League of Legends patch 26.19 is now live with a Worlds-focused balance pass, new Classic champions, Arena updates, a delayed Team Voice rollout, and four new skins arriving on September 23, 2026.
Riot describes patch 26.19 as the first major round of pro-focused Summoner's Rift changes ahead of the Worlds patch. The update buffs several champions that have fallen behind, nerfs a number of meta picks, adjusts top lane Teleport, and adds another wave of content to League Classic.
Main changes in League of Legends patch 26.19
| Patch area | Main changes | Key details |
|---|---|---|
| Summoner's Rift | Champion buffs and nerfs | Aatrox, Aphelios, Aurora, Draven, Elise, Fiora, Kha'Zix, Lillia and Volibear are buffed, while several established picks are nerfed. |
| Top lane | Teleport cooldown buff | Free role-quest Teleport drops from 420 to 390 seconds, while upgraded Unleashed Teleport also gets a shorter cooldown. |
| Support items | World Atlas and Runic Compass adjusted | Some flat health is converted into health regeneration to shift power toward sustained laning. |
| League Classic | Four champions added | Fizz, Graves, Nami and Nautilus join the Classic roster. |
| ARAM Mayhem | Augment tuning | High Roller's drop rate is reduced and several bugs are fixed. |
| Arena | New Augments and Guests of Honor | Arena receives new Augments, three Guests of Honor and another balance pass. |
| Cosmetics | Four new skins | Coven Janna, Coven Mel, Old God Anivia and Old God Urgot arrive September 23. |
For the complete numerical breakdown, the official League of Legends patch 26.19 notes contain every listed champion, item, system and mode change.
Patch 26.19 champion buffs and nerfs
Patch 26.19 doesn’t completely shake up Summoner’s Rift. Instead, Riot is making a series of smaller balance changes aimed at giving a few less-popular picks more room to shine at Worlds, while keeping regular matches fresh.
Champion changes in Patch 26.19
Patch 26.19 brings a broad set of champion balance changes, with buffs for several fringe picks and nerfs aimed at some stronger meta options.
Aatrox
Aatrox gets a couple of useful buffs in patch 26.19, with Infernal Chains receiving a lower cooldown and Umbral Dash gaining stronger healing from bonus health.
W - Infernal Chains
- Cooldown: 20 / 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 → 18 / 16.5 / 15 / 13.5 / 12 seconds
E - Umbral Dash
- Health Heal Ratio: 1.1% per 100 bonus health → 1.3% per 100 bonus health
Aphelios
Aphelios receives a package of weapon buffs in patch 26.19. Each weapon gets a small improvement, giving the marksman more power across different parts of his kit.
Calibrum
- Moonshot damage: 70 - 160 (+42 - 60% bonus AD) (+100% AP) → 80 - 170 (+42 - 60% bonus AD) (+100% AP)
Severum
- Healing: 2 - 7.1%, increased to 5 - 17.75% → 2 - 8%, increased to 5 - 20%
Gravitum
- Slow: 30% for 2.5 seconds, decaying to 10% after 0.7 seconds → 30% for 2.5 seconds, decaying to 15% after 0.7 seconds
Infernum
- Duskwave cooldown: 9 / 8.25 / 7.5 / 6.75 / 6 → 8 / 7.25 / 6.5 / 5.75 / 5 seconds
Crescendum
- Mini-Crescendum damage: 15% AD, decreasing by 1.5% AD to a minimum of 5% AD for the 8th+ chakram → 16% AD, decreasing by 1.5% AD to a minimum of 5% AD for the 9th+ chakram
Aurora
Aurora gets buffs to both her waveclear and ultimate in patch 26.19, giving The Weirding more damage and Between Worlds a longer rift duration at lower ranks.
E - The Weirding
- Base damage: 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 → 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240
R - Between Worlds
- Rift duration: 1.75 / 2.5 / 3.25 → 2.25 / 2.75 / 3.25 seconds
Draven
Draven receives a straightforward base-stat buff, giving him more attack damage from the start of the game.
Base stats
- Attack damage: 62 → 64
Elise
Elise gets buffs aimed at improving her damage and jungle clear speed, with stronger Spider Queen on-hit damage and more attack speed from Skittering Frenzy.
Passive - Spider Queen
- Passive magic damage on-hit: 12 / 22 / 32 / 42 → 14 / 24 / 34 / 44
W - Skittering Frenzy
- Bonus attack speed: 60 / 75 / 90 / 105 / 120% → 70 / 85 / 100 / 115 / 130%
Fiora
Fiora receives more health growth and a stronger heal from Grand Challenge, giving her more sustain when she successfully completes her ultimate.
Base stats
- Health growth: 99 → 105
R - Grand Challenge
- Heal range: 550 → 600
- Heal per tick: 18.75 / 25 / 31.25 (+15% bonus AD) → 20 / 26.25 / 32.5 (+17.5% bonus AD)
- Maximum heal: 375 / 500 / 625 (+300% bonus AD) → 400 / 525 / 650 (+350% bonus AD)
Kha'Zix
Kha'Zix gets buffs to several parts of his kit, with stronger Unseen Threat damage and improved evolved versions of Void Spike and Leap.
Passive - Unseen Threat
- Damage: 17 - 136 (+50% bonus AD) → 22 - 141 (+50% bonus AD)
W - Void Spike
- Evolved slow duration: 2 → 2.25 seconds
E - Leap
- Evolved range bonus: +200 → +300
Lillia
Lillia gains a little more durability alongside a longer sleep duration on Lilting Lullaby.
Base stats
- Armor: 22 → 24
R - Lilting Lullaby
- Sleep duration: 2 → 2.5 seconds
Lucian
Lucian gets a trade-off in patch 26.19. Vigilance deals less empowered on-hit damage, while Piercing Light receives a significant increase to its base damage.
Passive - Vigilance
- Empowered on-hit damage: 15 (+20% AD) → 5 (+15% AD)
Q - Piercing Light
- Base damage: 80 / 115 / 150 / 185 / 220 (+100% bonus AD) → 90 / 130 / 170 / 210 / 250 (+100% bonus AD)
Master Yi
Master Yi gets a targeted quality-of-life change to Alpha Strike, removing the Ability Haste scaling penalty from its cooldown refund.
Q - Alpha Strike
- Cooldown refund on hit: -1 second, scaling down with Ability Haste → 1 second
Nasus
Nasus is one of the clearer nerf targets in patch 26.19, with Siphoning Strike losing some of its bonus damage across all ranks.
Q - Siphoning Strike
- Bonus damage: 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 → 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110
Nocturne
Nocturne's global pressure is being toned down through a longer cooldown on Paranoia.
R - Paranoia
- Cooldown: 140 / 115 / 90 → 160 / 130 / 100 seconds
Poppy
Poppy's flexibility is being reduced by lowering the maximum health damage cap that Hammer Shock can deal to minions and monsters.
Q - Hammer Shock
- Minion/monster maximum health cap: 85 / 120 / 155 / 190 / 225 → 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210
Rumble
Rumble's passive is being shifted toward a more balanced profile, reducing its attack speed while increasing the monster damage cap.
Passive - Junkyard Titan
- Overheat attack speed: 50 - 130% → 30 - 100%
- Monster cap: 65 - 150 → 90 - 175
Ryze
Ryze gets a defensive base-stat buff while losing some of the bonus damage from Flux and paying more mana for Spell Flux.
Base stats
- Armor growth: 4.2 → 4.7
Q - Overload
- Flux bonus damage: 25 / 50 / 75 / 100% increased damage → 15 / 40 / 65 / 90% increased damage
E - Spell Flux
- Mana cost: 35 / 45 / 55 / 65 / 75 → 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80
Vi
Vi is being made a little riskier through lower starting attack damage and a smaller Blast Shield, while her attack damage growth is increased.
Base stats
- Attack damage: 63 + 3.5 per level → 61 + 3.9 per level
Passive - Blast Shield
- Shield: 12% maximum health → 10% maximum health
Volibear
Volibear gets scaling buffs that support both his AP and bonus AD options, with stronger attack speed scaling and bonus AD added to his passive lightning damage.
Passive - The Relentless Storm
- Attack speed per stack: 5% (+3% per 100 AP) → 5% (+4% per 100 AP)
- Lightning on-hit damage: 11 - 60 (+45% AP) → 11 - 60 (+45% AP) (+20% bonus AD)
Item changes in Patch 26.19
Patch 26.19 also changes World Atlas and Runic Compass, shifting some of their flat health into health regeneration to give melee supports more sustained lane power.
World Atlas and Runic Compass
- Health: 30 / 100 / 200 → 0 / 60 / 200
- Health regeneration: 25% / 50% / 75% → 50% / 75% / 75%
Worlds preparation shapes the patch 26.19 balance changes
Riot's timing is important. Patch 26.19 arrives immediately before the Worlds patch, and the official notes describe this update as the first round of pro-focused Summoner's Rift changes. The goal is to address champions that could become fringe tournament picks without creating large disruptions before the event.
That helps explain why the patch contains a broad collection of relatively targeted changes rather than a sweeping system overhaul. The next patch will be the Worlds patch, making patch 26.19 an important transition point for the competitive meta.
Top lane gets a Teleport cooldown buff
Top lane receives a system-level change through Teleport. Riot says the role quest has successfully allowed top laners to skip Teleport more often, so the next step is increasing the spell's map influence for players who do take it.
The free Teleport granted by the top role quest has its cooldown reduced from 420 to 390 seconds. Upgraded Unleashed Teleport drops from 330 to 240 seconds depending on level to 300 to 210 seconds. The non-top version of Unleashed Teleport is unchanged.
World Atlas and Runic Compass shift power toward laning
World Atlas and Runic Compass are also adjusted. Riot is moving some of their power away from flat health and toward health regeneration, with the stated goal of making melee supports stronger during sustained laning rather than relying as heavily on roaming and all-ins.
| Stat | Before | Patch 26.19 |
|---|---|---|
| Health | 30 / 100 / 200 | 0 / 60 / 200 |
| Health regeneration | 25% / 50% / 75% | 50% / 75% / 75% |
The change has already prompted discussion in the League of Legends community. Some Reddit commenters questioned how much the adjustment would affect support gameplay, while others pointed out that lower early health and higher regeneration can encourage longer laning patterns. Those reactions are player opinions rather than evidence of the eventual balance impact.
Team Voice is delayed
One of the biggest non-balance updates is a delay to Team Voice. Riot had previously announced that the expansion of voice chat to full teams in North America and Oceania would arrive with patch 26.20.
The rollout has been pushed back for now. Riot hasn’t announced a new patch for the feature yet and says it’s still working through issues found during testing before making Team Voice available more widely.
League Classic adds Fizz, Graves, Nami and Nautilus
League Classic gets another major content drop in patch 26.19, adding four champions based on older versions of their kits: Fizz, Graves, Nami and Nautilus.
Fizz returns with his familiar pre-rework identity, including the missing-health component on his W. Graves returns as the older bot lane marksman, complete with stacking defensive stats and his classic shotgun-style kit.
Nami and Nautilus also join the Classic roster. Their older kits are comparatively close to their modern versions, although there are several historical differences in their abilities and interactions.
Arena gets new Augments and Guests of Honor
Arena receives one of the patch's largest content additions. Riot is introducing three new Guests of Honor, Ivern, Senna and Thresh, alongside more than 10 Augments brought over from Mayhem and two new Augments created with creators from the For The Win Creator Invitational.
New Augments include Archmage, Crit N Cast, Death Dealer, Got That Dog In Em, Hellbent, Nature Is Healing, Rite of Ascension, Shark Bait, Sonata, Surge Field, Titan's Resolve, Warlock Juicebox and Wee Woo Wee Woo.
Arena also receives balance changes to a long list of champions, including Aphelios, Bard, Bel'Veth, Dr. Mundo, Elise, Ezreal, Lee Sin, Lillia, Ornn, Rammus, Rell, Sion, Veigar and Zed.
Patch 26.19 skins: Coven and Old God arrive
Four new skins are scheduled to release with patch 26.19 on September 23: Coven Janna, Coven Mel, Old God Anivia and Old God Urgot. The patch also adds chromas for the four new skins as well as Coven Ahri, Coven Ashe and Coven Morgana.
The new cosmetics continue the Coven and Old God theme with darker fantasy designs, distinctive ability effects, new recalls and themed voice lines. Skin spotlights also show the chroma variations and in-game animations for the four releases.
Coven Mel's spotlight showcases her updated visual effects across her abilities, emotes and recall, while the Old God Urgot spotlight highlights his darker ability effects, voice lines, recall and chromas.
Old God Anivia and Coven Janna complete the release lineup, giving the patch four new additions to the game's cosmetic roster.
Patch 26.19 skins: Coven and Old God arrive
Four new skins are scheduled to release with patch 26.19 on September 23: Coven Janna, Coven Mel, Old God Anivia and Old God Urgot. The patch also adds chromas for the four new skins, along with chromas for Coven Ahri, Coven Ashe and Coven Morgana.
The new cosmetics continue the darker Coven and Old God themes, with new ability effects, recalls, emotes and chromas. Here is a closer look at each of the four new skins.
Coven Mel gets a dark new look with themed effects across her abilities, along with new emotes, a recall animation and several chromas.
Old God Anivia takes on a sinister new appearance, with the skin changing the look and effects of her abilities while adding new themed animations.
Old God Urgot leans heavily into the monstrous side of the theme, with darker ability effects, new voice lines, a themed recall and several chromas.
Coven Janna rounds out the release with storm-themed visual effects, new emotes, a recall animation and multiple chromas.
All four skins are scheduled to arrive on September 23 alongside their available chromas.
Community reaction to patch 26.19
Early discussion around patch 26.19 has focused heavily on the Worlds timing and the size of individual balance changes. Comments on Reddit include players debating the value of the Kha'Zix, Elise and Nasus changes, as well as the support-item adjustment.
Patch 26.19 has already sparked plenty of discussion among League players, with reactions ranging from champion balance changes to the upcoming Worlds meta.
The discussion includes reactions to the Ryze and Rumble nerfs, Arena changes and other balance adjustments. With the patch only just released, the conversation is still based largely on first impressions rather than long-term results.
The Team Voice delay has also caught the attention of players. While some are disappointed that the feature has been pushed back, others are more focused on whether it will actually change the way teams communicate once it is released. With patch 26.19 still new, it is too early to draw any firm conclusions from the initial community reaction.
Frequently asked questions about League of Legends patch 26.19
When does League of Legends patch 26.19 release?
Riot published the patch 26.19 notes on September 22, 2026. The four featured skins are scheduled to become available on September 23.
What champions are buffed in patch 26.19?
Aatrox, Aphelios, Aurora, Draven, Elise, Fiora, Kha'Zix, Lillia and Volibear receive buffs on the main Summoner's Rift balance pass. Master Yi also receives a change to his Q cooldown refund mechanic.
What champions are nerfed in patch 26.19?
Lucian, Nasus, Nocturne, Poppy, Rumble, Ryze and Vi receive nerfs or mixed reductions on Summoner's Rift. Other changes affect champions in League Classic and Arena separately.
What skins are coming with patch 26.19?
Coven Janna, Coven Mel, Old God Anivia and Old God Urgot are the four new skins listed for patch 26.19. Their chromas are also scheduled for release in the same patch.
What is new in League Classic?
Fizz, Graves, Nami and Nautilus are joining League Classic with historical versions of their champion kits.
Is Team Voice coming in patch 26.20?
No. Riot has postponed the planned North America and Oceania rollout and has not announced a new target patch yet.
What changes are coming to Teleport?
The top role quest's free Teleport cooldown is reduced from 420 to 390 seconds. Upgraded Unleashed Teleport for top lane also receives a shorter cooldown, while non-top Unleashed Teleport remains unchanged.
What to watch after patch 26.19
Patch 26.19 sets the stage for Worlds with targeted champion tuning, stronger top lane Teleport access and adjustments to several roles that Riot is monitoring ahead of the tournament. The live impact of the changes will become clearer as players adapt and competitive teams begin preparing on the Worlds patch.
For RiftDaily's continuing coverage, follow the latest League of Legends patch notes and check the League of Legends news section for further updates as patch 26.19 develops.
