League of Legends Preseason 2021 Changes

Update: Check out the new skins, item and champion changes introduced in the Preseason 2021 update in our article covering the League of Legends 10.23 patch notes.

Original: As 2020 is slowly drawing to a close, League of Legends is gearing up for preseason 2021, introducing a massive amount of changes to the PBE.

The first set of League of Legends preseason 2021 changes marks the start of an extended period of testing on the PBE. Over the next six weeks, Riot Games will work alongside fans to shape how the MOBA will change going into next year.

Among the LoL preseason 2021 changes slated to become available on the PBE count the item system overhaul, various examples of champion rebalancing and more.

The item overhaul coming with League of Legends’ preseason 2021 will add no less than 22 new Mythic items alongside a couple of new Legendary items.

Items are central for character builds in LoL providing stat boosts and effects that can turn games around if used properly or bought at the right time.

Here is a first look at the first version of the changes in store for the MOBA going forward:

Marksman Mythics

Galeforce

Mobility

3400 gold

+55 Attack Damage

+20% Attack Speed

+20% Critical Strike Chance

Active - Zephyr Strike: Dash in target direction, firing three missiles at the lowest-health enemy near your destination (prioritizing champions). Deals a total of 105-300 (lv 1-18) (+30% bonus Attack Damage) magic damage, increased against low-Health targets by up to 50% against targets at 30% Health. (90 second cooldown)

Mythic Passive: Grants all other legendary items +3% Move Speed.

Kraken Slayer

Anti-tank

3400 gold

+60 Attack Damage

+25% Attack Speed

+20% Critical Strike Chance

Harpoon: Every third Attack is enhanced, dealing an additional 80-120 (lv 1-18) (+30% bonus Attack Damage) true damage.

Mythic Passive: Grants all other Legendary items +10% Attack Speed.

Immortal Shieldbow

Survive burst

3400 gold

+50 Attack Damage

+15% Attack Speed

+20% Critical Strike Chance

+12% Life Steal

Tank Mythics

Sunfire Aegis

Ramping damage

3200 gold

+450 Health

+30 Armor

+30 Magic Resist

+15 Ability Haste

Immolate: Deal 20-40 (lv 1-18) (+1% bonus Health) magic damage per second to nearby enemies (increased by 50% against minions and 200% against monsters). Damaging enemy Champions or Epic Monsters with this effect adds a stack, increasing subsequent Immolate damage by 12% for 5 seconds (stacks 6 times). .

Radiance: At max stacks, your basic attacks explode around you, burning nearby enemies for your Immolate damage for 3 seconds..

Mythic Passive: Grants all other legendary items +5 Ability Haste.

Frostfire Gauntlet

Slows enemies

3200 gold

+350 Health

+50 Armor

+30 Magic Resist

+15 Ability Haste

Immolate: Deal 20-40 (lv 1-18) (+1% bonus Health) magic damage per second to nearby enemies (increased by 50% against minions and 200% against monsters).

Frostfire: Attacks create a frost field that slows enemies by 30% (+4% per 1000 bonus Health) for 1.5 seconds. (4 second cooldown)

Mythic Passive: Grants all other legendary items +100 health and +7.5% Size.

Berserker Suit

Initiation

3200 gold

+350 Health

+30 Armor

+50 Magic Resist

+15 Ability Haste

Active - Pursuit: Grants +75% Move Speed when moving toward enemies or enemy turrets for 4 seconds. Once near an enemy (or after 4 seconds) a shockwave is emitted, slowing nearby enemy champion Move Speed by 75% for 2 seconds. (90 second cooldown)

Immolate: Deal 20-40 (lv 1-18) (+1% bonus Health) magic damage per second to nearby enemies (increased by 50% against minions and monsters).

Mythic Passive: Grants all other Legendary items +5% Tenacity and Slow Resist

Lifeline: When taking damage that would reduce you below 30% health, gain a 150-650 (lv 1-18) shield for 3 seconds. In addition, gain 20% Life Steal for 8 seconds. (90 second cooldown)

Mythic Passive: Grants all other legendary items + 8 Armor and +8 Magic Resist.

AD Assassin Mythics

Duskblade of Draktharr

Teamfight multikill

3200 gold

+55 Attack Damage

+18 Lethality

+25 Ability Haste

Dusk: Attacking an enemy champion deals 50-150 (lv 1-18) (+30% bonus Attack Damage) additional physical damage and slows them by 99% for 0.25 seconds (15 second cooldown). When a champion you have damaged within the last 3 seconds is killed, reset this cooldown and gain invisibility for 1.5 seconds.

Mythic Passive: Grants all other legendary items +5 Ability Haste.

Eclipse

Dueling

3200 gold

+55 Attack Damage

+18 Lethality

+10% Omnivamp

Moon Strike: Hitting a champion with 2 separate Attacks or Abilities within 1.5 seconds deals bonus physical damage equal to 16% of their maximum Health and grants you 30% Move Speed and a 150 (+80% bonus Attack Damage) shield (100 (+60% bonus Attack Damage) for ranged champions) for 2 seconds. (6 second cooldown, 12 seconds for ranged champions)

Mythic Passive: Grants all other legendary items +5% Armor Penetration.

Prowler’s Claw

Assassination

3200 gold

+65 Attack Damage

+21 Lethality

+10 Ability Haste

Active - From the Shadows: Dash through target enemy, dealing 100-200 (lv 1-18) (+45% bonus Attack Damage) physical damage and reducing their Armor by 30% for 3 seconds. (60 second cooldown)

Mythic Passive: Grants all other legendary items +6 Lethality

AP Mythics (Mana)

Liandry’s Anguish

Anti-Tank

3400 gold

+80 Ability Power

+600 Mana

+25 Ability Haste

Torment: Your spells cause enemies to burn for 60 (+10% Ability Power) (+4% target's maximum health) magic damage over 4 seconds, shredding their Magic Resist by 5% per second for 4 seconds (up to 25%)

Mythic Passive: Grants all other legendary items +5 Ability Haste

Luden’s Tempest

Burst damage

3400 gold

+80 Ability Power

+600 Mana

+10 Ability Haste

+10 Magic Penetration

Echo: Damaging an enemy with an Ability deals 100 (+15% Ability Power) additional magic damage to your target and 3 nearby enemies and grant you 30% Move Speed for 3 seconds. (8 second cooldown)

Mythic Passive: Grants all other Legendary items +5 Magic Penetration

Everfrost

Slows enemies

3400 gold

+80 Ability Power

+200 Health

+600 Mana

+10 Ability Haste

Active - Frigid Blast: Deal 100 (+30% Ability Power) damage in a cone, slowing enemies by 65% for 1.5 seconds. Enemies at the center of the cone are Rooted instead. (45 second cooldown)

Mythic Passive: Grants all other legendary items +15 Ability Power

AP Mythics (Non-Mana)

Hextech Rocketbelt

Mobility

3200 gold

+80 Ability Power

+250 Health

+15 Ability Haste

Active - Fire Bolt: Dash in target direction, unleashing an arc of rockets that deal 250-350 (lv 1-18) magic damage. Then, gain 75% Move Speed toward champions for 1 second. (40 second cooldown)

Mythic Passive: Grants all other Legendary items +5 Magic Penetration

Axamuk’s Folly

Magic Vamp

3200 gold

+80 Ability Power

+15 Ability Haste

+150 Health

+10% Omnivamp

Corruption: For each second in champion combat, deal 3% bonus damage (max 15%). While this effect is maxed, convert 100% of the bonus damage into true damage.

Mythic Passive: Grants all other legendary items +5% Magic Penetration.

Night Harvester

Teamfight multikill

3200 gold

+80 Ability Power

+250 Health

+15 Ability Haste

The Reaping: Damaging an enemy champion deals 150-250 (lv1-18) magic damage and grants you 25% Move Speed for 1.5 seconds. (40 second cooldown per champion)

Mythic Passive: Grants all other Legendary items +5 Ability Haste

AD Fighter Mythics

Trinity Force

Burst Damage

3333 gold

+33 Attack Damage

+33% Attack Speed

+200 Health

+15 Ability Haste

Swift Strikes: Your Attacks grant you 25 Move Speed and (5% Base Attack Damage) Base Attack Damage for 3 seconds. Base Attack Damage increase stacks up to 6 times.

Spellblade: After using an Ability, your next Attack deals (200% base Attack Damage) bonus physical damage. (1.5 second cooldown)

Mythic Passive: Grants all other legendary items +15% Attack Speed

Goredrinker

Dueling

3300 gold

+45 Attack Damage

+400 Health

+15 Ability Haste

+150% Base Health Regeneration

Active - Thirsting Slash: Deal (110% total Attack Damage) physical damage to enemies in a circle. Recover (20% total Attack Damage) Health + 12% missing Health for each champion hit. (15 second cooldown, reduced by Ability Haste)

Aggression: Gain 1% increased Attack Damage for every 5% of your missing Health (max 15% Attack Damage at 75% missing Health).

Mythic Passive: Grants all other legendary items +3 Ability Haste and +5 Attack Damage

Stridebreaker

Slows Enemies

3300 gold

+50 Attack Damage

+20% Attack Speed

+300 Health

+10 Ability Haste

Nimble: Dealing physical damage grants you 20 Move Speed on hit for 2 seconds, increased to 60 if it kills the unit.

Active - Halting Slash: Lunge a short distance and deal (110% total Attack Damage) physical damage to enemies in a circle, slowing them by 60%, decaying over 2 seconds. (20 second cooldown)

Heroic Gait passive: Movespeed increased from 20 to 30; no longer increased on unit kills

Mythic Passive: Grants all other legendary items +3% Move Speed

Divine Devourer

Anti-Tank

3300 gold

+40 Attack Damage

+400 Health

+25 Ability Haste

Spellblade: After using an Ability, your next Attack deals bonus physical damage equal to 6% of your max Health. (1.5 second cooldown, 150% base Attack Damage minimum damage)

Feast: When Spellblade hits a champion, heal for 60% of the damage amount

Mythic Passive: Grants all other legendary items +100 Health

Enchanter Mythics

Shurelya’s Battlesong

Team mobility

2600 gold

+300 Health

+25 Ability Haste

+10% Move Speed

Active - Inspire: Grants you and nearby allies 40% decaying Move Speed for 4 seconds and 40-60 (lv 1-18) bonus magic damage on the next 3 Attacks or Ability hits against champions.

Mythic Passive: Grants all other legendary items +3% Move Speed.

Locket of the Iron Solari

Survive burst

2600 gold

+150 Health

+25 Ability Haste

+30 Magic Resist

+30 Armor

Active - Intervention: Grant nearby allies a 260-430 (ally lv 1-18) shield, decaying over 2.5 seconds. (90 second cooldown)

Iron Aura: Grant nearby allied champions +5 Armor and Magic Resist.

Mythic Passive: Grants all other legendary items a +2 Armor and Magic Resist increase to Iron Aura.

Moonstone Renewer

Healing over time

2600 gold

+150 Health

+25 Ability Haste

+100% Base Mana Regeneration

Vital Stream: When affecting champions with Attacks or Abilities in combat, heal the most damaged nearby ally for 30-60 (lv 1-18) Health (2 second cooldown). Each second spent in combat with champions increases this healing effect by 25% (max 100%).

Mythic Passive: Grants all other Legendary items +5 Ability Haste.

New Legendary Items

The Collector

3000 gold

+45 Attack Damage

+20% Critical Strike Chance

+18 Lethality

Contract Killer: If you deal damage that would leave an enemy below 5% health, kill them. Kills grant you an additional 25 gold.

Navori Quickblade

3400 Gold

+60 Attack Damage

+20% Critical Strike Chance

+30 Ability Haste

Nimble Strikes: Your critical strikes with Attacks reduce your non-Ultimate ability cooldowns by 20% of their remaining cooldown.

Force of Nature

2900 gold

+350 Health

+60 Magic Resist

+5% Move Speed

Rhythm of Ionia: Taking Ability damage grants you +6 Move Speed and +4 Magic Resist for 5 seconds (stacks up to 5 times; 1 stack per unique ability).

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Serpent's Fang
- 2800 gold
- +60 Attack Damage
- +18 Lethality
- Shieldbreaker: You deal 300% additional damage to Shields.
Horizon Focus
- 3000 gold
- +100 Ability Power
- Focus Fire: Damaging a champion with an Ability at over 850 range or Immobilizing them reveals the target and increases your damage dealt to them by 15% for 6 seconds.
Cosmic Drive
- 3000 gold
- +70 Ability Power
- +200 Health
- +30 Ability Haste
- Spelldance: Dealing damage with abilities grants 10 (+20% Ability Haste) Move Speed for 4 seconds.
Demonic Embrace
- 3000 gold
- +70 Ability Power
- +400 Health
- Passive - Azakana Gaze: Dealing Ability damage to a champion causes them to take 2% of their maximum Health as magic damage every second for 4 seconds. You gain 20 armor and magic resist while enemies are afflicted (+5 for each additional champion affected).
Serylda's Grudge
- 3000 gold
- +50 Attack Damage
- +30% Armor Penetration
- +20 Ability Haste
- The Grudge: Your damaging Abilities slow by 30% for 1 second.
Silverweave Legplates
- 3000 gold
- +35 Attack Damage
- +200 Health
- +35 Magic Resist
- Active - Quicksilver: Remove all crowd control debuffs and gain +40% Tenacity and Slow Resistance for 3 seconds. (90 second cooldown)
Chempunk Chainsword
- 2700 gold
- +45 Attack Damage
- +200 Health
- +15 Ability Haste
- Cursed: Dealing physical damage applies 40% Grievous Wounds to enemy champions for 2 seconds. If the target is below 50%
- Health, this effect is increased to 60% Grievous Wounds.
Ingenious Hunter (D4)
- Gain 15 Item Haste plus an additional 10 Item Haste per Bounty Hunter stack (includes Trinkets).
- Bounty Hunter stacks are earned the first time you get a takedown on each enemy champion.
Conqueror (Precision Keystone)
- Adaptive force increased to 2-5 from 1.7-4.2
- Heal decreased to 10% from 15%
- Ranged heal decreased to 6% from 8%
Presence of Mind (P2)
- New:
- Damaging an enemy champion increases your mana regeneration by 1.5-11 (80% for ranged) mana per second for 4 seconds. All energy users gain 1.5 energy per second, instead.
- Takedowns restore 15% of your maximum mana or energy.
Legend: Destroyer (P3)
- Gain 2% Bonus Armor and Bonus Magic Penetration for every Legend stack (max 10 stacks).
- Earn progress toward Legend stacks for every champion takedown, epic monster takedown, large monster kill, and minion kill.
Legend: Bloodline (P3)
- Max stacks decreased to 15 from 20
Transcendence (S3)
- New:
- Gain bonuses upon reaching the following levels:
Cosmic Insight (I4)
- Effect changed:
Time Warp Tonic (I4)
- Effect changed:
The Item Shop is also part of the planned League of Legends preseason 2021 changes with new icons and internal changes – like building towards using player data for recommended builds – being on the way.

In a post on the game's website, developer Riot Games explained how it will juggle both Preseason and patch testing in the coming weeks:
- Week 1 - Preseason
- Week 2 - Patch 10.21
- Week 3 - Preseason
- Week 4 - Patch 10.22
- Week 5 & 6 - Preseason
As things are bound to change over the next six weeks, we'll keep updating this article as we learn new details about the League of Legends' preseason 2021 changes on the PBE. For more on the MOBA, check out what Patch 10.21 has in store for players.

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League of Legends Preseason 2021 Changes - Item System Overhaul, Champions and More