2019 is drawing to a close and League of Legends patch 9.24 – the last of the year – has arrived in-game, bringing a load of skins, Champion changes, and mystical marksman Aphelios. The LoL fun doesn’t stop there though, as we head into the brand new League of Legends 10.1 patch cycle, which has just arrived fresh for testing on the PBE – and there’s yet another special arrival to the Champion roster.
Seen those rumours about a new LoL Champion that have been circulating? Well, it’s true – Sett, The Boss, has arrived on the game’s testing servers, ready to rumble. Riot’s description reads: “A leader of Ionia’s growing criminal underworld, Sett rose to prominence in the wake of the war with Noxus.” Though he was once a humble contender in Navori’s fighting pits, he’s now notorious for his “savage strength, and his ability to take seemingly endless amounts of punishment.” Check out his splash art, release skin, abilities, stats, and more below.
12 new skins also land on the PBE from various lines this patch. Diana, Olaf, and Trundle get Dragonslayer skins, while the all-new Mecha Kingdoms skin line coming to the game in 2020 makes its first appearance. As well as Sett’s Mecha Kingdoms release skin, Draven, Garen, Leona, and Jax get new looks based on the theme, with Garen getting a Prestige Edition Mecha Kingdoms skin and Jax getting a bit of a rework, with new voiceover and special interactions.
In addition, Janna, Rengar, and Ryze get new Guardians of the Sand skins, and Sylas gets a new Freljord skin. Plus, there are a bunch of new item changes and some pretty big changes to the Eyeball Collection (D3) Rune. Read on to see the latest changes being tested on the PBE.
League of Legends patch 10.1 Release Date and Downtime
League of Legends patch 10.1 arrives tomorrow, January 8. Maintenance is expected to begin at 03:00 PT for NA servers, 05:00 GMT for EUW servers, and 3:00 CET for EUNE servers, and is expected to last around three hours.
LEAGUE OF LEGENDS PATCH 10.1 Balance Changes
Sett, The Boss
- Base HP: 600
- HP per level: 93
- HP5: 9.25 + 0.15 per level
- Base MR: 32
- MR per level: 1.25
- Base AD: 60
- AD per level: 4
- Base armor: 37
- Armor per level: 4
- Base move speed: 340
- Attack range: 125
- Attack speed per level: 1.75
Abilities:
- Pit Grit (Passive):
- Heavy Hands: Sett has basic attacks which alternate between a Left Punch and a Right Punch, always opening with the former. Attack speed increases the speed of both of his punches. Left Punches deal a normal amount of damage, with Right Punches coming out quicker and dealing 5-90 (+15% tAD) bonus damage.
- Heart of the Half-Beast: Sett gains [0.25 at level 1/ 0.50 at level 6 / 1 at level 11 / 2 at level 16] additional health regeneration for each 5% missing health.
- Sett will reset back to a Left Punch if he does not do a Right Punch within 2 seconds of doing a Left Punch. The attack speed of a Left Punch is Sett’s regular attack speed, and the attack speed of a Right Punch is 8 times the attack speed of Left Punch.
- Right Punch base damage is set at 5 per level, hitting maximum of 90 at level 18.
- Knuckle Down (Q):
- No cost
- Cooldown: 9/8/7/6/5
- Sett itches for a fight, gaining 30% movement speed for 1.5 seconds while moving towards enemy champions.
- Sett’s next two basic attacks deal 10/20/30/40/50 bonus physical damage, plus 1/2/3/4/5% (+[1% of total AD]%) of the target’s maximum health.
- Haymaker (W):
- No cost
- Cooldown: 16/14/12/10/8
- Passive: Sett stores 100% of damage taken as Grit, to a cap of 300 (50% of Sett’s max health). Grit decays quickly 4 seconds after the damage was taken.
- Active: Sett winds up a giant punch in a direction, expending all Grit to deal 60/85/110/135/160 (+25% (+[10% bAD]%) of expended Grit) as true damage to all enemies in the center line. Enemies not in the center line take physical damage instead.
- Sett also gains a rapidly decaying shield equal to Grit expended for 2 seconds
- Facebreaker (E):
- No Cost
- Cooldown: 16/14.5/13/11.5/10
- Sett smashes enemies on either side of him into each other, dealing 50/80/110/140/170 (+60% tAD) physical damage and slowing them by 50% for 0.5 seconds. If Sett grabbed at least one enemy on each side, all enemies are stunned for 1 second.
- The Show Stopper (R):
- No Cost
- Cooldown: 120/100/80
- Ultimate. Sett grabs an enemy champion, carries them forward, then slams them into the ground. All enemies near the impact take 200/300/400 (+100% bAD) (+40/50/60% of the grabbed enemy’s bonus health) physical damage and are slowed by 99% for 1.5 seconds. Enemies take less damage the further they are from where Sett lands.
Here’s Sett’s full voiceover:
And all of his special interactions:
Champion Changes
Aphelios – nerfed
- Stats:
- Base HP decreased to 500 from 530
- Base movespeed decreased to 325 from 330
- Calibrum:
- Mark damage AD decreased to 0.3 bAD from 0.4 bAD
- Infernum:
- R additional target AD decreased to 0.25 bAD from 0.4 bAD
- R explosion radius decreased to 400 from 500
- Aurelion Sol:
- Center of the Universe (Passive) damage decreased to 12-130 from 16-120 (full values: 12/14/16/18/20/23/26/32/38/44/50/60/70/80/90/100/110/120)
Alistar – buffed
- Stats:
- Base HP increased to 575 from 573.36
- Base damage increased to 62 from 61.1116
- AD per level increased to 3.75 from 3.62
- Triumphant Roar (Passive):
- Heal increased to 25-161 doubled to 50-322 for allies) from 20-139 (doubled to 40-278 for allies)
Azir – buffed
- Emperor’s Divide (R):
- Wall duration increased to 5 from 3
- Damage increased to 175/325/475 from 150/250/450
Corki – buffed
- Missile Barrage (R):
- Damage increased to 90/125/160 from 90/115/140
Ezreal – buffed
- Mystic Shot (Q):
- AD ratio increased to 120% from 110%
Garen – buffed
- Judgement (E):
- Damage from champion level increased to 0-8.2 from 0-6.6
Gnar – buffed
- Boulder Toss (Mega Q):
- AD ratio increased to 140% tAD from 120% tAD
- Wallop (Mega W):
- Damage increased to 25/55/85/115/145 from 25/45/65/85/105
Graves – buffed
- Quickdraw (E):
- Cooldown decreased to 16/15/14/13/12 from 18/17/16/15/14
Heimerdinger – changed
- Hextech Micro Rockets (W):
- Damage per rocket decreased to 50/80/110/140/170 from 60/90/120/150/180
- CH-3X Lightning Grenade (E upgrade):
- Damage changed to [100/200/300 (+60%)] from [150/250/350 (+75% AP)]
Jayce – buffed
- Shock Blast (Cannon Q):
- Damage increased to 55/110/165/220/275/330 from 55/105/155/205/255/305
Kalista – buffed
- Stats:
- HP per level increased to 100 from 89
- Armor per level increased to 4 from 3.5
Kassadin – nerfed
- Stats:
- Base movespeed decreased to 335 from 340
Mordekaiser – changed
- Darkness Rise (Passive):
- Duration decreased to 4 from 5
- Movement speed changed to [3% (levels 1-18)] from [3/6/9% (levels 1/6/11)]
Nami – buffed
- Tidecaller’s Blessing (E):
- New – this ability now empowers both basic attacks and spells
- New – The tooltip has been updated: Deal 33/35/37/39/41/43/45/47/49/50/52/54/56/58/60/62/64/66% damage to non-champions when empowering Area of Effect spells.
Sejuani – buffed
- Stats:
- HP per level increased to 100 from 95
- Permafrost (E):
- Damage increased to 40/90/140/190/240 from 40/80/120/160/200
Sett – changed
- Haymaker (W):
- Shield duration increased to 3 seconds from 2 seconds
- Damage increased to 90/125/160/195/230 from 60/85/110/135/160
Shaco – nerfed
- Two-Shiv Poison (E):
- Mana cost increased to 65 at all ranks from 50/55/60/65/70
- AD ratio decreased to 70% bAD from 80% bAD
- AD ratio decreased to 55% from 60%
Shyvana – changed
- Fury of the Dragonborn (Passive):
- New – ‘Shyvana passive now gains a stack with Elder Dragon’
- New – ‘Cloud Dragon now increases fury gains on Shyvana by the same amount of Ult CDR it grants (because her ult has no actual cooldown)’
- Flame Breath (E):
- On hit damage increased to 3.75% Max Health from 3.25% Max Health
- Monster damage cap increased to 150 from 100
Sylas – changed
- Stats:
- Base HP decreased to 525 from 585
- HP per level increased to 115 from 95
- Base armor decreased to 27 from 32
- Armor per level increased to 4 from 3
- MR decreased to 32 from 39
- MR per level increased to 1.75 from 1.25
- Petricite Burst (Passive):
- Max charges increased to 3 from 2 AOE range decreased to 300 from 400
- Primary target damage AP ratio increased to 25% from 20%
- New – ‘While Sylas has a charge of Petricite Burst, he gains 60% attack speed’
- Chain Lash (Q):
- Base damage changed to [40/55/70/85/100 (+40% AP)] from [45/70/95/120/145 (+60% AP)]
- Secondary damage changed to [60/105/150/195/240 (+80% AP)] from [45/70/95/120/145 (+60% AP)]
- Slow duration decreased to 1.5 seconds from 2 seconds
- Cooldown increased to 10/9/8/7/6 from 9/8/7/6/5
- Minions damage decreased to 40% from 55%
- Kingslayer (W):
- Cooldown changed to 14/12.5/11/9.5/8 from 14/13.5/13/12.5/12
- Mana increased to 70/80/90/100/110 from 45/45/50/55/60
- Damage increased to [65/100/135/170/205 (+85% AP)] from [65/100/135/170/205 (+65% AP)]
- Base healing changed to [30/60/90/120/150 (+60% AP)] from [70/90/110/130/150 (+50% AP)]
- Healing amp at >40% health lowered to 50% from 75%
- Health AP ratio decreased to 50% from 60%
- Removed – Damage amp when enemy below 40% health
- Changed – Heal effect always goes off, so you no longer need to hit a champion to heal
- Abscond/Abduct (E):
- Cooldown changed to to 14/13/12/11/10 from 14 at all ranks
- Damage increased to [80/130/180/230/280 (+100% AP)] from [70/85/100/115/130 (+20% AP)]
Varus – changed
- Piercing Arrow (Q):
- Cooldown decreased to 18/16/14/12/10 from 20/18/16/14/12
- Blight stack detonation cooldown reduction decreased to 3 seconds to 4 seconds
Vi – changed
- Ultimate:
- New – ‘Vi will be unstoppable during the entire animation of her ultimate. (On live you can displace her during the uppercut animation)’
Zyra – changed
- Grasping Roots (E):
- Vine Lasher slow potency lowered from 30% to 25% New – now Slows from multiple Vine Lashers stack up to 2 times
Item Changes
Edge of Night – buffed
- Effects:
- AD increased to 55 from 50
Serrated Dirk – buffed
- Effects:
- AD increased to 30 from 25
Spellthief’s Edge – buffed
- Effects:
- New – this item now gives +25% Base Mana Regen
Frostfang – changed
- Effects:
- New – this item now gives +50% Base Mana Regen
Shard of True Ice – changed
- Stats:
- AP decreased to 45 from 60
- Health decreased to 100 from 150
- Effects:
- New – this item now gives +50% Base Mana Regen
Steel Shoulderguards – buffed
- Effects:
- New – this item now gives +25% Base Health Regen
Runesteel Spaulders – changed
- Effects:
- New – this item now gives +50% Base Health Regen
Pauldrons of Whiterock – buffed
- Effects:
- New – this item now gives +100% Base Health Regen
- Adds ‘Receive diminishing gold from excessive minion kills’ back to effects
Relic Shield – buffed
- Effects:
- New – this item now gives +25% Base Health Regen
Targon’s Buckler – changed
- Effects:
- New – this item now gives +50% Base Health Regen
Bulwark of the Mountain – changed
- Stats:
- AP decreased to 25 from 40
- Effects:
- New – this item now gives +100% Base Health Regen
Spectral Sickle – buffed
- Effects:
- New – this item now gives +25% Base Mana Regen
Harrowing Crescent – changed
- Effects:
- New – this item now gives +50% Base Mana Regen
Black Mist Scythe – changed
- Stats:
- AD decreased to 25 from 35
- Health decreased to 100 from 150
- Effects:
- New – this item now gives +100% Base Mana Regen
Rune Changes
Eyeball Collection (D3) – changed
- Stats:
- AD per eyeball increased to 1.2 from .06
- AP per eyeball increased to 2 from 1
- Complete eyeball collection decreased to 10 from 20
- Eyeballs per Champion decreased to 1 from 2
Champion Skins
Here’s his splash:
Dragonslayer Olaf
Here’s his splash:
Dragonslayer Trundle
Here’s the splash:
Freljord Sylas
Here’s his splash:
Guardian of the Sands Janna – 1350 RP
Guardian of the Sands Rengar – 1350 RP
Guardian of the Sands Ryze – 1350 RP
Here’s the splash for Guardian of the Sands Janna, Rengar, and Ryze:
Mecha Kingdoms Draven – 1350 RP
Here’s the splash:
Mecha Kingdoms Garen – 1350 RP
Here’s his splash:
Prestige Edition Mecha Kingdoms Garen
Here’s the splash:
Mecha Kingdoms Jax – 1820 RP
Mecha Kingdoms Jax also gets some new special interactions:
… and some new voiceover:
Here’s his splash:
Mecha Kingdoms Leona – 1350 RP
Here’s her splash:
Thresh VFX Changes
LEAGUE OF LEGENDS PATCH 10.1 LOGIN SCREEN
Every League of Legends patch has its own login screen. They’re usually fairly excellent, and patch 10.1’s is sure to be no exception. With so many new skins and a new Champion added, it’s hard to guess what its theme might be, but given the Mecha Kingdoms Jax rework and Champion skins, it looks likely it could be based on the Mecha Kingdoms line.
That’s all we’ve got for League of Legends patch 10.1. You can stay up to date with the current version of the game via the League of Legends patch 9.24 notes, and make sure to check back for the League of Legends patch 10.2 notes in the very near future.