League of Legends Patch 26.19 Notes: Champions, Classic, Items, Teleport & Arena Changes

League of Legends Patch 26.19 is now live, bringing a wide range of champion balance changes, Classic champion additions, item updates, Teleport adjustments, and a major batch of new Arena Augments.

With Worlds just one patch away, Riot Games is using 26.19 to make some of its first pro-focused Summoner’s Rift adjustments. At the same time, several champions are receiving buffs aimed at increasing their presence in regular games, while champions such as Nasus, Nocturne, Rumble, Ryze, Vi, and Twisted Fate are being toned down.

Classic League is also getting another major content drop, with Fizz, Graves, Nami, and Nautilus joining the mode. Three previously retired items—Cloak and Dagger, Moonflair Spellblade, and Zz’Rot Portal—are also returning.

Arena receives one of the biggest changes in the patch, including new Augments, three new Guests of Honor, balance adjustments, and several Augments brought over from Mayhem.

League of Legends Patch 26.19 Release Date

League of Legends Patch 26.19 was released on September 22, 2026.

The patch is particularly significant because Riot describes it as the first round of pro-focused Summoner’s Rift changes before the upcoming Worlds patch. The developers also noted that they are targeting some potential fringe picks for the tournament while reducing the power of individual meta outliers.

Patch 26.19 Key Highlights

Here are the biggest changes in the update:

• Aatrox, Aphelios, Aurora, Draven, Elise, Fiora, Kha’Zix, Lillia, Lucian, Master Yi, Shyvana and Volibear receive buffs or adjustments.
• Nasus, Nocturne, Poppy, Rumble, Ryze, Vi and Twisted Fate receive nerfs.
• Top-lane Teleport cooldowns are reduced.
• World Atlas and Runic Compass are adjusted toward health regeneration.
• Fizz, Graves, Nami and Nautilus arrive in League Classic.
• Classic receives three returning items: Cloak and Dagger, Moonflair Spellblade and Zz’Rot Portal.
• Arena gets new Augments and three new Guests of Honor.
• Team Voice for North America and Oceania is postponed beyond Patch 26.20.
• Coven Janna, Coven Mel, Old God Anivia and Old God Urgot release with the patch.

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Patch 26.19 Champion Changes

Patch 26.19 contains a relatively large set of Summoner’s Rift champion adjustments. The overall direction is split between buffs for underrepresented picks and nerfs for champions that Riot considers too strong or too influential heading into the Worlds patch.

Aatrox Buffs

Aatrox receives a small boost after losing some power from changes to Sundered Sky.

W – Infernal Chains

• Cooldown: 20 / 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 → 18 / 16.5 / 15 / 13.5 / 12 seconds

E – Umbral Dash

• Health heal ratio: 1.1% → 1.3% per 100 bonus health

The changes primarily improve Aatrox’s ability to repeatedly use his crowd control and sustain tools during extended fights.

Aphelios Buffs

Aphelios gets several weapon-specific buffs intended to give the hypercarry more room to operate.

Changes include:

• Calibrum: Moonshot damage increased from 70–160 to 80–170.
• Severum: Healing increased from 2–7.1%, scaling to 5–17.75%, to 2–8%, scaling to 5–20%.
• Gravitum: Its decaying slow now ends at 15% instead of 10%.
• Infernum: Duskwave cooldown reduced from 9–6 seconds to 8–5 seconds.
• Crescendum: Mini-Crescendum damage progression is improved, with the reduced-damage threshold beginning at the ninth chakram instead of the eighth.

These changes improve several parts of Aphelios’ kit rather than simply increasing one source of damage.

Aurora Buffs

Aurora receives buffs to waveclear and ultimate uptime.

E – The Weirding

• Base damage: 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 → 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240

R – Between Worlds

• Rift duration:
• Rank 1: 1.75 → 2.25 seconds
• Rank 2: 2.5 → 2.75 seconds
• Rank 3 remains 3.25 seconds

Draven Buff

Draven’s base attack damage increases:

• 62 → 64 AD

Riot’s reasoning is that bot-lane role quests have increased gold income, reducing the relative impact of Draven’s Adoration advantage.

Elise Buffs

Elise receives improvements to both damage and attack speed.

Passive – Spider Queen

• Passive magic damage: 12 / 22 / 32 / 42 → 14 / 24 / 34 / 44

W – Skittering Frenzy

• Bonus attack speed: 60 / 75 / 90 / 105 / 120% → 70 / 85 / 100 / 115 / 130%

The changes should primarily help Elise clear jungle camps and maintain stronger damage output.

Fiora Buffs

Fiora gets more durability and stronger healing from her ultimate.

• Health growth: 99 → 105
• Grand Challenge heal range: 550 → 600
• Heal per tick increases from 18.75 / 25 / 31.25 (+15% bonus AD) to 20 / 26.25 / 32.5 (+17.5% bonus AD)
• Maximum heal increases from 375 / 500 / 625 (+300% bonus AD) to 400 / 525 / 650 (+350% bonus AD)

The goal is to make successful Grand Challenge executions more rewarding without directly increasing her basic 1v1 tools.

Kha’Zix Buffs

Kha’Zix receives several improvements designed to make his evolved abilities more flexible.

Passive – Unseen Threat

• Damage: 17–136 → 22–141

Evolved W – Void Spike

• Slow duration: 2 → 2.25 seconds

Evolved E – Leap

• Bonus range: +200 → +300

These changes give Kha’Zix more threat both before and after committing to an evolution path.

Lillia Buffs

Lillia receives both durability and crowd-control improvements.

• Base armor: 22 → 24
• R sleep duration: 2 → 2.5 seconds

The additional armor helps Lillia survive when entering fights, while the longer sleep gives her more time to create follow-up opportunities after landing Lilting Lullaby.

Lucian Adjustment

Lucian’s passive and Q are adjusted to better separate his mid and bot-lane tuning.

Passive – Vigilance

• Empowered on-hit damage: 15 (+20% AD) → 5 (+15% AD)

Q – Piercing Light

• Base damage: 80 / 115 / 150 / 185 / 220 → 90 / 130 / 170 / 210 / 250

This reduces the passive’s contribution while giving Lucian more direct Q damage.

Master Yi Adjustment

Master Yi’s Q cooldown refund is changed.

Q – Alpha Strike

• Cooldown refund on hit: now 1 second, rather than scaling downward with Ability Haste.

Riot expects limited impact on standard Summoner’s Rift but specifically points toward Mayhem and Arena interactions.

Nasus Nerf

Nasus’ Q damage is reduced:

Q – Siphoning Strike

• Bonus damage: 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 → 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110

The intention is to make Nasus more vulnerable earlier in the game and delay some of his scaling power.

Nocturne Nerf

Nocturne’s ultimate cooldown increases:

R – Paranoia

• 140 / 115 / 90 → 160 / 130 / 100 seconds

This directly reduces how frequently Nocturne can threaten cross-map plays and use his ultimate as a repeated source of pressure.

Poppy Nerf

Poppy’s jungle clear is being reduced.

Q – Hammer Shock

• Maximum health damage cap against minions and monsters:
• 85 / 120 / 155 / 190 / 225
• → 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210

Riot is targeting Poppy’s flexibility and jungle presence rather than removing her identity as a tank and counterpick.

Rumble Nerf

Rumble’s passive is adjusted with higher-level play in mind.

Passive – Junkyard Titan

• Overheat attack speed: 50–130% → 30–100%
• Monster damage cap: 65–150 → 90–175

This reduces his peak attack-speed pattern while giving him compensation against jungle monsters.

Ryze Nerf

Ryze receives a mixture of defensive compensation and offensive restrictions.

Base stats

• Armor growth: 4.2 → 4.7

Q – Overload

• Flux bonus damage: 25 / 50 / 75 / 100% → 15 / 40 / 65 / 90% increased damage

E – Spell Flux

• Mana cost: 35 / 45 / 55 / 65 / 75 → 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80

The result is a trade-off: Ryze gains some durability while losing part of his amplified Flux damage and spending more mana on E.

Vi Nerf

Vi receives changes aimed at her durability and early-game efficiency.

Base AD

• 63 + 3.5/level → 61 + 3.9/level

Passive – Blast Shield

• Shield: 12% maximum health → 10% maximum health

The higher AD growth partially offsets the lower starting AD, while the shield reduction makes her less durable during early engagements.

Volibear Buffs

Volibear’s passive receives buffs supporting both AP and AD-oriented builds.

Passive – The Relentless Storm

• Attack speed per stack: 5% (+3% per 100 AP) → 5% (+4% per 100 AP)
• Lightning on-hit damage now also gains +20% bonus AD

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World Atlas and Runic Compass Changes

Riot is changing the support item progression for melee supports.

Health

World Atlas / Runic Compass

• Health: 30 / 100 / 200 → 0 / 60 / 200

Health Regeneration

• Health regeneration: 25% / 50% / 75% → 50% / 75% / 75%

The idea is to move some of the item’s early defensive value away from flat health and toward health regeneration, particularly benefiting melee supports during sustained laning.

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Top Lane Teleport Buffs

One of the most important system changes in Patch 26.19 affects Teleport.

Riot says the top-lane role quest has successfully encouraged top laners to skip Teleport in some games. Because of that, the developers want Teleport to provide more map influence for top-lane players.

Teleport Cooldown Changes

TeleportBeforePatch 26.19
Top Role Quest Free Teleport	420 sec	390 sec
Top Upgraded Unleashed Teleport	330–240 sec	300–210 sec
Non-Top Unleashed Teleport	330–240 sec	Unchanged

The distinction is important: these reductions specifically improve the top-lane version while leaving the non-top Unleashed Teleport unchanged.

What Does the Teleport Change Mean?

For top laners, the shorter cooldown can create more opportunities to:

• Return to lane after a difficult reset.
• Join objective fights.
• Respond to side-lane pressure.
• Split push without completely sacrificing team-fight access.
• Influence the map after completing the role quest.

This is a system-level attempt to give top lane more strategic influence without simply increasing champion stats.

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League Classic Patch 26.19: Four New Champions

Patch 26.19 is another major update for League Classic.

Four champions have been added:

• Fizz
• Graves
• Nami
• Nautilus

These versions are based on older versions of the champions and are intended to recreate their historical kits rather than simply using their modern abilities.

Classic Fizz

Classic Fizz represents his 2011-era identity before his later rework.

His kit includes:

• Passive: Nimble Fighter
• Q: Urchin Strike
• W: Seastone Trident
• E: Playful/Trickster
• R: Chum the Waters

One major difference is his older W passive, which deals additional damage over time based on the target’s missing health. His active W also applies Grievous Wounds.

Classic Graves

Pre-rework Graves returns as a traditional bot-lane ADC.

His Classic kit includes:

• Passive: True Grit
• Q: Buckshot
• W: Smokescreen
• E: Quickdraw
• R: Collateral Damage

True Grit gives Graves stacking Armor and Magic Resistance while in combat, while Buckshot provides the close-range burst associated with his older design.

Classic Nami

Nami’s Classic version is based around her early kit.

Her abilities include:

• Passive: Surging Tides
• Q: Aqua Prison
• W: Ebb and Flow
• E: Tidecaller’s Blessing
• R: Tidal Wave

One notable difference for players familiar with modern Nami is that the Classic E buff is attack-only.

Classic Nautilus

Classic Nautilus brings back his older version from the early years of League.

His kit includes:

• Passive: Staggering Blow
• Q: Dredge Line
• W: Titan’s Wrath
• E: Riptide
• R: Depth Charge

The older ultimate is less disruptive to enemies hit during the traveling portion compared with the modern version.

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League Classic Item Returns

Patch 26.19 also brings back three items selected through the previous League Classic Council process.

Cloak and Dagger

• Recipe: Cloak of Agility + Dagger
• Cost: 1,130 gold
• Attack Speed: 20%
• Critical Strike Chance: 20%
• Unique Passive: 35% Tenacity

Its Tenacity is shared with Mercury’s Treads, Zephyr and the other relevant Classic item.

Moonflair Spellblade

• Recipe: Seeker’s Armguard + Negatron Cloak
• Cost: 2,300 gold
• Ability Power: 50
• Armor: 50
• Magic Resistance: 50
• Unique Passive: 35% Tenacity

Zz’Rot Portal

• Recipe: Chain Vest + Negatron Cloak + Rejuvenation Bead
• Cost: 2,700 gold
• Armor: 50
• Magic Resistance: 50
• Health Regeneration: 5 per 5 seconds
• Active duration: 150 seconds
• Active cooldown: 150 seconds

Zz’Rot Portal creates a Void gate that periodically sends Voidlings down the nearest lane.

These items are particularly interesting because they don’t simply add more conventional stats—they bring back older item identities that played a very different role in League’s strategic landscape.

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League Classic Balance Changes

Patch 26.19 also adjusts several returning Classic champions.

Akali

• E energy cost falls from 60 at every rank to 60 / 55 / 50 / 45 / 40
• E cooldown falls from 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 to 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1 seconds
• AP ratio: 30% → 40%

Fiora

Fiora’s Classic Blade Waltz is significantly adjusted.

• Base damage reduced.
• Maximum single-target damage remains roughly similar.
• Cooldown increased at early ranks.
• Damage begins slightly later.
• Target prioritization favors previously unstruck enemies.
• Maximum return range increases from 1,500 to 2,500.

Galio

Galio receives several quality and gameplay improvements:

• E cast time: 0.4 → 0.25 seconds
• Missile speed: 1,200 → 1,300
• Missile width: 60 → 160
• Missile range: 1,100 → 1,175

Kassadin

Classic Kassadin gets:

• Q AP ratio: 60% → 70%
• E damage adjusted
• E slow changed
• R range: 600 → 700

The R range restoration is one of the most noticeable historical changes in the patch.

Malphite

Classic Malphite receives historical-accuracy changes, including:

• W splash damage can now critically strike when the main attack does.
• W activation no longer interrupts the attack mid-swing.
• Several bugs are fixed.

Morgana

Morgana is nerfed because of her Classic mid-lane performance:

• W mana cost increased.
• W cooldown increased.
• E shield adjusted.
• R cooldown becomes 120 seconds at every rank.

Nidalee

Nidalee receives historical changes designed to restore older gameplay interactions:

• W grants a short burst of vision when cast.
• W damage duration is reduced while total damage remains unchanged.
• R resets her basic attack timer.

Poppy

Classic Poppy receives period-accurate Q improvements:

• Q can critically strike its total AD ratio when the attack crits.
• Spellblade damage converts fully to magic damage.

Shyvana

Shyvana receives buffs:

• W maximum duration extension: 4 → 6 seconds
• R bonus resistances: 10 / 15 / 20 → 15 / 20 / 25

Twisted Fate

Classic Twisted Fate receives several nerfs:

• Allies no longer gain his passive bonus gold while he is dead.
• E cooldown increases to 135 / 120 / 105 / 90 / 75 seconds.
• R cooldown increases to 180 / 150 / 120 seconds.
• R mana cost becomes 150 / 125 / 100.

Zilean

Zilean gets several historical-functionality updates:

• No bonus XP while dead.
• Q cast from fog now reveals him.
• E cast range changes to 700 center-to-center.

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Arena Patch 26.19 Changes

Arena receives a substantial update in Patch 26.19.

Riot says the update includes three new Guests of Honor, ten Augments transferred from Mayhem, and two brand-new Augments created in collaboration with creators from the For The Win Creator Invitational.

Arena Champion Changes

Several champions receive adjustments.

Arena Buffs

• Aphelios: Health growth, AD growth and movement speed increased.
• Elise: E and W cooldowns reduced.
• Ezreal: Q refund increased.
• Lee Sin: W AP ratio increased.
• Locke: Passive and R damage scaling increased.
• Neeko: Secondary Q AP ratio increased.
• Zeri: Q AD ratio and E refund improved.

Arena Nerfs

• Bard: Requires fewer chimes per upgrade.
• Bel’Veth: E effectiveness and R passive AD ratio reduced.
• Dr. Mundo: E ratios reduced.
• Lillia: Passive maximum-health damage reduced.
• Ornn: Passive discounts reduced.
• Rammus: Q cooldown increased.
• Rell: Passive stat steal reduced.
• Sion: Passive stacks per round reduced.
• Veigar: Passive stacks and E cooldown adjusted.
• Zed: Q AD ratio reduced and W cooldown increased.

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New Arena Augments in Patch 26.19

The biggest Arena attraction is the new Augment pool.

Archmage

Casting an ability refunds the cooldown of another randomly selected ability by 30% of the cast ability’s cooldown.

Crit N Cast

Gain Ability Haste equal to 40% of Critical Strike Chance.

Death Dealer

Replaces Flee.

Activate on an enemy champion to enter the Death Realm for 4 / 8 seconds, becoming invisible for the first two seconds.

At max level, killing the target provides the team another revive while delaying the slain player’s revive by one second.

Got That Dog In Em

Every three seconds, a nearby hot dog appears.

Anyone can pick it up and breathe fire. Enemies who pick it up can damage their own allies, and dying while breathing fire causes an explosion.

Hellbent

Players build Revivemaxxing stacks by hitting enemy champions.

At maximum stacks, Hellbent provides a resurrection effect followed by a temporary offensive and mobility boost.

Nature Is Healing

Entering brush heals you based on level and missing health, with a separate cooldown for each brush patch.

Rite of Ascension

Takedowns can leave behind Essence. Consuming it provides:

• A movement-speed burst
• Healing
• Reset basic ability cooldowns
• A blink to the Essence location

Shark Bait

After taking fatal damage, the player enters a temporary zombie state with:

• 400 movement speed
• Ghosting
• 40% slow around nearby enemies
• Invulnerability and untargetability

At the end, a shark emerges and deals magic damage while knocking enemies up.

Sonata

Automatically alternates between modified versions of Sona’s healing/shielding ability and movement-speed ability.

Surge Field

Casting an ultimate creates a zone that grants:

• 50 Ability Haste
• 40% bonus movement speed
• Additional missile damage from damage dealt to enemy champions

Titan’s Resolve

Dealing and receiving champion damage generates Juggernauting stacks. Every 10 stacks provides Adaptive Force, Armor, Magic Resistance, size and Tenacity.

Warlock Juicebox

Grants Omnivamp based on Ability Power.

Wee Woo Wee Woo

Provides increased movement speed toward low-health allies and increases healing and shielding based on the target’s missing health.

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Arena Augment Adjustments

Several existing Augments also receive changes.

Angel of Retribution

• Health scaling ratio: 350 → 450

Chroma Flux

• Rarity: Prismatic → Gold

Giant Slayer

Damage bonuses are reduced across all three ranks.

Protein Shake

• Base health scaling: 15 → 25

Scavenger

• Gold: 500 → 1,000

Spellcraft

• Cooldown: 15 → 10 seconds
• Base damage: 100 → 150

Riot also increases maximum bonus energy regeneration based on missing health from 100% to 400%.

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New Arena Guests of Honor

Three new Guests of Honor arrive in Patch 26.19.

Ivern

When a team loses a round, a brush appears at each defeated player’s location and remains for the rest of the game.

Senna

Three portals to the Death Realm appear, allowing players to enter and return through the available portals.

Thresh

While downed, Thresh periodically throws a lantern to allies. The lantern provides a shield and allows an ally to click it to reach the downed player.

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Team Voice Delayed

Team Voice was originally planned to expand to North America and Oceania in Patch 26.20.

Riot has now postponed the rollout after additional testing. The developers did not provide a new target patch, saying they want to address quality issues before releasing the feature more broadly.

This means players should not expect the wider Team Voice rollout in Patch 26.20 based on the current announcement.

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Patch 26.19 Skins and Chromas

Four skins are scheduled for release with Patch 26.19 on September 23, 2026:

• Coven Janna
• Coven Mel
• Old God Anivia
• Old God Urgot

The patch also includes chromas for:

• Coven Ahri
• Coven Ashe
• Coven Janna
• Coven Mel
• Coven Morgana
• Old God Anivia
• Old God Urgot

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Patch 26.19 Bug Fixes and Quality-of-Life Changes

Riot also included a collection of bug fixes and smaller improvements.

Some notable fixes include:

• Janna’s Tailwind could remain on allies after death.
• Classic champion profile tabs could become misaligned or unclickable.
• Royal Guard Fiora could fail to grant its Classic chroma.
• Classic Store rune sorting issues were fixed.
• Classic loading-screen behavior was improved.
• Runaan’s Hurricane could incorrectly trigger minion aggro.
• Sona’s Classic Song of Celerity description was corrected.
• Rapidly pressing Recall could incorrectly grant Guinsoo’s Rageblade stacks.
• Sivir’s Spell Shield could fail against Miss Fortune’s Double Up.
• Tristana’s Explosive Charge could fail to trigger its explosion in a specific minion-kill interaction.

Additional fixes address Renata, Taliyah, Yone, Yunara, Renekton, Nunu & Willump, Camille, Aatrox and other champions.

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What Patch 26.19 Means for the Meta

Patch 26.19 has a clear pre-Worlds identity.

Rather than introducing a massive gameplay overhaul, Riot is making targeted changes to champions that could matter at high levels of play while simultaneously improving weaker or less-visible picks.

The top-lane Teleport reduction is one of the more important system changes because it affects map movement rather than a single champion. Top laners who complete their role quest can now access their upgraded Teleport more frequently, potentially making split pushing and cross-map responses more practical.

The champion changes also show a deliberate attempt to balance professional viability with ordinary play. Ryze, Nocturne, Rumble, Vi and Twisted Fate are being restricted in areas that contribute heavily to their high-level effectiveness, while champions such as Aphelios, Kha’Zix, Lillia and Volibear receive targeted improvements.

Meanwhile, Classic continues to become a substantial parallel experience rather than a small nostalgia feature. The addition of four more champions and three resurrected items gives players significantly more historical League content to explore.

Arena is taking a different approach altogether. Its new Augments are designed around highly unusual mechanics—Death Realm duels, resurrection effects, sharks, brush healing, portals, automatic Sona abilities and more. That makes Patch 26.19 particularly relevant for players who spend most of their time outside standard Summoner’s Rift.

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League of Legends Patch 26.19: Biggest Changes at a Glance

CategoryMajor Patch 26.19 Changes
Summoner’s Rift	Multiple champion buffs and nerfs
Top Lane	Teleport cooldown reduced
Support Items	World Atlas and Runic Compass adjusted
Classic Champions	Fizz, Graves, Nami and Nautilus added
Classic Items	Cloak and Dagger, Moonflair Spellblade, Zz’Rot Portal
Arena	New Augments and Guests of Honor
Team Voice	North America/Oceania rollout postponed
Skins	Coven and Old God releases
Bug Fixes	Numerous gameplay and Classic fixes

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Frequently Asked Questions

When did League of Legends Patch 26.19 release?

League of Legends Patch 26.19 was released on September 22, 2026. Riot’s patch notes identify it as the update immediately before the upcoming Worlds patch.

What champions are buffed in Patch 26.19?

Among the Summoner’s Rift champions receiving buffs are Aatrox, Aphelios, Aurora, Draven, Elise, Fiora, Kha’Zix, Lillia and Volibear. Lucian and Master Yi also receive targeted adjustments.

Which champions are nerfed in Patch 26.19?

Notable nerfs include Nasus, Nocturne, Poppy, Rumble, Ryze and Vi. Twisted Fate also receives substantial nerfs in Classic.

Is Teleport getting buffed in Patch 26.19?

Yes. The cooldown of the top-lane role quest’s free Teleport falls from 420 to 390 seconds, while the upgraded Unleashed Teleport cooldown decreases from 330–240 to 300–210 seconds. Non-top Unleashed Teleport remains unchanged.

Which Classic champions are coming in Patch 26.19?

The four new Classic champions are Fizz, Graves, Nami and Nautilus.

Which Classic items are returning?

Patch 26.19 brings back Cloak and Dagger, Moonflair Spellblade and Zz’Rot Portal.

What new Arena Augments are in Patch 26.19?

New Augments include Archmage, Crit N Cast, Death Dealer, Got That Dog In Em, Hellbent, Nature Is Healing, Rite of Ascension, Shark Bait, Sonata, Surge Field, Titan’s Resolve, Warlock Juicebox and Wee Woo Wee Woo.

When are the Patch 26.19 skins available?

Riot lists Coven Janna, Coven Mel, Old God Anivia and Old God Urgot for release on September 23, 2026.

Is Team Voice coming in Patch 26.20?

Not according to the current Patch 26.19 announcement. Riot has postponed the planned North America and Oceania rollout and has not announced a new target patch.

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Final Thoughts

League of Legends Patch 26.19 is a transitional update with three very different identities.

On Summoner’s Rift, Riot is preparing the game for Worlds with targeted balance changes and a stronger focus on professional-level outliers. The top-lane Teleport adjustment is also an important systemic change that could affect how players approach side lanes and map movement.

In League Classic, the return of Fizz, Graves, Nami and Nautilus adds another layer of historical League gameplay, while the return of Cloak and Dagger, Moonflair Spellblade and Zz’Rot Portal expands the Classic item pool.

And in Arena, the focus is experimentation. New Augments such as Death Dealer, Shark Bait, Hellbent and Surge Field significantly expand the kinds of builds and gameplay patterns players can create.

With the Worlds patch coming next, Patch 26.19 is also an important snapshot of Riot’s direction heading into the biggest competitive stage of the season.