League of Legends Patch 26.10 Notes

Patch 26.10 keeps the spotlight on tuning rather than reinvention, touching twelve champions across the map without adding a new face to the roster. Ambessa, Anivia, Ashe, Galio, Lee Sin, Naafiri, Quinn, Shyvana, Smolder, Wukong, Zed, and Zeri all received balance adjustments this cycle, spreading the work across top, jungle, mid, and bot lane picks alike.

None of the twelve names above come with published base-stat deltas, so these read as ability and balance passes rather than raw number swings. Lee Sin and Zed remain fixtures of the jungle and mid pools, while Wukong and Shyvana give top-side players something to reassess, and Ashe, Quinn, and Smolder round out the marksman-adjacent changes. Expect the feel of these champions to shift even without hard numbers attached.

Itemization also moves, with Doran’s Bow, Doran’s Helm, Gluttonous Greaves/Immortal Path, Lich Bane, and Voltaic Cyclosword adjusted. Rain Shepherd Ivern and PROJECT: Quinn arrive as new skins. The update also revisits the Essence Emporium, Runes, Game Systems, Disruptive Game Termination, Player Behavior, and the Arena and ARAM (including ARAM: Mayhem) modes. VPEsports builds and counters refresh every 48 hours, so the impact of these changes on real matchups will show up in our current data soon.