Wild Rift Patch 2.3a: Full Notes and Updates

League of Legends: Wild Rift Patch 2.3a has finally been released with a heavy focus on a summer season theme. Among the events in the patch update is the Pool Party event, with collectibles like emotes and bubbles themed to the summer season. The Wild Rift 2.3a update also brings a number of balance changes for champions, items, and summoner spells as well as a few bug fixes. In addition, a few small changes have been made to the jungle lane that will speed up the process of clearing certain jungle creeps. Detailed information about what content is included in Wild Rift Patch 2.3a can be found underneath.

Wild Rift Patch 2.3a: New Contents

New Skins

The new pool party skins will be released on June 17, 2021, at 12:01 AM UTC.

• Pool Party Fiora

• Pool Party Lee Sin

• Pool Party Leona

• Pool Party Lulu

• Pool Party Orianna

• Pool Party Renekton

Another skin will also be released on June 24, 2021, at 12:01 AM UTC.

• Galaxy Slayer Zed

New Accessories

Emotes: I’m On Duty, Mullet Over, Too Cool For Pool

Icons: Sun’s Out Guns Out

These accessories will be released throughout the Wild Rift Patch 2.3a Update.

New Event: Pool Party

The event will kick off on June 17, 2021, at 12:01 AM. More details will be revealed at a later date.

Wild Rift Patch 2.3a: Champion Changes

Ahri

Ahri has been one of the best mages in the game due to her utility and burst damage. The devs are lowering her durability to compensate for her burst damage.

Base Stats

• Base Armor: 35 → 30

Evelynn

Evelyn’s a beast when it comes to stealing jungle objectives. To prevent her from easily stealing objectives, her ultimate will now only damage champions.

Ultimate: Last Caress

• [NEW] 250% execute damage now only applies to champions

Janna

Her second skill proved to be way too powerful as a support champion. The devs are tuning it down.

2nd Skill: Zephyr

• Base Damage: 65/125/185/245 → 55/105/155/205

Katarina

The devs have noticed that her win rate has been skyrocketing in an unusual way. The devs are toning down her kit to keep her from snowballing too much and open up the possibility of counterplay.

Passive: Voracity

• AP Ratio: 0.58 - 1.0 based on level → 0.48 - 0.9 based on level

Ultimate: Death Lotus

• [NEW] Now sets Katarina’s base movement speed to 125 when spinning instead of being treated as a slow that could be reduced by slow resistance

Leona

Despite the recent buffs, Leona is still having a hard time keeping up with the meta. The devs are giving her one more buff in her engage skill.

3rd Skill: Zenith Blade

• Range: 7.5 → 8

Wukong

The monkey king is having a hard time playing in different lanes other than the jungle. The devs are buffing up his utility to help him survive the laning phase.

1st Skill: Crushing Blow

• Healing when hitting minions: 50% → 80%

Xin Zhao

After the recent adjustments to Xin Zhao, he has lost her footing as the jungler. The devs are buffing her up a bit to help him keep up.

Base Stats

• Magic Resist: 30 → 38

• Health Gained per Level-Up: 105 → 115

• Health at Level 15: 2120 → 2260

Wild Rift Patch 2.3a: Gameplay Changes

Items

Bami’s Cinder

• Minion and monster damage modification: 50% → 25%

Sunfire Aegis

• Minion and monster damage modification: 50% → 25%

Winter’s Approach

Passive: Mana Charge

• Mana granted: 8 → 12

Summoner Spells

Ignite

• Cast Range: 5.5 → 6

Smite

• [NEW] Passive: Restores 4 mana per second while in the jungle or river

System

Outer Tower Gold

The devs are re-balancing outer tower gold distribution to be focused on local gold rather than global gold.

• Gold per plate: 100g → 150g

• Global gold on destruction: 150g → 100g

Jungle

A few jungle creeps will receive slight adjustments to help clear them faster.

Gromp

• Health: 2500 → 2200

Krugs

• Ancient Krug Health: 1600 → 1200

• Krug Health: 600 → 500

Wild Rift Patch 2.3a: Bug Fix

• Fixed a bug regarding champion points. Now, when players reach their champion points limit for their rank, they will neither lose nor gain points after winning a game.

Wild Rift Patch 2.3a: Free-to-Play Champion Rotation

Jun 17 - Jun 23: Alistar, Diana, Draven, Ezreal, Irelia, Orianna, Rammus, Riven, Soraka, Xin Zhao

Jun 24 - Jun 30: Braum, Corki, Darius, Evelynn, Katarina, Kha'Zix, Leona, Malphite, Seraphine, Xayah