League of Legends patch 13.20 notes: K’Sante rework, jungle nerfs, Jax update, & more
League of Legends patch 13.20 will bring an entire rework for Shuriman tank K’Sante, as well as further experimental changes as we head towards preseason These include nerfs to runes, jungling, jungle objectives, and some champion balance changes.
Now thatPatch 13.19has been locked in and is live forWorld’s 2023, the League of Legends developers are looking to take swings to shake up the rift once more. Patch 13.20 will bring a hefty amount of changes to the MOBA, including a rework for K’Sante, changes to jungle, and a shift to starter items.
When does LoL Patch 13.20 go live?
League of LegendsPatch 13.20 is expected to go live on11 October 2023, according to Riot’s patch schedule. Patch 13.20 will head to Oceanic servers first, with other servers slowly receiving it throughout the day.
Here are the key timings of Patch 13.20 for your server:
There’ll be a few hours of downtime when patching begins, and matchmaking queues will be taken offline about three hours beforehand.
What’s changing in LoL Patch 13.20?
K’Sante gets “reworked”
KSsante is receiving amajor reworkin Patch 13.20 that aims to keep his fun and identity intact whilst reducing his skew towards professional play. Some nerfs, some buffs, and some major gameplay changes. While none of his basic abilities have been touched as far as core functionality goes, the way they interact with each other and other game mechanics has been drastically changed.
Nerfs to jungle
The jungle role has been incredibly powerful for the longest time in League of Legends, as such Riot is looking to bring the power of the role down by nerfing things that won’t affect it’s fun.
League of Legends Patch 13.20 early notes
Q: Avengerang
E: Heroic Swing
Passive: Death in Lavender
E: Royal Maelstrom
R: Endless Banquet
W: Shield of Durand
Base Stats
Passive: Get Excited!
R: Super Mega Death Rocket
K’Sante’s getting a “rework” this patch, one that doesn’t change any of his base abilities directly but does entirely change the way he uses them. you may read the full change listhere.
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E: Warm Hugs
R: Breath of Life
W: Tormented Shadow
E: Black Shield
R: Soul Shackles
W: Living Shadow
Q: Bouncing Bomb
Blighting Jewel
Youmuu’s Ghostblade
Duskblade of Draktharr
Lord Dominik’s Regards
Doran’s Blade
Doran’s Shield
Doran’s Ring
Relic Shield
Steel Shoulderguards
Spectral Sickle
Spellthief’s Edge
Jungle Nerfs
While not every change to the jungle in this patch is a nerf, thevastmajority are. The role’s power level is getting significantly reduced as a result of these changes.
Jungle Companion Nerfs
Jungle Companion Scaling
Jungle Camp Health Adjusted
The actual formulas behind the changes to camp health are a bit complicated, so here’s an idea of where jungle camps’ health starts and where it’ll end up by level 18. The big takeaway here is that jungle camps will be much harder to kill in late game than before, although some will be a bit weaker in the mid game than before.
Jungle Camp Damage Adjusted
The formula behind this is a bit hard to parse, but just know that the damage jungle camps do has gone down a bit at almost every stage of the game. Here’s the full formula for how damage scales:
100/100/120/120/130/130/140/150/180/180/200/220/230/250/260/280/300/300% of base AD »> 100/100/110/115/120/125/135/145/155/165/180/195/210/225/240/260/280/300% of base AD
Jungle Sustain
Anti-poaching changes
Essentially, jungle is being changed to be much harder to steal for laners and virtually unchanged for junglers.
Lane Minion experience for junglers adjusted
Anti-Snowball Adjustments
Drake’s bonuses have been nerfed across the board in an effort to stop the snowball incurred by dragon stacking, leaving it a bit of a weaker strategy and incentivizing teams to play around topside a bit more often if they want to get the early game snowball rolling.
That said, Drake Souls have had their power slightly increased to give them more potency late. Chemdrake is untouched.
Epic Monster Changes
Base Drake Bonuses
Cloud Drake
Hextech Drake
Infernal Drake
Mountain Drake
Ocean Drake
Dragon Soul
Rift Herald
Baron Nashor
Death Timer Adjustments
Turret Plating
Rune Adjustments
To cap off this massive patch, many of League’s most popular runes are getting hit by the nerf hammer this patch. There are a few buffs to be found, but most of these changes are direct nerfs.
