LoL: Preseason Balance Update 2

Thresh, the Chain Warden
Thresh is still undergoing PBE testing, and will be released at a later date. Stay tuned for more information on the Chain Warden!

Alistar
Base movement speed increased to 330 from 325

Headbutt: Range increased to 650 from 600

Amumu
Cursed Touch: Magic resist reduction reduced at later levels to 15/20/25 from 15/25/35

Annie
Disintegrate: Mana cost reduced to 60/65/70/75/80 from 60/70/80/90/100

Incinerate: Targeting cone is now attached to Annie

Molten Shield: Cooldown reduced to 10 seconds from 16
Duration reduced to 5 seconds from 8

Blitzcrank
Mana Barrier: Cooldown increased to 90 seconds from 60

Rocket Grab: Will now give vision when it hits a target

Cho'Gath
Feral Scream: Targeting cone is now attached to Cho'Gath

Corki
Gatling Gun: Mana cost reduced to 60/65/70/75/80 from 60/70/80/90/100

Diana
Pale Cascade: Orb detonation has been adjusted to better match Diana’s basic attack range
Shield duration increased to 5 seconds from 4

Lunar Rush: Cast range increased to 825 from 750

Evelynn
Hate Spike: Mana cost increased to 16/22/28/34/40 from 14/18/22/26/30
Bonus attack damage ratio increased to 0.5 from 0.4

Ravage: Damage reduced at later ranks to 35/55/75/95/115 from 35/60/85/110/135
Bonus attack damage ratio increased to 0.5 from 0.4

Agony's Embrace: Damage changed to 15/20/25% of the target's current health from 15/20/25% of their max health
Cooldown increased to 150/120/90 seconds from 120/90/60
Cast range reduced to 650 from 800

Ezreal
Base attack speed reduced to 0.625 from 0.665

Kassadin
Force Pulse: Fixed an issue where Force Pulse would sometimes fire backward after using Rift Walk.

Katarina
Base movement speed reduced to 345 from 350

Sinister Steel: Movement speed adjusted to 15/20/25/30/35% from 12/20/28/36/44%

Kennen
Basic attack has been retuned so it’s more responsive

Kha'Zix
Unseen Threat: Damage reduced at later levels to 15-190 from 15-220
Slow reduced to 25% from 35%

Taste Their Fear: Bonus attack damage ratio reduced to 1.5 from 1.6
Isolation bonus attack damage ratio reduced to 2.0 from 2.4

Lee Sin
Safeguard: Fixed a bug where the tooltip incorrectly stated that Lee Sin regained energy when the shield was broken

Iron Will: No longer grants armor while active
Life steal and spell vamp increased to 5/10/15/20/25% from 5/9/13/17/21%

Cripple: Slow amount reduced at earlier ranks to 20/30/40/50/60% from 30/37.5/45/52.5/60%
Range reduced to 600 from 800

Mordekaiser
Siphon of Destruction: Targeting cone is now attached to Mordekaiser

Nami
Base movement speed increased to 335 from 330

Aqua Prison: Cooldown reduced to 14/13/12/11/10 seconds from 16/14.5/13/11.5/10

Tidal Wave: Missile speed increased to 850 from 750

Rengar
Bonetooth Necklace: Now grants +5 Attack Damage

Unseen Predator: Fixed a bug where Rengar could leap while rooted

Savagery: Attack speed duration increased to 4 seconds from 3
Fixed a bug where Savagery could be used three times consecutively

Battle Roar: Empowered Battle Roar now heals for 60-400 (based on champion level) instead of 10% of his Rengar’s health

Thrill of the Hunt: Initial delay reduced to 1 second from 1.25 (still can be delayed up to 3 seconds)
Stealth duration increased to 7 seconds from 5

Riven
Base health regen reduced to 6 from 10.4

Health regen per level reduced to 0.5 from 0.9

Valor: Shield amount increased to 70/100/130/160/190 from 60/90/120/150/180

Blade of the Exile: Cooldown increased to 110/80/50 seconds from 75/60/45
Targeting cone is now attached to Riven

Shaco
Hallucinate: Controlling the clone no longer reveals Shaco in brush

Fixed a bug that prevented Shaco from casting Hallucinate for the rest of the game in certain circumstances

Syndra
Transcendent: Now increases range on Unleashed Power by 75 at max rank

Scatter the Weak: Cooldown reduced at later ranks to 18/16.5/15/13.5/12 seconds from 18/17/16/15/14

Talon
Noxian Diplomacy: Bleed damage reduced to 10/20/30/40/50 from 18/36/54/72/90
Bleed bonus attack damage ratio reduced to 1 from 1.2

Cutthroat:
Fixed a bug where the damage amplification did not actually apply
Fixed an bug that sometimes caused Talon’s Rake to fire backwards after using Cutthroat.

Shadow Assault:
Damage reduced at later ranks to 120/170/220 from 120/190/260
Bonus attack damage ratio reduced to 0.75 from 0.9

Udyr
Monkey's Agility: Now additionally increases Udyr's armor and magic resist by 4% per stack

Vi
Vault Breaker: Fixed a bug where Vault Breaker would sometimes not refund mana or cooldown when interrupted
Fixed a bug where interrupting Vault Breaker would sometimes render Vi unable to cast spells
Fixed a bug where Vault Breaker's stun duration was sometimes shorter than intended
Fixed a bug where Vi would sometimes stop attacking after hitting a champion with Vault Breaker

Excessive Force: Increased the responsiveness of Vi's attacks after using Excessive Force

Assault and Battery: Fixed a bug where targets could cast spells after being knocked into the air
Fixed a bug where characters with stealth could cause Assault and Battery to miss
Fixed a bug where damage was not applied to targets immune to disable effects

Ziggs
Short Fuse: The cooldown indicator now more accurately shows when Short Fuse is available.

Summoner's Rift

Jungle:

Wraith
Base gold increased to 30 from 25
Base health increased to 1000 from 750

Lesser Wraith
Base health reduced to 150 from 250

Giant Wolf
Base gold increased to 55 from 40
Base health increased to 1100 from 900

Wolf
Base health reduced to 200 from 300

Golem
Base gold increased to 55 from 45
Base health increased to 1200 from 1000

Small Golem
Base health reduced to 300 from 500

Items

Item tooltips have been revised to improve consistency

Manamune
Attack damage increased to 20 from 10

Archangel's Staff
Ability power increased to 60 from 50
Mana charge amount increased to 6 from 5

Crystalline Flask
Cost increased to 345 from 225
Now restores 120 health and 60 mana over 12 seconds from 100 health and 40 mana over 10 seconds per charge

Mikael's Crucible
Can no longer target allied minions

Last Whisper
Combine cost increased to 1025 from 860 (total cost is now 2300 from 2135)

Hextech Gunblade
Spell vamp is now UNIQUE

Iceborne Gauntlet
Duration of slow field reduced to 2 seconds from 3
Slow percentage reduced to 30% from 35%
Slowing field now displays team color rings

Philosopher's Stone
Now correctly grants 5 gold per 10 seconds (was 4 gold per 10 seconds)

Enchantment: Homeguard
Homeguard now works immediately after purchasing the enchant

Spirit of the Elder Lizard
Now grants +10% cooldown reduction

Spirit of the Spectral Wraith
Ability power increased to 50 from 40
Cooldown reduction is no longer UNIQUE

Sanguine Blade
Combine cost reduced to 500 gold from 800
Attack damage increased to 65 from 60
Attack damage per stack increased to 6 from 5
Max stacks reduced to 5 from 7

Blackfire Torch
New recipe: Kage's Lucky Pick + Fiendish Codex + Haunting Guise
Total gold cost: 3950 (combine cost: 700)
Ability power increased to 80 from 70
Cooldown reduction increased to 20% from 10%
Now grants 10 mana regeneration per 5 seconds

Will of the Ancients
New recipe: Kage's Pick + Hextech Revolver
Total gold cost is now 2550 (combine cost: 585)

Twin Shadows
Ability power reduced to 40 from 50
Magic resist increased to 40 from 30
Movement speed increased to 6% from 5%

Banner of Command
Ability power reduced to 40 from 50
Now grants 10% cooldown reduction

Banshee's Veil
Combine cost increased to 600 from 490 (total cost is now 2610 from 2500)
Health increased to 400 from 300

Ninja Tabi
Once again reduces 10% damage from all basic attacks, rather than only champion basic attacks
Liandry's Torment
Health increased to 300 from 200
Ability power reduced to 60 from 70

Wooglet's Witchcap
New recipe: Blasting Wand + Blasting Wand + Chain Vest
Total gold cost: 3500 (combine cost: 1060)
Armor reduced to 40 from 50

Hextech Sweeper
New UNIQUE passive - Trap Detection: Nearby stealthed enemy traps are revealed

Grez's Spectral Lantern
Attack damage reduced to 20 from 25

Lightbringer - Remade!
New recipe: Grez's Spectral Lantern + Pickaxe
Total gold cost: 2425 (combine cost: 300)
+50 attack damage
+20 armor
+12% life steal
UNIQUE passive - Vanquish: Basic attacks have a 20% chance to deal 100 bonus magic damage (doubled for non-champions)
UNIQUE passive - Trap Detection: Nearby stealthed enemy traps are revealed
UNIQUE active: Cover s a target area in a stealth-detecting mist that grants vision for 10 seconds (60 second cooldown)

Masteries
Pickpocket
Now displays a buff timer after attacking to show the time before gold can be earned again

Twisted Treeline
Speed Shrine removed! There’s now a Ghost Relic in its place.
The Ghost Relic replenishes 94-315 health and a small amount of your ability resource. It also grants a brief speed boost.
The Ghost Relic spawns at 1:55 and respawns every 90 seconds.
New items now available
Lightbringer
Runic Bulwark
Ohmwrecker

Proving Grounds
New items now available
Blade of the Ruined King

Co-op vs. AI
Bots are now more likely to use activatable items.
Added Darius Bot to Co-op vs. AI on all maps.
Fixed a bug where Shen Bot wasn't casting Stand United.
Co-op vs. AI will now properly display as a co-op vs. AI match instead of a 5v5 pvp match.

Spectator
Gold totals with more than three digits will now include punctuation for easier readability

Directed camera positioning will now take the health bars for Baron and Vilemaw into account

Fixed a bug that could cause directed camera to focus on recalling champions even with no enemies nearby

Added spectator chat callouts for powerful items such as Athene's Unholy Grail and Blade of the Ruined King

Ranked
Added a new provisional medal for players and teams that are in their placement matches
All players and teams have been temporarily set to this medal in preparation for Season 3

UI
Improvements to the item shop
Holding the CTRL key while clicking on categories in the All Items tab will now select multiple categories, similar to using the check boxes

Fixed a bug where the item shop could show you as owning more of an item than you actually have

Fixed a bug where items in the recommended item pane would light up even if you couldn't afford the item

Fixed a bug where items that could not be sold were showing a sell value

Improved the responsiveness of double clicking to purchase items

Improved the performance of the item shop during various item updates (opening the item shop, searching, purchasing and selling)

Adjusted the graphics for the borders on vote tallies in the surrender display

General
Turrets
Now prioritize minions in the following order:
Player-owned minions (ex: Tibbers, Zyra Plants)
Super Minions, Cannon Minions
Melee Minions
Caster Minions

Added keybindings for Self Casting Items

Fixed keybinding for Show/Hide HUD

Changed the "Ended Killing Spree" chat messages to better indicate that the number shown is the total gold received for the kill

Fixed a bug where players couldn’t send chat messages at end of game

Fixed a bug where champions affected by near-sightedness (Graves's Smokescreen, Nocturne's ultimate) could attack their team mates

The Minimap has been improved:
Wards now show special icons on the minimap
Players are outlined in blue while recalling
Players are outlined in orange while using teleport
Teleport is now colored based on enemy/ally team

Fixed an issue that was causing player health bars and ultimate indicators in the team UI to update too slowly

Fixed an issue where purchasing a legendary item (ex: Runic Bulwark, Blade of the Ruined King) would consume all components of a lower tier instead of just those necessary for the recipe

Fixed a rare issue where certain spells (ex: Ezreal’s Mystic Shot) could land an unintentional critical hit

Hovering over your attack damage stat will display your champion's auto attack range

You may now unlock the game camera while holding down your mouse button on the minimap

Pinging a tower in the basic tutorial will no longer display an unlocalized string

The camera snap that occurs when you respawn can be disabled by setting "DisableCameraSnapOnRespawn=1" in Game.cfg

You now have a few extra seconds to finish a kill streak if the target is the last member of the team alive

Muting a player will now mute that player's emote sounds

Added teammate chat callouts for new items such as Sightstone, Mikael's Crucible and Ohmwrecker

Fixed a bug preventing buff durations from drawing on the target frame