League of Legends patch 25.23 notes: Return of Winter Rift, Zaahen launch, and extra

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League of Legends patch 25.23 notes had been out on November 19, 2025. While this replace adjusts the prowess of a number of champions, the important thing elements are the discharge of Zaahen and the return of the long-awaited Winter Rift. Furthermore, Blue Essence Emporium can also be again, and the Arcane Anniversary occasion is stay.

Here are the modifications coming with the League of Legends patch 25.23.

League of Legends patch 25.23 notes: Winter Rift has returned

The Winter Rift in LoL (Image via Riot Games) — The Winter Rift in LoL (Image by way of Riot Games)

To rejoice the upcoming vacation season, Riot Games has introduced the Winter Rift again in League of Legends, as some intriguing modifications have been made on the Summoner’s Rift.

Also, all Winter legacy skins will likely be accessible for buy when patch 25.23 goes stay, and they’ll stay accessible till the Winter Rift disables early subsequent 12 months.

Note: New winter-themed skins will likely be launched within the LoL patch 25.24.

Zaahen is obtainable with League of Legends patch 25.23

With the discharge of League of Legends patch 25.23, now you can lastly queue up utilizing Zaahen. While the lore reveals he was reborn following Xin Zhao’s dying, don’t fret, you’ll be able to nonetheless use each characters in-game.

Also learn: Zaahen’s skills in League of Legends

Champion buffs in League of Legends patch 25.23

All buffs, nerfs, and adjustments in League of Legends patch 25.23 (Image via Riot Games) — All buffs, nerfs, and changes in League of Legends patch 25.23 (Image by way of Riot Games)

1) Aatrox

Passive – Deathbringer Stance

Monster Damage Cap: 100 ⇒ 100 – 320 (based mostly on stage)

Q – The Darkin Blade

Bonus Monster Damage: 0 ⇒ 40 flat bonus harm (multiplied by different results like sweetspots and multicasts)

2) Ahri

W – Fox-Fire

Subsequent hit harm: 30% ⇒ 40%
Maximum single-target hit harm: 64 / 96 / 128 / 160 / 192 (+ 64% AP) ⇒ 72 / 108 / 144 / 180 / 216 (+ 72% AP)

3) Ambessa

Q – Cunning Sweep / Sundering Slam

Monster Damage: +125 ⇒ +150

4) Cho’Gath

E – Vorpal Spikes

Monster Damage: 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 (+30% AP) + as much as 200 based mostly on course max HP ⇒ 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 / 300 (+30% AP)

5) Jayce

Q – To the Skies! (Hammer Stance)

Bonus Monster Damage: 0 ⇒ 50 flat bonus harm

Q – Shock Blast (Cannon Stance)

Bonus Monster Damage: 0 ⇒ 50 flat bonus harm

6) Jhin

Base Stats

Passive – Whisper

Move Speed on Crit: 14% (+.4% AS) ⇒ 14% (+.44% AS)

W – Deadly Flourish

Damage: 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200 (+ 50% AD) ⇒ 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210 (+ 50% AD)

7) Malphite

W – Thunderclap

Monster Modifier: 1x ⇒ 2x

8) Miss Fortune

R – Bullet Time

Damage per wave: 75% Total AD (+ 25% AP) ⇒ 80% Total AD (+ 25% AP)

9) Ornn

W – Bellows Breath

Active Monster Damage Cap: 155 / 180 / 205 / 230 / 255 ⇒ 260 / 320 / 380 / 440 / 500
Passive Monster Damage Cap: 250 ⇒ 260 / 320 / 380 / 440 / 500
Level-up tooltip now shows the minimal and most harm per rank.

10) Riven

Passive – Runic Blade

Bonus Monster Damage: 0 ⇒ 50 flat bonus harm

11) Sion

Q – Decimating Smash

Monster Mod: 150% ⇒ 165%

12) Skarner

Base Stats

Q – Shattered Earth / Upheaval

Cooldown: 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 ⇒ 8 / 6.75 / 5.5 / 4.25 / 3
Target Max HP Damage: 8% ⇒ 9%

13) Swain

E – Nevermove

Damage: 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 (+ 70% AP) ⇒ 90 / 130 / 170 / 210 / 250 (+ 70% AP)
Mana: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 ⇒ 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70

14) Tristana

Base Stats

15) Volibear

Base Stats

Base Attack Damage: 62 ⇒ 65

16) Xayah

Passive – Clean Cuts

Damage: 30 / 40 / 50% AD ⇒ 35 / 45 / 55% AD to secondary targets

17) Zeri

R – Lightning Crash

Move Speed per Stack: .5% ⇒ 1%

Champion nerfs in League of Legends patch 25.23

1) Ashe

Q – Ranger’s Focus

Attack Speed: 25 / 37.5 / 50 / 62.5 / 75% ⇒ 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60%

2) Caitlyn

Passive – Headshot

Champion Damage Increase: 60 / 90 / 120% complete AD ⇒ 60 / 80 / 100% complete AD (Crit method unchanged)
Non-Champion Damage Increase: 110 / 115 / 120% complete AD ⇒ 110% complete AD (Crit method unchanged)

3) Hwei

QE – Molten Fissure

Hit Damage: 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 (+ 30% AP) ⇒ 20 / 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 (+ 30% AP)
Damage over time: 50 / 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 (+ 50% AP) ⇒ 50 / 87.5 / 125 / 162.5 / 200 (+ 60% AP)
Total Damage: 70 / 140 / 210 / 280 / 350 (+ 80% AP) ⇒ 70 / 122.5 / 175 / 227.5 / 280 (+ 90% AP)

4) Jinx

R – Super Mega Death Rocket!

Maximum Damage: 300 / 450 / 600 (+ 155% Bonus AD) (+ 25 / 30 / 35% lacking HP) ⇒ 250 / 400 / 550 (+ 130% Bonus AD) (+ 25 / 30 / 35% lacking HP)

5) Kai’Sa

Base Stats

R – Killer Instinct

Cooldown: 120 / 90 / 60 ⇒ 130 / 100 / 70

6) Rek’Sai

Passive – Fury of the Xer’Sai

Fury gained on minion hit: 20% ⇒ 16% (5 ⇒ 4)
Max HP gained: 10 – 20% (based mostly on stage) ⇒ 9 – 20% (based mostly on stage)

7) Vladimir

Base Stats

Base Health: 607 ⇒ 600
Base Armor: 27 ⇒ 24

Champion changes in League of Legends patch 25.23

1) Dr. Mundo

E – Blunt Force Trauma

Bonus Attack Damage from Maximum Health: 2 / 2.2 / 2.4 / 2.6 / 2.8% ⇒ 2 / 2.3 / 2.6 / 2.9 / 3.2%
Fixed a bug the place Dr. Mundo was getting most harm at 30% lacking HP as an alternative of 70% lacking HP.

2) Fizz

Base Stats

Passive – Nimble Fighter

Increased by 10 towards jungle monsters (now 14 + 1% AP)

W – Seastone Trident

Active and on-hit harm offers +60 harm to monsters

R – Chum the Waters

Cooldown: 100 / 85 / 70 ⇒ 120 / 100 / 80

3) Mel

Passive – Searing Brilliance

Damage per spell: 24-99 (based mostly on stage) (+9% AP) ⇒ 24-150 (based mostly on stage) (+15% AP)

E – Solar Snare

Root Duration: 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 / 2.25 ⇒ 1.2 / 1.3 / 1.4 / 1.5 / 1.6

System modifications in League of Legends patch 25.23

Items

1) Sunfire Aegis

Monster Damage Mod: 1.6x ⇒ 2x

Bug fixes and QoL modifications in League of Legends patch 25.23

Bug fixes

Fixed a difficulty the place casting Sion’s Death Surge whereas his Passive is energetic would activate Experimental Hexplate.
Fixed a difficulty the place Skarner’s Q would typically be on cooldown for longer than meant within the follow instrument after restarting a recreation.
Fixed a difficulty the place Ambessa would not lose a passive cost if the goal dies mid-auto assault.
Fixed a difficulty the place Garen may stack his W passive with out studying his W.
Fixed a difficulty in Swiftplay the place the Lethal Tempo rune would get robotically swapped to a champion’s default in sure areas.
Fixed a difficulty the place if Mel mirrored Vel’Koz’s Q, it will reset the cooldown of her Q.
Fixed a difficulty the place Mundo’s E bonus harm would attain its most at 30% lacking well being.
Fixed a difficulty the place the quantity of Cassiopeia’s W harm ticks can be doubled if an enemy walked into beforehand created clouds.
Fixed a difficulty the place Rengar would fail to stack Conqueror or Lethal Tempo when leaping from brush.
Fixed a difficulty the place Nocturne’s R sprint may fail to observe an enemy champion till the collision.
Fixed a difficulty the place Aurora’s Spirits might be seen for different champions.

Skins bug fixes

Fixed a difficulty that prompted Star Guardian Senna’s R VFX to be distorted.
Fixed a difficulty that prompted Shan Hai Scrolls Lillia’s VFX to be mispositioned when utilizing chromas.

Quality-of-life modifications

“Hide My Name” and “Hide My Identifying Info” Streamer Mode settings at the moment are revered in different gamers’ spectator streams. e.g., if Spectator1 spectates their good friend, Player1, any gamers in Player1’s foyer with Streamer Mode enabled can have their title and/or info hidden within the spectator stream.
In order to higher shield gamers from adverse in-game experiences, we’re persevering with to boost Streamer Mode and shift public spectator experiences in the direction of replays. The means to spectate stay video games instantly from ranked leaderboards is being changed with a shortcut to that participant’s match historical past and replays. Right-click the participant title on the ranked leaderboard > Match History.
Added functionality to entry replays instantly by way of the Riot API. M
Updated AFK detection to higher account for conditions the place gamers are disconnecting all through the sport.

This covers all of the modifications coming with the League of Legends patch 25.23.

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