‘League Of Legends’ Preseason 2023 Patch Notes Revealed

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Got it! Oct 3, 2022, 11:00am EDT | New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The Chemtech Drake is back and its just one of the massive changes coming this preseason. Credit: Riot Games Riot Games has revealed the patch notes for the 2023 preseason update to League of Legends , showing off changes to the jungle, the return of the Chemtech Drake and a load of new communication options. What’s even better, is that this first iteration of the preseason update will be available on the PBE tomorrow; October 4.

One of the biggest areas of focus for the 2023 League of Legends preseason update is the jungle, which has felt somewhat stale for a while now. The biggest change here is the addition of jungle pets, which are little creatures that will follow you around the jungle and provide you with some buffs the stronger they get. You’ll need to purchase an egg from the shop, and then go kill some monsters to make them evolve into your actual pet.

The three pets available initially will be the Noxian Embercat, who will give you slows and bonus damage, the Ixtali Ixamander, who will give you a shield based on your health that provides bonus slow resist and Tenacity when broken, and finally the Ionian Cloudleaper who will provide bonus movespeed. Elsewhere in the jungle, indicators to show the leash range of each camp have been added, and the distance a camp can be pulled has been reduced across the board, so there’s less need to stand in exactly the right spot to perfectly optimise your route. Speaking of jungle routes, there’s also a new recommended jungle path option, which will show you the ideal journey through the jungle during the early stages of the game.

These have been built based on win rates in high level games, and they will be updated every patch so you don’t need to worry about taking a path that was outdated over a year ago. MORE FOR YOU ‘Demon Slayer’ Season 2 Finally Has An Actual 2021 Release Date Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Not A Sure Thing, Says Director ‘Genshin Impact’ Still Refuses To Increase Anniversary Rewards, Despite Fan Outcry Outside of the jungle the other major change is the return of the Chemtech Drake. When the Drake is slain it will now grant a small amount of Tenacity and Heal/Shield strength, while the Chemtech Soul will grant bonus damage when below a certain amount of health.

Like other dragons the map will also be changed when the dragon goes down. There will be a Chemtech-inspired appearance featuring Zaunite chemicals and mutated jungle plants with upgraded effects. During this effect Blast Cones will fling you twice as far, Honey Fruits will no longer slow you and instead offer a bonus shield and Scryer’s Bloom will reveal a small circular area around the plant and a cone opposite of the direction it was hit, granting movement speed towards revealed enemy champions and reducing wards revealed to 1 health.

Elsewhere there’s a ton of new ping options, upping the main ping wheel to eight options with the additions of Push, All-In, Hold and Bait. There’s also a new vision ping wheel, allowing you to ping that vision was cleared, the enemy has vision or that you need vision. I can see that last one being used a lot.

An objective vote has also been added, allowing you to propose the option to take an objective to your team and they have to vote on that idea, which should make it easier to decide as a full team if you want to take Baron. And finally the direction of off screen pings will now be shown to you to stop you having to guess. As you would expect with a preseason patch there’s a ton of other changes, including suggested runes and abilities for new players, some changes to how the top lane works and a ton of new and updated items.

You can see them all on the full patch notes breakdown . Unlike previous years, Riot is releasing the first stages of the preseason update to the PBE early so that players can have more time to test out the big changes and the team can get detailed feedback. As a result, a lot of the assets you may see on the PBE in the early stages will not be final, and will be updated as the preseason process goes on.

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