LoL Patch 14.14 patch notes

After a week-long break, League of Legends Patch 14.14 is underway, with Riot Games looking to make another splash in the Season 14 metagame with this July update.

Patch 14.14 is all set to introduce several all-new Anima Squad skins, and they’re coming at regular RP prices (around 1,350 RP), which is a nice change compared to Faker’s Hall of Legends skins and bundles and its whopping $500 pricetag.

There’s also going to be a whole heap of balance changes across champions, items, and summoner spells, including Riot working on even more Teleport tweaks and looking to resurrect a number of pro play-focused characters that should spice things up as the run-in to the 2024 World Championship begins.

Best of all though, Aurora the Witch Between Worlds will make her debut this patch, bringing with her magic and powers that can rival any mage.

Here’s everything about League’s Patch 14.14 update.

When will League Patch 14.14 go live?

League Patch 14.4 is expected to go live on Wednesday, July 17, which coincides with the 2024 League Patch schedule. As this is expected to be a sizeable update, we’ll have to wait until the PBE testing is over before anything is truly locked in—these changes all just recently hit the staging servers on June 28.

Here are all the key patching times:

3pm CT (NA)
5am GMT (EU West)
3am CET (EU North East)
8am KR (Korea)

On update day, expect several hours of downtime once patching begins. As always, matchmaking will be disabled across all League queues three hours before the update.

What’s in League Patch 14.14?

Aurora the bunny witch set to call the Rift home

Aurora in League of Legends. — Who’s excited? Image via Riot Games

Aurora will be the second champion to be added to the extensive League champion pool this year, and don’t let her adorable ears or cute appearance fool you.

After testing her kit, many League pros have voiced concerns around her kit, especially her movement speed, damage, invisibility, and an ultimate that clocks in similar to Mordekaiser. In the hands of pros, she sounds terrifying. But for us regular folks, and with past champion drops in mind, we expect her to land with a bang.

Old pro play darlings now getting buffs

Irelia standing with her blades levitating around her. — Irelia buffs are coming. Image via Riot Games

Pro-focused champions like Akali, Sylas, and Irelia are getting buffs to make them more effective for pros again after they were tweaked to appear more in regular matches. The League team is investigating how to add some of the pizazz back to these champions to make them usable in high elo and pro play. In particular, Riot Phroxzon has explained, the changes will give the buffed characters more aggresive options.

Top lane is about to become more interactive

League of Legends character K'Sante and Tope sitting and laughing together — We’ll see more interaction from the top laners. Image via Riot Games

The League developers aren’t happy with Teleport and how it can completely skew lanes by having players stomp a member of the enemy team and be able to come back and do it all again quite quickly. Although the devs aren’t totally satisfied with the current solutions, we can expect the team to have a plan by the time Patch 14.14 goes live.

With the upcoming Teleport changes, we should quickly see teleports that impact the map without it once again being a party in the bot lane. This should be a massive win for top laners who often find themselves stuck on their lonely island.

Battle Bunny skins are making a comeback

cyber cat yuumi skin league — I NEED this skin. Image via Riot Games.

In the PBE,

Eight Anima Squad universe skins will be landing in the League store, each looking more high-tech and bunny-fied than ever; so much so that it reminds me more of Zenless Zone Zero‘s aesthetic than past Anima Squad cosmetics.

Here are all the new skins coming in this patch:

These skins will go live during the Patch 14.14 cycle.