A new League of Legends season means new items! For this year 2020, no less than four objects join the Summoner's Rift: two for the support champions, and two focused on lethality. On the other hand, it is necessary to say goodbye to three major items, including the Zz'Rot, which was the delight of splitpush toplaners.
Removed Items
- Spear of Shojin
- Ohmwrecker
- Zz'Rot Portal
- Raptor Cloak
- Ancient Coin
- Nomad's Medallion
- Remnant of the Ascended
- Brawler's Gloves
New items
• Cost: 3000 gold
• Recipe: Serrated Dirk + Vampiric Scepter + 1000 godl
• +50 AD
• +15% Lifesteal
• +10 Lethality
• Unique Passive — Blood Pursuit: While near one or fewer visible enemy champions gain 8 lethality and 40-100% attack speed (lvl 1-18), decaying over 3 seconds if other enemy champions get too close.
• Cost: 2400 gold
• Recipe: Serrated Dirk + Long Sword + Long Sword + 600 gold
• +50 AD
• +10% CDR
• +10 Lethality
• Unique passive — Black-out: When spotted by an enemy ward, reveal traps and disable wards around you for 8 seconds (45 second cooldown). During this time, basic attacks instantly kill disabled traps and deal triple damage to wards.
Starting items
• Unique passive changed: "UNIQUE Passive: Regenerate up to 40 health over 8 seconds after taking basic attack or single target spell damage from an enemy champion, based on percent missing health. (66% effective for ranged users or when triggered by AoE, DoT, or proc effects)"
Support Items
Tiers
- Support items still have three tiers, but now upgrade automatically for free as you complete their quests
- TIER 1: 400 gold starting item. Earn gold with Tribute or Spoils of War to upgrade.
- TIER 2: Increased stats and 3 ward charges. Earn gold with Tribute or Spoils of War to upgrade.
- TIER 3: Significantly increased stats and 4 total ward charges. Tribute or Spoils of War go away.
- Cumulative cost: 1800 gold ⇒ 400 gold
Anti-Poaching
- Farming more than 20 CS per 5 minutes (3 out of 10 waves) reduces gold from minions by 50%. The penalty increases with further CS to a max of 80% reduction at 50 minions.
- Once the penalty kicks in, your CS gold is reduced to (70 - CS within 5 minutes)%
Spellthief's Edge Line
• 400g
• +8 Ability Power
• +10 Health
• +2 Gold per 10 seconds
• Unique Passive — Tribute: Damaging spells and attacks against champions or buildings grant 15 gold. This can occur up to 3 times every 30 seconds.
• Quest: Earning 500 total gold through Tribute upgrades this item to Frostfang.
• AP: 20 → 15
• Health: +70
• Removed: +50% mana regen
• Removed: 10% cooldown reduction
• +2 gold per 10 seconds → +3
• Unique Passive: Tribute — Damaging spells and attacks against champions or buildings grant 15 gold. This can occur up to 3 times every 30 seconds.
• Unique Active: Warding — Place a Stealth Ward. Holds up to 3 charges which refill upon visiting the shop.
• Quest: Earning 1000 total gold through Tribute upgrades this item to Shard of True Ice.
• Replaces Remnant of the Watchers
• AP: 35 → 60
• Health: +200 → +150
• Gold per 10: 2 → 3
• Removed: +50% mana regen
• Removed: 10% cooldown reduction
• Unique Active: Warding — Place a Stealth Ward. Holds up to 4 charges which refill upon visiting the shop.
Spectral Sickle Line
• Cost: 400g
• +5 Attack Damage
• +10 Health
• +2 Gold per 10 seconds
• Unique Passive — Tribute: Damaging spells and attacks against champions or buildings grant 15 gold. This can occur up to 3 times every 30 seconds.
• Quest: Earning 500 total gold through Tribute upgrades this item to Harrowing Crescent.
• AD: +10
• Health: +70
• Gold per 10: 3
• Unique Passive — Tribute: Damaging spells and attacks against champions or buildings grant 15 gold. This can occur up to 3 times every 30 seconds.
• Unique Active — Warding: Place a Stealth Ward. Holds up to 3 charges which refill upon visiting the shop.
• Quest: Earning 1000 total gold through Tribute upgrades this item to Black Mist Scythe.
• AD: +35
• Health: +150
• Gold per 10: 3
• Unique Active — Warding: Place a Stealth Ward. Holds up to 4 charges which refill upon visiting the shop.
Relic Shield Line
• Cost: 400 gold
• +30 Health
• +5 Ability Power
• Gold per 10: 1 → 2
• Unique Passive — Spoils of War: While nearby an ally, basic attacks execute minions below 50% of their max Health (30% for ranged) and grant your ally kill gold. (These effects recharge every 45 seconds. Max 3 charges.)
• Quest: Earning 500 total gold through Spoils of War upgrades this item to Targon's Buckler.
• Replaces Targon's Brace
• Health: +125
• AP: +10
• Removed: 50% health regen
• Gold per 10: 1 → 3
• Unique Passive — Spoils of War: While nearby an ally, basic attacks execute minions below 50% of their max Health (30% for ranged) and grant your ally kill gold. (These effects recharge every 45 seconds. Max 3 charges.)
• Unique Passive — Warding: Place a Stealth Ward. Holds up to 3 charges which refill upon visiting the shop.
• Quest: Earning 1000 total gold through Spoils of War upgrades this item to Bulwark of the Mountain
• Replaces Remnant of the Aspect
• Health: 350 → 300
• AP: +40
• Removed: 10% CDR
• Removed: +200% health regen
• Gold per 10: 1 → 3
• Unique Passive — Warding: Place a Stealth Ward. Holds up to 4 charges which refill upon visiting the shop.
Steel Shoulderguards Line
• Cost: 400 gold
• Health: +30
• AD: +3
• Gold per 10: 2
• Unique Passive — Spoils of War: While nearby an ally, basic attacks execute minions below 50% of their max Health (30% for ranged) and grant your ally kill gold. (These effects recharge every 45 seconds. Max 3 charges.)
• Quest: Earning 500 total gold through Spoils of War upgrades this item to Runesteel Spaulders
• Health: +100
• AD: +6
• Gold per 10: 3
• Unique Passive — Spoils of War: While nearby an ally, basic attacks execute minions below 50% of their max Health (30% for ranged) and grant your ally kill gold. (These effects recharge every 45 seconds. Max 3 charges.)
• Unique Passive — Warding: Place a Stealth Ward. Holds up to 3 charges which refill upon visiting the shop.
• Quest: Earning 1000 total gold through Spoils of War upgrades this item to Pauldrons of Whiterock
• Health: +300
• AD: +24
• Gold per 10: 3
• Unique Passive — Warding: Place a Stealth Ward. Holds up to 4 charges which refill upon visiting the shop.
Lethality items
• Removed Headhunter passive
• AD: +55
• Lethality: +18 (unique)
• +10 CDR
• Movement Speed: +40 out of combat (unique)
• Active: Gain +20% movement speed for 6 seconds (45s cooldown)
• New: Youmuu's' active now allows its user to ignore unit collision for the duration
• AD increased: 55 → 60
• Lethality: +21
• CDR: 10%
• Removed: Unique Passive — Blackout
• New: Unique Passive — Nighstalker: After being unseen for 1 second, your next basic attack against an enemy champion within 5 seconds of being seen by an enemy champion deals 30-150 (lvl 1-18) bonus on-hit physical damage. Melee attacks slow the target by 99% for 0.5 seconds after a 0.25 second delay. (unchanged)
• Cost: 3000 gold → 2900 gold
• AD: 55 → 50
• Lethality: 18 → 10
• Health: 250 → 325
• Removed: Unique Active — Night's Veil
• New: Unique Passive — Spell Shield: Grants a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability. This shield refreshes after no damage is taken from enemy champions for 40 seconds.
Crit & Energized items
- Damage from Energized effects now stacks, rather than choosing the highest-damage source
- Energized charges from moving increased by 20%; charges from attacking reduced by 50%
- Energized effects now always work on turrets
• Crit. Chance increased: 20% → 25%
• Increased cost: 600 → 700
• Energized damage: 50 → 80
• Increased cost: 1200 → 1400
• Recipe changed: Agility Cloak + Dagger + 300 gold
• Attack Speed reduced: 15% → 12%
• Crit. Chance increased: 15% → 25%
• Energized damage changed: 60-140 → 120
• No longer causes Energized effects to work on turrets. Because that's baseline Energized functionality now.
• No longer increases Energized charge rates
• Energized damage changed: 60-140 → 120
• Shiv Lightning bounces: 5 → 7
• Shiv Lightning can no longer critically strike
• Cost increased: 3100 → 3200 gold
• Recipe: BF Sword + Cloak of Agility + Kircheis Shard + 400 gold
• AD reduced: 60 → 50
• New: +25% crit. chance
• Attack Speed: 30% → 15%
• Energized Damage: 50 → 120
• Energized Slow: 40% decaying over 1.5 seconds ⇒ 75% for 0.5 seconds, non-decaying
• No longer amplifies other Energized effects by 35%
Other items
• Cost: 2250 → 2050 gold
• Recipe: [Forbidden Idol + Crystalline Bracer + 600g]
• +300 Health
• +10% CDR
• +100% Health Regen
• +100% Mana Regen
• +10% Heal and Shield Power
• Removed: +40 AP
• Removed: +5% Movement Speed
• Unique Active: Grants you and allies within 700 ⇒ 1000 range 40% bonus movement speed for 3 seconds (90 second cooldown)
Following the end of League of Legends Season 9, a legion of changes is going to be implemented into our favorite MOBA. Item changes, rune changes, and above all a transformed Summoner's Rift — everything you need to know about the changes brought by the preseason patch is in this article!
