The bot lane continues to be focused by Riot Games, bringing new changes in version 12.18.
Every year, League of Legends always has major updates that can affect the entire meta in the Summoner’s Rift arena. One of them can be mentioned the version dedicated to the Worlds – the biggest League of Legends tournament on the planet is held every year to find the best professional team. In this year’s tournament, Riot Games has set the time of Worlds to take place in version 12.18 – a version with many tweaks to many elements at Summoner’s Rift, especially the bot lane.
Recently, Riot Phroxzon, director of the League of Legends game balance team, revealed the details of version 12.18 to all players on his Twitter channel.
Riot Games has based on the versions 12.16, 12.17 that they have prepared before to bring the final changes to some champions in League of Legends. Version 12.18 is considered a decisive update to the entire meta at Worlds 2022 so Riot has considered it very carefully before buffing or nerfing any champion.
The most notable in patch 12.18 can be said to the area of Bottom Lane – also the area that has been focused on investment from the teams in the past time. Since patch 12.14, when Dragons became easier to kill and the buff from killing this target increased in value, the bot lane has become the focus of fights in every match. fight League of Legends. Each team, if it wants to win, needs to invest a lot of resources in this area, and also requires the bot lane couple to choose strong generals who can participate in the fight from a very early stage of the game. fight.
In the updates in the bottom lane area in version 12.18, the champion that players are most interested in is probably Miss Fortune. Bounty Hunters just received a series of massive nerfs at patch 12.17, then suffered a sudden nerf in the hotfix and then nerfed again in patch 12.18 this time around. Specifically, in version 12.18, Miss Fortune will be reduced in power as follows
Health per level reduced from 107 to 103. Attack damage per level reduced from 2.7 to 2.4.
It seems that Riot has overpowered Miss Fortune when in version 12.17, according to u.gg, she excelled at 53.08% win rate with pick rate up to 25.7%. With a focused equipment upgrade in the direction of many critical hits, Miss Fortune predicts to be the next ADC champion next to Zeri, Sivir, Kalista or the new champion Nilah who is about to “storm” at the upcoming Worlds tournament. next.
Some other bot lane champions that were also changed in patch 12.18 are Ashe, Kalista, Thresh or Lulu. For Ashe, the Ice Bow has long been no longer used in her right role, in the matches we often see her in the Support role combined with the Emperor’s Command item to continuously slow, control enemies from a distance with Great Ice Arrow (R) continuously by building many cooldown reduction items. According to Lolalytics, in patch 12.17, the rate of Ashe appearing in the Support position is up to 58.2%, while that of ADC – which is her main position is only 40.3%. So in patch 12.18, Riot decided to increase the bonus attack speed ratio from Q – Focus Arrow from 20-40% to 25-55%. The increased attack speed in the late ranks of the skill will help Ice Bow as ADC become extremely powerful later in the game as well as provide a more continuous Slow. in combat.
Also suffering from the same nerf in this version with Miss Fortune is Kalista, the Spear of Hatred is “storming” in the recent time in the professional arena, especially when combined with the Support large area control like Renata Glasc or Amumu.
Kalista & Amumu become a force to be reckoned with in the bot lane
One of the main reasons Kalista is so strong is because of her good laning in the match. So to make it easier for the opponent to “breathe” when talking to Kalista while in the lane, Riot Games decided to reduce her base stats from 604 to 564 forcing her to keep a safer position. in 2v2 exchanges early in the game.
Two Supports receiving changes in 12.18 are Thresh and Lulu. Speaking of Thresh, the Jailer of Chains hasn’t been as powerful as before. Teams are tending to use Wizard Support to create armor and heal their teammates more than choosing Tank champions that can initiate combat. Thresh himself also did not have a very good performance in the Ranked environment when he achieved a 49% win rate with a low pick rate of only 8%. Clearly Thresh is in need of Riot’s attention and buffs a bit so that he can win the attention of the teams and have the potential to appear at the upcoming 2022 Worlds. In patch 12.18, Thresh’s Health will be increased from 115 to 120, and E – Scythe Scythe damage will also be increased from 65 – 185 to 75 – 215.
On the other hand, Lulu is one of the top Mage Support champions in League of Legends right now, especially in the professional league when Spirit Mage acts as a perfect match with outstanding ADCs like Sivir. , Zeri. Version 12.18 focuses on reducing the power of W – Transformation skills as follows:
Cooldown increased from 17-13 seconds to 17-15 seconds. Movement speed reduced from 30% to 25%. Transfiguration duration reduced from 1.25 – 2.25 seconds to 1.2 – 2 seconds.
This nerf for Spirit Mage will open up the opportunity for Support champions to appear more in the most exciting League of Legends tournament on the upcoming planet – Worlds 2022.
Conclude:
The upcoming September 21 is expected to be the landing date of version 12.18 to the official server. Hopefully, after this change, the teams participating in Worlds 2022 will launch many new cards to make the matches more dramatic and attractive. Game4V will continuously update information, changing from Rot to readers as soon as possible.
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