Most Changes for top lane with patch 7.13 in League of Legends

Some of League of Legends top laners are getting slapped with a ton of changes in patch 7.13, according to the official patch notes.

Galio

Galio has the opposite problem. He’s way too damn powerful, and he needs some tweaks. He harasses in lane like a mage, or at least a mage bruiser like Rumble, while maintaining enough tankiness to outlast the beefiest of League’s meatshields. His tankiness is being brought down a bit, but his damage is being increased.

His base armor and the base damage on his Q is being lowered by a good amount, but the AP scaling on his Q is being raised by a big chunk. AP tank items like the Abyssal Mask, Zhonya’s Hourglass, and Rylai’s will be more effective on him now. Players might not alter his build at all, but we may start seeing him built a little bit more like Rumble.

Kennen

One of Kennen’s appeals is that he can be built with AD or AP depending on what the situation calls for. He definitely needs nerfs due to how dominant his AD build is, but it’s always tricky to do without making one build more useless than the next. Riot seems to have found a decent balance.

His W will now scale with bonus AD instead of total AD, and it will be getting a small AP scaling. That way, it will be more useful the more AD you build, but the ability won’t be useless now if you build AP. The AP scaling on his E is being increased to make AP Kennen a little more appealing than it is now, as it’s being greatly outshined by AD Kennen at the moment.

Poppy and Maokai

We’re looping Maokai and Poppy together because their buffs aren’t terribly big, but they’re big enough to help the tanks out when they’re tangoing with the current meta.

Poppy’s Q will deal more maximum health damage on both the initial impact and the explosion, and Maokai’s ultimate range is now longer, and it’s on a shorter cooldown. Poppy has had trouble trading damage with current top laners since the start of the season, so this buff should help her out. Maokai’s ultimate moves so slowly that its massive cooldown and relatively small range were totally unnecessary, so it definitely needed these buffs.

This Patch 7.13 is available now when update league of legends.