League of Legends Patch 26.9 Notes

What’s in this update

It's time to hunt demons with Patch 26.9!

In this patch we've got updates to champions, items, systems, and runes galore. Including bringing back some old favorites like Deathfire Touch and Stormraider's Surge, and giving you a lot of new options to experiment with like new starting items and a variety of alternate champion builds. For role quests, we've got some balance changes, tweaks to make progressing them more straightforward, and a small mid lane quest reward rework to better fit a scaling fantasy. Finally, we've given Shyvana some love to give more differentiation to AD and AP builds and paths to be a durable Dragon.

Over in the Arena, we have a new update with events, new Augments, a new map, and more! We also have some adjustments and bugfixes for ARAM: Mayhem, WASD is coming to Ranked, and we have some demon-themed skins to kick off Season 2: Pandemonium!

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Lilu "Riot Riru" Cabreros
Erika “Riot Cashmiir” Haas
Steven “Riot sternest” Earnest

Mid-Patch Updates

April 30, 2026 Updates

Deathfire Touch

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