League of Legends patch 9.23 notes

League of Legends patch 9.23 brings with it the preseason 2020: Rise of the Elements update to the game, and its a big one. There are several new changes which include items and runes, with a couple of new skins as well. 

Here are the most significant changes:

Elemental Rifts

Transformation mechanics

• TRANSFORMATION TRIGGER occurs after the second Elemental Drake dies, and the third is announced.

• RIFT ELEMENT is the same as the element of the third drake.

• TERRITORIAL is when after the map transforms, all future Elemental Drake spawns will be of that element only.

• TERRAIN CHANGES will always occur in the four jungle quadrants, centered around the buff camps, as well as in dragon pit

Infernal Rift

• JUNGLE will have the brush nearest to Blue and Red buffs burn away, and new pathways open up through the Blue and Red buff pits.

• DRAGON PIT has its entrance widen.

Mountain Rift

• JUNGLE will have two new bluffs of rock emerge in each jungle quadrant.

• DRAGON PIT has a rock formation rise in front of the Dragon pit.

Ocean Rift

• JUNGLE has water pools throughout it, which are mostly aesthetic unless you're the Empress of the Elements or using the Waterwalking rune.

• DRAGON PIT has new brush patches sprout up around it.

Cloud Rift

• JUNGLE has air currents flow throughout the area around Blue, and Red buffs, which grant speed boost to everyone inside.

• DRAGON PIT also becomes a speed-boosting wind tunnel.

Side Lane Alcoves

• Two new lane alcoves are added. One to the bot and the other to the top lanes.

• There are now three patches, mirroring top lane.

River Entrance Brush

• There’s a new brush added by the river entrances in both Blue buff quadrants

Elemental Deakes

Dragon Souls

• The first team to slay four Elemental Drakes will gain a Dragon Soul matching the Elemental Rift.

• Elder Dragon will begin to spawn after one team gains a Dragon Soul, meaning only one team can have it.

• Similar to Elemental Drake buffs, Dragon Souls are permanent and persist through death

Infernal Soul

• Every 3 seconds, this makes your next damaging attack or ability on an enemy unit trigger a small explosion that deals 90 (+0.25 bonus attack damage) (+0.15 ability power) (+0.03 bonus health) damage to the target and nearby enemies.

Mountain Soul

• After successfully not taking damage for 5 seconds, gain a shield for 225 (+0.2 bonus attack damage) (+0.15 ability power) (+0.15 bonus health).

Ocean Soul

• Damage dealt on enemies heals you for 180 (+0.4 bonus attack damage) (+0.25 ability power) (+0.1 bonus health) and restores 90 (+0.04 maximum mana) mana over 3 seconds.

• Regenerates with 30% effectiveness when damaging minions or monsters.

Cloud Soul

• Gain a 10% passive increase to movement speed.

• After casting your ultimate, gain an additional 30% movement speed for 3 seconds (30-second cooldown).

Elemental Drake Buffs

Infernal

• INFERNAL MIGHT is now +5/10/15/20% attack damage and ability power.

Mountain

• MOUNTAINOUS VIGOR changed to +8/16/24/32% armor, and magic resist

Ocean

• OCEANIC WILL provides 5/10/15/20% missing health regen per 5 seconds (mana regen removed).

Cloud

• CLOUDBRINGER'S GRACE provides 10/20/30/40% ultimate CDR, ignoring the CDR cap.

Elemental Drake Mechanics

• DRAKE SPAWN ORDER Is no longer random. The first three drakes are now always three unique elements. All subsequent drakes will be the same element as the third drake.

• DRAKE SPAWN WINDOWis now 5:00 initial, 5:00 respawn until one team has slain four drakes (see Dragon Soul section above).

• HEALTH Gain 2650 (+240 per level, minimum level 6) before the Rift transforms; 4350 (+240 per level, minimum level 6) for the third drake onward.

Elder Dragon

• ELEMENTAL MULTIPLIER has been removed.

• BURN DAMAGE is now 90-270 true damage over 3 seconds (at 25:00-45:00 game time).

• BURNING BRIGHT has been removed.

• ELDER MULTIPLIER has been removed.

• EXECUTE is a new ability that damages an enemy at less than 20% health and causes them to die in an Elder Immolation after 0.5 seconds (no cooldown).

• DENIED prevents elder Immolation through invulnerability effects like Zhonya's Hourglass.

• BUFF DURATION is now 180 seconds; still lost on death.

• SPAWN RULES will now have 6:00 after one team kills their fourth Elemental Drake; 6:00 respawn.

Baron Buff

• DURATION is now 180 seconds.

Buff Visuals

• The visual effects for Blue Buff, Red Buff, Red Buff's burn effect, Hand of Baron, and Aspect of the Dragon (Elder Dragon buff) have all been updated. 

Top Lane Influence

Rift Herald

Rift Herald Fight

• INITIAL SPAWN dropped to 8:00.

• RESPAWN 6:00 (new).

• HEALTH changed to 8,250-16,500 (levels 6-12).

• ATTACK SPEED reduced to 0.4.

Summoned Rift Herald

• EYE OF THE HERALD PICK-UP WINDOW reduced to 20 seconds.

• EYE OF THE HERALD CHANNEL dropped to 1 second.

• HERALD LEVEL Average level of all ten champions, determined by picking up Eye of the Herald.

• HEALTH nerfed to 3180-6360 (levels 6-12).

• HEADBUTT TURRET DAMAGE nerfed to 1500-2550 (levels 6-12).

• HEADBUTT SELF-DAMAGE does 66% damage to current health.

Minion XP

Solo XP

• MELEE is now  60.45.

• CASTER is now 29.76.

• CANNON buffed to 93.

Shared XP

• MELEE7slightly nerfed to 75.4.

• CASTER change to 37.12.

• CANNON dropped to 116.

Turret Plating

• BULWARK RESISTANCES provides 35 armor and magic resist per third, fourth, and fifth attacker when a plate is destroyed.

Doran's Shield

• PASSIVE changed to “up to 40 health over 8 seconds when damaged by an enemy champion, based on missing health. 66% effective for ranged users or when triggered by AoE, DoT, or proc effects.”

Jungle Pacing

Jungle Item XP

• CATCH-UP XP has been removed.

• FIRST CAMP BONUS XP increased to165.

Camp Timers

• SMALL CAMP RESPAWN reduced to 120 seconds.

• SMALL CAMP RESPAWN ICONS have been added. If your team had vision of a small camp when it was killed, you'd see a respawn icon on the minimap 15 seconds before respawning.

• BUFF CAMP RESPAWN ICONSBuff camp respawn icons change from gray to yellow 15 seconds before respawning.

Krugs

• BASE XP nerfed to 160 (Ancient Krug's first clear penalty removed).

• BASE GOLD dropped to 120.

Murkwolves

• BASE XP reduced to 95.

• BASE GOLD  reduced to 70.

Gromp

• BASE HEALTH buffed to 2100.

• BASE XP increased to 135.

• BASE GOLD increased to 105.

Raptors

• BASE XP reduced to 95.

• BASE GOLD reduced to 85.

Lethality Items

Duskblade of Draktharr

• ATTACK DAMAGE increased to 60.

• UNIQUE PASSIVEBLACKOUT removed.

Youmuu's Ghostblade

• ATTACK DAMAGE is 55.

• LETHALITY is18 (unique).

• COOLDOWN REDUCTION is 10%.

• MOVEMENT SPEED increased to +40 out of combat (unique).

• ACTIVE Gain +20% movement speed for 6 seconds (45-second cooldown) (unique).

• GHOST-BLADEis Youmuu's' new active that now allows its user to ignore unit collision for the duration.

Edge of Night

• TOTAL COST reduced 2900 gold.

• ATTACK DAMAGE nerfed to 50.

• LETHALITY dropped to 10.

• HEALTH increased 325.

• UNIQUE ACTIVENIGHT'S VEIL has been removed.

• UNIQUE PASSIVESPELL SHIELD: Grants a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability. This shield refreshes after no damage is taken from enemy champions for 40 seconds.

Sanguine Blade 

• TOTAL COST 3000 gold

• BUILD PATH Serrated Dirk + Vampiric Scepter + 1000 gold

• ATTACK DAMAGE 50

• LETHALITY 10

• LIFESTEAL 15%

• UNIQUE PASSIVEBLOOD PURSUIT: While near one or fewer visible enemy champions gain 8 lethality and 40-100% attack speed (lvl 1-18), decaying over 3 seconds if other enemy champions get too close.

Umbral Glaive 

• TOTAL COST 2400 gold
• BUILD PATH Serrated Dirk + Long Sword + Long Sword + 600 gold
• ATTACK DAMAGE 50
• LETHALITY 12
• COOLDOWN REDUCTION of 10%
• UNIQUE PASSIVEBLACKOUT When spotted by an enemy ward, reveal traps and disable wards around you for 8 seconds (45-second cooldown). During this time, basic attacks instantly kill disabled traps and deal triple damage to wards.

Serrated Dirk

• HEADHUNTER removed.

Support Items

Mechanics Updates

Tiers

• HOW SATISFYING now upgrade automatically for free as you complete their quests. Support items still have three tiers.

• TIER 1400 gold starting item. Earn gold with Tribute or Spoils of War to upgrade.

• TIER 2 has increased stats and three ward charges. Earn gold with Tribute or Spoils of War to upgrade.

• TIER 3Significantly increased stats and four total ward charges. Tribute or Spoils of War go away.

• CUMULATIVE COST is now 400 gold.

Anti-Poaching

• EAT THE RICHFarming more than 20 CS per 5 minutes (3 out of 10 waves) reduces gold from minions by 50%. The penalty increases with further CS to a max of 80% reduction at 50 minions.

• MATHOnce the penalty kicks in, your CS gold is reduced to (70 - CS within 5 minutes)%.

Spellthief's Edge Line

• OLD TRIBUTE has been removed.
• NEW TRIBUTED (New) Damaging spells and attacks against champions or buildings grant 15 gold. Gain a charge every 10 seconds, up to 3 charges.

Spellthief's Edge

• COST 400 gold

• ABILITY POWER now 8

• HEALTH 10

• MANA REGEN has been removed.

• UNIQUE PASSIVETRIBUTE: Damaging spells and attacks against champions or buildings grant 15 gold. It can occur up to 3 times every 30 seconds.

• QUEST Earning 500 total gold through Tribute upgrades this item to Frostfang.

Frostfang

• ABILITY POWER dropped to 15.

• HEALTH 70

• MANA REGEN has been removed.

• COOLDOWN REDUCTION has been removed.

• GOLD PER 10 increased to 3.

• UNIQUE PASSIVETRIBUTE: Damaging spells and attacks against champions or buildings grant 15 gold. This can occur up to 3 times every 30 seconds.

• UNIQUE ACTIVEWARDING: Place a Stealth Ward. Holds up to 3 charges which refill upon visiting the shop.

• QUEST Earning 1000 total gold through Tribute will upgrade this item to Shard of True Ice.

Shard of True Ice

• NAME changed from Remnant of the Watchers to Shard of True Ice.

• ABILITY POWER increased to 60.

• HEALTH nerfed to 150.

• MANA REGEN has been removed.

• COOLDOWN REDUCTION has been removed.

• GOLD PER 10 increased to 3.

• UNIQUE PASSIVE TRIBUTE has been removed.

• UNIQUE ACTIVE WARDING: Place a Stealth Ward. Holds up to 4 charges which refill upon visiting the shop.

Spectral Sickle Line

Spectral Sickle

• COST 400 gold

• ATTACK DAMAGE 5

• HEALTH 10

• GOLD PER 10 is 2

• UNIQUE PASSIVE TRIBUTE: Damaging spells and attacks against champions or buildings grant 15 gold. This can occur up to 3 times every 30 seconds.

• QUEST, when earning 500 total gold through Tribute, it upgrades this item to Harrowing Crescent.

Harrowing Crescent

• ATTACK DAMAGE 10

• HEALTH 70

• GOLD PER 10 is 3

• UNIQUE PASSIVE TRIBUTE: Damaging spells and attacks against champions or buildings grant 15 gold. This can occur up to 3 times every 30 seconds.

• UNIQUE ACTIVE WARDING: When you place a Stealth Ward, it holds up to 3 charges which refill upon visiting the shop.

• QUEST Upgrade this item to Black Mist Scythe by earning 1000 total gold through Tribute.

Black Mist Scythe

• ATTACK DAMAGE 35

• HEALTH 150

• GOLD PER 10 is 3

• UNIQUE ACTIVE WARDING: When you place a Stealth Ward, it holds up to 4 charges which refill upon visiting the shop.

Relic Shield Line

• OLD SPOILS OF WAR has been removed.

• NEW SPOILS OF WAR While nearby an ally, basic attacks execute minions below 50% of their max Health (30% for ranged) and grant your ally kill gold. Has a max of 3 charges that recharge every 45 seconds. 

Relic Shield

• COST 400 gold

• HEALTH dropped to 30

• ABILITY POWER 5

• GOLD PER 10 is now 2

• UNIQUE PASSIVE SPOILS OF WAR: While nearby an ally, basic attacks execute minions below 50% of their max Health (30% for ranged) and grant your ally kill gold. (These effects recharge every 45 seconds. Max 3 charges.)

• QUEST upgrade this item to Targon's Buckler by earning 500 total gold through Spoils of War.

Targon's Buckler

• NAME changed from Targon's Brace to Targon's Buckler.

• HEALTH1 reduced to 100.

• ABILITY POWER 10

• HEALTH REGEN has been removed.

• GOLD PER 10 is now 3

• UNIQUE PASSIVE SPOILS OF WAR: While nearby an ally, basic attacks execute minions below 50% of their max Health (no penalty for ranged!) and grant your ally kill gold. Has a max of 3 charges whose effect recharges every 45 seconds.

• UNIQUE ACTIVE WARDING: Place a Stealth Ward, which holds up to 3 charges that refill upon visiting the shop.

• QUEST upgrades this item to Bulwark of the Mountain by earning 1000 total gold through Spoils of War 

Bulwark of the Mountain

• NAME changed from Remnant of the Aspect to Bulwark of the Mountain.

• HEALTH reduced to 300.

• ABILITY POWER 40

• COOLDOWN REDUCTION had been removed.

• HEALTH REGEN has been removed.

• GOLD PER 10 is now 3.

• UNIQUE ACTIVE WARDING: Places a Stealth Ward which holds up to 4 charges which refill upon visiting the shop.

Steel Shoulderguards Line

• COST 400 gold

• HEALTH 30

• ATTACK DAMAGE 3

• GOLD PER 10 is now 2

• UNIQUE PASSIVE SPOILS OF WAR: While nearby an ally, basic attacks execute minions below 50% of their max Health (30% for ranged) and grant your ally kill gold. These effects recharge every 45 seconds with three max charges.

• QUEST upgrades this item to Runesteel Spaulders by earning 500 total gold through Spoils of War.

Runesteel Spaulders

• HEALTH 100

• ATTACK DAMAGE 6

• GOLD PER 10 is now 3

• UNIQUE PASSIVE SPOILS OF WAR: While nearby an ally, basic attacks execute minions below 50% of their max Health (no penalty for ranged!) and grant your ally kill gold. These effects recharge every 45 seconds with three max charges.

• UNIQUE ACTIVE WARDING: Places a Stealth Ward that holds up to 3 charges which refill upon visiting the shop.

• QUEST upgrade this item to Pauldrons of Whiterock by earning 1000 total gold through Tribute.

Pauldrons of Whiterock

• HEALTH 300

• ATTACK DAMAGE 24

• GOLD PER 10 is now 3

• UNIQUE ACTIVE WARDING: Places a Stealth Ward that holds up to 4 charges which refill upon visiting the shop.

Ancient Coin Line

• Has been removed

Shurelya's Reverie

• TOTAL COST reduced to 2050 gold.

• BUILD PATH is now Forbidden Idol + Crystalline Bracer + 600 gold.

• HEALTH increased to 300.

• HEAL AND SHIELD POWER 10%

• HEALTH REGEN +100%

• ABILITY POWER has now been removed.

• MOVEMENT SPEED Has now been removed.

• UNIQUE ACTIVEGrants you and allies within 1000 range 40% bonus movement speed for 3 seconds with a 90-second cooldown.

• ACTIVE RANGE increased to 1000.

Energized & Crit Items

Energized

• ZAP has damage from Energized effects now stack, rather than choosing the highest-damage source.

• KEEP MOVING has energized charges from moving increased by 20% and charges from attacking reduced by 50%.

• DEMOLITIONIST has energized effects now always working on turrets.

Stormrazor

• TOTAL COST has increased to 3200 gold.

• BUILD PATH is now B.F. Sword + Cloak of Agility + Kircheis Shard + 400 gold.

• ATTACK DAMAGE nerfed to 55.

• CRITICAL STRIKE CHANCE 25%

• ATTACK SPEED is reduced to 15%.

• ENERGIZED DAMAGE has increased to 120.

• ENERGIZED SLOW is now 75% for 0.5 seconds, non-decaying.

• ENERGETIC has now been removed.

Rapid Firecannon

• ENERGIZED DAMAGE is now 120.
• DEMOLITIONIST has now been removed.
• EXTRA ENERGIZED has now been removed.

Statikk Shiv

• ENERGIZED DAMAGE is now 120.

• SHIV LIGHTNING BOUNCES changed to 7.

• EXTRA SHOCKING has now been removed.

Kircheis Shard

• TOTAL COST increased to 700 gold.
• ENERGIZED DAMAGE increased to 80.

Brawler's Gloves

• Brawler's Gloves have now been removed.

Cloak of Agility

• CRITICAL STRIKE CHANCE increased to 25%.

Zeal

• TOTAL COST increased to 1400 gold.
• BUILD PATH is now Cloak of Agility + Dagger + 300 gold.
• CRITICAL STRIKE CHANCE increased to 25%.
• ATTACK SPEED reduced to 12%.

Phantom Dancer

• BUILD PATHDagger + Zeal + Brawler's Glove + 700 gold ⇒ Dagger + Zeal + 900 gold

Removed Items

• Spear of Shojin

• Zz'rot Portal

• Ohmwrecker

• Raptor Cloak

• Items from Nexus Siege, Odyssey: Extraction, Nexus Blitz, Poro King, and Dominion have been removed from the item set editor.

RUNES

Kleptomancy

• Kleptomancy has now been removed.

Prototype: Omnistone

• Periodically gain a single use of another random keystone. 

• Gain a new keystone 8-4 seconds (melee, lv 1-18) or 12-8 seconds (ranged, lv 1-18) after using the last. 

• Gain a new keystone while out of combat after 40 seconds of not using a keystone.

• Your current keystone shows up to the right of your health bar, and all ten players can see it.

• Dark Harvest souls persist after you get a different keystone and affect all your other keystones. Grasp of the Undying's health also persists after you get a different keystone.

Available Keystones

• Press the Attack

• Lethal Tempo

• Fleet Footwork

• Conqueror

• Summon Aery

• Arcane Comet

• Phase Rush

• Electrocute

• Predator (only if you have boots)

• Dark Harvest (souls amplify the effects of all keystones)

• Hail of Blades

• Grasp of the Undying

• Aftershock (only if you can trigger it on a basic ability)

• Glacial Augment

Conqueror

• TRUE DAMAGE has been removed.

• HEALING At full stacks, Conqueror heals for 15% of post-mitigation damage against champions.

• MAXIMUM STACKS increased to 10.

• STACKS 2 per ability hit or melee basic attack, 1 per ranged basic attack.

• STACK DURATION is now 8 seconds.

• ADAPTIVE FORCE PER STACK is now 2-5 (lvl 1-18).

• MAX ADAPTIVE FORCE is now 20-50 (lvl 1-18).

Aftershock

• RESISTANCES is now 35 (+80% bonus resists).

• DAMAGE is now 25-120 (+8% bonus health).

• COOLDOWN is now 20 seconds.

• Aftershock's resistances no longer last for slightly longer than intended.

Presence of Mind

• Restore 20% of maximum mana or energy and increase your maximum mana by 100 (up to 500) or your maximum energy by 10 (up to 50).

Nimbus Cloak

• PROC when on Summoner Spell cast.
• SPEED BOOST is now 15-35% movement speed for 2.5 seconds depending on Summoner Spell cooldown.
• LONG COOLDOWN 35% movement speed (Flash, Teleport).
• MEDIUM COOLDOWN 25% movement speed (Heal, Ignite, Cleanse, Exhaust, Ghost, Barrier).
• SHORT COOLDOWN15% movement speed (Hexflash, Smite, Zoe's W - Spell Thief, ARAM's Mark).

Champions

Senna

• Passive - Absolution

• SPELLTHIEF'S CONVERSION has been removed.

• ALT MODE BONUS has been removed.

Twisted Treeline Sunset

Twisted Treeline officially retires with this patch.

• Players who played more than 10 games will receive an exclusive icon.

• Players who played more than 50 games will also receive an exclusive emote.

• Players who played more than 100 games will additionally receive a second exclusive icon.

Essence Emporium

The Essence Emporium makes its returns for preseason from November 25 - December 10.

Bugfixes

• The camera no longer becomes locked after respawning.

• The mute icon has been fixed.

• Fixed Poppy’s Heroic Charge's second stun not functioning as intended.

• Darius' Crippling Strike attack no longer hits through Teemo's Blinding Dart when it critically strikes.

• Spoils of War will now properly proc even if the only nearby ally is untargetable or in stasis.

• Shyvana's Dragon Form Twin Bite will now properly grant multiple stacks of Conqueror.

• Evelynn's Passive - Demon Shade tooltip no longer displays zeros for every number.

Skins

• True Damage skin changes

• Pulsefire Thresh

• Pulsefire Thresh Prestige Edition

• Victorious Aatrox

Chromas

• Victorious Aatrox

You can check out the full patch notes here.