League of Legends patch 12.22 notes: Season 13 preseason brings sweeping jungle changes
League of Legends patch 12.22 is on its way, and it’s the start of Season 13. Preseason changes will be going live in the mid-November update ahead of January’s full launch, and other balancing changes are also hitting the Rift: here’s the full patch notes.
League of Legends Season 13 is now upon players, and that means the swathe of preseason changes is going live in LoL patch 12.22. With the ranked season coming to a close, now starts the two months of testing various new features and rebalancing the game again.
With plenty of top lane and jungle changes expected, entire parts of the map will function in entirely different ways. However, Riot are also not neglecting smaller changes and things they’ve wanted to test but didn’t fit into the Season 12 schedule.
Find out all there is to know about LoL patch 12.22 below, including the early notes and expected release date.
When is LoL patch 12.22?
League of Legends patch 12.22 is primed to go live onNovember 16, 2022, right on schedule.
The twenty-second major patch of 2022 will start rolling out on Oceanic servers at 10AM AEDT, with a worldwide rollout taking place across the rest of the day.
Here’s the key timings:
There’ll be a few hours of downtime when patching begins, and matchmaking queues will be taken offline about three hours beforehand.
LoL Patch 12.22 Contents
What’s changing in LoL patch 12.22?
Season 13 preseason begins with mega changes
With the Season 12 ranked run ending on LoL patch 12.21, Riot are gearing up forthe big League of Legends Season 13 update. Preseason starts with LoL patch 12.22 as the developers implement the majority of changes for the next year.
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This includes overhauls tothe top laneand jungle— the former getting a facelift to make the role more enticing, while the latter should be easier for new players to pick up. There area number of quality-of-life changescoming to reduce League’s learning curve somewhat too.
New items are on their way, mostly focused on bolstering the tank archetype but Rod of Ages’ return will certainly raise some eyebrows. TheChemtech Dragon is back,jungle pets have been added, and more. Be sure tocheck out our hubfor all the changes before LoL patch 12.22.
Rakan & Lillia reclassified as melee champions
Just because preseason is starting doesn’t mean Riot is neglecting to balance the rest of the game though. The League of Legends developers are starting to ship out changes they didn’t want to near the tail end of Season 12, and it starts with a reclassification of some champions.
Rakan and Lillia, for the sake of item and rune power, have been considered ranged champions. This has made their lives somewhat more difficult as popular items like Relic Shield and Demonic Embrace, for each champion respectively, were weaker despite their short range.
However, that’s changing in LoL patch 12.22 withboth champions now being classified as melee champions. Lillia is receiving a slight defensive nerf, but it is outweighed by the possibilities these buffs open up for her.
Checked in some changes to Rakan and Lillia. They are are now classified as melee on PBE.pic.twitter.com/9HY7GLYFtl
you may find the full patch notes below, complete with some massive changes for both Summoner’s Rift and Howling Abyss. While these changes aren’t quite the scale of something like Season 11’s addition of Mythic items, this pre-season patch is one of the biggest LoL patches to date.
LoL patch 12.22 notes
This patch has sweeping changes for both Summoner’s Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM), so the notes will be separated into two sections, one for each mode.
Summoner’s Rift Changes
Champion Changes
Base stats
Passive: Dream-Laden Bough
Nunu and Willump
Q: Consume
Chemtech Drake
Chemtech Rift Map Changes
Stim Fruits
Blast Cones
Firelight Bloom
Jungle Changes
Jungle Camp Mechanics
Jungle Camp Gold and XP
Blue Sentinel
Red Brambleback
Murk Wolves
Rift Scuttler
Jungle Companions
Companion Attacks
Companion Mana Regeneration
Companion Progression
Jungle companions will evolve twice throughout the game by acquiring treats via the following methods:
Companion Evolutions
First Evolution
Final Evolution
Companion Options
There are three companions to choose from as a jungler. All companions have a protection buff, which allows junglers to take 30% reduced damage from monsters while at least 2 allies are within 1300 units.
Summoner Spell: Smite
Lane Gold and Experience Changes
New and Changed Items
There’s a set of new tank Mythics, alongside the re-introduction of both Rod of Ages and Spear of Shojin, items that have been out of League of Legends for years. You can find these new items in these item changes, but, if you want a full look at their new icons and the designers’ thoughts when creating them, you can find our guide on all of these new itemshere.
Jak’Sho, the Protean
Radiant Virtue
Heartsteel
Iceborn Gauntlet (formerly Frostfire Gauntlet)
Rod of Ages
Catalyst of Aeons
Abyssal Mask
Randuin’s Omen:
Sunfire Aegis
Turbo Chemtank
Aegis of the Legion
Ravenous Hydra
Spear of Shojin
Turret Plating
Communication Tools
A whole new suite of tools that can be used to communicate with teammates has been added. For a list of these tools and how to use them, you can get a full explanationhere.
Howling Abyss (ARAM) Changes
Howling Abyss is getting overhauled, with a new map going live next patch (12.23). For now, though, there are some sweeping balance changes going through to try and balance out the game mode to make it a bit more fun no matter which champion you get stuck with, and to make some historically weak champions a little more viable.
