League of Legends patch 12.2 official notes: Zeri hits the rift, Janna rework, Lulu nerfs, and more

League of Legends patch 12.2 finally brings the much-anticipated Zaunite, Zeri, to the Summoners Rift.

Zeri will be the first champion introduced to the roster in season 12. However, she is not the only highlight of the upcoming update.

Janna will be getting a sizeable amount of tweaks to her kit, making many in the community feel that it’s more of a mini-rework rather than straight nerf or buff.

Looking for Crossword hints & solutions? Check out latest NYT Mini Crossword Answers, LA Times Crossword Answers, and Atlantic Crossword Answers

Additionally, the wind brothers of Yasuo and Yone will also be receiving buffs this time around while nerfs hit Lulu, Qiyana, and Talon.

League of Legends fans looking for a detailed patch description can look up Riot’s official website.

However, for a brief overview, here are all the major highlights.

League of Legends patch 12.2 official notes

1) Champions

Zeri Hits the rift

Passive – Living Battery

Zeri gains movement speed whenever she receives a shield. When she damages an enemy shield, she absorbs its energy, shielding herself

Q – Burst Fire

Passive – Zeri’s basic attack deals magic damage, scales with AP, and is treated as an ability. Moving and casting Burst Fire stores up energy in Zeri’s Sparkpack. When fully charged, her next basic attack will slow and deal bonus damage
Active – Burst Fire shoots a burst of seven rounds that deal physical damage to the first enemy hit

W – Ultrashock Laser

Zeri fires an electric pulse that slows and damages the first enemy hit. If the pulse hits a wall, it fires a long-range laser from the point of impact

E – Spark Surge

Zeri dashes a short distance and energizes her next three casts of Burst Fire, causing them to pierce through enemies. She’ll vault over or grind along any terrain she dashes into, depending on the angle. Hitting a champion with an attack or ability reduces Spark Surge’s cooldown

R – Lightning Crash

Zeri discharges a nova of electricity, damaging nearby enemies, and overcharges herself for a moderate duration. While overcharged, Zeri gains increased damage, attack speed, and movement speed. Attacking enemy champions refreshes the overcharge duration and adds another stack of movement speed. While overcharged, Burst Fire’s damage concentrates into a faster triple shot that chains lightning between enemies

Janna

Movement speed: 315 > 330
Base AD: 46 to 71.5 > 52 to 103
AD growth: 1.5 > three
Base attack range: 550 > 500

Passive – Tailwind

[Update] Tailwind: Janna gains eight percent bonus move speed only while moving toward allied champions. (Bonus movement speed for allied champions moving towards Janna unchanged)
Janna’s basic attacks and W – Zephyr no longer deal bonus magic damage based on her bonus movement speed

Q – Howling Gale

Cost: 60/90/100/120/140 mana > 60/70/80/90/100 mana
Minimum range: 1,000 > 1,100
Maximum range: 1,750 > 1,760
Time to destination: 1.5 seconds > 1.25 seconds

W – Zephyr

Range: 550 (from edge to edge) > 650 (centered)
Slow duration: two seconds > three seconds
Cooldown: 8/7.5/7/6.5/6 seconds > 12 seconds at all ranks
Base Damage: 55/85/115/145/175 > 70/100/130/160/190
Bonus movement speed: 6/7/8/9/10 percent > 8/9/10/11/12 percent

E – Eye of the Storm

[Update]: Innate – Whenever Janna’s abilities slow or knock up at least one enemy champion, E – Eye of the Storm’s cooldown is reduced by 20 percent > she receives +20 percent heal and shield power for five seconds
Shield: 80/115/150/185/220 (+70 percent AP) > 80/110/140/170/200 (+65 percent AP)
Cooldown: 16/15/14/13/12 seconds > 15/13.5/12/10.5/9 seconds
Shield decay starts after: 0.75 seconds > 1.25 seconds

R – Monsoon

Healing Tick Rate: 0.5 seconds > 0.25 seconds (total heal amount unchanged)

Lulu

W – Whimsy

Cooldown: 16/15/14/13/12 seconds > 17/16/15/14/13 seconds

Nocturne

Health growth: 85 > 95

Q – Duskbringer

Bonus AD Ratio: 75 percent > 85 percent

Qiyana

Base health regeneration: 7.5 > six

Q – Edge of Ixtal

Grass trail zone duration: 3.5 seconds > three seconds

Rengar

R – Thrill of the Hunt

[New]: Innate – Rengar can leap to enemies with his next basic attack when he is in camouflage

Samira

R – Inferno Trigger

Physical damage per shot: 0/10/20 (+50 percent AD) > 5/15/25 (+50 percent AD)
Total damage per target: 0/100/200 (+500 percent AD) > 50/150/250 (+500 percent AD)

Senna

Q – Absolution

[New] Innate – Senna’s basic attacks now slow enemies by 20 percent (+six percent per 100 AP) (+10 percent per 100 bonus AD) for two seconds

Shen

Q – Twilight Assault

Increased bonus damage: 10 to 40 (+six every three levels) (+5/5.5/6/6.5/7 percent (+two percent per 100 AP) of target’s max health) > 10 to40 (+six every three levels) (+4/4.5/5/5.5/6 percent (+two percent per 100 AP) of target’s max health)

Tahm Kench

Q – Tongue Lash

Enemy slow: 40 percent > 50 percent

R – Devour

Ally shield upon devour: 400/500/600 (+100 percent AP) > 500/700/900 (+150 percent AP)
Movement speed upon devouring ally: Slows Tahm Kench by 30/20/10 percent while ally is swallowed > Grants Tahm Kench 40 percent movement speed for three seconds (regardless of swallow duration)

Talon

W – Rake

Damage against monsters: 130 percent > 105 percent

Tristana

Base health: 559 to 600
Base health regeneration: 3.75 to four

Veigar

Q – Baleful Strike

Cooldown: 7/6.5/6/5.5/5 seconds > 6/5.5/5/4.5/4 seconds
Stacks granted upon killing large monsters and minions: two > three

Volibear

Attack damage growth: three to 3.5

E – Sky Splitter

Cooldown: 15 seconds > 13 seconds

Yasuo

Q – Steel Tempest

Damage: 20/45/70/95/120 (+100 percent AD) > 20/45/70/95/120 (+105 percent AD)

Yone

Q – Mortal Steel

Damage: 20/40/60/80/100 (+100 percent AD) > 20/40/60/80/100 (+105 percent AD)

Zed

R – Death Mark

Damage: 100 percent AD (+25/40/55 percent of damage dealt against marked target) > 65 percent AD (+25/40/55 percent of damage dealt against marked target)

2) Items

Lich Bane

Build path: Blasting Wand + Aether Wisp + Sheen + 600g > Fiendish Codex + Aether Wisp + Sheen + 550g (total cost unchanged)
Ability haste: Zero > 15
Spellblade damage: 150 percent base AD (+40 percent AP) > 75 percent base AD (+50 percent AP)
Spellblade cooldown: 2.5 seconds > 1.5 seconds

Rylai’s Crystal Scepter

Total cost: 3,000 gold > 2,600 gold
Combine cost: 815 gold > 415 gold
Ability power: 90 > 75
Health: 350 > 400

3) Jungle

Chemtech drake

Chemtech dragon soul

Zombie health: 80 percent base health + 50 percent bonus health > 70 percent base health + 40 percent bonus health
Zombie duration (without other health impacting factors): four seconds > three seconds

Chemtech rift

Offensive action camouflage timer: 1.5 seconds > 2.5 seconds
Bonus damage vs. enemies with more current health: Up to 10 percent > Up to 12 percent

Hextech drake

Hextech dragon soul

Chain lightning true damage: 25 to 75 (based on attacker’s level, one to 18) > 25 to 50 (based on attacker’s level, one to 18)

4) Runes

Lethal Tempo

Attack speed per stack (melee): 13 percent > 10 to 15 percent (levels one to 15)
Attack speed per stack (ranged): seven percent > five to nine percent (levels one to 12)

5) ARURF

ARURF returns on January 26. The All Random Ultra Rapid Fire game mode is receiving a few changes ahead of the Lunar New Year. The devs have added some adjustments to runes to spice up Summoner’s Rift.

ARURF First Strike ooldown: 25 to 15 seconds (levels one to 18) > 15 to nine seconds (levels one to 18)
ARURF Glacial Augment cooldown: 25 seconds > 15 seconds

6) VFX updates

Sona

Base Sona: Complete overhaul
Muse Sona: Minor details added to new base
Pentakill Sona: Same as new base
Silent Night Sona: Recolored from new base
Guqin Sona: Minor details added to new base
Arcade Sona: Complete overhaul
DJ Sona: Complete overhaul and additional special celebration effects for each passive aura
Sweetheart Sona: Same as new base, plus some cleanup
Odyssey Sona: Minimal tweaks
Pentakill III: Lost Chapter Sona: Minimal tweaks

Vayne

Base Vayne: Complete overhaul
Dragonslayer Vayne: Recolored from base with added smoke and flames
Heartseeker Vayne: Recolored from base with heart in W decal
SKT T1: Same as new base, different missiles to match model
Arclight Vayne: Recolored from base with more golden, divine sparks

7) Bug fixes and quality-of-life changes

Fixed a bug where Teleport could sometimes still target certain units other than towers before 14 minutes.
Fixed a bug where Unleashed Teleport would permanently replace one of your Summoner Spells if acquired and used via the Unsealed Spellbook rune.
Champions will now correctly drop Unleashed Teleport spell shards if used after 14 minutes into a game with Zoe.
Fixed a bug where Yone could sometimes cast Unleashed Teleport while his E – Soul Unbound was active.
The exclamation point stealth indicator has been fixed and will correctly reappear above your champion if you are visible to an enemy inside the Chemtech Fog after completing certain stealthing abilities (such as Akali’s W – Twilight Shroud).
Fixed a bug where towers would incorrectly target enemy champions who took damage from Kog’Maw’s Passive – Icathian Surprise or Karthus’s Passive – Death Defied.
Rengar’s Passive – Unseen Predator leap basic attacks will correctly trigger Navori Quickblades’ Deft Strikes effect.
Fixed a bug where taking damage from certain jungle monsters would sometimes incorrectly grant stacks toward Force of Nature’s Absorb passive.
Fixed a bug where triggering Glacial Augment’s passive would incorrectly count toward triggering Eclipse’s Ever Rising Moon passive.
Fixed a bug where Mythic or active item icon borders would sometimes appear in incorrect locations.
Enemy player chat and emote mute toggle buttons have been fixed and will no longer overlap with other icons in the scoreboard.
DJ Sona and K/DA Seraphine’s in-game music mute toggle buttons have been fixed and will display correctly next to their champion icon in the scoreboard every game.
Chat restriction notifications have been fixed and will once again inform players how many messages they have left in their limit.

8) Upcoming skins and chromas

Skins

Porcelain Protector Ezreal
Porcelain Lissandra
Porcelain Amumu
Porcelain Lux
Porcelain Lux Prestige Edition
Porcelain Kindred
Firecracker Sett
Firecracker Diana
Firecracker Teemo
Firecracker Tristana
Firecracker Xin Zhao
Brave Phoenix Xayah Prestige Edition
Withered Rose Zeri

Chromas

Porcelain Protector Ezreal
Porcelain Lissandra
Porcelain Amumu
Porcelain Lux
Porcelain Kindred
Firecracker Sett
Firecracker Diana
Firecracker Teemo
Firecracker Tristana
Firecracker Xin Zhao
Withered Rose Zeri
Divine Phoenix Anivia
Brave Phoenix Xayah
Graceful Phoenix Seraphine
Firecracker Jinx
Firecracker Vayne
Firecracker Sejuani

About the author

Armed with his Master's degree in English Literature, Abhishek Mallick ventured into journalism propelled by his simple love for video games. Over four years, Abhishek has made significant contributions to Sportskeeda Esports & Gaming as a content manager and writer and holds particular expertise and influence within the competitive gaming landscape. Inspired by gaming legends like T1 Faker, Abhishek closely follows the professional League of Legends scene, finding fascination in the strategic depth and skillful plays showcased by top players and teams.

After his first childhood favorite, the 1997 platformer Claw, Abhishek's gaming pursuits evolved to encompass titles like Monster Hunter World, where he finds thrill in the exhilarating hunt for formidable monsters. These days, Abhishek's genre of choice is JRPG, where he enjoys confronting deities in epic battles.

In his reporting endeavors, Abhishek stays up-to-date with current news and trends to ensure his articles provide readers with accurate and timely information. Beyond gaming, Abhishek dives into fiction through his love for reading.

Know More

Are you stuck on today's Wordle? Our Wordle Solver will help you find the answer.

Edited by Yasho Amonkar