1.9.64bMLBB Patch Notes: Buffs, Nerfs & Balance Changes

As an Assassin, Yi Sun-shin's playstyle doesn't quite match his intended role. His ability to secure kills in the early-to-mid game has been relatively weak, forcing him to rely on fast resource farming to gain an economic lead and take over the match. We aim to enhance his burst damage potential, and therefore we've completely redesigned his Ultimate. We've also optimized the control experience of all his other skills.

Valir's Ultimate currently has two drastically different effects: increasing damage and removing debuffs. We've streamlined this by removing the damage-increasing effect while strengthening his Passive Damage instead. We've also improved the control experience of Skill 1 and enhanced its lane-clearing/combat ability in the mid-to-late game.

While Leomord's core gameplay revolves around fighting alongside Barbiel, we've noticed that players often struggle to fully utilize his mounted form during the fast-paced battles of the mid-to-late game. To enhance the combat experience of the mounted-form Leomord, we've significantly increased his power while mounted and reduced the Ultimate cooldown for this duration. We've also increased Barbiel's running speed toward Leomord, allowing him to mount up and dominate the battlefield more quickly. To balance these buffs, we've shortened his mounted form's Duration and reduced Barbiel's Damage when knocking back enemies.

As Gord is a Mage, we want players to focus on stacking his Passive through skills. Therefore, we've removed the Basic Attack's ability to stack and trigger the Passive. We've increased Skill 2's attack frequency and number of hits, as well as widened the Ultimate's range. We've also added an exclusive aiming indicator for Skill 1 to help players better predict and land shots more precisely, allowing them to better utilize Gord's advantages as a long-range, high-damage Mage and dominate the battlefield. To balance these changes, we've reduced Skill 2's damage.

We aim to optimize Natan's Basic Attack output experience. Now, he can follow up with Basic Attacks more quickly after using skills and maintain his Passive stacks more easily during extended fights. To balance these changes, we've slightly reduced his Base Attack and Passive's base duration.

We've found that in the current patch, Clint lacks both early-game dominance and late-game damage output. Therefore, we've enhanced his early-to-mid game laning dominance. We've also reduced his late-game single-shot burst damage but increased his overall damage output over a short period.

Fanny is proving difficult to counter across all ranks. We've decided to make some adjustments to weaken her, improving counterplay options against her.

Increased the speed of Synchro Fission's first phase (while keeping the explosion unchanged and still occurring after the first phase) to better align with the animation. Additionally, we've fixed an issue where the skill would sometimes deal no damage. However, this makes it easier to hit targets with Skill 1, so we've decided to reduce its damage. We've observed that Harith is already quite strong in the current patch, so we're reducing the Shield value of Skill 2 in the late game.

Suyou has become somewhat too versatile in the current patch. We aim to reduce Suyou's applicability in certain scenarios without diminishing the core experience of playing him.

Granger's consecutive long-range poke damage and high mobility make him difficult to counter. We're nerfing these aspects while compensating by increasing the burst damage of his single attacks.

As a Mage who serves as a core damage dealer in the late-game, Cecilion's power spike arrived a bit too early. We will be reducing his damage output during the mid-game.

Slightly increased early-game Jungling speed and reduced late-game skill downtime.

Reduced Jawhead's skill downtime in the mid-to-late game.

Most Novaria players currently opt for cooldown reduction builds to continuously harass opponents. We aim to increase the effectiveness of burst-oriented builds. Slightly increased mid-to-late-game Magic Bonus and reduced Ultimate cooldown.

Kaja's long skill cooldown makes it difficult to stack his Passive in the early-to-mid game. Therefore, we've reduced his Skill 1 cooldown but decreased the maximum Passive stacks.

X.Borg has been overlooked for a while. We've significantly increased his early-game armor while balancing his late-game armor values. We've also greatly reduced his Skill 2 cooldown to give him more opportunities to pick up Firaga supplies.

It's time to give our old friend a heartwarming buff! We've optimized Balmond's damage scaling in the mid-to-late game, allowing him to better utilize HP bonuses from equipment.