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League of Legends Patch 13.20 Update Notes

By Editorial Team

Posted on October 6, 2023

League of Legends Patch 13.20 Update Notes

League of Legends Patch 13.20 Notes. The Worlds 2023 metagame is locked, which means League of Legends Patch 13.20 will introduce a fun mix-up game to Summoner’s Rift in preparation for Season 14.

This League of Legends Patch 13.20 update brings balance changes to eleven champions (five buffs and five nerfs), as well as a major rework to X’Sante less than a year after his introduction. Four items and eleven runes will also be replaced as Riot Games overhauls every aspect of its flagship game.

Speaking of mixing, prepare your energy for some pretty heavy reading; In this update, the League of Legends developers are targeting various systems, including death timers, dragon souls and bonuses, and the amount of gold that can be obtained from destroying towers.

According to League of Legends Balance Manager Matt Leung-Harrison on October 2, most of these changes have one goal: “Shrink the snowball.”

Other neutral targets such as the Herald and Baron are also replaced.

Finally, Riot is also going all out in the costume department, releasing new versions of Coven, Old God, and Star Guardian. The bundle includes the Worlds 2023 skin and another Neo PAX re-release.

When will League of Legends update 13.20 be released?

This super-packed 13.20 update for League of Legends will release on Wednesday, October 11th. Considering how many of them we’ve already played with, chances are that some of these pending changes will remain in reserve, but most of them will hit the live servers as soon as the release bell rings.

The first October update will begin rolling out around 10:00 a.m. ET in Australia—that’s fine by me—and will be available on the main League of Legends servers throughout the day.

Here are all the important points of the update:

3:30 pm Central Time (North America)
05:00 GMT (western EU)
03:00 CET (NE EU)
Morning 8 KR (Korea)

League of Legends Update 13.20

Expect several hours of server downtime as the patch begins to roll out. Matchmaking will be disabled in all League of Legends queues three hours prior to the official release of the update.

What does League of Legends update 13.20 include?

Preseason doors open with an avalanche of nerfs

Riot has been looking to limit the effectiveness of early leads since early last year, and now the developers are striking back after the 2023 League of Legends season began to revert to old snowball habits.

Jungle Power (especially Smite and Jungle Pets), Dragons, Rift Herald, Baron Nashor, every jungle camp, experience, death timers, tower gold, minion rewards, and even nearly a dozen runes are affected by a whirlwind of changes, and Lung-Harrison is gaining momentum. He admits that the problem has started to get out of hand with recent updates.

This highlights one of the developers’ main goals for the 2024 preseason, so we expect to see similar changes in the next few updates.

As a result of the anti-snowball changes, almost all neutral targets were hit.

Spring surprise Riot K’Sante Rework

Ahead of the champion’s first birthday, changes are being made to K’Sante’s health, armor buffs, passive abilities, and Ntofo Strike, Opening the Path, and Almighty abilities as Riot tries to find a happy medium for their brave new champion.

In trying to figure out if he could truly be balanced in ranked play, it wasn’t just his E ability that was damaged.

These changes have been present in the PBE League of Legends for a while now and Riot seems happy with them, so they will be brought to the main servers.

Nezumah’s Pride has struggled to remain balanced since its late 2022 arrival.

Worlds and Neo PAX top new skins

The first of the preseason patches is certainly filled with League of Legends gameplay changes, but the cosmetics department hasn’t been forgotten – in fact, it’s been updated just like the rest of the update.

This time, 10 League of Legends champions will receive new skins, including six new Coven variants (including Prestige), an Old God version for Mordekaiser, and two Star Guardian skins for Shay and Rakan.

Renekton will also receive this year’s Worlds skin, which will go towards the South Korean event prize, and the updated Neo PAX Jax will hit digital shelves.

Speaking of complete; I don’t know which one to leave first!

Here are all the skins:

Akali Coven (1,350 RP)
Coven of Alice (1,350 RP)
Coven of Syndra (1,350 RP)
Nami Coven (1,820 RP)
Coven of the Nile (1,350 RP)
Old God Mordekaiser (1,350 RP)
Prestigious Akali Coven (2,000 World Championship Tokens)
Redeemed Star Guardian Rakan (1,820 RP)
Redeemed Star Guardian Shaya (1,820 RP)
World Cup 2023 Renekton (1,350 RP)
Neo PAX Jax (100 mythical essences)

These skins will launch during the 13.20 update cycle.

Xayah and Rakan return to the Star Guardians in their new costumes.

Below I’ve compiled all the early LoL 11 patch notes for the October 13.20 update. Please keep in mind that until Riot releases an official patch, any of these buffs, nerfs, and changes will be temporary and we could see them rolled back at any time.

LoL 13.20 Patch Notes

Champions

Akshan

The nerfs are coming.

Bel’Vet

Passive attack speed after casting a spell has been reduced from 25-50 percent to 20-40 percent (depending on level).
E damage reduction reduced from 70 percent to 50-70 percent, minimum damage per hit changed from 8-16 (plus six percent attack damage) to 7-11 (plus eight percent attack damage), hit, attack, and spell effect modifiers increased from 6-24 percent to 8-32 percent (depending on the target’s missing health), damage can now be critical.
R Void Remora health changed from 40-60 percent to 20-70 percent (depending on the minion’s max health).

Jax

Updated ability icons.
Complete visual update for all views.
New skins for Original Jax, Mighty Jax, Vandal Jax, Angler Jax, PAX Jax, Jaximus, Temple Jax, and Nemesis Jax.
New voice acting.
Updated sound effects.
Catching fish with Jax’s passive now grants ability power for five seconds.
The passive now has a five percent chance of catching a rare fish, which grants 10 gold and 10 ability power for five seconds.

evil eye

Health per level increased from 100 to 105.
Passive attack speed bonus on kills now stacks.
R cooldown reduced from 70-40 seconds to 75-55 seconds.

Kai’Sa

The nerfs are coming.

K’Sante

Milio

Shield E increased from 60-160 to 60-180, reload time decreased from 18-14 to 17-13 seconds.
R-ability power factor increased from 30 to 50 percent.

Morgana

W ability power ratio increased from 14 percent to 17 percent, and monster damage ratio increased from 155 percent to 165 percent.
E cooldown increased from 24-16 to 26-16 seconds.
R movement speed increased from 5-55 percent towards enemies to 10-60 in all directions, stun duration from 1.5 seconds to 1.5-2 seconds, damage increased from 150-300 (plus 70 percent ability power) to 175 -325. Increased to (plus 80 percent ability power).

Quinn

Attack damage per level increased from 2.4 to 2.7.
Base health reduced from 603 to 565.
Base movement speed reduced from 335 to 330.

Zet

W cooldown increased from 20-14 seconds to 20-17 seconds.

Ziggs

Q collision radius increased from 150 to 180.

things

Malefic Gem

The buffs are coming.

Youmuu’s Phantom Blade

The buffs are coming.

Twilight Blade of Draktharr

The nerfs are coming.

Best regards, Lord Dominic

Giant Slayer bonus damage reduced from 0-25 percent to 0-22 percent (based on maximum health difference).

runes

Arcane Comet

Base damage increased from 30-100 to 30-130 (depending on level).
Attack damage ratio reduced from 35 percent extra attack damage to 10 percent extra attack damage.
Ability power factor reduced from 20 percent ability power to 5 percent ability power.

conqueror

Adaptive Power per stack: 1.2–2.7 (based on level) extra attack damage, or 2–4.5 (based on level) extra attack damage, or 1.08 out of 2.52–1 ,8 (depending on level) ability strength (adaptive). Reduced from 4.2 to 4.2 (based on level) ability power (adaptive).
Maximum Adaptive Voltage increases from 14.4–32.4 (based on level) extra attack damage or 24–54 (based on level) ability power to 12.96–30.24 (based on level) extra damage from attack (adaptive) or 21.6 reduced to -50.4 (depending on level). at level) ability strength (adaptive).

Dark Harvest

Base damage increased from 20-60 to 20-80 (depending on level).
Attack damage ratio reduced from 25 percent extra attack damage to 10 percent extra attack damage.
Ability power factor reduced from 15 percent ability power to 5 percent ability power.

Electroshock

Base damage increased from 30-180 to 30-220 (depending on level).
Attack damage ratio reduced from 40 percent extra attack damage to 10 percent extra attack damage.
Ability power factor reduced from 25 percent ability power to 5 percent ability power.

First hit

Bonus damage reduced from nine percent to eight percent.

Fleet work

Base healing increased from 10-100 to 10-140 (depending on level).
Attack damage ratio reduced from 30 percent extra attack damage to 10 percent extra attack damage.
Ability power factor reduced from 20 percent ability power to 5 percent ability power.

Deadly pace

Bonus attack speed per stack for melee champions has been adjusted from 10-15 percent (based on level) to 10-14 percent (based on level).
Maximum bonus attack speed for melee champions has been adjusted from 60-90 percent (based on level) to 60-84 percent (based on level).

Click Attack

Base damage increased from 40-180 to 40-220 (depending on level).
Damage boost reduced from 8-12 percent (depending on level) to a flat eight percent.

Summon Eiri

Base damage increased from 10-40 to 10-50 (depending on level).
Attack damage ratio reduced from 15 percent extra attack damage to 10 percent extra attack damage.
Damage ability power factor reduced from 10 percent ability power to 5 percent ability power.
Base shield increased from 30-75 to 30-100 (depending on level).
Shield attack damage rate reduced from 35 percent extra attack damage to 10 percent extra attack damage.
Shield ability power factor reduced from 22.5 percent to 5 percent.

Taste Blood

Base healing increased from 16-30 to 16-40 (depending on level).
Attack damage ratio reduced from 15 percent extra attack damage to 10 percent extra attack damage.
Ability power coefficient reduced from eight percent to five percent.

Boat trip

Adaptive Power ranges from 3–18 (depending on level) extra attack damage or 5–30 (depending on level) ability power (adapted) to 7.8–18 (depending on level) extra attack damage or 13 –30 (depending on level). Ability strength (adaptive) has been increased.
Bonus movement speed reduced from 25 to 10.

systems

Renaissance

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Hit

Pet hit damage changed from 20-160 (depending on level) to 40 at all levels.
Unleashed Strike champions and pets’ damage has been changed from 20-160 (depending on level) to 40 at all levels and no longer triggers spell effects.
Primal Strike champions and pets damage changed from 20-160 (depending on level) to 40 at all levels, damage to minor target monsters increased from 50 to 100 percent, 1,300 units now turn into epic monsters when there are at least two or more allies . Champions Within No longer provide 20% damage reduction and no longer trigger spell effects when dealing damage.

Forest animals

Bridgetopper’s Shield no longer increases stamina by 20 percent and slow resistance.
Ghastwalker’s bonus movement speed through bushes has been reduced from 45 to 30 percent, and his bonus movement speed after killing large monsters has been reduced from 60 to 45 percent.
Fireclaw’s Burn no longer applies to non-magical damage other than normal attacks.

forest camps

While this will not affect the first clear, camps in about half of all second clears will have 7-8 percent more health (usually prompting junglers to recall components to continue the clear).
Camps will now have five percent (plus 10 percent for buffed camps) more health per level (based on levels 11–18). Currently, camps no longer continue to scale past level 11.
Increased the base health of the Big Raptor (only affects the first clear).
A little more experience with medium and small Circles.

Scuttle Crab