This update goes out to our ARAM players! From the new stat adjustments introduced in the last patch to falling towers and Frostgates, new and exciting updates are coming to the Howling Abyss this patch.
FROSTGATES
A lot of the fun in ARAM happens when you're fighting, poking, or womboing your opponents—not when you're walking back to the fight. To help you get back into the action faster we're introducing Hexgates to the Howling Abyss!
- NEW Frostgates: Frostgates will be present from the beginning of the game and will teleport you directly from your Nexus to your outer tower. Once your first tower is destroyed, the Frostgate will then link to your team’s inhibitor tower where it will then stay for the remainder of the game.
FALLING TOWERS
Some parts of the bridge have been showing their age recently and are starting to fall apart. Our goal with falling towers is to create more interesting situations on the map that break away from the usual straight line of ARAM. Now you’ll have new choke points to think about, Fog of War to hide in, and terrain you can experiment with to create new plays!
- NEW Tower Rubble: When outer towers are destroyed they will collapse and leave behind a pile of rubble which will be treated as new terrain.
BRUSH CHANGES
Alongside the ARAM changes we figured we'd also do some landscaping on the bridge to help freshen things up a bit.
- NEW Brushing Up: There is now one new brush in the middle bottom side of the bridge. The brushes between the outer and inhibitor turrets have also increased in size.
BRIDGE REPAIRS
We finally got around to making some repairs on Howling Abyss! With the new falling towers mechanic we wanted to make the bridge a bit more spacious to compensate for the space now taken up by tower rubble.
- NEW Under Repair: The gaps on the bottom side of the bridge have been filled in and are now traversable
BATTLE BOOST QOL UPDATES
Adding a few quality of life updates to the current Battle Boost feature.
- NEW Not so Fast: Players will no longer be able to activate Battle Boosts within the last 10 seconds of champion select
- NEW You’re Welcome: Allies will now be able to tell which player gifted their team a Battle Boost
S-RANK CHEST VISIBILITY
Go forth and get S rank on all the champs (or as many as your team's RNG will allow)!
- NEW Master them All! Players will now be able to see which champions they have not yet received S-Rank Chests for in ARAM champion select