The League of Legends 2015 season continues and the latest patch to hit the rift is number 5.11. As usual we get to see champion balancing, there’s asmall tweak to Diamond ranked LP gains, and a large focus on the Twisted Treeline.
As League continues to evolve through the regular season, we remain committed to our pursuit of champion diversity in as many different ways as possible. Today we looked at some of the highs and lows of the champion viability ladder and chose a few we could prod closer to the center. In some cases (like Katarina, LeBlanc, and Hecarim), we had champions putting out high amounts of oppressive (one might say frustrating) power, which ultimately translated to investigation tasks for us to deflate some strengths (or highlight weaknesses) without just kicking them to the curb. On the other end of the spectrum, we wanted to highlight certain unique strengths on undervalued champs with things like Caitlyn’s Headshot upgrade, Aatrox’s bloodier passive, or Kha’Zix’s buffed isolation range (technically it’s reduced, but in a good way).
We also have some pretty big updates heading to everyone’s favorite (one might say only) Twisted Treeline. We were in the process of doing a large cross-map consistency pass for all alternative map modes in League of Legends (you might remember our work on the Howling Abyss), and felt we could also do some broad balance adjustments while we were here. Check out the Twisted Treeline section of the patch notes for more information, because there’s a lot of it.
Get the full patch notes here.
