LoL Patch 26.14: Every Champion Change Before Season 2 Ends

Patch 26.14 is the last stop before the season flips. Ranked Season 2 closes on July 28, Season 3 and League Classic arrive on the 29th, and this patch is what you climb on until then.

The full patch notes are not a huge list, but a few of the changes are load-bearing. Riot pulls Garen, Jayce and Senna down, reworks Azir’s rune and item interactions instead of his raw numbers, and quietly makes Blue Buff worth fighting over again. Those are the ones that change how you play this week.

The Big LoL Patch 26.14 Nerfs

Three names matter most, because all three have been oppressive across every rank.

Garen loses a chunk of his ultimate. Demacian Justice drops from 150/250/350 true damage to 125/200/275, though the missing-health scaling stays. He is still an execute, just a less forgiving one.

Jayce is the one people will argue about. He has been the most-picked top laner in high elo, building like an assassin while surviving like a fighter, which should not be allowed to work as well as it does. Riot went after both halves. His passive move speed falls from 40 to 30, and Riot cuts his Mercury Hammer armour and magic resist scaling hard at later ranks. The blind-pick comfort should go with it.

Senna gets hit again after last patch’s nerfs. Her crit damage modifier drops from 85% to 80%, and her Q ratios for slow and healing both come down. Riot aims this at bot-lane Senna rushing Shiv for AP, not the support build.

Seraphine rounds out the group. Her High Note ability power ratio falls from 50% to 40%. Riot says the Q hitbox stays as-is, so she is being balanced around this state going forward.

The LoL Patch 26.14 Buffs Worth Knowing

Azir is the clever one. Instead of number buffs, Riot fixed how his soldiers carry on-hit effects. Scorch, Liandry’s, Blackfire Torch and Hextech Alternator now deal full damage on-hit instead of half. Conqueror stacks twice per hit. His ult now knocks back jungle monsters. It is a targeted attempt to make him worth picking without making him a lane bully.

The rest are cleaner. Mordekaiser gets more E damage and a bigger ultimate stat steal after the Riftmaker bugfix gutted him. Nami’s E climbs from 60 to 80 damage at max rank. Corki gets attack damage growth and faster rocket recharge to help his late game. Yunara gets an attack damage growth bump for scaling.

Locke Gets His First Real Tuning

Locke’s launch went smoothly, so Riot is opening up counterplay now that players have him figured out. His Q recast hold window drops from 5 seconds to 4, and his nail and mark damage come down at higher ranks. Riot also trims his W grey-health cap because, in their words, he is not an enchanter. Nothing drastic, just less constant pressure.

Blue Buff Got Better, and Nobody’s Talking About It

The sleeper change is a system tweak. Blue Buff’s ability haste now scales with level: 10 at level 1, 15 at level 6, 20 at level 11. Before, it was a flat 10.

With mana mattering less in the jungle over the years, Riot wants a real reason to prioritise Blue again. Expect junglers and mid laners to fight over it harder in the mid game than they have in a while.

Items: Rocketbelt, Protoplasm and Immortal Path

Three item adjustments, all aimed at things that got out of hand. Hextech Rocketbelt gets a new build path and a longer active cooldown. Riot wants it less appealing on immobile mages who treated it like the old Galeforce. Protoplasm Harness costs more and loses early single-item spike power. Riot trims Immortal Path’s damage and healing bonuses after it posted a higher win rate than its niche should allow.

Season 2 Ends July 28

Mark the date. Ranked Solo and Flex close at 23:59 local time on July 28, the last day of 26.14. A few hours later the game rolls into Patch 26.15, and Season 3 begins at noon local time on July 29.

Both queues close during the downtime, and shard transfers pause so rewards calculate cleanly. Your LP and rank carry over as expected, but the Victorious Ranked mission for 15 ranked wins resets with the new season. If you are chasing Victorious Rengar, get those games in before the cutoff.

Everything Else in Patch 26.14

A few things worth a line each: T1’s 2025 Worlds Winner skins arrive July 15, headlined by MVP T1 Miss Fortune, celebrating League’s first-ever three-peat champions. Summoner’s Rift Clash returns as the MSI Cup on July 18 and 19. Registration opens July 13. The buff bar got a cleanup pass. It hides low-signal effects and moves item durations onto the items themselves. Remake votes now trigger automatically instead of needing a typed command. And ARAM: Mayhem and Arena both got broad augment and champion tuning.