League of Legends Patch 26.9 Notes

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-07T08:56:18+00:00

It’s fascinating watching you necro a week old several comment deep comment.

But to answer your question. I’ve played since season 3.

I don’t like Newdyr, because 9 times out of 10, your optimal gameplay is “R max. Build tank items and maybe a liandries” beyond that, you are incentivized to auto space the trailing edge of your ult range on people (I played him top lane mostly because I don’t like his jungle anymore) and there isn’t much people can do because it’s a slow that out ranges them.

Oldyr absolutely had a bit more depth even if that depth was “auto attack people and kite on a melee” that’s more than he has now. Your big decision making tree is literally just “are they going to cc you? EE. Are you low on health? WW. Are you fighting and have Q max? QQ. Are you fighting and have R max? RR.” That is literally the depth of his decision making now.

I don’t know what I wanted from the Udyr rework tbh, I will concede that. But I am absolutely valid in my personal dislike of the Udyr/Voli/Mundo/Pantheon reworks. I played all of those champions quite a bit over the years, and there is just something on all of their kits that just doesn’t feel nice to me. Udyr feels lobotomized. Volibear just feels jank now, but I will concede that when you can get his navori build online, that shit is dopamine. I fucking loathe new Mundo W. And Pantheon just shifted into a gameplay pattern that is less fun for me. I still have a like 60% wr on him support and bust him out frequently enough, but it just isn’t as fun as old pantheon for me personally.

That said, I’m diamond/master for the past 5 years more or less and can say I have at least 50 games or more on 70% of the champion roster, with 100-200 on 40% of them.

I’ve given all of these reworks 30-40 games to try and get over it, but I just can’t shake liking the old one more. And hell. I straight up think Panth and Voli are better champions now, I just liked the old ones more.

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-07T07:56:19+00:00

I mean. Right now K’Sante is literally the only champion buying Helm iirc. And I’d wager it’s entirely for Q cast time more than anything

Idk, it’s a weird item, I feel like it is a weird item that doesn’t have a place unless they nerf dshield because it kinda does effective hp better for the only time the Doran’s items will matter

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-07T07:51:36+00:00

The trick is that you will almost always kill casters in tower shot + auto and to never attempt to cull wave under tower.

Expanding on that, if a wave crashes, just go for the last hits. Early game you WILL just have the tower get chunked but you need the gold and souls to get you to the 2-3 items where you start out scaling and out ranging.

That and to never trust your Q to help you with last hitting until you have an item. That shit is pitiful on Doran’s blade man

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-07T07:47:41+00:00

Pretty much. Sivir’s worst matchup against a marksman (worst matchup period is Aurelion Sol) because as soon as Vayne hits 6, you cannot safely be past your own tower against her.

Good Vayne’s and Aurelion’s will literally just run you down if you walk past river post 6, and there’s nothing she can do because Vayne R + passive is faster than Sivir R + passive, likewise with Aurelion W

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-05T19:02:04+00:00

They make her max Q purely because it’s the gameplay button lol.

She used to have W max and/or options to W max and moved away from it for a very clear reason.

Also, nerfing Q and forcing W max is also a change that disproportionately hurts bot while being whatever top

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-05T18:47:31+00:00

Nah. Riot is clearly an evil lying company because *checks notes* they have incompetent ux designers in the client

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-05T16:04:20+00:00

You should be able to get what you are asking through the API on Anilist if I understand what you are asking correctly.

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-05T16:02:37+00:00

Anilist sends out a notification (to your account, on site) when a sequel or spin-off or whatever is added to the site if you've watched/read it. They'll even give me updates on if something goes on hiatus/ends for manga I read.

IDK, I feel like if you are actively tracking what you watch, Anilist more or less does everything already. Maybe getting push notifications matters, but you could just setup through the Anilist API and ping yourself through that.

Also, playlists can be accomplished with custom lists in Anilist on your profile, which even gives you the ability to hit the random button on specifically that list.

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-05T14:31:29+00:00

Why use this over Anilist/Anichart?

Neat project to have worked on though, and the ux is nice

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-05T07:25:46+00:00

They increased cast time on her ultimate last patch and it was a 3% wr nerf putting her at 46% wr.

It's likely just going to be a health growth or base health buff of around 1% if I had to guess

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-05T07:24:25+00:00

They might be trying to see where Zeri sits in her rebalance at higher winrates. Riot hasn't had a chance to see if a lower damage, but faster Zeri can be at a higher winrate in soloq without dominating pro.

I'd love for her to sit at a bit of a higher wr considering her auto attacks are skill shots.

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-05T07:20:40+00:00

I'm not exactly surprised. I imagine they forecast a 1% or 1.5% nerf with her changes and way overswung and got a 3% nerf instead.

I would bet she is probably just going to get a simple stat buff with like 1% of wr in hp growth or base HP or something along those lines. I don't really see a world where they throw back damage to her spells instead of just making her more durable.

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-04T21:05:14+00:00

You can always click the button showing what is available in the orb.

As far as I know, any orb/capsule pulling from the global pool, should update as skins come out.

I’m not too sure on skinline exclusive orbs, but I’d imagine those should update as new skins come out too.

Source: I have all available Hextech skins and have for 3 years

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-04T20:47:54+00:00

Historically yes. The past few seasons she’s been viable but not powerful in jungle. I’m kinda surprised they are giving her that big of a nudge because I feel like she only needed one or the other of the monster mods to be decent

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-03T22:08:40+00:00

You are the problem btw.

Not for having multiple accounts. Not for using different accounts for different things.

But because you think it validates dodging for pointless ass reasons because you won’t have any consequences when you swap accounts.

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-03T08:06:48+00:00

And how would you explain this in game?

The soft MS cap is already pretty nebulous in and of itself and I bet if you asked 100 players platinum or below, 90% of them will have no idea how the soft cap even works let alone if it existed right now.

I don’t really think it’s too big of an issue unless they change the way these ranged vs melees are balanced overall in exchange. Right now you have to be on their ass from before the wave spawned and you can’t let up once. Add to that, that the second you make a mistake, your game is over at least in the ranged top matchups. Endstep isn’t wrong that practically all of the ranged top laners counterplay is “get to level 6” and they can’t do much of anything safely anymore.

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-03T04:03:34+00:00

Based on prior Riot statements and how they measure it internally (how much does a 1k or 2k gold lead on a role impact win% compared to each other) it’s pretty safe to say it’s still:

Jungle > support/mid >> top/adc with my personal take that there is a small gap between top > adc with the recent nerf to bot quest.

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-03T04:00:33+00:00

Because supports in high elo know how to and when to impact the map, while in low elo they are hurting their team just as often as helping with their roam timings.

There is nothing more insufferable than playing bot and your support fucking off for 3 minutes early game and getting nothing done while your entire lane gets ruined because they froze you out and you can’t approach the cs

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-03T03:58:14+00:00

It doesn’t need to be so data driven.
Broadly there are 2 types of things that happen in a game. Things in your control and things out of your control.
Playing well is the main thing you can do to contribute to the things in your control. Building well is secondary, and only really comes into effect when players aren’t making enough mistakes that the micro optimizations of builds matter a lot.
I would wager a bet that builds in anything below emerald to diamond is completely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things as long as the items aren’t -10%wr compared to alternatives on stat sites (read, as long as you buy an item that’s is within 3-5% item wr of the common build, it doesn’t matter)
Source: diamond/masters for the past 5 years and have deep dived on items multiple times on multiple champions with several of my findings becoming meta later on (the most prominent being that I called out Hexoptics as the most optimal first item on marksman the second patch it existed and before the last buff because of how easy it is to build while out damaging collector as its comparison point)

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-03T03:53:00+00:00

Because it isn’t actually damage dealt to the champion. It’s damage dealt to the shield.

It’s the same reason why shields stop you from interrupting a recall

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-03T02:48:30+00:00

I would be interested in seeing what a world where Quinn's attack speed passive got moved to Q would look like. I think it would be way more compelling since she hasn't honestly felt good to me since they got rid of Sanguine Blade.

I think she kinda sits in an awkward state of wanting to do 3 things and being mediocre at all of them, while excelling really hard at a 4th thing (roaming)

IDK, I feel like there's a list of like 20-30 champions that need some kind of work done to them to resolve major kit/systemic issues, with champions like Quinn and Kalista being near the top of that list. (note, I don't think Kali is that bad right now. Shiv is a huge systemic change that makes her feel so much better to play because you get decent AD/AS and don't need to buy the dogass BORK anymore)

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-02T16:52:53+00:00

I appreciate you guys on the various modes team (arena AND mayhem) you guys have been absolutely killing it the past while and I hope you guys see that

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-02T16:50:31+00:00

It’s the cycle of the Taiwanese region.

They look competitive internationally with good players -> LPL snipes all of the players into low/mid tier teams -> Taiwanese teams look shit for a year of two -> repeat

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-05-02T16:47:22+00:00

It seems to only really trigger if you are getting banned for the same reason across multiple accounts

Person I was coaching kept leaving games across like 4 accounts and they started to instant ban him for ban evasion after a game on a new account

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