The patch notes for patch 3.10a are up!

If you are wondering why this is 3.10a and not 3.11, Riot Pwyff's got an answer for you!

"Hey Summoners!

With our focus on stability for patches leading up to the World Finals, we’ve decided to split our next update into a few parts in order to mitigate risk. As such, this patch is titled 3.10a due to the nature of its deploy (as it contains only balance and design changes)."

Continue reading for the full set of patch notes, including changes to Master Yi, Riven, Zac, several items, and more!

Here's Riot Pwyff with the full notes:



Champions



Leblanc
Summary: LeBlanc’s base health regeneration and attack damage per level have been slightly increased.

Context: With unorthodox skills, unmatched mobility and a supremely squishy face, LeBlanc’s always been a difficult champion to master. While this is intended, the changes we made to her in Patch 3.9 made her even more vulnerable, especially during her laning phase. These minor buffs should improve her play experience and even her out a little.

Base health regen increased to 7.05 (from 5.05)
Attack damage per level increased to 3.5 (from 3.1)


Master Yi
Summary: Highlander now reduces ability cooldowns per kills and assists by a percentage amount rather than a flat second reduction. This means Master Yi will never get a “full reset” to chain Alpha Strikes together even if he kills with his first Alpha Strike. Additionally, Master Yi’s attack speed per level has been reduced, while Meditate’s damage reduction at later levels has been increased. Wuju Style’s passive attack damage bonus is now higher at earlier levels and lower at later levels.

Context: New Yi quickly emerged as a powerhouse champion, and while we soon identified the need to reduce his power, we wanted to do it in an intelligent way that created windows of opportunity for both Yi and his opponents, rather than by simply reducing his overall damage. We like Highlander’s reset mechanic, but the flat second reduction on it meant that solid Yi players could effectively chain Alpha Strikes together with no window of vulnerability after scoring a kill. These changes mean Master Yi needs to land a few basic attacks after earning resets in order to Alpha Strike, which should give his opponents opportunities to fight back. Yi’s Meditate buffs give him ways of bridging those cooldown gaps defensively if needed, and offer more viable options when upgrading abilities.

General

Attack speed per level decreased to 2% (from 2.75%)

Double Strike

Fixed a bug where the second strike would damage targets even when Master Yi was blinded

Meditate

Damage reduction increased at later ranks to 50/55/60/65/70% (from 40/45/50/55/60%)

Wuju Style

Passive attack damage bonus changed to 10% at all ranks (from 7/9/11/13/15%)

Highlander

Now passively reduces the remaining cooldown for Master Yi's basic abilities by 70% on a kill or assist (instead of 18 seconds on kill or 9 seconds on assist)


Riven
Summary: Riven can now leap over walls with the third hit of Broken Wings.

Context: Riven's Broken Wings started crossing walls on live following a few engine fixes. We looked at this and decided we want to fully support the emergent gameplay while cleaning up the ability’s environmental interactions. This change promotes Riven’s high mobility playstyle and skirmish play pattern, so we’ll balance around it rather than simply remove the change if it affects her power significantly.

General

Fixed an issue where several of Riven's particle effects were missing

Broken Wings

Third hit now knocks up affected targets rather than knocking them back
Only the third cast can now leap over walls
Hitbox has been retuned to more closely match the particles



Shen
Summary: Shen’s Feint shield has been weakened, while Stand United can now be interrupted by root effects.

Context: As a dominant force in the competitive scene, Shen gets just a little too tanky in the late game – to the point where even primary damage dealers have a tough time eating through his shields. This small nerf should reduce some of Shen’s strong dueling potential. Additionally, our Stand United change has been brought in to increase the consistency with which we handle delayed movement abilities. Specifically, Shen’s Stand United channel will be interruptible by root effects, similar to Twisted Fate’s Gate. We’ll continue looking at other cases in the future.

Feint

Shield amount reduced to 60/100/140/180/220 (from 70/115/160/205/250)

Stand United

Can now be interrupted by root effects



Twitch
Summary: Twitch’s Expunge now deals less damage at early to mid levels.

Context: Currently Twitch's laning phase trades are too strong, even when he’s forced to pop Expunge before reaching full stacks of Deadly Venom. These changes should balance out the Plague Rat’s early game power without affecting his team fight potential.

Expunge

Base damage reduced to 20/35/50/65/80 (from 40/50/60/70/80)



Zac
Summary: Zac's passive healing blobs will now be harder to pick up for both him and his opponents. Additionally, Zac’s ult no longer grants him Tenacity while active.

Context: Previously, Zac’s pickup range was so large he would sometimes regain health from his blobs even if he stood still after using an ability. The blob radius change creates more potential counterplay in lane, since Zac and his opponents now have to specifically move to blobs to regain or deny health. The tenacity portion of Let’s Bounce has removed to allow for more gameplay in fights, notably by giving enemies the chance to lock Zac down while protecting vulnerable targets.

Cell Division

Blob absorption and squish radius reduced to 25 (from 100)

Let's Bounce

No longer grants tenacity
Fixed the tooltip to state that Zac removes all slows affecting him upon activation






Items

NOTE: If an item value or statistic is not mentioned, it is still present on the item.

Bilgewater Cutlass

Range reduced to 450 (from 550)
Active now takes into account the bounding boxes for each champion

Blade of the Ruined King

Range reduced to 450 (from 550)
Active cooldown increased to 90 (from 60)


Locket of the Iron Solari

Fixed a bug where it was granting more health regen than intended


Spirit Visage

Combine cost increased to 500 gold (from 375). Total cost increased to 2750 gold (from 2625)


Phage & Trinity Force’s Icy Passive


Summary: Phage and Trinity Force no longer have the “Icy” slow passive. Instead of a percentage chance to slow an enemy champion on hit, these items now grant movement speed for a short duration of time, along with even more movement speed on minion, monster, and champion kills. Frozen Mallet’s function remains unchanged, but its recipe has changed.

Context: Following the nerfs to Blade of the Ruined King, we wanted to create more tools to help bruisers stick to their targets. Ultimately we focused on in-skirmish mobility as a valuable and healthy stat for all champions.

Phage

UNIQUE Passive - Icy removed
New UNIQUE Passive - Rage: basic attacks grant 20 movement speed for 2 seconds on hit. Minion, monster, and champion kills grant 60 movement speed for 2 seconds
Combine cost reduced to 375 gold (from 590). Total cost reduced to 1250 gold (from 1465)

Trinity Force

UNIQUE Passive - Icy removed
New UNIQUE Passive - Rage: basic attacks grant 20 movement speed for 2 seconds on hit. Minion, monster, and champion kills grant 60 movement speed for 2 seconds
UNIQUE Passive - Spellblade
Damage increased to 200% base attack damage (from 150%)
Due to Phage's price reduction, total cost is now 3628 gold (from 3843)

Frozen Mallet

Recipe Changed: Giant's Belt + Pickaxe + Ruby Crystal + 950 gold = 3300 total gold
UNIQUE Passive – Icy retained






Maps

Summoner's Rift

Lesser Wraith
Fixed a bug where lesser wraiths were granting less experience than intended (4 instead of 15)


Twisted Treeline and Crystal Scar

Blade of the Ruined King
Now available on the Crystal Scar
Entropy
UNIQUE Passive - Icy removed
New UNIQUE Passive - Rage: basic attacks grant 20 movement speed for 2 seconds on hit. Minion, monster, and champion kills grant 60 movement speed for 2 seconds
Due to Phage's price reduction, total cost is now 3400 gold (from 3615)
Kitae's Bloodrazor
Removed from the Crystal Scar


Howling Abyss

Poros
No change. Still awesome

He can spray me with his water gun ANY day.

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