League of Legends Patch 26.17 Updates Champions and Items

Patch 26.17 changes 14 champions in the main Summoner's Rift balance pass. Riot is reducing some strong top, jungle and mid lane picks while giving several melee AD carries more reliable scaling.

• Aurelion Sol gets lower Breath of Light mana costs and a shorter Astral Flight cooldown.
• Cho'Gath gains more base damage on Vorpal Spikes.
• Graves loses bonus attack damage scaling on both parts of End of the Line.
• Irelia gains more attack damage scaling on Bladesurge and higher ability power ratios on Defiant Dance and Vanguard's Edge.
• LeBlanc receives attack speed baseline changes and higher ability power scaling on Distortion and Mimic: Distortion.
• Nasus has lower Soul Eater life steal.
• Nocturne loses base armor and base health.
• Qiyana gains more damage on Elemental Wrath but its monster damage modifier is reduced.
• Thresh loses damage and ability power scaling on Flay.
• Trundle gains more attack speed from Frozen Domain at later ranks.
• Vayne receives several changes aimed at reducing top lane power, including lower early Silver Bolts damage and higher early Tumble mana costs.
• Xerath loses base health and some Arcanopulse damage.
• Yasuo and Yone have their critical strike damage penalty reduced from 10 percent to 5 percent.

Stormrazor's attack speed rises from 20 percent to 25 percent. Sundered Sky is nerfed again, with health reduced from 450 to 400 and attack damage reduced from 45 to 40.

League Classic receives two additional Rune Pages, increased Influence Points and Classic XP gains, reduced prices for about one third of its runes, around 20 balance changes and several dozen bug fixes. Riot also updates Summoner's Rift lighting, textures and decals to move the map closer to its older visual presentation.

• Champion swapping is enabled during the Loadout phase.
• Players can request champion swaps while keeping their assigned lanes.
• Champion pick order can be swapped.
• The first Council vote goes live in the client with multiple voting topics and visible results.
• Modern Ranked Borders are removed from the Classic loading screen.

ARAM: Mayhem adds two fighter-focused Augments, Ultra Hydra and Upgrade Death's Dance. Critical Missile is reduced, Double Tap moves from Gold to Prismatic, Tripleshot prioritizes enemies near its main target, and several other Augments receive adjustments or bug fixes.

Arena also receives a wide balance pass across champions, items and the Serve Beyond Death Augment. Riot is returning Arena to an alternating patch schedule and plans to focus its balance updates on odd-numbered League patches.

The minimum and recommended macOS specifications have been updated. Patch 26.17 also adds a controller preset for spectator camera movement with ReplayAPI and fixes issues involving Jayce, Diana, Akali, Swiftmarch, Vladimir and rare Blind Pick starting-item lockouts.

Heartsong Seraphine, Ocean Song Soraka and Ocean Song Jinx are scheduled to become available on August 26, 2026. Chromas for all three skins are also listed for release with this patch.