Patch 13.1B Hero Changes: Riot Games Kill Imba

On January 12, a new competitive season started in the League of Legends. Together with him, the first fresh patch was released in the game - 13.1.

Two weeks later, Riot Games is releasing an additional balance update. Subtitled 13.1B, the patch is intended to address a lingering issue of nerfing overpowered characters and giving other champions a chance to shine.

List of League of Legends changes in patch 13.1B

10 characters went under the knife in patch 13.1B, making it one of the biggest updates in the last few months. Improvements were received by 3 heroes.

Gangplank

Reduced the attack power gain and additional damage of the Powder Keg on critical hits

powder keg

Bonus damage on critical hits reduced from 10% to 5%

Heimerdinger

Reduced the health of the Evolving H-28G Turret and the damage from Hextech Micro Missiles.

Evolving H-28G Turret

• Turret Health: 175-700 (based on level) (+5-40% (based on level) AP) - 130-640 (based on level) (+5-45% (based on level)) on skill power)

Hextech Micro Missiles

• Starting Magic Damage: 50/75/100/125/150 (+45% AP) – 40/65/90/115/140 (+55% AP)

Kassadin

Increased the cooldown of Force Burst.

Force release

• Cooldown: 21/19/17/15/13 seconds - 21/20/19/18/17 seconds

Kindred

Reduced the base damage of Dance of Death .

Arrow dance

• Physical Damage: 60/85/110/135/160 (+75% bonus AD) – 50/75/100/125/150 (+75% bonus AD)

lillia

Dream Staff (Passive) AP damage ratio increased. Nature Strike's ability power damage ratio has been increased. Whirlwind Seed's ability power damage ratio has been increased, and its cooldown now scales with skill level.

Dream Staff (Passive)

• Magic Damage: 5% (+1.2% per 100 ability power) of the target's maximum health – 5% (+1.5% per 100 ability power) of the target's maximum health

blow of nature

• Magic Damage: 35/45/55/65/75 (+40% AP) – 35/45/55/65/75 (+45% AP)
• Pure Outer Damage: 35/45/55/65/75 (+40% AP) – 35/45/55/65/75 (+45% AP)

whirlwind seed

• Magic Damage: 70/95/120/145/170 (+45% AP) – 70/95/120/145/170 (+60% AP)
• Cooldown: 16 seconds at all skill levels - 14 seconds

Lucian

Base stats reworked:

• Mana: 349 - 320
• Mana Growth: 38 - 43
• Mana Regen: 8.18 - 7
• Mana Regen Growth: 0.7 – 0.8

Maokai

Reduced the extra damage dealt to monsters with Thorn Strike and reduced the damage from Sapling Throw.

Thorn strike

• Extra damage to monsters: 120/140/160/180/200 – 100/120/140/160/18

sapling toss

• Magic Damage: 55/80/105/130/155 (+6% bonus health) (+40% ability power) – 55/80/105/130/155 (+5% bonus health) (+35% from skill power)
• Empowered Sapling Magic Damage: 110/160/210/260/310 (+12% bonus health) (+80% AP) – 110/160/210/260/310 (+10% bonus health) (+ 70% of ability power)

Us

Ebb and flow changed. Blessing of the Seamistress base damage reduced.

Ebb and flow

• Magic Damage: 70/110/150/190/230 (+50% AP) – 60/100/140/180/220 (+55% AP)

Blessing of the Lady of the Seas

• Bonus Magic Damage on Hit: 25/40/55/70/85 (+20% AP) – 20/35/50/65/80 (+20% AP)

Orianna

The damage of the Spring Mechanism (passive skill) has been changed. Command Damage: Attack to additional targets increased. The mana cost of Order: Dissonance has been reduced. Command Damage: Shockwave increased.

Spring mechanism (passive skill)

• Tick-tock: 10-50 (at levels 1, 4, 7, 10, 13 and 16) - 10-50 (at levels 1-18)

Order: Attack

• Damage reduction when the ball passes: the ball deals 100% damage to the first enemy hit and 10% less damage to each subsequent - the ball deals 100% damage to the first enemy hit and 70% damage to each subsequent

Command: Dissonance

• Mana cost: 70/80/90/100/110 – 70/75/80/85/90

Order: Shockwave

• Magic Damage: 200/275/350 (+80% AP) – 250/350/450 (+90% AP)

Rise

Magic resistance is reduced. Arcane Knowledge (passive skill) damage ratio from ability power has been reduced.

Main characteristics

• Magic Resistance: 36 – 32

Arcane Knowledge (Passive Skill)

• Max Mana Increase: 10% per 100 Ability Power – 6% per 100 Ability Power.

Udyr

Wildclaw's attack power damage ratio has been reduced, and its attack speed has been increased. Vicious Blizzard base damage reduced.

wild claw

• Bonus Physical Damage: 3/4/5/6/7/8% (+5% per 100 bonus AD) – 3/4/5/6/7/8% (+4% per 100 bonus AD))
• Bonus Attack Speed: 20/30/40/50/60/70% - 20/32/44/56/68/80%

Fierce blizzard

• Base damage per proc: 10/20/30/40/50/60 – 10/19/28/37/46/55

Yumi

Attack range reduced. Defensive Bounce (Passive) now temporarily increases attack range.

Main characteristics

• Attack Range: 500 – 425
• Attack Power: 55 - 49
• Health: 550 – 500
• Health Recovery: 7 - 5

Defensive Leap (Passive)

• Attack Range: Basic Attacks supported by Defensive Bounce (Passive) now have an additional 25 range.
• Shield Durability: 60-380 (based on level) - 45-300 (based on level)

You and me!

• Adaptive Strength: 12-20 (+12-20%) - 12-20 (+6-10%)

Zoe

Quiet Hour now reduces the target's magic resistance when they fall asleep.

Quiet time

• Even Quieter: Enemies who fall asleep during Zoe's Quiet Hour now have their magic resistance reduced by 20/22.5/25/27.5/30%. (Note: the debuff disappears when the target wakes up.)

Patch 13.1B is due for release on the game's live servers, according to the plan, it should be released on January 26, however, there may be difficulties with the release. Recently, Riot Games has been subjected to a powerful hacker attack, which may lead to difficulties in the implementation of the intended.