Patch 2.1.0 Notes

Aphelios Champion Expansion

Our most complex and adaptable Champion to date, Aphelios has made his arrival in Legends of Runeterra. The Weapon of the Faithful brings with him a small collection of new cards as part of the Aphelios Champion Expansion.

For a deeper dive into Aphelios’s design and mechanics, check out our overview video with Design Director Riot Umbrage on the Legends of Runeterra YouTube channel tomorrow!

Praise the moon and get Aphelios as soon as he lands in Patch 2.1.0, and get a look at all of the cards coming in the expansion in the Aphelios Champion Expansion Card Gallery.

Lunar Celebration

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Break out the fireworks, it’s time for the Lunar Celebration! Log in over 7 days during the Lunar Celebration event period to earn rewards (starting with a free copy of Aphelios), as well as a new Lunar Celebration Quest each day for even more rewards! Complete all seven Lunar Celebration Quests to earn the Year of the Ox Card Back.

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Card Updates

The release of Cosmic Creation introduced Zoe, Viktor, and Riven to the game. Now that we’ve had a chance to see them in action, we know Zoe has been making portals and taking names all across Runeterra. Viktor and Riven, however, could use a little bit more attention to help them perform their best. Patch 2.1.0 comes with a collection of card updates aimed at giving these Champions a chance to shine just a bit brighter, along with some non-Champion card updates to improve the overall health of the game.

Like with Viktor and Riven in this patch, as we move forward with future card updates, you’re going to generally see more attention paid to newly-released cards to ensure they’re performing at an appropriate level compared to previously-released sets. However, that doesn’t mean cards from Foundations, Rising Tides, or Call of the Mountain won’t see adjustments. This philosophy is specifically in regards to live design & balance, and has been established to ensure that we continue to promote meta health and deck diversity as we continue to add new sets and expansions in the future. With that, let’s look at what’s changing in Patch 2.1.0!

Champions

Followers, Landmarks, & Spells

New Single-Player Legends Lab: Lab of Legends

Patch 2.1.0 brings a new rotation to Multilab:

  • Lab of Legends (New in 2.1.0!)
  • United Front
  • Quick Draw

After countless hours of experimentation, Heimerdinger is finally ready to unveil his latest and greatest achievement:

Introducing… the appropriately-named Lab of Legends – our first Legends Lab, and another foray into the world of single-player adventures! First introduced in our 2021 Roadmap Update, Legends Labs are experiences that focus on progression, customization, and adaptation.

Building off of those themes, Lab of Legends gives you a choice between 8 different Champions, each with their own premade deck, and pits you against a series of increasingly-difficult encounters. As you progress, you’ll earn new cards, passive abilities, and items that power up cards in unique ways. No two runs are the same; expect to see some crazy combo possibilities emerge as you reach later stages. Don’t be reckless though, your Nexus health carries over between rounds and is only refilled after a Boss encounter, so be sure to pace yourself!

Emerge ‘Viktorious’ at the end of a run, and you’ll earn a unique icon based on your selected Champion. Fight hard, experiment responsibly, and try to collect them all!

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Personalization

Boards

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Club Ox

The year ends, but the party never stops.

Guardians

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Lunar Beast

Appears once a year to wreak delightful havoc on mortals.

Personality: Rascally

Dislikes: Loud noises

Card Backs

New Card Backs are available for purchase in the Store:

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Fortune’s Faithful

Celebrate with a whisper.

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Fortune’s Bounty

Celebrate with a bang.

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The Beast

Bring the boom.

Emotes

New Emotes are available for purchase in the Store:

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Bundles

The Lunar Beast Bundle is available in patch 2.1.0 for 2394 Coins. Bundle includes:

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  • Club Ox Board
  • Lunar Beast Guardian
  • The Beast Card Back
  • Exclusive Firecracker T-Hex Guardian Variant

Deck Bundles

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Make the night last forever with the Night Hunters Deck Bundle, available in patch 2.1.0 for 1998 Coins (prorated for any excess card copies based on your existing collection). Bundle includes a collection of cards from Targon and Shadow Isles designed to bring out the full power of Nightfall!

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Expeditions

Balance between the various archetypes continues to be in good shape overall, so with this patch we’re just making minor changes to a number of archetypes, as well as focusing Fishbones more around an aggressive strategy. In addition the new cards that are debuting with the patch have been added to Expeditions.

  • Cards from the Aphelios expansion have been added to various archetypes, and Aphelios himself has been added to Luminous Dusk as an alternate Targon champion alongside Diana.
  • Luminous Dusk will be four times as likely as normal to show up in the initial Champion Picks. This chance will be reduced again in a future patch.

Augmented Assault

  • Added: Brutal Hunter

Enlightened

  • Added: Will of Ionia
  • Removed: Shadow Flare

Fishbones

  • Added: Ballistic Bot, Veteran Investigator
  • Removed: Eager Apprentice, Hexcore Foundry, Monkey Business, Monkey Idol, Scrapdash Assembly

Luminous Dusk

  • Removed: Pesky Specter

Mega Keg

  • Removed: Monkey Business, Strong-arm

Moonlit Heist

  • Removed: Monkey Business

Scrapheap

  • Added: Zaunite Urchin
  • Removed: Veteran Investigator

Shadows and Dust

  • Added: Shadow Flare
  • Removed: Trevor Snoozebottom

Spell Slingers

  • Added: Jaull Hunters, Ye Been Warned
  • Removed: Pocket Aces, Yordle Grifter

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Miscellaneous

  • On Android devices, the ‘Back’ button can be used to navigate the app.
  • Added a toggle in Options > General to allow or prevent friends from spectating your games.

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Bugfixes

  • Fixed a crash related to switching your Player Icon after completing a match.
  • Fixed a crash related to switching between the Home and Play menus.
  • Fixed an issue where The Dancer card back would display in-game as The Rising Star.
  • Fixed a bug that would sometimes prevent a unit from being silenced a second time in the same round.
  • Fixed an issue where sometimes Lulu’s supported unit would not be fully buffed.
  • Fixed an issue where sometimes a unit would incorrectly die if silenced multiple times.