V3.5 (Wild Rift)

V3.5 (Wild Rift)
Darkin to Dawn
Release Date (US)	November 17th, 2022
Highlights
New champions: Aatrox, Kayn
Related links
WR 3.5 Patch Notes
Patch chronology
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New Cosmetics

The following Champion skins have been added to the store:

Released November 17, 2022 (00:01 UTC):

• Blood Moon Aatrox ( 990)
• Soulhunter Kayn ( 990)

Released November 26, 2022 (00:01 UTC):

• Crystal Rose Akali (32 Crystal Rose tokens)
• Crystal Rose Riven (24 Crystal Rose tokens)
• Crystal Rose Vi (24 Crystal Rose tokens)

The following Summoner icons have been added to the store:

Darkin Your Doorstep

Nightshade Jhin

Villainous Poro

Calling Card

The City's Bane

Dragon Strike*

The following Emotes have been added to the store:

Pew! Pew!

BANG!

I'm Waiting

They love me!

Breathtaking!

Thanks, I tried!

Stop and Smell the Crystal Roses

Weepy

New accessories

• Baubles: Inanimate; The Drama; Under One’s Breath; Page Turner; Deadeye; Put A Ring on It
• Rift Emblems: Vandalized; HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?; Vibrant Villainy
• Icon Borders: A Nightmare Rises; Hunter of Heroes
• Custom Recalls: Evading Justice; To the secret lair!; The Last Dance
• Profile Borders: Supervillain Rising; Ascending Villainy
• Homeguard Trails: Woosh!; Shimmering Waltz

Wild Rift V3.5

Client

Collection

• Champions
  • : Added champion score readout on each champion portrait.
• Skins
  • Updated Skin tier icons in collection and store.
  • Added recall music to certain skins.
• Skin collection
  • Divided section into two tabs: Skin sets & Champion skins.

Champ select

• New effect: Added Chromatic title for collecting all skins of a skin set.
• : Added new buttons when hovering a champion in ban phase. One will chat print I pre-picked <champion>, the other prints Help me ban <champion>.
  • If the indicated champion ban is then banned by your team, you will chat print Thanks to <player> for helping me with banning.

End of Game

• Ranked mode
  • Added the ability to elect 3 other players to an Avoid List. Players in your list will not be matchmade onto your team. This feature is accessible in the Report screen.
    • Avoid list will empty at weekly reset.
• ARAM
  • Added more visibility to ARAM progression in settlement.

Leaverbuster

• Removed: Leavers will not longer be penalized by a Queue timeout.
• New effect: Leavers will receive a new penalty: Their matchmaking will be delayed for 3 / 5 games played (based on severity). Delay timer is set to 150 / 300 seconds (based on repeat penalty).

Missions

• Added a new Autofill mission that offers rewards to play certain roles in Ranked / Legendary mode, appearing based on the current population. This will reward 40 Fortitude or 4 Legendary points, and can be repeated 3 times per day.
  • The game will not count if the player receives a punishment in that game.
  • The mission will appear in the Position preference rather than Missions tab.

Profile

• Display Case
  • Added Skin set tiles that can be acquired by owning a complete skin set.
• Mini profile
  • : Added correct background per skin.

Queue

• Ranked / Legendary
  • New effect: If the player has a Ranked / Legendary mission, Position Safeguard will apply to the required role.

Game

One for All - New mode

Available November 18 (00:01 UTC) – December 14 (00:01 UTC).

• Classic, but the team votes on one champion to pick for the entire team.

Bounty

• Maximum champion bounty gold reduced from infinite to 1300.
• Maximum champion bounty gold payment per shutdown reduced from infinite to 1000.

Communication

• All Chat disabled in matchmade modes.
• New effect: If a hidden enemy champion is detected by Scryer's Bloom, they will be pinged and chat will print: Scryer's Bloom found an enemy champion!.

Remake

• New effect: Remake vote will now trigger automatically instead of manual activation.

Experience

• Experience catch up activation delay increased to 03:00 elapse from 00:30.
• Experience granted on champion takedown changed to 1300 / 1800 / 2300 / 2800 / 3550 (based on level) from 1040 / 2160 / 2760 / 3360 / 3700 (based on level).

Champions

Aatrox - New champion

• Released November 17, 2022 (00:01 UTC).

Caitlyn

• General
  • : New voice-over.
• Piltover Peacemaker
  • Cast time changed from 0.64 seconds to 0.64-X (based on bonus attack speed).

Ezreal

• Mystic Shot
  • Base damage increased from 20 / 55 / 90 / 125 to 30 / 65 / 100 / 135.

Irelia

• Bladesurge
  • Dash now travels to the target's last location instead of current location.

Janna

• Howling Gale
  • Charge damage reduced from 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 to 15 / 20 / 25 / 30.
• Zephyr
  • Bonus movement speed reduced from 6 / 8 / 10 / 12% to 6 / 7 / 8 / 9%.

Kassadin

• Stats
  • Base health increased from 570 to 600.
• Force Pulse
  • Damage amplification reduced from 60% to 40%.

Kayn - New champion

• Released November 17, 2022 (00:01 UTC).

Lux

• Prismatic Barrier
  • Base first shield changed from 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 to 40 / 70 / 100 / 130.
  • First shield AP ratio reduced from 20% AP to 15%.
  • Base second shield changed from 100 / 140 / 180 / 220 to 80 / 140 / 200 / 260.
  • Second shield AP ratio reduced from 40% AP to 30%.
• Final Spark
  • AP ratio reduced from 80% AP to 75%.

Rakan

• Gleaming Quill
  • Missle range changed from 700 / 800 / 900 / 1000 to 800 at all ranks.
  • Base damage increased from 70 / 130 / 190 / 250 to 80 / 140 / 200 / 260.

Senna

• Last Embrace
  • Base damage increased from 70 / 130 / 190 / 250 to 90 / 155 / 220 / 285.
• Curse of the Black Mist
  • Cooldown reduced from 26 / 24 / 22 / 20 seconds to 22 / 20 / 18 / 16.

Seraphine

• Stats
  • Base mana regeneration incresaed from 12 to 16.

Shen

• Twilight Assault Twilight Assault
  • New effect: Applies 50% damage to Melee attack cleave.

Tryndamere

• Battle Fury Battle Fury
  • New effect: Critical strike chance over 100% is converted to 0.8 AD per 1% critical strike chance.

Vex

• Looming Darkness Looming Darkness
  • Cooldown increased from 12 seconds to 13.
  • Mana cost increased from 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 to 80 / 90 / 100 / 110.

Xayah

• Double Daggers
  • Cast time changed from 0.25 seconds to 0.25 − 0.1 (based on bonus attack speed).

Yasuo

• Way of the Wanderer Way of the Wanderer
  • New effect: Critical strike chance over 100% is not increased by Intent, but is converted to 0.8 AD per 1% critical strike chance.

Yone

• Way of the Hunter Way of the Hunter
  • New effect: Critical strike chance over 100% is not increased by Intent, but is converted to 0.8 AD per 1% critical strike chance.
• Spirit Cleave Spirit Cleave
  • Base damage reduced from 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 to 10 / 20 / 30 / 40.
• Soul Unbound Soul Unbound
  • Cooldown increased from 20 / 17 / 14 / 11 seconds to 20 / 18 / 16 / 14.

Ziggs

• Stats
  • Base mana increased from 435 to 460.
  • Base mana regeneration increased from 12 to 16.

Items

Awakened Soulstealer

• New:
  • Recipe: Prophet's Pendant + Fiendish Codex + 750 = 3000.
  • Stats: 20 ability haste, 65 ability power, 150 health.
  • Unique Passive - Soul Hunt: +15 magic penetration.
  • Unique Passive - Soulflare: Takedowns against enemy champions within 3 seconds of damaging them will reduce your abilities' remaining cooldowns by 20%.
• Old:
  • Recipe: Lost Chapter + Fiendish Codex + 450 = 2500.
  • Stats: 25 ability haste, 70 ability power, 200 mana.
  • Unique Passive - Soul Charged: Unique champion takedowns grant 3 ultimate haste, capping at 15 after 5 stacks. Ultimate haste reduces the cooldown of your ultimate as ability haste would.

Cloak of Agility

• Now builds into Lord Dominik's Regards.

Divine Sunderer

• Ability haste increased from 20 to 25.
• Attack damage increased from 20 to 25.

Fiendish Codex

• Now builds into Horizon Focus and Morellonomicon.

Haunting Guise

• Now builds into Horizon Focus.

Horizon Focus - New item

• Recipe: Fiendish Codex + Haunting Guise + 700 = 2800.
• Stats: 15 ability haste, 80 ability power, 150 health.
• Unique Passive - Hypershot: Apply a stack of Hypershot upon dealing ability damage to a champion with an ability that is neither unit-targeted nor auto-targeted from at least 500 units away. Immobilizing enemy champions from any distance will apply 2 stacks. The third stack will consume them all to deal 80 (+20% AP) magic damage and apply another stack. Stacks last 5 seconds and refresh on subsequent hits.

Last Whisper

• Now builds into Lord Dominik's Regards.

Lord Dominik's Regards - New item

• Recipe: Last Whisper + Cloak of Agility + 1000 = 3100.
• Stats: 35 attack damage, 25% critical strike chance.
• Unique Passive - Last Whisper: +16% − 30% (based on level) armor penetration.
• Unique Passive - Rapid Shot: While out of combat from champions, your next basic attack against an enemy champion gains 80% bonus attack speed.
  • Editor's Note: Patch notes error writes "Adrenaline" instead of "Rapid Shot".

Lost Chapter

• No longer builds into Awakened Soulstealer.

Morellonomicon

• New recipe: Fiendish Codex + Oblivion Orb + 700 = 2500.
  • Old recipe: Oblivion Orb + Prophet's Pendant + 950 = 3000.
• Ability haste increased from 0 to 20.
• Ability power increased from 65 to 75.
  • Editor's note: Patch notes error write "70" instead of "75". Referenced in V4.0.
• Health reduced from 150 to 0.
• Unique passive - Death Touch
  • Removed.

Prophet's Pendant

• Now builds into Awakened Soulstealer.
• No longer builds into Morellonomicon.

Youmuu's Ghostblade

• Total cost reduced from 3000 to 2900.
  • Combine cost reduced from 800 to 700.

Runes

Adaptive Carapace

• Armor increased from 12 to 16.
• Magic resistance increased from 12 to 16.

Bone Plating

• New effect: Now starts blocking damage from the initial attack, rather than triggering immediately after.

Champion - Removed

• Removed from the game.
• Replaced by Sudden Impact.

Electrocute

• Cooldown reduced from 20 seconds to 20 − 13 (based on level).

Pathfinder

• New Passive: While in the river, gain 20 bonus movement speed. If you are also out of combat, gain additional 10 bonus movement speed and restore 0.6% missing health or mana (based on the lowest % value) per second.
• Old Passive: When out-of-combat, gain 9% bonus movement speed in brush, jungle and river.

Phase Rush

• New effect: Now also grants 10 ability haste and reduces remaining basic ability cooldowns by 20%.
• Removed: No longer grants 75% slow resistance.

Scorch

• Cooldown reduced from 10 seconds to 8.
• Damage increased from 24 − 38 (based on level) to 28 − 42 (based on level).

Sudden Impact - New rune

• Type: Slot 1 Domination rune.
• Passive: After exiting stealth or using a dash, leap, blink or teleport effect, damaging an enemy champion grants 10 Armor Penetration and 10 Magic penetration for 3 seconds (4 second cooldown).
• Summoner level: 10.

Triumph

• Removed: No longer affects non-champions.

Summoner spells

Challenging Smite - Removed

• Removed from the game.

Chilling Smite

• Damage changed from 440 − 1000 (based on level) to 800.
• Champion damage increased from 28 − 174 (based on level) to 38 − 184 (based on level).
• Slow increased from 20% to 25%.
• Passive - Jungle Expertise
  • : Renamed from Hunting License, Tooth and Nail, and Recoup.
  • See Smite notes for further changes.

Smite

• New:
  • Active: Deal 600 true damage to a large or epic monster or minion (10 second cooldown). Smiting monsters restores 70 (+ 10% maximum health) health. Gain one charge every 45 seconds, up to 2 charges. Using Smite 3 times upgrades into Chilling Smite.
  • Passive - Hunting License: Earn 20% bonus experience and gold from monsters. Earn 60% reduced experience and gold from minions until 07:00 elapse.
  • Passive - Tooth and Nail: Deal 10% bonus damage and 15% bonus ability damage to monsters. Attacking monsters restores 40 health over 5 seconds.
  • Passive - Recoup: Restore 4 mana per second while in jungle or river.
  • Passive - Conservation: Generate 6 stacks per 5 seconds. When you kill a large or epic monster, consume all stacks to gain 1 per stack. Generation increases to 12 stacks per 5 seconds if your team's total gold is lower than the enemy by at least 10%, and your total gold is lower than your allies' average total gold by at least 5%.
• Old:
  • Active: Deal 440 − 1000 (based on level) true damage to a large or epic monster or minion (10 second cooldown). Smiting monsters restores 70 (+ 10% maximum health) health. Gain one charge every 45 seconds, up to 2 charges. Slaying 4 large monsters upgrades Smite to Chilling Smite or Challenging Smite.
  • Passive - Hunting License: Earn 20% bonus experience and 20% bonus gold from monsters. Earn 75% experience and gold from minions until 06:00 elapse.
  • Passive - Tooth and Nail: Deal 15% bonus ability damage to monsters. Attacking monsters deals 30 magic damage and restores 30 health over 5 seconds.
  • Passive - Recoup: Restore 4 mana per second while in jungle or river.

Neutral Buffs

Evolved Crest of Cinders Evolved Crest of Cinders

• Functionality replaced with Crest of Cinders.

Evolved Crest of Insight

• Functionality replaced with Crest of Insight.

Monsters

• Non-epic monster level cap increased from 11 to 13.
• Leveling delay increased from 00:00 elapse to 00:30.
  • "Camps begin to level up every 60s after the first 30s of a game."

Blue Sentinel camp

• Blue Sentinel
  • Base health reduced from 2500 to 2000.
  • Health growth increased from 140 to 180.
  • Base kill gold reduced from 130 to 100.
  • Kill gold growth increased from 0 to 3.
  • Base kill experience reduced from 2000 to 1800.
  • Kill experience growth increased from 0 to 72.
  • Attack range reduced from 180 to 90.
• Evolved Blue Sentinel Evolved Blue Sentinel
  • Base health reduced from 3400 to 3000.
  • Health growth increased from 150 to 200.
  • Base kill gold reduced from 180 to 135.
  • Kill gold growth increased from 0 to 4.
  • Base kill experience reduced from 2800 to 2240.
  • Kill experience growth increased from 0 to 90.
  • Attack range reduced from 180 to 90.
  • Spawn time reduced from 08:00 elapse to 07:00.
  • New effect: If a champion with Smite kills the monster, it will additionally drop a sapling that remains for 45 seconds and can be collected within X range by the nearest allied champion. After collecting for 2.5 seconds, the ally will gain Crest of Insight.
    • Sapling drop will print in chat: Extra buff available for pickup!. It will also ping Assist from killer.

Krug camp

• Ancient Krug
  • Base health reduced from 1200 to 1100.
  • Health growth increased from 60 to 90.
  • Base kill gold reduced from 60 to 45.
  • Kill gold growth increased from 0 to 1.
  • Base kill experience reduced from 750 to 700.
  • Kill experience growth increased from 0 to 28.
• Krug
  • Base health reduced from 500 to 450.
  • Base kill gold increased from 20 to 22.
  • Kill gold growth increased from 0 to 1.
  • Base kill experience increased from 250 to 340.
  • Kill experience growth increased from 0 to 14.
  • Removed: No longer splits into Mini Krugs.
• Mini Krug
  • Removed from the game.

Gromp

• Base health reduced from 2000 to 1800.
• Health growth increased from 100 to 145.
• Base kill gold reduced from 130 to 100.
• Kill gold growth increased from 0 to 4.
• Base kill experience reduced from 2000 to 1800.
• Kill experience growth increased from 0 to 72.
• Attack range reduced from 180 to 90.

Murk Wolf camp

• Greater Murk Wolf
  • Base health reduced from 1800 to 1600.
  • Health growth increased from 30 to 100.
  • Base kill gold reduced from 90 to 65.
  • Kill gold growth increased from 0 to 1.
  • Base kill experience reduced from 1000 to 800.
  • Kill experience growth increased from 0 to 32.
• Murk Wolf
  • Base health reduced from 550 to 450.
  • Health growth increased from 38 to 50.
  • Kill gold growth increased from 0 to 1.
  • Base kill experience reduced from 500 to 450.
  • Kill experience growth increased from 0 to 18.

Raptor camp

• Crimson Raptor
  • Health growth increased from 20 to 100.
  • Base kill gold reduced from 60 to 45.
  • Kill gold growth increased from 0 to 1.
  • Base kill experience reduced from 1000 to 800.
  • Kill experience growth increased from 0 to 32.
  • Attack range reduced from 300 to 100.
• Raptor
  • Base health reduced from 500 to 450.
  • Health growth increased from 35 to 50.
  • Base kill gold reduced from 25 to 20.
  • Kill gold growth increased from 0 to 1.
  • Base kill experience reduced from 333 to 300.
  • Kill experience growth increased from 0 to 12.

Red Brambleback camp

• Red Brambleback
  • Base health reduced from 2500 to 2200.
  • Health growth increased from 140 to 180.
  • Base kill gold reduced from 130 to 100.
  • Kill gold growth increased from 0 to 3.
  • Base kill experience reduced from 2000 to 1800.
  • Kill experience growth increased from 0 to 72.
  • Attack range reduced from 220 to 150.
• Evolved Red Brambleback Evolved Red Brambleback
  • Base health reduced from 3400 to 3000.
  • Health growth increased from 150 to 200.
  • Base kill gold reduced from 180 to 135.
  • Kill gold growth increased from 0 to 4.
  • Base kill experience reduced from 2800 to 2240.
  • Kill experience growth increased from 0 to 90.
  • Attack range reduced from 220 to 150.
  • Spawn time reduced from 08:00 elapse to 07:00.
  • New effect: If a champion with Smite kills the monster, it will additionally drop a sapling that remains for 45 seconds and can be collected within X range by the nearest allied champion. After collecting for 2.5 seconds, the ally will gain Crest of Cinders.
    • Sapling drop will print in chat: Extra buff available for pickup!. It will also ping Assist from killer.

Rift Herald (Summoned)

• Spawn time reduced from 7.6 seconds to 4.
• Leap Attack
  • Wind up reduced from 2.5 seconds to 1.75.

Rift Scuttler

• Base health reduced from 1850 to 1700.
• Health growth increased from 100 to 110.
• Base kill gold reduced from 100 to 85.
• Kill gold growth increased from 0 to 3.
• Base kill experience reduced from 1200 to 1000.
• Kill experience growth increased from 0 to 40.

ARAM

ARAM-specific balancing

• Gwen
  • Incoming damage modifier changed from -5% to -10%.
• Jhin
  • Incoming damage modifier changed from 0% to +5%.
• Xin Zhao
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed from 0% to +5%.
• Yone
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed from 0% to +5%.
• Ziggs
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed from -20% to -15%.

Ultra Rapid Fire

URF-specific balancing

• Corki
  • Incoming damage modifier changed from -5% to -10%.
• Gwen
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed from 0% to +10%.
  • Incoming damage modifier changed from 0% to -10%.
• Jayce
  • Incoming damage modifier changed from 0% to -5%.
• Riven
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed from 0% to +5%.
• Samira
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed from 0% to +8%.
  • Incoming damage modifier changed from 0% to -10%.
• Senna
  • Healing modifier changed from 0% to +10%.
  • Incoming damage modifier changed from 0% to -5%.
• Sion
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed from 0% to +10%.
  • Incoming damage modifier changed from 0% to -10%.
• Yone
  • Outgoing damage modifier changed from 0% to +10%.
  • Incoming damage modifier changed from 0% to -10%.

References

Patch History