LoL 25.07 (15.7) Patch Notes - All Changes

A lot of drastic changes were unveiled prior to 2025 as League of Legends is steadily moving towards an even more dynamic and exciting MOBA experience. Given its legacy and player base, LoL is no stranger to feedback from the community, either positive or negative, however, it is interesting to see how the devs will navigate all of the updates to both Splits, game balancing and more.

Whether you are busy celebrating the return of Hextech Chests or looking forward to the First Stand tournament, keeping up with balancing decisions will also be important if you wish to climb up the ranked ladder so here are all of the changes listed in Patch 25.07.

LoL Patch Notes

Urgot the Clogfather, Pool Party Malphite, Grill Master Braum, Glizzy Naafiri, and Cat-in-the-Box Shaco will be available April 2nd, 2025 at 12:00:00 UTC.

April Fools 2025

Mayhem vs. Merriment is here! Party Drake, cat minions, and disco-fueled chaos take over as Shaco's pranks clash with Pengu Garen's wholesome hype. Dash through speed pads, trigger surprise events, and join the party before it's gone! All of these temporary changes will be active in non-ranked queues so don't worry this won't impact your climbs (or descents) on the ladder.

Pengu Garen will be available for the duration of this patch. It is a freely selectable skin for Garen available in all game modes!

There are even more Easter eggs hidden in the game, so have fun discovering them! Pengu is exclusively available for April Fools' and will be leaving the Rift after two weeks. Party Drake will also be spawning less frequently after the first three days, so make sure to hop on before it's too late. 

PARTY DRAKE (SUMMER'S RIFT)

Party Drake Soul

• Gain 30% Bonus Movement Speed when within 650 range of your allies.
• For every 5% Bonus Movement Speed, gain 1% bonus AD and AP.

Dragon Slayer Buff

• Receive a Party Favor item in your inventory. If your item slots are full, the Party Favor will be opened for you automatically. Party Favors will award a random amount of gold between 150 and 250 and also a Skill Point.
• Gain a groovy disco aura, causing nearby ally minions to sparkle!

Terrain

• Disco pads will appear in bases and the jungle.
• Stepping on different Disco pads will grant a stacking Movement Speed buff. (Decaying Burst and a constant bonus)
• A duckie disco ball will appear in your base.
• Clicking on the Duckie disco ball will channel an effect, granting you more stacks of movement speed.

SHACO'S MAYHEM (SUMMONER'S RIFT AND ARAM)

Shaco Boxes

• Cat Shaco boxes will spawn along the lane (both in Summoner's rift and in ARAM)
• Picking up a box will grant you a random cute effect.
• Every 10 stacks will grant you a Minor Party Favor item.
• We're not sure how Pengu Garen will feel about these boxes.

ARAM BUT MAKE IT FAST

• Summoner Haste increased to 200%.
• Cappa Juice now costs 300 Gold, with no stack limit.
• Snowball is looking a little different.

KNOWN ISSUES

• If a Party Favor would grant a skill point, due to having a full inventory, it doesn't pop up the skill-up UI until the next level is reached, then you're able to spend that extra point.

Leblanc Visual Update

The LeBlanc Visual Update is here with updated models, animations, ability icons, VO, VFX, SFX, Splashes, and Skins.

Similar to what we've done with some past Visual Updates for Champions, LeBlanc's Prestigious skin is getting a price increase from 520 RP to 750 RP to reflect the higher quality bar. We also made a lot of changes to the SFX of the Ravenborn Leblanc skin so we're also going to be increasing the price of it as well from 975 RP to 1350RP to reflect that higher quality bar. If you don't own these skins you'll be able to purchase them at a cheaper price before the Visual Update goes live so grab them while you can!

Keep an eye out as well on our YouTube channel for LeBlanc's new Champion Theme! That should be going live on Thursday, April 3rd. 

Demon's Hand

Overall we're really excited about the reception of Demon's Hand and we've loved seeing some of the hands and sigil combos you've been sharing across various platforms. We did take a look based on some feedback at the acquisition rate of some of the Rare Sigils that are acquired by playing League and discovered that there was an unintended interaction with the hidden missions that are granting those Sigils. In 25.07 you should notice a significantly easier time to acquire them. This fix will result in you earning increased progress towards those hidden missions by about 80% per minute of gameplay. 

• Fixed an unintended behavior with the “hidden” missions that grant Sigils that should now result in you earning them much faster.

Systems

HOMEGUARD & FOUNTAIN

It's become a commonplace tactic for mid laners to rush Symbiotic Soles and repeatedly Recall to fill up their health and mana before rushing back to lane, which removes almost all sense of attrition in the lane. Since we like that Soles are a popular and viable item on supports, we'd rather adjust the Recall incentives than nerf the boots themselves. Mathematically, the changes below result in shorter trips to base when low on resources and slower trips when already near full. 

Fountain Healing

• Maximum HP per second: 10.4% ⇒ 8%
• Maximum MP per second: 12.4% ⇒ 10%
• Early game missing HP/MP per second: 6% ⇒ 16%
• Late game missing HP/MP per second: 12% ⇒ 16%

Homeguard Speed

• Early game move speed: 75% ⇒ 65%
• 14-40 minute move speed: 75-150% ⇒ 65-150%

LANE SWAP DETECTION

We're further shrinking the lane swap detection area so that it should no longer catch champions who find themselves fighting in the enemy jungle. 

• Lane Swap Detection in mid lane has been shrunk to no longer overlap with most of the Raptor Pit.

LoL 25.07 (15.7) Champion Buffs

Brand

 

Blaze (Passive)

• Damage cap per tick vs non-epic monsters: 7.5 / 15 / 22.5 (based on ablaze stacks) ⇒ 10 / 20 / 30 (based on Ablaze stacks)
• Explosion Damage Cap to Monsters: 250 / 325 / 400 / 475 ⇒ 270 / 355 / 440 / 525

Ivern

 

Rootcaller (Q)

• Root Duration: 1.2 / 1.4 / 1.6 / 1.8 / 2 ⇒ 1.6 / 1.7 / 1.8 / 1.9 / 2

Olaf

 

Reckless Swing (E)

• Now scales cast time based on attack speed.
• Cast Time: .25s ⇒ .25-.175 (0-125% bonus attack speed (includes W))

Shaco

 

Backstab (Passive)

• Damage: 20-35 (based on level) (+25% Bonus AD) Bonus Physical Damage ⇒ 20-35 (based on level) (+30% Bonus AD) Bonus Physical Damage

 

Deceive (Q)

• Damage: 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 / 65 (+60% Bonus AD) ⇒ 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 / 65 (+65% Bonus AD)

Shen

 

Twilight Assault (Q)

• [NEW] Attack Speed and flat damage now apply against structures. Percent max health damage is not applied.

Trundle

 

Pillar of Ice (E)

• Slow: 30 / 34 / 38 / 42 / 46% ⇒ 34 / 38 / 42 / 46 / 50%
• Cooldown: 24 / 22 / 20 / 18 / 16 ⇒ 21 / 19.5 / 18 / 16.5 / 15

Volibear

 

Frenzied Maul (W)

• Empowered Damage Amp: 50% ⇒ 50% (+15% Bonus AD)

LoL 25.07 (15.7) Champion Nerfs

Darius

Base Stats

• Armor: 39 ⇒ 37

 

Apprehend (E)

• Cooldown: 24 / 21.5 / 19 / 16.5 / 14 ⇒ 26 / 23.5 / 21 / 18.5 / 16

Gwen

 

Snip Snip! (Q)

• Final Snip Damage: 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 / 170 (+ 35% AP) ⇒ 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 (+35% AP)

 

Hallowed Mist (W)

• Resists: 25 (+5% AP) ⇒ 22 (+7% AP)

Lillia

 

Swirlseed (E)

• Damage: 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 (+60% AP) ⇒ 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 (+50% AP)

Lulu

 

Glitterlance (Q)

• Minimum Damage: 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210 (+50% AP) ⇒ 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200 (+50% AP)
• Maximum Damage: 105 / 157.5 / 210 / 262.5 / 315 (+75% AP) ⇒ 90 / 142.5 / 195 / 247.5 / 300 (+75% AP)
• Fixed a bug that would occasionally make the slow decay faster than intended.
• Slow is now applied immediately instead of after a variable duration.

 

Whimsy (W)

• Cooldown: 18 / 17.5 / 17 / 16.5 / 16 ⇒ 18

Naafiri

Base Stats

• Health: 635 ⇒ 610
• Armor: 30 ⇒ 28

 

We Are More (Passive)

• Damage to Monsters: 165% ⇒ 155%

 

Darkin Daggers (Q)

• Damage to Minions: 80% ⇒ 100%

 

The Call of the Pack (W)

• Cooldown: 20 / 19.5 / 19 / 18.5 / 18 ⇒ 22 / 21 / 20 / 19 / 18
• Fixed a bug where W would sometimes not destroy tower shots while Naafiri was untargetable.

Hounds' Pursuit (R)

• Fixed a bug where a Sylas who stole Naafiri ult would become untargetable during the cast.

LoL 25.07 (15.7) Champion Adjustments

Singed

 

Noxious Slipstream (Passive)

• Per Target Cooldown: 8 ⇒ 10

 

Poison Trail (Q)

• Damage per Second: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 (+ 40% AP) ⇒ 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 (+ 42.5% AP)

 

Insanity Potion (R)

• Bonus Stats: 30 / 65 / 100 ⇒ 25 / 60 / 95

Xerath

 

Arcanopulse (Q)

• Damage: 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 (+ 85% AP) ⇒ 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 (+ 90% AP)

 

Eye of Destruction (W)

• Damage: 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200 (+ 60 % AP) ⇒ 50 / 85 / 120 / 155 / 190 (+65% bonus AP)

 

Shocking Orb (E)

• Damage: 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 / 200 (+45% AP) ⇒ 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 / 190 (+45% AP)

 

Rite of the Arcane (R)

• Damage: 180 / 230 /280 (+40% AP) ⇒ 170 / 220 / 270 (+45% AP)

Yone

 

Way of the Hunter (Passive)

• Critical Strike Damage is no longer reduced by 10%.

 

Soul Unbound (E)

• No longer cleanses crowd control upon returning.
• Tooltip clarifies that only damage from attacks and abilities is amplified.

Yorick

Base Stats

• Armor Growth: 5.2 ⇒ 4.5

 

Shepherd of Souls (Passive)

• Nearby deaths per grave: 12 / 6 / 2 (at levels 1/7/13) ⇒ 8/7/6/5/4/3/2 (at levels 1/3/5/7/9/11/13)
• Attack Damage: 4-90 (based on level) (+20% Total AD) ⇒ 15-75 (based on level) (+20% Bonus AD)
• Bonus Attack Speed: 8% (per level) ⇒ Yorick's bonus attack speed
• Health: 110-212 (based on level) (+20% max HP) ⇒ 100-300 (based on level) (+15% bonus HP)
• Mist Walker stats now update dynamically as Yorick levels up or gains stats, instead of requiring new summons.
• Champion basic attack damage towards Mist Walkers: Instantly kills ⇒ 100% increased damage from melee attacks
• Single target damage towards Mist Walkers: Instantly kills ⇒ Normal damage
• AoE damage towards Mist Walkers: 50% ⇒ 66-40% (based on level 1-14)
• Non-Champion damage towards Mist Walkers: 50% from all monsters ⇒ 40% damage from minions and non-epic monsters
• Mist Walkers will no longer follow Yorick's Recall while fighting jungle monsters.
• Yorick can now ping his passive to share the count of his Mist Walkers nearby and globally.

 

Last Rites (Q)

• Cooldown: 7 / 6.25 / 5.5 / 4.75 / 4 ⇒ 6 / 5.5 / 5 / 4.5 / 4
• Damage: 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 / 130 (+40% Total AD) ⇒ 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 / 130 (+50% Total AD)
• [NEW] Summons a grave on Champion and Large/Epic Monster hit.

 

Mourning Mist (E)

• Damage: 15% current HP, down to minimum threshold of 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210 (+70% AP) ⇒ Flat damage of 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210 (+100% AP)
• Movement Speed for Yorick and Summons: 20% ⇒ 30%
• [NEW] Now shreds 18 / 21 / 24 / 27 / 30% armor for 4 seconds.
• [REMOVED] No longer increases Mist Walker damage by 20% for 8 attacks.
• Fixed a bug where Mist Walkers could fail to jump onto the target when crossing terrain.

 

Eulogy of the Isles (R)

• Damage: 0 / 10 / 40 (+50% Total AD) ⇒ 50 / 75 / 100 (+30% Bonus AD)
• Health: 400-1650 (based on level) (+60% Total HP) ⇒ 1050-3200 (based on level) (+60% Bonus HP)

Items

Catalyst of Aeons

• Build Path: Ruby Crystal + Sapphire Crystal + 600 gold ⇒ Ruby Crystal + Ruby Crystal + Sapphire Crystal + 200 gold
• Total Gold Cost: Unchanged
• Mana: 300 ⇒ 375
• Eternity Mana Restored from Damage Taken: 7% ⇒ 10% (Rog of Ages will also receive the same change)

Rod of Ages

• Eternity Mana Restored from Damage Taken: 7% ⇒ 10% (Rog of Ages will also receive the same change)

 

Umbral Glaive

• Total Gold Cost: 2600 ⇒ 2500
• Attack Damage: 50 ⇒ 55
• Blackout Cooldown: 50 ⇒ 90

ARAM

BUFFS

Ahri

• Damage Dealt: 97% ⇒ 100%

Bard

• W Cooldown: 18 ⇒ 10

Draven

• Passive Gold Gain: 25 + (2x stacks) Bonus Gold ⇒ 40 + (2x stacks) Bonus Gold
• Passive Stack Loss on Death: 50% ⇒ 30%

Evelynn

• R Cooldown: 120 / 100 / 80 ⇒ 100 / 80 / 60

Lillia

• E Cooldown: 18 ⇒ 18 / 17 / 16 / 15 / 14

Miss Fortune

• Damage Dealt: 90% ⇒ 93%

Mordekaiser

• Damage Taken: 105% ⇒ 102%

Rakan

• Ability Haste: 0 ⇒ 10

Rell

• Healing Done: 90% ⇒ 100%

Renekton

• Healing Done: 105% ⇒ 110%

Skarner

• Damage Taken: 105% ⇒ 100%

Warwick

• Q Cooldown: 8 / 7.5 / 7 / 6.5 / 6 ⇒ 6

Zeri

• E Cooldown: 22 / 21 / 20 / 19 / 18 ⇒ 20 / 19 / 18 / 17 / 16

NERFS

Soraka

• Damage Taken: 97% ⇒ 100%

Yuumi

• Damage Dealt: 105% ⇒ 100%

Swiftplay, Quickplay, Normal Draft Queue Update

15.7 is the patch we say goodbye to Quickplay and embrace Swiftplay everywhere it's not live yet. We want an unranked standard Summoner's Rift option to be available as well, so we're enabling Normal Draft at the same time.

We're going to make a small change to Normal Draft timing in OC as well so that it's available when the most players are on. 

Arena

GENERAL CHANGES

• Combo breaker now works on knock-ups and knockbacks.
• Ring of Fire no longer damages players in the death realm.
• End of Game screen now displays up to 5 augments, allowing you to see augments granted by Guests of Honor in your match history.

GUESTS OF HONOR

New Guests of Honor for Round 2

Ambessa

Select a sacrifice:

• Sacrifice for Silver: After 2 rounds, gain a silver augment.
• Sacrifice for Gold: For the next 5 rounds, enter combat with 75% health, and after those rounds, gain a gold augment.
• Sacrifice for Prismatic: For the next 7 rounds, enter combat with 50% health, and after those 7 rounds, gain a prismatic augment.

Katarina

• Gain 5 rerolls.

Draven

• Increase the likelihood of increasing the tier of your stat anvils.
• While starting a hot streak and every 3 wins after grants you 1 stat anvil.

Cassiopeia

• You can no longer buy boots and the boots round becomes a full item round.
• If you bought boots already they're sold at full value.

Alistar

• The 1st time you would be eliminated, reduce your team's health to 1 instead.

New Guests of Honor for Round 8

LeBlanc

• Every 25 seconds, everyone in combat goes invisible for 3 seconds.

Sahn Uzal

• Revives are disabled.

Guests of Honor Adjustments

Elise

• Players inside of Elise Guest of Honor cocoons struggle to break free, causing the cocoon to lose 1 HP every 1.5s; this damage can not break the cocoon.
• Elise cocoons spawned in the death realm will now return to the living realm.

NORMAL AUGMENTS

• Omni Soul: When taking Omni Soul while you have Dragon Heart with 4+ Souls, Omni Soul will grant you Elder Dragon rather than skipping a soul.
• Infernal Conduit: Brand, Annie, Shyvana, Corki W, Ornn W, Rumble Q/R no longer count as burns for Infernal Conduit.
• Infernal Conduit: Now has a per Ability per target Cooldown instead of a global Cooldown to match other on-Ability-hit Augments.
• Hold Very Still time to Invisibility: 1.5s ⇒ 1.25s
• Clothesline: 20-300 ⇒ 20-300 (+ 20% AP) (+ 30% Bonus AD) (+ 2% Bonus HP)
• Clown College: Damage from the death trigger cannot win a round.
• Dive Bomber: Damage from the death trigger cannot win a round.
• It's Killing Time: For spells with ongoing effects this will trigger if it comes off cooldown while the ability is still active. Galio/Fiddlesticks will now trigger just before they land. Pantheon will now trigger this just before his spear lands.
• All For You: Now amps all healing/shielding given to your partners > allies.
• Dual Wield: (Reworked) When you Attack, fire a secondary bolt at the same target that deals 50% damage and On-Hit's at 50% effectiveness.
• Dual Wield Total Attack Speed: 100% ⇒ 50%
• Phenomenal Evil: No longer triggers each time Brand or Lillia apply their passive. These passives now respect the augments cooldown.
• Jeweled Gauntlet/Vulnerability: Adjusted the crit formula to be less egregious with crit damage.
• Wisdom of Ages: If taken as your 2nd Augment, gain 2 additional levels.
• From Beginning to End: Dark Harvest damage per soul 10 ⇒ 20
• From Beginning to End: Starting Souls per Augment 4 ⇒ 8

CURSE AUGMENTS

• Max Cursed Power per Round: 40 ⇒ 50
• Dreadbringer Cursed Power to Health Ratio : 225% ⇒ 400%
• Dreadbringer Tick Cadence: 1s ⇒ 0.25s
• Doomsayer Cursed Power to Adaptive Force Ratio: 125% ⇒ 175%
• Desecrator Cursed Power per Immobilize: 5 ⇒ 8
• Desecrator Cursed Power to AR/MR Ratio: 20% ⇒ 25%
• Deathtouch Cursed Power to On-Hit Ratio: 38% ⇒ 40%
• Dark Blessing: Removed the range requirement to gain the Cursed Power when Healing/Shield.

ITEMS

• Dragonheart: Grants a maximum of 4 Souls when purchased.
• Hexbolt Companion: Range 1000 ⇒ 1200

BUG FIXES

• Kinkou Jitte detection improved slightly.
• You can no longer purchase multiple of the same Juice or a Juice that is already active on you.
• Circle of Death no longer procs while dead.
• Demon's Dance no longer sometimes grants Grasp to enemies.
• Dawncore will properly count Base Mana Regen from Talisman of Ascension.
• Undoing a sell of Dragonheart will no longer reroll the souls.
• Kalista has her AS properly capped by Slow and Steady.
• Spin to Win works properly on Akshan Q.
• Fan the Hammer will not be consumed on plants/wards/traps.
• Puppeteer no longer gets Cooldown reduced by Knight's Vow.
• Abilities reflected by Mel W will benefit from Chain Lightning.
• Getting a kill with Cho R from Ultimate Roulette no longer permanently sets your R range to Cho R.
• Phenomenal Evil and other spell hit augments will no longer trigger on every one of Kayle's auto attacks.
• Prowler's Claw is no longer restricted to only being offered to champions with a dash.
• Prowler's Claw and Goredrinker have the correct sell value.
• Nesting Doll now properly knocks back on revive.
• Prowler's Claw no longer shows a buff icon after dashing.
• Decapitator Ult VFX now properly displays between rounds.
• Abilities that roll to see if they crit no longer roll a second time for Jeweled Gauntlet or Vulnerability.
• Nilah Q can now crit with Jeweled Gauntlet.
• Reckoner's Arena Pillars will no longer be amped by Jeweled Gauntlet.
• Vulnerability and Jeweled Gauntlet will no longer roll on top of each other allowing for lucky crits or the possibility of double critting. In the case where both augments apply, we roll for the one with a higher crit damage (Jeweled Gauntlet).
• Soul Siphon is no longer triggered multiple times when you have both Jeweled Gauntlet and Vulnerability.
• Ultimate Rev now has a 6 second cooldown for Brand's R so that it correctly bounces when CD is refunded.
• Chauffeur no longer stops Ornn E if you're moving.
• Viktor now correctly gains 40 stacks in the buy phase.
• Fixed a bug where casting W would put your Kled Guest of Honor Summoner Spell on CD.
• Ocean Soul tracker no longer counts healing during non-combat rounds.
• Spellwake and Doomsayer now properly trigger on both enemies when one ability hits both, rather than only on one of them.

2025 Clash Schedule

As we promised in our last Dev Update, we're reversing the changes we made to the frequency of Clash. Here's the new 2025 Clash schedule!

For more information on Clash check out our Clash FAQ support page here!

As a small note, since we increased the number of Clash tournaments per year, we're also reverting the reward requirements to what they originally were. 

Blue Essence Emporium has returned!

With 25.07 comes the return of the Blue Essence Emporium and it'll be active until patch 25.09 goes live.

With this return of the BEE we have a new offering of the “Emporium Enjoyer” title for 250,000 BE. Spend your hoards of Blue Essence for some cosmetics while it's active, and just as a reminder that the next time the Essence Emporium returns it'll be closer to the end of this year. 

Jhin and Vel'Koz BE Pricing

Earlier this year we reduced the BE cost of all champions by 50% which led to the death of some specific prices on champions that both players and devs were fans of. We've heard your asks to bring this back and we have some updates on this.

In 25.07, Jhin will be available for 1234 Blue Essence, and Vel'Koz will be available for 1618 Blue Essence. 

The Sanctum and Quantum Galaxy Slayer Zed

With the delay of Sahn-Uzal Mordekaiser skin we're going to be extending Quantum Galaxy Slayer Zed's banner until the next banner item rotates in. 

Prestige Battle Academia Qiyana

While testing and preparing the new shop we discovered a bug where the Prestige Battle Academia Qiyana listing wasn't properly granting her Icon Border. We weren't able to get this fixed in time for release, so for a moment if you purchase her she will come without the Icon Border.

We will be retroactively granting this for players at a later date when we have the issue fixed but currently don't have an ETA on that. So don't worry if it's missing, we will get it to you. We'll let you know as soon as we have an update on this. 

Bugfixes & QoL Changes

Upcoming Skins & Chromas

Urgot the Clogfather

Chromas

Pool Party Malphite

Chromas 

Pengu Garen

Grill Master Braum

Chromas

Glizzy Naafiri

Chromas

Cat-in-the-Box Shaco

Chromas

And that covers all of the changes in the League of Legends patch notes which you can view, here. It certainly is interesting how Riot Games will restore the players' trust, following the whole Hextech Chests debacle, alongside the obvious cash grab that is the new gacha system.