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LoL patch 25.07 notes: Gwen nerf, LeBlanc visual rework, and more

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The latest changes for League of Legends (version 25.07) have been released! Take a look at the brand-new cosmetic items, hero updates, power boosts for champions, and other exciting features.

Step into the whimsical world of April! Beginning April 2nd, join the merriment and enchantment as you engage in the thrilling League of Legends game. With an array of captivating changes in LoL patch 25.07, there’s plenty to explore.

April Fools’ Day event

Party Drake

You might observe a few minor adjustments on Summoner’s Rift. In the course of the game, the Party Drake Soul will entertain itself in the pit, but this specific one will be unique as it grants numerous bonuses.

  • Gain 30% Bonus Movement Speed when within 650 range of your allies.
  • For every 5% Bonus Movement Speed, gain 1% bonus AD and AP.

Dragon Slayer buff

There will be other small changes to make your games even more goofy.

  • Receive a Party Favor item in your inventory. If your item slots are full, the Party Favor will automatically open for you. Party Favors will award a random amount of gold between 150 and 250, and also a Skill Point.
  • Gain a groovy disco aura, causing nearby ally minions to sparkle!

Terrain

In the Rift, you’ll see small additions like disco pads and ducky disco balls.

  • Disco pads will appear in bases and the jungle. Stepping on different Disco pads will grant a stacking Movement Speed buff (Decaying Burst and a constant bonus).
  • A duckie disco ball will appear in your base. Clicking on the duckie disco ball will channel an effect, granting you more stacks of movement speed.

Shaco boxes

As a fellow enthusiast, if Shaco isn’t your cup of tea due to his tricky boxes popping up everywhere on the battlefield, I’ve got some exciting news that might pique your interest! These new boxes will be making an appearance not just on Summoner’s Rift, but also in the ARAM mode – Howling Abyss. So, even if you’re not a fan of the trickster himself, these intriguing additions could potentially bring a fresh twist to your gameplay experience!

  • Cat Shaco boxes will spawn along the lane.
  • Picking up a box will grant you a random cute effect.
  • Every 10 stacks will grant you a Minor Party Favor item.
  • We’re not sure how Pengu Garen will feel about these boxes.

ARAM, but make it fast

  • Summoner Haste increased to 200%.
  • Cappa Juice now costs 300 Gold, with no stack limit.
  • Snowball is looking a little different.

With the fresh updates for April Fool’s Day, some modifications might lead to glitches appearing. If you receive a Party Favor that awards a skill point when your inventory is already full, the interface for leveling up won’t appear until you reach the next level, at which point you can utilize the additional point.

LeBlanc’s visual update

Preparing for a stunning comeback, our charismatic and influential female character is set to reappear in the Rift on April 3rd. This much-awaited facelift includes revamped models, animations, ability symbols, backgrounds, skins, and additional features, making her look better than ever before.

LeBlanc’s Elite Skin is set to rise from 520 RP to 750 RP due to the elevated standard it represents. Meanwhile, the Ravenborn LeBlanc skin will also see a price hike after numerous sound effect adjustments, moving up from 975 RP to 1350 RP. As is customary with reworks, if you don’t currently possess these skins, you’ll have a brief window to purchase them at a reduced rate before the Visual Update goes live. Don’t let this opportunity slip away!

Demon’s hand

Riot Games is addressing a minor glitch in the newly introduced game mode due to its favorable response. More precisely, they are correcting an unexpected issue concerning the “secret” missions that bestow Sigils. This adjustment should significantly expedite your ability to earn them. In essence, progress towards these hidden missions will escalate by approximately 80% for every minute you play. For a comprehensive rundown of the rewards, simply visit this link.

System changes in LoL patch 25.07

Making these adjustments counters a recent strategy in which mid-laners quickly acquired Symbiotic Soles, frequently returning to base to recharge their health and magic points, then swiftly returned to the battlefield.

Fountain healing

  • Maximum HP per second: 10.4% ⇒ 8%
  • Maximum MP per second: 12.4% ⇒ 10%
  • Early game missing HP/MP per second: 6% ⇒ 16%
  • Late game missing HP/MP per second: 12% ⇒ 16%

Homeguard speed

  • Early game move speed: 75% ⇒ 65%
  • 14-40 minute move speed: 75-150% ⇒ 65-150%

Lane swap detection

Reducing lane overlap between the mid lane and the Raptor Pit, by adjusting lane swaps, will minimize their intersection.

Champion buffs in LoL patch 25.07

Champion nerfs in LoL patch 25.07

Champions adjustments in LoL patch 25.07

Yorick’s large-scale update

In this update for Yorick, Riot Games aims to achieve two main objectives. First and foremost, they want to enhance Yorick for players who specialize in him, addressing some of his weaker aspects and making him a more well-rounded champion. Secondly, they aim to boost his performance in advanced play, introducing additional skill options for Yorick and making him more durable against skilled opponents. Additionally, they are making minor changes that will facilitate future adjustments to Yorick’s balance. Further details about these changes will be shared later on.

Item changes in LoL patch 25.07

After that, let’s see what will change in the item system.

ARAM in LoL patch 25.07

In ARAM, there will be some buffs and nerfs to champions.

Champion buffs in LoL patch 25.07

Champion nerfs

Swiftplay, Quickplay, Normal Draft queue updates

Arena updates in the LoL patch 25.07

General changes

  • Combo breaker now works on knock-ups and knockbacks.
  • Ring of Fire no longer damages players in the death realm.
  • End of Game screen now displays up to 5 augments, allowing you to see augments granted by Guests of Honor in your match history.

Guests of Honor

New Guests of Honor for Round 2

Ambessa

Select a sacrifice:

  • Sacrifice for Silver: After 2 rounds, gain a silver augment.
  • Sacrifice for Gold: For the next 5 rounds, enter combat with 75% health, and after those rounds, gain a gold augment.
  • Sacrifice for Prismatic: For the next 7 rounds, enter combat with 50% health, and after those 7 rounds, gain a prismatic augment.

Katarina

  • Gain 5 rerolls.

Draven

  • Increase the likelihood of increasing the tier of your stat anvils.
  • While starting a hot streak and every 3 wins after grants you 1 stat anvil.

Cassiopeia

  • You can no longer buy boots, and the boots round becomes a full item round.
  • If you bought boots already, they’re sold at full value.

Alistar

  • The 1st time you would be eliminated, reduce your team’s health to 1 instead.

New Guests of Honor for Round 8

LeBlanc

  • Every 25 seconds, everyone in combat goes invisible for 3 seconds.

Sahn Uzal

  • Revives are disabled.

Guests of Honor adjustments

Elise

  • Players inside of Elise Guest of Honor cocoons struggle to break free, causing the cocoon to lose 1 HP every 1.5s; this damage can not break the cocoon.
  • Elise cocoons spawned in the death realm will now return to the living realm.

Normal augments in

  • Omni Soul: When taking Omni Soul while you have Dragon Heart with 4+ Souls, Omni Soul will grant you Elder Dragon rather than skipping a soul.
  • Infernal Conduit: Brand, Annie, Shyvana, Corki W, Ornn W, Rumble Q/R no longer count as burns for Infernal Conduit.
  • Infernal Conduit: Now has a per Ability per target Cooldown instead of a global Cooldown to match other on-Ability-hit augments.
  • Hold Very Still time to Invisibility: 1.5s ⇒ 1.25s
  • Clothesline: 20-300 ⇒ 20-300 (+ 20% AP) (+ 30% Bonus AD) (+ 2% Bonus HP)
  • Clown College: Damage from the death trigger cannot win a round.
  • Dive Bomber: Damage from the death trigger cannot win a round.
  • It’s Killing Time: For spells with ongoing effects, this will trigger if it comes off cooldown while the ability is still active. Galio/Fiddlesticks will now trigger just before they land. Pantheon will now trigger this just before his spear lands.
  • All For You: Now amps all healing/shielding given to your partners > allies.
  • Dual Wield: (Reworked) When you Attack, fire a secondary bolt at the same target that deals 50% damage and On-Hits at 50% effectiveness.
  • Dual Wield Total Attack Speed: 100% ⇒ 50%
  • Phenomenal Evil: No longer triggers each time Brand or Lillia applies their passive. These passives now respect the augment’s cooldown.
  • Jeweled Gauntlet/Vulnerability: Adjusted the crit formula to be less egregious with crit damage.
  • Wisdom of Ages: If taken as your 2nd Augment, gain 2 additional levels.
  • From Beginning to End: Dark Harvest damage per soul 10 ⇒ 20
  • From Beginning to End: Starting Souls per Augment 4 ⇒ 8

Curse augments

  • Max Cursed Power per Round: 40 ⇒ 50
  • Dreadbringer Cursed Power to Health Ratio: 225% ⇒ 400%
  • Dreadbringer Tick Cadence: 1s ⇒ 0.25s
  • Doomsayer Cursed Power to Adaptive Force Ratio: 125% ⇒ 175%
  • Desecrator Cursed Power per Immobilize: 5 ⇒ 8
  • Desecrator Cursed Power to AR/MR Ratio: 20% ⇒ 25%
  • Deathtouch Cursed Power to On-Hit Ratio: 38% ⇒ 40%
  • Dark Blessing: Removed the range requirement to gain the Cursed Power when Healing/Shield.

Items

  • Dragonheart: Grants a maximum of 4 Souls when purchased.
  • Hexbolt Companion: Range 1000 ⇒ 1200

Bug fixes

  • Kinkou Jitte detection improved slightly.
  • You can no longer purchase multiple of the same Juice or a Juice that is already active on you.
  • Circle of Death no longer procs while dead.
  • Demon’s Dance no longer sometimes grants Grasp to enemies.
  • Dawncore will properly count Base Mana Regen from Talisman of Ascension.
  • Undoing a sell of Dragonheart will no longer reroll the souls.
  • Kalista has her AS properly capped by Slow and Steady.
  • Spin to Win works properly on Akshan Q.
  • Fan the Hammer will not be consumed on plants/wards/traps.
  • Puppeteer no longer gets Cooldown reduced by Knight’s Vow.
  • Abilities reflected by Mel W will benefit from Chain Lightning.
  • Getting a kill with Cho R from Ultimate Roulette no longer permanently sets your R range to Cho R.
  • Phenomenal Evil and other spell hit augments will no longer trigger on every one of Kayle’s auto attacks.
  • Prowler’s Claw is no longer restricted to only being offered to champions with a dash.
  • Prowler’s Claw and Goredrinker have the correct sell value.
  • Nesting Doll now properly knocks back on revive.
  • Prowler’s Claw no longer shows a buff icon after dashing.
  • Decapitator Ult VFX now properly displays between rounds.
  • Abilities that roll to see if they crit no longer roll a second time for Jeweled Gauntlet or Vulnerability.
  • Nilah Q can now crit with Jeweled Gauntlet.
  • Reckoner’s Arena Pillars will no longer be amped by Jeweled Gauntlet.
  • Vulnerability and Jeweled Gauntlet will no longer roll on top of each other, allowing for lucky crits or the possibility of double critting. In the case where both augments apply, we roll for the one with a higher crit damage (Jeweled Gauntlet).
  • Soul Siphon is no longer triggered multiple times when you have both Jeweled Gauntlet and Vulnerability.
  • Ultimate Rev now has a 6-second cooldown for Brand’s R so that it correctly bounces when CD is refunded.
  • Chauffeur no longer stops Ornn E if you’re moving.
  • Viktor now correctly gains 40 stacks in the buy phase.
  • Fixed a bug where casting W would put your Kled Guest of Honor Summoner Spell on CD.
  • Ocean Soul tracker no longer counts healing during non-combat rounds.
  • Spellwake and Doomsayer now properly trigger on both enemies when one ability hits both, rather than only on one of them.

Clash schedule 2025

For fans of Clash, patch 25.07 brings changes to the tournament schedule throughout the year, along with some exciting surprises in store. A side note: With more Clash tournaments planned for this year, the reward requirements will be adjusted back to their original levels. Take a look at the updated schedule right here.

Upcoming skins

Hang on a sec! It wouldn’t feel like April Fools’ Day without some fresh funny costumes. Make sure you take a peek at the thrilling new skins coming up in League of Legends patch 25.07!

The amazing Pengu Garen will be available for free during a special limited-time offer! Since it’s April Fools’ Day, don’t pass up your opportunity to try out this unique skin!

Blue Essence Emporium has returned

The store you love at Chroma is set to return in League of Legends! You’ll now have the opportunity to utilize all your Blue Essence to expand your collection with various color options.

Jhin and Vel’Koz Blue Essence pricing

Despite a recent adjustment in champions’ prices within League of Legends patch 25.07, it has been announced that the costs for Jhin and Vel’Koz will undergo another change. In this upcoming alteration, Jhin can be obtained using 1,234 Blue Essence, while Vel’Koz will require 1,618 Blue Essence.

The Sanctum and Quantum Galaxy Slayer Zed

Due to the postponement of the Sahn-Uzal Mordekaiser skin, Riot Games has decided to keep the Quantum Galaxy Slayer Zed banner active until the next banner item replaces it.

Prestige Battle Academia Qiyana

Riot Games plans to award this item to players at a future date once a specific problem has been resolved, however, they haven’t provided an estimated timeline for when that will be.

Bug fixes and quality-of-life changes

  • Fixed a bug where Singed’s Q could execute Tryndamere in his ult, bypassing his invincibility.
  • Fixed an issue where attacking with a fully stacked Lead the Way passive from Trailblazer does not slow the target if you’re a melee champion.
  • Fixed an issue where Gwen’s R would sometimes display debug text.
  • Fixed an issue where some of the visual displays of Sudden Death being active were not displaying.
  • Fixed an issue where Sylas using R on Zeri would cause the Zeri R to not trigger Sylas’s R cooldown.
  • Fixed an issue where if Viego possessed Mel, used W to kill an enemy champion, it would prevent Viego from using his passive.
  • Fixed an issue where Naafiri R would not cross terrain if a target was right next to it.
  • Fixed an issue where Naafiri W would create an extra redundant buff icon.
  • Fixed an issue where Naafiri’s packmates would not dash alongside her.
  • Fixed a tooltip issue with Aurora where there was some inconsistent capitalization.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Rift Herald spawn indicator to be incorrect.
  • Fixed an issue where Mordekaiser’s Q would cast toward the mouse indicator and not the direction he’s facing.
  • Fixed an issue that caused some tooltip inconsistencies with Varus’s E.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Fishing in the Sea Nemesis Quest buffs/debuffs to be missing.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Jax’s R animations to stop playing after ranking up R.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Neeko’s ability shop descriptions to not match her updated functionalities.
  • Fixed a Practice Tool bug where elemental rift features would not reset after using the Reset Game function.
  • Fixed a Practice Tool bug where only one type of Elemental Drake would spawn regardless of the specific Spawn Elemental Drake function used.
  • Fixed a Practice Tool bug where spawning a Dragon also spawned Atakhan.
  • Fixed a Practice Tool bug where Atakhan’s terrain elements would remain on the map after using the Reset Game function.

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