Miss Fortune, Camille, and Zhonya's Hourglass get massive buffs at 12.17

Most recently, League of Legends Lead Balance Designer Matt Leung-Harrison, better known to players asRiotPhroxzon, shared the full details regarding the upcoming 12.17 MOBA patch.

The biggest beneficiaries of this patch are Miss Fortune, who has been buffed on all fronts, as well as Camille and the mage item Zhonya's Hourglass.

Earlier, RiotPhroxzon noted that in the near future we will not expect major patches that can change the meta much, however, as now. In general, the developers are moving in the right direction. In this patch, we can see a number of nerfs for the most popular champions to draft or ban, and buffs - on the contrary, for those whose popularity is in question.

MissFortune can now appear on the pro scene

Indeed, after such a versatile and unequivocally strong buff, there is a chance that she will become much more popular in professional leagues.

The champion from Bilgewater is the owner of one of the most deadly ultimates for a team fight. Now she gets a buff for absolutely every one of her abilities with a vector precisely in a critical assembly. More attack speed, more base damage, more damage with crit chance.

Hecarim is trying to be a Bruiser

For a long time, Hecarim has been a very popular jungler pick in many pro games. All thanks to a set of skills that give excellent control over the situation and positioning of opponents in battle.

After the global item rework in League of Legends, Rider of War quickly began to be assembled into a tank, which gave him a strong advantage over the Bruiser build, especially at high ranks and pro leagues. All we got were nerfs that took him out of the meta.

As a result, now the developers want to remake it into a kind of bruzer and fighter. Huge buff to his main skill by [Q] and adds armor with magic resistance to the aura. But at the same time, his dash and ultimate are the main trump cards of Hecarim. Will it change the meta? Yes, most likely our hoofed forester will now move to toplein.

Maokai support and jungler

The gloomy ent is given the opportunity to play in the forest. A huge plus in karma for the Riot Games balance department, especially in anticipation of the forest update.

You can see that the developers have changed and honed Maokai 's skills quite well. By transferring certain parts of skills to others and adding base damage along with interaction with forest monsters. In general, it looks like a good champion buff.

Now he can definitely and will play in the forest. But to be honest, I'm more confused by the buff that his [E]sapling and ultimate ability received. A relatively good support came out of the ent, but now it looks much more interesting.

Other buffs

Camille and Twisted Fate both received extremely nice buffs. We have already seen this couple more than once at professional matches this summer, but after this, their pick rate will obviously increase. Sett can also be attributed here, but his buff is more modest.

Ezreal, Nocturne, Graves, Kassadin also received a dose of their boost. But, in my opinion, this will obviously not be enough for us to start seeing them on the professional stage. In general, quite justified balance changes.

Against the background of all, only the Rell buff looks sad, which will not change absolutely anything. A spit in the face of an already “dead” champion by meta standards.

Zhonya's Hourglass as a standalone item

By "independent" I would like to mean more competitive. The more ability power a mage has, the better, right? Hourglass has always had less ability power than other items. But now, Riot decided that it was time to fix this and heavily threw the characteristics of Zhonya's Hourglass. Yes, the Stopwatch has now become more expensive, and the total cost has generally grown by 400 gold. I believe that now the item will become almost mandatory for every magician and will be collected among the first three. There is a feeling that a nerf is waiting for us soon.

By the way, due to the increase in the price of the Stopwatch, Guardian Angel also became more expensive, but in return they threw 5 attack power on him.

Patch 12.17 nerfs

I don’t think I’ll have to write much about the nerfs of this patch – absolutely everything is determined by the League of Legends esports meta. Anyone who is still considered an overpopular draft by the balance team is getting some minor nerfs.

Separately, I would single out only Nami. After all, the way they fixed her buff with [E] - they did it the way it should work in the game. Previously, buffing an ally with high attack speed was extremely easy to use Electrocute, which in theory should not proc from a single skill. This will almost 100% kill our leveling through[E]and reduce the popularity of the red rune.