Wild Rift patch 3.3 notes: Samira, Sion, and Kassadin release, Legendary Queue, more

Wild Rift patch 3.3 is on the way. With three new champions, the introduction of Legendary Queue, and a brand new Wild Pass — the long wait for new content comes to an end. Here are the patch notes. 

Due to the Icons international tournament, the typical update schedule for Wild Rift was delayed substantially. Though there’s some time before the full patch goes through, the abundant amount of content headed your way is sure to make the wait worthwhile.

From new champions Samira, Sion, and Kassadin releasing throughout the patch, Elemental Drake finally making its debut, and Legendary Queue hopefully fixing ranked — there’s a lot to go over.

Be sure to check out the most recent Wild Rift Patch Notes and our updated Wild Rift Tier List

What’s changing in Wild Rift Patch 3.3?

Samira, Sion, and Kassadin officially revealed

New champions help develop the meta, effectively adding more variables to the ever-growing roster. Of course, the new additions come directly from League PC. But for those unfamiliar with these champions, here’s a brief summary of their kits.

Samira plays as a marksman in the duo lane who has a steam rolling ultimate capabilities. She plays kind of like an ADC Katarina — she spins to win with her ultimate, and gains dash resets off of kills. However, she must stack her passive from E to S by chaining non-repeating abilities (and basic attacks) to activate her ult.

• Read More: How does Riot’s Xbox Game Pass content work?

Sion is an absolute unit. He’s a split pushing menace, primarily playing in the Baron lane as a tank. He has a unique mechanic, coming back alive momentarily after death. During this zombie-like mode, Sion can only auto attack, but don’t underestimate his damage in this form.

Finally there’s Kassadin. As the only AP champion among the three, he plays as a scaling mid lane carry. His infamous ultimate grants him a blink which deals damage upon landing. What makes the move even more terrifying is its incredibly low cooldown — 2 seconds at max upgrade.

While there’s no confirmed release dates for the three champions, expect Kassadin first either late July or early August before the other two in August or September.

Wukong and Ahri reworks incoming

The popularized and well received Ahri and Wukong reworks are debuting in Wild Rift. In essence, Wukong’s second ability now allows him to go through walls, and Ahri gains extra stats on her ultimate for takedowns.

These are very similar to changes for both champions made on League of Legends PC earlier in the year.

New enchantment items were added and previous ones were rebalanced. In addition, the developers rescaled practically every ultimate cooldown in the game to better match Wild Rift’s pacing. For the most part, they pretty much shortened the cooldown timers.

Wild Rift Star Guardian event

Joining the mobile game for the first time ever is the Wild Rift Star Guardian Event, celebrating the release of exclusive skins that not even PC players get. Play to earn Star Candies and collect unique rewards.

You’ll also see the Redeemed Star Guardian event pass, with missions to complete for event tokens. Pick up extra tokens directly from the store. Trade them in for different rewards, including Redeemed Xayah and Rakan.

Elemental Rift finally goes live

After numerous testing phases, the developers finally felt it was time to officially implement the Elemental Rift — this is easily the biggest gameplay change.

Every game, the map terrain changes to match one of the elemental drakes. Therefore, game environments shift according to the randomly generated elemental dragon typing.

“This version of Elemental Rift satisfies a lot of the team’s goals around player agency and reduced stress around the early game, but there’s still plenty to explore and players can expect additional tune-ups and changes in future releases,” Riot stated.

New Ranked Season and mode: Legendary queue

Patch 3.3 marks the beginning of Legendary Ranked. This is a solo queue only ranked mode, where only high elo players may qualify to enter — ranks diamond and above.

• Read More: Wild Rift Legendary ladder brings Champions Queue to the masses

The system works quite differently from the typical Ranked Mode in Wild Rift, and provides unique rewards as well.

The new season of ranked comes along with the typical season rewards. In essence, a brand new exclusive skin, weapon augments, and other cosmetics.

You can find the full Wild Rift patch 3.3 notes below, courtesy of Riot.

Ultimate Duration Adjustments

Nasus

Fury of the Sands

• Duration: 15 seconds → 12 seconds

Renekton

Dominus

• Duration: 15 seconds → 12 seconds

Rengar

Thrill of the Hunt

• Duration: 12/16/20 seconds → 12/14/16 seconds

Riven

Blade of the Exile

• Duration: 15 seconds → 12 seconds

Items

New Enchantment: Magnetron Enchant

• Target a nearby ally champion within 5 range to dash to them, then taunt the closest enemy champion within 2 range for 1 second. (90 second cooldown)
  • This effect can only taunt one enemy per activation.
  • This taunt only affects champions.
  • The taunt duration is reduced to .5s if the affected enemy champion has been taunted by the Magnetron Enchant in the last 10 seconds.
• Total cost: 800g

New Enchantment: Repulsor Enchant

• Knock back enemies within 3.5 range to 3.5 range away from the caster. (60 second cooldown)
• Yasuo is not allowed to use his ultimate off of Repulsor.
• Total cost: 500g

New Enchantment: Veil Enchant

• Grant a nearby targeted ally a spell shield for 3 seconds that blocks the next enemy ability. (45 second cooldown)
  • Cannot be cast on yourself.
• Total Cost: 500g

Boots of Swiftness → Boots of Furor

• Footwear movement speed :: Reduced from 50 → 40
• [REMOVED] Sleek: Movement speed slows are reduced by 30%
• [NEW] Rage: When you attack a target, you gain 30 movement speed for 2 seconds.
  • Does not stack with the Rage passive from Phage or its various upgrades.

Fimbulwinter

• Shield ranged modifier: Reduced from 70% → 50%

Gargoyle Enchant

• [REMOVED] All current functionality
• [NEW] Gain a shield that absorbs 30% of your maximum health that decays over 4 seconds. The shield value increases by 100% if there are three or more nearby enemies. Deal 40% less damage for 3 seconds. (60 second cooldown)

Hextech Protobelt Enchantment

• Cost: 500g → 800g

Hullbreaker

• Bonus Armor and Magic Resistance gained by the item owner: 10 − 50 (based on level) → 10 − 50 (5-25 if ranged)
• Bonus Armor and Magic Resistance gained by allied minions: 50 − 170 (based on level) → 50 − 170 (25-85 if ranged)

Quicksilver Enchant

• [REMOVED] All current functionality
• [NEW] Grants immunity to crowd control effects for 0.5s.
• [NEW] Grants 30% Tenacity and 30% Slow Resistance for 1.5s.
• [NOTE] This enchant can still be used while under the effects of non-knockup crowd control

Shadows Enchant

• Removed

Statis Enchant

• Total Cost: 800g → 1000g

Runes

Keystone: Conqueror

• Total Stacks: Increased from 5 → 6
• Maximum attack damage (Adaptive): Increased from 10-30 →12-36
• Maximum magic damage (Adaptive): Increased from 15-45 → 18-54
• [REMOVED] When fully stacked, deal 10% (melee) | 7% (ranged) bonus Adaptive Damage to champions.
• [NEW] While fully stacked, gain 8% (melee) | 5% (ranged) Physical Vamp and Magic Vamp

Keystone: Fleet Footwork

• Healing mod against minions → Healing mod against minions and monsters
  • 60% for melee, 20% for ranged (same)

Keystone: Grasp of the Undying

• Damage: 3% Maximum health → 3% Maximum health + 20% Attack Damage +10% Ability Power
• Range mod: 50% efficiency → 40% efficiency

Keystone: Kraken Slayer

• On-attack effect → On-hit effect
  • This means that skills that apply the effects of attacks, such as Ezreal’s Mystic Shot or Fiora’s Lunge, can now stack and apply Kraken Slayer.
• Base damage: 28-70 → 28-84

Domination: Brutal

• [REMOVED] Gain 7 bonus Attack Damage or 14 Ability Power (Adaptive).
• [NEW] Basic attacks deal 7-14 bonus physical/magic damage on-hit against champions (Adaptive).

Jungle changes

Smite & Jungle Camp adjustments

Smite

• Burn damage: 30 per 5 seconds → 50 per 5 seconds

Gromp

• Base health: 2200 → 2000
• Health per level: 80 → 100

Red Brambleback

• Base health: 2700 → 2500
• Health per level: 120 → 140

Blue Sentinel

• Base health: 2700 → 2500
• Health per level: 120 → 140

Systems

Turret Plating System

Early Game Stats Bonus

• From 0 to 4 min, Mid and Baron Lane Turrets gain 90 Armor and Magic resist → from 0 to 3 min, Mid and Baron Lane Turrets gain 50 Armor and Magic resist
• From 0 to 4 min, Dragon Lane Turret gain 40 Armor and Magic resist for 4 minutes after game start → Removed

Turret Plating

• All turrets have plating → Only outer turrets have plating
• Turret Plating Duration: Permanent → From 0 to 6:30 min
• Plating number: 3 plating equally distributed per turret → 5 plating equally distributed per turret
• Plating Gold (Local):
  • Outer Turret: 150 per plating → 150 per plating
  • Inner Turret: 125 per plating → 0
  • Inhibit Turret: 150 per plating → 0
• Turret Destruction Gold:
  • Global Gold: 75 (Unchanged)
  • Local Gold:
    • Outer Turret: 175 → 200
    • Inner Turret: 150 → 350
    • Inhibitor Turret: 175 → 200
• Plating Defense:
  • The outer turrets gain bonus armor/magic resist based on health status. When the health is no more than 100/80/60/40/20%, respectively the turret will gain 40/80/160/240 Armor/Magic resist

Early Game Siege Protection

• Turrets gain additional bonuses for multiple enemy champions near it within 3 minutes of game start → within 6:30 minutes of game start
  • 2 champions: 10 Armor and Magic resist → 10 Armor and Magic resist
  • 3 champions: 250 Armor and Magic resist → 50 Armor and Magic resist
  • 4 champions: 300 Armor and Magic resist → 150 Armor and Magic resist
  • 5 champions: 350 Armor and Magic resist → 250 Armor and Magic resist

Trinket and Wards

• Using a trinket will cause all different wards placed by the trinkets to despawn
  • Example: using yellow or red despawns pink, using pink or red despawns yellow

Enchantment Switch System

While you have a boot enchant, you may purchase another enchant directly from the shop rather than needing to sell your entire boots slot.

• Example: If you have Mercury’s Stoneplate, you can directly swap this for Mercury’s Glory by purchasing the Glorious Enchant in the shop.
• Gold Cost: The cost of “swapping” = (the cost to buy the same new boot and new enchantment) – (the gain of selling your current boots + enchantment)
  • The shop will calculate this value for the player, and display the cost of swapping.
  • Cooldown when Swapping Enchantment
  • After swapping, the new Enchantment will be placed in a cooldown state, where cooldown = 20% of the enchantment’s max cooldown vs. 100% of the enchantment’s current cooldown (if player has used it before and still on cooldown), taking the greater value of the 2