June 26, 2009 Patch

June 26, 2009 Patch
Cho'Gath, the Black Terror & Amumu, the Sad Mummy
Release date (US)	June 26, 2009
Highlights & notes
New champions: Cho'Gath & Amumu New masteries
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Release Notes 6/26/2009
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• All Mastery Tree points have been refunded for this week due to Mastery Tree Changes.

League of Legends

英雄

Cho'Gath, the Black Terror

• Rupture: Cho'Gath causes the ground to rupture. After a short delay jagged spikes will emerge, popping enemies into the air, dealing damage and slowing them upon landing.
• Feral Scream: Cho'Gath lets out a terrifying cone based scream, damaging and silencing units who are hit.
• Vorpal Spikes: Passive: Cho'Gath's basic attacks send out spikes, impaling units behind his primary target.
• Feast (Ultimate): Cho'Gath attempts to consume an enemy whole, instantly killing it if it is below a Health threshold. Each time Cho'Gath successfully devours a unit he grows in size, gaining health and increasing the consume health threshold.
• Carnivore (Passive): Cho'Gath gains life upon killing units.

Amumu, the Sad Mummy

• Bandage Toss: Amumu sends out a sticky bandage, if it encounters an enemy unit it will damage and stun them while Amumu pulls himself to them.
• Despair Toggle Ability: Enemies within a short range of Amumu lose x% of their life each second.
• Tantrum: Passive/Active Ability: Permanently reduces physical damage dealt to Amumu. Additionally, upon being hit a number of times he can unleash his rage to deal magic damage to surrounding units.
• Curse of the Sad Mummy: (Ultimate) Amumu entangles surrounding units, dealing damage and causing them to be unable to move for a short duration.
• Cursed Touch: (Passive) Amumu's physical attacks reduce his target's Magic resist.

安妮

• Attack Speed reduced to be in line with other casters.
• Pyromania: stun duration modified to 1.75 from 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2/2.25/2.5 sec.

Ashe

• Changed Volley's cone to be locked to Ashe.

Evelynn

• Malice and Spite:
  • The Malice and Spite charge now only lasts three minutes.
  • Can now be cast while stealthed (without breaking it).
• Hate Spike:
  • Radius increased to 350 from 330.
  • Base damage modified to 30/50/70/90/110 from 25/50/75/100/125 .
  • Ability power ratio increased to 0.28 from 0.25.

Karthus

• Fallen One: now correctly shows buff tooltips.
• Defile: cooldown reduced to 0.5 from 1 sec.
• Wall of Pain: slow modified to 40/50/60/70/80% from 80%.

易

• Double Strike: proc chance reduced to 12% from 15%.

努努

• Absolute Zero: is now canceled upon casting Flash.
• Visionary: number of attacks to proc this effect reduced to 8 from 10.

Singed

• Poison Trail:
  • Mana cost per second increased to 13 from 10.
  • It will now apply slightly in front of him while not moving.
• Insanity Potion:
  • Bonus stats reduced to +30/50/70 from +30/55/80.
  • Duration reduced to 25 from 30 sec.

Sivir

• Fixed an issue with Spiral Blade that caused it to display the wrong ability power ratio in the tooltip.

Tristana

• Buster Shot: Ability power ratio reduced to 1.5 from 1.8.

Twisted Fate

• Gate: moving at the beginning and end of Gate no longer cancels the channel.

Twitch

• Ambush: 30% self slow removed.

Warwick

• Hungering Strike: cooldown modified to 12/11/10/9/8 from 12 seconds.
• Blood Scent: changed to be a pure passive: When an enemy below 66% health comes in range of Warwick, he gains incredibly heightened movement speed.

物品

• Elementium Threaded Cloak: Changed the name to Null-Magic Mantle
• Thornmail: Added back into the game!!!
• Vision Ward: Max Stacks increased to 3 from 1.
• Boots of Swiftness: combine cost increased to 700 from 570.
• Mercury's Treads: cost combine cost decreased to 600 from 700.
• Force of Nature:
  • Movement Speed reduced to 7% from 8%.
  • Health Regen reduced to 1% from 1.2%.
  • Health Regen proc reduced to 40% life from 50% life.
• Spirit Visage:
  • Combine cost increased to 650 from 550.
  • Health Regen reduced to 1% from 1.2%.
  • Health Regen proc reduced to 40% life from 50% life.
• Lich Bane:
  • Movement speed reduced to 7% from 8%.
  • Cost increased to 950 from 710.
  • Removed Amplifying Tome component (Ability Power reduced to 80 from 100).
  • Added Null-Magic Mantle component (Magic Resistance increased to 32 from 0).
• Amplifying Tome: Cost increased to 460 from 420.
• Blasting Wand: Cost increased to 880 from 800.
• Abyssal Scepter: Increased combine cost to 1050 from 1000.
• Archangel's Staff: Combine cost increased to 1050 from 1000.
• Sorcerer's Shoes: Combine cost increased to 140 from 125.
• Mejai's Soulstealer: Combine cost increased to 550 from 500.
• Sheen: Combine cost increased to 275 from 250.
• Zhonya's Ring: Combine cost increased to 1000 from 900.
• Kage's Lucky Pick: Combine cost increase to 380 from 360.
• Fiendish Codex: Combine cost increased to 420 from 390.
• Guardian Angel: Fixed a bug which caused it to proc more often than once every 5 minutes.

Summoners Spells

• Clairvoyance:
  • Cooldown reduced to 2 from 2.5 minutes.
• Flash: cancels channeled abilities upon casting (no more Absolute Zero hopping).
• Rally:
  • Armor reduced to 25 from 50.
  • Fixed a bug with Offensive mastery that gave Rally a bonus 50 seconds (it now gives it a bonus 5 seconds).

Mastery Trees

Offensive Tree

• Deadliness Deadliness - Increases critical strike chance by 0.66% per rank for 3 ranks.
• Cripple Cripple - Reduces armor and magic resistance by 25, and increases its duration by 0.5 seconds.
• Plentiful Bounty Plentiful Bounty - Increases the gold granted by Smite by 5, and reduces the cooldown by 5 seconds.
• Archmage's Savvy Archmage's Savvy - Increases the caster's ability power by 0.2/0.4/0.6 per level.
• Sorcery Sorcery - Reduces cooldowns of abilities by 0.75% per rank.
• Alacrity Alacrity - Increases attack speed by 1% per rank.
• Archaic Knowledge Archaic Knowledge - Grants 15% magic resistance penetration.
• Sunder Sunder - Physical attacks ignore 2 armor per rank.
• Offensive Mastery Offensive Mastery - Increases damage to minions and monsters by 2 per rank.
• Brute Force Brute Force - Increases physical damage dealt by 1 per rank.
• Master Taunter (Demolisher Demolisher) - Increases the armor of a promoted minion by 20, and reduces the cooldown of Promote by 15 seconds.
• Lethality Lethality - Increases critical strike damage by 3.33% per rank.
• Improved Rally Improved Rally - Increases the duration of rally by 5 seconds. Improved Rally also increases armor and magic damage by allies effected by Rally.
• Havoc Havoc - Increases damage dealt by 5%.

Defensive Tree

• Mender's Faith Mender's Faith - Increases the amount healed from Summoner Heal by 75, and reduces the cooldown by 10 seconds.
• Resistance Resistance - Increases magic resistance by 2 per rank.
• Preservation Preservation - Reduces the cooldown of Revive by 20 seconds, and upon resurrection the revived player has their health increased by 400 temporarily.
• Hardiness Hardiness - Increases armor by 2 per rank.
• Strength of Spirit Strength of Spirit - Increases health regeneration by 0.1%/0.2%/0.3% of your maximum mana.
• Evasion Evasion - Increases dodge chance by 0.5% per rank.
• Defensive Mastery Defensive Mastery - Reduces damage from minions and monsters by 1 per rank.
• Nimbleness Nimbleness - On a successful dodge, your movement speed is increased by 10% for 5 seconds.
• Harden Skin Harden Skin - Reduces damage received by 1 per rank.
• Veteran's Scars Veteran's Scars - Increases health by 15 per rank.
• Willpower Willpower - Increases the duration of Boost by 2 seconds, and reduces the cooldown by 30.
• Ardor Ardor - Increases attack speed and ability power by 0.66% per rank, and an additional 0.66% at level 18, which increases as your champion levels, per rank. (i.e. 2%->4% with 3 ranks)
• Reinforce Reinforce - While Fortify is able to be activated, increases damage to minions and monsters by 6. In addition, increases the armor of turrets for 10 seconds after the invulnerability fades.
• Tenacity (mastery) Tenacity - Reduces damage received by 5%.

Utility Tree

• Spatial Accuracy Spatial Accuracy - Reduces the cast time of Teleport by 0.5 seconds, and reduces the cooldown of Teleport by 5 seconds.
• Good Hands Good Hands - Reduces time spent dead by 3.33% per rank.
• Perseverance Perseverance - Increases health and mana regeneration by 2% per rank.
• Haste Haste - Increases the movement speed bonus of Ghost by 8%, and increases the duration by 1.5 seconds.
• Awareness Awareness - Increases experience gained by 1.25% per rank.
• Expanded Mind Expanded Mind - Increases your maximum mana pool by 1.25% per rank.
• Greed Greed - Grants 1 gold every 10 seconds for the game.
• Meditation Meditation - Grants .33/.66/1 mana regeneration per second.
• Utility Mastery (mastery) Utility Mastery - Increases the duration of buffs from monsters by 15% per rank.
• Quickness Quickness - Increases movement speed by 1% per rank.
• Blink of an Eye Blink of an Eye - Reduces the cooldown of Flash by 15 seconds.
• Intelligence Intelligence - Reduces cooldowns by 2% per rank.
• Mystical Vision Mystical Vision - Increases the duration of Clairvoyance by 15 seconds. In addition, the first 15 seconds of Clairvoyance grant stealth detection.
• Presence of the Master Presence of the Master - Reduces summoner ability cooldowns by 15%.
• Other
• Expanded Mind Expanded Mind and Intelligence Intelligence are no longer linked.
• Hardiness Hardiness, Brute Force Brute Force, and Meditation Meditation have one less rank.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed grammatical errors with a few Tooltips.
• Fixed all issues relating to neutral minion tooltips.
• Fixed some bugs with cone targeting. It should feel a lot better now.
• Fixed a bug where Teemo's passive and Singed's Poison Trail were leaving dots on the minimap.
• Fixed a bug where stealth units would become visible when they weren’t suppose to.
• Fixed various crash bugs.
• Increased performance on low performance settings by disabling aggro unit highlighting.
• Fixed a bug where the wrong sound played when you got hit by a spell.
• Fixed a bug where Enchanted Crystal Arrow targeting was erratic at close range.
• Fixed a bug where pixels aspect ratio did not properly change when changing the resolution from normal to widescreen and vice versa.
• Fixed a bug with order queuing.
• Fixed a bug where you could channel spells through death.
• Fixed white flash that appears on summoner items on the loading screen.
• Fixed flash of bad summoner level numbers that appear on loading screen.
• Load screen now shows users name before they connect.
• Fixed a problem with buffs sometimes showing up when they shouldn’t.
• Fixed a pathing problem that would cause pathing to stop if you clicked along the edge of the map.
• Fixed a bug so you should no longer cast on dead units.
• Added a check at the end of spell casts so you can no longer cast on units that get out of range (unless the spell already launched and projectile is in motion)

Turrets

• Turret health is now dependent on the number of players in the game (it is now 1200/1500/1800/2100/2400/2700), previously it was 2800.
• Now gain 10% attack speed and 10 Armor for each nearby friendly champion (from 25 Armor).
• Damage gain per minute increased to 6 from 5.
• Armor gain per minute decreased to 2.5 from 3.
• Outer Turrets now scale for only 5 minutes (down from 10 minutes).
• Inhibitor Turrets now scale for up to 40 minutes (up from 30 minutes).
• Anti Backdooring: Turrets now have +100 Armor and Magic Resist if there are no enemy minions within 800 distance of the turret.
• Game Ending Change: After a period of time, turrets begin to degenerate their armor (to speed up the game).
• Inner turrets start off the game with 7 minutes worth of updates (17.5 Armor and 42 Damage) (but do not start increasing stats for 7 minutes).
• Inhibitor turrets start off the game with 12 minutes worth of updates (30 Armor and 72 Damage) (but do not start increasing stats for 12 minutes).

General

• Spell Shield, Banshee's Veil, and Boost no longer get consumed by autoattack abilities like Frost Shot or Toxic Shot.
• Changed the way negative Armor and negative Magic Resist are calculated to make them less painful.
• Updated items 'builds into' section.
• Super Minions: Now do 75% reduced damage to Inhibitors and HQs.
• Added friendly/enemy tooltips to sight ward and rally.
• Updated tooltips to Super Minions.
• Stealth units now have a smooth fade.
• Added Alt+Enter for fullscreen/window toggling.
• Reduced the bandwidth required a little (Should help a bit with lag).
• Changed the Particle System (please be on the look out and immediately report if you see any green spheres in the game.)

Patch History