 for Rune Pages purchased with Influence Points. You still keep your Rune Pages in the new system.
Tier-3 Marks, Seals and Glyphs	100 for purchases before Season 2017. Full Refund for purchases during Season 2017, up to August 31st.
Tier-3 Quints	300 for purchases before Season 2017. Full Refund for purchases during Season 2017, up to August 31st.
Limited Edition Runes	Exclusive Summoner Icon(s) to players who purchased the following: Snowdown 2009, 2010 and 2011 2010 Winter Games Celebration Harrowing 2010 and 2011 2011 Razer PAX Promotion

Lore

The World Rune of Inspiration.

In his youth, thousands of years ago, Ryze witnessed the discovery of the first World Rune, as well as many more in the decades that followed. Believed to be a font of The Makers's might, conflict soon erupted over their control. This conflict escalated into the great Rune Wars, which erased Ryze's boyhood village of Khom, Shurima, from reality.

Sobered by the threat of annihilation, Ryze and his mentor manage to convince many of the World Rune's holders into sealing their World Runes beyond the reach of man. But many refused. After the death of his mentor, it fell to Ryze to continue the quest with only an ancient scroll for guidance.

Forward to the present day, the World Runes have begun to emerge once more, and the world has forgotten the price of wielding them.

Trivia

• During development, Precision and Sorcery were originally going to be Primary-only.
• Runes and their surrounding areas have distinct visual appearances similar to Runeterran factions, which may be intentional and reflect the real-world location of the World Runes:
  • Precision - Golden cityscape of Demacia or Shurima
  • Domination - Noxian fortification
  • Sorcery - Mountains of The Freljord, Mount Targon or Icathia
  • Resolve - Riverlands of Demacia, Ionia or southern Freljord
  • Inspiration - Beneath the heavens atop Mount Targon
• The following statements generalize the changes made to compensate the loss of AD from Marks and Health/Armor from Seals, which were almost unanimously used due to the lack of options (and thus the game has been balanced, for example, around most champions having +9 Armor from Seals). The exact values may vary for specific cases, as Riot also took this opportunity to better distinguish classes (e.g. tanks from non-tanks; ranged from melee), as well as buff/nerf specific champions.
  • AD champions had the base damage on their abilities increased by 5.
    • Ranged AD champions also had their  base attack damage increased by 8.
  • Most champions had their  base armor increased by 9.
    • Most mages had their  base health increased by 12 (+12), instead. Primarily excepting junglers.
    • Melee supports had their  base armor increased by 20, instead.
• Riot has stated that they already have a number of additional runes in the works that will not be finished before the initial release.
  • Players may also see additional paths in the future, although none are currently in development and they would not be added outside of the mid- or pre-season patch.
• There are 43,740 possible rune combinations, factoring that:
  • There are 20 possible combinations of the 5 Rune Paths.
  • There are 81 possible combinations of primary runes.
  • There are 27 possible combinations of secondary runes.
• Every rune that gives bonus Adaptive AD or AP, will always grant about 60% of the amount of AP as AD, or about 166.6% of the amount of AD as AP.

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• Domination crest Concept
• Resolve crest Concept
• Domination, Precision and Resolve crests Concept
• Domination, Precision, Resolve and Inspiration Concept
• Sorcery splash art
• Sorcery splash art 2
• Resolve splash art
• Resolve splash art 2
• Precision splash art
• Precision splash art 2
• Domination splash art
• Domination splash art 2
• Inspiration splash art
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Patch History

Future changes will only be documented on the respective rune's page.

V7.22

• General
  • Added to the live servers.
• Arcane Comet
  • Base damage changed to Template:Pp18 from .
  • Bonus AD ratio increased to 40% bonus AD from 35%.
• Font of Life
  • Removed: Triggering the healing yourself.
• Future's Market
  • Bug Fix: The first loan wasn't suppose to be free.
• Lethal Tempo
  • The previous bug where Lethal Tempo was removing the attack speed cap is in effect.
• Perfect Timing
  • Editor Note - Undocumented Feature Discovered: The Stopwatch received is actually a knock-off.
• Phase Rush
  • Bonus movement speed reduced to Template:Pp18 from Template:Pp18.
• Press the Attack
  • Damage type changed to Adaptive from True.
• Overgrowth
  • Unit death requirement reduced to 8 from 10.
• Summon Aery
  • Damage type changed to Physical from Magic.
• Unsealed Spellbook
  • Cooldown reduction reduced to 25% from 30%.

PBE Patch - October 30th

• Cut Down
  • Minimum amplifier increased to 4% from 2%.
  • Maximum amplifier increased to 10% from 8%.
• Dark Harvest
  • Bonus damage reduced to Template:Pp18 from Template:Pp18.
  • Bonus AD ratio increased to 25% from 15%.
  • AP ratio increased to 20% from 10%.
  • Soul essence required to unlock bonus increased to 150 from 100.
  • Soul essence gained from champions reduced to 6 from 8.
  • Soul essence gained from minions reduced to 4 from 5.
• Summon Aery
  • Editor Note - Clarification: Always deals magic damage.
• Zombie Ward
  • Editor Note - Undocumented Feature Discovered: Allied wards that time-out (i.e. aren't killed) also create a Zombie Ward.

PBE Patch - October 27th

• Dark Harvest
  • Bonus damage reduced to Template:Pp18 from Template:Pp18.
  • Champion soul value reduced to 8 from 10.
• Glacial Augment
  • Initial ranged slow reduced to 20% from 25%.
  • Initial melee slow increased to 40% from 35%.
  • Per-target cooldown increased to 7 - 4 (based on level) seconds from 6 - 3 (based on level).
• Ingenious Hunter
  • Base item cooldown reduction increased to 10% from 1%.
• Iron Skin
  • Empowered armor reduced to 5% from 8%.
• Mirror Shell
  • Base magic resistance reduced to 5 from 7.
  • Empowered magic resistance reduced to 5% from 8%.
• Second Wind
  • Base heal reduced to 6 from 10.

PBE Patch - October 26th

• General
  • The game now auto-substitutes runes if they are not appropriate for the map or your champion.
• Celerity
  • Movement speed increased to 4% from 3%.
• Conditioning
  • Armor and magic resistance increased to 8 from 6.
• Gathering Storm
  • AD reduced to 4.6 from 5.
• Iron Skin
  • Armor increased to 5 from 4.
  • Bonus armor increased to 8% from 5%.
  • New Effect: Bonus armor is now also triggered when shielded.
• Mirror Shell
  • Magic resistance increased to 7 from 4.
  • Bonus magic resistance increased to 8% from 5%.
  • New Effect: Bonus magic resistance is now also triggered when shielded.
• Perseverance
  • Renamed to Unflinching from Perseverance.
• Scorch
  • Damage increased to Template:Pp18 from Template:Pp18.
• Second Wind
  • New Effect: Healing now has a base amount of 10.

Editor Revisions - October 25th

• Demolish
  • Previously Unspecified: Stacks fall off one at a time when out of range.
• Electrocute
  • Correction: Damage type is Adaptive, not the scaling.
  • Correction: The effect does not require unique abilities or attacks, rather you're capped at 1 stack per ability or attack.
• Phase Rush
  • Correction: The effect does not require unique abilities or attacks, rather you're capped at 1 stack per ability or attack.
• Summon Aery
  • Previously Unspecified: Aery can be picked up early.

PBE Patch - October 24th

• General
  • Slots are now named per path, e.g. Precision's Slot 2 is now called Quest.
• Absolute Focus
  • Bonus attack damage reduced to 24 from 28.
• Coup de Grace
  • Damage increased to 10% from 5%.
  • Bonus attack damage reduced to 9 from 15.
• Eyeball Collection
  • Bonus attack damage per eyeball reduced to 0.6 from 0.7.
  • Completed collection bonus attack damage reduced to 6 from 7.
• Glacial Augment
  • Removed: Limit on how many enemy champions Freeze Ray can target. Previously 3.
• Guardian
  • No longer triggered by right clicking on an ally.
  • New Effect: Guards all nearby allies.
  • New Effect: Guards allies hit by unit-targets abilities.
  • Shield now benefits all Guarded allies when the conditions are met, not just a single ally.
  • New Effect: Affected allies also gain 20% bonus movement speed.
  • The effect now only goes on cooldown when the shield is triggered. No longer goes on reduced cooldown if the shield isn't triggered.
• Overheal
  • Maximum shield changed to 10 (+10% maximum health from 30 (+8% maximum health).
• Summon Aery
  • Shield AD ratio increased to 40% bonus AD from 25% bonus AD.
• Trait: Domination
  • Attack damage increased to 11 from 10.8.
• Trait: Inspiration
  • Domination AP increased to 27 from 21.5.
  • Domination AD increased to 16 from 13.
  • Precision attack speed reduced to 20% from 21.6%.
  • Resolve health reduced to 145 from 216.
  • Sorcery AP reduced to 27 from 30.
  • Sorcery AD reduced to 16 from 18.
• Trait: Resolve
  • Bonus health reduced to 130 from 180.
• Transcendence
  • Bonus attack damage reduced to 1.2 from 1.4.
• Unsealed Spellbook
  • Cooldown reduction increased to 30% from 25%.
• Waterwalking
  • Bonus attack damage reduced to 18 from 21.

PBE Patch - October 18th

• Arcane Comet
  • Cooldown reduction increased to 20% from 15%.
  • Cooldown reduction is now reduced to 10% for area of effect abilities.
• Biscuit Delivery
  • New Effect: You now also gain increased maximum mana if you sell the biscuit.
• Gathering Storm
  • AD per stack reduced to 5 from 6.
• Grasp of the Undying
  • Bonus damage increased to 4% from 3%.
  • Heal increased to 2% from 1.5%.
• Trait: Inspiration
  • Resolve health increased to 216 from 84.
• Trait: Resolve
  • Health increased to 180 from 70.
• Unsealed Spellbook
  • Revert: You can once again only swap spells at the store.
  • Revert: Newly acquired spells are no longer put on an initial cooldown.

PBE Patch - October 16th

• Aftershock
  • Base resistances increased to 20 from 10.
• Legend: Bloodline
  • Lifesteal per stack increased to 0.8% from 0.6%.
• Predator
  • AD ratio increased to 40% from 20%.
  • AP ratio reduced to 25% from 30%.
• Summoner Specialist
  • Renamed Unsealed Spellbook.
  • New Effect: You can now swap your spells anywhere, not just at the store.
  • New Effect: If replacing a Summoner Spell that is on cooldown, the newly acquired Summoner Spell is unavailable to cast for a time equal to 50% of the remaining cooldown of spell that is being replaced.

PBE Patch - October 13th

• Approach Velocity
  • Removed: Gaining bonus movement speed toward immobilized minions and monsters. Champions only.
• Arcane Comet
  • Triggering the cooldown refund now has a 0.5 second cooldown.
  • Cooldown refund reduced to 15% from 20%.
  • Cooldown refund for DOTs reduced to 5% from 10%.
• Celestial Body
  • Damage reduction increased to 10% from 8%.
• Eyeball Collection
  • New Effect: Now tracks Ward assists.
• Hextech Flashtraption
  • Removed: Moving while channelling. Editor Note: Not sure when this changed.
• Future's Market
  • Editor Note - Undocumented Feature Discovered: The first loan appears to be free. This could be a bug.
• Kleptomancy
  • On-hit gold reduced to 5 from 25. Editor Note: Not sure when this changed.
  • New Consumable: Pilfered Potion of Rouge: Grants 10 (+1/level) attack damage or ability power (Adaptive). Lasts 45 seconds.
  • Editor Note: Updated the list of possible consumables.
• Legend: Alacrity
  • Attack speed per stack reduced to 1.5% from 3%.
  • Maximum stacks increased to 10.
  • Legend Points per stack reduced to 20 from 30.
  • Legend Points per large monster increased to 5 from 4.
• Legend: Bloodline
  • Life steal per stack reduced to 0.6% from 1.2%.
  • Maximum stacks increased to 10.
  • Legend Points per stack reduced to 20 from 30.
  • Legend Points per large monster increased to 5 from 4.
• Legend: Tenacity
  • Tenacity per stack reduced to 1.5% from 3%.
  • Maximum stacks increased to 10.
  • Legend Points per stack reduced to 20 from 30.
  • Legend Points per large monster increased to 5 from 4.
• Trait: Resolve
  • Set title for Resolve + Precision changed to "The Leviathan" from "The Imperious".
• Zombie Ward
  • Assist window increased to 10 seconds from 2.

PBE Patch - October 12th

• Dark Harvest
  • New Effect: After collecting 100 Soul Essence, the timer to trigger the empowered attack increases to 300 seconds.
  • Editor Note - Correction: Apologies. The tooltip previously listed that the AD or AP ratio was Adaptive, but this was incorrect. Rather, it scales with both and it's actually the Damage Type that is adaptive.
• Electrocute
  • Damage increased to 50-220 from 40-220.
• Predator
  • Damage increased to 60-180 from 60-140.
  • Channeling is no longer interrupted by minion damage.
  • Activating no longer breaks stealth.
  • Cooldown reduced to 180-120 (based on level) from 180.
• Presence of Mind
  • Editor Note - Correction: Apologies. The tooltip previously listed that it reduced mana costs, but this was incorrect. Rather, it refunds mana spent. This is a subtle difference, but prevents abilities from being activated if you do not have sufficient mana to start with.
• Press the Attack
  • Damage reduced to 30-120 from 30-180.

PBE Patch - October 11th

• Arcane Comet
  • New Effect: Damaging an enemy champion with ability damage reduces Arcane Comet's remaining cooldown by 20%, or 10% for damage over time effects.
• Summon Aery
  • Damage increased to 20-60 from 10-40.
  • Shield reduced to 30-80 from 40-100.
• Trait: Domination
  • Ability power increased to 18 from 10.
  • Attack damage increased to 10.8 from 7.
• Trait: Inspiration
  • Domination ability power increased to 21.6 from 18.
  • Domination attack damage reduced to 13 from 16.8.
  • Precision attack speed increased to 21.6% from 16.8%.
  • Sorcery ability power increased to 30 from 18.
  • Sorcery attack damage increased to 18 from 12.6.
• Trait: Precision
  • Attack speed increased to 18% from 14%.
• Trait: Sorcery
  • Ability power increased to 25 from 15.
  • Attack damage increased to 15 from 10.5.

PBE Patch - October 10th

• Coup de Grace
  • Takedown bonus no longer stacks.
  • Takedown bonus increased to 15 from 10.
• Demolish
  • Base damage reduced to 125 from 375.
  • Health ratio increased to 30% from 20%.
  • Cooldown reduced to 45 seconds from 60.
• Fleet Footwork
  • New Effect: Healing is only 60% effective versus minions.
• Iron Skin
  • Armor increased to 4 from 3.
• Last Stand
  • Initial threshold changed to 60% maximum health from 80%.
  • Initial bonus damage increased to 5% from 2%.
• Lethal Tempo
  • Cooldown increased to 10 seconds from 6.
• Manaflow Band
  • Mana/energy restoration reduced to 8% from 10%.
• Mirror Shell
  • Armor increased to 4 from 3.
• Nullifying Orb
  • Cooldown now begins when the shield triggers instead of when the shield expires.
  • AD ratio changed to 15% bonus from 15% total.
  • Base shield increased to 40-120 from 30-120.
• Phase Rush
  • Movement speed increased to 20-50% from 15-40%.
• Presence of Mind
  • Removed: While below 60% mana, your basic attacks versus champions generate stacks that are converted into mana on champion takedown or exiting combat.
  • New Effect: Gain 100% reduced mana costs for 5 seconds whenever you score a champion takedown or level up.
• Press the Attack
  • Removed: Attacks versus champions grant stacking attack damage. While over 3 stacks, deal increased damage.
  • New Effect: Attacks apply stacks. At 3 stacks, the target takes X true damage and takes Y% increased damage from all sources for 6 seconds.
• Overheal
  • Conversion rate from allies increased to 300% at all times from 100%-300% based on game time.
• Scorch
  • Damage increased to 20-60 from 10-40.
• Trait: Inspiration
  • Domination ability power increased to 18 from 15.
  • Domination attack damage increased to 16.7 from 10.5.
  • Precision attack speed reduced to 16.8% from 18%.
  • Resolve health reduced to 84 from 105.
  • Sorcery ability power reduced to 18 from 22.5.
  • Sorcery attack damage reduced to 12.6 from 15.
• Trait: Precision
  • Attack speed increased to 14% from 12%.

PBE Patch - October 4th

• Eyeball Collection
  • Removed: Bonus Lethality and Magic Penetration.
  • New Effect: Completing the collection now grants 10 Ability Power or 7 Attack Damage.
• Minion Dematerializer
  • Cooldown reduced to 10 seconds from 20.
• Phase Rush
  • Movement speed reduced to 15-40% from 30-60%.
• Sudden Impact
  • Bonus duration increased to 5 seconds from 3.
  • Triggering the bonus now has a 4 second cooldown on expiration.
  • Lethality reduced to 10 from 12.
  • Triggering the bonus now requires dealing damage within X seconds of dashing, blinking, teleporting or breaking stealth.

PBE Patch - October 3rd

• Coup de Grace
  • Damage amplifier increased to 5% from 3%.
  • Takedown bonus duration increased to 10 seconds from 5.
• Electrocute
  • Stack time-out period increased to 3 seconds from 2.
• Gathering Storm
  • AD per stack reduced to 5.6 from 6.
• Press the Attack
  • Stack reduction for changing target reduced to 2 from 4.
  • Stacks to gain the ranged damage amplifier reduced to 3 from 5.
  • Ranged damage amplifier increased to 8% from 6%.

PBE Patch - October 2nd

• Press the Attack
  • The damage amplifier now affects your damage versus all targets, while active, not just the last champion you attacked.

PBE Patch - September 29th

• Coup de Grace
  • Bonus damage reduced to 3% from 10%.
  • New Effect: Takedowns grant 10 Attack Damage or 10 Ability Power (Adaptive) for 5 seconds. This bonus stacks.
• Eyeball Collection
  • Cap implemented at 20.
  • New Effect: Upon completing your collection, gain 10 Lethality and 8 Magic Penetration.
• Zombie Ward
  • Fixed a bug where it didn't die upon timing out.

PBE Patch - September 28th

• Celestial Body
  • Temporary damage reduction increased to 8% from 5%.
  • Temporary damage reduction now applies to monsters.
• Lethal Tempo
  • Fixed a bug that caused Lethal Tempo to remove the attack speed cap, rather than its own bonus being able to exceed the cap.
• Overheal
  • Damage from allies is now instead of 100% / 300%.
• Sudden Impact
  • Now additionally triggers on exiting stealth and camouflage.