League of Legends LOL patch 26.21 notes including champion buffs, nerfs, item changes, bug fixes.
League of Legends Patch 26.21 Notes
Released: October 21, 2026
Champion buffs, nerfs and adjustments
Azir
Base Stats
- Mana growth increased from 40 per level to 50 per level.
Darius
[Q] Decimate
- Cooldown reduced from 9-5 seconds to 9-4 seconds.
Miss Fortune
[E] Make It Rain
- Damage increased from 70-190 (+120% AP) to 90-210 (+120% AP).
[R] Bullet Time
- Critical strike damage increased from 130% (+3% per 1% bonus critical strike damage) to 145% (+4.5% per 1% bonus critical strike damage).
Nunu and Willump
[R] Absolute Zero
- Maximum damage increased from 625/925/1275 (+300% AP) to 750/1100/1450 (+300% AP).
Orianna
[Q] Command: Attack
- AP ratio increased from 55% to 60%.
[W] Command: Dissonance
- AP ratio increased from 80% to 85%.
Ryze
[Q] Overload
- Flux bonus changed from 15/40/65/90% to 10/40/70/100%.
- Bonus movement speed increased from 28/32/36/40/44% to 30/35/40/45/50%.
[W] Rune Prison
- AP ratio increased from 60% to 70%.
Sion
Base Stats
- Health growth increased from 87 per level to 95 per level.
[R] Unstoppable Onslaught
- Percentage damage increase over a three-second channel increased from +0 to 166.67% base, with a 0-100% ratio, to +0 to 200% base, with a 0-100% ratio.
Taliyah
[E] Unraveled Earth
- Damage increased from 60-240 (+60% AP) to 70-250 (+70% AP).
- Detonation damage increased from 25-85 (+30% AP) to 30-90 (+30% AP).
Vel’Koz
[Passive] Organic Deconstruction
- Damage increased from 35-180 (+60% AP) to 35-205 (+65% AP).
Xin Zhao
[Q] Three Talon Strike
- Damage per strike increased from 15-75 (+40% bonus AD) to 15-75 (+45% bonus AD).
[E] Audacious Charge
- Attack speed scaling increased from 1% per 5% bonus attack speed to 1% per 4% bonus attack speed.
Zyra
[W] Rampant Growth
- Seed ammo cooldown reduced from 18-10 seconds to 16-10 seconds.
Caitlyn
[Passive] Headshot
- Headshot damage reduced from 60-100% AD (+1% AD per 1% critical strike chance) (+1% AD per 1% bonus critical strike damage) to 60-80% AD (+0.8% AD per 1% critical strike chance) (+0.8% AD per 1% bonus critical strike damage).
[Q] Piltover Peacemaker
- Base damage increased from 50-210 to 50-230.
Jinx
Base Stats
- Attack damage growth reduced from 3.25 to 3 per level.
- Base health reduced from 630 to 610.
Lee Sin
[W] Safeguard
- Cooldown increased from 7 seconds to 8 seconds.
[E] Tempest
- Bug fix: Tempest no longer reveals invisible enemies if they stealth after being hit by the ability.
[R] Dragon’s Rage
- Kick damage reduced from 175-625 (+200% bonus AD) to 150-550 (+200% bonus AD).
- Collision damage reduced from 175-625 (+200% bonus AD) (+12-18% of the kicked champion’s health) to 150-550 (+200% bonus AD).
Nidalee
[W] Pounce
- Cougar-form damage reduced from 55-190 (+50% bonus AD) (+30% AP) to 50-170 (+50% bonus AD) (+30% AP).
[E] Primal Surge
- Human-form attack speed reduced from 30-70% to 20-60%.
Qiyana
- [Q] Edge of Ixtal
- Damage reduced from 80-200 (+90% bonus AD) to 70-190 (+90% bonus AD).
Rammus
[W] Defensive Ball Curl
- Bonus armor reduced from 27-47 (+30-60% armor) to 25-45 (+30-50% armor).
- Bonus magic resistance reduced from 20-40 (+30-60% magic resistance) to 20-40 (+30-50% magic resistance).
Tristana
[Q] Rapid Fire
- Attack speed reduced from 60-120% to 40-120%.
Viktor
[Q] Siphon Power
- Shield reduced from 40-140 (+25% AP) to 30-130 (+20% AP).
Base Stats
- Movement speed reduced from 335 to 330.
Wukong
Base Stats
- Health regeneration increased from 3.5 + 0.65 per level to 5.5 + 0.65 per level.
[Passive] Stone Skin
- Armor per stack reduced from 6-10 to 4.5-10.
Yone
[Q] Mortal Steel
- Damage reduced from 25-125 (+110% AD) to 25-125 (+105% AD).
Locke
[Q] Ritual Nails
- Refund on unused charges changed from 20-35% to 10-40%.
- Mana growth reduced from 70 to 60.
[W] Soul Ignition
- Mana cost increased from 50-70 to 60-80.
- Grey Health Store values adjusted. The preview lists the store’s health values changing from 150-450 to 100-500 (+60% AP).
[E] Ashen Pursuit
- Blink damage increased from 40/50/60/70/80 (+40% AP) to 40/55/70/85/100 (+50% AP).
Varus
[Q] Piercing Arrow
- Minimum-to-maximum damage changed from 53.33-240 (+80% bonus AD) to 80-360 (+120% bonus AD).
- Damage increase over channel increased from up to 50% to up to 70%.
- Additional damage range changed from 55-235 (+80% bonus AD) to 93.5-399.5 (+136% bonus AD).
[W] Blighted Quiver
- On-hit damage changed from 4-40 (+15% bonus AD) (+25% AP) to 4-28 (+20% bonus AD) (+30% AP).
- Damage per stack changed from 3-5% (+1.3% per 100 AP) to 3-4.6% (+1.4% per 100 AP).
- Cooldown refund changed from 13% per stack, increased by up to 50% based on Q channel, to 11% per stack, increased by up to 70% based on Q channel.
- Active percentage missing health damage changed from 6-14%, increased by up to 50% based on Q channel, to 6-10%, increased by up to 70% based on Q channel.
Taric
[Q] Starlight’s Touch
- Casts targeting untargetable allies now successfully fire.
[R] Cosmic Radiance
- Casts involving untargetable allies now successfully fire.
Twisted Fate
[R] Destiny
Now reveals untargetable units.
Zaahen
[Q] The Darkin Glaive
- Bug fix: Q1 and Q2 damage now applies if Zaahen enters revive mid-strike.
Bugfixes
- Fixed an issue where Zaahen (Q) would fail to complete if he does into Revive mid attack.
- Fixed a bug where Summoner Teleport’s channel VFX was visible for enemies when cast in brush.
- Fixed a bug where Titanic Hydra’s cooldown timer would not be displayed after use.
- Fixed a bug where Zoe can get a 1000 damage smite from a minion drop earlier than expected.
- Fixed a bug where Hail of Blades does not trigger on auto resets if the first attack was cancelled.
- Fixed a bug where Nidalee’s (Q) spear damage could go through spell shields at max range.
- Updated SFX to use the base skin’s ult SFX for Briar, Kled, and Sion when playing against them to improve clarity.