The biggest winners and losers of League of Legends patch 10.12
Time to ban Darius in solo queue if you haven’t already.
Without the Mid-Season Invitational, the slew of recent patches have been conservative, so once again, don’t expect patch 10.12 to change the meta.
There are some positive changes to summoner spell Ghost and a few runes however, which should make some players happy.
Winner: Ghost (Summoner spell)
While Ghost has a slightly increased cooldown and decreased movement speed percentage, it’s an overall buff because its movement speed now activates instantly as opposed to gradually.
Ghost also has a longer duration after you get a takedown, which is a nightmare for anyone laning against Darius, for junglers will now think twice about ganking top.
Mid lane champions like Viktor and Twisted Fate who run this summer spell also benefit.
Winner: Guardian rune
According to Riot, “Guardian is a powerful keystone that’s been largely unpicked and ignored, despite outperforming other keystones like Aery and Aftershock on individual champions.”
Guardian’s shield amount at max level has been increased by 50, and it now triggers when it matters.
For Nami or Bard — support champions who recently received nerfs – or other ranged utility supports who would like more survival in lane, this large buff to Guardian means it’s equally viable to Aery now.
Winner: Predator rune
An overall buff to Predator has seen its cooldown decreased, which means more ganks by jungle champions like Gragas who utilize this rune, and a bonus movement speed boost after its completion.
Even though its damage decreased, the strength of Predator has always been its movement speed. Laners, be on your toes!
Base stats
Q – Thundering Smash
R – Stormbringer
While the mana and health growth will certainly helpVolibear, and the increased base damage of his ultimate is a good thing, these changes do not address that it is still hard to fully optimize this champion whose abilities scale off different attributes.
What’s more, base numbers don’t help as the game progresses and items stack up. There still isn’t a great way to build damage on Volibear without him being too squishy, or build tank items but not doing enough damage to be a real threat.
Winner: Xayah
R – Featherstorm
At level six, Featherstorm has 25 more damage. At tier three, it will now do an extra 175 base damage.
One of the weakest AD carries in the current meta, no one’s complaining about this random buff.
Loser: Trundle
W – Frozen Domain
Amassing a 58.2% win rate in Spring across major regions in professional play, Trundle has been a go-to jungle champion in the current meta.
Back inpatch 10.2, Frozen Domain’s bonus movement speed was buffed to 30/35/40/45/50% from 20/25/30/35/40%. The current nerf has almost reduced it to its previous numbers at early levels.
Passive – Way of the Wanderer
W – Windwall
Riot’s intention is to reduce Yasuo’s power in bot while impacting him less when he’s in a solo lane.
Taking a hit to his base health and early levels of Windwall, these nerfs still outweigh the slight increase to his passive’s shield.
Whatever the case is, solo queue players are grateful.
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