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When is the patch coming out?

Riot's Community Manager Tamat has said that the next balance patch will be included with the Yorick release, which will happen after the Season One Championship. Phreak has promised us a patch preview video and here it is.

What's getting nerfed?

• Vayne will lose some of the damage on Condemn and about 15% of the damage on Tumble.
• Vladimir, reportedly just one noticeable change, confirmed to be the cooldown on Transfusion along with nerfs on its rank 5 damage and buffs to earlier levels so he's less weak in early game.
• Evelynn, though this is not the promised stealth rework. She is losing her stun and gaining a 3 second slow that starts at 20% and will scale in severity with ranking it up.
• Jarvan IV, specifically stats on his passive and bonus armor from Demacian Standard
• Philosopher's Stone is losing some health regen
• Quite possibly Heart of Gold as well
• Nunu is getting nerfed as well, specifically his consume and slow, specifically starting the slow at 20% instead of 40%. His lategame will remain untouched.
• Malzahar
• Gold per 5 will soon be unique per item. That is to say, it will no longer be possible to get additional gold per 5 from multiple instances of the same item (such as two Hearts of Gold or two Philosopher's Stones).
• Phreak also said Rumble is going to be nerfed, and confirmed it to be some of the damage, AP ratio, and cooldown on the Equalizer

What's getting buffed?

• Gangplank is getting a new stacking passive that will let him slow a target increasingly with up to three hits.
• Fiddlesticks is getting more damage on Dark Wind and a better AP ratio on Crowstorm up to 0.45, along with 0.5 seconds less time on the Crowstorm channel.
• Tryndamere, specifically early game reliability.

What else is being changed?

• Spirit Visage and Ignite (and presumably Grievous Wounds) will now affect lifesteal and spellvamp.
• No more ward jumping (Such as Katarina's Shunpo) or ward blocking (such as blocking Powerball or Rocket Grab
• Killing a higher-leveled champion will earn you more experience. Killing a lower-leveled champion will earn you less experience
• The max gold gained from knocking off a champion's killstreak is being capped at 500 instead of 1000
• It will now be possible to lifesteal/spell vamp and gain assists off of hitting a shielded champion even if you do no damage to the actual champion. This will also affect Boots of Mobility.

What's not happening or unconfirmed?

• Riot has said the Kayle remake is not happening this patch.
• Phreak said it's unlikely that anything will happen to Twisted Fate in the short term
• Not sure if Statikk's planned Shen buffs are coming true this patch or not.
• A "selfish" pure-AP spellvamp item that's not Will of the Ancients will not make it into this patch.
• A Heimer remake is in the works but not imminent
• Spectator Mode will not be happening this patch.

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