LoL Patch 25.11 Preview: Buffs for AP junglers and midlaners, adjustments to Aatrox and Samira

LoL Patch 25.11 Preview: Buffs for AP junglers and midlaners, adjustments to Aatrox and Samira | Sheep Esports

Ryze and Twisted Fate could make a comeback in the meta

The League of Legends 25.11 Patch Notes are out. According to Riot’s official schedule, Patch 25.11 is expected to drop on Wednesday, May 28, 2025. The patch brings a lot of buffs to several champions. This includes junglers like Rengar, Diana, and Udyr. These adjustments follow Liandry's rework from the previous patch and also explain the new buffs given to Twisted Fate, Kassadin, and Ryze. Of particular note is Ryze, who could see a significant boost in effectiveness thanks to his improved ability ratio. It’ll be interesting to see how these changes influence the pro meta once the patch goes live.

The Full Patch 25.11 Preview. Credit: @RiotPhroxzon on X.

Buffs:

Champions: Ashe, Diana, Rengar, Ryze, Sivir, Twisted Fate, Twitch, Udyr
System: Horizon Focus (item)

Nerfs:

Champions: Cho'Gath, Elise, Lucian, Smolder

Adjustments:

Champions: Aatrox, Annie, Garen, Kassadin, Samira

Riot's Reasoning behind these changes

Read more about League of Legends changes on the X account of Matt "Phroxzon" Leung-Harrison.

Junglers

Rengar, Diana, Udyr receiving some simple buffs; Udyr and Diana in particular was pretty reliant on Liandrys and now we're giving them compensation since Liandrys is in a better state now

AP Twitch

Trying to focus changes in the direction of farming AP Twitch compared support AP Twitch which we're less happy with
Granted, the buffs here take an extremely weak champion to a still weak champion, just a little less weak

AP Item Fallout

Some other champs like Twisted Fate, Kassadin and Ryze have received indirect nerfs (from Swiftness, Archangels and ROA nerfs in particular)
While Spellbook was being buffed, it's still pretty unpopular and needs some time to pick up steam
Now that items are in a stable spot, we want to adjust the champions
As for the items themselves, we're monitoring some of the stronger and weaker items; we want to position ROA as a flexible item (for some set of more controlly mages) that helps you survive lane with double ruby but not output as much for champs that opt into it (and therefore it's weaker as an actual item)
We're keeping an eye on Stormsurge, Lich Bane and Ludens paths as items that are a bit on the stronger side (they're not far enough over to immediately need nerfs though)

Samira

Samira has been appropriately powerful for her mastery curve, but not super satisfying or with a clear identity
Two of the things her kit gives her over the roster is her snowballiness and her teamfight ability
This changelist is positioned to make Lifesteal more effective on her, which may make the difference between her surviving and getting that Pentakill off or not and may make certain builds like BT first (similar to Draven) more viable

Kassadin

Kassadin's been stuck between being a bit of an anti-mage and a bit of a giga scaler
We're giving Kassadin a tad more early game power so that he can contribute more in the early and mid game while taking a little out of his late game to compensate
This will hopefully make him more viable in more situations especially in higher levels of play that punish early games a lot harder

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