League of Legends patch 2025.S1.1 notes: Noxus map, Atakhan, Boot upgrades & more

Patch 15.1 ushers in the Noxus map, a massive boots overhaul based around Feats of Strength, Atakhan, a teleport rework, and a whole lot more as League of Legends steps into 2025.

It’s been a long time since the League of Legends map saw a full makeover. Sure, it’s had some slight changes based around big esports events with some flags placed around the map and a few changes to how Baron looks, but nothing the likes of what the Noxus map is doing.

A brand-new jungle monster in Atakhan, new turrets, some small map geometry changes, a new color, and even new music are coming to Summoner’s Rift to kick off 2025. We’ve even got a trailer that confirms Mel Medarda and visual updates for both LeBlanc and Vladimir.

Additionally, League of Legends will be ditching its old naming convention for patch notes this year, replacing it with a notation that indicates which of the three splits it lands on. So, this will be patch 2025.S1.1.

Here’s everything we know about League of Legends patch 15.1/2025.S1.1:

LoL patch 2025.S1.1 release date

This League of Legends patch will be releasing on January 9, 2025. The actual release time is yet unclear for this patch, as a lot has changed with the transition to the new format.

It’s safe to guess the patch will deploy in the early morning for your region to give the least disruption possible with maintenance downtime. LoL patch timings have differed between regions in the past.

LoL patch 15.1 (now known as 2025.S1.1) notes

Map Changes

The Season of Noxus has arrived! With it comes a new look for Summoner’s Rift, but also a significant update to the way everything on the map functions.

Atakhan, Bringer of Ruin

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Atakhan, Bringer of Ruin spawns at 20 minutes on the side of the map that has seen the most kills/deaths by 14 minutes. If there are no kills, it’ll be based on the side that took the most damage.

When he spawns, along with him will come an arena that adds map terrain. He also drops Blood Roses on the map that grant a permanent power buff and some XP for your entire team. There are also two variants of Atakhan, both of which have different movesets and buffs they grant upon being killed.

Ruinous Atakhan spawns in high-kill games where both teams are duking it out. Killing him grants bonus Blood Petals to the team who gets the final hit on him and spawns more Roses in the area to collect additional Petals. He also grants a 25% increase to all Epic monster rewards, including rewards already earned, and spawns several Blood Rose plants around his pit.

Voracious Atakhan spawns in slower games with less kills and is a much bigger threat in the short-term. The buffs he grants reads as follows:

• False Life: For the next 150 seconds, the first time you would die, you instead go into Stasis for 5.5 seconds and teleport to your team’s spawn. Your would-be killer instead earns 1 Blood Petal and 100 Gold
  • Your team now permanently gain 40 bonus gold on champion takedown
    • Keep in mind this is takedown and not kill. If your entire team participates in a kill, that’s 200 bonus gold across your team.

Atakhan only spawns once per game, but more Blood Roses will spawn on the map over time, with them commonly spawning on the corpses of champions who die on the map.

Blood Roses grant the following buffs:

• Each petal gives the player that picked it up’s team 25 XP (increasing by up to 100% based on their K/D/A with a lower K/D/A offering more experience) and 1 to 0.33 Adaptive Force. Petals can be gained primarily through hitting a Blood Rose (a large one drops 6 petals while a small one drops 3) although they can be obtained through other ways like Atakhan

Objective Timers

Spawn timers are shifting around a little with this update. Rift Herald will spawn at 16 minutes, Atakhan at 20, and Baron at 25 to give each objective some time to breathe on the map.

Turrets

• Turret fortification decreased: 85% >>> 50%
  • This is the damage reduction that turrets get from having plates up
• Nexus turrets now respawn after 3 minutes, preventing backdoors and allowing more late-game comebacks
• Turret heat up: +40% per shot >>> +50% per shot (250% max)
• Turret heat up duration: 3 seconds >>> 5 seconds
  • This essentially means turret damage will scale faster and that scaling will last longer

Minions

You’re going to see a wall of stats here. First, we’ll list off everything that’s changing and then give some background on what it actually means.

• Melee minion HP: 477-1300 at minute 1-38 >>> 465-1500 at minute 1-48
• Melee minion Armor: 0-16 at minute 1-38 >>> 0-20 at minute 1-42
• Melee minion AD: 12-80.2 at minute 1-38 >>> 11-80 + 2% lane minion current HP at minute 1-42
• Ranged minion HP: 296-485 at minute 1-38 >>> 284-600 at minute 1-56
• Ranged minion AD: 24.5-120.5 at minute 1-38 >>> 21-125 + 4% lane minion current HP at minute 1-45
• First cannon minion: Wave 3 >>> Wave 4
• Cannon minion HP: 912-2900 at minute 2-38 >>> 920-2960 at minute 2:30-38
• Cannon minion AD: 41.5-77.5 at minute 2-38 >>> 39-73.5 + 6% lane minion current HP at minute 2:30-38
• Cannon minion HP scaling stops: 175 minutes >>> 90 minutes
• Cannon minion AD scaling stops: 7 days >>> 90 minutes
• Super minion HP scaling stops: 150 minute >>> 90 minutes
• Super minion AD: 230 + 5 per 1.5 minutes >>> 215 + 5 per 1.5 minutes
• Super minion AD scaling stops: 300 minutes >>> 90 minutes
• Minion XP range: 1400 >>> 1500
• Minion-turret and minion-champion damage: 50% >>> 55%
• Ambient gold start time: 1:50 >>> 1:40. Functionally everyone has 20.4 more gold

In essence, these are just minor tweaks to the way minion armor and damage scaling works. However, the big takeaways are as follows:

• Melee minions are just slightly tankier, ranged minions are slightly squishier until late game. Stat scaling for minions generally goes later into the game than before
• Super minions slightly nerfed
• XP range on minions increased
• Gold now starts spooling at 1:40 instead of 1:50

Feats of Strength & Boot Upgrades

Feats of Strength is a set of 3 objectives: First blood, first tower, and first to kill 3 epic monsters. Getting 2 of these 3 feats will grant you some pretty substantial boot upgrades for purchase, with the stipulation that you have to already own 2 legendary items to pick up a pair.

Additionally, attaining that Feats of Strength bonus will immediately upgrade each pair of boots even before you’ve got the tier 3 upgrade. Here’s what all those effects do:

• Triumphant Berserker’s Greaves: +5% Attack Speed
• Triumphant Ionian Boots of Lucidity: +5 Haste
• Triumphant Sorcerer’s Shoes: +4 Magic Penetration
• Triumphant Plated Steelcaps: +5 Armor
• Triumphant Mercury’s Treads: +5 Magic Resistance
• Triumphant Boots of Swiftness: +5 Movement Speed
• Triumphant Synchronized Souls: +5 Movement Speed

Here’s every upgrade and the boots they build off of:

(Note: All of these items are new, but they’ve gone through buffs and nerfs on the PBE that are reflected below. Also, these notes differ from Riot’s official notes. We have listed the total stats these boots provide rather than the stat increases to give you a better idea of what you’re getting from these items)

Armored Advance

• Recipe: Plated Steelcaps + 750g (total cost 1950g)
• 40 Armor
• 50 Movement Speed
• Reduces incoming damage from attacks by 12%
• Passive: Noxian Endurance
  • After taking physical damage from a champion, gain (10-140 +4% max HP) shield for 4 seconds
    • Base cooldown: 12 seconds

Chainlaced Crushers

• Recipe: Mercury Treads + 750g (total cost 2050g)
• 35 Magic Resist
• 50 Movement Speed
• 30% Tenacity
• Passive: Noxian Persistence
  • After taking magic damage from a champion, gain a (10-140 +4% max HP) shield for 4 seconds
    • Base cooldown: 12 seconds

Crimson Lucidity

• Recipe: Ionian Boots of Lucidity + 750g (total cost 1650g)
• 25 Ability Haste
• 50 Movement Speed
• 10 Summoner Spell Haste
• Passive: Noxian Haste
  • Upon damaging an enemy with a spell, using a Summoner Spell, or buffing an ally with a spell, gain (10% for melee/8% for ranged) movement speed for 4 seconds

Gunmetal Greaves

• Recipe: Berserker Greaves + 750g (total cost 1850g)
• 40% attack speed
• 50 movement speed
• Passive: Noxian Gait
  • Attacks on hit grant (15% for melee/10% for ranged) Movement Speed on hit that decays over 2 seconds

Forever Forward

• Recipe: Symbiotic Soles/Synchronized Souls + 750g (total cost 1650g)
• Will upgrade to Forever Forward even if the boots haven’t evolved yet
• Gain empowered recall
• Passive: Noxian Synchrony
  • Gain 45 movement speed and 10% total Movement Speed out of combat
    • This movement speed bonus applies to other movement items

Speelslinger’s Shoes

• Recipe: Sorcerer’s Shoes + 750g (total cost 1850g)
• 19 Base Magic Pen
• 10% Magic Pen
• 50 Movement Speed

Swiftmarch

• Recipe: Boost of Swiftness + 750g (total cost 1750g)
• 75 Movement Speed
• Reduce the effectiveness of slows by 25%
• Passive: Noxian Fervor
  • Gain 4% total movement speed
    • This movement speed bonus applies to other movement items

Champion Changes

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Ashe

Passive: Frost Shot

• Passive base bonus damage: 15% >>> 0%
• Passive damage now triggers on the first attack in addition to follow-up hits

Q: Ranger’s Focus

• Attack speed increased: 25-55% >>> 25-65%
• AD scaling increased: 105-125% >>> 110-130%

W: Volley

• Base damage increased: 20-80 >>> 60-200
• AD scaling reduced: 100% total AD >>> 100% bonus AD

Cassiopeia

Base Stats

• Passive Movement Speed bonus gets enhanced from 4-72 to 6-108 if her team gets Feats of Strength buff

Kalista

Base Stats:

• Mana regen growth per level increased: 0.4 >>> 0.8

Passive: Martial Poise

• Dash Calculation Rebuilt
• Base Attack Speed: Now properly referenced. This is a buff of around 8%
• Attack Speed Factor: Influence of attack speed slows has been halved. Attack speed increases still have full influence.
• Movement Speed Multiplier: Multiplied by (1-Slowed%) >>> Multiplied by (0.2% total movement speed + 0.28). This is typically close to 100% but now benefits from bonus movement speed and is more resilient to slows. The minimum multiplier is 48%.
• Dash Animation: Restored Kalista’s dash animation when basic attacking

Q: Pierce

• Base damage reduced: 20-280 >>> 10-270
• Mana cost increased: 50-70 >>> 60-80

E: Rend

• Base damage per spear adjusted: 8-24 >>> 7-35
• AD scaling per spear reduced: 25-45% >>> 20-40%

Twitch

W: Venom Cask

• AP scaling on slow increased: 5% per 100 AP >>> 6% per 100 AP

Varus

Base Stats

• Base mana reduced: 360 >>> 320

Q: Piercing Arrow

• Mana cost reduced: 65-85 >>> 50-70

W: Blighted Quiver

• On hit base damage adjusted: 8-28 >>> 6-30

E: Hail of Arrows

• Mana cost increased: 80 >>> 90

Item Changes

Abyssal Mask

• HP increased: 300 >>> 350
• MR increased: 45 >>> 50

Aegis of the Legion

• Cost reduced: 1200 >>> 1100
• Armor and MR reduced: 30 >>> 25

Bloodletter’s Curse (New Item)

This item is new but has since been buffed on the PBE, resulting in some changes that are now reflected below.

• Cost: 3050 >>> 2900
• 55 AP >>> 60
• 350 HP
• 10 Ability Haste
• Passive: Surge
  • Dealing magic damage to champions grants 5% magic pen for 6 seconds (stacks up to 6 times)
• Build path:
  • Haunting Guise + Fiendish Codex + 900 gold

Elixirs

• Level requirement increased: 9 >>> 12
• Can now only purchase one copy of an elixir at once
• Elixir of Iron
  • Tenacity reduced: 25% >>> 20%
• Elixir of Wrath
  • AD reduced: 30 >>> 28-30 (levels 12-18)

Heartsteel

• Base passive damage reduced: 80 >>> 70
• Passive health damage scaling change: 12% item HP >>> 6% max HP

Unending Despair

• Health increased: 350 >>> 400
• Armor reduced: 60 >>> 25
• Now has 25 MR
• Passive cooldown reduced: 5 seconds >>> 4 seconds
• Base damage reduced: 30-50 >>> 8-15
  • The HP scaling damage is unchanged with an increased tick rate, so the damage on this item isn’t as nerfed as it appears
• New Recipe:
  • Aegis of the Legion + Giant’s Belt + 800g (final price unchanged)

Warmog’s Armor

• Movement speed completely removed
• Passive regen per second decreased: 5% max HP >>> 3% max HP
• Bonus HP passive threshold increased: 1500 >>> 2000
• Passive cooldown increased: 6 seconds >>> 8 seconds
• Now grants 12% increased HP
• New recipe:
  • Winged Moonplate >>> Giant’s Belt (final price unchanged)

Runes

Sorcerer Runes

• Nullifying Orb removed & replaced with Axiom Arcanist
  • Your ultimate ability’s damage, healing, and/or shielding is increased by 14% (reduced to 9% for AoE damaging abilities). Takedowns on enemy champions refund 7% of your ultimate ability’s current remaining cooldown

Domination Runes

Every single vision-based rune (Eyeball Collection, Ghost Poro, Zombie Ward) has been completely removed and replaced:

• Sixth Sense
  • Automatically sense a nearby untracked and unseen ward, tracking it for your team. Also reveals the ward for 10 seconds at level 11
    • Cooldown: 300 seconds (melee)/360 seconds (ranged)
• Grisly Mementos
  • Collect 1 memento on champion takedown, up to 25 stacks
    • Gain 4 trinket ability haste for each stack. In game modes where vision trinkets do not exist, gain 2 summoner spell haste instead
• Deep Ward
  • Your wards in the enemy jungle are deep.
    • Deep wards gain +1 extra health and (+30-45 seconds) increased duration (+30-120 seconds for trinket stealth wards)
      • In other words, this is weaker for support item wards than trinket ones

Systems Changes

Summoner Spells

• Teleport has been drastically changed
  • Channel duration reduced: 4 seconds >>> 3 seconds
  • Now dashes to the target location
  • Travel time is between 4 and 8 seconds depending on distance
  • Can target minions and wards without being unleashed
  • Base Cooldown reduced: 360 seconds >>> 300 seconds
  • Unleashed Cooldown reduced: 330-240 >>> 300-240
  • Unleashed Teleport Bonus Movement Speed on Arrival: 50% bonus total movement speed
  • for 3 seconds >>> 50% bonus total movement speed for 4 seconds

Quality of Life

• Adjusted Annie’s Q. Q used to only refund the mana cost and half of its cooldown if it actually killed the target. Now, Annie’s Q will refund the mana cost and half the cooldown even if the target dies while the projectile is mid-flight towards the target.
• Grab your friends and hop into the multiplayer practice tool which can now support up to 10 players!
• Improved League Client load time, especially on lower spec devices.
• Updated the patch number displayed in the bottom right of the League Client to reflect new seasonal patch numbers. An option was added to the general League Client settings to show the old number instead, which is still used by TFT. We only recommend this setting if you play TFT exclusively.
• Removed the outdated “Close League Client as Needed” option. For players with performance concerns the option to always close the League Client in game is still available. This change was made to improve performance loading the End of Game screens

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that caused Rengar’s E to count as 2 spellsfor effects like Eclipse, Electrocute, andPhase Rush.
• Fixed a bug that caused Shaco’s W to proc Malignance.
• Fixed a bug that caused Master Yi be able to be slowed by Viktor’s W.
• Fixed a bug that caused Kalista’s passive dash animation to play incorrectly when constantly using movement commands.
• Fixed a bug that caused Gangplank’s Q and E abilities to not properly interact with Spear of Shojin.
• Fixed a bug that caused Tristana’s W to refresh its cooldown upon killing a clone.
• Fixed a bug that caused Warwick’s W passive to be effective before putting a point in the ability.
• Fixed a bug that caused multiple clipping issues with Viktor’s visual update.
• Fixed a bug that caused Badlands Baron Rumble ultimate to be missing some SFX.
• Fixed a bug that caused Warwick’s W SFX to persist for Viego after Viego had possessed Warwick.
• Fixed a bug that caused Pets to be unable to properly proc Spear of Shojin and Malignance.
• Fixed a bug that caused skillshots to reveal the caster to enemies if the reticle was hovering over an enemy.
• Fixed a bug that caused Illaoi’s allies to be able to hear VO intended for enemies affected by her E.
• Fixed a bug that caused the dragon contest voting board to not appear if you disconnected and reconnected to a game.
• Fixed a bug where Ashen Slayer Sylas’ wings and props were missing during his recall animation.
• Fixed a bug where Chronobreak (R) being off cooldown caused severe framerate drop whileusing Paragon Chroma for Arcane Last Stand Ekko.
• Fixed a bug where Arcane Last Stand Ekko was missing VFX trail and SFX during his homeguard animation.
• Fixed a bug where Bewitching Senna Chromas were reverting to parent skin textures during Homeguard animation.