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2026 Season League of Legends Major Changes Summary: Minions, Turrets, Ranked, Items
The 2026 season of League of Legends (LoL) introduces various changes to mark the Demacia season, aiming to increase the flexibility of champion selection, update the game system, and improve user convenience. Major contents include Atakan deletion, turret rework, minion spawn cycle change, jungle overhaul, introduction of position-specific quests, and rank system improvement.
1. 🚀 2026 Demacia Season Begins: Flexible Gameplay and System Updates
- ✅ The 2026 season aims for a more flexible in-game structure and system updates to solidify the basics.
- ✅ Provides various options such as split push strategies in addition to objective-focused team fights.
- ✅ Boldly applies the parts that users wanted.
00:00 - 00:47
1. 🚀 2026 Demacia Season Begins: Flexible Gameplay and System Updates
- ✅ The 2026 season aims for a more flexible in-game structure and system updates to solidify the basics.
- ✅ Provides various options such as split push strategies in addition to objective-focused team fights.
- ✅ Boldly applies the parts that users wanted.
00:48 - 01:07
2. ❌ Atakan Deletion and Speech Time Rollback
- ❌ Atakan, which appeared in the 2025 season, will be deleted.
- ❌ Damage Rose and Brute Force systems will also be deleted.
- ⏰ Speech creation time is rolled back to 20 minutes.
01:08 - 01:47
3. 🛡️ Turret System Renewal: Crystal Overgrowth and Turret Shield Addition
- 🛡️ A crystal overgrowth system is added to the turret, which explodes energy and deals damage when attacked.
- 🛡️ The first turret shield does not disappear even after 14 minutes, and shields are added to the second/third turrets.
- 💰 Gold is distributed when the turret shield is destroyed.
- The possibility of strategic split push utilization is increased.
- 🛡️ The twin turrets in front of the Nexus are regenerated with 40% health after being destroyed.
01:48 - 02:26
4. ⏰ Minion Spawn Cycle Change and Jungle Monster Spawn Time Adjustment
- ⏰ Minions are generated 30 seconds after the start of the game.
- ⏰ Waves are generated every 25 seconds after 14 minutes, and every second after 30 minutes.
- 📉 The number of minions per wave decreases.
- ⏰ Jungle monster spawn time is advanced by 35 seconds.
02:27 - 02:56
5. 🌿 Jungle Major Overhaul: Camp Clear Speed Decrease and Smite Enhancement
- 🌿 Jungle camp clear speed decreases, and the clear speed of the second camp is delayed for some champions.
- 💥 Junglers' Smite is greatly enhanced.
- 💪 All epic monster health is increased by about 15%.
02:57 - 03:27
6. 🎯 Introduction of Position-Specific Quests and Reward Information
- 🎯 Quests for each position, Top, Jungle, Mid, ADC, and Support, are added.
| Position | Reward |
|---|---|
| Top | Teleport, experience boost, level cap increase |
| Jungle | Smite enhancement, jungle camp experience and gold increase |
| Mid | Enhanced recall, Tier 3 shoe upgrade |
| ADC | Additional gold, 7th item slot creation |
| Support | Support item selection, Sightstone grant |
- ⚠️ Quest rewards are expected to have a significant impact on the game during the first 15 minutes.
03:28 - 03:55
7. 🏃 Militia Rework: Effect Maintained and Application Scope Expanded
- 🏃 The Militia effect is maintained even when leaving the base, and is applied up to the first turret in the early stages.
- 🏃 In the mid-to-late game, the Militia effect is applied to minion waves.
- 🛑 The Militia enhancement effect ends when entering the jungle or encountering an enemy champion.
03:56 - 04:26
8. 👁️🗨️ Vision Changes: Addition of Fairy Light and Trinket Upgrade
- ✨ Fairy Light is added as a new feature, providing enhanced ward detection and vision effects.
- 👁️🗨️ Trinkets are upgraded, such as reducing the cooldown of transparent wards and increasing the duration of the Oracle Lens detection.
- 🔮 New Crystalbloom spawn areas are added and spawn frequency is increased.
04:27 - 04:52
9. ⚔️ New Item Addition Notice
- ⚔️ Various new items are planned to be added, such as increasing ADC range, granting AD warrior vamp and tenacity, granting AP warrior on-hit effects, assassin support mage active mana cost total attack all-in ultimate related items.
04:53 - 06:39
10. 🏆 Rank System Major Overhaul: Shield of Valor, Champion Ban, Matching Time, MMR
- 🛡️ Shield of Valor: When playing in a position other than your main position, if you achieve C proficiency, you will earn double the LP for a win and prevent LP loss for a loss.
- 🚫 Friendly Champion Ban Impossible: Changed so that you cannot ban a champion that your ally will play.
- ⏱️ Matching Time Reduction: Shortened champion selection and loading stages.
- 📉 Dodge Penalty Above Master Tier: Additional MMR decrease.
- ⚖️ Skill-Based Ranked Game Criteria: Detailed analysis of lower MMR and queue matching.
- 🤝 Related to Korean Server Duo: Plans to approach carefully after understanding user reactions.