The League of Legends patch preview for 25.7 is now live, and there are a significant number of balance updates that Riot will be bringing to the MOBA. One of the biggest highlights of the upcoming patch is the buffs making their way to Shaco, Zoe, Trundle, and Volibear.
Alon with this, nerfs are hitting Lilia, Lulu, Gwen, and Naafiri, with adjustments making their way to Zerath, Yone, and Yorick.
Below is a list of all the expected changes that are expected to make their way to League of Legends with patch 25.7
League of Legends patch 25.7 preview
Before moving onto the list of changes, it’s important to note here that Riot Games will be testing all of the tweaks out in the LoL PBE before officially shipping them with the patch next week.
1) Champion Buffs
Brand
- P damage cap to non-epic monsters: 30 → 40
- P explosion damage cap to monsters: 250-475 → 270-525
Ivern
- Q root duration: 1.2-2 → 1.6-2
Olaf
- E Cast time: .25s → .25-.175s based on 0-125% bonus attack speed (Includes W)
Shaco
- P bonus AD ratio: 25% → 30%
- Q bonus AD ratio: 60% → 65%
Trundle
- E slow: 30-46% →34-50%
- Cooldown: 24-16 → 21-15
Volibear
- Empowered W damage amp: 50% 50% +15% bonus AD
2) Champion Nerfs
Darius
- Base Armor: 39 → 37
- E cooldown: 24-14 → 26-16
Gwen
- Q big snip damage: 70-170 → 60-160
- W resists: 25+ 5% AP→ 22 + 7% AP
Lilia
- E AP ratio: 60% → 50%
Lulu
- Q minimum damage: 70-210 → 60-200
- Q maximum damage: 105-315 → 90-300 –
- W cooldown: 18-16 → 18
Naafiri
- Armor: 30 → 28
- HP: 635 → 610
- W CD: 20-18 → 22-18
- P monster mod: 165% → 155%
- Q minion mod: 80% 100%
When talking about the Naafiri nerfs, Riot suggests,
“Naafiri is still pretty strong, even after the micropatch, so we’re taking her down a bit further down. So far, she’s pretty low ELO skewed; we’re looking to bring her early game down and especially in jungle. So far her damage is pretty high, which we’re keeping it there but making her work a little harder to access that damage.”
3) Champion Adjustments
Singed
- P per target CD: 8 → 10
- Q per second ratio: 40% → 42.5%
- R stats: 30-100 → 25-95
Xerath
- Q AP ratio: 85-90%
- W damage: 60-200 (+60% AP) → 50-190 (+65% AP)
- E damage: 80-200→70-190
- R damage: 180-280 (+40% AP) → 170-270 (+45% AP)
Yone
- P crit damage modifier: 90% 100%
- E no longer cleanses crowd control at the end of the effect
Yorick
- Deaths per grave: 12/6/2 at level 1/7/13 → 8-2 at levels 1-13
- Q on champions and large/epic monsters now spawn a grave Mist Walker, HP reduced by about 50%
- Mist Walkers no longer instantly die to basic attacks and single-target abilities
- Mist Walkers take 50% less damage from all monsters → Mist Walkers take 60% less damage from minions and non-epic monsters
- Mist Walker AD 4-90 + 20% total AD → 15-75 + 20% bonus AD
- Mist Walker AS: 8% per level → Yorick’s bonus AS
- Mist Walkers no longer recall with Yorick while engaged with jungle monsters
- Q CD: 7-4 → 6-4
- Q damage: 30-130 +40% total AD → 30-130 + 50% total AD
- E damage: 15% current HP (minimum 70-210 + 70% AP) → 70-210 + 100% AP, no HP damage
- E move speed: 20% 30% – E debuff: 20% Mist Walker damage for 8 attacks → 18-30% armor shred
- E leap and basic attacks now properly apply Black Cleaver
- E leap no longer fails to reach its target over terrain
- R attack damage: 0/10/40 + 50% total AD→ 50/75/100 + 30% bonus AD
- Armor growth: 5.2 → 4.5
- Yorick may now ping his passive to display the total number of his Mist Walkers nearby and on the map (show off your high score!)
4) System Buffs
Catalyst the Protector
- Build path: +1 Ruby Crystal (total price unchanged) – Mana: 300 → 375
- Eternity mana from damage taken: 7% → 10% Eternity mana from damage taken: 7% → 10%
Rod of Ages
- Eternity mana from damage taken: 7% → 10%
Umbral Glaive
- Cost: 2600 → 2500
- AD: 50 → 55
- Passive cooldown: 50s → 90s
When talking about the Catalyst buffs, Riot states,
“Catalyst has been weak for a while, especially compared to Lost Chapter which feels like a significantly better purchase. We’re not looking to decrease the price as that makes it too good at stalling action on the 1100 spike, so just looking to increase its actual efficiency.”
5) System nerfs
Recall Homeguard
- Max HP/s: 10.4% 8% Max MP/s: 12.4% → 10%
- Missing HP&MP/s: 6-12% (minute 1-14) → 16% (always)
- Homeguard decaying move speed: 75-150% (minute 1-40) → 65-150% (minute 1-40)
6) System Adjustments
Lane Swap Detection
- Detection shrunk to no longer include Raptor camp
League of Legends patch 25.7 release date
League of Legends patch 25.7 will go live next week on April 3, 2025. It will be one of the final patches of the Spring season, which will bring a lot of balance updates to the solo-queue meta.
