The Queen of Ice has not ruled in a very, very long time... thankfully, a lot of her biggest problem children like Everfrost and Aftershock aren't in her toolkit anymore, so we're looking to give her some a chill buff. We want to do this by letting her get that 2nd Q off more reliably in those tighter combos. We think this is going to be a big power-up, so we want to make sure she's not icing out her AD melee matchups too hard without affecting her durability in others.

Lissandra’s buffs from last patch overshot a bit, so we’re clawing back some of the power we gave her. Instead of reverting some base damage or her R slow, we’re toning down her Q’s AP ratio which has led her to opt into burstier builds. We want to lean into her ability to repeatedly crowd control opponents, so this should move her away from high AP builds and over to more ability haste focused ones.

Lissandra could use a bit more love as a somewhat-selfless utility mage. This patch we’re playing up her teamfight utility aspects and making her mid-game damage a bit higher without relying on gold income to get there.

We're improving how well Lissandra does into her good matchups, as we don't think she does well enough to justify picking her over other champions. So we're decreasing her W cooldown for more catches and waveclear, and buffing the damage on her main spell.

Lissandra's been on thin ice in terms of power, both in solo queue and in Pro play. To increase her power as a counterpick against certain champions like LeBlanc, Fizz, and Akali, we're slightly increasing the root duration on her W. The intention is to increase her advantage against champions who need to get up close to trade with her while not affecting other matchups.

Our goal with this set of changes is to smooth out rough edges for Lissandra. Her Q is a spell that most players don't realize doesn't slow beyond the first target, so we want to align the spell with player and spell expectations. This may end up being a bit powerful since her slow amount has been balanced around the first hit unit being slowed only, but we’ll be keeping an eye on this change to see if it needs retuning in a future patch. Another goal we have is making Lissandra's Frozen Thralls more responsive to enemy actions and not feel as if they’re giving up damage and kills. Their interactions around Fog of War and stopping prior to exploding ended up feeling like her kit was working against her. We’re also buffing her R healing to ensure that this spell doesn't feel bad to cast on yourself come late game so that Lissandra really does feel like a frost lich. Last but not least, we want to ensure that her R's effects happen responsively to enemies foolish enough to enter into the area of her tomb.

Lissandra has been underperforming across different skill brackets and lacking excitement for a while now. We’re making a few changes that should help her get more involved in fights, increase overall utility, and also synergize with her close combat style of play.

Lissandra's been frozen at pretty mediocre numbers across the board, even into her favorable matchups. We're giving her some slight buffs to make the ice witch a more attractive pick.

Yet another Freljord friend who's been struggling amongst her peers—we're returning some power back to the Iceborn to help her knock her enemies down cold.