League of Legends 13.16 Patch Notes In the Riot Games offices it's all about adjustments and the flavor of League of Legends 13.16 Patch leans towards that: more Caitlyn buffs, a shocking Naafiri backflip, and Draktharr's Duskblade after his power slowly starts bleeding into unexpected places. one move to hit the lair.
The third update until the Worlds patch, this League update includes 10 buffs and five nerfs for characters, as well as half a dozen more item changes.
As I mentioned earlier, there is one distinctive feature that I have my eye on: flashbacks. Riot balance boss Matt Leung-Harrison admitted that the team has "overpowered" several champions in recent patches, and many of these wrong picks will now have their powers back. Alongside these comebacks, the devs are applying more debuffs to the new champion Naafiri after they say otherwise.
Apart from the balance changes, Riot is bringing back the famous Immortal Journey universe with six more skins, but that's not all rosy, and like many others, I was shocked by their choice to drop the unique titles here.
But before these details, we need to update our calendars.
When will League of Legends Patch 13.16 be released?
The countdown continues for the next August update, and we're less than two weeks away from getting our hands on the next round of changes. Featuring nearly two dozen changes to League's champion roster and item catalog League Patch 13.16 will go live on Wednesday, August 16.
Here are all the important patch times:
- 3am P.T. (NA)
- 5am GMT (EU West)
- 3am CET (EU North East)
- 8am KR (Korea)
And here's a countdown for all visual learners:
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Countdown to Live
Expect a few hours of server downtime as the patch begins to prepare. Matchmaking will be disabled in all League ranks three hours before the update is officially released.
What's in League of Legends Patch 13.16?
More Naafiri debuffs despite Riot's promise
Last cycle, Riot developers suggested that Naafiri has been weakened enough for now, after being hit several times after release. But that turned out not to be quite true, and the League's newest dog has been blasted with further mitigation in this August update, at least in the PBE testing phase.
Duskblade makes power picks too strong
Riot will also strip some of the power of Draktharr's Twilight Blade to indirectly weaken non-assassins like Illaoi, Aatrox, and Yorick who have recently taken advantage of the AD item's power.
“We are reducing its strength and upgrading some other weak elements in the assassin system [to compensate for this],” Leung-Harrison explained.
Items empowered by Duskblade's debuffs include Axiom Arc, Serpent's Fang, Prowler's Claw, and Umbral Glaive.
Immortal Journey costumes became uniform
Riot is returning to one of League's parallel universes with this update, and includes variants for the old Eternal Journey skin lineup for Kayle, Shyvana, Sona (which also gets a fancy Prestige skin version in the Mythic Shop), Soraka, Zeri, and Zed. added seven more costumes.
I'm sure you remember that prior to these skins, the Immortal series had unique titles like God Fist, Majestic Empress, and Valiant Sword, but the developers didn't do that this time around - a rather disappointing choice in my opinion.
Here are all the skins coming with this patch:
- Immortal Journey Kayle (1,350 RP)
- Immortal Journey Shyvana (1,350 RP)
- End of Immortal Journey (1,350 RP)
- Prestige Immortal Journey Sona (125 Mythic Essence)
- Immortal Journey Soraka (1,820 RP)
- Immortal Journey Zed (1,350 RP)
- Immortal Journey Zeri (1,350 RP)
These skins will go live during the 13.16 Patch cycle.
I've put together all the early League patch notes for the August 16 update below. Remember, until Riot releases the official notes, any of these buffs, debuffs, and changes are still very temporary and we could see them retract at any time.
League 13.16 Patch patch notes
Champions
buffs
- Sounds
- Lucian
- Lulu
- Karma
- Caitlyn
- Wukong
- Brand
- Akali
- Echo
- sylas
nerfs
- Rek'Sai
- shaco
- naafir
- shyvana
- Tristana
Items
buffs
- Axiom Arc
- Serpent's Fang
- Prowler's Claw
- Umbral Glaive
nerfs
- Draktharr's Duskblade
skins
- Immortal Journey Kayle
- Immortal Journey Shyvana
- End of the Immortal Journey
- Immortal Journey Soraka
- Immortal Journey Zed
- Immortal Journey Zeri
- Prestige Immortal Journey to the End
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