Legends of Runeterra 3.14 patch notes are finally out in the open. Dropping mere days after the end of the Legends of Runeterra Star Guardian event line, the new Awakened chapter - the first of The Darkin Saga - is set to turn the bright memories of the last few weeks into distant, dark recollections. Here's what we know.
Introducing five new champions, a new card type, a bunch of new/revised keywords and vocabs, and the usual host of new skins and cosmetic flairs through a new event pass, there's a lot to see, and even more to look at ahead of the next patch as well.
For more Legends of Runeterra content, click that little blue link in the first paragraph. For previous patch notes (in case you've fallen behind) we have the LoR 3.12 patch notes and LoR 3.11 patch notes still up.
When is the LoR 3.14 release date?
Currently, the LoR 3.14 release date is set for August 31 at around 11am PT. This is an approximation on Riot's part and generally depends on how server maintenance goes on the day.
LoR 3.14 patch notes
New cards
The gallery of new cards is hosted over at Mobalytics
New Origin
- Kayn, the Shadow Reaper
- You may put any Cultist cards into your deck during deckbuilding. Once you have summoned 3+ different Cultist units, draw a Kayn.
New Card type
- Equipment
- Equip to a unit to grant the listed bonuses. If the unit leaves play, the Equipment will return to your hand. You may play each Equipment at most once per round.
New Vocab/Keyword
- Auto-equip
- Automatically equips this item from hand or play when summoned, creating it first if needed
- Flow
- A card triggers its Flow ability if you played 2+ spells or skills last round.
Flow has already existed as an effect, but we are recategorizing it as new Vocab
- A card triggers its Flow ability if you played 2+ spells or skills last round.
- Improvise
- Choose one of two random options from a depleting pool of equipment and equip it to this ally. If the ally wasn't played from hand, it equips a random Equipment instead.
- Forge
- Grant an ally +1|+1. If the ally is equipped, grant it to their item instead.
Path of Champions
- New Region - Shadow Isles (Yesss)
- New Champions
- Jax
- Kayn
- Ornn
- Master Yi
- Veigar
- Leona
- Diana
- Ashe
4 New Relics
- Galeforce
- Golden Spatula
- Guardian's Orb
- Wriggle's Lantern
- Weekly Adventures
Weekly Adventures
- STARLIGHT PORTAL
- Unlocks: Legend Level 6
- Rewards: 1 Bronze Reliquary + 1,000 legend level points
- Mutators: 1 Beneficial
- SHADOW PORTAL
- Unlocks: Legend Level 10
- Rewards: 1 Silver Vault + 1,000 legend level points
- Mutators: 1 Beneficial + 1 Harmful
- DARK STAR PORTAL
- Unlocks: Legend Level 15
- Rewards: 1 Silver Reliquary + 1,000 legend level points
- Mutators: 1 Beneficial + 1 Harmful + a “Vicious Enemy”
- Rewards for each of the 3 portals can be earned once per week - subsequent completions will reward only champion XP.
- These three adventures will be located in the ocean between Noxus and Ionia
- Weekly Adventures will display in your Journal with a reset timer visible.
Any in-progress adventures will be retired upon the weekly reset
New event: Corrupted
- Lasts until October 5, 10am PT
- Includes free nodes
- Comes with 10 Corrupted Crystals and a Rare Prismatic Chests if purchased before September 14.
New Champion skins
- Corrupted Pantheon
- Corrupted Taric
- Corrupted Diana
- Corrupted Leona
Character skin sneak
- Corrupted Zoe
New Boards
- Darkin Reaper (interactive elements, VFX, and music)
- Kayn's Shadow (interactive elements, VFX, and music)
New Guardians
- Lil' Rhaast (comes with the Premium Event Pass)
- Corrupted Stella
Card backs
- Corrupt Zoe
- Corrupted Pantheon
- Kayn & Rhaast
- Darkin
Dark Divinity bundle
- Corrupted Pantheon skin
- Corrupted Taric skin
- Champion cards for all of the above champions
New deck bundles
"Ally yourself with ancient powers. Kill everyone and everything in your path. Sacrifice friend and foe alike to unleash the strength of the awakened Darkin."
Ranked ladder adjustments
We’re updating Ranked Play to have more satisfying progression. Ladder Point changes for winning and losing have been adjusted at each rank, with the largest changes in the lower leagues: Iron, Bronze, Silver, and Gold.
Card adjustments
Aside from the Void Abomination become a sligthly higher-tier card in terms of cost and strength, the other other card adjustments made this time relate to added some pre-existing ones to the new Flow mechanic.
- Void Abomination
- Cost increased from 8 to 9.
- Base stats changed from 5/4 to 5/5
- Deep Meditation
- Effect changed to: "Flow: Costs Less. Draw 2 other spells"
- Eye of the Dragon
- Effect changed to: "Round Start: Flow: Summon a Dragonling."
Miscellaneous
⦁ The game term New used in the Back Alley Bar and Sputtering Songspinner cards refers to any card that has not been played yet
⦁ Portals exclude anything with a Play effect, including Daybreak, Nightfall, and Plunder. Solitary Monk has also been excluded for balance reasons"
⦁ Equipment cannot be silenced
⦁ Darkin Equipment can be played with spell mana like all Equipment, but the Darkin unit cannot be played using spell mana
Bug Fixes
⦁ Fixed an issue where players could win module two of The Evolution of War Tutorial without Evolving Kai’Sa.
⦁ Fixed an issue where some choice cards were missing their Targeting text.
⦁ Zilean’s Careful Preparation now displays the correct flavor text.
⦁ Fixed other minor text bugs.
⦁ Fixed a bug in which Udyr’s Stance Swap could not be played even when its mana cost was reduced to 0.
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