[2024] 14.5 Patch Preview

14.5!

We're pulling runaans and Galio from the patch due to some unforseen issues

Items

• Passes this patch to bring some items up to viability (sunfire, heartsteel, dream maker, celestial)

• we're still undecided on navori

• we're also throwing in some minor changes to Lich bane, rocketbelt and Stormsurge to balance these sub ecosystems

• Sleigh was over buffed and FH is a little too cheap for how strong it is right now

Jarvan

• he's struggled to keep up after Shojin changes.

Rhaast

• he's both struggling and buying glass cannon builds

• looking to bring him back onto some less squishy builds

Kog, Sivir

• both of these Champs have been sad for a while.

• kog didn't benefit from terminus buffs much as he builds it later

TF

• we didn't go hard enough last patch trying to strike the fine line between not over nerfing AP TF who is less powerful

• trying to find the set of changes that thread the needle between the 3 roles he's being played in right now at various skill brackets

• intention is to keep AD TF good, but not overly so

Vayne, Senna

• senna is performing too well in both pro and solo q (especially the adc role)

• vayne is performing well in both top and adc and has been on the strong side for a while (but not strong enough to be explicitly nerfed), so we're nerfing her for staleness

Reksai

• following up on her weak release from this patch, continuing to fix a bunch of her bugs

Veigar, vex

• these v mages have both been on the weak side for a while

• for veigar, everfrost loss has been pretty sad so we're giving him some love

• vex has been sad after the durability increases recently as she's struggling to reset (14.2 especially), so bringing her up a bit

Wukong

• our changes recently didn't quite hit the mark, so we're taking a second look at his top without buffing jungle too much

Brand, Evelynn, Nidalee

• brand and Evelynn have both been strong and stale for a while (Evelynn more so).

• for one of the sharpest mastery curve champions in the game, Evelynn should probably live a little lower

• nidalee was a bit over buffed in our recent changes

Zac

• top has been picking up popularity, is strong in lower mmrs and with the buffs to sunfire is likely to go over the top

• tapping down his top while trying to go neutral on jungle

Belveth

• another higher than expected mastery champion sitting over average winrate means she's probably a bit stronger than she should be. Tapping her down slightly with both a power impacting bugfix and a nerf

Seraphine

• trying to correct how powerful her bot is which has been exacerbated with the 14.2 changes

Smolder

• smolder has been really popular and about balanced. We're not looking to reshape him significantly, but reduce how effective his tankier builds are, make his e matter more and increasing the sweet spot and heal on the ultimate so they matter

Yorick

• he gained a bit too much from our previous changes, looking to bring him down a bit while reducing how effective aoe vs single target damage is against maiden

Maokai

• our nerfs last patch didn't land, because solstice also overshot a bit

• bringing sleigh down and nerfing Mao a bit each (both are quite over)

ARAM

• buffs to nasus, Mundo, camille, naafiri

• nerfs to renekton illaoi, Zac (nerfed a little less, due to SR nerf), lulu, karma

• https://twitter.com/RiotPhroxzon/status/1762344326116622617

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