Patch June 12, 2009

Patch Notes June 12, 2009 Patch

New Content

Karthus, the Deathsinger

Lay Waste - 1 second cooldown spell which leaves a time delayed mine (deals double damage if it only hits a single target)
Wall of Pain - Stretches a perpendicular wall through the target location, enemies who walk through it are slowed and take increased damage.
Defile - While toggled on, Defile continually damages nearby enemies. While off, Karthus regains mana whenever he kills a unit.
Fallen One (Ultimate) - Channeling a spell, upon successful cast Karthus damages all enemy champions in the game.
Death Defied (Passive) - When Karthus dies, he can continue to cast spells for 10 seconds after death. If he kills a champion in this time he respawns instantly at base.

Hate Spike
- Reduced ability power ratio from 0.33 to 0.28
- Increased damage form 25 / 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 to 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 / 130
Shadow Walk stealth can only be delayed by a maximum of 5 seconds
Ravage armor/magic resist reduction changed from 10 / 16 / 22 / 28 / 34 to 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30

Drain
- No longer ignores magic resist
- Increased damage from 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 / 130 to 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160

Counter Strike ability power ratio increased form 0.5 to 1
Relentless Assault now properly shows that it has an ability power ratio of 1

Wuju Style
- Increased mana cost from 25 to 40
- Activating Wuju Style now yields double damage instead of triple
- Increased base damage from 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 to 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35
- Reduced cooldown from 40 seconds to 30

Visionary
- Changed the way it works froma % chance, to every 10 hits
- Now can work with Absolute Zero
Absolute Zero recoded to make the ability power increase with the duration of the channel

Reduced health per leve form 78 to 70
Astral Blessing
- Changed to tick every second instead of every other second
- Reduced ability power ratio from 0.2 to 0.85 (but it occurs twice as often)
- Consecration change: Reduced duration increase from 0 / 2 /4 / 6 seconds to 0 / 1 / 2 / 3
Infuse
- Reduced cooldown from 16 to 15
- Consecration change: Reduced cooldown reduction bonus from 0 / 2 / 4 / 6 to 0 / 1 / 2 / 3

Ambush stealth can only be delayed by a maximum of 5 seconds
Full Automatic now deals 100% to the first target it hits and 70% to all others

Blood Scent REMAKE
- Passively gives you sight of enemies in range under 60% life, activate to gain the movement speed boost
- Increased range from 1,200 / 1,800 / 2,400 / 3,000 / 3,600 to 1,500 / 2,300 / 3,100 / 3,900 / 4,800

NEW ITEM: Force of Nature - Top tier health / magic resist / health regen item with +1.5% health regeneration when under 50% life and a 10% movement speed bonus
Innervating Locket mana restoration reduced from 25 to 20
Madred's Razors are no longer unique
Mercury's Treads recipe cost reduced from 850 to 700
Stark's Fervor now has an additional 20% attack speed
Warden's Mail movement speed and attack speed slow increased from 50% to 60%
Oracle's Elixir magic sight vision radius increased from 500 to 600
Doran's Ring
- Mana regen per 5 increased from 3 to 5
- Increased ablity power from 10 to 14
Archangel's Staff bonus ability power based on mana is no longer unique

Revive cooldown increased from 8 minutes to 9
Clairvoyance REWORK
- Decreased cooldown from 180 to 150 seconds
- Can no longer be cast inside of terrain or see over terrain
- Can now be destroyed by casting on top of opposing Clairvoyances
Flash
- Reduced range from 900 to 800
- Changed functionality: Flash is now cast without the need of a target indicator (i.e. it is cast towers to position of your mouse pointer)
- Will automatically flash to the furthest valid range in the direction it is cast at
- No longer has a cast time
Rally
- Made rally banner targetable (has 200 health + 25 x level)
- Increased range from 700 to 850
Heal now scales with level, health now = 150 x 25 x level and heals surrounding allies from 66% (so it heals less early, and more late)
Promote REWORK
- No longer has cleaving attacks
- Now has a non-stacking +30 armor / 15 damage aura

"Don't auto-target enemies" under "More Options" should now function correctly and not auto-target on attack moves
Fixed a bug with Consume, Smite, and other spells that would make them not castable for periods of time where they looked like they were castable
Fixed a bug with particle scaling on bigger units
Fixed attack-move so that it always continues to move to the end of the attack move after enemies have been enagaged, until a new order is given. Updated Master Yi bot to match new design.
Fixed a bug where attack commands would get lost
Fixed a bug where the game would not properly exit when user used Alt+F4
Made misc fixes that will help targeting minions (especially those in between other minions)

Optimization and Performance Improvements on most PCs
Removed brackets from champion passive information
Fixed a few tooltips such as Bantam Trap, Blinding Dart, Unbreakable Will, etc
Units such as Bantam Trap and Rally Banner should die faster
Increased max cooldown reduction from 35% to 40%
Fixed misc spelling errors
Increased Neutral Monster respawn time for 90 seconds to 120
Increased inhibitor respawn times from 6 minutes to 7
Baron Nashor no longer resizes when you engage him
Stealth
- Can only be dealyed for a maximum of 5 seconds
- No longer breaks upon using consumables
- Summoner Spells no longer break stealth
Increased the minimum amount of gold you obtain for slaying a champion from 40% to 50%
Decreased the maximum amount of gold you obtain for slaying a champion by 12.5%
Reduced all champion base health regeneration by 10%
Gave all non-Epic monsters with 500 or more health, -20 magic resist. (Spells now deal approximately 25% bonus damage)
Red and Blue Cannon Minions now have turret shield (recieve 50% reduced damage from turrets)
Red and Blue Cannon Minions now deal 100% bonus damage to turrets