V6.1

V6.1
A new Challenger arrives! What a lovely way to start the season.
Release Date (US)	January 14th, 2016
Highlights
First patch of Season 6 Team Builder 2.0
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6.1 Patch Notes
Patch chronology
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Next →	V6.2

New Cosmetics in the Store

The following champion skins have been added to the store:

• Challenger Nidalee ( 975)

The following champion skins have been adjusted:

• Dragon Trainer Lulu (texture update)
• Braum Lionheart and Gragas Caskbreaker (splash has been properly flipped)
• Soul Reaver Draven and Gladiator Draven (new on-the-ground emblems for axes)

PVP.net

Team Builder Draft

Distribution

• Assets are being distributed to all regions with V6.1.
• A live beta will be performed on NA and TR starting January 13 replacing Normal Draft and Ranked Draft. If all goes well, distribution to other servers will continue.
  • The release date has been delayed to January 14 due to issues with the 6.1 patch.
• Pending Clarity: The original Team Builder will be permanently retired starting when the new Team Builder experience goes live on your server, or on January 14 across all regions.
  • Role Icons are intended to remain earnable, but will be unavailable for the foreseeable future.
  • Despite the bug that has prevented Role Icons from being unlocked for the past two months, icons that have been earned will be distributed after January 14.

• Assemble Your Team - Invite friends or queue up on your own. Each player must select two positions from a selection of Top, Mid, Bot, Support, Jungle and Fill, or may select Fill exclusively. Once everyone is selected - the host can hit Queue Up.
• You are now in Match Making.
• Ready to play? You are matched with allied players that complete your team based on your preferences, with an attempt to accommodate all primary preferences. Unlike Team Builder, duos/trios can be matched with duos/trios.
• You are informed of the position the system has assigned you, based on your preferences.
• In a Blind Pick, each of you must now choose a provisional champion. While there is no formal swapping system, you can use this time to discuss your picks and potentially trade positions. The team you're on is represented in the map. 35 seconds
• The Third, Fourth and Fifth Summoner of each team now take turns banning. Bans now require confirmation and failing to ban will result in a dodge. 40 seconds each
• Banning from the observer's perspective.
• Choose your champion. You are still encouraged to grab priority champions for your allies - trading champions is still a feature. 40 seconds each
• Picking from an observer's perspective. The arrow beneath this option will open-up Skin Selection.
• Skin selection.
• Use this time to make any adjustments or trade champions. The arrow beneath this option will open-up Skin Selection. 40 seconds

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Less Obvious Changes

• Your team must consist of one of each Top, Mid, Bot, Support and Jungle, compared to Team Builder where the Captain chooses how he wants his team. The support is not strictly assigned a lane and the positions are not class-restricted - i.e. bot only refers to the person who wants to kill minions/earn gold in bot lane.
• Failing to ban will also incur a dodge penalty.
• Failing to pick a provisional champion will NOT incur a dodge penalty.
• Champion select quotes are now heard by all players - but only when the selection is locked in.
• While each team still gets two picks per phase (except first and last), picking is now done one summoner at a time. Each player gets 40 seconds.

Splash Art

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  "Centered" versions of every Splash Art have been added and are used as part of the new champion select interface.
  • The centered version of Original Swain seems to be based on a new splash Art, not his live Splash Art.
  • Some outdated centered Splash Arts (for Gangplank, Fiora and some others) and centered Splash Arts from Chinese server are found.

Mysterious Announcer

• The following "Announcer" lines have been added to the client, in the same style as the Ancient Ascendant:
  • "I'm running out of heroes."
  • "I wish they'd give up trying to stop me, but I can understand their position."
  • "Well, that wasn't the hero."
  • "They try to knock me down, but I have a low center of gravity."
  • "I got lucky. You'll get me next time."
  • "Annnddd, my search continues."

The speaker is Poppy. The map/game mode the announcements are connected to are currently unknown.

League of Legends V6.1

General

Pushing Advantage (Minions)

• Minions now display that amount of bonus damage and amount of damage reduction above their health bar in the unit frame.
• Fixed a bug where minions would sometimes freeze.

Rift Herald

• Base level increased to 6 from 2. Its stats at level 6 remain the same as its current stats at level 1, but this affects how quickly it levels passively.
• Base damage reduced to 95 from 105.

Razor Sharp

• Fixed a bug where non-wards were not trigger Razor Sharp.
• Fixed a long-standing inconsistency where Razor Sharp had a larger detection radius than a ward's sight radius, which meant that its "alerts you when you're spotted" behavior wasn't accurate.
  • Range reduced to 900 from 1250 for Sight and Vision Wards.
  • Range reduced to 500 from 1250 for Farsight Wards.

Howling Abyss

• Gaining vision inside brush on Howling Abyss better reflects the reality of what is inside that brush.
• Fixed the visuals of the brush on Howling Abyss to better reflect the boundaries of said brush.

Tenacity

• Fixed a bug where Disarms weren't being reduced.

Champions

Bard

• Traveler's Call
  • New Effect: The 「 25 chimes milestone 」「 area of effect damage improvement 」 additionally makes the Meeps strike in a 150-radius area around the target. This is in addition to the cone behind them.

Brand

• Pyroclasm
  • Bug Fix: Pyroclasm was almost always prioritizing champions unless it killed its target.

Caitlyn

• Headshot
  • Bug Fix: Caitlyn would often path into her normal attack range to perform the Headshot attack.
  • Bug Fix: Caitlyn first attack after a Headshot would take longer to complete.
  • Bug Fix: Using Headshot on a different target to her current attack target would take longer to complete.
• Yordle Snap Trap
  • Improved collision detection for smaller enemies.

Ekko

• Timewinder
  • Bug Fix: Timewinder would occasionally deal no damage on the way out at high levels of cooldown reduction.

Elise

• Rappel
  • Bug Fix: Elise would occasionally automatically target a nearby enemy when self-casting Rappel.

Fiddlesticks

• Dark Wind
  • Mana cost reduced to 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 from 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 / 130.

Gangplank

• Trial by Fire
  • DoT duration increased to 2.5 seconds from 1.5. Total damage is not changed.
  • Bonus AD ratio reduced to 100% bonus AD from 120% bonus AD.

Heimerdinger

• CH-2 Electron Storm Grenade
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Heimerdinger's grenade was granting too much vision for the duration.

Jayce

• Transform Mercury Hammer
  • Bug Fix: Bonus magic damage upon transforming would consume against structures without dealing damage if Hyper Charge was active.

Jinx

• Get Excited!
  • Bug Fix: Jinx was getting more than one stacks for killing inhibitors.
  • Bug Fix: Jinx was receiving less attack speed than intended while using Fishbones.
• Switcheroo!
  • Bug Fix: Jinx was able to use Fishbones for free when out of mana.
  • Revert: Switcheroo! can no longer be activated while disabled.

Kalista

• Rend
  • Mana cost reduced to 30 from 40.
  • Removed: Mana refund when killing one target.
  • Clarification: If Rend kills at least one target, its cooldown is reset. If Rend kills two or more targets, its mana cost is refunded.

Kassadin

• Force Pulse
  • Removed: Passive's stack acquisition from Frost Queen's Claim's Active.

Katarina

• Death Lotus
  • Updated to use new Grievous Wounds - 40% self-healing reduction instead of 50% incoming-healing reduction.

Kha'Zix

• Unseen Threat
  • Empowered auto attacks have a faster attack frame. They are currently slower than his normal auto attacks.
• Void Spike
  • Explosion radius increased to 275 from 225.
• Leap
  • Range increased to 700 from 600. Evolved range is unchanged.

LeBlanc

• Ethereal Chains / Mimic Ethereal Chains
  • Missile speed increased to 1750 from 1600.

Miss Fortune

• Love Tap
  • AD ratio reduced to 50%-100% from 60%-100%.
• Make It Rain
  • Base damage reduced to 80 / 115 / 150 / 185 / 220 from 90 / 145 / 200 / 255 / 310.

Mordekaiser

• Iron Man
  • Delay before shield starts decaying increased to 1.5 seconds from 1.
• Harvester of Sorrow
  • New Effect: Can target allied minions. Lesser minions have half the radius of champions and large minions.
  • New Effect: Secondary effect now triggers automatically if his target dies.
• Children of the Grave
  • Base initial damage reduced to 6.25 / 7.5 / 8.75% of target's max. health from 12.5 / 15 / 17.5%.
  • Initial damage scaling reduced to (+ 1% per 100 AP) of target's max. health from (+ 2% per 100 AP).
    • Initial damage reduced to 25% of total damage from 50%.
  • Base damage per second increased to 1.875 / 2.25 / 2.625% of target's max. health from 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75%.
  • Damage per second scaling increased to (+ 0.3% per 100 AP) of target's max. health from (+ 0.2% per 100 AP).
    • Damage over time increased to 75% of total damage from 50%.
    • Total damage unchanged.
  • Ghost's bonus attack damage changed to 100% Mordekaiser's bonus AD from 10 / 25 / 50.

Orianna

• Command Protect
  • Bug Fix: Passive didn't interact with  Windspeaker's Blessing.

Poppy

• Hammer Shock
  • New Effect: If cast during Heroic Charge, Hammer Shock will automatically go off in the direction of Poppy's target.

Riven

• Runic Blade
  • AD ratio increased to 25%-50% AD from 20%-50% AD.

Rumble

• General
  • Collision radius reduced to 35 from 50.
• Flamespitter
  • Range increased to 600 from 550.
  • Damage interval reduced to every 0.25 seconds from 0.5.

Teemo

• Stats
  • Base attack damage increased to 49.54 from 47.54.
• Camouflage
  • New Effect: Can now stealth while moving in brush if no damage is taken.
  • Removed: Stealthing twice as fast in brush.
• Noxious Trap
  • Range increased to 400 / 650 / 900 from 300 / 600 / 900.

Thresh

• Damnation
  • Bug Fix: Despawning souls would visually fly to Thresh.

Trundle

• Chomp
  • No longer work on turrets.
• Pillar of Ice
  • Mana cost increased to 75 from 60 at all ranks.
• Subjugate
  • Cooldown increased to 110 / 90 / 70 seconds from 80 / 70 / 60.
  • Mana cost increased to 100 from 75.

Varus

• Hail of Arrows
  • Updated to use new Grievous Wounds - 40% self-healing reduction instead of 50% incoming-healing reduction.

Items

General

• Face of the Mountain , Zeke's Harbinger and Zz'Rot Portal are now properly searchable by typing Active in the item shop.

Death's Dance

• Combine cost increased to 625 from 525.
  • Total cost increased to 3500 from 3400.
• Attack damage increased to 75 from 65.
• Healing increased to 15% from 12%.
• Damage conversion increased to 15% from 12%.

Elixir of Iron / Elixir of Sorcery / Elixir of Wrath

• Can now be purchased and auto-consumed (full inventory) while dead. The duration will not begin until you spawn.

Enchantment: Cinderhulk

• Inmolate: Now has an on-hover range indicator.

Enchantment: Runeglaive

• Removed. Replaced by Runic Echoes.

Enchantment: Runic Echoes

• Recipe: Aether Wisp + Amplifying Tome + 340 = 1625
• Grants 60 ability power and 10% movement speed.
• Grants Unique Passive - Echo: Moving and casting generates charges, up to 100. At 100 charges, the next instance of ability damage you deal will expend all charges to deal 80 (+ 10% AP) bonus magic damage to the first enemy hit and summon up to 3 lesser bolts that target nearby enemies, prioritizing enemies damaged by the ability and champions over minions.
• Echo deals 「 250% 」「 200 (+ 25% AP) 」 damage to Large Monsters. Hitting a Large Monster with this effect will restore 18% of your missing mana.

Enchantment: Sated Devourer

• Bug Fix: A few cases of champions that damaged themselves when using empowered basic attacks (ex.: Ekko's Phase Dive or Rek'Sai's Queen's Wrath)

Eye of the Oasis / Eye of the Watchers

• Mana regen reduced to 100% from 150%.
• New Effect: Now grants 10% cooldown reduction.

Farsight Alteration

• Cooldown increased to 92–60 seconds from 76-60. Warding Totem's cooldown is reduced by 33% instead of 50%.

Frost Queen's Claim

• Mana regeneration reduced to 100% from 150%.
• Slow duration reduced to 2 seconds from 4.
• New Effect: Slow duration now increases up to 5 seconds based on how far the ghosts have traveled.

Guinsoo's Rageblade

• Bug Fix: Ranged champions would gain the empowered effect on the same attack that gives them 8 stacks.

Liandry's Torment

• Bug Fix: Not dealing double damage against enemies charmed or taunted.

Lord Dominik's Regards

• Armor penetration increased to 45% from 40%.

Luden's Echo

• New Effect: Passive named Echo.
• New Effect: Now triggers if an ability cast at max. stacks damages a target after its caster dies.

Mejai's Soulstealer

• Has been added to the Mana tab of the item shop.

Mortal Reminder

• Armor penetration increased to 45% from 40%.

Phantom Dancer

• Bonus movement speed increased to 5% from 0%.
• Spectral Waltz movement speed reduced to 7% from 12%.

Rapid Firecannon

• Movement speed reduced to 7% from 8%.

Ravenous Hydra

• Combine cost reduced to 1050 from 1100.
  • Total cost reduced to 3500 from 3600.

Runaan's Hurricane

• Movement speed increased to 7% from 5%.
• Lesser bolts now use er instead of cr.

Serrated Dirk

• Bug Fix: Bonus physical damage no longer occasionally consumes itself when granted by an empowered basic attack.

Skirmisher's Sabre / Stalker's Blade / Tracker's Knife

• Total cost reduced to 1000 from 1050.
• Mana regeneration increased to 180% from 150%.

Statikk Shiv

• Bonus damage to minions increased to 120% from 75%.

Sunfire Cape

• Armor increased to 50 from 45.

Tiamat

• Combine cost reduced to 175 from 225.
  • Total cost reduced to 1200 from 1250.

Titanic Hydra

• Combine cost reduced to 700 from 750.
  • Total cost reduced to 3500 from 3600.

Warding Totem

• Cooldown reduced to 180–90 seconds from 180-120.

Masteries

Ferocity

Tier 5

• Bug Fix: Splitting points between  Battering Blows and  Piercing Thoughts granted the incorrect amount of stats.

 Deathfire Touch

• Damage per half-second increased to 1 (+ 3.125% AP) (+ 7.5% bonus AD) from 1 (+ 2.5% AP) (+ 6.25% bonus AD).
  • Single target damage increased to 8 (+ 25% AP) (+ 60% bonus AD) from 8 (+ 20% AP) (+ 50% bonus AD).
  • AoE total damage increased to 4 (+ 12.5% AP) (+ 30% bonus AD) from 4 (+ 10% AP) (+ 25% bonus AD).
  • DoT total damage increased to 2 (+ 6.25% AP) (+ 15% bonus AD) from 2 (+ 5% AP) (+ 12.5% bonus AD).

 Fervor of Battle

• Damage per stack increased to 1.63 − 14.04 (based on level) from 1.32 − 8.46 (based on level).
• Max. stacks reduced to 8 from 10
  • Max. damage changed to 13.04 − 112.32 (based on level) from 13.2 − 84.6 (based on level).

 Warlord's Bloodlust

• Healing changed to 5% − 25.06% (based on level) from 15% at all levels.
• Attack speed increased to 30% from 20%.

Cunning

 Precision

• Base armor penetration reduced to 0.6 / 1.2 / 1.8 / 2.4 / 3 from 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5.
• Armor penetration per level reduced to 0.06 / 0.12 / 0.18 / 0.24 / 0.3 from 0.1 / 0.2 / 0.3 / 0.4 / 0.5.

 Stormraider's Surge

• Time frame to trigger the effect increased to 2.5 seconds from 2.
• Movement speed increased to 40% from 35%.
• New Effect: Grants 75% Slow Resistance.

Resolve

 Bond of Stone

• Damage reduction increased to 4% from 3%.
• Removed: Increased damage reduction while near an allied champion.
• Redirect damage remains 6%.

 Strength of the Ages

• Heal increased to 6% maximum health from 100.
• New Effect: Heal now triggers on large monster kills.

Summoner Spells

Smite

• Removed: No longer triggers spell effects.

Patch Rundown

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References

Patch History