League of Legends Patch 11.25 Notes: First Strike Changes, Debonair Skins, and More

League of Legends patch 11.25 is finally here and we have our final major balance patch for the year. There are some major champion changes including tweaks to Lux, Vayne, Gwen, and other popular champions. A lot of players already experienced the changes in the public beta environment and Riot has thrown in a lot of new cosmetics, system updates, and more. Here is everything you need to know about the new update.

League of Legends Patch 11.25: Balance Changes

Kai’Sa is one of the biggest winners of patch 11.25 with her getting a huge boost while Gwen gets a boost on her health pool which should help with her survivability.

Champions

Gwen

• Base health 550 to 590.

Olaf

• Passive max attack speed 75% to 100%.

Kai’Sa

• Passive on-hit damage 4-10 (+1-5) (+10-20% ability power) to 4-16 (+1-8) (+15-25% ability power)

• Q damage ratio 40% bonus attack damage to 50% bonus attack damage.

• W evolved cooldown refund 70% to 77%.

Varus

• Passive attack speed duration 5s to 5-11 (levels 1-16).

• W on-hit damage 7-11 (+25% ability power) to 7-15 (+30% ability power).

• W stack damage ratio (+2% per 100 ability power) target’s max health to (+2.5% per 100 ability power) target’s max health.

Pyke

• Passive ally regen 35% to 40%.

• Q damage 85-285 to 100-300.

Dr. Mundo

• Health regen 8 to 6.5

• Q minimum damage 80-300 to 80-280.

Kassadin

• Passive magic damage reduction 15% to 10%.

• W bonus damage 70-170 to 50-150.

Lux

• Q cooldown 11-9 to 11 at all ranks.

• Q base damage 80-260 to 80-240.

Vayne

• R bonus attack damage 35-65 to 25-55.

Talon

• W monster mod 150% to 130%.

Runes

Glacial Augment

• Heal and shield ratio 7% (per 10% health and shield power) to 9% (per 10% heal and shield power).

First Strike

• Damage bonus 10% to 9%.

League of Legends Patch 11.25: Debonair Skins

There are three new skins that have been added to the game with Ekko getting his ‘Arcane’ skin based on the Netflix TV series. Rek’Sai and Gnar received Elderwood skins. Each of the skins is priced at 1350 RP ($10).

• Arcane Ekko — 1350RP

• Elderwood Rek’Sai — 1350RP

• Elderwood Gnar — 1350RP

There will be no more updates to League of Legends this year and Riot Games will start off with patch 12.1 on 5th January 2022. An Udyr visual and graphics update and new champion are expected “very early” next year.

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