The 2023 season is rolling on in League of Legends and we’re ready for a new round of balance adjustments. There are a bunch of champions getting buffed and nerfed in this update, with a total of 28 balance adjustments across the entire roster. Not to mention tweaks to hold income, clear speed time, and LP gains.
We’ll go through all of the biggest changes so you know where to start.
Champions buffed
Starting with the positive, here is the full list of champions that saw their abilities and/or stats get buffed in this patch:
- Ahri
- Alistar
- Aphelios
- Cho’Gath
- Malphite
- Orianna
- Riven
- Senna
- Veigar
- Viego
Some of these, like Ahri and Alistar are undoing the damage done by previous nerfs, while others, like Malphite, have needed improvement for a while.
Champions nerfed
Not everyone can get more powerful though, and these champions have all been nerfed in this patch:
- Amumu
- Anivia
- Azir
- Elise
- Jarvain IV
- Jax
- Maokai
- Samira
- Udyr
These are all to put a cap on champions that have been dominating the field recently. Although, as we saw in the buffs section, they could always get some of their power back later.
Kill experience tweaked
One thing that this patch is looking to address is how snowbally games have become. To stop teams from getting so powerful so quickly in games, the experience curve on kills has been flattened around the middle significantly. Previously from Levels 4 – 8, each kill would get you roughly 45-50% of a level, but that’s now been reduced to 30-35%. The experience past that is staying the same though, so it makes for a much steeper curve later on.
Support item adjustments
A bunch of items have been tweaked with buffs and nerfs coming out in equal measure. Here’s what’s changed:
Buffed:
- Relic Shield
- Targon’s Buckler
- Steel Shoulderguards
- Runesteel Spaulders
Nerfed:
- Spectral Strike
- Harrowing Crescent
- Spellthief’s Edge
- Frostfang
- Shard of True Ice
New chat commands
Recently the new behavioral systems introduced to moderate in-game chats have been misused by some people. In order to intentionally remove themselves from the chat, players are using language that the AI system will pick up on and mute them.
This patch acknowledges that muting and deafening are features people clearly want, and has added commands to do them manually, rather than abusing the AI moderator. You can now use /muteself to stop you from using text chat and will notify your teammates that you’re muted, while /deafen will stop you from seeing chat entirely, as well as prevent you from using it.
Written by Ryan Woodrow on behalf of GLHF.
