guilhem | missing korea

Patch 26.23 Full Preview! Cyclosword - We considered going harder on the item here, but feel like it's not that far off - Items like this (especially 1st item spikes) need to be on the stronger side in order for Assassin classes to spike hard relative to some of the more scaling classes Syndra - The adjustments to Syndra for this patch are to make Syndra have more opportunities to be aggressed on by opponents, especially when maxing W second (and therefore keeping E at rank 1) Annie - An interesting buff to Tibbers HP that also hopefully enables some cool builds in ARAM as well Azir - This set of changes is aimed at making Azir's interactions with on-hits like Nashors/Lethal Tempo stronger - This is especially true because PTA is now picking up as a lot of popularity and Lethal Tempo is considered a bit weaker for many players - The 525 AA range on Azir also often results in him walking up and getting himself damaged, or sometimes killed (especially in laning phase) for lower mastery Azir players - So we're upping this range to make him more comfortable to play Ezreal - Ezreal W is a spell that regular players get a lot more value out of (they are more reliably able to land WQ's on opponents in particular) that Mel - We've been looking at where we should buff Mel after observing the way the mini-rework has played out - We're putting more power into her scaling W rank-up (last max) - And also power into the Q as we don't want to buff her in bot lane relatively or buff her E max K'Sante - W is K'Sante's second max in many cases and so we're giving power back here, given that this ability has clearer signaling - W is also more regular skewed as higher skilled players are more likely to dodge K'Sante's W's in both forms Akshan - We pulled Akshan from the patch because the change we wanted to make wasn't able to be put in in time