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LoL Season 16: All Major Changes Explained!
This video details the important changes in League of Legends Season 16, including gameplay adjustments, new items, role quests, and ranking system modifications. The main objective is to make the game more balanced and fun for all roles.
1. ❌ Removals and Initial Adjustments: Objectives and Timing
- ❌ Removal of Feat of Strengths and bot T3 turrets.
- ⏰ Baron Nashor respawns at 20 minutes.
- 💰 First blood and first turret grant bonus gold.
00:00 - 00:30
1. ❌ Removals and Initial Adjustments: Objectives and Timing
- ❌ Removal of Feat of Strengths and bot T3 turrets.
- ⏰ Baron Nashor respawns at 20 minutes.
- 💰 First blood and first turret grant bonus gold.
00:31 - 01:22
2. ⏱️ Timing Adjustments: Minions, Epic Monsters, and Comeback XP
- ⏱️ Minions spawn at 0:30 instead of 1:05.
- 💪 Epic monsters are 15% more resistant.
- 📈 Comeback XP from dragons and Nashor is increased.
01:23 - 02:32
3. 🗺️ New Features on the Map: Faelights, Vision Plants, and Crystalline Overgrowth
- 🔦 Added Faelights for extended vision.
- 🌱 More vision plants, especially when leaving base.
- 🛡️ New mechanic: Crystalline Overgrowth for towers not recently attacked, increasing the damage of the next attack.
The Demolish rune is modified: after hitting a tower three times, you gain additional damage against that tower.
02:33 - 03:17
4. 🧱 Plates on T2 and T3: Rewards for Split Push
- 🧱 Plates are added to T2 and T3 turrets.
- 💰 Allow split pushers to recover some of the gold by damaging the tower, without having to destroy it completely.
- ⏰ These plates are permanent (unlike T1).
03:18 - 04:12
5. 🛷 Poro Sled: Improved Tempo and Mobility
- 🛷 Homeguard buffs persist up to the outer turret.
- 💨 After 14 minutes, the Poro Sled takes players to the most advanced minion in their lane, even under enemy turrets.
- ⚠️ This buff is lost when leaving the lane.
04:13 - 05:41
6. 💥 Modifications to Tower Damage and Wave Spawn Time
- 💥 Towers take 20% more damage from melee, but have more HP.
- 🛡️ T2 no longer gain resistance after 15 minutes.
- ⚔️ T1 no longer gain additional AD in mid and late game.
- ⏰ Wave spawn time is modified: 30 seconds until 14 minutes, 25 seconds until 30 minutes, then 20 seconds.
05:42 - 06:10
7. 🔄 Nexus Towers: Respawn and New Items
- 🔄 Nexus towers respawn with 40% of their HP.
- ✨ Introduction of 11 new items, including the return of the Gunblade and Stormrazor.
06:11 - 10:04
8. ✨ New Items: Overview of Effects and Roles
Here's an overview of the new items and their effects:
| Item | Effect | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Scepter of Bonking | AP Fighter item with a Sheen proc. | AP Fighter |
| Emblem of All-Ining | Ultimate ability haste, attack speed burst, and three guaranteed crit autos after ult. | ADC |
| Blood Sphere | AD omnivamp, tenacity, and ability haste that scales with bonus AD. | AD (Top) |
| Assassin Item | Additional damage against epic monsters or towers after participating in a kill. | Assassin (Mid/Jungle) |
| Mananominicon | Active: Becomes transcendent, doubles mana consumption, but increases spell power and reduces their CD. | AP (Mid) |
| Snowbow | Increases damage based on distance, and gains bonus attack range after a kill. | ADC |
| Buff Engine | Aura that increases attack speed around the wearer after slowing or immobilizing an opponent. | Tank Support |
| Mantle of the Twelth Hour | Gains a huge shield when HP is low, and increases movement speed and tenacity as long as the item heals. | Tank (Top/Jungle) |
| Saviors Manabelle | Heal and shield power based on mana, and permanently heals the closest ally in combat. | Support |
| Stormrazor | AD crit item with an energized attack and a bit of movement speed. | ADC |
| Gunblade | AP AD spell vamp life steal with an active that deals damage and slows. | Mid/Top |
10:05 - 10:44
9. 📜 Role Quests: Introduction and Objectives
- 📜 All five roles receive a quest like those of the jungles and supports.
- 🎯 The quests concern killing minions, champions, taking towers, and neutral objectives.
- 🚀 These actions are more quickly accomplished on one's own lane.
10:45 - 13:14
10. 🏆 Role Quests: Specific Rewards by Role
| Role | Rewards |
|---|---|
| Top | 3rd summoner spell (mandatory teleportation), bonus additional XP, exclusive access to level 19. |
| Jungle | Pet quest and improved smite, more gold and XP for monsters, bonus movement speed in the jungle, smite deals more damage. |
| Mid | Access to tier 3 boots, improved recall of 4 seconds. |
| ADC | Additional gold purse, all sources of gold are increased, 7th item slot. |
| Support | Exclusive ward control slot, reduced ward price, additional passive gold source. |
13:15 - 14:10
11. ⚖️ Changes to the Philad (Filled) Role: Balancing
- ⚖️ Riot will prioritize putting the same filed roles from each team against each other.
- If this is not possible, they will put the same number of filed in each team.
- If this is still not possible, they will put better players with a higher average MMR in the team with the most autofill.
14:11 - 15:34
12. 🛡️ Aegis of Valor: Protection and Double LP
- 🛡️ If you are filed and get a mastery grade of C or higher, you will have total protection in case of defeat and you will not lose any LP.
- 🏆 If you win the game, you earn double LP.
- 🔄 Riot will balance everything to ensure that even without being filed, if you play one of the least popular roles, you occasionally get an Aegis of Valor without being warned.
15:35 - 16:24
13. 🚫 Dodge Penalty: Impact on Players
- 🚫 Dodging is punished by a loss of MMR.
- If you dodge because you are filed, you will keep your filed position for the next game.
- For master plus lobbies, a dodge counts as a total loss.
16:25 - 16:44
14. 🔒 Hostage Taking and Hover: Measures Against Toxic Behaviors
- 🔒 They are working to completely remove and punish hostage taking in lobbies.
- 🚫 No one will be able to ban if you have pre-locked it.
- ⏱️ Select champions will be 30 seconds faster.
16:45 - 17:44
15. 📈 Climb Indicator: Display of MMR/Rank Adequacy
- 📈 A climb indicator will appear when your LP rank is not in line with your hidden MMR.
- Example: An icon will indicate if a platinum player has a silver MMR or vice versa.
17:45 - 18:35
16. 🤝 SoloQ/Flex MMR and DuoQ: Adjustments for Fairness
- 🤝 Flex and solo MMR will be much more shared.
- Your solo queue rank will be much more prioritized when it comes to matchmaking at the flex queue level.
- Riot reactivates the possibility of duo queue for challengers and grand masters.