League of Legends patch 11.8 official notes introduces new champion Gwen, Rammus mini rework, and other champion updates

League of Legends patch 11.8 official notes is finally here, and it introduces the brand new champion Gwen to the ffray

Apart from the new champion release, Rammus mini-rework is also on the cards for the upcoming update.

✏️📒11.8 Patch Highlights!Full patch notes here: https://t.co/OnGfQQzVHB pic.twitter.com/fYHuEj4YQM
— League of Legends (@LeagueOfLegends) April 13, 2021

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Additionally, Yorick and Gnar will be getting a nerf while LeBlanc, Lee Sin and Vladimir are all set to receive some quality of life changes.

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

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

League of Legends patch 11.8 official notes

#1. Champions

[New] Gwen

Passive – Thousand Cuts

Gwen’s basic attacks deal bonus on-hit magic damage based on a percentage of her enemies’ maximum health. Basic attacks against champions will heal her for some of the damage dealt.

Q – Snip Snip!

Gwen rapidly snips her scissors between two and six times, dealing magic damage in a cone. At a minimum, Gwen will snip twice, adding one snip per basic attack Gwen has landed on an enemy (up to four for a total of six).

W – Hallowed Mist

Gwen spins up the Hallowed Mist to surround her for five seconds, gaining some armor and magic resistance when in it. Enemies outside the Mist cannot target Gwen or hit her with any abilities. The mist will move to follow Gwen the first time she tries to leave it but will dissipate the next time.

E – Skip ’n Slash

Gwen dashes a short distance and empowers her attacks with increased range, speed, and on-hit magic damage for four seconds. Attacking an enemy during this time refunds 50 percent of this ability’s cooldown.

R – Needlework

Gwen can cast Needlework up to three times but needs to hit an enemy within eight seconds to unlock each subsequent cast. Each cast fires needles in a line that deals magic damage, slows enemies, and apply Gwen’s Thousand Cuts bonus magic damage.

The first cast will fire one needle, the second will fire three, and the final cast will fire five, for a total of nine needles and nine applications of Thousand Cuts to enemies hit.

Annie

W – Incinerate

Cost: 70/80/90/100/110 mana to 90/95/100/105/110 mana

Aphelios

Passive – The Hitman and the Seer

Lethality: 3/6/9/12/15/18 to 3.5/7/10.5/14/17.5/21

R – Moonlight Vigil

Calibrum damage perk mark: 40/70/100 to 50/80/110
Severum healing: 250/375/500 to 275/400/525
Gravitum root duration: 1.25 seconds to 1.35 seconds
Infernum splash damage: 85 percent of initial damage to 90 percent of initial damage
Crescendum chakram refund: 4 additional (5 total) to 5 additional (6 total)

Cassiopeia

E – Twin Fang

Cost: 50 mana to 50/48/46/44/42 mana

Dr. Mundo

Passive – Adrenaline Rush

Max health regeneration: 1.5 percent to 2.5 percent

Q – Infected Cleaver

Capped damage against minions and monsters: 300/350/400/450/500 to 100/200/300/400/500
Health cost restore on enemy hit: 50 percent to 100 percent

E – Masochism

Flat bonus AD: 40/55/70/85/100 to 30/45/60/75/90
Max bonus AD: 60/90/120/150/180 to 50/80/110/140/170

Gnar

W – Hyper

Bonus movement speed: 30/45/60/75 percent, decaying over 3 seconds (based on R rank) to 20/40/60/80 percent, decaying over 3 seconds (based on R rank)

LeBlanc

Q – Sigil of Malice

Base damage: 55/80/105/130/155 to 65/90/115/140/165
Total damage: 110/160/210/260/310 to 130/180/230/280/330

Lee Sin

E – Tempest

Cooldown: 10 seconds to eight seconds

Orianna

E – Command: Protect

Bonus resistances: 10/15/20/25/30 armor and magic resist to 6/12/18/24/30 armor and magic resist

Rammus

Q – Powerball

Base damage: 100/135/170/205/240 to 100/130/160/190/220

W – Defensive Ball Curl

[New] Basic attacks now extend the duration of Defensive Ball Curl by 0.4 seconds, up to a maximum of 4 additional seconds

E – Frenzying Taunt

Taunt duration: 1.25/1.5/1.75/2.0/2.25 seconds to 1.2/1.4/1.6/1.8/2.0 seconds

R – Soaring Slam

[Update] Rammus leaps into the air and slams down, dealing 100/175/250 (+0.6 AP) magic damage and slowing enemies by 15/17.5/20 percent for 1.5 seconds. Rammus generates aftershocks at the target location for four seconds, dealing 20/30/40 (+0.1 AP) magic damage and stacking the initial slow up to four times. Damage near the center is increased up to 150 percent damage based on the distance traveled. If Soaring Slam is cast while Rammus is in Powerball, enemies near the center are also knocked up and dealt Powerball’s collision damage, ending Powerball’s effect
Cooldown: 100/80/60 seconds to 130/110/90 seconds

Rumble

Magic resist: 32 to 28
Magic resist growth: 1.25 to 0.75

Passive – Junkyard Titan

Overheating bonus damage: 25 to 110 (based on level) (+30 percent AP) to 10 to 50 (+6 percent of target’s maximum health) (+30 percent AP)
[New] While Overheated, Rumble gains 50 percent attack speed

E – Electro Harpoon

[New] Electro Harpoon now reduces the target’s magic resistance by 10 percent (15 percent when in the Danger Zone) for 4 seconds, stacking additively

Thresh

E – Flay

Cooldown: Nine seconds to 11/10.5/10/9.5/9 seconds

Vladimir

Q – Transfusion

Cooldown: 9/8/7/6/5 seconds to 9/7.75/6.5/5.25/4 seconds

Yorick

Passive – Shepherd of Souls

Mist walker damage: 2/3/4/5/6/7/8/14/20/26/32/38/44/55/66/77/88/99 (+30 percent total AD) to 2/3/4/5/6/7/8/13/18/23/28/33/38/48/58/68/78/88 (+25 percent total AD)

E – Mourning Mist

Mist walker initial leap damage: 200 percent on first attack to 100 percent (normal damage) on first attack
[New] Marked targets take 40 percent increased damage from the next eight attacks by a Mist Walker

R – Eulogy of the Isles

Turret priority: Attacks the Maiden over melee and ranged minions to Attacks melee and ranged minions over the Maiden

Zac

W – Unstable Matter

Damage: 25/40/55/70/85 (+4/5/6/7/8 percent of target’s maximum health) (+2 percent per 100 AP) to 35/50/65/80/95 (+4/5/6/7/8 percent of target’s maximum health) (+4 percent per 100 AP)

#2. Jungle champion changes

Darius

Passive – Hemorrhage monster damage bonus: 175 percent to 300 percent

Mordekaiser

Passive – Darkness Rise capped damage against monsters: 28 to 164 (based on level) to 180 (at all levels)

Zed

Passive – Contempt for the Weak on-target cooldown: Affects all targets once every 10 seconds to Applies to enemy champions once every 10 seconds (i.e. no longer affects minions and monsters)
Passive – Contempt for the Weak bonus damage against monsters: No longer deals increased damage by 100 percent against monsters
Passive – Contempt for the Weak capped damage against monsters: 200/350/500 (based on level) to 300, capped only for epic monsters (at all levels)

Morgana

W – Tortmented Shadow bonus damage against non-epic monsters: 150 percent to 200 percent

#3. Items

Moonstone Renewer

Starlit Grace heal: 50 to 100 (based on target’s level) to 60 (at all levels)
Starlit Grace heal amplification: Each second spent in combat increases the base heal by 12.5 percent, stacking up to four times, up to 50 percent to Each second spent in combat increases your healing and shielding power by 4 percent, stacking up to five times, up to 20 percent.

Shurelya’s Battlesong

Inspire damage empowerment: No longer empowers the next three instances of damage to deal an additional 35 to 55 magic damage.
[New] Passive – Motivate: Empowering or protecting another allied champion (excluding yourself) grants both allies 25 percent movement speed over 1.5 seconds.
Mythic passive: Three percent movement speed to five ability haste

Staff of Flowing Water

Rapids: Grants 15 percent bonus movement speed and 20 to 40 (based on target’s level) AP for three seconds to grants 20 ability haste and 20 to 40 AP for four seconds.

Frozen Heart

Armor: 70 to 80

Chemtech Putrifier

Ability power: 50 to 55
Puffcap toxin ally empowerment: Healing or shielding an allied champion (including yourself) empowers the ally’s next damage to an enemy champion with 60 percent Grievous Wounds for three seconds to Healing or shielding another allied champion (excluding yourself) empowers both the ally’s and your next damage to an enemy champion with 60 percent percent Grievous Wounds for three seconds
[Update] Tooltip consistency: To match Chemtech Putrifier, Ardent Censer’s tooltip has been updated to specify the requirement of another ally. Their functionality is entirely unchanged
[New] Items that apply Grievous Wounds will now be called out in chat to notify your team when purchased

Ionian Boots of Lucidity

Total cost: 900 gold to 950 gold

Hextech Rocketbelt

Health: 350 to 250
[New] Magic penetration: Six
Upgraded Aeropack (Ornn upgrade) health: 450 to 350
[New] Upgraded Areopack (Ornn upgrade) magic penetration: 10

Titanic Hydra

Colossus bonus AD: Equal to one percent maximum health to equal to two percent bonus health

In-game shop updates

Purchasing a Mythic item from the All Items view now collapses the Mythic row. You can’t buy another one anyway so we saved you some space
Fixed an issue where scaling the HUD could break parts of the shop
Various performance improvements and bug fixes

Shurima Clash

This round of Clash is Shurima themed. The first weekend will be April 17 and 18, and the second will be May 1 and 2. Team formation for the first weekend opens on April 12.

Season 2021 honor 5 chromas

When you open your Honor 5 capsule, you’ll receive one Honor 5 token that can be redeemed for Medieval Twitch, Grey Warwick, one of these new chromas, or a previously-released chroma. You have to own Medieval Twitch or Grey Warwick before you can unlock one of their chromas, but you don’t have to own them both. Honor 5 capsules also contain a random emote or ward skin

#4. ARAM balance changes

11.8 buffs

Aurelion Sol: Normal to -5 percent damage taken
Fiora: Normal to -5 percent damage taken
Kassadin: +5 percent damage dealt, -5 percent damage taken to +5 percent damage dealt, -10 percent damage taken
Olaf: Normal to -5 percent damage taken
Rammus: Normal to -5 percent damage taken
Rengar: +5 percent damage dealt, -8 percent damage taken to +8 damage dealt, -8 percent damage taken
Ryze: +5 percent damage dealt, -10 percent damage taken to +8 percent damage dealt, -10 percent damage taken

11.8 buffs

Akali: +20 percent damage dealt, -20 percent damage taken to +5 percent damage dealt, -5 percent damage taken
Amumu: Normal to +5 percent damage taken
Leona: Normal to +5 percent damage taken
Ornn: -5 percent damage dealt to -10 percent damage dealt, +5 percent damage taken
Seraphine: -15 percent damage dealt, +15 percent damage taken, -15 percent healing, -15 percent shielding to -15 percent damage dealt, +15 percent damage taken, -20 percent healing, -20 percent shielding
Varus: -5 percent damage dealt to -5percent damage dealt, +5percent damage taken
Xerath: -5 percent damage dealt to -5 percent damage dealt. +5 percent damage taken
Yorick: Normal to Increasing the number of deaths required to spawn a grave from 2 to 5
Ziggs: -18 percent damage dealt, +15 percent damage taken to -18 percent damage dealt, +18 percent damage taken

#5. Bug fixes and quality of life changes

League client: Fixed an issue where the Social panel would continuously flicker when loading the client
League client: Fixed an issue where players would not be able to see specific champion stats in their Profile
Rakan’s E – Battle Dance’s second cast now properly triggers Summon Aery
Sion’s R – Unstoppable Onslaught now properly knocks up really big targets
Corrected Corki’s E – Gatling Gun’s tooltip to properly match its actual values
Fixed a bug where Kennen’s W – Electrical Surge SFX would continue to play after cast until his death
Alistar can now generate E – Trample stacks against Morgana’s E – Black Shield and Malzahar’s Passive – Void Shift
Fixed a bug where Kindred’s Wolf’s W – Frenzy would not attack the Rift Scuttler if the ability was cast prior to it entering the respective ability area
Trundle’s W – Frozen Domain now properly increases the healing received from omnivamp
Fixed a bug where Jarvan IV would be able to leave R – Cataclysm’s terrain if he activates Stridebreaker and casts the ability simultaneously
Fixed Orianna’s tooltip which switched the damage and shield values of E – Command: Protect
Yuumi can no longer activate Moonstone Renewer when casting W2 – Change of Plan repeatedly on an out-of-range ally that is in combat
Fixed an issue where Ironspike Whip’s, Goredrinker’s, and Stridebreaker’s passives would not remove spell shields from enemy champions
Fixed a bug where Prowler’s Claw’s Sandswipe passive would still apply damage and its debuff to targets with spell shields
Knight’s Vow’s Sacrifice passive now properly redirects damage from allied Pledged champions to the user even when they’re untargetable
When Kayle has Kraken Slayer and uses E – Starfire Spellblade as a third attack, she will now properly deal true damage
Jayce now properly deals true damage on his third attack (with Kraken Slayer equipped) with Mercury Cannon in all instances, not just when he crits
Dark Waters Diana’s VO now properly play when she casts Q – Crescent Strike
Battle Academia Caitlyn’s W – Yordle Snap Trap hit VO now plays from Caitlyn’s location instead of the trap’s location. Her R – Ace in the Hole cast VO also now plays for all enemies and allies
Fiora’s R – Grand Challenge VO now plays from her location instead of her target’s location

#6. Upcoming skins and chromas

Skins

Blackfrost Sion
Blackfrost Vel’Koz
Dragon Guardian Galio and Dragonslayer Kayle
Dragonslayer Twitch
Space Groove Gwen

Chromas

Blackfrost Vel’Koz
Dragonslayer Twitch
Dragon Guardian Galio
Dragonslayer Kayle
Dragonslayer Twitch
Space Groove Gwen

Edited by Gautham Balaji