V8.1

V8.1
"When you imagine him with a real weapon."
Release Date (US)	January 10th, 2018
Highlights
Beginning of Season Eight Honor rewards rework New Skin: God Staff Jax
Related links
8.1 Patch Notes
Patch chronology
← Previous	V7.24b
Next →	V8.2

New Cosmetics

The following Champion skins have been added to the store:

• God Staff Jax ( 1350)

The following Champions and Skins have received a new splash art:

• Original Varus

The following Summoner icons have been added to store:

100 Thieves

1907 Fenerbahçe Esports

6Sense

7th heaven

Afreeca Freecs

Ahq e-Sports Club

Avant Garde

Bbq Olivers

Chiefs Esports Club

Cloud9

Clutch Gaming

Counter Logic Gaming

Dark Horse

Dark Passage

DetonatioN FocusMe

Dire Wolves

Echo Fox

FC Schalke 04 Esports

Flash Wolves

FlyQuest

Fnatic

Furious Gaming

G-Rex

G2 Esports

Galakticos

Gaming Gaming

Giants Gaming

Golden Guardians

H2k-Gaming

HWA Gaming

Hafnet eSports

Hong Kong Attitude

INTZ e-Sports

Infinity eSports CR

Isurus Gaming

J Team

Jin Air Green Wings

Just Toys Havoks

KT Rolster

KaBuM! e-Sports

Kaos Latin Gamers

Kongdoo Monster

Legacy Esports

Legatum

MAD Team

MVP

Misfits Gaming

OpTic Gaming

Order

PaiN Gaming

Predators eSports

ProGaming e-Sports

RED Canids

ROX Tigers

Rainbow7

Rascal Jester

Rebirth eSports

SK Telecom T1

Sin Gaming

Splyce

Team Afro

Team Liquid

Team oNe eSports

Team ROCCAT

Team SoloMid

Team Vitality

Unicorns of Love

Unsold Stuff Gaming

V3 Esports

Vivo Keyd

ZAGA Talent Gaming

The following Emotes have been added to the store:

D'Pengu

Was that Me?

Come at Me

General

• Season 2018 Ranked season begins on January 16th, 2018.
  • This resets all players' ranked league.
  • This resets Hextech Chest drop on every champion.
• In ranked Solo/Duo, Challenger players can now duo queue.
• Bug Fix: Fixed a severe client load time issue for players using macOS version 10.8 or earlier. To get the fix, you'll have to completely reinstall League.

Honor

• Each honor level now has 3 checkpoints.
• Honor reset:
  • Previous level 5 are now level 2, checkpoint 3.
  • Previous level 4 are now level 2, checkpoint 2.
  • Previous level 3 are now level 2, checkpoint 1.
  • Previous level 2 are now level 2, no checkpoints.
  • Previous level 1 and below do not reset.
• New rewards:
  • Level 1
    • Level up: one key.
  • Level 2
    • Level up: one key
    • Checkpoint: two key fragments
  • Level 3
    • Level up: Level 3 Capsule containing 3 Key fragments, a ward skin, and 300 or a higher value champion shard.
    • Checkpoint: Level 3 Orb containing 2 Key fragments and 150 or a higher value champion shard.
  • Level 4
    • Level up: Level 4 Capsule containing 4 Key fragments, an emote, and 630 or a higher value champion shard.
    • Checkpoint: Level 4 Orb containing 2 Key fragments and 200 or a higher value champion shard.
  • Level 5
    • Level up: Level 5 Capsule containing 5 Key fragments, Grey Warwick or Medieval Twitch, and 960 or a higher value champion shard. If both skins are owned, you're guaranteed an emote or ward skin instead.
    • Checkpoint: Level 5 Orb containing 3 Key fragments and 250 or a higher value champion shard.

League of Legends V8.1

Game

• End-of-game runes stats that report duration (i.e. Lethal Tempo's "Total Active Time") now use 00:00 formatting instead of number of seconds active.
• Cleaned up Runes VFX in Spectator VFX to remove overlapping particles.
• If you close the item shop within 0.25 seconds of selling an item, the sale is cancelled.
• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where many hard crowd controls would interrupt several charged/channeled abilities even when they had been blocked by a spell shield.
• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the healthbar fade and shake animations were displayed even if "Show Health Bar Shake" option was disabled.
  • Bug Fix: Clicking on an enemy tower will now consistently show its item inventory.

Champion health bars

• Higher contrast red health.
• Darker background (to pop health even more).
• Bigger, brighter level text.
• Slightly slimmer border.
• Smaller name text (creates contrast with CC states and room for club tags).

Champions

Ashe

• Sherwood Forest Ashe and Woad Ashe
  • Ranger's Focus
    • Bug Fix: Now have appropriately themed bolts when using Runaan's Hurricane.

Brand

• Blaze
  • Damage per stack increased to 4% of target's maximum health from 2%.

Cassiopeia

• Jade Fang Cassiopeia
  • Petrifying Gaze
    • Bug Fix: Overlay is no longer overwritten by Rylai's Crystal Scepter.

Cho'Gath

• Vorpal Spikes
  • Bug Fix: Empowered attacks no longer interrupt the basic attacks of enemy champions they hit.

Evelynn

• Whiplash
  • Bug fix: No longer goes on cooldown if it fizzles due to her losing vision of her target during its cast time.

Galio

• Shield of Durand
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where his shield would expire, rather than refresh 12 seconds after taking damage.

Gangplank

• Parrrley
  • Bug Fix: Now correctly goes on cooldown on cast start instead of cast end.
• Cannon Barrage
  • Bug Fix: Cooldown will no longer reset when buying the Raise Morale upgrade.

Gnar

• Super Galaxy Gnar
  • Bug Fix: Transformation to and from Mega Gnar has been visually changed to remove a seizure risk.

Graves

• End of the Line
  • Mana cost reduced to 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 from 60 / 70 / 90 / 90 / 100.
  • Cooldown reduced to 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 seconds from 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10.
• Smoke Screen
  • Slow increased to 50% at all ranks from 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35%.
  • Slow duration reduced to 0.5 seconds from 1.5.

Heimerdinger

• H-28Q Apex Turret
  • Beam base damage reduced to 100 / 140 / 180 from 200 / 270 / 340.

Jinx

• Ambitious Elf Jinx
  • General
    • Bug Fix: Hair no longer stretches unnaturally during several animations.
  • Zap!
    • Bug Fix: Trail no longer appears in front of the candy projectile.

Kayle

• Stats
  • Attack damage growth reduced to 2.2 from 2.8.
  • Bonus attack speed at level 1 reduced to 10% from 15%.
• Righteous Fury
  • Cooldown changed to 18 / 17 / 16 / 15 / 14 seconds from 16 at all ranks.

Kog'Maw

• Hextech Kog'Maw
  • Void Ooze
    • Bug Fix: VFX around the spit blob projectile no longer disappear beneath elevated terrain.

Lulu

• Pool Party Lulu
  • Wild Growth
    • Bug Fix: Ground VFX no longer slowly pulse on low and very low settings.

Lux

• Elementalist Lux
  • Final Spark
    • Bug Fix: Water form VFX have been restored.
  • Light Binding
    • Bug Fix: Fire form VFX have been restored.

Maokai

• Twisted Advance
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where chaining certain dashes together would cause the second dash to last for the same duration as the first. This is why Twisted Advance took so long to reach a target after exiting Tahm Kench's Abyssal Voyage.

Nami

• River Spirit Nami
  • Tidecaller's Blessing
    • Bug Fix: Orbs are no longer offset during rotation.

Nidalee

• Takedown
  • Bug Fix: No longer damages enemies if its empowered attack is dodged.
• Bewitching Nidalee
  • Takedown
    • Bug Fix: Bat VFX have been restored when jumping towards hunted targets.

Nunu

• Nunu Bot
  • Bug Fix: Arms are no longer missing electric VFX.

Ornn

• Bellows Breath
  • Bug Fix: Brittle proc no longer apply its effect if the attack that would apply it is blocked.

Skarner

• Stats
  • Base mana increased to 320 from 272.2.
• Fracture
  • Bonus physical damage increased to 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 from 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 / 65.
  • Stun duration increased to 1.5 seconds from 1.

Syndra

• Unleashed Power
  • All Dark Spheres now consistently fly at Unleashed Power's target, even if the target dies or goes invulnerable.
  • The three spheres orbiting her now properly materialize even if Unleashed Power's target dies as the ability is cast.
  • Syndra's movement no longer becomes funky for a few seconds if Unleashed Power's target dies before all spheres have fired.
  • Dark Spheres that didn't damage Unleashed Power's target now properly interact with her other abilities.
  • Dark Spheres that didn't damage Unleashed Power's target no longer move erratically when affected by her other abilities.
  • Dark Spheres created shortly after Unleashed Power ends no longer move erratically when affected by her other abilities.

Udyr

• Spirit Guard Udyr
  • Turtle Stance
    • Bug Fix: Animal VFX dance have been restored when he's in rank five Turtle Stance.

Vayne

• Tumble
  • Bug Fix: Her first Tumble attack out of Final Hour's stealth can now correctly be heard/seen.

Zac

• Let's Bounce!
  • Bug Fix: Zac will no longer get stuck in his Let's Bounce! animation continuously if he revives with Guardian Angel after during the cast animation.

Zoe

• Paddle Star
  • Now takes longer to register her new position (for purposes of calculating damage) when casting Portal Jump.
• Spell Thief
  • Minions can no longer drop shards for Hextech Gunblade.
• Sleepy Trouble Bubble
  • Trap arm time increased to 0.8 seconds from 0.6.
• Portal Jump
  • Portal delay reduced to 0 seconds from 0.1.

Zyra

• Grasping Roots
  • Bug Fix: Fixed very rare instances where canceling an auto attack could also cause an in-flight projectile to disappear.

Items

Archangel's Staff

• Mana Charge tooltip updated to "for each mana expenditure" from "for each spell cast or mana expenditure".
• Mana Charge no longer trigger on abilities without a mana cost.

Manamune

• Mana Charge tooltip updated to "for each basic attack or mana expenditure" from "for each basic attack, spell cast or mana expenditure".
• Mana Charge no longer trigger on abilities without a mana cost.

Tear of the Goddess

• Mana Charge no longer triggers on abilities without a mana cost.
• Mana Charge tooltip updated to "for each mana expenditure" from "for each spell cast or mana expenditure".

Runes

Arcane Comet

• Bug Fix: Now has ally/enemy color differentiation.
• Bug Fix: Tooltip now properly lists its base damage.

Electrocute

• Bug Fix: Ally hits will no longer count towards Electrocute if both allies have the Keystone equipped.

Glacial Augment

• Bug Fix: Now has ally/enemy color differentiation.

Grasp of the Undying

• Bug Fix: No longer apply its effect if the attack that would apply it is blocked.

Hextech Flashtraption

• Bug Fix: Fixed interactions between the Flash lockout on Skarner's and Fiddlesticks' ults and the Hextech Flashtraption and Unsealed Spellbook runes, which could cause them to lose access to Flash and Hexflash.
• Bug Fix: Rengar can no longer extend his leap range from brush via Hextech Flashtraption.

Kleptomancy

• Bug Fix: Level-up UI no longer persists when using Elixir of Skill at level 18.

Predator

• New Effect: If the channel is interrupted, 50% of the cooldown is now refunded.
• New Effect: If Predator's bonus damage is triggered via an area-of-effect ability, it will now prioritize the lowest-health target hit.
• New Effect: Grants 67.5% bonus movement speed for the first 1.5 seconds.

Manaflow Band

• Bug Fix: Now works properly with alternate HUD schemes (Flipped Minimap, Team Frames on Left, etc.).

Revitalize

• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where abilities that cost health to cast will cause its bonus healing amount in the rune panel to decrease.

Trait: Domination

• Resolve secondary:
  • Bonus attack damage reduced to 5.4 from 10.8.
  • Ability power reduced to 9 from 18.
  • New Effect: Grants 65 health.

Trait: Precision

• Resolve secondary:
  • Bonus attack speed reduced to 9% from 18%.
  • New Effect: Grants 65 health.

Trait: Resolve

• Precision secondary:
  • Bonus health reduced to 65 from 130.
  • New Effect: Grants 9% bonus attack speed.
• Domination secondary:
  • Bonus health reduced to 65 from 130.
  • New Effect: Grants 5.4 attack damage or 9 ability power (Adaptive).
• Sorcery secondary:
  • Bonus health reduced to 65 from 130.
  • New Effect: Grants 6 attack damage or 10 ability power (Adaptive).

Trait: Sorcery

• Resolve secondary:
  • New Effect: Grants 65 health.
  • Bonus attack damage reduced to 6 from 12.
  • Ability power reduced to 10 from 20.

Triumph

• Bug Fix: Gold and healing are now properly granted to units in stasis when a takedown is earned.

Unsealed Spellbook

• Bug Fix: Now properly updates its user's summoner spell icons in spectator mode.

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Patch History