Patch 4.19 Notes, Victorious Morgana Splash Art

End of Season Rewards
 
Victorious Morgana


The 2014 ranked season began in January, and now the battle for League Points draws to a close. The 2014 season ends on November 11, 2014 at 12:01 AM PST. Visit the End of Season page to learn more about the end of the season rewards and the new Master tier.
In addition to other rewards, players in Gold tier or higher in any ranked queue at the end of the season will receive the Victorious Morgana skin!
 
Conquering Ward

 
Triumphant Ward

 
Victorious Ward

 
 
Summoner’s Rift Update: Open Beta
The last major set of SRU files is going out with 4.19 (so expect another large download!) and we’ll be starting the Summoner’s Rift open beta soon. Check out the beta release plan for additional details!
 
 
Balance Changes

W: Zephyr
COOLDOWN 12/11/10/9/8 seconds ⇒ 12 seconds at all ranks
W’s cooldown stays the same at all ranks (aka higher at later ranks).

While this isn’t a very large change, we want to create harder choices for Janna for when she should use her W, giving her enemies more windows of vulnerability to engage on their target (or her!).
 
 

STICK ‘EM IN THE GOO! … Also Insanity Potion gives more bonuses at rank 3. And Singed has been updated!

Our initial context was to say, “Sometimes you just want to buff Singed, man,” but then someone read it and said it wasn’t very informative. So. Right now we like Singed and how he fits into the game, but thought we could give him some small, exciting buffs to stay interesting. For the “LONG PATCH NOTE” section, we’ll reiterate: it’s a neutral change, just that we’ve shifted the mini-stun on landing into the actual throw itself (this came from re-scripting Fling to fix the bug where Singed was occasionally tossing people in the completely wrong direction). Also, Singed has been updated! Check out the article if you want the full story, or below if you just want the specifics.
 
General
VISUALS Updated model and textures for base and all skins.
ICONS New ability icons.
SPLASH New base splash.

E: Fling
NEW STAY WITH ME If Singed Flings a target into Mega Adhesive Zone, they will be snared for 1 second.

FLIP FLOP Fixed a bug where Singed would occasionally Fling his targets in completely wrong directions (we believe this is fixed for most cases, let us know if if keeps happening!)

A LONG PATCH NOTE Singed’s arm is stronger, thereby letting him Fling targets higher into the sky for slightly longer durations. In exchange, targets will be able to move immediately after being flung. This is a net neutral change, as we basically took the mini-stun from Fling’s landing and put it into duration of the Fling itself.
 

R – Insanity Potion
STAT ENHANCEMENT 35/50/65 ⇒ 35/50/80 ability power, armor, magic resist, movement speed, health per 5 seconds and mana per 5 seconds.
 
 

Lots of bug fixes along with a small mana cost shift from Sion’s Q + W to E.

We’ve got a little room to give Sion some post-update love, so we decided to focus on his best stat: health. Additionally, we’ve made a lot of quality-of-life changes & bug fixes to help Sion be the best he can be. Final note for that passive change, we changed it because it was punishing Sion for building HP, which was dumb. Now health-stacking Sion should stay up a little longer in his zombie form in comparison to a damage-focused, low-health Sion. Logic!
 
General
HEALTH PER LEVEL +70 ⇒ +73

Passive: Glory in Death
COMPLICATED ZOMBIE MATH Sion’s health decay in passive form now scales with his max health (0.5% max health first tick, increasing by 0.4% max health per tick) ⇒ champion level (2 x level first tick, increasing by 1.4 x level per tick).
FIERY DEATH Fixed a bug where Sunfire Cape wasn’t working while Sion was in his passive zombie state.
YORICK IS HELPING Glory in Death no longer fails to activate in cases where Sion is targeted by Yorick’s Omen of Death, doesn’t trigger the revive effect and then dies later on in the match.

Q: Decimating Smash
COST 50/55/60/65/70 mana ⇒ 45/50/55/60/65 mana.
SMASHING PARITY All crowd-control types now correctly refund Decimating Smash’s cooldown to 2 seconds when they interrupt Sion while he’s charging up.
YELLING AND SMASHING Sion can now properly cast Decimating Smash immediately after Roar of the Slayer.

W: Soul Furnace
COST 70/75/80/85/90 mana ⇒ 65/70/75/80/85 mana.
PASSIVE HEALTH GAIN 8 ⇒ 10 on large monster kill and champ kill/assist (minion and small monster bonus unchanged).

E: Roar of the Slayer
IT’S A JUNGLE SION BUFF Knocked back minions are no longer invulnerable to damage while in flight but can’t be killed before landing unless Sion casts Smite on them.
COST 25 mana at all ranks ⇒ 35 mana at all ranks.
 
 

This is it, we got the last global passive in the game.

While our stance on global passives is fairly well known (hidden power, impacting lanes outside of an opponent’s control, etc), we typically don’t like nerfing champions when they’re down (as in unpopular or seen as underpowered). With Zilean’s rise as a high-priority competitive and – by extension – normal pick, we can now at least reduce that global passive to a more manageable range.

Passive: Heightened Learning
LOCAL EDUCATION Heightened Learning affects allies globally ⇒ within 1500 range
 
 

CAW CAW CAW!

R: Crowstorm
CAW CAW CAW Fixed a bug where rapidly spamming a basic ability at the very end of Crowstorm’s channel sometimes caused that ability to go on cooldown without casting or appearing to be on cooldown in the HUD
 
 

W no longer has an attack damage ratio, but gives more movement speed bonuses at later ranks. R’s cooldown has been significantly raised (particularly at later levels).

You know, for a ‘short-range’ champion, Lucian’s got access to a lot of long-range damage once he gets past the early game. Our big focus here is to push Lucian into closer combat range more often by reducing the power on some of his safer spells. At this point you might ask why Q has a 1100 range (well, 500 cast but 1100 total), and that would be a good question. Also, when you consider it, The Culling’s 50 second cooldown at rank 3 is pretty crazy.

Ardent Blaze
REMOVED ATTACK DAMAGE RATIO 0.3 ⇒ 0.0
MOVEMENT SPEED BONUS 40/40/40/40/40 ⇒ 40/45/50/55/60

The Culling
COOLDOWN 100/75/50 seconds ⇒ 110/100/90 seconds
 
 

Helping you make those… flashy plays.

Passive: Mirror Image
FLASHY PLAYS Flashing no longer de-stealths LeBlanc and her clone when Mirror Image is triggered.
 
 

 

R: Grand Skyfall
BUGFIX Fixed a bug where rapidly spamming a basic ability at the very end of Grand Skyfall’s channel sometimes caused that ability to go on cooldown without casting or appearing to be on cooldown in the HUD.
 
 

Q’s base damage has been reduced across all ranks.

As a strong late game scaling champion, Ryze’s ability to bully out other top laners early is pretty bonkers, so we’re reducing his base damage in lane while still leaving his ability to scale past laning phase intact. We’ll be keeping an eye on Ryze over the next few patches, however, as these nerfs might be on the light side for how dominant a champ he is.

Q: Overload
BASE MAGIC DAMAGE 60/85/110/135/160 ⇒ 40/60/80/100/120
 
 

R: Infinite Duress
BUGFIX Fixed a bug where rapidly spamming a basic ability at the very end of Infinite Duress’s channel sometimes caused that ability to go on cooldown without casting or appearing to be on cooldown in the HUD.
 
 
Jungle
Crest of the Ancient Golem & Blessing of the Elder Lizard
RENAMED Renamed from Crest of the Ancient Golem & Blessing of the Elder Lizard ⇒ Crest of Insight & Crest of Cinders, respectively.
 
 
Splash Art
As we’ve mentioned previously, the splash art team is engaged in a long-term effort to update our oldest base splashes. We’ve got 18 more ready to go this time!
SPLASH The following champions have received updated base splashes (click the thumbnails for the full image!)

 
 
Summoner Icons

 
 
Patcher
We’ve made a couple usability and polish improvements to the patching screen!
NOBODY PUTS PATCHER IN A CORNER The patcher now plays a sound effect when patching finishes to better let you know when you can get back in game.
YOU CLICKED IT! The “Launch” button now has an on-click sound effect.
IT WASN’T YOUR IMAGINATION Fixed a small misalignment in the patcher’s layout.
 
 
Store
Load times for the Featured tab have been improved, reducing the delay when first entering the store.
Various store images have been updated:
Summoner Name Change
Single Rune Page
Unlock a Champion for a friend
Unlock a Skin for a friend
Mystery Champion
Mystery Skin
 
 
Texture Update




 
Ability Icons

 
New Fling (Stay With Me) snare.

 
 
Skins
This skin will be released during Patch 4.19, but not immediately. Upon release, it will cost at a discounted 975 RP temporarily before it goes to its original 1350 RP price.
Reaper Soraka