# League of Legends 26.8 — League of Legends Patch 26.8 Notes - Product: League of Legends (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/league-of-legends) - Vendor: Riot Games - Date: 2026-04-14 - Version: 26.8 - Original notes: https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/game-updates/league-of-legends-patch-26-8-notes - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/league-of-legends/releases/26.8 - Labels: Platforms: Windows, macOS What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **changed** — Dr. Mundo Q - Infected Bonesaw Monster Damage Cap reduced from 300/375/450/525/600 to 250/325/400/475/550 - **changed** — Dr. Mundo E - Blunt Force Trauma Monster Damage Cap reduced from 200% to 140% - **changed** — Hwei Passive - Signature of the Visionary Base Damage increased from 35-230 to 40-285 - **changed** — Hwei Passive - Signature of the Visionary Comboing Slows now stack with diminishing values - **fixed** — Hwei QE and R abilities slows no longer stack with slows from other champions or items - **changed** — Karma Base AD reduced from 51 to 49 - **changed** — Karma AD Growth reduced from 3.3 to 3.0 - **changed** — Karma E - Inspire Mana Cost increased from 50/55/60/65/70 to 60/65/70/75/80 - **changed** — Lillia Passive - Dream-Laden Bough Monster Damage Cap increased from 65 to 70-180 based on level - **changed** — Lucian E - Relentless Pursuit Cooldown reduced from 18/17/16/15/14 to 16/15.5/15/14.5/14 - **changed** — Lucian E - Relentless Pursuit Mana Cost reduced from 40/30/20/10/0 to 32/24/16/8/0 - **added** — Champion specific keybinds now available allowing per-champion ability keybind overrides and smartcast toggles - **added** — Discord integration enabling invite of Discord friends to party, party link sharing, and cross-Riot game friend visibility in beta for US, Canada, and Brazil - **added** — ARAM Clash coming this patch - **added** — Updates to ARAM, ARAM: Mayhem, and Arena modes - **added** — PsyOps Vladimir, PROJECT: Sivir, Space Groove Zac, and PROJECT: Command Line Master Yi skins available April 15, 2026 Let’s get groovy with Patch 26.8! In this week’s patch we’ve got some changes to some of the more powerful picks right now like Mel and Dr. Mundo while we’re also helping out some struggling champions like Lucian and Hwei. We’ve also made some changes to help avoid players from taking unusable abilities at level 1 like Zyra and Zilean. In other news, we’ve also got updates to ARAM, ARAM: Mayhem, and Arena, not to mention a bunch of cool and funky skins coming to the Rift this patch. Don’t forget we’ve also got an ARAM Clash coming this patch, the introduction of champion specific keybinds (a long asked for player request), and a swanky new Discord integration coming your way! Looking for more information on all things League of Legends? Check out our community-run wiki [here](https://wiki.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/)! Wrong patch notes? You can find the TFT patch notes [here](https://teamfighttactics.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/game-updates/teamfight-tactics-patch-17-1)! Lilu "Riot Riru" Cabreros Erika "Riot Cashmiir" Haas Steven "Riot sternest" Earnest Patch Highlights PsyOps Vladimir, PROJECT: Sivir, Space Groove Zac, and PROJECT: Command Line Master Yi will be available April 15, 2026. Ranked Season 1 End The Summoner’s Rift Ranked Season 1 will end on the last day of patch 26.08 cycle, so if you’ve got ranked goals for this season make sure you hit them this patch! Good luck! - Date and Time: Regional local server time midnight (23:59:59) on April 28. Summoner’s Rift Ranked Season 2 will start on the first day of patch 26.09 cycle. - Date and Time: Regional local server time noon (12:00:00) on April 29. A few additional things to keep in mind as we wrap up this season: - For all regions, Ranked mission (win 15 ranked games) will be reset with the Season 2 start. - End of S1 ranked reward will be granted on 26.09. - Shard transfer services will be temporarily disabled during season transition until the reward grant is completed. Champion Specific Keybinds Champion specific keybinds have arrived! This long awaited player request will go live this patch and will now allow for champion specific overrides to be set for most keybinds. Rumble and Viktor players rejoice, smartcast options can also be toggled on a per-champion basis. As a heads up, you won’t be able to do this out of game, so make sure you go into practice tool and set them up before jumping into ranked! Discord Integration We’re partnering with Discord to make it easier to get into your next League of Legends game with your friends. Linking your accounts unlocks new social features: - Invite Discord friends straight to your party, no alt-tabbing needed! - Copy a party link and share it in your favorite server, no more manually inviting friends one by one. - See which of your friends play other Riot games and jump into parties faster. We'll be running a Beta across US, Canada and Brazil starting on April 16th. We will continue to test and refine the experience and plan on expanding to additional regions in a few patches. Champions [Dr. Mundo](https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/champions/drmundo/) Dr. Mundo has been able to more consistently reach his high points in the jungle where he is less concerned about his slow early game. We are looking to curb some of his clear speed to make sure he can’t go where he pleases too quickly and requires some more time to scale up. Q - Infected Bonesaw - Monster Damage Cap: 300 / 375 / 450 / 525 / 600 ⇒ 250 / 325 / 400 / 475 / 550 E - Blunt Force Trauma - Monster Damage Cap:: 200%⇒ 140% [Hwei](https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/champions/hwei/) Hwei has remained on the weaker side since the nerfs to his waveclear last year, and we are fixing a bug that we expect to be a further minor nerf. We still believe those waveclear nerfs to be correct as we want Hwei League's coolest combo mage, not just a walking waveclear machine. Therefore, we’re buffing his combo casting output up through his passive. Passive - Signature of th _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/game-updates/league-of-legends-patch-26-8-notes]_