League of Legends patch 25.S1.1 notes: System changes, new Epic Monster, and more

Riot Games has announced the official patch notes for League of Legends 25.S1.1, coinciding with the commencement of the new season on January 9, 2025. This season centers on the theme of Noxus, introducing a new hue to the Summoner's Rift. In addition to Atakhan, a new Epic Monster, the game presents numerous modifications expected to impact the LoL meta.

This article highlights the changes coming with the League of Legends patch 25.S1.1.

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Champion buffs in League of Legends patch 25.S1.1

League of Legends patch 25.S1.1 notes (Image via Riot Games)

1) Twitch

W (Venom Cask)

• Slow Amount: 30/35/40/45/50% (+5% per 100 AP) → 30/35/40/45/50% (+6% per 100 AP)

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Champion adjustments in League of Legends patch 25.S1.1

1) Ashe

Passive (Frost Shot)

• Damage: 115% + Crit% → 100% + Crit%
• Damage Condition: Slowed by Frost Shot → Always

Q (Ranger's Focus)

• Damage: 105/110/115/120/125% → 110/115/120/125/130%
• Attack Speed: 25/32.5/40/47.5/55% → 25/35/45/55/65%

W (Volley)

• Damage: 20/35/50/65/80 + 100% total AD → 60/95/130/165/200 + 100% bonus AD

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2) Kalista

Base Stats

• Mana Regen Growth: 0.4 → 0.8

Passive (Martial Poise)

• Dash Calculation Rebuilt
• Base Attack Speed: Now properly referenced. This is a buff of around 8%.
• Attack Speed Factor: The influence of attack speed slows has been halved. Attack speed increases still have full influence.
• Movement Speed Multiplier: Multiplied by (1 - Slowed%) → Multiplied by (0.2% total movement speed + 0.28). This is typically close to 100% and now benefits from bonus movement speed and is more resilient to slows. The minimum multiplier is 48%.
• Dash Animation: Restored Kalista's dash animation when basic attacking.

Q (Pierce)

• Damage: 20/85/150/215/280 + 105% total AD → 10/75/140/205/270 + 105% total AD
• Mana Cost: 50/55/60/65/70 → 60/65/70/75/80

E (Rend)

• Damage per Additional Stack: 8/12/16/20/24 + 25/30/35/40/45% total AD → 7/14/21/28/35 + 20/25/30/35/40% total AD

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3) Varus

Base Stats

• Mana: 360 → 320

Q (Piercing Arrow)

• Mana Cost: 65/70/75/80/85 → 50/55/60/65/70

W (Blighted Quiver)

• On-hit Damage: 8/13/18/23/28 → 6/12/18/24/30

E (Hail of Arrows)

• Mana Cost: 80 → 90

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System changes in League of Legends patch 25.S1.1

Item changes

1) Bloodletter's Curse

• Cost: 2900 gold
• Item Recipe: Haunting Guise + Fiendish Codex + 750 gold
• Ability Power: 60
• Health: 350
• Ability Haste: 15
• Vile Decay: Dealing magic damage with abilities or passives to champions reduces their Magic Resistance by 5% for 6 seconds, up to 30%.

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2) Heartsteel

• Colossal Consumption Damage: 80 + 12% bonus health from items → 70 + 3% of maximum health.
• Colossal Consumption Bonus Health: 12% → 10% of damage dealt by Colossal Consumption is gained as maximum health.

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3) Unending Despair

• Item Recipe: Chain Vest + Kindlegem + Ruby Crystal ⇒ Aegis of the Legion + Giant's Belt
• Unique - Anguish: Every 5 seconds while in combat with champions, deal 30-50 (based on level) + 3% bonus health magic damage to nearby enemy champions and heal for 250% of the damage dealt → Every 4 seconds while in combat with champions, deal 3% bonus health + 8-15 (based on level) magic damage to nearby enemy champions and heal for 250% of the damage dealt.
• Health: 400 → 350
• Armor: 60 → 25
• Magic Resist: 0 → 25

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4) Warmog's Armor

• Item Recipe: Giant's Belt + Winged Moonplate + Crystalline Bracer → Giant's Belt + Giant's Belt + Crystalline Bracer
• Bonus Movement Speed: 4% ⇒ 0
• Warmog's Heart Health Requirement: Grants Warmog's Heart if you have at least 1500 bonus health → 2000 bonus health
• Passive - Warmog's Heart: Regenerate 2.5% maximum health every 0.5 seconds and gain 4% bonus movement speed if damage has not been taken in the last 6 seconds → Regenerate 3% maximum health if damage has not been taken in the last 8 seconds.

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New Runes

Noxus-themed Summoner's Rift (Image via Riot Games)

1) Deep Ward

Stealth Wards placed in the enemy jungle are considered Deep, and after level 11 Stealth Wards placed in the River are considered Deep as well. Deep Wards gain 1 extra health and +30-45 second duration (+30-120 seconds for Yellow Trinket Stealth Wards).

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2) Sixth Sense

Automatically ping untracked and unseen wards within 900 units. After level 11, Sixth Sense will also reveal the ward for 10 seconds. 300-second cooldown for Melee champions, 360-second cooldown for Ranged champions.

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3) Grisly Mementos

For each champion takedown, gain 4 trinket Ability Haste. In Modes where this doesn’t make sense (i.e. ARAM) gain 2 Summoner Ability Haste instead, up to a max of 50. In modes without wards, all players who select Deep Ward or Sixth Sense will automatically be swapped to Grisly Mementos instead.

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4) Axiom Acanist

Your ultimate ability’s damage, healing, and/or shielding is increased by 14% (reduced to 9% for AoE damaging abilities). Takedowns on enemy champions refund 7% of your ultimate ability’s current remaining cooldown.

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Atakhan

Atakhan has two possible spawning forms (Image via Riot Games)

Riot Games introduces Atakhan, a new Epic Monster to the Summoner's Rift. It will emerge at the 20-minute mark, with its location in the river determined by whether the top or bottom lane has sustained more champion damage and kills by the 14-minute mark.

At that time, a designated pit for Atakhan will materialize, featuring two permanent walls that showcase its territory and indicate its potential appearance to players (it boasts two appearances). It gives players sufficient time to strategize an approach to confront this demon.

Learn more: Atakhan in League of Legends Season 15: Spawn details, abilities, and more

Here's what the developers had to say about the new Epic Monster:

"With Atakhan, we wanted to create an important gameplay objective that allows players to participate more in shaping the story unique to each game on Summoner's Rift. Both team's actions, their choices to fight or not, and where and when they do, will determine Atakhan's location and form. Our goal is for this to ultimately let players actively create more variation to each game of League."

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More notable changes coming with the League of Legends patch 25.S1.1 are shown below:

• New Noxus-themed Summoner's Rift
• Respawning Nexus Turrets
• Feats of Strength
• Teleport
• Lane Minions
• Turrets
• Champion Bounties

The inaugural season of League of Legends SR Ranked will commence on January 9, 2025, at 12 PM local server time, which is applicable worldwide.

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