Nexus Blitz

Nexus Blitz (Project SLIME) is an experimental mode that ran from July 31st to September 11th, 2018. It started being playable for alpha testing on live servers on patch V8.16.^[1]^[2]

On June 23rd, 2020 (public beta patch V10.14), Nexus Blitz was brought back on public testing servers with new visuals of the Ionian Spirit Blossom Forests known as the Temple of Lily and Lotus. The game mode was available from July 22nd, 2020 (11:59 PM PDT) till August 24th, 2020 (11:59 PM PDT).^[3]

The mode was enabled again on October 10th, 2023 (public beta patch V13.21) with the same visuals and map as well as a reset of all champion balance modifiers. It ran from October 25th till November 27th, 2023.

Overview[]

Map: Temple of Lily and Lotus 5v5
Roles: Lane, Jungle, Fill
- Note that there exist two lanes and there must be two junglers.
Draft type: Blind pick with bans

Features[]

Smite is exclusive and mandatory for Junglers.
- The first event for the mode is revealed upon entering champion select.
All champions gain the following:
- 70 summoner spell haste.
- 4 bonus mana regeneration per 5 seconds.
- Experience over time.
- 5.5 − 14 (based on level) bonus magic resistance.
Recall's channel time has been reduced to 4.5 seconds, with Empowered Recall being reduced further to 2.5 seconds.
Homeguard is enabled from the start of the match.
The Golden Spatula is an item exclusive to the mode and can be purchased in the shop.
Teleport is disabled in this mode.

Map-Exclusive Items

Jungle[]

Nexus Blitz jungle 2 — Nexus Blitz's jungle (part 2)

The map in Nexus Blitz includes a jungle area where monsters spawn. Most jungle camps initially spawn at 1:05 and respawn 150 seconds after they are cleared.

Jungle camps taken with more than one champion grant 150% experience and gold split between the champions taking it (compared to 100% experience and gold if taken alone).

Camps[]

The jungle features Big and Small camps for monsters based on their size type.

Big Camps[]

Slaying a buff monster will grant its buff to the killer as well as leaves an additional buff behind for another champion to take.

Blue Sentinel

Camps are located between both lanes and in both areas of the jungle.

Red Brambleback

Has only one camp that is located at the top of the map, horizontally at the center.
Spawns at 1:50 and respawns 200 seconds after it is slain.
Grants a local 200 and a global 60 to all champions on the slayer's team.

Rift Herald

Has improved stats.
Spawns at 10:00 and respawns 150 seconds after it is slain.
Upon being slain, it summons the Eye of the Herald for pick-up as well as grants the Hand of Baron to all champions on the slayer's team, which lasts for 2 minutes.
- The Hand of Baron only strengthens minions and does not grant any other bonuses.

Small Camps[]

Raptor camp

Consists of one Crimson Raptor and five Raptors.

Gromp

Located in the upper part of the map in both parts of the jungle.

Krug camp

Consists of one Ancient Krug and one Krug.

Murk Wolf camp

Consists of one Greater Murk Wolf and two lesser Murk Wolves.
- Killing the former will create an explosion that damages all nearby lesser wolves.

Rift Scuttler

Located between the two lanes and the Blue Sentinel camps.
Spawns at 2:30 and respawns 120 seconds after it is slain.
Upon being slain, it summons its Speed Shrine right above the terrain and brush in the middle of the area between the two lanes for 90 seconds.

Jungle Guardian[]

Jungle Guardian

A powerful and durable melee attacker. It guards the side of the jungle it is on.

Bounty
Gold	Exp	CS
300	0	0

Statistics

Health

3775

Attack damage

80

Attack speed

0.493

Armor

70

Magic res.

70

Mov. speed

320

Each team has a friendly Jungle Guardian that guards their upper part of the jungle, deterring invades. Players can kill the opposing Jungle Guardian, leaving the enemy's jungle unguarded until the unit respawns.

While enemies are on its side of the jungle quadrant, the guardian will seek them out. It gains a continuously stacking buff that grants it 0.25% bonus attack damage, 0.25% increased size, 0.3 bonus attack range and 0.8% bonus movement speed per stack. This bonus is reset as soon as the enemy leaves their quadrant. Additionally, it periodically empowers its next attack to send a shockwave in the target's direction, dealing damage to and knocking back all enemies hit.

Jungle Guardians take increased damage from single target spells.

Frog Catapult[]

Neutral catapults are located in the upper and bottom areas of the map for both teams. They are accessible for any champion and can be interacted with to launch to a fixed location on the opposite side of the map.

Each catapult is found near the jungle guardians and bottom outer turrets, for a total of 4. The upper catapults launch units to a location near the Blue Sentinel camp, while the bottom ones launch them to a landing point that is between the Raptor and Red Brambleback camps.

Base Gate Turret[]

There is a turret near the base gate of each team's base. This tower is untargetable and will attack any enemies in range.

On Fire! Buff[]

Champions gain the On Fire! buff when they kill enemy champions 3 times in a row without dying, purchase The Golden Spatula, or are randomly chosen as the Juggernaut in the Bardle Royale: Juggernaut event.

Notes[]

The buff persists through resurrection.
The buff has no maximum duration, but is lost upon death (not when the buff is obtained via The Golden Spatula) and grants 800 to your killer and 200 to each other champion on the killer's team.

Events[]

A random event happens every 3:00 to 3:30 minutes, with an average of 2-3 per game.
The first event of the game is announced in champion select.
The next event is revealed 30 seconds before it starts.
Winning an event grants the victors a random reward.
Many events have additional bonuses on top of the reward granted to the winner (like gold for doing a thing).
Winning any event grants a one-time Empowered Recall, instant heal at the fountain, and a one-time boost to Homeguards.

Reward name	Effect	Informal Name(s)
Catapult of Champions	Click the giant cannon next to your fountain to launch yourself across the map! At the base, jump inside the cannon by selecting it, becoming vanished. Choose a target location anywhere on the map to launch your champion to while being displacement immune and untargetable. Upon impact, nearby enemies are dealt magic damage and knocked up briefly. The impact applies area damage.	N/A
Blessing of Blitzcrank	Gives your turrets and cannon minions Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab. Allied turrets, siege minions and super minions have the ability to emote and use Rocket Grab against nearby enemies.	N/A
Poro King	The Poro King arrives to aid your team, pushing through top lane! Fluffy helps you siege enemy turrets, breathes fire on baddies, and periodically heals nearby allies. Long live the King!	N/A
Battle Sled	The whole team can pile into this vehicle, with the first player to click acting as driver. Take a leisurely cruise around the map until you hit something and the sled explodes, damaging and knocking back all nearby champions. All aboard for a wild sled ride from your base to almost anywhere on the map. If you've entered the Battle Sled while someone else is driving it, you can press [B] to exit the Battle Sled. While inside the sled, you are put in stasis and are vanished.	N/A
Guardian Angels	Your team gets a temporary, one-time Guardian Angel. Each member of the team gains a one-time Guardian Angel effect, lasting 90 seconds.	Blessing of Zilean
Statikk Shock	Your team gains Statikk Shiv. Zap! Your team gets chain lightning zaps on their auto attacks to mow down waves (and champions) with ease.	Blessing of Statikk
B.F. Shields	Your team gets big, friendly shields. Each member of the team gains a hefty shield until it is broken.	Blessing of Janna
Mega Cloud Drake	Your team gets mega out-of-combat movement speed.	Blessing of Mobis
Mega Ocean Drake	Your team gets mega regen. For 3 minutes, restores health and mana when out-of-combat.	Blessing of Soraka
Aspect of the Dragon	You can now execute enemies under a specific health threshold for a few minutes by the force of a big dragon. For 2 minutes, damaging an enemy champion below 20% health blasts them with Dragonfire, executing them.	N/A

Bardle Royale[]

Classic[]

A circle of flame closes in on a part of the map, the circle spawn position slightly favors the behind team.
Champions are continually dealt true damage outside the boundary, respawning puts your champion in a stasis effect at the base until the event ends.
Killing the enemy team will take victory.
- If there are no players on the winning team, the opponent team is rewarded instead.

Bardle Royale: Juggernaut[]

This event is the same as Classic Bardle Royale but additionally, one random champion in each team gains a high amount of health and the On Fire! buff at the start of the event.

Bardle Royale: Paranoia[]

This event is the same as Classic Bardle Royale but additionally, all champions have their sight radius greatly reduced and they lose allied vision.
- Players can see the battlefield while dead but upon respawning, their sight is lost again until the event ends.
Pings are temporarily disabled.

URF Deathmatch[]

Everyone gains the Awesome Buff of Awesomely Awesome Buffing (that is normally exclusive to Ultra Rapid Fire) and get multiple rounds to brawl with the opposing team. Players will inhabit near the middle of the map as a battleground to fight to the death.
Both teams fight in a best of three round match. Each round starts with everyone placed in stasis that lasts over a countdown, and all cooldowns are reset. Anything placed in the area is destroyed at the end of a round.
Champions out-of-combat start burning and gain Grievous Wounds, with the damage ramping up over 20 seconds.

Loot Goblin[]

Relevant Stats

100 armor and 100 magic resistance
- Gains 25 bonus armor and 25 bonus magic resistance if this is the third or fourth event.
200 base movement speed
- Gains 10 bonus movement speed, increased to 100 bonus movement speed while in combat.

Teemo[]

Kill Loot Teemo for his bounty!

A Loot Teemo spawns randomly in the middle of the map.
Hitting the Loot Teemo grants 25% of the damage dealt to the Loot Teemo as gold.
The team that scores the killing blow on Loot Teemo wins the event.

Veigar[]

Kill Loot Veigar for his bounty!

This event is the same as Loot Teemo but additionally, Loot Veigar uses Dark Matter and Event Horizon while running.

Sett's The Show Stopper damage is based off the champion with the most bonus health on the enemy team.

Push the Cart[]

Control the cart and detonate the nearest enemy structure!

Escort the Cart so that it can move to the enemy base.
Carts that spawn from the 2nd event onward move faster.
Once close enough to a turret, it will instantly destroy it, after which it will disappear.
If the event goes too long, the cart gets impatient and decides the next person to touch it wins.
This event can go into overtime.

Push the Cart: Attack/Defend[]

A time-capped variant of Push the Cart with two Carts instead of one.
Each team can only push one of the carts. The other cart can only be stopped by standing near it, but it's impossible to push it into the opposite direction.
The objective is still to shove it into an enemy building. The first team being able to do that, destroys the building and wins the event.
After 75 seconds, the sudden death phase begins. The carts will then both move faster and players of one team cannot stop the enemies cart anymore by standing near their cart.

Prize Fight[]

Both teams fight to the death in a best of three match consisting of rounds of two 2v2s and then a 1v1. Each champion can only participate in one of the rounds, with matchups being balanced based on gold earned.
- All champions not in a round are placed in stasis.
- Champions in a round will start burning to take true damage after a period of time has passed.
The battlefield is located around the Rift Scuttler camp.
Anything within the battleground is destroyed between rounds.

King of the Hill[]

A control point appears in a random location on the map, the spawn position slightly favors the behind team.
Standing uncontested in the area will generate the team's capture progress. Enemy progress must be drained before adding your own.

Scuttle Racing[]

Two Rift Scuttlers, one in each team start racing in a line up or down the middle of the map.
A Scuttler will stop when their health bar reaches zero health, becoming stunned and fully restoring its health over a period of time, after which it revives and continue racing.
The first Scuttler to reach the finish line takes victory.
- One Scuttler gets a slight head start to ensure a victory.
The Rift Scuttler camp will be placed in stasis during the event.

The Scuttle Racer is considered a champion.
Sett's The Show Stopper damage is based off the champion with the most bonus health on the enemy team.

Protect the Soraka[]

Two Beginner Soraka bots will march through top lane.
Soraka Bot will use Astral Infusion on nearby friendly champions and herself, as well as Equinox near enemy champions.
- She has Luden's Tempest, Spirit Visage, Ardent Censer, Locket of the Iron Solari, Redemption, and Athene's Unholy Grail. She is able to use the active effects of Locket of the Iron Solari and Redemption. Despite these benefits, she has no cooldown reduction, health regeneration, or bonus movement speed.
Killing the enemy Soraka bot takes victory.

Relevant Stats

50% Tenacity
30% bonus attack speed
4 bonus movement speed
Wish cooldown is set at 999 seconds.

DPS Check[]

A Practice Dummy from the Practice Tool will spawn either in the middle of the map or to the side of the team that is behind.
The event lasts 75 seconds, dealing more damage to the dummy within the round takes victory.
The Dummy has 1000 (+ 90 per level, + 2 per second until 6 minutes, then + 4 per second after) health and cannot be reduced below 1 health.

Sudden Death: Nexus Blitz[]

This final event occurs at 18 minutes. Each team is recalled back to base as their Nexus will start walking towards the enemy's base. Catapult of Champions is granted to both teams, and death timers are set to 15 seconds. The game will automatically end when thirty minutes elapse.

Summoning the Rift Herald during this event will cause the monster to attempt to march down the lane as if the Nexus was still stationary.

Nexus Minion[]

Nexus Golem Blue TempleofLilyandLotus Render — Nexus Minion

The Nexus of both teams will transform into a golem that can move on its own. They will both path towards the middle of the map until they encounter each other, entering an intense battle.

For each enemy champion killed, and each chunk of health the enemy nexus loses, gains a charge. At five charges, does a massive slam attack, knocking back all nearby enemies while briefly turning them untargetable, stunning the enemy nexus, and gaining a massive shield. The charge now drains over time, and once it runs out, the shield disappears. Killing more enemy champions or damaging the enemy nexus extends the duration of the shield.

Features

Can cast abilities and is ghosted until it reaches the middle of the map.
Has 420 attack damage, 200 armor, and 150 magic resistance.
Gains a massive shield for each enemy champion killed.

Minions[]

Caster minions grant 28.
Melee minions grant 39.
Siege minions grant 110.
- Siege minions have 40 attack damage and 0 magic resistance.
Super minions have 1150 base health, 350 attack damage and 13 magic resistance.

Gold sharing[]

All minion (regardless of last hit) and monster kills share about 30% of the total gold value to every champion on the team. Last hitters (or nearby allies in the case of jungle camps) still get the full gold and experience value.

Gold from champion kills and assists is not globally shared.

Structures[]

Turret