LoL: Patch 6.13 – The main changes overview

Especially the supporters will be buffed in Patch 6.13 for League of Legends.

Today’s patch for LoL revolves around how to strengthen the supporters. To make the role on the bot lane more popular again and potentially encourage more players to choose “Support” in the role selection, many champions’ stats and values have been adjusted. Of course, the heroes of the other roles have not been excluded – These changes are included in the new patch:

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Champion Changes in Patch 6.13 for LoL

Blitzcrank:

• Q – Rocket Grab: Enemies are no longer pulled directly to Blitzcrank, but 75 units in front of him.
• E – Charged Fist: Duration 10 seconds 5 seconds. The enhanced auto attacks from this ability can no longer be interrupted.
• R – Static Field: Cooldown 30 seconds 60/40/20 seconds. If you’re not in combat, this ability now (finally!) does not hit monsters anymore.

Lulu:

• Base Mana 292 350 – Movement Speed 325 330
• Q – Glitterlance: The damage to additional targets decreases by 70% after the first hit. Slow duration 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2 seconds 2 seconds at all ranks.
• W – Whimsy: Now additionally grants 15/20/25/30/35% attack speed while the buff is active.

  

Tahm Kench:

• Passive – Gourmet: Auto attacks and abilities hit the target for magical damage equal to 1/1.25/1.5% of Tahm Kench’s maximum health (at levels 1, 11, 16). Stackable up to 3 times against champions.
• Q – Tongue Lash: Damage 80/125/170/215/260 80/130/180/230/280
• E – Thick Skin: Damage to gray health Conversion: 100% of damage taken 70/75/80/85/90% of damage taken. Gray health to healing: 20/26/32/38/44% 25/30/35/40/45%. Shield duration: 6 seconds 3 seconds. Cooldown 16/15/14/13/12 seconds 6 seconds. The shield does not decrease over its duration anymore!
• R – Journey into the Abyss: The passive bonus damage from auto attacks has now slightly changed, becoming the general passive ability of Tahm Kench “Gourmet”. Channeling duration: 15 seconds 6 seconds. Delay until effect: 1 second 0.25 seconds. Warning time for enemy players 1.5 seconds 1 second. Spell range 4000/5000/6000 4500/5500/6500.

Thresh:

• Passive – Damnation: Epic monsters now give Thresh 2 souls.
• W – Dark Passage: No longer scales with ability power. The shield increases by +1 per collected soul.
• Lantern Grab made easy: When you’re tethered to an enemy with Q and then throw your lantern out of range, Thresh no longer tries to run into range to do so but instead throws the lantern at maximum range.
• Lantern Grab made easy – Point 2: When you pull towards a target with Q, lanterns that are outside of range have a “grace period” before they disappear.

Irelia:

• Better nerf: R-Transcendent Blades: Cooldown: 70/60/50 seconds 110/85/60 seconds

  

Swain: 

• R – Ravenous Flock: Cooldown: 10 seconds 20 seconds. The delay before you can recast the ultimate after canceling it has been increased from 0.5 seconds to 2 seconds.

Vladimir:

• Passive – Blood Pact: As before the update, you now receive 1 ability power per 40 bonus health instead of per 25 bonus health. Conversely, you receive 1.4 health for each point of ability power.
• Q – Transfusion: Damage 80/100/120/140/160 75/90/105/120/135. Scaling with ability power: 0.45 0.55

You can find the complete patch notes with all champions, items, and game changes on the official League of Legends website.

Item Changes

Seeing Ruby (Red Ward Item):

• Combination Cost: 600 Gold 400 Gold
• Total Cost: 1800 Gold 1600 Gold
• Cooldown reduction of active items: 10% 20%

Hextech Protobelt 01

• While sprinting with the Protobelt, you can’t cast any abilities.

Wards:

• Attacking wards no longer counts as “In Combat” – Boots of Mobility, Cloud Drake, or Taliyah’s Rock surfer will not be interrupted anymore.
• Bonus XP: Destroying wards now grants 30 experience points (Blue Wards 15 experience points).
• For every 150 seconds that a ward is active, it gets special visual effects visible to the team that the ward supports.

New Skins for Nami and Vayne

Of course, this patch also features some nice skins that will be released during Patch 6.13. These include so far “Deep Sea Nami” and “Soulstealer Vayne”.

Also interesting: The Ryze Rework – With new combos and group teleportation