May 1, 2009 Patch

May 1, 2009 Patch
Evelynn, The Widowmaker Twitch, The Plague Rat Tryndamere, The Barbarian King
Release date (US)	May 1, 2009
Highlights & notes
New Champions: Evelynn, Twitch, Tryndamere Champion Remake: Tristana
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Release Notes 05/01/09
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PVP.net

• New End of Game Screen
• Can now play 5v5 matches again in Practice games.

League of Legends

英雄

• New Champion: Evelynn, The Widowmaker.
• New Champion: Twitch, The Plague Rat.
• New Champion: Tryndamere, The Barbarian King.

REWORKED Tristana

• Removed Ability: Rending Shot.
• NEW ABILITY Rocket Jump: Tristana jumps to a distant location, slowing and damaging surrounding targets upon landing.
• Moved Tristana's true passive with her leveling passive. She will now gain attack range passively with her level, and she can spend points in order to deal more damage to surrounding units when she deals the killing blow.

Ashe

• Frost Shot: slow reduced to 10/17/24/31/38% from 10/18/26/34/42%.

Chronokeeper

• Time Bomb: ability power ratio increased to 1.1 from 0.75.
• Chrono Shift Chrono Shift:
  • Fixed bugs which caused champions to die regardless of having the Chrono Shift buff.
  • No longer removes positive buffs on revival (such as Elixers).

Fiddlesticks

• Drain: damage type updated, it should now be back to its power level of a week ago.

Judicator

• Made Divine Blessing instant cast.
• Reckoning: Slow/Stun duration reduced to 4 seconds from 5 seconds.

Minotaur

• Unbreakable Will: duration reduced to 8/12/16 from 10/15/20.

Singe

• Stats: base HP reduced to 465 from 565 (Note: Singe's health is further increased by his passive).
• Poison Trail: damage per second reduced to 18/27/36/45/54 from 20/30/40/50/60.
• Mega Adhesive: casting time reduced.

Sivir:

• Ricochet:
  • Mana cost per attack increased to 6 from 4.
  • Damage type changed to physical (it used to cut through armor, it no longer does this).

提莫

• Blinding Dart:
  • Mechanics changed to the target has a 100% miss chance for 2/2.5/3/3.5/4 seconds from target champion misses his next 1/2/3/4/5 attacks.
  • Mana cost modified to 70/85/100/115/130 from 65/85/105/125/145.
  • Cooldown reduced to 11 seconds from 12 seconds.
• Bantam Trap:
  • Damage reduced to 350/500/650 from 375/550/750.
  • New particle added to detonation.
• Stats: health gain per level reduced to 74 from 84.

Yeti

• Absolute Zero: Fixed cooldown in tooltip, added cooldown to level up section.

Summoner Spells

• Boost: cooldown reduced to 90 from 180 seconds (Known issue - it doesn't break stuns, fears, or silences).
• Flash: cast time reduced to 0.5 from 0.75 secs.
• Ghost: duration reduced to 12 from 15 seconds.
• Haste Haste: movement speed bonus reduced to +8% from +10%.

物品

• Archangel's Staff:
  • Now gains bonus ability power based on Max Mana (instead of current mana).
  • Tool-tip updated to make more sense.
  • Mana gain is now Unique.
• Last Whisper:
  • Functionality changed to a "35% chance on hit to deal 1 Magic Damage for each point of Armor the target has" from a 50% chance to ignore all of the target's armor.
  • Recipe cost increased to 750 from 600.
• Soul Shroud:
  • Removed the bonus 50 Ability Power that it was accidentally giving.
  • Buff icon updated.
• Spirit Visage: recipe cost increased to 700 from 500.
• Sunfire Cape:
  • Recipe cost increased to 800 from 600.
  • AoE damage decreased to 40 from 50.
• Tiamat: recipe cost increased to 400 from 200.

Neutral Minions

• Wolf and Giant Wolf:
  • Critical strike chance reduced to 25% from 33%.
  • Attack speed reduced.

Bugs

• Fixed lua error with Relentless Assault.
• Fixed lua errors from Unused Items.
• Fixed tooltips giving incorrect values.
• Black Shield and Unbreakable Will no longer proc taking damage from Time Bomb.
• Fixed errant bugs having to deal with True Damage.

Miscellaneous

• Misc Tooltip fixes.
• ADDED a Shrine Turret: Updated Shrine Turret stats (it is VERY deadly now).
• Updated a few spell tooltips to be updated by cooldown reduction items.
• Destroying a dampener no longer causes the enemy team to gain less experience / gold from minion kills.
• Duration between Minion upgrades increased to 200 from 180.
• Health and Mana Regeneration at the shrine increased to 7.5% per second from 6.5% per second.
• Damage minions deal to champions increased to 60% from 50%.
• Minion Gold bounty now caps after 30 minutes (10 upgrades).
• Kill Streak Bonus:
  • Decreased Bonus on killing a champion on a kill streak decreased to 0.25 from 0.3 per rank of the kill streak.
  • Cap reduced to 8 from 10 kills.
• Death Streak Reduction:
  • Reduction on kill of a unit on a Death streak decreased to 0.25 from 0.3 per rank of the death streak.
  • Cap reduced to 40% from 30% of a champion kill.
• ADDED: First Blood gold bonus (100 gold).

Art

• New Melee and Range Minions for both Blue and Red Teams.
• New Stun Particle.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where a queued ability would fail to execute if you toggled another ability on.
• Fixed a bug where buffs were not appearing correctly for units popping in and out of Fog of War.
• Next Level tooltips no longer round numbers to the nearest whole but show decimals correctly.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes a unit would pop after leaving fog of war.
• Fixed a bug where particles would get emitted from a units last known position when they are in Fog of War.
• Fixed a compatibility issue with Nvidia FX 5200 cards.
• Fixed a compatibility issue with Integrated Intel GPUs.
• Fixed various Server Crashes.
• Fixed a bug where you could upgrade a spell passed its current cap when under mid to heavy latency.
• Fixed a bug where the enter key of the numpad did not work with in game chat.

Hud

• Added a "Focus Target" ping system. You can ping an enemy to put a marker over their head to tell your teammates to attack them. You can ping a defensive structure to tell your teammates to defend it. (work in progress)
• New messages for why you cant cast spells (out of mana, on cooldown,etc).

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