Riot Games has released the patch notes for League of Legends update 14.20, and they bring with them the Teemo ASU update and the start of the 15th anniversary celebrations that offer up a free skin just for playing some games.
We’ll get to the free stuff first, as I’m sure that’s what everyone cares about. The 14.20 patch notes kick off the Player Days celebration, which is basically a big party for the 15th anniversary of League of Legends. There’s more coming around the internet in the next few weeks, but the main part is a set of 10 rewards you can unlock just by playing.
Starting from the launch of patch 14.20 and running until October 28, there will be an in game event that will reward you with freebies providing you play at least one game. The full list of 10 rewards is below, and providing you play on 10 different days during the event, you’ll get all the rewards. There’s some fun freebies up for grabs, but the highlight is a free skin in the form of the Ann-Sivir-sary Skin. It’s difficult to complain about a free skin, so I won’t!
- Day 1: Anniversary Player Icon
- Day 2: 2500 Blue Essence
- Day 3: Mystery Icon
- Day 4: 1050 Orange Essence
- Day 5: Anniversary Emote
- Day 6: 5 Mythic Essence
- Day 7: Mystery Emote
- Day 8: 10 Mythic Essence
- Day 9: Ann-Sivir-sary Skin Permanent (Mythic)
- Day 10: Ann-Sivir-sary Border and Icon
The other big talking point from the patch notes is the Teemo ASU update, that brings a new animation rig, animations, SFX, VO, and VFX to the most annoying champ in the game. Some of his skins are also getting updates and have been un-vaulted, so be sure to pick them up while you can. Then, there’s his brand new theme song that will play when you enter the Rift as Teemo (please don’t enter any of my games as Teemo).
As usual with LoL patch notes, there are a ton of champion balance changes and as I’m pushed for time today I’ve only looked at the champs I play. The bad news for me is the Jhin and Singed get nerfs in this patch, but they have been pretty strong for the last two weeks, so it’s not the end of the world. You’ll have to check out the full patch notes if you want to see all the changes.
After the changes in the last major patch, there are also a lot of balance tweaks to items, with both nerfs and buffs depending on how they have been used in the weeks since. Hopefully these should add a little variety to item choices going forward, which is never a bad thing.
