League of Legends is no stranger to bugs, both big and small, and these glitches tend to surface especially with the release of new updates or champions. Recently, following the 14.14 update, the community discovered an amusing yet problematic bug.

For reasons not entirely understood, champions utilizing abilities like Ekko, Illao, and certain aspects of Rengar while targeting enemy structures such as Inhibitors or the Nexus, fail to execute their leap. Instead, these champions appear to attack from an extended range, resembling ranged champions.

This bug was thoroughly investigated and confirmed by Vandiril, a prominent content creator known for testing and showcasing it. He conducted an experiment with Ivern and Rengar, revealing that Rengar, even without using his ultimate, could attack the Nexus from within a brush, bypassing the usual melee range restrictions.

The extent of this bug’s impact is still uncertain. It’s unclear whether it affects only Ekko, Illaoi, and Rengar or if it applies to all champions with jump abilities and attack buffs. Nevertheless, this glitch provides significant advantages to these melee champions during late-game fights, allowing them to safely attack structures from a distance, much like ranged champions.

However, exploiting this bug requires the enemy to be pushed back to their Nexus turrets, limiting its impact in the early to mid-game stages. Thus, while it presents a notable advantage in certain situations, it doesn’t offer an overwhelming benefit for consistent rank climbing. Despite this, it is significant enough that Riot Games will need to address it promptly to maintain game balance and fairness.

In summary, this bug, although humorous at first glance, creates an unfair advantage for specific champions when attacking key enemy structures. Riot Games will likely prioritize a fix to ensure the gameplay consistency.

In 2023, League of Legends saw a slew of new thematics. These skinlines have broadened the range of skin available in the game. And, Summoner’s Rift is poised to become your own personal painting for patch 13.18, thanks to League of Legends’ new Street Demon skinline, which will include cosmetics for five champions.

Brand, Rengar, Neeko, Zyra, and Dr Mundo will all be having some street style added to their diverse ensembles in this colourful new skinline as they plunge into the battle with bright, flamboyant hues and a dash of attitude and flair.

This new cosmetic line features a terrific mix of darker tones and eye-catching neon colours, with each champion sporting graffiti-inspired designs. These street champions are ready to create an impact and leave their imprint, with each skill being highlighted like a graffiti tag, paint spatter on contact, and their recall animation showing off their own unique tag on an unseen wall.

Here’s everything you need to know about the 5 Street Demon skins coming to League of Legends.

League of Legends Street Demon 2023

Brand

Rarity: Epic

Price: 1350 RP

Rengar

Rarity: Epic

Price: 1350 RP

Neeko

Rarity: Epic

Price: 1350 RP

Zyra

Rarity: Epic

Price: 1350 RP

Dr Mundo

Rarity: Epic

Price: 1350 RP

According to the game’s official Twitter account, the Street Demon skins are already accessible on the League PBE, and they will be live in League of Legends with patch 13.18 on September 14.

Riot has released a preview of patch 12.9, offering players an early peek at which champions and items will be buffed and nerfed in the game’s upcoming patch

According to lead designer Riot Phroxzon, the forthcoming patch will bring buffs and nerfs to a total of 10 champions, including adjustments to Olaf, Taliyah, and Pyke, and Hullbreaker, which is being substantially nerfed.

The “highlights” of patch 12.9, according to the post, are essentially the adjustments coming to Olaf and Taliyah, both of whom have been predominantly played in the jungle in recent years.

Riot Games has taken a number of approaches, including a mini-rework for changing the kits of some League of Legends champions that have fallen out of the meta in order to make them more viable choices as the League’s champion roster changes, and Taliyah and Olaf are on board.

Riot August has already revealed the “mid-scope updates” for Taliyah and Olaf are in the works but will not be available on live servers for many months. The pre-release versions of them have also been announced and currently waiting for patch 12.9 to go live.

As for the buffs and nerfs, Braum and Thresh, two support champions, are getting buffs in the patch. They join Hecarim and Varus as the only champions on the League roster whose strength will be directly increased in patch 12.9.

Rengar, Nidalee, and Master Yi will be the three junglers that will be nerfed because of their recent playing time. We’re all aware of the Sion’s passive nerf to damaging towers, thus there’s no need to discuss it.

More information on these buffs and nerfs will be released later on, probably tomorrow. According to the game’s official patch schedule, League of Legends patch 12.9 will be available on May 11. The Mid-Season Invitational (MSI), which starts on May 10, will be played on patch 12.8. 

Rengar has been on Riot’s attention for almost a year before his rework was released in LoL patch 12.6. After several changes, each patch presumably fiddling with a new skill before being deleted, a slew of “good adjustments” ultimately went live in patch 12.6.

His overall win rate has increased somewhat, rising from roughly 47 to 48.5%. Given Riot’s initial goal of making Rengar simpler to learn, the buff was undoubtedly a success.

The significant difference, though, is in high elo. He is now considered an S-tier champion in both the jungle and the top lane, according to statistics from Lolalytics. Rengar has an incredible 52.8% win rate in the jungle at Diamond+ and is banned in more than a quarter of League games. The figure is even more surprising in the top lane, given his main position is in the jungle, yet his win rate rises to over 52.86% in the top lane.

The changes were so significant that Riot eventually had to nerf him. In the upcoming patch 12.7, Rengar top is getting a nerf with decreased tower damage on Q, but jungle players may rejoice since he’s getting a buff there with additional monster damage on his W, making his jungle clear even faster.

Riot is also wanting to shake things up with more metas coming in MSI 2022, and perhaps Rengar is one of them. With the tournament fast approaching, Rengar might make his first international League of Legends appearance since Worlds 2020 for his dominance on the leaderboard.

Patch 12.7 will go live on April 13 and players should see the Pridestalker back in the jungle stronger than ever.

Riot Games tweeted the patch 12.7 preview yesterday, indicating which champions or items will be modified. The expanded patch preview for League of Legends Patch 12.7 was released today, with a number of champions set to undergo balancing tweaks. This update will see a lot of changes in the jungle, with a few well-known champions receiving big improvements to their kit.

Wukong is probably the champion who receives the most modification in this patch since all of his basic abilities are all getting buffed. His Q ability’s cooldown has been reduced by one second at all ranks, and his W ability may now go through walls. His E, Nimbus Strike, will inflict an additional 30% damage to monsters, and its AP ratio will be increased by 20% as well, from 80 to 100%. As a result, the champion’s jungle clear should improve drastically, as well as his ganking potential with the W buff.

Karthus is also in line for the jungle buffs even though it’s nothing compared to Wukong. His Q damage against monsters has been increased by 10%, which should reduce the amount of mana required to destroy camps.

Rengar is also getting some changes to his kit after his recent mini-rework. The additional damage Savagery (Q) deals to towers will be lowered by 40% for the Pridestalker, but the damage it deals to jungle camps and monsters will be increased at all ranks to compensate for the severe reduction to his split pushing potential. This modification will odd to keep Rengar in the jungle.

Besides the jungle buffs in patch 12.7, Lee Sin is the only jungler who receives a nerf towards his damage. His basic attack damage, as well as the damage on his Q are set to be nerfed.

More changes can be seen in the patch note. According to the game’s schedule, patch 12.7 will go live on April 13 and players will see some significant changes in the jungle.

Season 12 has just been out for two months, but Riot has already released some impressive mini-reworks of champions including as Ahri, Janna, and Master Yi. Patch 12.6 of League of Legends is almost approaching, and it appears Riot is preparing yet another mini-rework for Rengar. Furthermore, Riot Games will replace Ravenous Hunter with a new rune named Treasure Hunter in patch 12.6.

Here’s all you need to know about patch 12.6’s early notes.

Rengar Mini-rework

Unseen Predator (P):

• [MODIFIED]: When Rengar has no ferocity his next leap generates 1 ferocity.
• Ferocity Falloff Time: 8 >>> 10
• Bonetooth Forgiveness Timer: 1.5s >>> 3s
• Timing on ability to leap from brush is no longer variable by up to 0.25s
  • Range increased 25u to adjust
• Jump Height: Slightly increased
• Uses secondary resource bar for stacks, shows which stack came from leap

Savagery (Q):

• Always counts as critical strike, critical strike chance scales damage
  • Currently: 1% crit chance = 1 damage
• Works on towers

Bola Strike (E):

• [NEW]: No cast time when leaping
• [NEW]: Reveals enemies for 2 seconds

Thrill of the Hunt (R):

• Reveal:
  • Just the Unit >>> small area around the unit

Zeri nerfs

Basic stats:

• Base AD: 58 >>> 50
• HP: 500 + 85/lvl >> 480 + 90/lvl
• Armor: 23 + 3.5/lvl >>> 20 + 3/lvl

Burst Fire (Q):

• Damage: 9-25 >>> 10-30
• Charged rightclick % max health damage: 3-15% by level 18 >>> 1-10% by level 13

Spark Surge (E):

• CD: 23-19 >>> 23
• Passthrough damage: 80-100% >>> 60-100%

Lightning Crash (R):

• MS/stack: 2% >>> 1.5-2%
• Stacks per champion hit with the AoE explosion: 3 >>> 4

Rune changes:

[New] Treasure Hunter:

• Gain an additional 70 gold the next time you collect a Bounty Hunter stack. Increase the gold gained by 20 gold for each Bounty Hunter stack, up to 150 gold. Bounty Hunter stacks are earned the first time you get a takedown on each enemy champion.

[Removed] Ravenous Hunter:

Fleet Footwork

• Energized Attack damage lowered from [10 – 100 (+0.4 Bonus AD, +0.3 AP)] to [10 – 100 (+0.3 Bonus AD, +0.2 AP)]

Legend: Bloodline

• [Changed Effect] “Gain 0.4% lifesteal for every Legend stack (max 15 stacks). At maximum Legend stacks, gain 100 max health. Earn progress toward Legend stacks for every champion takedown, epic monster takedown, large monster kill, and minion kill.”

Healing item nerfs

Vampiric Scepter

• Lifesteal lowered from 10% to 8%

Bloodthirster

• AD increased from 55 to 60
• Life steal lowered from 20% to 15%

Blade of the Ruined King

• Life Steal lowered from 10% to 8%

Immortal Shieldbow

·  Lifesteal lowered from 10% to 8%

·  Mythic Passive health increased from 50 to 70

Skins

Mythic content, Prestige, Gemstone:

Patch 12.6 marks the release of Phase 1 of Mythic Content Overhaul. Gemstones and Prestige Points will be removed and merged into a new currency known as Mythic Essence. Riot will be releasing special editions of the 2018 and 2019 Prestige Skins as part of the Mythic Content Overhaul. Furthermore, Riot is discontinuing the Hextech theme in favor of new seasonal thematics for Mythic Essence-exclusive skins.

League of Legends patch 12.6 will be out on March 30, 2022.

In a recent post on his private Twitter, RiotPhlox announced some considerable updates to bring Rengar back to Summoner’s Rift. Specifically, his “new” passive helps him to stay safe in the early game and his Q improves the amount of damage dealt to turrets and other objectives due to new crit counting.

However, on the PBE server, Rengar now can ONE-SHOT EVERYTHING with his Q. Not only camps, minions but also huge objectives like turrets, Drakes, Barons,… are all destroyed by just a Q.

According to the bug-god Vandiril, he had no idea about the reason why the amount of bonus damage scaling as crit damage rocketed to 10000%. Meanwhile, in Phlox’s post, that scaled exactly as the crit chance, which meant the maximum of that was just 100. As a result, “new” Rengar on PBE can deal thousands of crit damage no matter what the target is.

This is obviously an extremely serious bug and it’s high time Riot needed to fix Rengar’s code. If this becomes reality, this game probably should be renamed into “League of Rengar”.

Rengar used to be a nightmare to mages and marksmen due to his instant assassination, especially when his R is available. However, after multiple changes in the META, Rengar has gradually lost his popularity among the assassins.

During pre-season 12, Rengar once became the topic of discussions on Twitter and other social networks. Sadly, the reason was that the Chemtech map lessened him a lot as it got rid of several bushes, which were Rengar’s “Holy Land”. Riot then gave him a buff that he could leap when staying in the Chemtech fog, but that seemed to go nowhere. That map now has already gone, but his power has not returned yet.

As a result, Riot ONCE AGAIN decided to rework Rengar. So far, on PBE server, he has been updated a lot from his passive to his kit.

His passive seems to be the spotlight of this rework, however the [MODIFIED] looks hilarious as it has already existed. The decreased falloff time of Ferocity able him to trade easier during laning. His AD-increasing timer is also increased so that he won’t have to be risky in early fights. Besides, his enemies may find it frightening to face him due to his increased jump height and 25 of jump range.

Rengar’s Q – his main source of damage, now counts as critical strike and works on tower. This probably is a move from Riot to popularize Top Rengar as he currently can destroy towers more quickly. However, its new critical strike mechanism appears to be quite awkward as most assassins depend on cheap Lethality items to snowball in the midgame. Meanwhile, the critical items are relatively expensive and seem to be unsuitable for an assassin like him and this new mechanism apparently goes nowhere.

His E now can use at the same time with leaping to smooth out his combo and also reveals the target for 2 seconds. His R is also upgraded to lighten a small area around the target in case he jumps into the middle of the enemy team and is slain immediately.

These changes are said to be extremely positive to Rengar’s power and hopefully, these will bring Rengar back to Summoner’s Rift. They are still being tested on PBE server and are planned to complete in patch 12.6, which will be published in the late March.

League Patch 12.2 introduces several adjustments to the game, many of which benefit heroes and items that have suffered since Season 2022 began.

Riot Phlox, a League designer on the Summoner’s Rift team, went into depth about the enhancements that would follow League Patch 12.2. Many of these improvements, as well as the abundance of nerfs included in this patch, are presently available for testing on League’s PBE.

Many of the patch’s buffs revolve around restoring set damage to champions that incurred net losses as a result of item changes, like as buffs to Yasuo and Yone’s Q ratios and Samira’s R damage. Buffs to Veigar are also available in the mid lane, giving him a shorter cooldown on his Q and more stacks when killing large minions and monsters with his abilities.

Changes are being made to Nocturne and Volibear that will benefit both their solo laning and their potential in the jungle. The Eternal Nightmare, who received significant adjustments to assassin-centric equipment throughout the preseason, will now have increased HP each level and a higher Q AD ratio. Volibear will do more damage as his AD gain each level increases, as does the cooldown on his E.

Tristana and Senna round out the expected buff in League Patch 12.2, providing two marksmen who have fallen behind in the meta a little extra love. With higher basic HP and HP increases every level, Tristana will be able to survive in lane more easily. Senna was previously announced to be getting a stronger slow on her Q, and that change is likely to be included in this patch.

League Patch 12.2 also sees the introduction of Rengar’s final adjustments, as well as significant updates to Tahm Kench and Janna. The River King’s top lane strength is being altered, with tweaks to his E dependent on friends nearby, a larger Q slow, and a movement speed gain while utilizing his ultimate on teammates. Janna’s adjustments were previously announced, but they centered on transforming her into a more supporting enchanter rather than one who thrives on poke.

Mages will benefit from enhancements that will reintroduce two long-standing AP-centric equipment into playable versions. Lich Bane has a revised build path and now offers 15 Ability Haste with a significantly increased passive cooldown. On the following attack, it will now deal half of the player’s basic AD as extra damage, but with a higher AP ratio. Rylai’s Crystal Scepter now costs 2,600 gold instead of 3,000 and grants players greater health but less AP.

Players may expect the benefits to be released alongside Patch 12.2 on January 19. These changes stated in the patch preview are preliminary and subject to change before they are made live on live servers.

According to Matt Leung-Harrison, Riot Games’ lead designer for Summoner’s Rift team, patch 12.2 will deliver even more to see.

Patch 12.2 will see big changes to Rengar

Patch 12.2 will see as a bonus patch that features all the changes that couldn’t make it in patch 12.1. First, he emphasized a big change that should satisfy Rengar players, the champion is getting his passive (Unseen Predator) enhanced in the future release. According to the tweet from Leung-Harrison, Rengar will be able to leap while in camouflage, which also includes the camouflage zone from Chemtech fog.

This is actually great news since his playstyle differs from the past, ever since the appearance of Chemtech Drake and its zone. Rengar will no longer have to wait in the brush to close the gap between himself and his opponents.

Tahm Kench is another champion that will see adjustments in the upcoming patch. The River King will be tweaked to make him “more viable” in the support role. However, the developers did not go into depth about the impending adjustments.

Lastly, the developer stated that the balancing team is considering modifications to Lethal Tempo. Riot intends to improve the rune’s “better balanced for melee” since duelists recently are being broken, especially Top lane Yone.

According to Riot’s official patch schedule, the 3 key improvements that are being worked on for Patch 12.2, which is set to release on January 20.