LoL 12.20 Patch Notes: Aatrox, Maokai Nerfs and Gwen Buffs

LoL patch 12.20 notes have been published. Alongside major top lane meta changes, the patch also puts the spotlight on some item changes ahead of the new releases. The long-awaited Bewitching skins have also arrived with this patch. Let's take a detailed look at the patch notes:

LoL 12.20 Patch Notes

Champions

Aatrox

Passive

• Healing: 100% of post-mitigation damage ⇒ 80% of post-mitigation damage

Akshan

E: Heroic Swing

• Swing Duration: 3 seconds ⇒ infinite
• Fixed some bugs that caused Akshan to spin in place when using his E in certain locations.

Blitzcrank

Base Stats

• Attack damage: 62 ⇒ 60
• Attack speed: 0.65 ⇒ 0.625

Passive

• Shield Amount: 30% of maximum mana ⇒ 15-45% of maximum mana (at levels 1-18)

W: Overdrive

• Damage to monsters: 60-180 (at levels 1-18) ⇒ 60-220 (at levels 1-18)
  • No longer scales linearly; instead scales as follows: 60/80/100/120/140/160/165/170/175/180/185/190/195/200/205/210/215/220

E: Power Fist

• Empowered Auto Attack Damage against champions: Total AD (+25% AP) ⇒ Total AD (+25% AP) 175%
• Blitzcrank now has a chance to overheal when overkilling monsters

Elise

Q: Neurotoxin / Venomous Bite

• Human form cast range: 625 ⇒ 575
• Human form hitbox: From Elise's edge to the center of the target's hitbox ⇒ From Elise's center to the edge of the target's hitbox

Evelynn

Q: Hate Spike

• Bonus magic damage to marked targets: 10/20/30/40/50 (+25 AP) ⇒ 15/25/35/45/55 (+25 AP)

W: Allure

• Charm duration: 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2 seconds ⇒ 1.25/1.5/1.75/2/2.25 seconds

Gwen

Q: Snip Snip!

• Damage per snip: 10/14/18/22/26 (+5% AP) ⇒ 10/15/20/25/30 (+5% AP)
• Final snip damage: 60/80/100/120/140 (+35% AP) ⇒ 60/85/110/135/160 (+35% AP)

Jayce

W: Lightning Field / Hyper Charge

• Melee mana restore: 6/8/10/12/14/16 ⇒ 10/12/14/16/18/20

R: Mercury Cannon / Mercury Hammer

• Melee bonus armor and magic resist: 5/15/25/35 ⇒ 5/15/25/35 (+7.5% bonus AD)

Kennen

E: Lightning Rush

• After finishing his E, Kennen's bonus attack speed buff will now be allowed to exceed the 2.5x attack speed cap.

Maokai

Passive:

• Healing: 4.5-12% of maximum health ⇒ 4-10% of maximum health

R: Nature’s Grasp

• Cooldown: 120/100/80 seconds ⇒ 120/110/100 seconds

Rammus

W: Defensive Ball Curl

• Removed self-slow

R: Soaring Slam

• Dash speed: 105% of movement speed ⇒ 110% of movement speed

Sett

Base Stats

• Magic resist: 32 ⇒ 28

Passive:

• Health regen per 5% of Grit health: 0.25/0.5/1/2 ⇒ 0.15/0.5/1/2
• Right hand AD ratio: 50% bonus AD ⇒ 55% bonus AD

Wukong

R: Cyclone

• Physical damage per hit: 8/12/16% of target's maximum health (+220% AD) ⇒ 8/12/16% of target's maximum health (+275% AD)

Ziggs

Q: Bouncing Bomb

• Damage: 85/135/185/235/285 (+65% AP) ⇒ 95/145/195/245/295 (+65% AP)

Items

Demonic Embrace

• Health: 450 ⇒ 350
• Ability power: 60 ⇒ 75
• Ranged burn damage per tick: 1% of maximum health ⇒ 0.8% of maximum health

Frozen Heart

• Cost: 2500 gold ⇒ 2700 gold
  • Combine cost: 600 ⇒ 800
• Armor: 80 ⇒ 90
• Rock Solid base reduction: 7 (+3.5 per 1000 health) ⇒ 5 (+3.5 per 1000 health)

Mortal Reminder

• Cost: 2500 gold ⇒ 2600 gold
• Attack damage: 25 ⇒ 35
• Attack speed: 25% ⇒ 20%

Sterak’s Gage

• Bonus attack damage: 45% base AD ⇒ 50% base AD
• Shield amount: 75% of bonus health, decaying over 3.75 seconds ⇒ 80% of bonus health, decaying over 4.5 seconds

Runes

Lethal Tempo

• Bonus auto attack range: 50 for melee champions, 75 for ranged champions ⇒ 50 for melee and ranged champions

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused HP bar visual issues on champions like Kled or Galio to only show the upper half of bonus/shielded health.
• Fixed a bug that caused Gragas's ultimate's airborne effect to last shorter than intended.
• Fixed a problematic interaction between Fiora's W and Darius's Passive that caused the bleed to deal 1 true damage at the end of Fiora's W duration, even though it was properly parried.
• Fixed a bug that caused Syndra's E to deal damage to Gwen while she was inside her W.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Syndra from gaining Splinters of Wrath when receiving minion credit from an ally's support item.
• Fixed a bug that caused Viego's empowered auto attacks to be audible through Fog of War.
• Fixed a bug that prevented players from getting the "Wave Goodbye" challenge after killing 20 minions within 3 seconds.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the "Jukes" challenge from progressing when quickly dodging 5 skill shots.
• Fixed a bug that caused the "Disrespect" challenge to behave incorrectly when players used champions with clone abilities.
• Fixed a bug that caused Rekindled Eternals' personal best to appear locked when hovered over.
• Fixed a bug that caused Mythic item borders to appear on other items if the items were moved around within a player's inventory.
• Fixed a bug that caused clicking the "X" button while the shop search was open to close only the search function instead of the whole shop interface.
• Updated the Challenges token menu to correctly sort by rarity under the Identity Customization menu when using filters.