Riot Dev Explains New Items in Wild Rift Patch 2.6

Riot Games have revealed more details regarding the new items coming to League of Legends: Wild Rift Patch 2.6. The upcoming patch update will deliver the four new items - Banshee’s Veil, Edge of Night, Hextech Megadrive, and Ixtali Seedjar. According to the game designer at Wild Rift Mike “RogueFool” Breese, the new items for Wild Rift Patch 2.6 are focused on providing spell shields and enhancements for support champions. These new items should add more diversity to the item pools of various champions who are having a hard time surviving burst damage. Support champions will also have much more impact and flexibility in matches when the Wild Rift Patch 2.6 drops.

Wild Rift Patch 2.6: New Itemization Improvements

Riot Games have delivered a sneak peek at the new itemization options for Wild Rift in the upcoming major patch update. The two new items Banshee’s Veil and Edge of Night will provide champions with a spell shield that completely blocks the next ability that hits them. The other two items Hextech Megadrive and Ixtali Seedjar will provide support champions with more utility to use to their advantage.

Here are the new items and changes that we can expect in the Wild Rift Patch 2.6;

Banshee’s Veil

This new item provides a bit of ability power and magic resistance with the added bonus of having a Spell Shield buff. This makes it great for protecting yourself against an enemy’s burst combo or avoiding some key crowd control.

• Total Cost: 3000g

  • Builds from Needlessly Large Rod (1440g) + Negatron Cloak (900g) + 660g

• 70 Ability Power

• 40 Magic Resist

• 10 Ability Haste

• Unique Passive - Annul: Grants a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability.

Edge of Night

An alternate version of the Banshee’s Veil. This item is better suited for assassins or champions who are aiming for more Armor Penetration with a Spell Shield buff.

• Total Cost: 3000g

• Builds from Serrated Dirk (1000g) + Jaurim’s Fist (1200g) + 800g

• 250 Health

• 50 Attack Damage

• Unique Passive - Annul: Grants a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability.

• Passive - Gouge: 10 Armor Penetration

Hextech Megadrive

This item reduces your active item’s cooldowns when healing or shielding allies or immobilizing opponents.

• Total Cost: 2700g

• Builds from Lost Chapter (1050g) + Giant’s Belt (1000g) + 650g

• 300 Health

• 200 Mana

• 35 Ability Power

• 15 Ability Haste

• Unique Passive - Tinker: Reduces the cooldown of your active items by 10% (5-second cooldown) when healing and shielding your allies, and by 15% (no cooldown) when immobilizing your enemies.

Ixtali Seedjar

This new item allows you to collect seeds from various plants around the map. These plants can then be planted which gives the same benefits based on the seed when used. Support players can set up game-changing plays for their allies whether it be a clutch Honeyfruit heal for your allies, a Scryer’s Bloom to help secure a dragon, or by leaping over a wall with your very own Blast Cone.

• Total Cost: 2500g

• Builds from Chain Vest (900g) + Negatron Cloak (900g) + 700g

• 45 Armor

• 45 Magic Resist

• Unique Passive - Propagation: When you or an ally hit a nearby plant, it drops a seed that only you can see. You can pick up and replant that seed at any location on the map.

• Passive- Spring: 5% movement speed

According to RogueFool, these new items will be monitored and may receive changes depending on how they perform in casual and competitive matches. It will be interesting to see how these new items shake up the meta in Wild Rift.

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