V12.3

V12.3
Release Date (US)	February 2nd, 2022
Highlights
2022  Crystal Rose skins Ahri Gameplay Update Vel'Koz VFX Update
Related links
12.3 Patch Notes
Patch chronology
← Previous	V12.2
Next →	V12.4

For the Teamfight Tactics patch, see V12.3 (Teamfight Tactics).

New Cosmetics

The following Champion skins have been added to the store:

• Crystal Rose Akshan ( 1350)
• Withered Rose Elise ( 1350)
• Crystal Rose Janna ( 1350)

The following Chroma sets have been added to the store:

• Crystal Rose Akshan
  Chromas: Amethyst, Aquamarine, Catseye, Emerald, Obsidian, Pearl, Rose Quartz, Ruby
• Withered Rose Elise
  Chromas: Citrine, Emerald, Obsidian, Pearl, Rose Quartz, Ruby, Sapphire, Turquoise
• Crystal Rose Janna
  Chromas: Catseye, Emerald, Obsidian, Pearl, Rose Quartz, Ruby, Sapphire, Tanzanite

League of Legends V12.3

Client

• Rotating Game Mode: ARURF returns to live servers, from January 26th, 2022 (1:00 PM PT) to February 28th, 2022 (11:59 PM PT).

Parties

• Bug Fix: Players can no longer select multiple roles in Summoner's Rift lobbies with 5 players.
• Bug Fix: Pressing the ESC key now properly closes the role selector in game lobbies.

Game

• Bug Fix: Buff for charms now properly display in the debuff bar.
• Bug Fix: Certain resource bars no longer become visually stuck when changing window display modes.
• Bug Fix: In-game FPS counter update rate has been reverted for smoother reporting.

Champions

Ahri

• Stats
  • Base health reduced to 500 from 526.
  • Health growth reduced to 82 from 92.
  • Base health regeneration reduced to 2.5 from 5.5.
  • Base armor reduced to 18 from 21.
• Essence Theft
  • New Innate Effect: Ahri gains 1 Essence Fragment whenever she kills a minion or monster. After obtaining 9 fragments, she consumes them to heal herself for 40 − 120 (based on level) (+ 25% AP).
    • Old Innate Effect: Ahri's abilities grant a stack of Essence Theft for each enemy hit, up to 3 stacks per ability cast. Upon reaching 9 stacks, Ahri's next ability heals her for 3 / 5 / 9 / 18 (based on level) (+ 9% AP) for each enemy hit and consumes the stacks if at least one enemy is hit.
  • New Innate Effect: When Ahri scores a takedown against an enemy champion within 3 seconds of damaging them, she consumes their essence to heal herself for 80 − 200 (based on level) (+ 35% AP).
  • VFX and SFX have been updated for all skins.
• Orb of Deception
  • Mana cost changed to 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 from 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 / 85.
  • AP ratio increased to 40% AP from 35% AP.
• Fox-Fire
  • Base damage increased to 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 from 40 / 65 / 90 / 115 / 140.
  • Mana cost reduced to 25 from 45.
  • Flame duration reduced to 2.5 seconds from 5.
  • Bonus movement speed duration increased to 2 seconds from 1.5.
  • Improved missile targeting and last hitting logic.
  • Cleaned up VFX and enhanced missile movement.
• Charm
  • Base damage increased to 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 / 200 from 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180.
  • AP ratio increased to 60% AP from 40% AP.
  • Mana cost reduced to 50 from 70.
  • Removed: Hitting an enemy with Charm no longer renders them vulnerable for 3 seconds, making them take 20% bonus damage from her abilities, including the Charm that triggered it.
• Spirit Rush
  • Recast duration increased to 15 seconds from 10.
  • New Effect: Cooldown now begins after the first cast, rather than after the effect ends.
  • New Effect: Consuming a champion's essence with Essence Theft while active extends the ability's recast duration by and up to 10 seconds and grants an additional recast, storing up to 3 recasts.
    • Recast duration now persists after using all recasts.
  • Cleaned up VFX and new ammo bar icons have been added to indicate the number of stored casts.

Akshan

• Dirty Fighting
  • Base bonus movement speed reduced to 20 − 75 (based on level) from 35 − 75 (based on level).
  • Base damage reduced to 10 − 165 (based on level) from 20 − 175 (based on level).

Amumu

• General
  • Base voice lines have been remastered to sound clearer, cleaner, and smoother.
• Stats
  • Armor growth reduced to 3 from 3.5.
• Tantrum
  • New Effect: Damage reduction is now capped at 50% of the damage instance.

Brand

• Blaze
  • New Effect: Mana restore now occurs if the ability kills the target.
• Pyroclasm
  • Now prioritizes bouncing to nearby targets before bouncing to Brand.

Caitlyn

• Stats
  • Attack damage growth reduced to 3.4 from 3.8.
• Piltover Peacemaker
  • Damage against secondary targets reduced to 50% from 60%.
• Ace in the Hole
  • Bug Fix: Channel no longer improperly starts when feared during the cast time, thus refunding the ability's cooldown despite not being cancelled.

Corki

• Hextech Munitions
  • Package spawn time increased to 10:00 from 8:00.
  • Package respawn timer increased to 300 seconds from 240.

Darius

• General
  • Base voice lines have been remastered to sound clearer, cleaner, and smoother.

Kled

• Unmounted
  • Bug Fix: Courage bar now properly displays correct values when Skaarl is lost.
• Violent Tendencies
  • Bug Fix: Fourth attack now properly deals its bonus damage if the ability was learned while winding up the basic attack.

LeBlanc

• Distortion
  • Base damage reduced to 75 / 110 / 145 / 180 / 215 from 75 / 115 / 155 / 195 / 235.

Lillia

• Lilting Lullaby
  • Sleep duration increased to 2 / 2.25 / 2.5 seconds from 1.5 / 2 / 2.5.

Nami

• Surging Tides
  • Base bonus movement speed increased to 90 from 45.
    • Base bonus movement speed granted by Tidal Wave increased to 180 from 90.
  • New Effect: Bonus movement speed now decays over the duration.
• Tidecaller's Blessing
  • Base damage per hit reduced to 20 / 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 from 25 / 40 / 55 / 70 / 85.

Quinn

• Heightened Senses
  • Bonus attack speed increased to 28 / 36 / 44 / 52 / 60% from 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60%.
• Skystrike
  • AD ratio increased to 70% AD from 40% AD.

Samira

• Daredevil Impulse
  • Bug Fix: No longer grants an additional Style stack from executing an enemy champion with The Collector's Death and Taxes.

Senna

• Absolution
  • Mist Wraith spawn rate on minions she kills reduced to 2.7% from 10%.

Skarner

• Battlecast Alpha Skarner
  • Bug Fix: SFX of marking a minion with Crystal Venom by hitting Fracture and gaining Crystal Charge from triggering Crystal Venom now properly play correctly.

Talon

• Shadow Assault
  • Bug Fix: Blades no longer briefly disappear for a frame on cast of the VFX.

Twisted Fate

• Wild Cards
  • Base damage reduced to 60 / 100 / 140 / 180 / 220 from 60 / 105 / 150 / 195 / 240.
  • AP ratio increased to 70% AP from 65% AP.
• Stacked Deck
  • Bonus attack speed reduced to 10 / 17.5 / 25 / 32.5 / 40% from 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40%.

Varus

• Piercing Arrow
  • Bug Fix: Charge cancellation VFX has been restored for all skins.

Vel'Koz

• General
  • Updated visual effects.
• Original Vel'Koz
  • Complete overhaul and adjusted hitbox indicators.
• Battlecast Vel'Koz
  • Some cleanup.
• Arclight Vel'Koz
  • Cleanup and new E indicator.
• Infernal Vel'Koz
  • Minor tweaks and new E indicator.
• Blackfrost Vel'Koz
  • Minor tweaks and new E indicator.

Zeri

• General
  • Bug Fix: Several VFX now properly display correctly upon reconnecting to a game.
• Stats
  • Base movement speed reduced to 325 from 330.
• Basic Attack
  • Health ratio reduced to 3% − 15% (based on level) of target's maximum health from 3% − 20% (based on level)
• Burst Fire
  • Bug Fix: Runaan's Hurricane Winds Fury now triggers even if she is facing away from the target when the rounds hit.
• Spark Surge
  • Bug Fix: Now properly vaults over Anivia's Crystallize and Trundle's Pillar of Ice instead of dashing over them.
• Lightning Crash
  • Chain lightning base damage reduced to 10 / 15 / 20 from 10 / 20 / 30.
  • New Effect: Chain lightning magic damage can now critically strike.

Items

Black Cleaver

• Attack damage increased to 45 from 40.
• Ability haste increased to 30 from 25.
• Health reduced to 350 from 450.

Blade of the Ruined King

• Total cost increased to 3300 from 3200.
  • Combine cost increased to 525 from 425.
• Mist's Edge damage increased to ( 12% / 8%) of target's current health from ( 10% / 6%).

Caulfield's Warhammer

• Now builds into Divine Sunderer and Goredrinker.

Death's Dance

• Total cost increased to 3300 from 3100.
  • Combine cost increased to 525 from 325.
• Ignore Pain damage stored reduced to ( 30% / 10%) from ( 35% / 15%).
• New Effect: Ignore Pain now also stores post-mitigation magic damage received.
• New Effect: Ignore Pain now also stores damage received to shields.
• Defy triggering condition changed to enemy champions dying within 3 seconds of damage from enemy champion takedowns.
• Defy heal changed to 175% bonus AD from 15% of your maximum health.

Divine Sunderer

• New Recipe: Caulfield's Warhammer + Sheen + Kindlegem + 700 = 3300.
  • Old Recipe: Phage + Sheen + Kindlegem + 700 = 3300.
• Attack damage increased to 40 from 35.
• Health reduced to 300 from 400.
• Deicide attack damage increased to 60 from 55.
• Deicide health reduced to 450 from 550.

Goredrinker

• New Recipe: Ironspike Whip + Caulfield's Warhammer + Kindlegem + 300 = 3300.
  • Old Recipe: Ironspike Whip + Phage + Kindlegem + 300 = 3300
• Attack damage increased to 55 from 45.
• Health reduced to 300 from 450.
• Ceaseless Hunger attack damage increased to 70 from 60.
• Ceaseless Hunger health reduced to 450 from 600.

Hearthbound Axe

• Total cost reduced to 1000 from 1100.
  • Combine cost reduced to 350 from 450.

Hexdrinker

• Attack damage increased to 25 from 20.
• Ranged shield reduced to 82.5 − 210 (based on level) from 110 − 280 (based on level).

Maw of Malmortius

• Total cost increased to 2900 from 2800.
  • Combine cost increased to 500 from 400.
• Attack damage increased to 55 from 50.
• Ability haste increased to 20 from 15.
• New Effect: Triggering Lifeline also grants 12% omnivamp until the end of combat (have not dealt or taken damage for at least 3 seconds).
• Shield strength changed to ( 200 / 150) (+ ( 225% / 168.75%) bonus AD) from 200 (+ 20% maximum health).

Phage

• No longer builds into Divine Sunderer and Goredrinker.

Ravenous Hydra

• Attack damage increased to 70 from 65.

Runaan's Hurricane

• Bug Fix: Wind's Fury now correctly triggers from Ezreal's Mystic Shot even when the missile travels a certain range.

Sterak's Gage

• Attack damage reduced to 0 from 50.
• New Unique Passive - The Claws that Catch: Gain 40% base AD as bonus attack damage.
• Removed Unique Passive - Bloodlust: After dealing damage to or taking damage from an enemy champion, heal for ( 2% / 1.2%) of maximum health over 6 seconds. This stacks and refreshes per unique champion, up to 5 times, but every stack beyond the first is reduced by 50%, for a maximum of healing for ( 6% / 3.6%) of maximum health over the duration.
• Unique Passive - Lifeline:
  • New Effect: If you would take damage that would reduce you below 30% of your maximum health, gain a 75% of bonus health shield that decays over 3.75 seconds.
  • Old Effect: If you would take damage that would reduce you below 30% of your maximum health, gain a 100 shield for 4 seconds, increased by ( 8% / 4.8%) maximum health per stack of Bloodlust, up to ( 40% / 24%) maximum health at 5 Bloodlust stacks.

Stridebreaker

• Combine cost increased to 400 from 300.
  • Total cost unchanged.

Trinity Force

• Combine cost increased to 833 from 733.
  • Total cost unchanged.
• Health increased to 300 from 200.
• Threefold Strike base attack damage per stack reduced to 4% base AD from 6%.
  • Threefold Strike maximum base attack damage reduced to 20% base AD from 30%.
• Infinity Force health increased to 400 from 300.

Turbo Chemtank

• Removed: Dealing damage no longer grants Refuel stacks.
• New Effect: Taking damage now grants Refuel stacks.
• Distance per Refuel stack increased to 25 units from 15.
• Refuel bonus monster damage increased to 200% from 175%.
• Refuel bonus minion damage increased to 30% from 25%.

Wit's End

• Combine cost increased to 775 from 675.
  • Total cost unchanged.

Monsters

Elemental Rift

• Hextech Rift
  • New Effect:
    • Champions taking hex-gates channel for 0.75 seconds, then upon completion dash to the other side of the gate over 2.25 seconds while being untargetable. They can choose a location to dash again up to 500 units away from the gate upon arrival.
      • Champions taking the gate will still always blink to their designated location.
      • The location still cannot be chosen over terrain.
  • Old Effect:
    • Champions taking hex-gates channel for 0.75 seconds, then upon completion blink to the other side of the gate but become vanished for 2.25 seconds. They can choose a new location to blink to up to 500 units away from the gate upon arrival.

Practice Tool

• Removed: Can no longer spawn Chemtech Drake.

Hotfixes

February 2nd Hotfix

Ahri

• Charm
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where it could interrupt unstoppable enemies.

February 3rd Hotfix

Seraphine

• Stage Presence
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where her abilities would get canceled if cast while attacking an enemy with an empowered basic attack.

Twisted Fate

• Pick a Card
  • Bug Fix: Now properly uses a 0.25-second cast time for the empowered attack.

URF-specific balancing

• Akali
  • Incoming damage modifier changed to -10% from -5%.
• Darius
  • Incoming damage modifier changed to -15% from -10%.
• Evelynn
  • Base movement speed reduced to 335 from 345.
• Fiora
  • Health growth increased to 85 from 60.
• Hecarim
  • Rampage
    • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where it would get disabled for the rest of the game after Viego possessed him.
• Jax
  • Base health increased to 615 from 550.
  • Health growth increased to 85 from 60.
• Kalista
  • Attack damage growth reduced to 3.6 from 7.
• Katarina
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed to +5% from 0%.
  • Base movement speed reduced to 335 from 345.
  • Health growth reduced to 94 from 105.
• Karthus
  • Base health increased to 550 from 450.
  • Health growth increased to 87 from 65.
• Kled
  • Incoming damage modifier changed to -10% from -5%.
• Malphite
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed to -5% from 0%.
• Master Yi
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed to -10% from 0%.
• Mordekaiser
  • Incoming damage modifier changed to -15% from 0%.
• Morgana
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed to -10% from -5%.
  • Incoming damage modifier changed to +5% from 0%.
• Nunu
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed to +8% from 0%.
• Orianna
  • Incoming damage modifier changed to +10% from +8%.
• Ornn
  • Base movement speed reduced to 335 from 340.
  • Base health reduced to 590 from 600.
  • Health growth reduced to 95 from 105.
• Qiyana
  • Incoming damage modifier changed to -10% from -5%.
• Rammus
  • Incoming damage modifier changed to -15% from -10%.
• Rek'Sai
  • Incoming damage modifier changed to -5% from 0%.
  • Base health reduced to 570 from 600.
  • Health growth reduced to 85 from 100.
  • Attack damage growth reduced to 3.35 from 4.5.
  • Base armor reduced to 33 from 38.
  • Attack speed growth reduced to 2% from 3%.
• Rumble
  • Base health increased to 589 from 550.
  • Health growth increased to 85 from 65.
• Seraphine
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed to -8% from -3%.
• Shaco
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed to -10% from -5%.
  • Incoming damage modifier changed to +5% from 0%.
• Sion
  • Incoming damage modifier changed to -8% from 0%.
• Sona
  • Base health increased to 480 from 463.
  • Health growth increased to 77 from 50.
• Tahm Kench
  • Base movement speed reduced to 335 from 340.
  • Health growth reduced to 95 from 120.
• Thresh
  • Incoming damage modifier changed to -13% from -8%.
• Vex
  • Incoming damage modifier changed to +5% from 0%.
• Viego
  • Incoming damage modifier changed to -5% from 0%.
• Volibear
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed to -5% from 0%.
• Wukong
  • Attack damage growth increased to 4 from 3.
  • Base attack damage increased to 68 from 63.
  • Health growth increased to 85 from 70.
• Yuumi
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed to -40% from -30%.
  • Healing modifier changed to -40% from -30%.
• Zac
  • Health growth reduced to 95 from 105.
  • Base armor reduced to 33 from 38.
  • Armor growth reduced to 3.5 from 4.5.
• Zed
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed to -15% from -5%.
  • Base health increased to 584 from 550.
  • Health growth increased to 85 from 60.

February 4th Hotfix

Janna

• Stats
  • Base movement speed reduced to 325 from 330.
• Zephyr
  • Bonus movement speed reduced to 6 / 7.5 / 9 / 10.5 / 12% from 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12%.
• Eye of the Storm
  • Heal and shield power duration reduced to 4 seconds from 5.

References

Patch History