V2.6 (Wild Rift)

V2.6 (Wild Rift)
Release Date (US)	December 2nd, 2021
Highlights
New champions: Kayle, Morgana Dr. Mundo VGU
Related links
WR 2.6 Patch Notes
Patch chronology
← Previous	V2.5b (Wild Rift)
Next →	V2.6a (Wild Rift)

New Cosmetics

The following Champion skins have been added to the store:

Released December 3 (00:01 UTC):

• Corporate Mundo ( 1325) (now legendary-tier)
• Frozen Prince Mundo ( 990)
• Rageborn Mundo ( 725)
• Viridian Kayle ( 525)
• Blade Mistress Morgana ( 525)
• Hexplorer Shyvana (Wild Pass reward)

Released December 4 (00:01 UTC):

• Glorious Orianna (Ranked reward)

Released December 9 (00:01 UTC):

• Warden Jax ( 525)
• Mecha Kha'Zix ( 990)
• Mecha Rengar ( 990)

Released December 15 (00:01 UTC):

• Crystal Rose Ezreal ( 1325)
• Crystal Rose Jarvan IV ( 990)
• Crystal Rose Lux ( 1325)
• Crystal Rose Sona ( 990)

The following Summoner icons have been added to the store:

Angel of Judgement

Angel of Mercy

Cloudbringer's Grace

Infernal Might

Oceanic Will

The One And Only Urf

Welcome Welcome!

Purrfection!

Hextech Mayhem

Crystal Rose

Rift Newb

The following Emotes have been added to the store:

Best Buddies

Inseparable Allies

Might of Family

Perfect Partner

URFtastic!

Well Hello There

Here, For You

Crystal Clear Victory

Need A Hand?

Check Yourself

Heck, Yeah!

Burn, Baby, Burn!

For Real?

Beautifully Done

Dunkmaster Darius

Snowdown Snowman

Iron, Baby!

Bronze, Baby!

Gold, Baby!

Platinum, Baby!

Emerald, Baby!

Diamond, Baby!

Master, Baby!

Grandmaster, Baby!

Challenger, Baby!

Don't Bother Your Betters (Iron)

Don't Bother Your Betters (Bronze)

Don't Bother Your Betters (Silver)

Don't Bother Your Betters (Gold)

Don't Bother Your Betters (Platinum)

Don't Bother Your Betters (Emerald)

Don't Bother Your Betters (Diamond)

Don't Bother Your Betters (Master)

Don't Bother Your Betters (Grandmaster)

Don't Bother Your Betters (Challenger)

New accessories

• Baubles: Dragon You Down With Me; Common Scents; Hextech Headgear; Urf Shattering; Glazed Look; Watch for the Thorns.Cloudbringer's Grace; Infernal Might; Oceanic Will; The One And Only Urf; Purrfection; Welcome Welcome!; Hextech Mayhem; Crystal Rose; Angel of Mercy; Angel of Judgement; Rift Newb.
• Icon Borders: Hexplorer Horns.
• Recalls: Tagalong Dragon; Ringing in the New Year With A Boom!; Glorious Triumph; Crystal Petals.
• Player Emblems: S3 Challenger Banner; S3 Grandmaster Banner; S3 Master Banner; S3 Diamond Banner; S3 Emerald Banner; S3 Platinum Banner; S3 Gold Banner.
• Rift Emblems: KO Rift Emblem; Draconic Emblem; Hear Ye Emblem.
• Spawn Tags: Two Faces of Justice; Righteous Fury; Merciful Forgiveness; DenewBee.
• Profile Borders: Orianna's Glory; Shyvana's Collection.
• Homeguard Trails: Glorious.

Wild Rift V2.6

Client

Event

• Events now feature a countdown timer to give more information when a new one starts.

• Path of Justice
  • Explore the sibling rivalry of Kayle and Morgana through missions and grab either of them for free.
  • The Path of Justice event begins December 3, 2021 (00:01 UTC).
• Ultra Rapid Bingo
  • Sharpen your spatulas, hop in a cannon and get ready to complete missions to fill out your Bingo card for some fun prizes.
  • The Ultra Rapid Bingo event begins December 10, 2021 (00:01 UTC).
• Crystal Rose
  • Set down your weapon. May I have this dance?
  • The Crystal Rose event begins December 15, 2021 (00:01 UTC).
• Hextech Mayhem
  • Play a special mission in game and earn a Ziggs icon to celebrate the launch of Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story, and all of Ziggs' hextastic beats.
  • The Hextech Mayhem event begins December 15, 2021 (00:01 UTC).

• Rotating Game Mode
  • Ultra Rapid Fire is going to have varied availability based on the region due to different testing processes and results.

Champion Select

• Number of champion bans increased to 5 from 3. Each player gets 1 ban.
  • Wild Rift has been available in open beta for more time in some regions than for others, and many of you may still be learning new champions. Due to this, some regions will not launch 5 bans for the time being.
• Updated the visuals of champ select to make position assignment more clear to all players.

Close Friends

• The Close Friend icon is now displayed for Tier 1 friendships.
• Spawn effects and tags are now available at Tier 2 friendships (previously Tier 3).
• Tier 3 friendships now award exclusive in-game emotes that trigger in-game:
  • When one player scores a kill and the other assists them (triggers once per game).
  • When one player scores an ace and the other assists them.
  • When one player destroys a turret and the other assists them.
• Added the option of separately turning on notifications for Close Friends (at Tier 2 or higher) and Subscribed friends.
• Other various bugfixes and QoL improvements to Close Friends.

Guilds

• Added the ability to share Guilds directly via URL.
• Added limited time Arcane-themed Guild icons.
• Added titles to dialogue screens for context.
• Increased dialogue text size.
• Other various bugfixes and QoL improvements to Guilds and GvG.

Matchmaking

• Optimized multiple parts of the matchmaking algorithm, particularly for premades and new players.

Notifications

• Added the option to enable or disable push notifications from the in-app settings menu.

Onboarding

• Have your friends had the itch to just blow something up since they watched Arcane? Well now, they can… kinda! When one of your friends downloads Wild Rift for the first time they will get to experience a new mission track filled with rewards themed around Jinx, who does blow stuff up.

Ranked

• Ranked S4 is here, starting December 5, 2021 (03:00 UTC). Are you ready to clock in for the climb? If so, Glorious Orianna will be your reward.

Ranked Rewards

• Season Reward Track
  • Similar to the Wild Pass, but for Ranked.
  • Earn Season Points for the Ranked games you play.
  • Reward system will track individual performance in games.
  • Gain points and progress by winning games, playing your assigned role, showing sportsmanlike conduct, and by just being a good teammate.
• Ranked Rewards
  • Each season's Glorious skin is now available through Season Rewards.
  • Gold+ players will be celebrated with a skin overlay for the Glorious skin's loading screen splash.
  • Other exciting goodies like emotes, profile borders, and more will be on the track.
  • Earn Ranked Coins and spend them in the Ranked Store.
• Ranked Store
  • New store full of exciting new goodies that can be purchased with Ranked Coins.
  • Glorious skins from previous seasons will be available for Ranked Coin.
  • Will also include lots of other new goodies we hope you'll love, like new emotes to show off your rank, recall effects, skin poses for Glorious skins, and more
• Weekend Reward Series
  • Every weekend earn bonus progression the Season Rewards track, if you win.
  • The series ends after three wins or after 48 hours, whichever happens first.

Moderation

• Upgraded intentional losing detection and penalties.

Share Screen

• Overhauled the visuals of more share screens, notably Guilds, Ranked and Leaderboards

Wild Pass

• New Wild Rift pass with new rewards and Hexplorer Shyvana as a reward for completing the Pass.

Game

Communication

• Added an allied emote feed to the HUD.
• Added an option to mute different kinds of player communications separately from the scoreboard.

Controls

• Players can now target friendly allies with quick casted abilities. Additional options can be found in the in-game settings menu.
• Added a setting to lower the camera height.
• Updated the target lock setting to turn off target lock completely, allowing only tap casts.
• Added new controls default presets that will help newer players access a simpler set of controls to learn the game with. New accounts will have this set based on their League experience.
  • "Beginner" and "Advanced" defaults are now selectable in the controls settings page.

Device

• Improved device power consumption in 90fps and 120fps mode.

Champions

Amumu

• Stats
  • Base health reduced from 650 to 570.
  • Base mana regeneration reduced from 21 to 15.
• Bandage Toss
  • New Effect: Can recharge up to two stacks with 17 / 16 / 15 / 14 seconds recharge time, affected by ability haste.
  • Mana cost reduced from 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 to 35 / 40 / 45 / 50.
  • Cooldown reduced from 14 / 12 / 10 / 8 seconds to 3 at all ranks.
  • Cooldown is no longer affected by ability haste.
  • Base damage reduced from 80 / 145 / 210 / 275 to 60 / 95 / 130 / 165.
• Despair
  • Base damage increased from 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 to 15 / 20 / 25 / 30.
  • Health ratio reduced from 1.1 / 1.4 / 1.7 / 2% target's maximum health to 1 / 1.2 / 1.4 / 1.6%.
• Tantrum
  • Slow reduced from 30% to 20%.
• Curse of the Sad Mummy
  • Effect range reduced from 500 to 475.
  • Stun duration reduced from 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 seconds to 1.5 at all ranks.

Ashe

• Stats
  • Base attack damage increased from 52 to 58.

Caitlyn

• Ace in the Hole
  • Base damage reduced from 300 / 525 / 750 to 200 / 375 / 550.

Dr. Mundo - Visual & Gameplay Update

• Released December 3, 2021 (0:01 UTC).

Gragas

• Drunken Rage
  • Maximum damage against monsters increased from 300 to 400.
• Explosive Cask
  • Base damage increased from 150 / 275 / 400 to 200 / 300 / 400.

Graves

• New Destiny
  • Base critical strike damage multiplier reduced from 140% to 130%.
• Quickdraw
  • Cooldown increased from 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 seconds to 16 / 15 / 14 / 13.

Irelia

• Ionian Fervor
  • On-hit damage reduced from 14 − 70 (based on level) to 10 − 66 (based on level).
• Vanguard's Edge
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug in tooltip where the wall duration was increasing with ability rank. It has always been constant at 3 seconds.

Jayce

• Stats
  • Attack damage growth increased from 3.6 to 4.55.
  • Base armor increased from 35 to 40.
• To the Skies!
  • Base damage increased from 60 / 105 / 150 / 195 / 240 to 60 / 110 / 160 / 210 / 260.
  • Effect radius increased from 225 to 250.
• Shock Blast
  • Base damage increased from 70 / 135 / 200 / 265 / 330 to 70 / 140 / 210 / 280 / 350.
  • Acceleration Gate bonus damage increased from 40% to 50%.
• Lightning Field
  • Mana restored increased from 6 / 9 / 12 / 15 / 18 to 8 / 11 / 14 / 17 / 20.

Kayle - New champion

• Released December 3, 2021 (00:01 UTC).

Kennen

• Thundering Shuriken Thundering Shuriken
  • Base damage changed from 85 / 140 / 195 / 250 to 75 / 140 / 205 / 270.
• Electrical Surge Electrical Surge
  • Base damage reduced from 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 to 60 / 90 / 120 / 150.

Miss Fortune

• Strut
  • Total bonus movement speed increased from 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 to 70 / 80 / 90 / 100.
    • Enhanced passive movement speed increased from 35 / 45 / 55 / 65 to 45 / 55 / 65 / 75.
      • Editor's Note: Patch notes write error of 35 / 45 / 55 / 65 to 50 / 60 / 70 / 80.
• Bullet Time
  • AD ratio increased from 75% AD to 85%.
  • AP ratio increased from 20% AP to 25%.

Morgana - New champion

• Released December 3, 2021 (00:01 UTC).

Nunu

• Consume Consume
  • Cooldown increased from 11 / 10 / 9 / 8 seconds to 12 / 11 / 10 / 9.

Senna

• Dawning Shadow
  • Missile speed increased from 10000 to 17000.
  • Editor's Note: Patch notes differ due to undisclosed low precision notation. This does not stay consisent, see notes on Destiny for example.

Soraka

• Astral Infusion
  • Base heal increased from 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 to 90 / 130 / 170 / 210.

Twisted Fate

• Stats
  • Health growth reduced from 115 to 105.
• Pick a Card
  • Cooldown increased from 6 seconds at all ranks to 8 / 7.5 / 7 / 6.5.
• Destiny
  • Target range reduced from 5000 to 4200.

Veigar

• Stats
  • Base health increased from 530 to 570.
  • Base armor increased from 30 to 35.
• Dark Matter
  • Base damage increased from 80 / 145 / 210 / 275 to 100 / 160 / 220 / 280.
• Primordial Burst
  • Base damage increased from 155 / 230 / 305 to 170 / 240 / 310.

Xayah

• Stats
  • Base attack damage reduced from 64 to 58.
• Deadly Plumage
  • Cooldown increased from 19 / 17 / 15 / 13 seconds to 19 / 18 / 17 / 16.

Xin Zhao

• Stats
  • Base health increased from 610 to 650.
  • Armor growth increased from 3.9 to 4.3.

Zed

• Stats
  • Base armor reduced from 40 to 35.
• Razor Shuriken
  • Base damage reduced from 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 to 70 / 120 / 170 / 220.

Ziggs

• Stats
  • Health growth reduced from 115 to 105.
  • Base mana reduced from 480 to 435.
• Bouncing Bomb
  • Mana cost increased from 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 to 55 / 60 / 65 / 70.
• Mega Inferno Bomb
  • Cooldown increased from 80 / 65 / 50 seconds to 95 / 80 / 65.

Items

Banshee's Veil - New item

• Recipe: Needlessly Large Rod + Negatron Cloak + 700 = 3000.
• Stats: 70 ability power, 40 magic resistance, 10 ability haste.
• Unique Passive - Annul: Grants a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability.
• Limited to 1 Banshee's Veil.

Chain Vest

• Now builds into Ixtali Seedjar.

Edge of Night - New item

• Recipe: Serrated Dirk + Jaurim's Fist + 800 = 3000.
• Stats: 250 health, 50 attack damage.
• Unique Passive - Gouge: +10 armor penetration.
• Unique Passive - Annul: Grants a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability.
• Limited to 1 Edge of Night.

Giant's Belt

• Now builds into Hextech Megadrive.

Hextech Megadrive - New item

• Recipe: Lost Chapter + Giant's Belt + 650 = 2700.
• Stats: 300 health, 200 mana, 35 ability power, 15 ability haste.
• Unique Passive - Tinker: Reduces the cooldown of your active items by 10% (5 second cooldown) when healing and shielding your allies, and by 15% (no cooldown) when immobilizing your enemies.
• Limited to 1 Hextech Megadrive.

Ixtali Seedjar - New item

• Recipe: Chain Vest + Negatron Cloak + 700 = 2500.
• Stats: 45 armor, 45 magic resistance.
• Unique Passive - Spring: +5% movement speed.
• Unique Passive - Propagation: When you or an ally hit a nearby plant, it drops a seed that only you can see. You can pick up and replant that seed at any location on the map.
• Limited to 1 Ixtali Seedjar.

Jaurim's Fist

• Now builds into Edge of Night.

Lost Chapter

• Now builds into Hextech Megadrive.

Needlessly Large Rod

• Now builds into Banshee's Veil.

Negatron Cloak

• Now builds into Banshee's Veil and Ixtali Seedjar.

Rod of Ages

• Unique Passive - Veteran
  • Stacking rate changed from every 30 seconds to 45.
    • Time to fully stack increased from 5:00 to 7:30.

Serrated Dirk

• Now builds into Edge of Night.

Solari Chargeblade

• Updated VFX.

Runes

Font of Life

• Mark duration reduced from 4 seconds to 3.
• Cooldown increased from ( 6 / 10) seconds to ( 8 / 12).

ARAM

Mode-specific changes

• Akali
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed from +10% to +15%.
  • Incoming damage modifier changed from -15% to -20%.
• Ashe
  • Incoming damage modifier changed from 0% to -5%.
• Blitzcrank
  • Incoming damage modifier changed from -15% to -5%.
• Caitlyn
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed from 0% to -10%.
  • Incoming damage modifier changed from 0% to +5%.
• Katarina
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed from 0% to +10%.
• Nunu
  • Incoming damage modifier changed from 0% to -15%.
• Rengar
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed from +15% to +20%.
• Senna
  • Healing modifier changed from +5% to +10%.
• Varus
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed from 0% to -5%.
• Xayah
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed from 0% to -10%.
  • Incoming damage modifier changed from 0% to -5%.

References

Patch History