What you need to learn about League of Legends 9.15

Rejoice, my friends! Today a new patch for the League of Legends was released, and this time, without global changes. This time developers decided to create narrow balance changes, the whole list you could find here. Follow these suggestions of the professional boosters from the https://elo-boosters.com.

But in this article, I will tell you how they will affect the LoL META.

Xerath is back!

Xerath was forgotten for too long by professional players, due to the omega dominance of the Akali and Irelia in the League of Legends professional meta. But this time they need to look at him because he is extremely good against such champions as Azir, Cassiopeia, or Korki. These three champions climbed to the favorites, so Xerath may finally find his place in this world. Today's update increased the cast range of the ultimate ability of the first and second level but slightly decreased it by the third level. The most important thing about this change - is the control of the river. Now this archmage could help his jungler in the river-fights even with level 6.

Swain is a BotLaner

After a soft rework in the previous patch, Swain could not find his place at the middle lane, due to the issues with the damage trades with the mid-lane opponent. The most important issue of the Noxus General was not fixed, his laning stage is still too weak. But professional LoL players found another role, where Swain could shine - as a core champion. Good setup with the battle support with a lot of CC abilities could ambush any enemy. In this patch, Swain got back his cast range of the Q ability, and this may be the crucial factor of his appearance in the professional official matches.

Galio was buffed

But this buff is not enough to see his comeback on pro-scene. Taking into account the nerfs, he received in the 9.14, now his strength almost back. His passive ability now will scale with the CDR (Cooldown Reduction) items. Let's calculate a little and imagine how frequently he could use his passive in the mid-game, with the right build? Twice as much than before! And his E ability was buffed, the damage is now much higher. But as I have mentioned before, this is not enough for us, to see how Galio performing the epic comeback on the pro-scene. Too many issues he still has. But this will greatly increase his efficiency in the hands of common players.

Katarina will slay everyone

In this patch, Katarina received only a small fix, that could be equaled to the huge buff. Now her E jump is correctly calculated as a damaging ability, and it procs the Electrocute. This is now counted as a big buff, but in reality, it is. Before Katarina required an additional auto-attack to cause the effect of the rune Electrocute, but now it will not, so that will make her combo much stronger and will save a few precious seconds. Katarina was one of the GOD-Tier champions for Ranked games of the medium ELo (Silver-Platinum), and now she will dominate even more!