V3.8

V3.8
Aatrox, the Darkin Blade
Release Date (US)	June 13, 2013
Highlights
New Champion: Aatrox
Related links
Patch 3.8 notes
Patch chronology
← Previous	V3.7
Next →	V3.9

New Skins in the Store

The following skin was added along with this patch:

• Justicar Aatrox

The following skin was added along with this patch, but was not made available until Friday, June 14:

• Ghost Bride Morgana

The following skin was added along with this patch, but was not made available until Monday, June 17:

• Woad King Darius

League of Legends V3.8

Champions

Aatrox

• Aatrox, the Darkin Blade is in this build but will be turned on at a later date.
  • Release date was June 13, 2013.

Annie

• Summon Tibbers
  • Tibbers' health increased to 1200 / 2100 / 3000 from 1200 / 1600 / 2000.
  • Tibbers' magic resist increased to 30 / 50 / 70 from 25 / 45 / 65.
  • Mana cost reduced to 100 at all ranks from 125 / 175 / 225.

Ashe

• Focus
  • Ashe now gains 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 Focus stacks every second while not attacking instead of gaining critical strike chance.
  • Ashe will critically strike on her next basic attack when she reaches 100 Focus stacks.
  • Initial Focus stacks are equal to Ashe's critical strike chance.

Corki

• Missile Barrage
  • Fixed a bug where Missile Barrage would sometimes fail to deal damage.

Hecarim

• Devastating Charge
  • New Effect: If the target is beyond narrow terrain Hecarim will leap over it to reach them.
• Onslaught of Shadows
  • Removed: Dealing 50 / 125 / 200 + 40% AP damage at end location.
  • Spectral rider base damage increased to 150 / 250 / 350 from 100 / 200 / 300
  • Spectral rider AP ratio increased to 100% AP from 40% AP.

Karma

• Inner Flame
  • Mana cost reduced to 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 from 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90.
  • Explosion radius increased to 250 from 230.
• Focused Resolve
  • Bug Fix: Not granting vision of rooted target.
• Renewal
  • Heal changed to 20% + 1% per 100 AP missing health on-cast followed by the same amount over tether duration from 25% missing health over time.
• Defiance
  • Bug Fix: Allied area-of-effect shield not accounting for AP ratio.

Kha'Zix

• Taste Their Fear
  • New Effect: Isolation grants 45% bonus damage.
• Evolved Enlarged Claws
  • New Effect: Grants 8% of target's missing health bonus damage (further increased by Isolation).
• Void Spike
  • New Effect: Targets hit are slowed by 20% for 2 seconds.
  • Mana cost reduced to 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 from 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100.
  • AD ratio increased to 100% AD from 90% AD.
  • Removed: Being able to be cast during Leap.
• Evolved Spike Racks
  • Removed: No longer consumes or applies Unseen Threat.
• Void Assault
  • Stealthed damage reduction increased to 50% from 40%.

Kog'Maw

• Void Ooze
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the slow wasn't reduced by Tenacity / Slow Resist.
  • New Effect: Missile now applies a 1 second slow to targets struck, refreshing every .25 seconds.

Lissandra

• Ring of Frost
  • Cooldown reduced to 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 seconds from 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10.
  • Mana cost reduced to 50 from 70.
  • Bug Fix: Root not applying if Lissandra dies.
• Glacial Path
  • Cooldown start changed to on-cast from reactivation/projectile travel end.
• Frozen Tomb
  • Self-cast duration increased to 2.5 seconds from 1.5.
  • Slow increased to 20 / 30 / 40% from 20% at all ranks.
  • Base damage reduced to 150 / 250 / 350 from 150 / 300 / 450.

Nautilus

• Titan's Wrath
  • Base damage changed to 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 / 100 from 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 / 130.
  • Bug Fix: Damage over time AP ratio being lower than intended.

Poppy

• Heroic Charge
  • Spell has been refactored to better detect terrain.

Sejuani

• Flail of the Northern Winds
  • Health ratio reduced to 10% bonus health from 16%.
• Permafrost
  • Slow duration reduced to 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 / 2.25 / 2.5 seconds from 2 / 2.25 / 2.5 / 2.75 / 3.
• Glacial Prison
  • Disable duration reduced to 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 seconds from 1.5 / 1.75 / 2.

Sona

• Stats
  • Base health increased to 450 from 410.
  • Base armor increased to 11.3 from 9.3.
• Power Chord
• Base Power Chord damage changed to from 8 + (10  ×  level).
• Aria of Perseverance
  • Fixed a bug where Diminuendo was not reducing the target's damage.
  • Diminuendo duration reduced to 3 seconds from 4.
  • Self and allied bonus resistances reduced to 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 from 8 / 11 / 14 / 17 / 20.
  • Aura bonus resistances aura changed to 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 from 3 / 6 / 9 / 12 / 15.

Thresh

• Death Sentence
  • Fixed a bug where Thresh could cast Flash while casting Death Sentence.

Varus

• Piercing Arrow
  • Fixed a bug where casting Piercing Arrow while targeting an enemy would cause Varus to stop moving.

Vi

• Blast Shield
  • Fixed a bug where Blast Shield's cooldown at higher levels was 1 second longer than intended.
• Vault Breaker
  • Fixed a bug where casting Vault Breaker while targeting an enemy would cause Vi to stop moving.

General Champion Notes

• Targeted wall-jump abilities now check both sides of the wall for the closest location of the cursor, so players don't fail-jump into a wall, when the other side was clearly in range.
• We've added new targeting indicators to show how far the target is knocked back for the following abilities:
  • Alistar's Headbutt
  • Lee Sin's Dragon's Rage
  • Poppy's Heroic Charge
  • Vayne's Condemn
• We've improved consistency for abilities that behaved inconsistently when the targeted enemy uses Flash. We’re cleaning up these interactions so that either the ability won’t cast or Flash won’t be used up (it will be one or the other, never both).
  • Jayce's Thundering Blow
  • Singed's Fling
  • Skarner's Impale
  • Volibear's Rolling Thunder

Changes to Slow Zones

All slow zones now update on a quarter-second interval, meaning when you move out of a slow field, the slow will wear off almost immediately unless you're hit by an ability that applies an individual slow (like Kog'Maw's Void Ooze). What this means: your champion's movement speed will be restored more quickly when leaving a slow field, but the slow within the fields have not been changed.

This change should make interacting with slow zones more intuitive while rewarding players who react quickly (as stepping out of a slow field will reward you faster). This is a small nerf to most of the champions affected, but we will be closely monitoring champions affected by these changes.

• The following abilities have had their slow refresh rate reduced to 0.25 seconds:
  • Gangplank's Cannon Barrage
  • Lulu's Wild Growth
  • Lux's Lucent Singularity
  • Miss Fortune's Make It Rain
  • Singed's Mega Adhesive
  • Trundle's Pillar of Ice
  • Varus' Hail of Arrows
  • Viktor's Gravity Field
  • Vladimir's Sanguine Pool
    • Vladimir's slow doesn't refresh - he may have been mentioned in error.
• Lux's Lucent Singularity also applies a 0.25 second slow to targets hit by the detonation.
• Kog'Maw's Void Ooze missile also applies a 1-second slow to targets struck.

Items

Boots of Speed

• Cost reduced to 325 from 350.
• Items that build out of Boots of Speed have had their recipe costs increased by 25.

Doran's Ring

• Cost reduced to 400 from 475.
• Health reduced to 60 from 80.
• Mana restore on kill reduced to 4 from 5.

Doran's Shield

• Cost reduced to 440 from 475.
• Armor reduced to 0 from 5.
• Health regen per 5 increased to 10 from 8.
• Unique passive now blocks 8 damage from champion basic attacks from 6.

Recurve Bow

• Cost reduced to 900 from 950.

Malady

• Removed from the game.

Nashor's Tooth

• Combine cost increased to 850 from 430.
• Ability power reduced to 60 from 65.
• Additional Passive - Basic attacks deal 15 (+15% of ability power) as bonus magic damage on hit.

Wit's End

• New recipe: Recurve Bow + Null-Magic Mantle + Dagger + 700g = 2400g
• Attack speed increased to 42% from 40%.
• Revised Passive - Basic attacks steal 5 magic resist from the target, stacks up to 5 times.

Jungle items

• All instances of Rend as a passive have been changed to Maim.
• Maim is now the passive that refers to dealing bonus magic damage to monsters with every basic attack.
• Butcher is the passive that refers to dealing percent bonus damage to monsters from all sources.

Hunter's Machete

• Unique Passive - Rend changed to Unique Passive - Maim: deals 10 bonus magic damage to monsters with every basic attack.

Spirit Stone

• Unique Passive - Rend changed to Unique Passive - Maim: deals 10 bonus magic damage to monsters with every basic attack.

Madred's Razors

• Unique Passive - Maim
  • Now deals 60 bonus magic damage to monsters with every basic attack.
  • No longer deals bonus damage to minions.

Wriggle's Lantern

• Combine cost increased to 500 from 100.
  • Total cost increased to 2000 from 1600g.
• Attack damage increased to 25 from 15.
• Life steal increased to 15% from 10%.
• Armor reduced to 25 from 30.
• Unique Passive - Maim
  • Changed to deal 100 bonus magic damage to monsters with every basic attack from having a 25% chance of dealing bonus magic damage.
  • No longer deals bonus damage to minions.
• Unique Active
  • Ward duration reduced to 90 seconds from 180.
  • Cooldown reduced to 90 seconds from 180.

Spirit of the Ancient Golem

• Unique Passive - Butcher
  • Damage bonus to monsters increased to 30% from 25%.

Spirit of the Elder Lizard

• Attack damage reduced to 35 from 45.
• Unique Passive - Butcher
  • Damage bonus to monsters increased to 30% from 25%.

Spirit of the Spectral Wraith

• Ability power reduced to 40 from 50.
• Unique Passive - Butcher
  • Damage bonus to monsters increased to 30% from 25%.

Maps

Summoner's Rift

• Wolves
  • Initial spawn time increased to 1:55 from 1:40.
  • Respawn time reduced to 50 seconds from 60.
• Wraiths
  • Initial spawn time increased to 1:55 from 1:40.
• Golems
  • Initial spawn time increased to 1:55 from 1:40.
  • Respawn time reduced to 50 seconds from 60.
• Ancient Golem
  • Base experience granted increased to 340 from 220.
  • Now plays a particle effect to show who the buff transferred to.
• Lizard Elder
  • Base experience granted increased to 340 from 220.
  • Now plays a particle effect to show who the buff transferred to.
• Young Lizard
  • Base experience granted reduced to 10 from 40.

Twisted Treeline

Enabled several items

• Hunter's Machete
• Spirit Stone
• Spirit of the Ancient Golem
• Spirit of the Elder Lizard
• Spirit of the Spectral Wraith

Crystal Scar

Added Dominion variants of several items

• Tear of the Goddess (Crystal Scar)
  • Mana per charge increased to 5 from 4.
• Manamune (Crystal Scar)
  • Mana per charge increased to 8 from 4.
• Archangel's Staff (Crystal Scar)
  • Mana per charge increased to 10 from 6.
• Rod of Ages (Crystal Scar)
  • Stack interval reduced to 40 seconds from 60 seconds.

Howling Abyss

Enabled several items

• Hunter's Machete
• Spirit Stone
• Spirit of the Ancient Golem
• Spirit of the Elder Lizard
• Spirit of the Spectral Wraith

• Shop close distance is now calculated from the spawn, not the shop.
• Shop close distance increased to 1600 from 1400.
• Fixed a bug causing players to become stuck if they wiggled behind blue laser turret.
• Poros have gone through an 80s action movie training montage and now have some resistance to lasers.

Game Interface

Minimap & HUD

• The player's nameplate will now always be drawn last, causing it to always appear over ally and enemy health plates.

Item Shop

• The search terms " Spooky Ghosts", " Bork", " Botrk", " AA", " NLR", " SOTO", " SOTD", " dshield", " dblade", and " dring" have been added to the in-game item shop.

Custom Item Sets

• Item sets will no longer be lost when a player changes their Summoner name.

Game Menus

• The Key Binding page has been reorganized to be easier to use

Gifting Animation

• Gifting animation has been updated

Custom Game Minimaps

• Custom Game minimaps updated to include unique mini maps for each map

League System

• Added the ability to spectate players and teams in challenger tier via an option in the leagues menu.
• Added notifications to inform players when they are close to hitting LP decay for inactivity in ranked queues.

Player Behavior

Behavior Alerts

• The PVP.net client will display new warning alerts for players with spikes of negative activity, in order to help course-correct them as soon as possible with quick and direct feedback.
• Players with recently detected unsportsmanlike behavior will see a warning after the End of Game screen.
• Alerts will not follow every player report; alerts are targeted toward players that exhibit uncharacteristic spikes of highly negative behavior.

General

• The Loading Screen no longer appears off-center in your monitor after Champ Select, when in Borderless or Windowed mode.
• Included a possible fix for an issue that would cause LoL to open in the bottom right of the screen on computers under heavy load
• Logitech monochrome keyboards should no longer clear their display when the last two heads-up buttons are pressed.
• Logitech keyboards should no longer change their brightness when your champion is dead.

Undocumented Changes

Items

• Runaan's Hurricane
  • Total cost reduced to 2400 from 2450.
• Sword of the Divine
  • Total cost reduced to 2150 from 2200.
• Kitae's Bloodrazor
  • Total cost reduced to 2475 from 2525.

Champions

Lux

• Final Spark
  • Has a new targeting particle.

Darius

• Apprehend
  • Animation is slower and has a more visible wind-up.

Patch History