We're looking to give a bit of love to Vel'Koz who's been looking a tad weak in both main roles, with a bit more emphasis on the mid lane.

We're looking to give a bit of love to Vel'Koz who's been looking a tad weak in both main roles, with a bit more emphasis on the mid lane.

Vel'Koz is in a bit of a weak spot and we're giving him some power. He currently deals plenty of damage as a support and mid laner but is weaker in some other areas, so we're instead choosing to increase his ability uptime since E's cooldown is a little harsh as his last max and R is important for securing early kills.

As part of this patch we had planned to do some follow up work to Vel'Koz but the changes weren't quite ready to ship. Part of those changes were bug fixes which were ready, so instead of waiting to patch in both at the same time we'll be patching the bug fixes a bit earlier.

Vel'Koz is currently fairly weak as both a support and mid laner and could use a little more power. In this patch we’ll be buffing his passive damage, as there's a reasonable amount of interesting gameplay in triggering it and to make this proc more rewarding for Vel'Koz players. While this will also increase his power during R, he only procs his passive once per cast, which creates more of a reward for the risk of immobilizing Vel’Koz.

Vel'Koz has been pretty weak, so we're giving him a bigger reward for hitting those calculated skillshots. This should help him "research" his opponents more effectively in mid lane (or steal more kills as a support, hehe).