June 12, 2009 Patch

June 12, 2009 Patch
Karthus, the Deathsinger
Release date (US)	June 12, 2009
Highlights & notes
New champion: Karthus New item: Force of Nature
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Release Notes 6/12/2009
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League of Legends

Champions

Karthus The Deathsinger

• Lay Waste: A 1 second cooldown spell which leaves a time delayed mine that deals double damage if it only hits a single target.
• Wall of Pain: Stretches a perpendicular wall through the target location, enemies who walk through it are slowed and take increased damage.
• Defile: While toggled on, Defile continually damages nearby enemies. While off, Karthus regains mana whenever he kills a unit.
• Fallen One: (Ultimate) Channeling spell, upon successful cast Karthus damages all enemy champions in the game.
• Death Defied: (Passive) When Karthus dies, he can continue to cast spells for 10 seconds after death. If he kills a champion in this time he respawns instantly at base.

Annie

• Base damage increased to 49 from 40.

Evelynn

• Hate Spike:
  • Ability power ratio reduced to 0.28 from 0.33.
  • Damage increased to 30/55/80/105/130 from 25/50/75/100/125.
• Shadow Walk: stealth can now only be delayed by a maximum of 5 seconds.
• Ravage: armor & magic resist reduced to 10/15/20/25/30 from 10/16/22/28/34.

Fiddlesticks

• Drain:
  • No longer ignores magic resist.
  • Damage increased to 40/70/100/130/160 from 30/55/80/105/130.

Jax

• Counter Strike: ability power ratio increased to 1 from 0.5.
• Relentless Assault: now properly shows that it has an ability power ratio of 1.

Kayle

• Divine Blessing: duration decreased to 20 from 30 sec.

Master Yi

• Wuju Style:
  • Base damage increased to 15/20/25/30/35 from 10/15/20/25/30.
  • Cooldown reduced to 30 from 40 sec.
  • Mana cost increased to 40 from 25.
  • Active: bonus damage reduced to double from triple the damage of its passive.

Nunu

• Visionary:
  • Changed the way it works from a percent chance, to every 10 hits.
  • Now can work with Absolute Zero.
• Absolute Zero: recoded to make the ability power increase with the duration of the channel.

Soraka

• Health per level reduced to 70 from 78.
• Astral Blessing:
  • Changed to tick every second from every other second.
  • Ability power ratio reduced to 0.085 from 0.2, but it occurs twice as often.

• Infuse cooldown reduced from 16 to 15.
• Consecration:
  • Cooldown reduction bonus reduced to 0/1/2/3 from 0/2/4/6.
  • Duration scaling reduced to +0/1/2/3 from +0/2/4/6 seconds.

Teemo

• Trailblazer: movement speed yielded increased slightly.

Tristana

• Detonating Shot: ability power ratio increased to 0.8 from 0.5.
• Buster Shot: now has an ability power ratio of 2.

Twitch

• Ambush: stealth can only be delayed by a maximum of 5 seconds.
• Full Automatic Full Automatic: now deals 100% to the first target it hits (and 70% to all others).

Warwick

• REWORKED Blood Scent:
  • Passive: gives you sight of enemies in range under 60% life, Active: grants a movement speed boost.
  • Range increased to 1500/2300/3100/3900/4800 from 1200/1800/2400/3000/3600.

Items

• NEW ITEM: Force of Nature: Top tier Health / Magic Resist / HP Regen Item with +1.5% Health regeneration when under 50% life and a 10% movement speed boost.
• Archangel's Staff: bonus ability power based on mana is no longer UNIQUE.
• Doran's Ring:
  • Mana regen per 5 increased to 5 from 3
  • Ability power increased to 14 from 10.
• Innervating Locket: mana restored reduced to 20 from 25.
• Madred's Razors: no longer Unique.
• Mercury's Treads: recipe cost reduced to 700 from 850.
• Oracle's Elixir: magical sight range increased to 600 from 500.
• Stark's Fervor: gave it an additional 20% attack speed.
• Warden's Mail: movement and attack speed debuff increased to 60% from 50%.

Summoner Spells

• REWORKED Clairvoyance:
  • Cooldown decreased to 150 from 180 sec.
  • Clairvoyance can no longer be cast inside of terrain or see over terrain.
  • Clairvoyance can now be destroyed by casting on top of opposing Clairvoyance.
• REWORKED Flash:
  • Range reduced to 800 from 900.
  • Functionality changed: Flash is now cast without the need of a target indicator (i.e. it is cast towards the position of your mouse pointer).
  • Flash will automatically flash to the furthest valid range in the direction it is cast at.
  • Flash no longer has a cast time (so to 0 from 0.5).
• REWORKED Promote:
  • No longer has cleaving attacks.
  • Now has a non stacking +30 Armor, +15 Attack Damage aura.
• Heal: now scales with level, Heal = 150 + 25 x Level, and heals surrounding allies for 66% (so it heals less early, and more late).
• Rally:
  • Rally banner made targetable (has 200 Health +25 x Level).
  • Range increased to 850 from 700.
• Revive: cooldown increased to 9 from 8 minutes.

General

• Optimization and Performance Improvements on most PCs.
• Removed Brackets from champion passive information.
• Fixed a few tooltips such as Bantam Trap, Blinding dart, Unbreakable Will, etc.
• Units such as Bantam trap and Rally Banner should die faster.
• Max cooldown reduction increased to 40% from 35%.
• Fixed misc spelling errors.
• Neutral Monster respawn time increased to 120 from 90 seconds.
• Inhibitor Respawn times increased to 7 from 6 minutes.
• Baron Nashor: No longer resizes when you engage him.
• Stealth:
  • Can only be delayed for a maximum of 5 seconds.
  • No longer breaks upon using consumables.
  • Summoner Spells no longer break stealth.
• Minimum amount of gold you obtain for slaying a champion increased to 50% from 40%.
• Maximum amount of gold you obtain for slaying a champion decreased by 12.5%.
• Base health regeneration reduced by 10% for all champions.
• Monsters: all non-Epic monsters with 500+ HP given -20 Magic Resist (Spells now deal approximately 25% bonus damage).
• Siege Minions:
  • Red and Blue Cannons now have turret shield (receives 50% reduced damage from turrets).
  • Red and Blue Cannons now deal 100% bonus damage to turrets.

Patch History