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Patch 26.1 Notes

ARAM Sam

07 Jan 2026 — 2 min read

Official Patch Notes: https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/game-updates/patch-26-1-notes

Fresh Spawns – New Additions

New Damacia battlepass with Petricite themed skins and prestige Morgana skin.

Epic Spawns – Big Changes

New role quests have been added - these are goals you work toward during a match (like support and jungle items) but they're for all roles and have unique rewards. Atakhan, his blood roses, and the feats of strength are all gone, jungle and other epic monsters have been tweaked to compensate. New special vison areas called Faelights have been added, place a ward within to grant it sight of a large area. Turrets now have a purple crystal that will grow on them to be broken for additional true damage and all turrets have plating besides nexus ones. Homeguard now works to your furthest alive tower without a cooldown but will disappear in combat. Everything spawns in faster, minions a whole 35 seconds sooner and they spawn more frequently as the game gets to 14, then 30 minuites. Loads more minor changes, welcome to the new season.

Main Champion Changes

Buffed champions this patch are Elise and Jax
Nerfed champions this patch are largely to compensate for crit damage increase, Aphelios, Caitlyn, Tristana, Nilah, Jinx, Jhin, Sivir, Zeri, Lucian, Xayah, Draven, Yunara, Akshan, Gangplank, Yone, Yasuo, Miss Fortune, Tryndamere, Twitch, Ashe, Smolder, Kindred, Corki, Shaco, Graves, Quinn, Senna, Garen, Rengar, and Veigo.
Adjusted champions this patch are Cassiopeia and Samira

System & Item Changes

Critical strike damage is going back to 200% base. Omnivamp now applies at 100% against minions, only 33% with pet, DoT, or AoE damage. Also, you can now build multiple tear items again after finishing one.
LOTS of New Items added this patch...
Dusk and Dawn: AP, HP, ability haste, and attack speed, spellblade effect that triggers onhit twice.
Fiendhunter Bolts: attack speed, crit chance, move speed, ultimate haste, after ulting next 3 autos are faster and do more damage.
Endless Hunger: AD, tenacity, omnivamp, gain ability haste for bonus AD and gain omnivamp on takedown.
Bastionbreaker: AD, lethality, ability haste, ability damage does true damage scaling with lethality and getting a takedown grants and ability to deal even more true damage to a turret or epic monster.
Actualizer: AP, mana, ability haste, activate to double your mana cost but increase your damage, healing, shielding, and basic cooldowns are 30% faster.
Hexoptics C44: AD, crit chance, deal increased auto damage based on distance from target, gain attack range on takedown.
Bandlepipes: HP, armor, MR, ability haste, slowing or immobilizing grants you movespeed and you and nearby allies attack speed.
Protoplasm Harness: HP, ability haste, falling below 30% HP will grant you HP, healing, size, movespeed and tenacity.
Whispering Criclet/Diadem of Songs: Hp, mana, mana regen, heal and shield power, gain heal and shield power for bonus mana, tear item will evolve into Diadem of Songs to then heal a nearby ally for each second in combat based on bonus mana.
Returning items are Hextech Gunblade, and Stormrazer.
Updated items are Unending Despair, Horizon Focus, Sundered Sky, Echoes of Helia, Essence Reaver, Umbral Glaive, Redemption, Zeke's Convergence, tear items, Mortal Reminder, Lord Dominik's Regards, Yun Tal Wildarrows, and Infinity Edge.
Luden's has returned to being Luden's Echo and is a rod again