League of Legends Patch 25.11 Full Preview: Garen rework and more champion nerfs?

League of Legends Patch 25.11 is set to come with major changes to Garen: find out what the changes are and the implications for the champion going forward.

League of Legends Patch 25.11 – Garen will no longer go crit

Patch 25.10 has been officially released on May 14, which means the game devs are turning their eyes to the next update, the League of Legends Patch 25.11. While the devs are still looking to evaluate the evolution of the meta in the current patch, they have been looking to make some tweaks to Garen.

The top lane champion has been finding too much success with his crit damage build, dealing absurd amounts of damage in 1v1s while retaining tank-like resistances. With that in mind, Riot is looking to nerf the crit build in favor of his AD bruiser build.

Check out the exact number changes below but here are the main takeaways from the planned tweaks:

• Garen’s crit build will become obsolete since the crit scaling on his E has been reduced, as well as the base damage on his ultimate.
• The champion is expected to be weaker in the laning phase given the nerfs to his W and the loss of the 10% extra resistances at max stacks
• The E will deal more damage by building AD items with ability haste. The lower cooldown should improve his teamfighting potential, given the better AoE damage.

Overall, this should make his crit build weaker since Garen won’t be as tanky and act more like a proper bruiser. The main concern is that the changes might make Garen even weaker than he already is early on.

On May 20, Riot Phroxzon shared the preview list of changes coming for the patch. According to the game designer, the team thinks the game is in “a pretty good steady state right now”, which is why they are looking to make power-neutral changes to a few champions, including less popular picks like Kassadin and Samira. Only one item (Horizon Focus) is being changed following the AP overhaul in the last patch. Below you can find all the planned changes.

League of Legends Patch 25.11 Leaked changes

Champion Changes

Aatrox

• Passive damage: 4 – 12% max HP ⇒ 4 – 8% max HP
• Q sweet spot damage mod: 1.6x ⇒ 1.7x
• W damage type: magic ⇒ physical

Ashe

• Q now stacks when attacking structures

Annie

• Base armor: 19 ⇒ 23
• Armor growth: 4.7 ⇒ 4
• Q base damage: 70 – 270 ⇒ 70 – 250
• Q AP ratio: 85% ⇒ 80%

Cho’Gath

• Armor growth: 5.0 ⇒ 4.5

Diana (jungle)

• P monster damage: 225% ⇒ 260%

Elise

• Spider form on-hit AP ratio: 20% ⇒ 15%

Garen

• Health growth: 98 ⇒ 100 ⇒ 98 (revert)
• W no longer grants 10% increased resistances when fully stacked
• W damage reduction: 30% ⇒ 25-41%
• W cooldown: 23 – 15 seconds ⇒ 22 – 12 seconds
• E no longer deals an additional 0 – 8.2 (levels 1 – 18) damage per spin based on level
• E AD scaling per spin: 36 – 40% ⇒ 36-44%
• E cooldown: 9 seconds ⇒ 9 – 6 seconds
• E crit scaling: 50% ⇒ 40%
• R base damage: 150 – 450 ⇒ 150 – 350

Kassadin

• Base armor: 19 ⇒ 21
• E base damage: 60 – 180 ⇒ 70 – 190
• R AP ratio per stack: 10% ⇒ 7%
• Max R AP ratio: 90% ⇒ 78%

Lucian

• E cooldown: 14 – 12 seconds ⇒ 16 – 12 seconds

Rengar 

• R cooldown: 110 – 90 seconds ⇒ 100 – 80 seconds

Ryze

• EQ bonus damage: 10% – 100% ⇒ 40% – 100%
• W damage: 80 – 200 ⇒ 70 – 190

Samira

• Q lifesteal effectiveness: 66.6% ⇒ 80%
• W bonus AD ratio: 60% ⇒ 50%
• R lifesteal effectiveness: 50% ⇒ 80%

Sivir

• W AD ratio: 30% – 50% ⇒ 40% – 50%

Smolder

• Base health regen: 4.5 ⇒ 3.75
• Base armor: 26 ⇒ 24

Twisted Fate

• Q base damage: 60 – 240 ⇒ 70 – 250

Twitch (AP) 

• E AP ratio per stack: 30% ⇒ 35%
• Max E AP ratio: 180% ⇒ 210%

Udyr (Phoenix Form)

• R AP ratio per tick: 10 – 45 ⇒ 10 – 50
• R on-hit base damage: 10 – 30 ⇒ 10 – 40
• R on-hit AP ratio: 30% ⇒ 35%

Item Changes

Horizon Focus

• Cost: 2900 ⇒ 2800
• AP: 110 ⇒ 115

When will Patch 25.11 be released?

According to the official patch schedule published by Riot Games, the League of Legends Patch 25.11 will be hitting the live servers on May 28, 2025.