Here is everything you need to know about LoL Patch 25.09, the ninth update for the 2025 League of Legends season.
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LoL Patch 25.09 – Riot shaking up ahead of the new season
Patch 25.09 will welcome the start of the new season, centered around the world of Ionia. Earlier this week, Riot released the new Spirit Blossom cinematic video, which included the tease of the new champion.
Aside from that, Riot is making several influential gameplay changes, including tweaks to the neutral objectives like Void Grubs, Rift Herald, and Atakhan. The first will no longer spawn twice, delaying the initial spawn time. For Atakhan, on the other hand, the Voracious one will be removed from the game, leaving only the Ruinous version (which will be renamed).
Additionally, the game devs will be rolling out a new update to the negative behavior systems, with the goal of eliminating intentionally losing behavior. While no major details have been announced, Riot Games designer Riot Phroxzon stated they plan to ramp up the crackdowns if the system works as intended.
On top of that, there are minor changes to Tier 3 boots upgrades: you can check the full list of changes below. Phroxzon has detailed the planned change list for the patch: the exact number changes will be announced at a later date.
Patch 25.09 Release Date
The official patch schedule for 2025 has been confirmed, and LoL Patch 25.09 will be released on Apr. 30, 2025.
How will the upcoming patch shake the meta?
While more changes are expected on the list, the objective changes will likely have strong consequences for the current meta. With Void Grubs spawn time delayed, we might see teams looking to contest the first dragon more often, meaning that bot lane priority will have a stronger impact. On top of that, void grubs should have a little more power and require fewer stacks to work, making it easier to play around and actually maximize its value. I’m not too sold on the Atakhan changes since I believe having two forms was beneficial to make the game more dynamic. That said, Ruinous spawned the majority of the time, so it was probably better if Riot found a fix around that rather than straight-up removing one version.
In the meantime, check out our tier lists:
LoL Patch 25.09
Champion changes in Patch 25.09
Annie
Ashe
Gwen (jungle-focused nerf)
Kalista
K’Sante
Leona
Morgana
Naafiri
Orianna
Shen
Yorick
System Changes
Atakhan
- Now only has the Ruinous form, called Thornbound
- Base AD: 75 ⇒ 100
- Ring base damage: 11.5 – 207 ⇒ 10 – 180
- Ring health damage: 9% current HP ⇒ 8% current HP
- Killing him now also collects all roses on the map and increases rose XP and adaptive force by 25%
- Rose XP: 23 ⇒ 20
Boots
- All upgrade costs: 750 ⇒ 500
- Spellslinger’s Shoe magic pen: 8% ⇒ 7%
- Forever Forward move speed ratio: 10% ⇒ 8%
- Boots of Swiftness
- Cost: 1000 ⇒ 950
- Move speed: 60 ⇒ 55
- Swiftmarch base move speed: 70 ⇒ 75 ⇒ 70 (reverted)
- Now grants adaptive force equal to 5% MS instead of 4% increased MS
- Symbiotic Soles no longer grants empowered recall + now grants 15 out of combat MS (only affects Symbiotic Soles, not the upgrades)
Bounties
- Base champ kill gold: 300 flat ⇒ 300 – 420 (levels 6 – 18)
Ignite
- Damage: 70 – 410 ⇒ 60 – 460 (buff from level six onwards)
- Teleport is still far too dominant in higher levels of play so Riot is making Ignite more relevant by buffing up the summoner’s spell scaling. Expect more snowballs and kills.
Jungle and support starting items
- Jungle items can no longer be sold
- Junglers can no longer buy any non-consumables until after they get their item
- Support items can now only be purchased by supports
Rift Herald
- Spawn time: 16:00 ⇒ 15:00
- No longer has 50% damage reduction against the target she has most recently damaged
- Swipe AD ratio: 300% ⇒ 125%
Biscuit
- Heal: 12% missing HP ⇒ 25 – 125 (based on 0% – 70% missing HP) + 2% max HP
Voidgrubs
- Only 1 group spawns now
- Spawn time: 6:00 ⇒ 8:00
- Max stacks: 6 ⇒ 3
- Now spawn 1 mini grub at 3 stacks instead of 1/2 at 4/6 stacks
- True damage: 3/6/9/12/15/18 ⇒ 3/9/12, still half for ranged
Unflinching
Upcoming skins
- Spirit Blossom Irelia – 1820 RP
- Spirit Blossom Ashe – 1820 RP
- Spirit Blossom Varus – 1350 RP
- Spirit Blossom Bard – 1350 RP
- Spirit Blossom Zyra – 1350 RP
- Spirit Blossom Ivern – Battle Pass Reward
- Pool Party Twitch – Battle Pass Reward
- Prestige Spirit Blossom Lux – Battle Pass Reward