The Bees Knees

League of Legends next update, patch 12.9, arrives in mid-May.

The most recent patch changed a number of champions, buffing 14 of them with only a few nerfs.

As the next update looms, new High Noon themed skins will also be introduced into the game.

Here’s what’s new in update 12.9 for LoL.

Release Date

The 12.9 update will arrive in League of Legends on Wednesday 11th April 2022.

Here’s roughly when you can expect the update to roll out:

  • 3 am PT (NA servers)
  • 5 am GMT (EUW servers)
  • 3 am CET (EUNE servers)
Champion Updates

Champion Buffs

  • Hecarim
    • Q
      • bAD Ratio: 85%>90%
    • W
      • Cooldown: 18>14
  • Varus
    • P
      • Minion AS: 10/15/20 (+15% bonus AS)>10/15/20 (+20% bonus AS)
      • Champ AS: 40% (+30% bonus AS)>40 (+40% bonus AS)
    • W
      • On- Hit: 7-21 (+30% AP)>7-27 (+30% AP)
  • Braum
    • P
      • Target CD: 8-6>8-4 (level 1, 7, 13)
    • E
      • Damage reduction: 30-40%>35-55%
  • Thresh
    • P
      • AP and AR per soul: 0.75>1
    • W
      • Shield: 60-180 (+1 per soul)>60-180 (+2 per soul)

Champion Nerfs

  • Pyke
    • W Bonus Monster Damage: 85-150>65-130
  • Master Yi
    • R bonus AS: 25-65%>25-45%
  • Nidalee
    • Health: 570>540
  • Ahri
    • E
      • CD: 12>14
    • R
      • CD: 130-80>140-90
  • Renata Glasc
    • Armor: 29>27
    • P
      • Damage: 1-3.5% [lvl 1-13] (+1% per 100 AP)>1-2% [lvl 1-9] (+2% per 100 AP)
  • Sion
    • Zombie structure damage: 100%>40%

Champion Changes

  • Olaf
    • W
      • Grants a shield
    • R
      • Extended indefinitely with E/by attacking
    • Jungle clear nerfed
  • Taliyah
    • Stats
      • Armor: 20>18
      • HP: 531>500
      • MP/5: 9.34+ .85/lvl>8 .8/lvl
      • Mana: 425>470
    • P
      • OOC MS: 20%-45% by lvl 18>10/20/35/55%
      • Time before passive falls off away from walls: 1s>2.5s
      • Fixed a bug where Taliyah could lose her passive permanently if she had a spell shield
    • Q
      • NEW: Now deals damage in an 175 radius AOE
      • Damage: 70-170 (+ .45AP)>38-130 (+.5 AP)
      • Extra rock damage reduction: 50%>60%
      • Max Q damage: 210-510 (+1.35AP)>98.8-338 (+1.3 AP)
      • Cooldown: 7-3>6.5-2.5
      • Cost: 50-90>60-80
      • NEW: Worked ground cast is a single hit boulder, hits in an 225 radius AoE, deals 2x damage (76-260(+1.0AP)) to the primary target, and slows everything hit by 30-50% for 2s
      • NEW: Worked ground cast has new VFX, SFX, animation and icons
      • Worked ground mana cost: 1>30
      • Worked ground min CD: 1s>.75s
      • NEW: Casting on worked ground consumes the worked ground
      • Worked Ground radius: 300>400
      • Worked Ground Duration 25s>30s
      • Worked ground size on Howling Abyss is now the same as Summoners Rift
      • Extra rock damage reduction on jungle monster: 25%>60% (same as normal Q)
      • NEW: Q deals 150% damage to monsters
      • NEW: Will now continue to cast while Taliyah is in stasis
      • Fixed a bug where Worked Ground Q would somtimes not get the reduced cooldown
    • W
      • Damage: 60-140 (+.4 AP)>REMOVED
      • Delay before knockup: .8>.65
      • AoE radius: 200>225
      • Cooldown: 16-12>14-8
      • Mana Cost: 70-110>60-0
    • E
      • NEW: Mines stun enemies that dash through them for 1s
      • Up front damage: 50-150(+.4AP)>60-240(+.6AP)
      • Damage after 4s: 50-150(+.4AP)>Removed
      • Detonation damage: 50-90(+.3AP)>25-105(+.6AP)
      • Damage reduction per mine: 15%-25%
      • Max detonation damage: 155-279(+.93AP)>62.5-252.5(+.75 AP)
      • Cooldown: 16-8-16-12
      • Number of rows (range): 4-6
      • Mines per row (width): 6-4
      • Mine spawn delay between rows (Effects how fast they go out): .1>.17
      • Delay after cast time before first mine spawns: .1s>0
      • Field duration: 4>5
    • R
      • Range: 3000-6000>2500-6500
      • Damge no longer knocks Taliyah off her wall
      • NEW: Cannot cast within 3s of taking damage from an enemy champion or structure
      • Moving jumps off the wall perpencdicular to the direction of travel>moving causes Taliyah to dash to the location she clicked, up to a maximum dash range
      • Jump off dash range: 400>700
      • Jump off dash speed: 1000>1200
      • Jump off dash now has more forgivesness when attempting to dash through a wall
  • Pyke (Mid Nerf)
    • No longer gives Pyke "Your Cut" in addition to kill gold from successful executes (last assisting ally gets "Your Cut"
    • No longer gives Pyke an extra "Your Cut" from when allies kill enemy champions within X (Pyke still gets 1x "Your Cut")
    • Buffed in support focused ways
  • Renekton
    • HP growth
    • AD growth
    • W
      • Rank 1 nerfed
      • Max level buffed
    • R
      • Damage buffed
System Changes And Items

Runes

  • TBC

Items

  • Hullbreaker (Rush)
    • Resists 20-60 Linear>10-75 Backloaded
    • Bonus Tower damage now only applied to attacks
Bug Fixes & QoL
  • Fixed a bug where Swain’s old ability descriptions were displaying in the Champion Details Page
  • Fixed a bug where Swain could reactivate his E - Nevermove to pull enemies closer to him even if they had cleansed the Root effect
  • Fixed a bug where Rengar could still deal damage with his Q - Savagery when blinded by Teemo’s Q - Blinding Dart
  • Fixed a bug where Chaos (Red) side inhibitors would display blue icons when selected
  • Fixed a bug where Kayle’s movement and attack VO lines were not playing correctly while Ascended
  • Fixed a bug where Elise’s W - Volatile Spiderling was ignoring Baron and not exploding
  • Fixed a bug where Nocturne’s R - Paranoia VO line would play louder than intended if players had visibility of more than 1 champion affected by nearsightedness
  • Fixed a bug where Black Belt Udyr’s Bear Stance was not displaying the correct visual textures
  • Fixed a bug where Irelia would only receive stacks of her Passive - Ionian Fervor for Champions hit when hitting Champions and minions/monsters simultaneously
  • Fixed a bug where Lillia was not receiving the correct among of healing from her Passive - Laden Bough
  • Fixed a bug where the sound effects for Ashe’s W - Volley would stop playing if it was leveled up to Rank 2 on-cast
  • Fixed a bug where Gangplank’s R- Cannon Barrage would cancel allies’ auto attacks if it was upgraded with Raise Morale
  • Fixed a bug where Ekko’s Q - Timewinder tooltip was displaying the incorrect AP ratio
  • Fixed a bug where the damage from Janna’s Q - Howling Gale was not correctly factoring in the ability’s base AP ratio
  • Fixed a bug where Wukong’s E - Nimbus Strike into Q - Crushing Blow combo would fail to stack Conqueror
  • Fixed a bug where Turrets would prioritize and target enemies damaged by Kog’Maw’s Passive - Icathian Surprise
  • Fixed a bug where Master Yi’s Q - Alpha Strike sound effects would sometimes be audible to the enemy team in the Fog of War
  • Fixed a bug where Shaco’s Passive - Backstab was sometimes audible to the enemy team from the Fog of War
  • Fixed a bug where Aphelios’ gun swapping and ability sound effects would sometimes be audible from the Fog of War
  • Fixed a bug where the sound of Scuttle’s shield breaking would play through the Fog of War
New Skins

EDG Skins

  • EDG Aphelios (1350 RP)
  • EDG Graves (1350 RP)
  • EDG Viego (1350 RP)
  • Solar Eclipse Sivir (1820 RP)
  • EDG Yuumi (1350 RP)
  • EDG Zoe (1340 RP)

High Noon Skins

  • High Noon Katarina (1350 RP)
  • High Noon Leona (1350 RP)
  • High Noon Mordekaiser (1350 RP)
  • High Noon Varus (1350 RP)
  • High Noon Talon (1350 RP)
  • Prestige Edition High Noon Talon (1350 RP)

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