Pride Month is just around the corner, even in League of Legends.
What you need to know
- League of Legends: Wild Rift is the popular MOBA, but on mobile.
- Riot Games is getting into the spirit of Pride Month with Patch 2.2c
- New colors, emotes, icons, and two new events are hitting the game in June.
Riot Games’ latest release, League of Legends: Wild Rift, takes the popular competitive MOBA and turns it into one of the best Android games out there. During this open beta phase, updates to the game come along regularly, tweaking the game play as the developers get used to the new mobile format differences from PC and take in community feedback The latest changes have come through in League of Legends: Wild Rift Patch 2.2c.
While full information has not yet been released on the upcoming events, they have announced Pride and Jubilant Colors both coming on May 24. To prepare for Pride Month in June, they also have released Pride 2021 emotes, the Rainbows For All Homeguard Trails, and a Rainbow Poro icon.
The company is still working to even out the playing field amongst its champions with some attack and stats changes to the versus modes as well as to ARAM mode. This is to be expected since developers are still learning how champions end up playing in real games through the beta period. The usual free-to-play champion rotations for the month have also been announced.
League of Legends: Wild Rift Patch 2.2c Notes
New champion
- Renekton, The Butcher of the Sands
New skins
These skins will be released throughout Patch 2.2c:
- Scorched Earth Renekton
- Blood Moon Diana
- Blood Moon Jhin
- Blood Moon Kennen
- Blood Moon Twisted Fate
- Blood Moon Yasuo
- Infernal Nasus
- Mecha Malphite
New accessories
- Icons: Rainbow Poro; Tanzanite Poro; Catseye Poro; Citrine Poro; Obsidian Poro; Rose Quartz Poro; Sapphire Poro
- Emotes: Pride 2021
- Homeguard Trails: Rainbows For All
- Baubles: Ritual Mask
- Recalls: Blood Moon Return
New events
- Pride – Begins May 24
- Jubilant Colors – Begins May 24
Gameplay Changes
Nemesis Duel
- Nasus vs Renekton — Bad Blood: Although this won’t happen every game, when both champions are level 13 or more, alive, undamaged within the last 5 seconds, and far enough apart, a nemesis duel may begin. If Nasus wins, (1) Siphoning Strike strikes all enemies in an area. If Renekton wins, he will remain at maximum Fury during Dominus, his ult move.
Champion changes
The following champions have changes to their attacks and/or stats, see Riot Games’ site for the exact changes:
- Braum
- Diana
- Evelynn
- Fizz
- Jax
- Kai’Sa
- Lee Sin
- Lulu
- Lux
- Pantheon
- Twisted Fate
ARAM changes
The following champions have been identified as outliers and have had changes to their damage dealt and received, shielding, ult move, and/or healing:
- Camille
- Fiora
- Jax
- Lee Sin
- Pantheon
- Seraphine
- Shyvana
- Sona
- Tryndamere
- Vi
- Zed
Passive gold
Riot Games has claimed that players seem to be building their champions very quickly and games have seen a weak split pushing impact. To remedy this, after eight minutes of gameplay the passive gold gain will go down from 4G to 3G. This is an experimental change and may be changed again in the future if it doesn’t provide the desired results.
Free-To-Play champion rotation
- May 13 – May 19: Akali, Braum, Darius, Diana, Evelynn, Jax, Miss Fortune, Olaf, Sona, Tristana
- May 20 – May 26: Ahri, Corki, Kai’Sa, Kha’Zix, Leona, Renekton, Rengar, Soraka, Tryndamere, Twisted Fate
See all of the changes and full details of Patch 2.2c on Riot’s Wild Rift website.
League of Legends: Wild Rift
Free at Google Play Store
Free at Apple App Store
This popular 5v5 MOBA game is now on mobile! Together, you and your team will need to protect your nexus from the other team using your variety of skills.
