League of Legends 12.7 Patch Notes - New arcane skins, nerfs, buffs, and more

League of Legends 12.7 patch notes 12.7 are here and are especially focused on the competitive scene as MSI is just around the corner. The aim of the devs is to balance the champions to change the meta and allow players to have more diverse picks. 

Pantheon and Wukong have been buffed in LoL patch 12.7, while items Galeforce and Winter's Approach have received some nerfs. You can find the complete League of Legends 12.7 patch notes below.

League of Legends 12.7 patch notes

• Arcana Ahri, Arcana Hecarim, Arcana Ryze, Arcana Xayah, and Arcana Rakan will be available on April 14, 2022.

Champions

Gangplank

• Passive - Trial by Fire
  • Burn Base Damage :: 55-225 (levels 1-18) >>> 55-310 (levels 1-18)
• W - Remove Scurvy
  • Mana Cost :: 80/90/100/110/120 >>> 60/70/80/90/100

Gwen

• E - Skip 'n Slash
  • Cooldown Refund Upon First Basic Attack :: 50% >>> 60%
• R - Needlework
  • Cooldown :: 120/100/80 seconds >>> 100/90/80 seconds

Jayce

• Base Stats
  • Health Growth :: 90 >>> 95
  • Health :: 560-2090 (levels 1-18) >>> 520-2135 (levels 1-18)
  • Base Armor :: 27 >>> 22
  • Armor Growth :: 3.5 >>> 3.8 - armor at level 18 unchanged

Kalista

• Base Stats
  • Base Mana :: 250 >>> 300
  • Move Speed :: 325 >>> 330
  • Attack Speed Growth :: 4% >>> 4.5%

Karthus

• Q - Lay Waste
  • Damage Against Monsters :: 85% >>> 95%

Lee Sin

• Base Stats
  • Base AD :: 68 >>> 66
• Q - Sonic Wave / Resonating Strike
  • Sonic Wave Damage :: 55/80/105/130/155 (+100% bonus AD) >>> 50/75/100/125/150
  • (+100% bonus AD)
  • Resonating Strike Minimum Damage :: 55/80/105/130/155 (+100% bonus AD) >>> 50/75/100/125/150 (+100% bonus AD)
  • Resonating Strike Maximum Damage :: 110/160/210/260/310 (+200% bonus AD) >>> 100/150/200/250/300 (+200% bonus AD)

Lillia

• Passive - Dream-Laden Bough
  • Healing Against Champions :: 12-140 (levels 1-18) (+12% AP) >>> 12-140 (levels 1-18) (+20% AP)
• W - Watch Out! Eep!
  • Damage :: 70/90/110/130/150 (+35% AP) >>> 80/100/120/140/160 (+35% AP)

Neeko

• W - Shapesplitter
  • Passive Bonus Magic Damage :: 50/70/90/110/130 (+60% AP) >>> 50/80/110/140/170 (+60% AP)
  • Passive Bonus Move Speed :: 10/15/20/25/30% >>> 10/17.5/25/32.5/40%

Pantheon

• Base Stats
  • Base Health Regeneration :: 9 >>> 7.5
• Q - Comet Spear
  • Tap Q Length :: 550 units >>> 600 units
  • Tap Q Width :: 150 units >>> 120 units
• E - Aegis Assault
• [REM] STEADFAST SHIELDING:: Pantheon is no longer slowed if moving backwards while E - Aegis Assault is active
• R - Grand Starfall
  • [UPD] CRASH LANDING ON YOU:: Pantheon now crashes down on his destination 0.25 seconds sooner

Rengar

• Q - Savagery
  • [NEW] KITTEN MITTENS:: Q - Savagery's bonus damage is reduced by 40% against structures
• W - Battle Roar
  • Bonus Magic Damage Against Monsters :: 65-130 (levels 1-18) >>> 85-150 (levels 1-18) 
• Bugfixes
  • Fixed a bug where Gromp did not grant Rengar a stack of Ferocity

Ryze

• Q - Overload
  • Magic Damage :: 70/90/110/130/150 (+45% AP) (+3% bonus mana) >>> 70/90/110/130/150 (+50% AP) (+2% bonus mana)

Wukong

• Q - Crushing Blow
  • Cooldown :: 9/8.5/8/7.5/7 seconds >>> 8/7.5/7/6.5/6 seconds
• W - Warrior Trickster
  • Cooldown :: 20/19/18/17/16 seconds >>> 20/18/16/14/12 seconds
  • [NEW] TO THE WINDOWS, THROUGH THE WALLS :: Wukong can now dash through terrain using W - Warrior Trickster
• E - Nimbus Strike
  • Magic Damage :: 80/110/140/170/200 (+80% AP) >>> 80/110/140/170/200 (+100% AP)
  • Bonus Magic Damage Against Monsters :: 50% >>> 80%

Yasuo

• Base Stats
  • Health :: 490 >>> 520
• R - Last Breath
  • Cooldown :: 80/55/30 seconds >>> 70/50/30 seconds

Yone

• R - Fate Sealed
  • Cooldown :: 120/100/80 seconds >>> 120/90/60 seconds

Zeri

• Base Stats
  • AD Growth :: 2 >>> 1.5
  • Attack Damage :: 53-87 (levels 1-18) >>> 50-75.5 (levels 1-18)
  • Base Armor :: 22 >>> 20
  • Health Growth :: 90 >>> 95
  • Health at Level 18 :: 2030 >>> 2115
• Q - Burst Fire
  • Total Physical Damage :: 10/15/20/25/30 (+110% total AD) >>> 7/9/11/13/15 (+110/112.5/115/117.5/120% total AD
  • [UPD] ONCE UPON A CAST :: Q - Burst Fire now only applies on-hit effects once per cast
  • [UPD] NOT SO FAST :: Zeri can now only gain one stack of R - Lightning Crash and one instance of E - Spark Surge cooldown reduction per Q - Burst Fire cast (excluding critical strikes)
  • [NEW] DOUBLE THE SHOCK :: Critical strikes on Q - Burst Fire grant Zeri an additional R - Lightning Crash stack and an additional instance of E - Spark Surge's cooldown reduction (at most two procs per cast: one for Q upon hitting a champion and another if it crits on a champion)
• W - Ultrashock Laser
  • Magic Damage :: 40/75/110/145/180 (+100% total AD)(+60% AP) >>> 10/45/80/115/150 (+120% total AD)(+70% AP)
• E - Spark Surge
  • Cooldown :: 23 seconds >>> 28/26.5/25/23.5/22 seconds
• R - Lightning Crash
  • Cooldown :: 100/90/80 seconds >>> 120/95/70 seconds

Items

Abyssal Mask

• Unmake Magic Resist Reduction :: 5 (+1% bonus health), capped at 20 >>> 5 (+1.2% bonus health), capped at 25

Galeforce

• Active Cooldown :: 90 seconds >>> 110 seconds

Moonstone Renewer

• Bonus Heal and Shield Power Per Stack :: 7% (maximum 35% at 5 stacks) >>> 6% (maximum 30% at 5 stacks

Umbral Glaive

• Total Cost :: 2400 gold >>> 2300 gold
  Combine Cost :: 600 gold >>> 500 gold
  Blackout Cooldown :: 45 seconds >>> 35 seconds

Winter's Approach

• Total Cost :: 2600 gold >>> 2700 gold
• Combine Cost :: 1000 gold >>> 1100 gold
• Health :: 400 >>> 350
• BUGFIX :: Fixed a bug where Fimbulwinter's base shield did not properly update with champion level

Runes

Time Warp Tonic

• Immediate Health & Mana Restoration :: 50% >>> 30%
• Bonus Move Speed :: 5% >>> 4%

ARAM

Champion Buffs

• Illaoi :: -5% Damage Dealt >>> -5% Damage Dealt, -5% Damage Taken
• Nunu & Willump :: +8% Damage Dealt, -8% Damage Taken >>> +8% Damage Dealt, -8% Damage Taken, +20% Healing, +20% Shielding

Champion Nerfs

• Kai'Sa :: +5% Damage Dealt >>> Normal
• Kog'Maw :: -10% Damage Dealt, +8% Damage Taken >>> -12% Damage Dealt, +10% Damage Taken
• Soraka :: -20% Healing
• Xerath :: -5% Damage Dealt, +5% Damage Taken >>> -10% Damage Dealt, +5% Damage Taken

Champion Adjustments

• Maokai :: -15% Damage Dealt, +10% Damage Taken, -40% Healing >>> -20% Damage Dealt, +5% Damage Taken, Normal Healing

Mythic Content Overhaul

Masterwork Milestones

[C] Hot on the heels of last patch's Phase 1 launch, we're heading into Phase 2 of the Mythic Content Overhaul! This patch, we're introducing an infinitely repeatable rewards track for Masterwork Chests. Any Masterwork Chest you open grants progress on the rewards track, regardless of whether you bought it, earned it as a reward, or received it as a gift. In addition, since we've adjusted random Mythic Essence drops from Masterwork chests from 10 ME to 5 ME, we won't revert last patch's buff to ME—it'll remain at a 4.2% drop rate.

• 5 MASTERWORK CHESTS :: 5 Mythic Essence and 1 skin shard of any tier
• 10 MASTERWORK CHESTS :: 5 Mythic Essence
• 15 MASTERWORK CHESTS :: 5 Mythic Essence and 1 975 RP+ tier skin shard
• 20 MASTERWORK CHESTS :: 5 Mythic Essence
• 25 MASTERWORK CHESTS :: 5 Mythic Essence and 1 1350+ tier skin shard

[C] We're also introducing two adjustments to the Masterwork system relative to our original plan. Our original model would've led to Masterwork Chests granting more Mythic Essence than the new system has been tuned to support, and we felt it'd be better to do these changes now rather than later.

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[REM] BOX IN A BOX:: Masterwork Chests no longer have a 10% chance to drop a bonus Masterwork Chest and Hextech Key

RANDOM MYTHIC ESSENCE DROPS FROM MASTERWORK CHESTS :: 10 Mythic Essence >>> 5 Mythic Essence (Hextech Chests still drop 10 ME)

SILVER LINING :: The above changes mean we no longer need to revert last patch's buff to Mythic Essence drop rates from Masterwork Chests (4.2%, up from 3.6%)

[C] We'll be following up soon with the other half of Phase 2, our first Showcase Milestone release!

Ranked Season 2022 Split 2 Start

[c] Get ready, because the second Split of Ranked begins on Friday, April 22 at 11:59 p.m. local time for your region! The exclusive rewards for Split 2 are a Renata Glasc summoner icon, Renata Glasc emotes, 1 Renata Glasc Champion permanent, and a Series 1 Eternals Capsule.

Piltover Clash

• [c] Team formation for the Clash Piltover Cup begins on April 11, and the tournament begins on April 16 and 17! Team formation for week 2 of the cup will start on April 25 with the tournament days being April 30 and May 1.

Bugfixes & QoL Changes

• Fixed a bug where Orianna's R - Shockwave would sometimes originate from Orianna despite just having moved her ball to an ally with E - Command: Protect
• Fixed a bug where Kled could use Hextech Flashtraption to change directions during his R-Chaaaaaaaaaarge!!!
• Fixed a bug where Sylas' ultimate would not revert back to R-Hijack if he died with Vex's ultimate, R-Shadows Surge, on its kill reset cooldown
• Fixed a bug that caused Tibbers and Daisy to walk away when hit by abilities and effects that reduced armor or magic resist
• Fixed a bug where Warwick's Q-Jaws of the Beast would sometimes have no cooldown if it killed a target
• Fixed a bug where sound effects were playing from the Fog of War despite no having visibility of the item effect/champion ability that triggered the sound effect
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused Aatrox's voice lines to not play (there goes the silence of annihilation)
• Fixed a bug where Akshan's second attack would gain 2 stacks of Lethal Tempo
• Fixed a bug where Tahm Kench could R - Devour an ally champion from a bush and, upon being spat out, the champion would be invisible to enemy players
• Fixed a bug where the cooldown indicators on certain items (Redemption, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Knight's Vow) would not accurately reflect the item's actual cooldown timer
• Fixed a bug in Treasure Hunter's tooltip that would show 170 gold bounty available despite having already claimed the bounty on all enemy champions
• Fixed a bug that caused Locket of the Iron Solari's tooltip to display an incorrect shield amount
• Fixed a bug that was not allowing players to purchase suggested starter item bundles by left-clicking on the bundle icon twice
• Fixed a bug that caused champions to become stuck inside Mordekaiser's R-Realm of Death if it was cast on Tahm Kench as he was spitting out an ally he previously used R-Devour on
• Fixed a bug that caused the tooltip for Lee Sin's Q-Sonic Strike to display incorrect damage values

Upcoming Skins & Chromas

The following skins will be released in this patch: 

• Arcana Ahri
• Arcana Hecarim
• Arcana Ryze
• Arcana Xayah
• Arcana Rakan

The following chromas will be released this patch:

• Arcana Ahri
• Arcana Hecarim
• Arcana Ryze
• Arcana Xayah
• Arcana Rakan

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