Patch Notes & Meta Timeline
Sequential balance adjustments from the first international championship (M1 World Championship) through to today.
Patch 1.9.90
Season 36 Released June 18, 2025Patch 1.9.90 - New Hero Zetian
In high-tier Ranked games and professional matches, Junglers have the biggest impact on early-to-mid game tempo, while Exp Lane heroes rarely have standout performances. Sometimes, Exp Lane heroes even have to purchase defensive equipment to take on the role of damage soaking and give up their resources to other teammates. We aim to give Exp Lane fighters more opportunities to dominate in the mid game, while slightly reducing Junglers' early-game tempo and balancing creep-clearing speeds among different Jungler heroes to prevent excessive disparities. Additionally, we find that the Healing Reduction effect from equipment is currently too strong, creating a big difference in how well healing-dependent heroes perform, based heavily on whether enemies purchase equipment with this effect. Therefore, we are reducing the Healing Reduction effect, while also adjusting heroes, equipment, and skills with overly high healing to maintain balance. Finally, we've enhanced the Resilience attribute to reduce the duration of Airborne control effects. However, we've also decreased the Resilience provided by certain equipment. Due to Airborne now being affected by the new Resilience effect, we will make adjustments to heroes whose combo relies on Airborne to minimize the impact, while providing other compensatory buffs to heroes whose core feature is Airborne but doesn't affect their combo. Good luck ranking up in the new season!
Sanctum Island Map & Neutral Objectives
battlefield AdjustedNeutral creeps, defense turret plating, and lane minion mechanics tuned.