League of Legends patch 25.04 notes: Mel & Elise support changes, Honor Revamp & more

League of Legends just increased the attack speed cap for the first time in over a decade in patch 25.S1.3, and this next update has a huge focus on adjusting champions to fit that cap, along with some Mel adjustments.

Mel has been one of the most controversial champion releases in recent years, with her having a deceptively low win rate due to just releasing while being incredibly oppressive in pro play and high MMR matches. She’s pretty much permabanned.

Elise is also getting some attention, with her Human Form W getting some slight nerfs and her jungle clear getting heavy buffs. She’ll still be a viable support, but she’s now a much better jungler.

If you’re wondering why the patch title format has changed, Riot confirmed in the details of this patch that the previous system wasn’t hitting the mark in terms of clarity of communication.

So, with some pretty significant changes to tank items, ADC items, and a bunch of other tweaks to meta outliers, here’s everything you need to know about patch 25.04.

When is patch 25.04 launching?

LoL patch 25.04 is launching on February 19, 2025. There will be a short downtime early in the day, depending on the time zone. Servers typically go down for an hour or two and are back up to hop back into solo queue bright and early.

League of Legends patch 25.04 patch notes

Champions

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Ashe

Q: Ranger’s Focus

• Total Damage per Flurry: 110/115/120/125/130% AD > 111/117/123/129/135% AD

W: Volley

• AD Ratio: 100% bonus AD > 110% bonus AD

R: Enhanced Crystal Arrow

• Damage: 200/400/600 (+120% AP) > 250/450/650 (+120% AP)
• Secondary Target Damage: 50% > 100%

Diana

Passive: Moonsilver Blade

• Monster Damage: 300% > 225%

Q: Crescent Strike

• Damage: 60/95/130/165/200 (+70% AP) > 70/105/140/175/210 (+70% AP)

W: Pale Cascade

• Maximum Damage: 54/90/126/162/198 (+54% AP) > 60/96/132/168/204 (+54% AP)

Ekko

Q: Timewinder

• Damage: 70/85/100/115/130 (+30% AP) > 80/95/110/125/140 (+30% AP)

Elise

Passive: Spider Queen

• Spiderling base damage increased: 8-26 >>> 10-40

W (Spider Form): Skittering Frenzy

• Cooldown: 10 > 6 seconds
• Bonus Attack Speed: 60/70/80/90/100% > 60/75/90/105/120%

W (Human Form): Volatile Spiderling

• Damage: 60/105/150/195/240 (+95% AP) > 60/100/140/180/220 (+75% AP)

R: Spider Form

• Spiderling Damage: 8/14/20/26 (+15% AP) > 10/20/30/40 (+15% AP)

Gangplank

Base Stats:

• AD Growth: 3.7 > 4.2

Hwei

Passive: Signature of the Visionary

• Damage: 35-180 (based on level) (+35% AP) > 35-180 (based on level)(+30% AP)

QW: Severing Bolt

• Damage: 80/100/120/140/160 (+25% AP) > 60/85/110/135/160 (+25% AP)

WE: Stirring Lights

• Damage: 25/35/45/55/65 (+20% AP) > 20/30/40/50/60 (+15% AP)

Jayce

W (Cannon Form): Hyper Charge

• Set Attack Speed: 2.67 > 3.0

Kalista

W: Sentinel

• Target Max Health Damage: 14/15/16/17/18% > 10/12/14/16/18%

Kog’Maw

Q: Caustic Spittle

• Damage: 90/140/190/240/290 (+70% AP) > 80/125/170/215/260 (+80% AP)

Lulu

W: Whimsy

• Bonus Attack Speed: 25/27.5/30/32.5/35% > 20/22.5/25/27.5/30%
• Cooldown: 17/16.5/16/15.5/15 seconds > 18/17.5/17/16.5/16 seconds

E: Help, Pix!

• Base Damage/Shield Strength: 80/125/170/215/260 > 80/120/160/200/240

Mel Medarda

Q: Radiant Volley

• Cast Range: 1000 > 950
• Projectile Speed: 5000 > 4500

W: Rebuttal

• Duration: 1 > 0.75 seconds
• Mana Cost: 60/45/30/15/0 > 80/60/40/20/0
• Reflected Damage: 40/47.5/55/62.5/70% > 40/45/50/55/60%

E: Solar Snare

• Root Duration: 1.75/1.88/2/2.13/2.25 > 1.25/1.5/1.75/2/2.25 seconds
• Direct Hit Damage: 60/100/140/180/220 (+50% AP) > 60/105/150/195/240 (+60% AP)

R: Golden Eclipse

• Damage per Overwhelm Stack: 4/7/10 (+2.5% AP) > 4/7/10 (+3.5% AP)

Nautilus

Q: Dredge Line

• Damage: 70/115/160/205/250 (+90% AP) > 85/130/175/220/265 (+90% AP)

Sion

Base Stats:

• Base Armor: 32 > 36
• Health Regeneration: 7.5 > 9

Teemo

E: Toxic Shot

• Monster Damage: 125% > 145%

Twitch

• Axiom Arcanist rune now treated as AoE damage

Warwick

Q: Jaws of the Beast

• Mana Cost: 70/75/80/85/90 > 80/85/90/95/100

Yasuo

Passive: Way of the Wanderer

• Critical Damage Reduction: 10% > REMOVED

Item Changes

Abyssal Mask

• Magic Resistance: 50 > 45

Fimbulwinter

• Everlasting Shield: 100-180 (based on level) (+4.5% current mana) > 100 (+4.5% current mana). Note: this is roughly 30% less shielding in average cases

Heartsteel

• Colossal Consumption Max Health: 10% of damage > 8% of damage

Infinity Edge

• Price: 3600 > 3450 gold
• Attack Damage: 70 > 65

Mercury Treads

• Price: 1300 > 1250 gold

Plated Steelcaps

• Damage Reduction from Auto Attacks: 12% > 10%

Symbiotic Soles

• Flat Movement Speed: 35 > 40 (Note: Evolved movement speed unchanged at 45)

Unending Despair

• Anguish: 8-15 (based on level) (+3% bonus health) > 3% of bonus health (Note: this is a10-15% nerf to the item’s damage)

Honor Revamp

As part of the patch, Riot confirmed that the Honor system has been majorly revamped. Instead of players accumulating Honor over a season (unless penalized), it updates regularly based on recent game behavior.

This is designed to reduce the negative advantages that very well behaved, but more irregular players may have. The complete breakdown of everything that’s changing is as follows:

• Honor Levels: Amount of games played without penalties > Dynamic evaluation based on recent positive behavior.
• Rewards & Entitlements: Based on your current Honor
• Honor Checkpoints & Seasonal Resets: Gone!
• Demotion Warnings: Will notify you when your Honor is sliding to the previous level.
• Honor Penalties: Game-based; The amount of matches you must play to lift the penalty is viewable in your profile the same way Ranked Restrictions are today.
• Honor Tokens: Any remaining Honor 5 tokens in loot will be converted into 1050 Orange Essence at the start of patch 25.06.
• Progression: Honor Orbs and Capsules have been replaced with Battle Pass XP drops.
• Rewards: After 25.04, the first time you reach Honor 5, you will be permanently awarded the Three Honors Malzahar, Shen, and Akshan skins, alongside Grey Warwick and Medieval Twitch and their chromas.

Systems

Atakhan

• Early Lane Trading: Pro play features more aggressive early lane trading, and champions simply have less health early anyway, so smaller amounts of damage represent greater bloodiness. Therefore we are increasing the impact of early-game PvP damage on Bloodiness Score to a greater degree.
  • Early PvP generates double the points, decreasing down to the normal amount over 14 minutes
  • Diminishing Kill Score: Functionally, so long as enough kills happen, the game feels bloody and lively. This means that the first few kills are more significant than subsequent ones.
  • The first few kills per game grant significantly more points, diminishing with each subsequent kill.
  • Tower Dives in particular are extremely high-tension moments, and, therefore tower dive kills grant multiplicatively more points.
  • Threshold Recallibration: Because these adjustments change point values significantly, we are adjusting the Voracious vs Ruinous threshold to try to better match these new expected values.

Clash Rewards

Since the amount of Clash tournaments this year is reduced by half, Riot is recalibrating the VP required for each tier of rewards. Check out the new VP requirements down below:

• Random Icon: 100 VP (unchanged)
• 2025 Clash Contender Title: 200 VP (unchanged)
• Contender Banner: 1000 VP > 500 VP
• Random Summoner Icon: 2000 VP > 1000 VP
• 2025 Clash Conqueror Title: 3000 VP > 1500 VP
• Conqueror Banner: 4000 VP > 2000 VP
• Random Icon: 5000 VP > 3000 VP
• 2025 Clash Champion Title: 6000 VP > 3500 VP
• Champion Banner: 7000 VP > 4000 VP

ARAM

Teemo

• R Damage: 200/325/450 (+50% AP) > 180/290/400 (+40% AP)
• R Slow: 30/40/50% > 20% at all ranks
• R Maximum Charges: 2/3/4 > 3/4/5
• Ability Haste: 20 > 10
• Damage Dealt: 10% > 5%

Items

• Unending Despair: Healing Multiplier 175% > 250%

Runes

• Hail of Blades: Melee Champion Attack Speed 130% > 140%

ARURF

Systems

• Ranged Attack Speed Bonus: 100% > 75%

Champions

• Jhin
  • Damage Dealt: 105% > 110%
• Kayle
  • Damage Dealt: 95% > 85%
• Kog’Maw
  • Damage Dealt: 90% > 85%
  • Damage Taken: 100% > 105%
• Lee Sin
  • Damage Dealt: 100% > 105%
• Sivir
  • Damage Taken: 100% > 105%
• Tristana
  • Damage Dealt: 95% > 90%
  • Damage Taken: 100% > 105%
• Twitch
  • Damage Dealt: 92% > 85%
  • Damage Taken: 105% > 110%
• Vayne
  • Damage Dealt: 100% > 95%

Swiftplay

Death Timers

• Death Timer Multiplier (minutes 10-35): 100-133% > 100-112%

Champions

• AD Growth: 5 > 4.3
• R Maiden Mark Damage: 2/2.5/3% max health > 1.5/1.75/2% max health

Bugfixes and QoL Changes

• Fixed a bug that caused Risen Legend Leblanc and Immortal Legend Ahri (Signature) to have their movement from non-damaging displacement effects (ex: Blast Cones) to be canceled if the ctrl+5 emote was used during the movement.
• Fixed a bug that caused Axiom Arcanist to treat Twitch’s R attacks as Single Target instead of AoE, meaning the damage amp was coming through as 14% and not 9% as intended.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused Rengar’s boots to swap to Spellslinger’s Shoes after completing his hunt Kha’Zix quest. No magic cat shenanigans anymore.
• Fixed a bug that caused Kalista’s basic attacks to not fully render correctly.
• Fixed a bug that caused Scuttle Crab to be attackable during her spawn animation.
• Fixed a bug that caused several of Aurora’s SFX to not play correctly.
• Fixed a bug that caused Aatrox’s W tether visual to not display correctly.
• Fixed a bug that caused Kalista’s passive dash to not benefit from certain boots.
• Fixed a bug that caused Atakhan’s False Life revive to change some champion’s passive channel time to 15 seconds.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused Flash/Hexflash to be disabled if used right before Atakhan’s False Life revive.
• Fixed a bug that caused Neeko to retain the jungle item minion experience debuff after transforming into a champion with a jungle item.
• Fixed a bug that caused Zigg’s W to not reveal the ability’s affected area when used in Fog of War.
• Fixed a bug that caused Lucian’s passive to not correctly interact with all plant types.
• Fixed a bug that caused Mel’s Q cooldown to reset when killing enemy champions affected by Twitch’s deadly venom applied by Mel’s W.
• Fixed a bug that caused Renata’s R to still connect through Yasuo’s W, Wind Wall.
• Fixed a bug that caused Mel’s ultimate cooldown to reset if she used her W to reflect Draven’s R.
• Fixed a bug that caused Mel’s E to be counted as single target damage instead of AoE.
• Fixed a bug that caused ultimate pets like Tibbers and Daisy to draw minion aggro to champions.
• Fixed a bug that caused Teemo’s E poison to not correctly apply to critical hits.
• Fixed a bug that caused Syndra’s W to not have a mana cost.
• Fixed a bug that caused Elise’s spiderling stats to not update with her stats and only update on spawn.
• Fixed a bug that caused the end-of-game UI to remain present if open when the end-of-game celebration was beginning.
• Fixed a bug that caused Viego, after possessing Mel, to have his Smite deal an incorrect amount of damage.
• Fixed a bug that caused Mel’s basic attacks to disable Nidalee’s W.
• Fixed a bug that caused Ashe’s R on-hit SFW to occur at Ashe’s location, not at the enemy’s.
• Fixed a bug that caused Urgot to be able to pull enemies into the fountain if the pull was occurring while Urgot was respawning due to Atakhan’s False Life.
• Fixed a bug that caused Briar’s R to not cancel if killed and revived via Atakhan’s FalseLife.
• Fixed a bug that caused Kayn’s R to continue to deal damage even if he died mid-ability as long as he was revived via Atakhan’s False Life.
• Fixed a bug that caused Taliyah’s Q to continue casting while being revived by Atakhan’sFalse Life.
• Fixed a bug that caused some of Mel’s voice lines to not play correctly.
• Fixed a bug that caused Wukong to be globally revealed when he used his Q on a blast cone.
• Fixed a bug that caused Viego, after possessing Lillia, to be able to use her E and the ability not to collide with terrain correctly.
• Fixed a bug that caused Ambessa’s passive to ignore Dodges and Blinds.
• Fixed a bug that caused Mel’s W to not correctly block some critical strikes.
• Fixed a bug that caused Viktor’s R to follow him while taking Rift Herald.
• Fixed a bug that caused Ahri’s passive to interrupt her recall.
• Fixed a bug that caused Jayce’s Q to render over impassable terrain and structures.
• Fixed a bug that caused some of Warwick’s voice lines to not play correctly.
• Fixed a bug that caused Mordekaiser’s torches in the Death Realm to not render in the correct locations.
• Fixed a bug that caused Fiora’s W to not correctly block some of Mel’s abilities.
• Fixed a bug that caused Mel’s W to not correctly reflect projectiles from Lulu’s Pix.
• Fixed a bug that caused Malzahar’s E to instantly kill Zyra’s plants.
• Fixed a bug that caused K’Sante’s Q SFX to be slightly off in terms of location.

That’s everything there is to know about LoL patch 25.04. Make sure to check out our up-to-date guide on all of the pro roster moves, now that the season is underway.