It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a...patch?
Well, a patch is a patch, and it's going down tonight. For those of you too lazy to look at the site, here's what's going on.
Champions
Cassiopeia's Petrifying Gaze has a lower mana cost, now flat across all ranks.
Garen has received a visual upgrade!
Jinx is coming out this patch. Damn, that was fast.
Katarina got a big buff to her Death Lotus. It no longer has a channel time, but lasts longer and has increased AD and AP ratios. Oh, and the cooldown at higher ranks was reduced as well.
Lucian got a bunch of changes, most of them buffs. His base mana and mana regen have gone up; in addition, Piercing Light got a change with something about leading its target by 80 units when it targets a champion, and I don't quite get it; all I know is that the beam is narrower. Also, his passive got a fix to hit a second target if the first attack killed its initial target.
Olaf got his kit reworked. Check out the page for details...or read them at the bottom if I remembered to put them there.
Ryze has greater movement speed to complement a further buffed MS bonus on Desperate Power. His basic attacks are now more responsive.
Shen's Shadow Dash now only halves damage from basic attacks, rather than all physical damage.
Teemo's Noxious Traps grant 10 gold upon taking them out.
Thresh's Death Sentence is now more high-risk, high-reward, with a higher mana cost but a cooldown reduction if it hits.
Spirit Guard Udyr has more lines when interacting with certain champions. (ex. "Not okay, Rammus.")
Yorick's ghouls grant 5 gold upon killing them.
Champions - Co-op vs. AI
Zyra Bot can now be fought on Co-op vs. AI matches.
Champions - Twisted Treeline
Cassiopeia took two hits. The Noxious Blast speed boost has been reduced, as has been the AP ratio on Twin Fang.
Kayle's Intervention has a higher cooldown, especially at higher ranks. (also applies to Dominion)
Lulu saw heavily raised cooldowns on Wild Growth.
Tryndamere has higher cooldowns on Spinning Slash and Undying Rage.
The Wukong changes made for Dominion now apply to Twisted Treeline as well.
Champions - Insignificant Stuff
Minor changes were made to these champions:
Heimerdinger
Karthus
Nidalee
Items
Phage and Trinity Force now cost 100 more gold, and the Rage passive has a halved effect for ranged champions.
Moonflair Spellblade costs more, but is no longer ranged only - melee champs can use it as well.
Other Stuff
The More Options option in-game is gone.
They made some improvements to Windowed mode; most notably how you can unlock the mouse from the window by pressing F9.
The Trade System has been greatly improved.
That's all, folks!
Quite frankly, not looking forward to Jinx at all. The future does not look bright for this chick; nerfs shall be coming in droves. As for Corki, I seriously doubt that this will do much to his current status. I mean, he's Corki. You can't mess with that brilliant yordle. And in the case of Moonflair, I finally get to build it on Mordekaiser! \o/