A new League of Legends update is now live! LoL 12.4 will introduce important balance changes to the game as well as introducing the next new Champion to the game's roster.
Renata Glasc, the Chem-Baroness will join the battle with the power to control her enemies like no other champion before her, and Riot will take their first steps toward curbing the enchanter solo lane issues plaguing the game at all competitive levels.
With that in mind, here's everything players can expect from League of Legends patch 12.4 from its patch notes to the latest news.
Live Now - LoL 12.4 Release Time
LoL 12.4 is live now, having released on Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at the following times.
- Wednesday, February 16, 2022 - 3am PT
- Wednesday, February 16, 2022 - 11am GMT
- Wednesday, February 16, 2022 - 6am EST
Release Time
The League of Legends servers went down for around 3 hours before launch time for maintenance but are back online now.
LoL 12.4 Patch Notes
LoL 12.4 is absolutely stacked, but before we get into all of the balance changes, let's first go over the game's newest champion, Renata Glasc, the Chem Baroness.
Renata Glasc
Renata Glasc is a support with a lot of Crowd Control abilities, our favorite is her ultimate which will make enemies attack one another if aimed properly.
Abilities
Passive - Leverage
- Basic attacks mark her enemies and deal bonus damage. Damage from Renata’s allies consumes the mark, dealing additional damage.
Handshake (Q)
- Sends out a missile from her robotic arm that roots the first enemy hit.
- Renata can reactivate the ability to throw the enemy in a target direction, damaging enemies hit and stunning them if the thrown target is a champion.
Bailout (W)
- Grants an allied champion or herself ramping Attack Speed and Move Speed toward enemies. If the ally gets a takedown on an enemy champion, the buff duration resets.
- If the ally would die while Bailout is still active, their health is set back to full but they begin burning to death over 3 seconds. The ally can stop the burn by getting a champion takedown before they die.
Loyalty Program (E)
- Sends out chemtech rockets that shield allies and damage and slow enemies they pass through.
- The rockets also apply their effects around her on cast and in an explosion at max range.
Hostile Takeover (R)
- Sends out a cloud of chemicals that causes enemies to go Berserk, increasing their Attack Speed and forcing them to basic attack anything around them.
- Berserk enemies prioritize attacking their own allies, then neutral units, then Renata Glasc's team, then Renata Glasc herself.
For information on Renata Glasc's abilities and more, visit here.
Besides the new Champion, though, the patch is full of other important changes. Here are all the nerfs and buffs for the upcoming update.
Buffs
Aatrox
- The Darkin Blade (Q)
- Sweet Spot damage amp: 50% ⇒ 60%
Illaoi
- Base stats
- Base Attack speed ratio: 0.571 ⇒ 0.625
- Harsh Lesson (W)
- Maximum health damage: 2% per 100 AD ⇒ 4% per 100 AD
Amumu
- Tantrum (E)
- Damage reduction: 2 - 10 ⇒ 5 - 13
Ashe
- Enchanted Crystal Arrow (R)
- Missile speed: 1600 ⇒ 1500 + 200 per second (max: 2100)
Lucian
- Piercing Light (Q)
- Mana cost: 50 - 90 ⇒ 48 - 80
Kalista
- Base stats
- Armor: 21 ⇒ 24
Xayah
- Bladecaller (E)
- Crit damage multiplier: 0.5% per 1% Crit Chance ⇒ 0.75% per 1% Crit Chance
Sett
- Base stats
- Health per level: 93 ⇒ 100
Rumble
- Base stats
- Armor: 31 ⇒ 26
Neeko
- Base stats
- Hitbox size: 80 ⇒ 65
Nami
- Tidecaller’s Blessing (E)
- Base magic damage: 20 - 80 ⇒ 25 - 85
Nerfs
Zeri
- Burst Fire (Q)
- Uncharged right click damage: 15-40 (+4% AP) ⇒ 10-25 (+3% AP)
- Uncharged right click low health multiplier: 4x ⇒ 6x
- Right click slow duration: 1.5 seconds ⇒ 1 second
- Right click slow amount: 20-40% ⇒ 14-50%
- Base damage: 10-30 ⇒ 9-25 (Can Crit now)
- Q excess attack speed to AD conversion: 50% ⇒ 60%
- Ultrashock Laser (W)
- Cooldown: 10s ⇒ 13 - 9s
- Spark Surge (E)
- Cooldown: 23 - 17s ⇒ 23 - 19s
- Cooldown reduction per champion hit with attack or ability: 1.5s ⇒ 1s
- Lightning Crash (R)
- Attack speed bonus: 30 - 40% ⇒ 30% at all ranks
Dr. Mundo
- Base stats
- AD per level: 4.2 ⇒ 3.5
- Maximum Dosage (R)
- Cooldown: 110 - 90s ⇒ 110s
Qiyana
- Passive: Royal Privilege
- Bonus AD ratio: 55% ⇒ 40%
Veigar
- Base stats
- Armor: 23 ⇒ 21
- Armor per level: 3.75 ⇒ 4
Blitzcrank
- Base stats
- Health regen per five seconds: 8.5 ⇒ 7.5
Nunu & Willump
- Consume (Q)
- Healing from champions: 80% ⇒ 60%
System Changes
- Rejuvenation Bead
- Total Cost 150 gold ⇒ 300 gold
- Base Health Regenation +50% ⇒ +100%
- Sell Back Ratio 70% (sells for 105 gold) ⇒ 40% (sells for 120 gold)
- Crystalline Bracer
- Total cost 650 gold ⇒ 800 gold
- Base Health Regeneration +50% ⇒ +100%
- Knight's Vow Combine
- Cost 700 gold ⇒ 400 gold (total cost unchanged)
- Base Health Regeneration +150% ⇒ +200%
- Warmog's Armor
- Combine Cost 650 gold ⇒ 500 gold (total cost unchanged)
Objective Bounties
- Bounty Linger Period: 15s ⇒ 5s after Objective Bounties fall off
Support Gold Income Items
- Spellthief's Edge, Relic Shield, Steel Shoulderguards, & Spectral Sickle
Recently - Gold Value Bounties: are now based on the number of support gold income items on each team, rather than assuming each team has one support gold income item
- Objective Bounties: Enemy gold leads are now significantly less likely to lead to Objective Bounties activating if there are two or more support gold income items on your team
- Tribute / Spoils of War (PASSIVE) - Minion Farming Penalty
- Receive diminishing gold from excessive (4 minions per minute) ⇒ (2 minions per minute until 5 minutes; 4 minions per minute thereafter) minion kills.
- This diminished gold penalty is now also more severe during the first 5 minutes of the game. (All else unchanged)
LOL 12.4 New Skins
League of Legends will introduce 6 new skins in LoL 12.4. Four for the new Shockblade series for the champions: Kassadin, Qiyana, Shen, Xayah.
Fireflight Ekko is finally arriving as well, and Renata Glasc will arrive with a fantastic skin to try right from launch, Admiral Renata.