League of Legends patch 12.11 will not be shipping with the Lethality item buffs as was initially intended
Despite League of Legends patch 12.11 going live tomorrow, Riot Games are still making some last-minute adjustments to the update before officially shipping it out.
It seems that the final patch will not arrive with the intended tweaks that were planned for the Lethality items, along with the updates planned for both Rocketbelt and Lethal Tempo.
Since the 12.10 and 12.10b durability updates, assassins have had quite a rough time adapting to the new meta. This is why the League of Legends developers had planned to provide the Lethality items, like Duskblade, Axiom Arc and Serpent's Fang, with some buffs.
However, according to a tweet by game balance designer Matt “Phroxzon” Leung-Harrison, the lethality changes that made their way into the PBE 12.11 cycle will not appear in the final update.
The developers will be stepping back to evaluate the magnitude of these changes before considering shipping them to the live servers. They will likely tweak the changes further and introduce the Lethality updates during patch 12.12 or 12.13.
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In the follow-up comments, Matt “Phroxzon” Leung-Harrison explained why the developers chose to leave out the lethality updates in the upcoming patch. The developers suggest:
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He further stated that when lethality items have equal to or less damage than fighters, assassins break their “fantasy and strength/weakness profiles.” This means that assassins are building to be more like bruisers, with more durability as well as damage in their kit.
Therefore, “in elite,” 25% of the Mythic item purchases on assassins have been fighter items, with 20% of the Legendaries being bruiser items as well.
Hence, nerfing items like the
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