League of Legends Season 1 2026 has implemented some fantastic changes to the game, and ones that have certainly sped the flow of each game up immediately.
We're always looking ahead, and with the next patch looming, we're going to run over all we know about the upcoming patch.
Here's what we know.
League of Legends Patch 26.04: All Hero Changes, PBE, and More
Since adopting the seasonal model, League of Legends has drastically changed its game, as it has experimented with unique features over updates.
Now, 26.04 is the next patch slated to be released, and as of now we know of the following changes that will be coming.
"Patch 26.4 Preview!
Overall
Things are looking pretty stable; we're seeing some pretty marked game time reductions (probably from) the turret plate bulwarking reductions
We're still waiting to see the impact of the faelights and early vision changes on Jungle, but need a full patch to draw some conclusions there (and on the early bounty changes)
After this patch, things are likely to be in a pretty good spot overall, would love to hear from y'all what other things need changing
We've gotten a few initial surveys back from players and Top and Bot have been reporting higher satisfaction and power, while JG, Mid, Supp have been either neutral or lower sentiment.
This was pretty much our goal, but there's still some fine tuning to do, expect some of that in some of the coming patches
Champion Changes
First Stand is coming up on 26.5; we're making a lot of changes for both general balance and hitting a few of the other outliers/forgotten champions
There isn't really a major theme here, other than trying to adjust some of the outliers that especially have benefited overly from some of the systems changes (items or otherwise)
Mel and Zed are in a decent spot after the hotfix buffs, so we're letting them sit for a bit to stabilize
Challenger+ Ranked
We made some adjustments this patch to increase queue times in Challenger to get better match quality
We're going to walk this back a bit as even though match quality has factually improved a bit, players are still feeling like those matches aren't higher quality, while having longer queue times
Going to walk it back about halfway as a result"
>>> Champion Buffs <<<
Annie
Brand (Jungle)
"Some of our unconventional junglers are also a bit worse for wear, so we're giving them a bit of a bump up"
Camille
Darius (Jungle)
Fizz (Jungle)
Graves
Hwei
Illaoi
Lux
Maokai
Samira
:)
Teemo (Jungle)
Udyr
Xayah
>>> Champion Nerfs <<<
Ambessa (Jungle)
Aphelios
Braum
Gwen
Jinx
Kassadin
Kayle
Kennen
Naafiri
Qiyana
Rengar
Rumble
Swain (Bot)
Syndra
Twitch
Zac
>>> Champion Adjustments <<<
Ryze
Senna
>>> System Adjustments <<<
Hexoptics C44
"Hexoptics hasn't really managed to pick up much of an audience, so we're making some adjustments to make its damage amp passive more accessible to more champions along with some other tuning adjustments"
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