League of Legends: Wild Rift

Wild Rift Patch 3.1a: Full Notes and Updates

Tarun Sayal

Published: Apr 8, 2022 01:41 am

A few weeks after the launch of the Wild Rift 3.1 update, Riot has released the next iteration of the current patch i.e. 3.1a. The new update brings a hefty of new content including several new skins, gameplay changes, champion rotation, and some champion balance changes.

NEW MODES

ELEMENTAL RIFT

There’s still a few days left to test and play our first version of Elemental Rift in the limited game mode! For more information on Elemental Rift and all the Dragons featured, check out our last set of Patch Notes.

Elemental Rift will be available to play until April 10 at 4:59 PM PT

SKINS

Releasing April 14 @ 00:01 UTC:

Pajama Guardian Lux
Pajama Guardian Ezreal

ACCESSORIES

You can earn or purchase accessories from a bunch of different sources. Please check the relevant page in game for more information on how to get ‘em!

Icons: A Puzzling Reward

Emotes: Fast Asleep; Soon.

All accessories will be released throughout the patch.

EVENTS

WILD PUZZLE

Reporting in, Captain puzzle solver on duty! Get ready to put the pieces together for some fun rewards.

The Wild Puzzle event begins April 16 at 00:01 UTC

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

ITEMS

BLADE OF THE RUINED KING

Blade of the Ruined King has been a popular item choice since the beginning of Wild Rift, but over time it’s grown to be more common and more powerful as a first purchase for many fighters and marksmen. We’re slightly increasing its price so you’ll have to farm a couple extra minions if you want to snag this blade early on.

Total cost: 3100g → 3200g
Combine cost: 1000g → 1100g

MONSTERS

BARON NASHOR

Baron’s powerful Acid Shot has been terrorizing champions on the Rift for some time. To ease some of the frustration around this ability, we’re reworking its damage so it scales less with Baron’s Attack Damage and also reducing its damage to targets who get hit by subsequent shots. Since Baron is losing power overall, we’re giving it some more base health.

Base health: 10800 → 11800
Acid Shot damage: 20 + 120% Attack Damage → 120 + 25% Attack Damage
Acid Shot damage ratio to targets hit by subsequent shots: 70% → 50%

SYSTEMS

HOMEGUARD & MINIONS

Minions play a pretty big role in the later stages of the game, so we are making some adjustments to alleviate some of the pressure those late-game minion waves can cause. We’re increasing the bonus movespeed for Homeguard in the mid-to-late game to allow champions to get into more aggressive positions quicker while also reducing the move speed the minions gain.

Homeguard

Movement speed effect: After 12 mins, gain 30% movement speed for 4s → After 1 min, gain 40% movement speed until the game ends

Minion movement speed

Movement speed bonus at 12 minutes: 40 → 10
Maximum movement speed bonus: 120 → 100

RESPAWN TIMER

We’re making some adjustments to respawns and changing how much a champion can be penalized or favored on their death timers. If you have a lead and are ahead in your game, you’ll be penalized less, but if you find yourself behind in your games you’ll be favored less.

Base respawn timer