April 18, 2009 Patch
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| Release date (US) | April 18, 2009 | |
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League of Legends 
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Champions Edit
- New Champion: Zilean, The Chronokeeper
- New Champion: Singed, The Mad Chemist
- Toxic Shot: is now a passive skill.
- Move Quick: no longer slows you upon being hit (it does still remove the haste buff).
- Blinding Dart: causes your opponent to miss a set number of attacks instead of increasing their miss %.
- New Passive: Trailblazer: Teemo leaves a trail as he moves, increasing the move speed of allies and granting him sight radius of the area for an extended period of time.
- New Ultimate: Noxious Trap: Teemo places a trap which, when triggered, will poison surrounding units, slowing and damaging them for the duration.
- Unbreakable Will:
- Duration increased to 10/15/20 from 5/10/15.
- Added +80 Damage.
- Base Attack Range increased to 125 from 100.
- Added a Charging component to Headbutt, increasing its range to 650 from 200.
- Intervention:
- Duration reduced to 4 from 5.
- Mana Cost changed to 80/80/80/80/80 from 80/60/40/20/0.
- Dark Wind: Damage dealt to champions Increased to 135 from 120 per bounce (Minions it still deals 120).
- Terrify: cooldown increased to 14 from 12.
- Drain:
- Range decreased to 450 from 500.
- Break range decreased to 700 from 800.
- Tormented Soil: ability power ratio increased to 0.3 from 0.2.
- Meditate: cooldown increased to 60 from 50.
- Alpha Strike: bonus damage increased to 150/250/350 from 50/125/200.
- Astral Blessing:
- Duration reduced to 12 from 16.
- Bonus armor increased to 30 from 20.
- Ability power ratio increased to 0.2 from 0.12.
- Healing increased to 14/22/30/38/46 from 10/18/26/34/42.
- Infuse: mana restored increased to 50/100/150/200/250 from 40/80/120/160/200.
- Wish:
- Ability power ratio increased to 2 from 1.
- Cooldown reduced to 120/90/60 from 150/110/60.
- Enchanted Crystal Arrow: damage increased to 350/550/750 from 250/425/600.
- Cannibalism: attack speed boost increased to 45% from 30%.
- Feel No Pain: damage block decreased to 30/40/50 from 30/45/60.
- Ricochet: number of bounces reduced to +1/2/3/4/5 from +2/3/4/5/6.
Neutral Minions Edit
- Baron Nashor:
- Base Damage increased to 500 from 400.
- Armor increased to 120 from 100.
- Knock-back on Sweeping blow decreased to 750 from 1000.
- Global Gold bounty decreased to 400 from 500.
- Added a Global Buff to the team that kills Baron Nashor Exalted with Baron Nashor, which increases your champion's Damage and Ability Power by 60.
- Increased Neutral Minions attack speed.
Summoner Spells Edit
- Ghost:
- Duration reduced to 15 from 25 seconds.
- Movement Speed bonus increased to 28% from 22%.
- Summoner spell cooldowns can never be reduced below 70% (from 5%).
Items Edit
- Warmog's Armor:
- Recipe cost increased to 1025 from 765 (total cost to 3000 from 2740).
- Added a Cap to Warmog the Living Armor for bonus health / regen of +400 Health, and 50 Health Regen per 5.
- HP gain per kill modified to 4 from 5 (to 40 from 25 on champions), and Regen per kill modified to 0.1 from 0.05 (to 1 from 0.5 for champions).
- Sunfire Cape:
- Aura damage increased to 50 from 40.
- Cost decreased to 600 from 900.
- Mejai's Soulstealer:
- Bonus ability power from champion kills increased to 12 from 5.
- Added a Cap of +120 Ability Power.
- Archangel's Staff: bonus ability power from mana increased to 2.5% from 2%.
- 'Growth' item tooltips updated to represent their max caps.
- Elixir Tooltips updated.
- Elixirs made persist through death.
- Tooltip added to Phantom Dancer.
- Spirit Visage:
- Cost of recipe increased to 500 from 250.
- Made Spirit Visage's effect unique.
- Glacial Shroud: made effect unique.
- Infinity Edge: made effect unique.
Miscellaneous Edit
- Updated animations for Dark Binding, Volley to make them easier to use.
- Fixed a number of tooltips.
- Base Turrets' Health decreased to 2000 from 2400.
- Inhibitor and Outer Turret Health decreased to 3200 from 3600.
Bug Fixes Edit
- Fixed channel bug with Drain, Absolute Zero, Infinite Duress, and Dark Binding where damage / effect would continue if the channeling unit died.
- Fixed Channel bug with Drain, Absolute Zero, Infinite Duress, which threw up errors if the target dies while you are channeling.
- Fixed Warwick's Infinite Duress Channeling bug which would cause it to break / be breakable.
- Added a buff texture to Summoner Ghost.
- Fixed proper buff duration for the following champion passives: Pyromania, Double Strike, Colossal Strength, Feel No Pain, and Trailblazer.
- Fixed Soul Shroud's buff type to fix an issue with its buff duration.
- Assorted Lua error fixes.
Gameplay Changes Edit
HUD Edit
- Neutral Minion Camp Icons on minimap now dissapear if you see them killed, and re-appear when respawned.
- Took out the "click to upgrade" button from level ups.
- Can now level up skills with alt-q, alt-w, alt-e, alt-r.
- Pinging the minimap with unlocked camera will no longer move your camera to the ping location.
- Fixed a bug that could sometimes make you get stuck in unlocked camera mode.
- Enemy level added back to target indicator (placeholder for now).
- Ability Stats made bigger, easier to read on Player HUD.
- Added map scroll speed option to "More Options".
- Several improvements to make clicking on the minimap more accurate, and make it easier to go back to base via minimap.
- Positions on minimap should now be more accurate.
- Buff Icons are 20% bigger.
Gameplay Edit
- Heroes now play their full attack animation when last hitting.
- Several attack animation bugs/exploits fixed with heroes.
- Instant cast and toggle spells no longer interrupt attack timers.
- Epic encounter now takes much longer to respawn.
New Features Edit
- New inking around unit models
- New Assist Functionality (gold/xp gains when assisting in a kill)
- You now receive gold for a unit you get the last champion hit on even if a tower or minion gets the last last hit
- New Bounty system for Champion Kills
- Towers now respond with call for help to Champion Spells
- Minions that are agro’d onto you will now have an orange outline
- New Feature – World goes Black and White when you die.
- When Selecting your spells in Champion Selection you will now see the spells you have selected on the Main page
- You can now see the loading bars of everyone in your game during the load screen
Bug Fixes Edit
- Improvements to Popping issues
- Fixed bug where sometimes when you alt tab’d back into the game you would have a black screen with the game cursor
- Fixed a bug where canceling attacks repeatedly caused the next attack to be delayed.
- Fixed the Bug that made it so Neutral Minions would get into a state where they wouldn’t attack.
- Fixed a Bug where Neutral Minions would not respawn correctly
| League of Legends: Release History | ||
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| Season Three | V3.x | |
| V1.0.0.x | ||
| Season Two | V1.0.0.x | |
| Season One | V1.0.0.x | |
| Closed Beta | V0.9.x | |
| V0.8.x | ||
| Other | ||
| Alpha Stage | ||
