The League of Legends patch preview for 25.18 is now live, and Riot is going to be introducing a lot of mid lane meta adjustments next week. Some of the biggest highlights of the update will be the nerfs hitting Annie, Aurora, Azir, Galio, and Taliyah. With buffs making their way to Vel’Koz, Jayce, Hwei, and Cassiopeia.
There will be a sizeable midlane shift next patch, and it will be interesting to see which mage becomes the more popular choice in both pro-play and standard matchmaking.
Below is a list of all the changes that are expected to make their way to the Rift with LoL patch 25.18.
League of Legends patch 15.18 pre-notes
Before moving on to the pre-notes, it’s important to note here that Riot will first be testing the patches out in the LoL PBE before officially shipping them next week. So the entire pre-notes might not be reflected in the patch next week.
Champion Buffs
Amumu
- Q Cooldown: 16-12-16-10
- Mana Cost: 45-65→ 50
Ashe
- AD Growth: 2.95 +3.45
Cassiopeia
- Base Mana: 400 →450
- E Poisoned Base Damage: 20-100 → 20-112
Garen
- E AD Ratio per spin: 36-48% → 38-50%
Hwei
- E AD Ratio per spin: 36-48% → 38-50%
- P AP Ratio: 30% → 35%
- WQ MS: 20-30% (+2% per 100 AP) → 30-40% (+3% per 100 AP)
- E AP Ratio (All Subjects): 60% →65%
Jayce
- Ranged Q Base Damage: 60-310 → 80-310
Vel’koz
- E CD: 14-12 → 12-10
- R Base Damage: 450-800 450-925
Champion Nerfs
Annie
- W Base Damage: 70-250 → 70-230
- R Passive Pen: 15/17.5/20% → 10/15/20%
Aurora
- P Damage: 2.5% (2% per 100 AP) → 1% (2.7% per 100 AP)
Azir
- AS Growth: 5.5% 5%
- W AP Ratio: 45-65% → 40-60%
Galio
- P AP Ratio: 45% → 40%
- Q Tick Damage: 2.5% (10% over duration) → 2% (8% over duration)
Qiyana (Jungle & Mid)
- Base AD: 66→ 64
- Armor Growth: 4.7→ 4.5
- P Damage: 30% → 25% Bonus AD
Sylas (Jungle)
- P Monster Damage Amp: 150% +130%
Taliyah
- TBD
Volibear
- PAS AP Ratio: 4% per 100 AP→ 3% per 100 AP
Yunara
- Base Health: 600 575
- Base AD: 56 53
- E MS: 50-70% 30-50%
- E MS Duration: 1.5-2.5 seconds → 1.5 seconds all ranks
When talking about the Mid Lane meta changes Riot states,
“The mid meta has been a lot about tempo AP champs (Annie, Aurora, Galio, etc.) who also build pretty tankily while also having a lot of damage. This results in them strategically not having a ton of tradeoffs, so we’re making a few adjustments to these champs that skew them a bit out of Proplay.”
Champion Adjustments
Briar
- Q Damage: 60-180 (+80% BAD) (+60% AP) Magic >>> 60-160 (+80% BAD) (+60% AP) Physical
- R SFX: Plays on cast → Plays after 1s cast time
- R Damage: 150/250/350 (+ 50% bonus AD) (+ 120% AP) >>> 150/250/350 (+130% AP)
- R Range: 10000 >>> 12000
Illaoi
- P no longer spawns tentacles during teleport
- W max health damage: 3/3.5/4/4.5/5% + 4% per 100 total AD → 3/3.5/4/4.5/5% +3.5% per 100 total AD
- E Vessel duration: 3s → 4s
System Buffs
Bami’s Cinder & Sunfire Cape
- Bami’s Immolate Monster Damage Bonus: 50% +100%
- Sunfire’s Immolate Minion/Monster Damage Bonus: 50% + 60%
Mercurial Scimitar
- Attack Damage: 40 50
- Magic Resist: 40 → 35 Active MS Duration: 1.5s → 2s
League of Legends patch 15.18 release date
League of Legends patch 15.18 will be going live next week, and you can expect it to drop onto the Rift on September 11, 2025.
