LoL Patch 25.24: Winter Skins, Mel Nerf, and More

Season 3 Ranked Ending:: The Summoner's Rift Ranked Season 3 ends on January 7, 2026, with ranked queues disabled for 12 hours in preparation for Season 1, 2026. Rewards include a Victorious Draven skin and accessories based on the highest rank achieved during the season.

WASD Control Launch:: WASD controls are now live in most unranked queues across all regions. Draft and Ranked queues do not support WASD at this time. Briar and Taliyah have WASD disabled for this patch. Report any bugs to Player Support.

Champion Updates:

Buffs:: Braum, Nasus, Sejuani, Swain, and Viktor receive buffs to enhance their effectiveness.

Nerfs:: Dr. Mundo, Kayn, Kha'Zix, Master Yi, Mel, Nidalee, Zed, and Zaahen are nerfed to balance their power.

Rune Adjustments:: The Bloodline rune receives a buff, increasing Life Steal per Stack to 0.45% and Maximum Life Steal to 6.75%.

New Skins:: Six new skins are available, including Winter Wonder Zeri, Winter Wonder Milio, Reindeer Smolder, Prestige Winterblessed Mel, Sunken Shadows Lucian, and Sunken Shadows Nami.

Braum:: Increased base health and damage on follow-up attacks.

Nasus:: Increased base health and base damage for Q - Siphoning Strike.

Sejuani:: Cooldown buffs and AP ratio adjustments to Q, W, E and R.

Swain:: Increased healing from his passive.

Viktor:: Increased shield on his Q.

Dr. Mundo:: Monster Damage Cap was nerfed for Q - Infected Bonesaw.

Kayn:: Reduced bonus magic damage for Passive - The Darkin Scythe.

Kha'Zix:: Reduced base damage for W - Void Spike.

Master Yi:: Decreased base health and attack damage growth.

Mel:: Orb Magic Damage and Magic Damage per Second reduced for E - Solar Snare. Lingering Debuff Duration was also nerfed.

Nidalee:: Fixed a bug with Q - Javelin Toss.

Zed:: Damage to Monsters reduced for Passive - Contempt for the Weak.

Zaahen:: Several changes were made, including bonus AD per Stack, AD Ratio and Second Cast Base Damage for Q - The Darkin Glaive, Cooldown and Monster Damage Modifier for Q and Sweet Spot Damage for E - Aureate Rush.

Earthwake: Dashing or blinking causes you to leave behind a trail that detonates after a short delay

Orbital Laser: Replace your Non-flash summoner with Orbital Laser

Trueshot Prodigy: Damaging enemies over 700 units away casts an Ezreal R in their direction.

Cerberus: Gain the Hail of Blades and Press the Attack Keystone Runes.

Pandora's Box: Transmute all of your augments into random Prismatic augments.

Stackosaurus Rex: When you gain permanent stacks of an ability, gain 75% more.

Ultimate Awakening (reworked): Gain 30 ability hast on your ultimate.

Hextech Gunblade: Shock a target enemy champion, dealing magic damage and slowing them.

Sword of Blossoming Dawn: Heal the lowest-health nearby ally champion for 15-40 (+10%bAD) (+7%AP)

Empyrean Promise: Cast Range increased.

Feel the Burn: Cast Range increased and changed the cast from target cast to self cast.

Upgrade Zhonya: Zhonya's Cooldown decreased.

Snowball Upgrade: Base Slow Amount and Base Damage increased.

Slow and Steady: 1% Attack Speed Conversion increased.

Fixed a bug where Self Destruct did not make enemies Airborne.

Fixed Self Destruct's tooltip syntax.

Fixed a bug where Spiritual Purification was not clear on the damage dealt to nearby enemies.

Fixed a bug where Snowball Roulette's tooltip was not stating its intended function.

Fixed a bug where Snowball Roulette did not function while having the Biggest Snowball Ever Augment equipped.