# League of Legends 9.3 — Patch 9.3 notes - Product: League of Legends (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/league-of-legends) - Vendor: Riot Games - Date: 2019-02-05 - Version: 9.3 - Original notes: https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/game-updates/patch-9-3-notes/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/league-of-legends/releases/9.3 - 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** — Spellthief's Edge Tribute procs now require an allied champion within 2000 range to grant gold, otherwise they only deal extra damage - **changed** — Spellthief's Edge Tribute gold increased from 10/20/20 to 11/22/22 - **changed** — Ancient Coin Favor procs now require an allied champion within 2000 range to drop gold coins, otherwise they only drop mana coins - **changed** — Ancient Coin Favor gold increased from 25/45/45 to 28/50/50 - **changed** — Aatrox health regen increased from 5 to 8 and growth increased from 0.25 to 0.75 - **removed** — Aatrox no longer heals for damage dealt to non-champions - **removed** — Aatrox Umbral Dash no longer stores charges - **changed** — Aatrox Umbral Dash cooldown changed from 3/2.5/2/1.5/1 seconds to 9/8/7/6/5 seconds and now reduced by cooldown reduction - **changed** — Akali health regen increased from 3.5 to 6 - **removed** — Akali Five Point Strike no longer heals - **removed** — Akali Twilight Shroud no longer prevents turrets from revealing her - **changed** — Akali Twilight Shroud cooldown increased from 21/18.5/16/13.5/11 to 21/19/17/15/13 seconds - **removed** — Camille Hookshot no longer stuns minions and monsters Welcome to 9.3, the patch that's like milk because we're alleviating a lot of spice. On the champion front, we're wrapping up mechanics cleanup on Aatrox, Akali, and Irelia to ensure they've got meaningful weaknesses opponents can capitalize on. Item-wise, we're taking a deep pass on marksman items to solve the build satisfaction issues marksmen have been frustrated by since midseason. We're also changing farm bounties so players who farm their way back from a deficit aren't treated the same as champs who ran away with huge CS leads to begin with. Grab a glass (of milk, remember?) and read on. Paul "Aether" Perscheid Back to top Patch Highlights Back to top Mid-Patch Updates 2/12/2019 Balance Update Recent days have ushered in the "Frostmancy" strategy, where solo laners take Kleptomancy and Spellthief's Edge to harass their opponent with Tribute procs and maintain their income with Kleptomancy while ignoring last hitting. This strategy throws several laning skills out the window, erases the gold tradeoffs for missing last hits, and gives opponents no means of interfering with your plan. Similar to gold funneling last season, we're taking a heavy-handed approach to remove Frostmancy now while we work on a more refined long-term solution. Since this change hits some legitimate support decisions (ex. staying in lane while your carry recalls) we're increasing Tribute gold a bit to avoid big nerfs to Spellthief's' intended users. We're applying the same philosophy to Ancient Coin as well to avoid the risk that Frostmancy users simply rotate off Spellthief's onto Coin. Spellthief's Edge Line newBUDDY SYSTEM Tribute procs now require an allied champion within 2000 range to grant gold, otherwise they only deal extra damage TRIBUTE GOLD 10/20/20 gold (Spellthief's Edge/Frostfang/Remnant of the Watchers) ⇒ 11/22/22 gold (Spellthief's Edge/Frostfang/Remnant of the Watchers) Ancient Coin Line newBUDDY SYSTEM Favor procs now require an allied champion within 2000 range to drop gold coins, otherwise they only drop mana coins FAVOR GOLD 25/45/45 gold (Ancient Coin/Nomad's Medallion/Remnant of the Ascended) ⇒ 28/50/50 gold (Ancient Coin/Nomad's Medallion/Remnant of the Ascended) Champions [Aatrox](http://gameinfo.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/game-info/champions/aatrox/) Health regen increased. Aatrox no longer heals off damage to non-champions. E no longer stores charges but cools down faster than it previously charged. Where last patch focused on dropping Aatrox's raw power, this patch focuses on exposing more weaknesses for the Darkin Blade. We're trading his ability to sustain off minions for higher baseline regen so he can't fall back as effectively on passive farming to recover from enemy aggression. Removing Umbral Dash's second charge makes Aatrox's skill check for landing all three Q hits steeper and means if enemies can bait his dash, he won't have a second one to use as an escape. Base Stats HEALTH REGEN 5 ⇒ 8 HEALTH REGEN GROWTH 0.25 ⇒ 0.75 E - Umbral Dash removedHEALING VS NON-CHAMPIONS Aatrox no longer heals for 3/3.34/3.75/4.13/4.5% of the damage he deals to non-champions removedCHARGES Aatrox no longer stores a charge of Umbral Dash every 26/22/18/14/10 seconds COOLDOWN 3/2.5/2/1.5/1 seconds ⇒ 9/8/7/6/5 seconds, now reduced by cooldown reduction (CDR previously affected charge rate rather than cooldown) [Akali](http://gameinfo.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/game-info/champions/akali/) Health regen increased. Q no longer heals. Turrets reveal Akali through Shroud. W cooldown increased late. First thing's first: We're removing Akali's ability to hide from turrets, which has been the most contentious part of her update. Many of you are asking why it took us half a year to get here, and the answer is that Akali depended on turret stealth to dive as effectively as other assassins. Ultimately, though, Akali has so many strengths (the ability to switch targets mid-fight without giving up kil _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/game-updates/patch-9-3-notes/]_