Riot Games might soon bring a change to League of Legends that alters how often you can attack per second.
What kind of information is this?
- In the League of Legends subreddit, a user posted a series of changes they found through data mining on the PBE (Public Beta Environment).
- The PBE is a kind of testing environment where upcoming patches can be tested before they are released in the actual game.
- Data mining refers to searching the game files for clues about upcoming updates that are not yet visible in the game.
The changes shared were discovered in the files of the PBE and could appear in League of Legends in the future.
Riot raises attack speed limit
What kind of change is this? Among the changes shared by the data miner on Reddit, there is also an increase in the attack speed cap. The attack speed cap is being raised from 2.5 to 3.003 attacks per second. You will then be able to attack up to 3 times per second.
An employee of Riot Games has since confirmed the change on Reddit and revealed that 3.0 will be the new upper limit for all modes that do not have a separate cap.
This means that if you manage to fully utilize the limit with a champion, you can attack faster than ever before.
How the new limit looks in practice is shown by the YouTuber Remus in comparison:
What does the community say about the change? The community is currently divided on whether the change could actually affect the current meta.
Some League players believe that the increased limit will not be very noticeable. One user commented on YouTube: “I don’t feel like this will be as big of a change as people interpret it. Most crit ADCs will not reach that [limit] […] For super on-hit champions like Vayne, I can see it slightly changing things, but even then I believe this will only affect very few situations.”
Other players think that primarily champions like Jinx will benefit from the change, who can stack attack speed over the course of a match. How heavily this change will affect gameplay and which champions will benefit the most from it will ultimately become clear over time.
When will the change take place? According to the online magazine PCGamesN, the change to the attack speed cap is set to go live with patch 25.S1.3 on February 5th. Then you will be able to test the increased limit in a normal game for the first time.
The current season in League of Legends just started on January 9, 2025, which included patch 25.S1.1 with the new mode Swift Play. What else this season has in store for you can be read on MeinMMO: LoL: The new season has started – What changes are there?
