The League of Legends patch 14.23 preview goes over some of the changes that you can expect to hit the MOBA in the upcoming week. Some of the biggest highlights of the patch are the massive adjustments hitting both Ambessa and Aurora.
Buffs will be making their way to picks like Rengar and Miss Fortune, while nerfs will hit Caitlyn, Teemo, Skarner, and Jax.
Here is a list of everything you can look forward to in League of Legends patch 14.23.
League of Legends patch 14.23 pre-notes
Before moving on to the list of proposed changes it’s important to note here that the tweaks are tentative and may not reflect entirely in the official update next week. Riot will be testing them out in the League of Legends PBE before shipping out patch 14.23.
1) Champions
Ambessa Medarda
Passive: Drakehound’s Step
- Dashes no longer go over player-created terrain
Q: Cunning Sweep/Sundering Slam
- Q2 cast window increased: 3.5 seconds >>> 4 seconds
R: Public Execution
- Movement commands issued before a successful cast will be discarded after slamming the enemy into the ground to avoid pathing the player towards a place they are no longer near
Aurora
Passive: Spirit Abjuration
- Bonus movement speed removed entirely
Q: Twofold Hex
- +50 range
- Damage increased: 40-140 >>> 45-145
- Cooldown increased: 8-6 >>> 9-7
- Recast goes off automatically
W: Across the Veil
- No longer gets cooldown reset on takedown
- Cooldown decreased
- Now grants 20-40% movement speed on cast
E: The Weirding
- +25 range
R: Between Worlds
- Will now grant W’s movement speed passive rather than the old passive’s movespeed
- Duration increased: 1.5/2/2.5 seconds >>> 2/3/4 seconds
- Now the ring slows by 75% on exit (1.5-2 seconds) rather than trapping enemies
Azir
W: Arise!
- AP scaling: 35-55% >>> 40-60%
Caitlyn
R: Ace in the Hole
- Bonus AD scaling: 150% >>> 100%
Jinx
Base Stats
- AD growth increased: 2.9 >>> 3.25
W: Zap!
- Total AD scaling: 160% >>> 140%
Kha’Zix
Base Stats
- Armor reduced: 36 >>> 32
W: Void Spike
- Evolved isolated slow: 75% >>> 60%
Kog’Maw
Q: Caustic Spittle
- Resistance shred adjusted: 23-31% >>> 16-32%
E: Void Ooze
- 75-255 (70% AP) >>> 70-230 (65% AP)
Master Yi
R: Highlander
- Attack speed: 25/35/45% >>> 25/45/65%
Miss Fortune
Q: Double Up
- Mana cost reduced: 43-55 >>> 40
Rammus
Q: Fastball
- Cooldown adjusted: 16-6 >>> 12-6
Rell
Base Stats:
- Mana reduced: 350 >>> 320
- Mana growth reduced: 45 >>> 40
- Base Armor reduced: 36 >>> 30
- Armor growth per level increased: 4.2 >>> 4.3
- Base MR reduced: 30 >>> 28
- MR growth reduced: 2.05 >>> 1.8
- Base movement speed reduced: 330 >>> 315
- Attack speed growth increased: 1.5% >>> 2%
- Attack windup reduced: 21-19.5% >>> 18%
Passive: Break the Mold
- Armor and MR steal increased: .8-2 >>> 1-2
- Now deals 5% of total resistances on hit
W: Ferromancy
- Cooldown decreased: 11 >>> 10
- Knock up duration reduced: 1 second >>> 0.4 seconds
- Now stuns for 0.8 seconds after knock up
- Mounted
- 20-40 bonus movement speed
- Not Mounted
- Bonus Armor and MR increased: 12% >>> 15%
- No longer reduces movement speed
- Bonus attack speed reduced: 30% >>> 20%
- Shield increased slightly: 15-110 >>> 15-115
- Mounted
E: Full Tilt
- Passive movement speed removed
- Active movement speed while moving toward enemies increased: 200% >>> 250%
- Base damage and AP ratio removed, now deals more % max health damage
- Max health damage increased: 3% >>> 5-7% (+3% per 100 AP)
- Max health damage cap increased: 150 >>> 150-300
- Cooldown reduced: 15 >>> 14-10
Rengar
R: Thrill of the Hunt
- Bonus damage: 50% total AD >>> 100% total AD
- Armor shred increased: 12/18/24 >>> 15/20/25
Shyvana
Base Stats
- MR growth per level: 2.05 >>> 1.5
E: Flame Breath
- AP scaling: 80% >>> 70%
Skarner
Q: Shattered Earth
- Bonus HP scaling: 4% >>> 3%
Smolder
Q: Super Scorcher Breath
- Damage adjusted: 15-55 (100% total AD) >>> 65-125 (130% bonus AD)
- Passive stack scaling ratio decreased: 40% >>> 30%
- T2 bolts increased: 1 >>> 2
- Passive stacks required to get more bolts increased: 67 >>> 125
- T2 bounce damage decreased: 75% >>> 50%
- T3 burn no longer scales with AP and passive stacks
- T3 burn AD scaling increased: 2% per 100 bonus AD >>> 2.5% per 100 bonus AD
- No longer deals 10% bonus damage to champions
- Now refunds 15 mana if at least one target dies
W: Achoo!
- Missile damage adjusted: 45-165 (25% bonus AD) >>> 30-110 (60% bonus AD)
- Explosion damage increased: 25-85 (25% bonus AD) >>> 30-110 (60% bonus AD)
- Mana cost adjusted: 60 >>> 50-70
- Bonus minion damage removed
- These changes boil down to Smolder’s W doing much less damage to waves but significantly more damage to champions with his AD build. Riot’s trying to kill off AP Smolder so his W damage to champs should level out to be similar to what it was before with AP builds
E: Flap, Flap, Flap
- Damage adjusted: 15-35 (10% bonus AD) >>> 5-25 (10% bonus AD)
- Flat damage per passive stack decreased
- Passive bonus magic damage per stack reduced: 20% >>> 10%
- Passive stacks required for additional bolts decreased: 150 >>> 100
R: Mooommmm!
- Now deals half damage to minions
- Cooldown decreased: 140-120 >>> 120
Tahm Kench
Passive: An Acquired Taste
- AP scaling: 2% per 100 bonus HP >>> 1.5% per 100 bonus HP
R: Devour
- Shield AP scaling: 150% >>> 100%
Teemo
E: Toxic Shot
- Monster bonus damage: 150% >>> 125%
Zac
Q: Stretching Strikes
- Max HP scaling: 4% >>> 3%
2) Items
The Collector
- Cost: 2950 >>> 3000
Youmuu’s Ghostblade
- Out of combat movement speed reduced: 20 >>> 10
- Active duration reduced: 6 seconds >>> 4 seconds
Yun Tal Wildarrows
- Cost reduced: 3000 >>> 2900
- Passive duration: 4 seconds >>> 6 seconds
- Passive cooldown: 40 >>> 30
3) Systems
Bounties
- Champion bounties grow 14% faster from kills and assists
- Champion bounty reduction due to losing increased up to 4x
- Maximum contribution to objective bounties from gold leads doubled
League of Legends patch 14.23 release date
League of Legends patch 14.23 will be released on November 29, 2023. It will be one of the final patches leading into season 15.
