V8.21

V8.21
"I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey."
Release Date (US)	October 24th, 2018
Highlights
K/DA skins Harrowing 2018 event
Related links
8.21 Patch Notes
Patch chronology
← Previous	V8.20
Next →	V8.22

New Cosmetics

The following Champion skins have been added to the store:

• K/DA Ahri ( 1350)
• K/DA Akali ( 1350)
• Trick or Treat Ekko ( 1350) (Legacy)
• K/DA Evelynn ( 1350)
• Bewitching Janna ( 1350) (Legacy)
• K/DA Kai'Sa ( 1350)
• Prestige K/DA Kai'Sa​​ ( 2500) (Limited)
• Count Kledula ( 1350) (Legacy)

The following Chroma sets have been added to the store:

• Trick or Treat Ekko
  Chromas: Amethyst, Emerald, Golden, Obsidian, Rose Quartz, Ruby
• Bewitching Janna
  Chromas: Citrine, Emerald, Golden, Rainbow, Rose Quartz, Ruby
• Count Kledula
  Chromas: Emerald, Golden, Obsidian, Pearl, Rose Quartz, Ruby

The following Summoner icons have been added to store:

Janna Candy

Golden Janna Candy

Ekko Candy

Golden Ekko Candy

Kled Candy

Golden Kled Candy

Purrrfect

Pumpkin Cat

K/DA Ahri

K/DA Kai'Sa

K/DA Evelynn

K/DA Akali

K/DA

Golden K/DA

The following Emotes have been added to the store:

RIP

Mic Drop

The following Ward skins have been added to the store:

Pumpkin Cat

Pop Music A-ward

Client

Rune Selection

• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where, while changing your secondary runes one after another, you could end up changing the same selection twice rather than changing both rune selections.

League of Legends V8.21

General

Attack speed

• No longer uses attack delay to determine champions' base attack speed.

Camouflage

• Turrets no longer block line of sight for camouflage abilities, meaning if a camouflaged enemy champ is on the other side of a turret from you, you'll now be able to see them if they're in range.

HUD Font Size

• The general HUD font size has been increased.

On My Way Ping

• OMW ping audio processing now indicates the distance between the ping and the player who pinged. The further away the player is from their ping, the more muffled and slightly delayed the audio will be.
• OMW ping volume indicates now the distance between the ping and you, the listener.

Surrender Countdown

• Bug Fix: The Surrender countdown bar has been visually restored.

Champions

Alistar

• Stats
  • Base health reduced to 573.36 from 613.36.

Ashe

• Frost Shot
  • Base slow increased to 15% − 30% (based on level) from 10% − 20% (based on level).
  • Critical strike slow changed to double the slow amount instead of triple.
• Ranger's Focus
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that made Runaan's Hurricane bolts fired by Ranger's Focus invisible.
• Hawkshot
  • New Effect: Now pings enemies it spots if your team didn't already have vision of them.
  • Bug Fix: Vision trail duration very slightly increased to address a bug where the trail sometimes wouldn't show up on the minimap (vision duration at the destination unchanged).

Aurelion Sol

• Stats
  • Base health reduced to 510 from 562.
  • Base health regeneration increased to 7 from 6.5.

Draven

• Spinning Axe
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where his basic attack couldn't crit if it switched from a normal basic attack to a Q-empowered attack during wind-up due to Draven catching an axe.

Ezreal

• General
  • Bug Fix: Double-pressing Ezreal's abilities no longer cancels movement commands.
• Essence Flux
  • Base damage increased to 75 / 125 / 175 / 225 / 275 from 75 / 120 / 165 / 210 / 255.

Gragas

• General
  • Basic attacks' audio now changes based on whether he hits stone, wood, metal, or people.
• Barrel Roll
  • New audio and when maximum charge state is reached.
• Drunken Rage
  • Activation audio is clearer.
• Body Slam
  • Collision audio updated.
• Explosive Cask
  • On-cast audio clarity improved.

Irelia

• Stats
  • Base movement speed reduced to 335 from 340.

Ivern

• Stats
  • Base movement speed increased to 330 from 325.
• Brushmaker
  • Base damage increased to 30 / 37.5 / 45 / 52.5 / 60 from 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60.
• Triggerseed
  • Base shield strength increased to 80 / 115 / 150 / 185 / 220 from 75 / 110 / 145 / 180 / 215.

Kai'Sa

• Second Skin
  • Consume Plasma damage changed to 15% (+ 2.5% per 100 AP) of the target's missing health from 15% (+ 3.75% per 100 AP) of the target's missing health.
• Killer Instinct
  • Shield duration reduced to 2 seconds from 3.

Karma

• Focused Resolve
  • Root duration increased to 1.4 / 1.55 / 1.7 / 1.85 / 2 seconds from 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2.

Karthus

• Wall of Pain
  • Cooldown reduced to 15 seconds from 18.
  • Mana cost reduced to 70 from 100.
• Requiem
  • Mana cost reduced to 100 at all ranks from 150 / 175 / 200.

Nunu & Willump

• Call of the Freljord
  • Bug Fix: Basic attack no longer cancels if Call of the Freljord expires during the attack's wind-up.
• Consume
  • Bug Fix: No longer heals if Consume is blocked by a spell shield.
• Biggest Snowball Ever!
  • Snowball hitbox and steering controls updated to make using W smoother and fix various bugs around the snowball colliding (or not) with stuff.
  • Rolling into small pets (ex. Shaco's boxes, Yorick's Mistwalkers) no longer causes the snowball to explode.
• Absolute Zero
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug causing the damage and slow to sometimes be slightly off at full channel.

Zac

• Stretching Strikes
  • Base damage increased to 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 / 100 from 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 / 70.

Ziggs

• Mega Inferno Bomb
  • Bug Fix: Tooltip now indicates the amount of damage done in the outer ring.

Zoe

• Paddle Star
  • Base rank damage increased to 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 from 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150.
• Sleepy Trouble Bubble
  • Cooldown reduced to 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 seconds from 16 / 15.5 / 15 / 14.5 / 14.

Zyra

• Garden of Thorns
  • Bug Fix: Plants no longer attempt to target stuff without health bars (ex. Jarvan IV's flag, Thresh's lantern).

Items

Boots of Swiftness

• Bug Fix: Now properly reduce the self-slow on Pyke's Bone Skewer.

Edge of Night

• Total cost reduced to 3000 from 3100.
  • Combine cost reduced to 625 from 725.
• Night's Veil channel duration reduced to 1 second from 1.5.

Essence Reaver

• Total cost reduced to 3000 from 3200.
  • Combine cost reduced to 250 from 450.

Hotfixes

October 24th Hotfix

Minion

• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where cannon and super minions were taking more damage than intended from turrets.
• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Hand of Baron wasn't granting melee minions turret damage reduction.

October 25th Hotfix

Yorick

• Shepherd of Souls
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Mistwalkers were dealing less damage than intended.

References

Patch History