League of Legends Patch 12.2

Here’s where we’ll explain everything that’s changing and being added with League of Legends Patch 12.2.

LoL Patch 12.2 has now arrived on live servers, giving all players the chance to try out the MOBA’s newest champion, alongside a set of new cosmetics and its latest balance changes.

A look at its patch notes reveals its release date alongside the addition of several skins from the Porcelain, Firecracker, Crystal Rose, and Withered Rose lines.

Riot Games pushes out updates for its popular MOBA at a steady rate, which is why its patch schedule is necessary to keep track of when the next one’s due out. The LoL Patch 12.2 release date is set for Thursday, January 20, which is when the changes that make it through testing hit live servers.

League 12.2 kicks off 2022 with a massive amount of new skins. Players can grab as many as 15 new looks for existing champions, belonging to multiple different lines.

On the PBE, players can try out Crystal Rose Akshan (1350 RP), Crystal Rose Janna (1350 RP), Withered Rose Elise (1350 RP), Withered Rose Zeri (1350 RP), Firecracker Sett, Firecracker Teemo, Firecracker Xin Zhao (1350 RP), Firecracker Tristana, Firecracker Diana, Porcelain Protector Ezreal (1820 RP), Porcelain Amumu, Porcelain Lissandra (1350 RP), Porcelain Kindred, Porcelain Lux, Porcelain Lux Prestige Edition, and Brave Phoenix Xayah Prestige Edition.

The LoL 12.2 maintenance schedule is always revealed closer to launch. Usually, it takes about 3 hours for patches to be deployed across different regions. Checking our League of Legends Server Status article is a good way to keep yourself informed on server downtime caused by patch deployment or other reasons.

Zeri, the Spark of Zaun

League 12.2 also introduces Zeri, the Spark of Zaun, as the MOBA’s newest champion. You can already check out her bio, as spotted by Surrender at 20, and abilities, for a better sense of how she fits into the game in terms of lore and mechanics.

Stats:

Base Mana: 250

Mana Per Level: 45

Base MR: 30

MR Per Level: 0.5

Base HP: 500

HP Per Level: 85

HP5: 3.25

HP Regen Per Level: 0.11

Base AD: 58

AD Per Level: 2

Base Armor: 23

Armor Per Level: 3.5

Base Move Speed: 330

AS Per Level: 2

Attack Range: 500

Abilities

Living Battery (Passive):

Zeri gains Move Speed whenever she receives a shield. When she damages an enemy shield she absorbs its energy, shielding herself.

Burst Fire (Q):

Passive: Zeri's basic attack deals magic damage, scales with AP, and is treated as an ability. Moving and casting Burst Fire stores up energy in Zeri's Sparkpack. When fully charged, her next basic attack will slow and deal bonus damage.

Active: Burst Fire shoots a burst of 7 rounds that deal physical damage to the first enemy hit.

Burst Fire scales with AD and is treated like an attack, with the first round applying on-hit effects. Its cooldown matches Zeri’s basic attack timer.

Ultrashock Laser (W):

Zeri fires an electric pulse that slows and damages the first enemy hit. If the pulse hits a wall it fires a long range laser from the point of impact.

Spark Surge (E):

Zeri dashes a short distance and energizes her next 3 casts of Burst Fire, causing them to pierce through enemies. She will vault over or grind along any terrain she dashes into, depending on the angle. Hitting a champion with an attack or ability reduces Spark Surge’s cooldown.

Lightning Crash (R):

Zeri discharges a nova of electricity, damaging nearby enemies, and overcharges herself for a moderate duration. While overcharged, Zeri gains increased damage, Attack Speed, and Move Speed. Attacking enemy champions refreshes the overcharge duration and adds another stack of Move Speed. While overcharged, Burst Fire's damage concentrates into a faster triple shot that chains lightning between enemies.

Vayne is set to receive a visual effects update “mainly focused on cleaning up and modernizing her kit, removing some of the old noise that was present.” This video highlights upcoming changes to her spell effects, although the developer did note that it is a smaller scale update.

Sona’s visuals are also getting improvements, including complete overhauls to a handful of her skins.

As far as balance changes go, the first few ones bring tweaks to Rengar and Tahm Kench that didn’t make it in patch 12.1. Janna is set to receive a number of different tweaks to her abilities.

The patch 12.2 preview is now live, showcasing more of the changes coming later in January.

We expect more to come over the coming weeks, so make sure you check back regularly to not miss out on any buffs and nerfs your favorite champion might receive when the LoL 12.2 Patch hits live servers.

LoL 12.2 Champion Balance Changes

Janna - Changed

Stats:

Move speed increased to 330 from 315

AD increased to 52-103 from 46-71.5

AD growh increased to + 3 per lvl from + 1.5 per lvl

Attack range decreased to 500 from 550

Tailwind (Passive):

Effect changed to 8% movespeed while moving toward allies from 8% move speed

No longer grants bonus magic damage on bonus movespeed

Howling Gale (Q):

Mana cost decreased to 60/70/80/90/100 from 60/90/100/120/140

Mininmum range increased to 1100 from 1000

Maximum range increased to 1760 from 1750

Travel time decreased to 1.25 from 1.5

Zephyr (W):

Range changed to 650 (centered) from 550 (edge to edge)

Slow duration increased to 3 seconds from 2 seconds

Cooldown increased to 12 seconds from 8/7.5/7/6.5/6 seconds

Damage increased to 70/100/130/160/190 from 55/85/115/145/175

Passive move speed increased to 8/9/10/11/12% from 6/7/8/9/10%

Eye of the Storm (E):

Cooldown decreased to 15/13.5/12/10.5/9 seconds from 16/15/14/13/12 seconds

Time before shield decay start increased to 1.25 seconds from .75 seconds

Shield amount decreased to 80/110/140/170/200 (+65% AP) from 80/115/150/185/220 (+70% AP)

Effect changed to whenever Janna's abilities slow or knock up at least one enemy champion she receives +20% heal and shield power for 5 seconds from Eye of the Storm's cooldown is reduced by 20%

Monsoon (R):

Healing tick rate decreased to 0.25 seconds from 0.5 seconds (total healing amount unchanged)

Lulu - Nerfed

Whimsy (W):

Cooldown increased to 17/16/15/14/13 seconds from 16/15/14/13/12 seconds

Nocturne - Buffed

Stats:

Health growth increased to 95 from 85

Duskbringer (Q):

AD ratio increased to 85% from 75%

Qiyana - Nerfed

Stats:

HP regen decreased to 6 from 7.5

Edge of Ixtal (Q):

Grass trail zone duration decreased to 3 seconds from 3.5 seconds

Rengar - Changed

Thrill of the Hunt (R):

Rengar can leap to enemies with his next basic attack when he is in camouflage

Samira - Buffed

Inferno Trigger (R):

Physical damage per shot increased to 5/15/25 (+50% AD) from 0/10/20 (+50% AD)

Total damage per shot increased to 50/150/250 (+500% AD) from 0/100/200 (+500% AD)</ul>

Senna - Buffed

Piercing Darkness (Q):
- Now slows all enemies struck by 20% (+6% per 100 AP) (+10% per 100 bonus AD) for 2 seconds
Shen - Nerfed

Twilight Assault (Q):
- Increased bonus damage decreased to 10-40 (+6 every 3 levels) (+4/4.5/5/5.5/6% (+2% per 100 AP) of target's max health) from 10-40 (+6 every 3 levels) (+5/5.5/6/6.5/7% (+2% per 100 AP) of target's max health)
Tahm Kench - Changed

Tongue Lash (Q):
- Slow increased to 50% from 40%
Thick Skin (E):
- Amount of damage stored into grey health changed to 15/25/35/45/55%, increased to 45/50/55/60/65% if there are 2 or more visible enemy champions nearby (dead or alive) from 45/50/55/60/65%
- Amount of healing restored from grey health increased to 45-100% (levels 1-18) from 30-100% (levels 1-18)
Devour (R):
- Ally shield changed to 500/700/900 (+150% AP) from 400/500/600 (+100% AP)
- Move speed upon devouring ally changed to Grants Tahm Kench 40% move speed for 3 seconds (regardless of swallow duration) from Slows Tahm Kench by 30/20/10% while ally is swallowed
Talon - Nerfed

Rake (W):
- Damage against monsters decreased to 105% from 130%
Tristana - Buffed

Stats:
- Base HP Increased to 600 from 559
- Base health regeneration increased to 4 from 3.75
Veigar - Changed

Baleful Strike (Q):
- Cooldown decreased to 6/5.5/5/4.5/4 from 7/6.5/6/5.5/5
- Stacks gained upon killing large monsters and minions increased to 3 from 2
Volibear - Buffed

Stats:
- AD growth increased to 3.5 form 3
Sky Splitter (E):
- Cooldown decreased to 13 seconds from 15 seconds
Yasuo - Buffed

Steel Tempest (Q):
- Damage increased to 20/45/70/95/120 (+105% AD) from 20/45/70/95/120 (+100% AD)
Yone - Buffed

Mortal Steel (Q):
- Damage increased to 20/45/70/95/120 (+105% AD) from 20/45/70/95/120 (+100% AD)
Zed - Nerfed

Death Mark (R):
- Base damage decreased to 65% AD (+25/40/55% of damage dealt against marked target) from 100% AD (+25/40/55% of damage dealt against marked target)
LoL 12.2 Item Balance Changes

Lich Bane
- New Recipe: Sheen + Aether Wisp + Fiendish Codex + 550g
- Spellblade damage decreased to 75% base AD + 50% AP from 150% base AD + 40% AP
- Cooldown decreased to 1.5 seconds from 2.5 seconds
- Ability Haste removed
Rylai's Crystal Scepter
- AP decreased to 75 from 90
- Health increased to 400 from 350
- Combine cost decreased to 415 gold from 815 gold
Turbo Chemtank
- Refuel (Passive) Damage Stacks changed to Gain 5 stacks per instance of damage dealt against monsters and champions only from per instance of any damage dealt
- Refuel (Passive) Movement Stacks changed to Gain 1 stack for every 15 units travelled capped at up to 10 stacks per movement command from (uncapped)
LoL 12.2 Jungle Balance Changes

Chemtech Drake

Chemtech Dragon Soul
- Zombie health decreased to 70% base health + 40% bonus health from 80% base health + 50% bonus health
- Zombie duration (without other health impacting factors decreased to 3 seconds from 4 seconds
Chemtech Rift
- Offensive action camouflage timer increased to 2.5 seconds from 1.5 seconds
- Bonus damage vs enemies with more current health changed to up to 12% from up to 10%
Hextech Drake

Hextech Dragon Soul
- Chain Lightning true damage decreased to 25-50 (based on attacker's level, 1-18) from 25-75 (based on attacker's level, 1-18)
LoL 12.2 Rune Balance Changes

Lethal Tempo
- Attack speed (melee) changed to 10-15% (levels 1-15) from 13%
- Attack speed (ranged) changed to 5-9% (levels 1-12) from 7%
LoL 12.2 Bugfixes & QoL Changes
- Fixed a bug where Teleport could sometimes still target certain units other than towers before 14 minutes
- Fixed a bug where Unleashed Teleport would permanently replace one of your Summoner Spells if acquired and used via the Unsealed Spellbook rune
- Champions will now correctly drop Unleashed Teleport spell shards if used after 14 minutes into a game with Zoe
- Fixed a bug where Yone could sometimes cast Unleashed Teleport while his E - Soul Unbound was active
- The exclamation point stealth indicator has been fixed and will correctly reappear above your champion if you are visible to an enemy inside the Chemtech Fog after completing certain stealthing abilities (such as Akali's W - Twilight Shroud)
- Fixed a bug where towers would incorrectly target enemy champions who took damage from Kog'Maw's Passive - Icathian Surprise or Karthus's Passive - Death Defied
- Rengar's Passive - Unseen Predator leap basic attacks will correctly trigger Navori Quickblades' Deft Strikes effect
- Fixed a bug where taking damage from certain jungle monsters would sometimes incorrectly grant stacks toward Force of Nature's Absorb passive
- Fixed a bug where triggering Glacial Augment's passive would incorrectly count toward triggering Eclipse's Ever Rising Moon passive
- Fixed a bug where Mythic or active item icon borders would sometimes appear in incorrect locations. (Yes, the mysterious orange squares...)
- Enemy player chat and emote mute toggle buttons have been fixed and will no longer overlap with other icons in the scoreboard
- DJ Sona and K/DA Seraphine's in-game music mute toggle buttons have been fixed and will display correctly next to their champion icon in the scoreboard every game
- Chat restriction notifications have been fixed and will once again inform players how many messages they have left in their limit
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