League of Legends 12.2 Patch Notes: Release Date, Buffs Nerfs, and Balance Changes

League of Legends Patch 12.2 Release Date

League of Legends 12.2 Patch has a confirmed release date of Thursday, January 20, 2022.

League of Legends Patch 12.2 Downtime

Riot Games has yet to confirm maintenance times, but we typically see new game updates released at the following times on the main LoL servers:

  • 3 am PT (NA servers)
  • 5 am GMT (WEU servers)
  • 3 am CET (EEU servers)

League of Legends Patch 12.2 Balance Changes

Champion Changes

12.2 Champion Buffs

  • Yone
  • Veigar
  • Tristana
  • Senna
  • Nocturne
  • Volibear
  • Yasuo

12.2 Champion Nerfs

  • Qiyana
  • Lulu
  • Zed
  • Shen
  • Talon

12. 2 Janna Changes

BUFFS –

  • AD: 46 + 1.5/lvl >>> 52 + 3/lvl\
  • Base Stats Move Speed: 315 >>> 330

Q: Howling Gale

  • Mana Cost: 60-140 >>> 60-100
  • Max Range: 1750 >>> 1760
  • Min Range: 1000 >>> 1100
  • Travel Time: 1.5s >>> 1.25s
  • Riot will be adding an indicator that shows Janna’s team where Q will go (might not work)

NERFS –

  • Passive: Tailwind – Janna gains 8% Move Speed >>> Janna gains 8% Move Speed while moving towards allies
  • Base Stats Attack Range: 550 >>> 500
  • REMOVED: Janna’s attacks and W no longer deal bonus Magic Damage based on her bonus Move Speed

ADJUSTMENTS –

W: Zephyr

  • Range: 550 (Edge to Edge) >>> 650 (center to center)
  • Slow Duration: 2s >>> 3s
  • Cooldown: 8-6s >>> 12s
  • Damage: 55-175 >>> 70-190
  • Passive Move Speed: 6-10% >>> 8-12%

E: Eye of the Storm

  • Cooldown: 16-12 >>>15-9
  • Time before shield decays: .75s >>>1.25s
  • Shield amount: 80-220+.7AP >>> 80-200 (+65 AP)
  • CC’ing an enemy champion with a spell reduces E’s cooldown by 20% >>> >>>Impairing an enemy champion’s movement grants 20% heal and shield power for 5 seconds.

R: Monsoon

  • Healing tick rate: .5 >>>.25
  • Total healing remains the same

12.2 Tahm Kench Changes

Tongue Lash (Q):

  • Slow effect increased to 50% from 40%

Thick Skin (E):

  • Damage dealt to grey health changed to [15/25/35/45/55%,which then increases to 45/50/55/60/65% if there are two or more enemy champions nearby that are visible] from [45/50/55/60/65%]
  • Grey health to health changed from [45-100%, which scales from levels 1-18] from [30-100%, which scales from levels 1-18]

Devour (R):

  • Ally shield has changed to [500/700/900 (+150% AP)] from [400/500/600 (+100% AP)]

12.2 Rengar Changes

Whilst nothing has been confirmed so far, there are some changes to Rengar which have been in the pipe for some time and could be released with 12.2.

Thrill Of The Hunt [Ultimate]

Passive: Rengar will also leap attack when Camouflaged

Active: Rengar gains 60% Move Speed and True Sight of the nearest enemy champion for 20 seconds

Item Changes

Immortal Shieldbow

  • Effects: Passive shield changed to [275-650] to [250-700]

Rune Changes

Lethal Tempo

  • Effects: Attack speed now scales with levels: 10-75% melee; 3-35% ranged

Summoner Spells

  • Nothing to report so far

League of Legends Patch 12.2 New Champion Skins & Splash Art

New skins and splash art available in Patch 12.2 :

  • Crystal Rose Janna – 1350 RP
  • Withered Rose Elise – 1350 RP
  • Crystal Rose Akshan – 1350 RP
  • Firecracker Tristana
  • Firecracker Xin Zhao
  • Firecracker Diana
  • Firecracker Sett
  • Firecracker Teemo
  • Firecracker Yuumi
  • Porcelain Amumu
  • Porcelain Ezreal
  • Porcelain Kindred
  • Porcelain Lissandra
  • Porcelain Lux

League of Legends wiki :

Developer(s) Riot Games
Publisher(s)
  • Riot Games
  • Garena
Director(s) Andrei van Roon
Producer(s) Jeff Jew
Writer(s) Graham McNeill
Platform(s)
  • Microsoft Windows
  • OS X
Release
  • Microsoft Windows
  • October 27, 2009
  • OS X
  • March 1, 2013
Genre(s) MOBA
Mode(s) Multiplayer

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