V14.8

V14.8
Release Date (US)	April 17th, 2024
Highlights
Vanguard Launch in the Philippines 2024  Blood Moon skins
Related links
14.8 Patch Notes
Patch chronology
← Previous	V14.7
Next →	V14.9

For the Teamfight Tactics patch, see V14.8 (Teamfight Tactics).

New Cosmetics

The following Champion skins have been added to the store:

• Blood Moon Fiddlesticks ( 1350)
• Blood Moon Zed ( 1350)
• Blood Moon Zyra ( 1350)

The following Chroma sets have been added to the store:

• Blood Moon Fiddlesticks
  Chromas: Amethyst, Citrine, Emerald, Obsidian, Pearl, Rose Quartz, Ruby, Sapphire
• Blood Moon Zed
  Chromas: Amethyst, Catseye, Emerald, Obsidian, Pearl, Ruby, Sapphire, Turquoise
• Blood Moon Zyra
  Chromas: Catseye, Emerald, Pearl, Rose Quartz, Ruby, Sapphire, Tanzanite, Turquoise

The following Summoner icons have been added to store:

Skarner Illustration II

Hundun

The following Emotes have been added to the store:

I'm Viable

Hundun

League of Legends V14.8

Client

Anti-cheat

• Riot Vanguard, Riot's proprietary signature anti-cheat, is being launched for League of Legends in the Philippines (PH) server alongside the launch of this patch. It is expected to launch globally with the next patch, 14.9.
• Players will receive a prompt in the Riot Client before proceeding with the installation of this patch, informing them of Vanguard's implementation. After Vanguard is installed, at least one full PC restart is required in order to enable it and proceed with playing the game.
• Relevant article: /dev: Vanguard x LoL by Riot MirageOfPenguins at LeagueOfLegends.com (11 April 2024).

DirectX Support

• This is an announcement for a future change. DirectX 9 will no longer be legacy-compatible with and be supported for League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics, and this is initially planned for patch V14.9.
  • Players who are using the DirectX 9 API by opting-in from later versions will be automatically opted-out when the change is live.
  • Players who are using DirectX 9 due to hardware limitations must upgrade their device in order to continue playing.
• A chat message has been added upon starting a game, to notify of DX9 compatibility mode no longer being available in the near future:
  • You are using DX9 Legacy Mode, which will be disabled soon. Please change this in your graphics settings after the game. You can reach out to player support if you have any questions.

Mythic Shop Rotation

• In:
  • Prestige Porcelain Lissandra
  • Prestige Bewitching Miss Fortune
  • Prestige PROJECT: Sylas
  • Prestige Coven Zyra
• Out:
  • Prestige PsyOps Ezreal
  • Prestige Winterblessed Warwick
  • Prestige Duality Dragon Volibear
  • Prestige Space Groove Nami
  • Dark Star Cho'Gath
  • Hextech Renekton

Ranked

• Undocumented: Starting MMR for ranked queues has been lowered to a value that corresponds to approximately Silver IV.

Game

Input buffering

• Bug Fix: Movement abilities in the input queue are now cancelable and no longer cast as a separate instance and without any valid target(s) (e.g. Yasuo's Sweeping Blade).

Quickplay

• For better clarity, each player's assigned position is now visible during loading screen.

Terrain

• Bug Fix: The terrain change sweep VFX from Elemental Rift's transformation no longer glitches out in Spectator modev while active on the map.

Champions

Akali

• Stats
  • Base health increased to 600 from 570.

Azir

• Stats
  • Base health regeneration reduced to 3.5 from 5.
• Arise!
  • Base damage reduced to 50 / 65 / 80 / 95 / 110 from 50 / 67 / 84 / 101 / 118.

Brand

• Blaze
  • Bug Fix: Can now once again trigger Dark Harvest.

Briar

• Stats
  • Health growth reduced to 95 from 100.
• Head Rush
  • Cast range increased to 475 units from 450.
• Blood Frenzy
  • Bonus attack speed changed to 55 / 65 / 75 / 85 / 95% from 54 / 68 / 82 / 96 / 110%.
  • Bug Fix: Now properly reveals the nearest target while the effects of nearsight.

Draven

• Spinning Axe
  • Base damage increased to 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 from 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60.

Evelynn

• General
  • Bug Fix: VO lines for first encounter with Brand and Dr. Mundo are no longer incorrectly swapped.
• Last Caress
  • Bug Fix: Now properly triggers her VO lines.

Galio

• Stats
  • Base movement speed increased to 340 from 335.
• Winds of War
  • Cooldown reduced to 11 / 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 seconds from 12 / 10.75 / 9.5 / 8.25 / 7.

Graves

• New Destiny
  • Increased non-growth attack speed scaling for decreasing reload time by 35%.
  • Pellet critical strike bonus damage increased to 45% from 40%.
    • Bonus damage per pellet critical strike increased to (33.75% + 22.5%) from (30% + 20%).
  • Relative bonus damage of critical attacks where all pellets hit increased to  78.3% (+ 30%) from  73.3% (+ 26.7%).
    • Maximum critical strike damage increased to 249.52% − 356.48% (based on level) (+ 41.98% − 59.97% (based on level)) AD from 242.52% − 346.48% (based on level) (+ 37.31% − 53.3% (based on level)) AD.

Hwei

• Signature of the Visionary
  • AP ratio increased to 35% AP from 30% AP.

Jarvan IV

• Martial Cadence
  • Health ratio increased to 7% of target's current health from 6%.

Jhin

• Whisper
  • Base bonus movement speed increased to 14% from 10%.
• Dancing Grenade
  • Minimum base damage reduced to 44 / 69 / 94 / 119 / 144 from 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 / 145.
  • Minimum AD ratio increased to 44 / 51.5 / 59 / 66.5 / 74% AD from 35 / 42.5 / 50 / 57.5 / 65% AD.

Kai'Sa

• Icathian Rain
  • Bonus AD ratio per missile increased to 55% bonus AD from 50%.

LeBlanc

• Sigil of Malice
  • Base damage increased to 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 / 170 from 65 / 90 / 115 / 140 / 165.
• Distortion
  • Cooldown reduced to 15 / 13.75 / 12.5 / 11.25 / 10 seconds from 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10.

Mordekaiser

• Darkness Rise
  • Bug Fix: No longer gains a stack for attacks that are dodged.
• Obliterate
  • Cooldown reduced to 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 seconds from 9 / 7.75 / 6.5 / 5.25 / 4.
• Death's Grasp
  • Base damage reduced to 70 / 85 / 100 / 115 / 130 from 80 / 95 / 110 / 125 / 140.
• Realm of Death
  • Removed: No longer dispelled if the target uses an applicable cleansing effect.
    • Removal interaction had parity with the removal interactions of suppression; cleanses that would remove suppression now no longer dispel the Realm of Death.
    • Crowd control immunities will still resist banishment.

Olaf

• Undertow
  • Bonus monster damage increased to 5 / 15 / 25 / 35 / 45 from 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25.

Renekton

• Ruthless Predator
  • Bug Fix: Now properly applies spell effects.

Rengar

• Savagery
  • Now properly applies Infinity Edge's critical strike damage bonus.

Ryze

• Rune Prison
  • Slow increased to 50% from 35%.
  • Cooldown reduced to 11 / 10.5 / 10 / 9.5 / 9 seconds from 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9.

Shyvana

• Twin Bite
  • Bug Fix: Dragon form version no longer incorrectly consumes a Hail of Blades stack when used as a basic attack reset.

Skarner

• Stats
  • Mana growth reduced to 40 from 45.
  • Mana regeneration growth increased to 0.6 from 0.45.
• Shattered Earth
  • Cast time reduced to 0.35 seconds from 0.5.
  • Boulder duration increased to 5 seconds from 3.5.
  • Base damage per hit increased to 10 / 25 / 40 / 55 / 70 from 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50.
  • Bonus AD ratio per hit increased to 60% bonus AD from 40% bonus AD.
  • Mana cost reduced to 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 from 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60.
• Upheaval
  • Recast timer reduced to 0.5 seconds from 0.75.
  • Base damage increased to 10 / 25 / 40 / 55 / 70 from 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50.
  • Bonus AD ratio increased to 60% bonus AD from 40% bonus AD.
  • Bug Fix: No longer sometimes fails to cast if used at the same frame as Flash.
• Seismic Bastion
  • Base damage reduced to 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 from 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180.
  • Mana cost increased to 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 from 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70.
  • Bug Fix: Area no longer has a hole of 100 units' height in an arc in the cast direction.
  • Bug Fix: Area now applies over the correct area after Flash is used during the cast time.
• Ixtal's Impact
  • Bug Fix: VFX and particles for exiting terrain now trigger at the correct time. Previously, they would trigger with a slight delay after exiting.
• Impale
  • Bug Fix: Now applies Threads of Vibration to minions and monsters hit.
• Guardian of the Sands Skarner
  • Updated Recall animation.
  • Bug Fix: Restored shockwave VFX during his taunt animation.
• Battlecast Alpha Skarner
  • Seismic Bastion
    • Bug Fix: No longer sometimes plays his walk animation instead of Seismic's Bastion cast animation.

Sylas

• Chain Lash
  • Monster detonation damage increased to 100% from 70%.
    • Minion damage unchanged.

Taliyah

• General
  • No longer has VO for her dance emote.

Teemo

• Toxic Shot
  • Bug Fix: Can now once again trigger Dark Harvest.

Thresh

• Stats
  • Base armor increased to 33 from 31.
  • Magic resistance growth increased to 1.55 from 1.3.

Volibear

• The Relentless Storm
  • Bug Fix: Adaptive and converted stats are now considered for this ability's scalings.

Zac

• Stats
  • Base health regeneration reduced to 5 from 8.

Zeri

• Stats
  • Base health reduced to 600 from 630.

Zyra

• Garden of Thorns
  • Bug Fix: Certain single target abilities no longer deal an incorrect amount of damage to Thorn Spitters and Vine Lashers instead of the intended 8.
• Street Demons Zyra
  • Stranglethorns
    • Bug Fix: Area indicator now renders correctly over terrain.

Items

Blade of the Ruined King

• Bug Fix: Now once again displays its cooldown on the scoreboard for allies.

Malignance

• New Effect: Spells tagged as basic attacks now once again trigger Hatefog. This affects Twitch's Spray and Pray bolts, Shaco's Hallucinate clone basic attacks, Viego's Heartbreaker primary target strike, and Warwick's Infinite Duress.

Moonstone Renewer

• Bug Fix: SFX is no longer audible through the Fog of War.

Monsters

Baron Nashor

• New Effect: Acid Pool now has a base damage of 200.
• Acid Pool slow increased to 60% from 50%.
• Hunting Baron primary lightning damage increased to 20% of target's current health from 15%.
• Territorial Baron pull damage increased to 300 from 75.
• New Effect: Acid Shot now has a base damage of 200.
• Acid Shot AD ratio increased to 50% AD from 20%.
• New Effect: Tentacle Knockup now has a base damage of 200.
• Bug Fix: Territorial Baron's pull attack no longer sometimes fails to apply its damage to targets hit.

Rift Herald

• Bug Fix: Pit Rift Herald no longer sometimes spawns looking toward the east/to her left instead of toward the entrance of the baron pit.

Voidgrub

• Initial spawn time increased to 6:00 from 5:00.

Neutral buffs

Hunger of the Void

• Number of Touch of the Void stacks required to gain this buff and summon 1 Voidmite reduced to 4 from 5.
  • Number of Touch of the Void stacks required to summon 2 Voidmites unchanged at 6.

Touch of the Void

• Structure damage per tick increased to ( 8 − 48 / 4 − 24) from ( 6 − 36 / 3 − 18).

Howling Abyss

Map-specific balancing

• Illaoi
  • Incoming damage modifier changed to +5% from +10%.
• Leona
  • Incoming damage modifier changed to 0% from +5%.
• Nautilus
  • Incoming damage modifier changed to +5% from +10%.
• Vi
  • Ability haste changed to 0 from +10.
• Xerath
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed to -5% from -7%.
• Ziggs
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed to -10% from -15%.
• Zyra
  • Ability haste changed to -10 from 0.

Hotfixes

April 18th Hotfix

Akali

• Twilight Shroud
  • Bug Fix: No longer restores 200 energy instead of 100 upon cast.

Graves

• Stats
  • Attack speed growth increased to 3% from 2.6%.
• New Destiny
  • The previous change for this ability's attack speed scaling has been reverted due to unintentionally losing its intended purpose of reducing reload time at certain amounts of bonus attack speed.

Skarner

• Threads of Vibration
  • Health ratio reduced to 7% − 10% (based on level) of target's maximum health from 7% − 12% (based on level).
• Shattered Earth
  • Bonus health ratio reduced to 5% of his bonus health from 6%.
• Upheaval
  • Bonus health ratio reduced to 5% of his bonus health from 6%
• Seismic Bastion
  • Base damage reduced to 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 / 130 from 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150.

References

Patch History