League of Legends Patch Notes

Patch notes are the heartbeat of League of Legends: every two weeks Riot ships balance changes, item reworks, system updates and new cosmetics that reshape the meta. This section keeps a living history of those patches — each one summarized from the official notes, with the affected champions and items matched to their pages on VPEsports. That's the real value of reading patches here: when a champion is changed, its card links straight to the updated build, its counters and its full profile, so you can see what the change means in practice instead of just reading numbers. Our builds and counters data refreshes automatically every 48 hours from ranked games, which means the impact of every patch becomes visible in win rates, pick rates and item paths within days of release. Patch summaries on this site are written from the official Riot articles and always link back to the original source for the exact change lists — we track what changed and connect it to current data rather than republishing the full notes.