League of Legends Season 14: All New Changes to the Rift

As another year draws to a close, you know what's on the horizon - a brand-new LoL season. League of Legends Season 14 is shaking up the meta with some of the most significant changes Summoner’s Rift has seen in years. Get ready for a complete game-changer with the removal of Mythic Items and updates to the legendary Baron Nashor.

For 2024, Riot Games is overhauling the beloved MOBA to freshen up the gameplay, injecting new energy into the game with new items, the Void sweeping the map, and a sprinkle of map updates. Dive into the details and discover everything that's coming in League of Legends Season 14, including the highly-anticipated release date.

LoL Season 14: Release Date

The last patch came out on December 6, 2023. However, Season 13 will now end on January 3, 2024. This small change means that the League of Legends Season 14 release date will be January 9, 2024, lining up with Riot’s patch schedule with the release of patch 14.1. 

LoL Season 14: Ranked Season Changes 

Switching things up, Riot Games has announced changes to the League of Legends ranked system. Rather than doing the “single competitive season” per year format, the ranked year will be broken down into three individual splits. This change aims to accommodate players returning to the game or even newbies joining halfway through the ranked season.

• Split 1: January 9 - May 2024 
• Split 2: May - September
• Split 3: September - January 2025 

LoL Season 14: Map Changes

Summoner's Rift rarely sees significant changes added to the classic map. Usually, updates are limited to small visual tweaks, like new terrain or shader updates, adding a dash of eye candy.

However, League of Legends Season 14 is breaking the mold already. Riot Games is stepping up the game with adjustments to gank pathways for each lane. Brace yourselves to relearn the map again from scratch, with new walls added, extra stealth brushes, and more!

Top Lane

For Top Lane in the new season, the Red Side wall has been extended, throwing a curveball at any Junglers looking to gank, unless they have mobility to traverse terrain like Kayn. Additionally, there's also the fresh addition of a smaller pixel brush. Expect these changes to have a huge effect when you play ranked, especially if you're on the Red Side.

Mid Lane

For Mid Lane, Riot Games have pushed the river bushes further out as Riot Games attempt to discourage Junglers and roaming enemy Supports from camping Mid 24/7, which is a familiar sight in the current ranked environment. New roaming pathways closer to each Mid Turret have been added, making it harder for surprise ganks.

Bot Lane

In contrast to the other two main lanes, Bot Lane will be more vulnerable in League of Legends Season 14. On turret side, the majority of the safety-net wall is being removed, making the whole area more exposed and easy to access. In it's place is a tri-brush, shaking up the dynamic of safety near a Turret. The new additional a small pixel brush in the river near the Bot Lane opening also sets the stage for unexpected ganks or roaming surprises.

LoL Season 14: Jungle Changes

The Jungle saw plenty of changes in Season 13, so Riot Games is being more lowkey for LoL Season 14. The main change to the Jungle is the evanescent Void will be taking over Summoner's Rift.

Baron Nashor Changes

Kicking things off, the undisputed King of the Rift, Baron Nashor, is getting a graphical facelift with all-new visuals, making it look scarier than ever before. His two buffs: Resistant Skin and Void Corruption, remain the same.

Alongside this new makeover, Baron is getting three new forms: Hunting Baron, Territorial Baron, and All-Seeing Baron, each with different effects. Players can tell each Baron type apart with its new visuals; for example, the All-Seeing Baron has a bright purple eye at the front to make its presence known.

• Hunting Baron: The pit is unchanged, but nearby enemies get hit with lightning attacks.
• Territorial Baron: Creates a wall before the pit and pulls nearby champions inside with their hands.
• All-Seeing Baron: Closes off the front of the pit and opens up both sides, creating a tunnel.

Void Grubs

One new creature added to the Nashor Pit will be namely Void Grubs. These bouncing bugs spawn at the five-minute mark, replacing the first Rift Herald, and despawn at fourteen minutes.

When aggro'ed, Void Grums unleashed a swarm of Voidmites to attack enemies. Any players who slay Void Grubs gain the Hunger of the Void buff, which gives the user a damage-over-time bonus to structures like Turrets. This buff can stack depending on how many grubs are slain.

Slaying five or six Void Grubs lets the player summon one of two Voidmites that can help nibble down structures.

Void Red and Void Blue

At the twenty-minute mark in the game, the next spawning Blue Sentinels and Red Bramblebacks will rise as a Voidborn Sentinel and Voidborn Brambleback. This transformation cranks up their tankiness, making them harder to take down.

Additionally, upon being slain, their respective buffs are granted to allies of the player that takes them down, excluding any allies that were dead at the time of claiming the buff. These two buffs will become high-priority Jungle objectives to nail down, slightly changing the dynamic of the game after the 20-minute-mark.

Void Scuttler

At 20 minutes, the Rift Scuttler will respawn as a Voidborn Scuttler instead. When slain, a massive Scryer's Bloom effect will happen, providing vision and revealing all champions and wards in a large area. Any wards, whether they're Control Wards or Vision, will be reduced to 1 HP.

LoL Season 14: New Items 

As mentioned in the 13.24 patch notes, Riot Games is giving League of Legends a huge shake-up for next season, pushing players out of their comfort zone by removing numerous items, replacing them with shiny newer models. The Support Item system is also getting a huge overhaul, but we'll go over than in a seperate article.

Take a look below to see a rundown of some of the new items hitting the Rift in League of Legends Season 14.

Legendary Items

Caster’s Companion

Total cost: 3,000 gold

• Recipe: Lost Chapter + Hextech Alternator + 700 gold

Stats

• 90 Ability Power
• 600 Mana
• 20 Ability Haste

Unique Passive: Load

• Gain a shot charge every three seconds, up to six maximum.

Cryptbloom

Total cost: 2,850 gold

• Recipe: Blighting Jewel + Fiendish Codex + 850 gold

Stats

• 70 Ability Power
• 30% Magic Penetration
• 15 Ability Haste

Unique Passive: Life From Death

• Getting a takedown on an enemy champion within three seconds of damaging them creates a healing nova on their location that heals allies for 50 (+ 50% Ability Power).

Dawncore

Total cost: 2,700 gold

• Recipe: Bandleglass Mirror + Bandleglass Mirror + 700 gold

Stats

• 40 Ability Power
• 20 Ability Haste
• +150% Base Mana Regen

Unique Passive: First Light

• Gain 3% Heal and Shield Power and 5 Ability Power per 100% Base Mana Regen.

Unique Passive: Radiance

• Gain 18% Summoner Spell Haste

Hollow Radiance

Total cost: 2,800 gold

• Recipe: Bami’s Cinder + Spectral Cowl + 550 gold

Stats

• 600 HP
• 40 Magic Resist
• 100% Base Mana Regen

Unique Passive: Immolate

• Taking or dealing damage causes the holder to deal (10 +1.75% bonus HP) magic damage per second to nearby enemies (increased by 25% against minions) for 3 seconds. Taking or dealing damage refreshes the duration of this effect.

Unique Passive: Desolate

• Killing an enemy will deal magic damage in an AoE effect.

Kaenic Rookern

Total cost: 2,900 gold

• Recipe: Spectral Cowl + Negatron Cloak + 750 gold

Stats

• 400 HP
• 80 Magic Resistance
• +150% Base Health Regen

Unique Passive: Magebane

• After not taking magic damage for 12 seconds, gain a magic shield for 20 percent maximum health.

Trailblazer

Total cost: 2,400 gold

• Recipe: Chain Vest + Winged Moonplate + 800 gold

Stats

• 250 HP
• 40 Armor
• 5% Movement Speed

Unique Passive: Lead the Way

• While moving, gain 20 bonus Movement Speed. At max speed, create a trail that speeds up allied champions’ Movement Speed by 15 percent Movement Speed. Your next attack discharges the bonus Movement Speed and melee champions slow the target by 50% for one second.

Unending Despair

Total cost: 2,800 gold

• Recipe: Chain Vest + Kindlegem + Ruby Crystal + 800 gold

Stats

• 400 HP
• 55 Armor
• 10 Ability Haste

Unique Passive: Anguish

• Every 7 seconds while in combat with champions, deal (3% bonus HP + 20-40 (based on level)) magic damage to nearby champions, healing for 250% of the damage dealt.

Voltaic Cyclosword

Total cost: 2,900 gold

• Recipe: The Brutalizer + Kircheis Shard + 863 gold

Stats

• 55 Attack Damage
• 18 Lethality
• 15 Ability Haste

Passive: Energized

• Moving and attacking with abilities will generate an Energized Attack. Dashes and stealth stack Energized 75% faster.

Passive: Firmament

• Energized Attack applies 100 bonus physical damage. Enemies are also slowed for 99% for 0.75 seconds. Be aware that the slow is a melee only.

Component Items

Rectrix

Total cost: 900 gold

• Recipe: Long Sword + 550 gold

Stats

• 20 Attack Damage
• Four percent Movement Speed

Brutalizer

Total cost: 1,337 gold

• Recipe: Glowing Mote + Pickaxe + 212 gold

Stats

• 25 Attack Damage
• 10 Ability Haste
• 8 Lethality

Glowing Mote

Cost: 250 gold

Stats

• Five Ability Haste

Steel Sigil

Total cost: 1,200 gold

• Recipe: Long Sword + Cloth Armor + 550 gold

Stats

• 15 Attack Damage
• 30 Armor

Final Thoughts

That's everything we know about the huge changes for League of Legends Season 14. Brace yourselves a massive learning curve, whether you're a seasoned player or logging onto the Rift for the first time for new players and returning. With the sheer amount of new items, map changes, and Jungle creatures, it's basically a whole new game to conquer!

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