April 18, 2009 Patch

April 18, 2009 Patch
Zilean, The Chronokeeper & Singed, The Mad Chemist
Release date (US)	April 18, 2009
Highlights & notes
New champions: Zilean & Singed
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Notes 4/18/2009
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League of Legends

Champions

• New Champion: Zilean, The Chronokeeper
• New Champion: Singed, The Mad Chemist

Teemo

• Toxic Shot: is now a passive skill.
• Move Quick: no longer slows you upon being hit (it does still remove the haste buff).
• Blinding Dart: causes your opponent to miss a set number of attacks instead of increasing their miss %.
• New Passive: Trailblazer: Teemo leaves a trail as he moves, increasing the move speed of allies and granting him sight radius of the area for an extended period of time.
• New Ultimate: Noxious Trap: Teemo places a trap which, when triggered, will poison surrounding units, slowing and damaging them for the duration.

Minotaur

• Unbreakable Will:
  • Duration increased to 10/15/20 from 5/10/15.
  • Added +80 Damage.
• Base Attack Range increased to 125 from 100.
• Added a Charging component to Headbutt, increasing its range to 650 from 200.

Judicator

• Intervention:
  • Duration reduced to 4 from 5.
  • Mana Cost changed to 80/80/80/80/80 from 80/60/40/20/0.

Fiddlesticks

• Dark Wind: Damage dealt to champions Increased to 135 from 120 per bounce (Minions it still deals 120).
• Terrify: cooldown increased to 14 from 12.
• Drain:
  • Range decreased to 450 from 500.
  • Break range decreased to 700 from 800.

Morgana Le

• Tormented Soil: ability power ratio increased to 0.3 from 0.2.

Master Yi

• Meditate: cooldown increased to 60 from 50.
• Alpha Strike: bonus damage increased to 150/250/350 from 50/125/200.

Soraka

• Astral Blessing:
  • Duration reduced to 12 from 16.
  • Bonus armor increased to 30 from 20.
  • Ability power ratio increased to 0.2 from 0.12.
  • Healing increased to 14/22/30/38/46 from 10/18/26/34/42.
• Infuse: mana restored increased to 50/100/150/200/250 from 40/80/120/160/200.
• Wish:
  • Ability power ratio increased to 2 from 1.
  • Cooldown reduced to 120/90/60 from 150/110/60.

Ashe

• Enchanted Crystal Arrow: damage increased to 350/550/750 from 250/425/600.

Sion

• Cannibalism: attack speed boost increased to 45% from 30%.
• Feel No Pain: damage block decreased to 30/40/50 from 30/45/60.

Sivir

• Ricochet: number of bounces reduced to +1/2/3/4/5 from +2/3/4/5/6.

Neutral Minions

• Baron Nashor:
  • Base Damage increased to 500 from 400.
  • Armor increased to 120 from 100.
  • Knock-back on Sweeping blow decreased to 750 from 1000.
  • Global Gold bounty decreased to 400 from 500.
  • Added a Global Buff to the team that kills Baron Nashor Exalted with Baron Nashor, which increases your champion's Damage and Ability Power by 60.
• Increased Neutral Minions attack speed.

Summoner Spells

• Ghost:
  • Duration reduced to 15 from 25 seconds.
  • Movement Speed bonus increased to 28% from 22%.
• Summoner spell cooldowns can never be reduced below 70% (from 5%).

Items

• Warmog's Armor:
  • Recipe cost increased to 1025 from 765 (total cost to 3000 from 2740).
  • Added a Cap to Warmog the Living Armor for bonus health / regen of +400 Health, and 50 Health Regen per 5.
  • HP gain per kill modified to 4 from 5 (to 40 from 25 on champions), and Regen per kill modified to 0.1 from 0.05 (to 1 from 0.5 for champions).
• Sunfire Cape:
  • Aura damage increased to 50 from 40.
  • Cost decreased to 600 from 900.
• Mejai's Soulstealer:
  • Bonus ability power from champion kills increased to 12 from 5.
  • Added a Cap of +120 Ability Power.
• Archangel's Staff: bonus ability power from mana increased to 2.5% from 2%.
• 'Growth' item tooltips updated to represent their max caps.
• Elixir Tooltips updated.
• Elixirs made persist through death.
• Tooltip added to Phantom Dancer.
• Spirit Visage:
  • Cost of recipe increased to 500 from 250.
  • Made Spirit Visage's effect unique.
• Glacial Shroud: made effect unique.
• Infinity Edge: made effect unique.

Miscellaneous

• Updated animations for Dark Binding, Volley to make them easier to use.
• Fixed a number of tooltips.
• Base Turrets' Health decreased to 2000 from 2400.
• Inhibitor and Outer Turret Health decreased to 3200 from 3600.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed channel bug with Drain, Absolute Zero, Infinite Duress, and Dark Binding where damage / effect would continue if the channeling unit died.
• Fixed Channel bug with Drain, Absolute Zero, Infinite Duress, which threw up errors if the target dies while you are channeling.
• Fixed Warwick's Infinite Duress Channeling bug which would cause it to break / be breakable.
• Added a buff texture to Summoner Ghost.
• Fixed proper buff duration for the following champion passives: Pyromania, Double Strike, Colossal Strength, Feel No Pain, and Trailblazer.
• Fixed Soul Shroud's buff type to fix an issue with its buff duration.
• Assorted Lua error fixes.

Gameplay Changes

HUD

• Neutral Minion Camp Icons on minimap now dissapear if you see them killed, and re-appear when respawned.
• Took out the "click to upgrade" button from level ups.
• Can now level up skills with alt-q, alt-w, alt-e, alt-r.
• Pinging the minimap with unlocked camera will no longer move your camera to the ping location.
• Fixed a bug that could sometimes make you get stuck in unlocked camera mode.
• Enemy level added back to target indicator (placeholder for now).
• Ability Stats made bigger, easier to read on Player HUD.
• Added map scroll speed option to "More Options".
• Several improvements to make clicking on the minimap more accurate, and make it easier to go back to base via minimap.
• Positions on minimap should now be more accurate.
• Buff Icons are 20% bigger.

Gameplay

• Heroes now play their full attack animation when last hitting.
• Several attack animation bugs/exploits fixed with heroes.
• Instant cast and toggle spells no longer interrupt attack timers.
• Epic encounter now takes much longer to respawn.

New Features

• New inking around unit models
• New Assist Functionality (gold/xp gains when assisting in a kill)
  • You now receive gold for a unit you get the last champion hit on even if a tower or minion gets the last last hit
  • New Bounty system for Champion Kills
• Towers now respond with call for help to Champion Spells
• Minions that are agro’d onto you will now have an orange outline
• New Feature – World goes Black and White when you die.
• When Selecting your spells in Champion Selection you will now see the spells you have selected on the Main page
• You can now see the loading bars of everyone in your game during the load screen

Bug Fixes

• Improvements to Popping issues
• Fixed bug where sometimes when you alt tab’d back into the game you would have a black screen with the game cursor
• Fixed a bug where canceling attacks repeatedly caused the next attack to be delayed.
• Fixed the Bug that made it so Neutral Minions would get into a state where they wouldn’t attack.
• Fixed a Bug where Neutral Minions would not respawn correctly

Patch History