League of Legends Patch 14.17 paves the way for Worlds-focused change as Riot Games gets to work constructing a competitive metagame for the MOBA title’s biggest esports event through bot lane changes and increasing champion viability.
With the 2024 League World Championship just around the corner, the League developers are lasering in on the champion, runes, items, and overall style of gameplay they want to see at the pinnacle event when it gets started in Europe in September. There will be more, of course—League Patch 14.18 should be the official update—but Riot still wants to have as much time working on all the balance goals as possible.
For everyone else, there’s still plenty to cast your eyes over too, from four incredible new Battle Queens skins and the Aurora nerfs everyone in solo lanes has been waiting for.
Here’s everything about League Patch 14.17 update.
When will LoL Patch 14.17 go live?
League Patch 14.17 will go live on Wednesday, Aug. 28, which aligns with the current 2024 League patch schedule. Here are all the key patching times for Patch 14.17:
- 3pm CT (NA)
- 5am GMT (EU West)
- 3am CET (EU North East)
- 8am KR (Korea)
On update day, you can expect several hours of downtime. As always, matchmaking will be turned off across all League queues three hours before the update.
What’s in LoL Patch 14.17?
AP Senna nerf wishes granted
Ability power Senna has been a near-unstoppable abomination on Summoner’s Rift due to her buffs in Patch 14.16. As soon as the buffs landed, players were calling for immediate nerfs because she’s too strong—especially as she inched up to a 52.24 percent win rate. Enchanter Senna has been fun, but these nerfs are necessary.
Ranged, melee supports get ‘viability’ buffs
Riot’s admitted ranged supports have, for the most part, been thrown to the wayside over the past year. This has left them fairly unviable in season 14, so the balance team wants to change things. While direct targets are still being decided, League‘s devs will “make a few” ranged and melee choices more variable.
Third time’s the charm: More AD carry changes
You know Riot is putting an emphasis on the League bot lane for Worlds when the devs have made targeted changes to ADCs over the past three patches. In this patch, the League devs have two things in mind: runes and specific picks.
Some runes, including top choices like Fleet Footwork, Cut Down, and Absorb Life, are working a little too well in conjunction with the past ADC changes and are making champions like Ezreal and Ashe a little too strong in the solo lanes. So, these top trailblazers and their best rune picks now need to be subdued, Riot says.
Battle Queens skin line welcomes 4 new royals
Four Battle Queen skins are landing in Patch 14.17 alongside several Battle of the God Kings chromas. The latter two, the Garen and Darius alt chromas, have come under fire for their extremely expensive $200 pricetags.
These are the skins and chromas making their way to the store:
- Battle Princess Annie (1,350 RP)
- Battle Queen Fiora (1,350 RP)
- Battle Queen Gwen (1,350 RP)
- Battle Queen Miss Fortune (1,350 RP)
- Divine God-King Darius (Event capsule chroma)
- Fallen God-King Garen (Event capsule chroma)
These skins will go live during the Patch 14.17 cycle.
LoL Patch 14.17 patch notes
Here are the official notes for League Patch 14.17.
Champions
Ashe
- Base health reduced from 640 to 610.
Aurora
- R damage reduced from 200-450 to 175-375.
Caitlyn
- W cooldown reduced from 30-12 to 26-10.
- Attack speed ratio increased from 0.594 to 0.610.
Ezreal
- Base attack damage reduced from 62 to 60.
Graves
- Q cooldown reduced from 13-7 to 13-6, Q1 damage increased from 45-105 to 45-125, maximum damage increased from 130-330 to 130-350.
Katarina
- Q damage decreased from 80-240 to 80-220.
Kennen
- Q ability power ratio reduced from 85 to 75 percent.
Kindred
- Q attack speed increased from 30 to 35 percent.
- E flat damage increased from 80-160 (plus 80 percent bonus attack damage) to 80-200 (plus 100 percent bonus attack damage), cooldown reduced from 14-10 to 14-8.
LeBlanc
- Q ability power ratio reduced from 45 to 40 percent.
- W ability power ratio reduced from 75 to 70 percent.
Lissandra
- Q damage increased from 80-200 to 80-220.
- R slow increased from 30-75 to 45-75 percent.
Pyke
- Base armor reduced from 47 to 43.
Rumble
- Passive max health damage reduced from six to five percent.
Ryze
- Q damage increased from 70-150 to 75-155.
- R cooldown reduced from 210-150 to 180-140.
Senna
- Q heal reduced from 40-120 (plus 80 percent ability power) to 40-100 (plus 60 percent ability power). Attack damage ratio unchanged.
- R shield ability power ratio reduced from 70 to 50 percent.
Seraphine
- W shield reduced from 60-160 to 60-140, cooldown changed from 22-18 to 22.
Sylas
- W damage ability power ratio reduced from 70 to 60 percent.
Twisted Fate
- Q damage increased from 60-220 to 60-240.
Varus
- Q max damage increased from 15-235 (plus 125-145 percent total attack damage) to 90-370 (plus 150-190 percent bonus attack damage).
- E bonus attack damage ratio increased from 90 to 110 percent.
Items
Celestial Opposition
- Slow reduced from 60 percent for two seconds to 50 percent for 1.5 seconds.
Warmog’s Armor
- Price increased from 3,100 to 3,300.
- Move speed reduced from 10 to five percent.
Runes
Absorb Life
- Heal on kill changed:
- Level 1-5: From 1-5 to 1-2.
- Level 6-10: From 6-11 to 3-7.
- Level 11-18: From 12-23 to 8-23.
Cut Down
- Damage threshold increased from 50 to 60 percent health.
Fleet Footwork
- Heal reduced from 5-120 to 5-100.
- Move speed reduced from 20 percent for 1.25 seconds to 15 percent for one second.
Quality of Life changes
- Buffered charged abilities can now be held down while you’re crowd-controlled, and they’ll cast as soon as you’re free. This applies to the charged channel abilities from the following champions: Aurelion Sol Q, Briar E, Galio W, Irelia W, K’Sante W, Pantheon Q, Poppy R, Pyke Q, Sion Q, Varus Q, Vi Q, Viego W, Vladimir E, Warwick Q, Xerath Q, and Zac E.
- Miss Fortune received visual effect updates for her base, Cowgirl, Secret Agent, Candy Cane, Crime City, and Pool Party skins.
- Correct lane indicators will appear if your account is below level 11. These arrows will show you to the correct lane or jungle camp so you know where to start.
Bugfixes
- Singed W Mega Adhesive no longer creates a puddle when blocked by projectile-destroying effects.
- Fixed a bug where Celerity was not properly increasing sources of multiplicative movement speed
- Fixed an issue where if Xayah’s empowered auto attacks struck a dashing champion they would become invisible and stuck to the target hit.
- Fixed an issue that caused K’Sante’s Q and Yone’s Q to fire in the wrong direction when Clamp Casting was enabled.
- Fixed an issue that caused Xin Zhao’s R invulnerability to stop working when used during Mordekaiser’s R.
- Fixed an issue that caused Aatrox’s E auto attack reset to cancel when you dashed towards an enemy.
- Fixed an issue where using Flash during Talon’s Q animation would reset the cooldown of his Q.
- Fixed an issue where Talon’s Q could be cast twice if it was cast at max range.
- Fixed an issue that prevented ability cooldowns from being reduced by Legend: Haste and Spear of Shojin.
- Fixed an issue that prevented Viego from gaining two Dark Spheres when possessing a Syndra with 40 Splinters of Wrath.
- Fixed an issue where Wukong could hit an enemy with his Q from Fog of War and not have him or his clone be revealed.
- Fixed an issue where Gwen could trigger the Malignance effect an unintended number of times.
- Fixed an issue where killing Voidgrubs and the Rift Herald could count for both Large and Epic Monster kills toward Legend: Alacrity, Legend: Bloodline, and Legend Haste.
Skins
Battle Princess Annie
Battle Queen Fiora
Battle Queen Gwen
Battle Queen Miss Fortune
Divine God-King Darius
Fallen God-King Garen
Update Aug. 27 8:08pm CT by Hayley Andrews: Added all the quality of life changes, bug fixes, and updated patch notes based on the official League Patch 14.17 notes.
Update Aug. 21 1:45am CT by Isaac McIntyre: Added all specific balance changes planned for Patch 14.17, as shared by Riot Phroxzon on X (formerly Twitter).
This article will be updated throughout the League patch cycle.
