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End of Season 2 Patch Notes

The end of season 2 patch should be hitting tonight. Below you can find the official patch notes.

Season 2 has officially ended!

• Eligible summoners will receive loading screen borders, profile banner trims, forum badges, and the War Hero Janna skin immediately
• Summoner Icons will be distributed over the next week
• Elo ratings have been compressed towards 1200 and system confidence in ratings has been reset.
• Placement matches must be completed before Elo will be visible again.
• Ranked stats have been cleared and archived under the "Season 2" option in the dropdown.

Brand

• Pyroclasm can no longer bounce more than 5 times.

Elise

• Neurotoxin Ability Power ratio increased to 3% per 100 Ability Power from 2%
• Venomous Bite Ability Power ratio increased to 3% per 100 Ability Power from 2%
• Cocoon
  • Missile speed increased to 1450 from 1300
  • Now reveals the target if it hits
• Spider Form bonus magic damage per attack Ability Power ratio increased to 0.3 from 0.2

Keep reading for even more changes

Kassadin

• Nether Blade
  • Ability Power ratio increased to 0.3 from 0.15
  • Bonus damage no longer hits inhibitors or the Nexus

Katarina

• Bouncing Blade initial damage reduced at later ranks to 60/90/120/150/180 from 60/95/130/165/200
• Sinister Steel damage reduced at later ranks to 40/75/110/145/180 from 40/80/120/160/200

LeBlanc

• Distortion Mana Cost reduced at later ranks to 80/85/90/95/100 from 80/90/100/110/120

Lux

• Final Spark visual effects no longer appear at the wrong angle if aimed beyond the edge of the map

Renekton

• Slice and Dice no longer reduces Dragon's Armor

Soraka

• Infuse tooltip now states the correct Ability Power ratio at 0.6

Twisted Fate

• Pick a Card tooltip now describes the correct behavior in regards to Blue card's Mana restoration

Twitch

• Deadly Venom now has a new particle for maximum stacks
• Ambush tooltip now describes the correct behavior in regards to delay before entering invisibility

Veigar

• Equilibrium Mana Regeneration increased to 1% from 0.75% per 1% Mana missing

Volibear

• Majestic Roar now fears minions and monsters for 3 seconds instead of 2

Xin Zhao

• Crescent Sweep now properly procs Spell Vamp and other effects (e.g. Rylai's slow)

Yorick

• Omen of War now works properly with Life Steal

Ziggs

• Short Fuse now deals 150% damage to structures

Zilean

• Time Bomb now breaks Recall immediately when cast on an enemy champion.

Items

• Blackfire Torch
  • New Recipe: Kage's Lucky Pick + Haunting Guise
  • Total Gold Cost: 2950 (combine cost: 700)
  • +70 Ability Power
  • +250 Health
  • Unique Passive: +15% Cooldown Reduction
  • Unique Passive: +20 Magic Penetration
  • Unique Passive: Your spells burn for an additional 5% of the target champion's maximum Health in magic damage over 3 seconds. Each second burned consumes a charge. One charge is generated each second.
  • Now available on Twisted Treeline and Crystal Scar.
• Hextech Sweeper
  • New Recipe: Amplifying Tome + Amplifying Tome + Kindlegem
  • Total Gold Cost: 1920 (combine cost: 200)
  • +50 Ability Power
  • +300 Health
  • Unique Passive: +10% Cooldown Reduction
  • Unique Passive: +10% Movement Speed
  • Unique Active: A stealth-detecting mist grants vision in the target area for 10 seconds (1 minute cooldown).
• Lord Van Damm's Pillager
  • Reduced health by 50
  • Reduced armor penetration by 5
• Wooglet's Witchcap
  • New Recipe: Needlessly Large Rod + Chain Mail
  • Total Gold Cost: 3500 (combine cost: 1200)
  • +100 Ability Power
  • +50 Armor
  • Unique Passive: Increases Ability Power by 25%
  • Unique Active: Places your champion into Stasis for 2.5 seconds, rendering you invulnerable and untargetable but unable to take any action (90 second cooldown)
  • Now available on Twisted Treeline and Crystal Scar
• Removed Zhonya's Hourglass from Twisted Treeline and Crystal Scar
• Removed Rabadon's Deathcap from Crystal Scar

General

• Ignite is now only castable on enemy champions
• Champion passives will now have their cooldowns represented on their passive icon

Co-op vs. AI

• Twisted Treeline bots should now favor defending their base over taking altars.
• Twisted Treeline bots no longer get stuck at the summoning platform when an inhibitor is under attack.
• Custom game Summoner's Rift bots now use the same push logic as beginner Co-op vs. AI bots, which should address several issues of bots getting stuck on the map
• Added a pathing workaround to prevent Summoner's Rift bots from getting trapped in certain areas of the map (e.g. Baron pit)
• Battle Training bots should no longer get stuck during the tutorial

Twisted Treeline

• Reduced Vilemaw's starting damage, increased his starting health, and reduced his health scaling
• Slightly tweaked walkable space in several areas to allow Flashing over walls
• Brush beside altars removed
• Altars now unlock at 3:00 minutes instead of 2:00
• Altars now grant a 3 gold bonus per kill, down from 4
• Minion base gold rewards increased by 1 to compensate
• Jungle monster gold and health values rebalanced
• Removed Thornmail from the purchasable item list

Crystal Scar

• Reduced passive mana regeneration
• Increased mana gained from Health Relics
• Changed windmill rotation speed so gears no longer clip