Riot Games has revealed the tentative early patch notes for League of Legends update 14.3, giving players a sneak peek at the changes coming next week. While these tweaks are not finalized yet, the notes highlight some of the major champion, item, and skin updates players can expect when the official 14.3 patch goes live.
LoL 14.3 Champion Changes
Several champions are set to receive significant buffs and nerfs in 14.3 as Riot continues balancing the meta after the massive preseason overhaul:
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Aurelion Sol
- Q cost reduced from 45-65 to 30-50, stacks per champion burst increased from one to three.
- W cost reduced from 80-100 to 50-70, cooldown reduced from 22-16 to 15-11 seconds, damage amp (Q) increased from 14-20% to 18-26%
- E stacks per small minions/monsters unchanged, per large minion/monsters reduced from three to two, per champion/epic monsters reduced from five to two.
Lillia
- Passive damage of time target total health ability power scaling total over three seconds reduced from 1.5% to 1.25%.
- Q damage ability power scaling reduced from 45% to 35%.
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Maokai
- Base mana regeneration reduced from 7.2 to 6.
- Passive healing base breakpoints (4-34) now removed, total health scaling breakpoints increased from 4-12% to 4-13.25%.
- Q cooldown reduced from 8-5 to 7-5 seconds, cost reduced from 60 to 40.
- E cooldown changed from 14 seconds to 16-12 seconds, cost changed from 45-85 to 60-80.
- R cooldown changed from 120-100 to 130-90 seconds.
Ziggs
- Armor increased from 18 (plus 4.5) to 21 (plus 4.7).
- W cooldown reduced from 24-12 to 20-12 seconds.
Zyra
- Mana regeneration increased from 13 (plus 0.4) to 7 (plus 0.8).
- Q cost reduced from 70 to 55.
- W small unit on-kill cooldown refund increased from 20% to 35%, large unit cooldown refund unchanged (still 100 percent).
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14.3 Item Changes
A large number of items are being tuned in patch 14.3, though details are still scarce. Some of the major items being adjusted include:
- Boots of Swiftness
- Collector
- Echoes of Helia
- Eclipse
- Essence Reaver
- Guinsoo’s Rageblade
- Hextech Alternator
- Hextech Rocketbelt
- Kraken Slayer
- Lich Bane
- Luden’s Companion
- Malignance
- Profane Hydra
- Redemption
- Sheen
- Statikk Shiv
- Stormrazor
- Stormsurge
- Stridebreaker
- Sundered Sky
- Titanic Hydra
- Youmuu’s Ghostblade
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14.3 New Skins
The early notes tease several upcoming skins for patch 14.3:
- Heavenscale Diana
- Heavenscale Ezreal
- Prestige Heavenscale Ezreal
- Heavenscale Janna
- Heavenscale Kai’Sa
- Heavenscale Lee Sin
- Divine Heavenscale Lee Sin
- Heavenscale Master Yi
The angelic Heavenscale skin line features shimmering golden armor and wing motifs for this batch of champions. Prestige Heavenscale Ezreal and Mythic Divine Heavenscale Lee Sin will offer special rare variants.
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Summary
League of Legends patch 14.3 is shaping up to be a sizable update aimed at fine-tuning the state of the meta in early 2024. While tentative, these early notes offer some valuable insight into the types of champion, item, and cosmetic changes players can expect.
Key things to watch for when the official notes arrive include nerfs to dominant champions like Aurelion Sol and Lillia, item system adjustments, and the striking new Heavenscale skin line.
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