League of Legends patch 12.18 notes: Lee Sin buffs, Miss Fortune nerfs

League of Legends patch 12.18 is on its way ⁠ — and it’s the Worlds update. A dozen champions are on the chopping block. Lee Sin is floating his way back into the meta, while flavor of the month picks like Miss Fortune and Hecarim are being nerfed: here’s the patch notes.

It’s Worlds time. League of Legends patch 12.18 will be the update pro players will take battle on during the illustrious championship ⁠ — although Udyr will be disabled for the event.

Riot are finetuning the meta with one last set of changes affecting a dozen champions, including the aforementioned Spirit Walker. The developers are primarily targeting two roles, jungle and AD carry, although the changes likely won’t be as drastic as the previous couple of updates.

We’ve got everything you need to know about LoL patch 12.18 right here, including when the changes go live.

When is LoL patch 12.18?
League of Legends patch 12.18 is primed to go live on September 20, 2022, right on schedule.

The eighteenth major patch of 2022 will start rolling out on Oceanic servers at 10AM AEST, with a worldwide rollout taking place across the rest of the day.

Here’s the key timings:

3AM PT (NA)
5AM GMT (EUW)
3AM CET (EUNE)
8AM KST (Korea)
There’ll be a few hours of downtime when patching begins, and matchmaking queues will be taken offline about three hours beforehand.

What’s changing in LoL patch 12.18?
Maokai overhaul gets another set of changes
Maokai has been missing from the top lane and jungle for years since his League of Legends rework, with players preferring to take the Twisted Treant down bot as a support.

The Twisted Treant has a much better play rate in top than previously ⁠ — up to 40% of all Maokai games ⁠ — but jungle is still lagging behind support at 20% versus 37%. What exact middle ground Riot are trying to find remains to be seen, but more adjustments are coming to both support and jungle.

Udyr is also facing some adjustments as Riot tinkers with the recently reworked Spirit Walker. They are looking at transforming his build further, forcing him to build bruiser with reduced tankiness rather than the dominant AP build making use of his R, Wingborne Storm.

Major jungle changes with Lee Sin buffs, Hecarim nerfs
On top of the Maokai and Udyr changes which will affect the role, four more junglers find themselves on the LoL patch 12.18 change list.

It truly wouldn’t be Worlds without Lee Sin, and Riot are making sure of that with some buffs to the Blind Monk, helping 토토사이트 his sustain. On the other end of the scale Hecarim, Kayn, and Nocturne have been a little dominant across all levels ⁠ — Hecarim especially.

Kayn and Nocturne’s nerfs are negligible, but Hecarim is receiving a big hit to his Q damage and W sustain.

This means half of the 12 champion changes in the final League of Legends update before Worlds will target the 안전토토사이트 role and perhaps drastically shift the meta just weeks out.

AD carry meta targeted with Ashe, Kalista, Miss Fortune changes
Jungle isn’t the only role Riot has their eyes on. AD carry has been a contentious point recently with Sivir and Zeri running amok on the meta. LoL patch 12.18 won’t be hitting those two specifically, but three others are being changed.

Ashe is the only one facing buffs ⁠ — marksman specific ones for her Q, so nothing to help the Imperial 안전놀이터 Mandate support build. Kalista and Miss Fortune on the other hand are facing nerfs. This also comes after the latter received a huge boost in LoL patch 12.17, forcing a hotfix after hours.

You can find the full League of Legends patch 12.18 notes below, courtesy of Riot. These are still tentative to change on the PBE server, so as they shift we’ll keep you updated here 토토사이트

LoL patch 12.18 notes
Champions
Ashe
Q: Ranger’s Focus

Attack speed: 20/25/30/35/40% ⇒ 25/32.5/40/47.5/55%
Hecarim
Q: Rampage

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Bonus AD ratio: 95% ⇒ 90%
Ramp damage: +6% bAD ⇒ +5% bAD
W: Spirit of Dread

Healing: 30% (+2.5% bAD) ⇒ 25% (+2% bAD)
Kalista
Base stats

Health: 604 ⇒ 564
Kayn
Q: Reaping Slash

Darkin Slayer maximum HP damage ratio: 5% ⇒ 3.5%
Lulu
W: Whimsey

Movement speed: 30% ⇒ 25%
Polymorph duration: 1.25/1.5/1.75/2/2.25 seconds ⇒ 1.2/1.4/1.6/1.8/2 seconds
Cooldown: 17/16/15/14/13 seconds ⇒ 17/16.5/16/15.5/15 seconds
Lee Sin
Base stats

Health growth: 99 ⇒ 105
W: Safeguard / Iron Will

Omnivamp: 5/9.5/14/18.5/23% ⇒ 5/10.5/16/21.5/26%
Maokai
Passive: Sap Magic

Healing: 4.8–14% ⇒ 4.5–12%
Q: Bramble Smash

Bonus monster damage: 40/60/80/100/120 ⇒ 80/100/120/140/160
E: Sapling Toss

AP ratio: 42.5% ⇒ 40%
Empowered AP ratio: 85% ⇒ 80%
Miss Fortune
Base stats

Attack damage growth: 2.7 ⇒ 2.4
Health growth: 107 ⇒ 103
Nasus
W: Wither

Attack speed slow: 50% of move speed slow ⇒ 75% of move speed slow
R: Fury of the Sands

Cooldown: 120 seconds ⇒ 110/100/90 seconds
Nocturne
Base stats

Attack damage growth: 3.1 ⇒ 2.6
Thresh
Base stats

Health growth: 115 ⇒ 120
E: Flay

Damage: 65/95/125/155/185 ⇒ 75/110/145/180/215
Udyr
Base stats

Health growth: 106 ⇒ 98
Armor growth: 5.2 ⇒ 4.7
Q: Wilding Claw

Mana cost: 45–28 ⇒ 20
First two hits now gain 50 attack range
Awakened version deals an additional 2–5% (+0.03% bAD) max health physical damage on the first two attacks
AP ratio on each lightning strike: 0.006% ⇒ 0.008%
W: Iron Mantle

Percent health heal: 1.2/1.26/1.32/1.38/1.44/1.5% ⇒ 1.2%
Percent health shield: 2/2.4/2.8/3.2/3.6/4% ⇒ 2/2.3/2.6/2.9/3.2/3.5%
Life steal: 15% ⇒ 15/16/17/18/19/20%
R: Wingborne Storm

Magic damage: 20/38/56/74/92/110 (+40% AP) ⇒ 20/36/52/68/84/100 (+35% AP)
Damage to minions: 50/60/70/80% at levels 1/6/11/16 ⇒ 40/55/70/85%