Every couple of weeks, Legends of Runeterra receives a periodical update. And this time, the update is a rather big one. And keeping up with balance changes serves essential to mastering the current meta. From new cosmetics, massive balance changes, and even cool events alongside emotes, here are the full Legends of Runeterra 3.6.0 patch notes.
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In addition to the rest of the card updates below, we’ve got another set of new cards for this patch to fill in some gaps for a few archetypes, namely: Elites, Reputation, and… Udyr. Work with us, we’re still experimenting with this idea.
We’re generally improving the Elites package in this patch, and Might of the Vanguard acts as a flexible way to bring another fairly-statted Elite to the field
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make your other Elites more… elite, in one big cast.
Much like with Elites, Reputation has a few additional changes this patch to make the overall package more satisfying to pull off. For Glory! can help activate Reputation faster, or act as an efficient way to pull some threats from the enemy’s backline.
With Udyr’s new level-up condition revolving around Stances, Inner Beast acts as a flexible card that can work with a wide variety of Freljord cards, while providing a much more explicit benefit to Udyr himself.
As laid out in the Early 2022 Roadmap, this is our Champion Adjustments patch. We’ve made a range of changes to some underplayed champions to help smooth out their gameplans, as well as some supporting cards for Elites, Reputation, and Udyr, among others.
Also, yes, nerfs The Bandle Tree & Yordles in Arms.
Here’s a look at each of the card updates coming in this patch:
This change should help Darius be more consistent in The Path of Champions.
Galio was only gaining a single point of health on level-up, so this change makes his stat gain more consistent with our rules & makes him just a bit more formidable.
Garen was feeling a bit vanilla, so we modernized his design while helping him to enable Demacians to do what they do best – fight with square stats.
Karma losing functionality on level-up didn’t feel great, so her Level 2 now retains the spell generation, which also helps replenish your hand if you empty it to reach Enlightenment.
Katarina’s got a few more knives. Like Karma, she now retains her level 1 functionality. Reducing the cost of Blade’s Edge to 0 on her level 2 form, we’re giving her a slight edge to clear our weakened targets to prevent chump blocking.
It can be pretty tough to generate a Mirror Image, so giving her one on level up should help to increase LeBlanc’s overall presence & thematic resonance.
Leona already has the Zenith Blade, so this just makes sense (and y’all seemed to like it when we accidentally shipped this before). This change should help Leona close out games more effectively once she levels up.
For a high-cost champion, we wanted to give Malphite a little extra rock & roll when he’s dropped on the field. Being able to immediately stun a target makes him a better pick with Yasuo lets him more consistently stall the match until he can get into motion.
Ambush has become a go-to tool for some decks to end games abruptly, without much opportunity for interaction from the opponent. We’re increasing the cost to be in-line with similar effects.
This bot has been an overperformer for a while, and with Viktor’s recent buffs, it’s time to tune the engine down a notch.
In addition to Vlad’s changes, making Blood for Blood burst speed allows for some cool outplays in self-damaging decks.
We’re happy to see Buried Sun Disc get some serious play, but it’s getting flipped faster than we’d like for the impact it has on the game.
In addition to For Glory! and LeBlanc’s changes, we want to make hitting Reputation more impactful. Even at a slightly higher cost, Callous Bonecrusher is now more of a threat to close out games once Reputation is achieved.
With Udyr’s new level-up condition & Inner Beast, Hyara Allseer has also been changed to encourage more Stance Swap casts.
Giving Swifting Lancer the Elite subtype lets it benefit from Might of the Vanguard & Vanguard Squire’s changes to make the archetype more cohesive overall.
This change makes it so The Bandle Tree’s condition can be reset if it’s removed from the field, increasing overall interactivity & effectiveness of landmark removal against the deck. Hitting the instant win condition is much harder, but we didn’t want to completely burn the tree down, so the cost has also been lowered to make it an effective value generator for a relatively high initial investment.
Like with Might of the Vanguard & Swiftwing Lancer, this change helps smooth out the curve & overall gameplan for Elites.
YiA hasn’t seen as much play as before 3.4 with all the new decks popping up, but it’s still a little too scary when it is played, so we’re reducing the enhanced effect.
Following up from patch 3.4.0, we have some important rule changes, as well as more visual UX improvements. We’ve got a few videos here that outline all the changes, but please read below for full info.
Context from game designer Rubinzoo:
Burst / Pass: Previously, you could only end the round after your opponent has fully passed without taking an action. Beginning this patch, if your opponent passes after playing only a Burst or Focus spell, you may now end the round.
We’re making this change to:
With this change, we’re adjusting 61 cards in ways that range from small text-only changes to larger impact timing changes. The vast majority of these are card buffs with some slight tweaks and a few nerfs. We plan to extra-closely monitor both in positive cases for buffed cards and negative cases for nerfed cards and make future changes accordingly.
We’re making these changes to:
This might be hard to fully grasp right away, so take some time to experiment! Our goal is to make gameplay more intuitive right off the bat, and we’ve put the work in to iterate on these changes to make sure they’ll land right, and we’ll keep a close eye on feedback. Once the patch drops, let us know how you feel about the changes!
On top of 3.4.0’s Premonition update, this patch, we’ve added additional visual UX updates to make it easier to tell what’s going on in a match. No gameplay rules are changing based on these updates, they’re visual-only.
As with the game rule updates, we’ve done a lot of testing on these to make LoR a more intuitive experience overall, and we’re looking forward to your impressions and feedback once the patch drops!
The following personalization items are available with this patch.
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Arcane Jinx Alternate Art
Additionally, based on feedback regarding skins and our continuing efforts to improve personalization offerings, we’ve added custom champion spell card art to all existing Epic-tier skins, as well as new VFX for Pool Party Draven’s Spinning Axe Spell. Ruined Draven’s Spinning Axe will be updated with new VFX in patch 3.7.0 as well.
 Battle Academia Lux |
 Cosmic Zephyr Yasuo |
 Dark Star Zed |
 Gilded Vi |
 Pool Party Taliyah |
 Santa Braum |
 Sentinel Irelia |
 Worldbreaker Trundle |
 Pool Party Draven |
 Ruined Draven |
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