LoL 14.10 Patch Mid-Season ADC Item Changes

A huge patch is coming soon to League of Legends, as Patch 14.10 is looking to completely change the game by making huge changes to items, summoner spells, runes, and more! League of Legends prides itself on creating a life environment where balance changes are constantly added to keep the game fresh, fun, and rewarding.

With that in mind, we will review all of the possible changes coming to League of Legends by analyzing information from PBE datamines as well as taking a look at what we can expect to see in professional and ranked play.

LoL Patch 14.10 ADC Item Changes — Riot Games

LoL Patch 14.10 Marksman Item Changes

A lot of changes are being discussed by the dev team, as it seems there are several main points that Rioters are looking to address when examining Marksman items. The most essential points that are being addressed are:

There are no perfect one-size-fits-all items for ADCs.
The value of Attack Speed as a stat.
Critical Strike and how it affects the core gameplay of most marksmen.
Most completed items will offer 25% Crit Chance
Items have a maximum of 2 stats

New items have been marked with the Eye of the Herald icon as we do not have the assets available.

Dagger

Attack Speed: 12% ⇒ 10%

Kircheis Shard

REMOVED

Noonquiver

Recipe: Long Sword + Dagger + Long Sword + 300 Gold = 1300 Gold ⇒ Long Sword + Cloak of Agility + 450 Gold = 1400 Gold
NEW: Now grants +20% Crit Chance
Attack Speed: 15% ⇒ 0

Recurve Bow

Damage Type: Magic ⇒ Physical

Zeal

Crit Chance: 15% ⇒ 20%

Scout's Slingshot (NEW ITEM)

Recipe: Dagger + 600 Gold = 900 Gold
Attack Speed: 20%
Passive (Bullseye): Damaging a champion deals 40 magic damage (40 seconds cooldown, reduced by 1 second on attack)

Bloodthirster

Recipe: BF Sword + Cloak of Agility + Vampiric Scepter + 600 Gold = 3400 Gold ⇒ BF Sword + Pickaxe + Vampiric Scepter + 325 Gold = 3400 Gold
REMOVED: No longer grants extra AD above 70% Health
NEW: Now converts excess healing from lifesteal into an overshield, up to 50-400 linear decaying after 25 seconds out of combat
Crit Chance: 20% ⇒ Removed
Attack Damage: 55 ⇒ 80

Collector

Recipe: Serrated Dirk + Pickaxe + Cloak of Agility + 625 Gold = 3100 Gold ⇒ BF Sword + Serrated Dirk + Cloak of Agility + 300 Gold = 3200 Gold
Crit Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%
Attack Damage: 55 ⇒ 60
Lethality: 16 ⇒ 15

Essence Reaver

Recipe: Sheen + Caulfield's Warhammer + Cloak of Agility + 300 Gold = 2900 Gold ⇒ BF Sword + Caulfiel'ds Warhammer + Cloak of Agility + 200 Gold = 3200 Gold
REMOVED: No longer a Spellblade item
Passive: Basic attacks refund 15 (+15% Base AD) mana onhit
Crit Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%
Ability Haste: 20 ⇒ 25
Attack Damage: 60 ⇒ 65

Immortal Shieldbow

Recipe: Pickaxe + Cloack of Agility + Vampiric Scepter + 625 Gold = 3000 Gold ⇒ Pickaxe + Noonquiver + 725 Gold = 3000 Gold
Crit Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%
Attack Damage: 50 ⇒ 55
Lifesteal: 12% ⇒ Removed

Infinity Edge

Gold Cost: 3300 Gold ⇒ 3400 Gold
Crit Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%
Attack Damage: 65 ⇒ 80

Kraken Slayer

Recipe: Noonquiver + Cloak of Agility + Recurve Bow + 400 Gold = 3000 Gold ⇒ Rectrix + Heathbound Axe + Recurve Bow + 200 Gold = 3100 Gold
Crit Chance: 20% ⇒ Removed
NEW: Now grants +7% Movement Speed
Attack Damage: 40 ⇒ 50
Attack Speed: 35% ⇒ 40%
Passive Damage Amplification: up to 2x on third repeat trigger ⇒ up to 1.5x based on target missing health

Lord Dominik's Regards

Armor Penetration: 35% ⇒ 40%
Crit Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%
Attack Damage: 40 ⇒ 45
REMOVED: No longer deals increased damage based on target's max health advantage

Mercurial Scimitar

Recipe: Quicksilver Sash + Cloak of Agility + Pickaxe + 225 Gold = 3000 Gold ⇒ Quicksilver Sash + Pickaxe + Vampiric Scepter + 225 Gold = 3300 Gold
Crit Chance: 20% ⇒ Removed
NEW: Now grants 10% lifesteal

Mortal Reminder

Crit Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%

Navori Flickerblade

Recipe: BF Sword + Caulfield's Warhammer + Cloak of Agility + 300 Gold = 3300 Gold ⇒ Dagger + Zeal + Dagger + 900 Gold = 2600 Gold
Crit Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%
Cooldown Refund: 12% ⇒ 15%
Ability Haste: 15 ⇒ Removed
Attack Damage: 65 ⇒ Removed
NEW: Now grants +7% movement speed, +40% Attack speed

Phantom Dancer

Recipe: Zeal + Rectrix + 800 Gold = 2800 Gold ⇒ Dagger + Zeal + Dagger + 900 Gold = 2600 Gold
Movement Speed: 10% ⇒ 12%
Crit Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%
Attack Damage: 20 ⇒ Removed
Attack Speed: 30% ⇒ 60%
REMOVED: No longer grants increased attack speed on attack

Rapid Firecannon

Recipe: Long Sword + Zeal + Kircheis Shard + 850 Gold = 3000 Gold ⇒ Zeal + Scout's Slingshot + 600 Gold = 2600 Gold
Crit Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%
Attack Damage: 30 ⇒ Removed
Attack Speed: 20% ⇒ 35%

Runaan's Hurricane

Recipe: Recurve Bow + Zeal + 1000 Gold = 2800 Gold ⇒ Zeal + Scout's Slingshot + 600 Gold = 2600 Gold
REMOVED: No longer applies 30 onhit magic damage
Bolt Total AD Scaling: 40% ⇒ 55%
Crit Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%

Statikk Shiv

Recipe: Noonquiver + Cloak of Agility + Kircheis Shard + 300 Gold = 2900 Gold ⇒ Scout's Slingshot + Hearthbound Axe + 700 Gold = 2900 Gold
Crit Chance: 20% ⇒ Removed
Attack Speed: 30% ⇒ 40%
Passive: Killing enemies fires chain lightning that deals 90 magic damage hitting up to 6 additional targets (3-second cooldown). Lightning from filling champions deals 3x damage and has no cooldown

Stormrazor

REMOVED

Terminus

Recipe: Recurve Bow + BF Sword + Recurve Bow + 300 Gold = 3000 Gold ⇒ Heathbound Axe + Recurve Bow + 1000 Gold = 3000 Gold
Attack Damage: 40 ⇒ 35
Attack Speed: 30% ⇒ 35%

Zephyr

NEW: Now a boots item
Recipe: BF Sword + Dagger + Dagger + 900 Gold = 2800 Gold ⇒ Berserker's Greaves + 2000 Gold = 3100 Gold

Yun Tal Wildarrows (NEW ITEM)

Recipe: Pickaxe + Noonquiver + 925 Gold = 3200 Gold
Crit Chance: 25%
Attack Damage: 65
Passive (Serrated Edge): Crits deal 35% Total AD additional physical damage over 2 seconds

LoL Patch 14.10 Mid-Season ADC Item Changes

With the removal of Kircheis Shard and Stormrazor, all of the critical strike items saw a lot of changes to the recipes. Another massive change includes the experiment with turning Zephyr into a fully-fledged boot item in League of Legends.

The design philosophy behind these changes looks to further cement the ADC role as a reliable source of damage, thus encouraging teamplay over flashy item effects and active effects. Although some of these changes can seem controversial, like the Mercurial Scimitar's lack of crit chance and recipe cost increase, it seems that the LoL devs are looking to solidify ADCs as walking stat glass cannons whose skill expression will be limited to the amount of peel and their positioning in team fights.

However, players might find a lot of setbacks in ranked play. The reason behind this is the overwhelming amount of oppressive champions ultimately denying ADCs from effectively utilizing their sustained damage in fights, leading marksmen to be a supportive role instead of a carry potential threat.

Hopefully, this will have a positive effect as the League of Legends community has been complaining for quite some time about how ADCs feel left behind in terms of relevancy and power.