LoL Patch 14.3 patch notes | All buffs, nerfs, and changes in League Patch 14.3

Dragon lovers are going to gush over League of Legends Patch 14.3, with a new dragon champion, Aurelion Sol changes, and a bundle of eye-catching Year of the Dragon skins all coming in the February update.

When will League Patch 14.3 go live?

This February update will hit live servers on Wednesday, Feb. 7. Once Riot has the patch locked in, staging begins in Oceania at 10am AEDT and then rolls out onto major League servers throughout the day.

Here are all the key patching times:

3pm CT (NA)
5am GMT (EU West)
3am CET (EU North East)
8am KR (Korea)

Here’s a countdown to the NA League release.

Expect several hours of server downtime once patching begins. Matchmaking will be disabled across all League queues three hours before the update is set live.

What’s in League Patch 14.3?

Smolder (and his mom)’s fiery entrance

League’s new little dragon is arriving this update, complete with his fiery charm. This marks the 167th character Riot has released since 2009 and the first to be released in the 2024 League season.

Smolder is interesting because he is almost a dual character. While he adventures around Summoner’s Rift, many of his abilities also involve his mother, a much larger and more terrifying beast. This is best shown in his “MMOOOMMMM!” ultimate, where she scorches enemies and heals her son.

You can expect to see Smolder played mostly in the bot lane⁠—where he is designed to slot in⁠—but he could just as easily move north to the mid lane eventually.

Smolder's base splash art. — Is that not the cutest lil’ guy you’ve ever seen? Image via Riot Games

Items still top-billed in buffs and nerfs

Riot is continuing to look at a bucketload of items after the Season 14 overhaul, with as many as 24 items on the docket. These changing items range from Youmuu’s Ghostblade and Seraph’s Embrace to Essence Reaver, Kaenic Rookern, and Rod of Ages.

Ranked tweaks are on their way, but not necessarily this patch

The developers are still looking into ranked system tweaks. They realized there have been some initial placement bugs where visual ranks are often seeded too high, producing negative LP gains for players. They’re taking a close look at tier boundary demotions and LP gains in higher ranks as well. But these changes are coming in “future patches,” so they’re not a guarantee for 14.3.

Another swing at Aurelion Sol

While a little dragon hits the Rift, the game’s original iconic cosmic dragon Aurelion Sol is getting changes designed to push him out of his hyper-scaling comfort zone and toward “proactive play and early game agency.” His Q, W, and E are all being impacted, especially how he can optimize stacks on his Singularity.

Aurelion Sol's splash art in League of Legends — No dragon-themed update (accidental or otherwise) could leave out Aurelion Sol. Image via Riot Games

Riot celebrates Year of the Dragon with new skins

No League season-opening would be complete without a few celebration skins, and Riot hasn’t disappointed this time around. In Patch 14.3, players will be able to get their hands on several new Heavenscale cosmetics designed to represent the Year of the Dragon and all things Chinese mythology.

Popular characters like Ezreal, Kai’Sa, Lee Sin, and Diana have been picked for the honors this time around, with Ezreal and Lee Sin even getting special variants; the pair will get Prestige and “Divine” tweaks, respectively.

Here are all the Heavenscale skins coming this patch:

Heavenscale Smolder (1,350 RP)
Heavenscale Diana (1,350 RP)
Heavenscale Ezreal (1,350 RP)
Prestige Heavenscale Ezreal (2,000 Event Tokens)
Heavenscale Janna (1,350 RP)
Heavenscale Kai’Sa (1,350 RP)
Heavenscale Lee Sin (1,820 RP)
Divine Heavenscale Lee Sin (Via Special Distribution)
Heavenscale Master Yi (1,350 RP)

These skins will go live during the Patch 14.3 cycle.

Mythology is everywhere you look in the new skins. Image via Riot Games

I’ve put together all the early League notes for the Feb. 7 update below. Remember, until Riot publishes the official patch, any of these buffs, nerfs, and changes are still very much tentative and we could see them pulled at any time.

League Patch 14.3 patch notes

Champions

Aurelion Sol

Q cost reduced from 45-65 to 30-50, stacks per champion burst increased from one to three.
W cost reduced from 80-100 to 50-70, cooldown reduced from 22-16 to 15-11 seconds, damage amp (Q) increased from 14-20 percent to 18-26 percent.
E stacks per small minions/monsters unchanged, per large minion/monsters reduced from three to two, per champion/epic monsters reduced from five to two.

Azir

Health regeneration reduced from 7.0 plus 0.75 to 5.0 plus 0.6.

Brand

Passive damage over time monster amp reduced from x2.2 to x2.0. Cap per tick remains unchanged at 80.
Q base damage reduced from 80-200 to 70-190.

Corki

W ability power scaling increased from 40 to 60 percent.
Package hold time reduced from 60 to 45 seconds, out-of-combat speed with package reduced f from 40 to 30 percent, cooldown reduced from five minutes to four.
Package damage now:
- Base: 30-85 lerp 7-18.
- Base attack damage scaling 100 percent.
- Ability power scaling 60 percent.

Illaoi

P/Q base damage reduced from 10-180 lerp to 9-162 lerp, total attack damage scaling reduced from 120 to 115 percent, ability power and Q scaling unchanged.

Karma

RQ explosion damage reduced from 35-350 (plus 70 percent ability power) to 40-310 (plus 50 percent ability power).

Lillia

Passive damage of time target total health ability power scaling total over three seconds reduced from 1.5 to 1.25 percent.
Q damage ability power scaling reduced from 45 to 35 percent.

Maokai

Base mana regeneration reduced from 7.2 to six.
Passive healing base breakpoints (4-34) now removed, total health scaling breakpoints increased from 4-12 to 4-13.25 percent.
Q cooldown reduced from 8-5 to 7-5 seconds, cost reduced from 60 to 40.
E cooldown changed from 14 seconds to 16-12 seconds, cost changed from 45-85 to 60-80.
R cooldown changed from 120-100 to 130-90 seconds.

Nidalee

Coming soon…

Pyke

Base armor increased from 45 to 47.
Q cost reduced from 74-90 to 70-90.
W speed increased from 40 percent plus 150 percent lethality to 45 percent plus 200 percent lethality.
E base damage increased from 105-265 to 100-300.

Rengar

Base health reduced from 620 to 590.
Q bonus damage total attack damage scaling reduced from 0-20 to 0-15 percent.
Q empowered bonus damage total attack damage scaling reduced from 40 to 30 percent.

Shaco

Coming soon…

Trundle

Coming soon…

Udyr

Coming soon…

Wukong

The champion is set to receive top lane buffs, more details are coming soon.

Yorick

Coming soon…

Zeri

Coming soon…

Ziggs

Armor increased from 18 (plus 4.5) to 21 (plus 4.7).
W cooldown reduced from 24-12 to 20-12 seconds.

Zyra

Mana regeneration increased from 13 (plus 0.4) to seven (plus 0.8).
Q cost reduced from 70 to 55.
W small unit on-kill cooldown refund increased from 20 to 35 percent, large unit cooldown refund unchanged (still 100 percent).

Items

Archangel’s Staff

Cost reduced from 3,000 to 2,900.

Collector

Coming soon…

Essence Reaver

Coming soon…

Guinsoo’s Rageblade

Coming soon…

Kaenic Rookern

Shield total health scaling reduced from 20 to 18 percent, out of combat cooldown increased from 12 to 15 seconds.

Luden’s Companion

Cost reduced from 3,000 to 2,900.
Ability power increased from 90 to 95.
Damage per stack changed from 40 (plus eight percent ability power) to 45 (plus four percent ability power).

Malignance

Cost reduced from 2,800 to 2,700.
Damage per second reduced from 60 (plus six percent ability power) to 60 (plus five percent ability power).

Rod of Ages

Innate health increased from 350 to 400.
Innate mana increased from 300 to 400.

Seraph’s Embrace

Coming soon…

Statikk Shiv

Cost reduced from 3,000 to 2,800.
Damage to champions changed from 100-180 to 90 flat.

Stridebreaker

New recipe: Tiamat, Page, Dagger, 700 gold, total cost increased from 3,000 to 3,300.
Health increased from 400 to 450.
Attack damage reduced from 55 to 50.
Cooldown reduced from 20 to 15 seconds.
Active now deals 80 percent total attack damage to enemies (still applies slow), passive now deals (40 percent melee/20 percent ranged) total attack damage to nearby enemies (still grants speed on dealing physical damage).