Here is everything you need to know about LoL Patch 25.05, the fifth patch of the new 2025 League of Legends season.
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LoL Patch 25.05 – The official patch for First Stand
With the first edition of First Stand fast approaching, Riot has been working on delivering the patch which will define the first international tournament of the season.
While there aren’t many champion changes planned, the devs have been working on completely eliminating the lane-swap meta that has plagued the first two months of the season, bringing in major changes to nerf the strategy into the ground. By utilizing a detection mechanic, the goal is to make the lane swap strategy obsolete and inefficient. Below you can find the changes detailed by Riot game designer Spideraxe. In the upcoming days, we should have more details about other champions and system changes.
Patch 25.05 Release Date
The official patch schedule for 2025 has been confirmed, and Patch 25.05 will be released on Mar. 5, 2025.
How will the upcoming patch shake the meta?
With no numbers leaked so far, it’s hard to make a call on how the meta will change. That said, the lane-swap mechanic is quite drastic and we should see the strategy be completely disregarded in the upcoming months, to the joy of many League players. In the meantime, feel free to check out our tier lists:
LoL Patch 25.05
Champion changes in Patch 25.05
Ambessa
Aphelios
Ashe
Aurora
Cho’Gath
Dr. Mundo
Elise
K’Sante
Poppy (less support, top-jungle buff)
Seraphine
Skarner
Yorick
Zed
System Changes
Anti lane-swap changes
- Fortification buff removed for all turrets
- If two non-jungler enemy champs appear in top or mid lane, the outer turrets now gains:
- 95% damage reduction
- Attacks are fully charged
- Deals 1000% damage to minions (detecting)
- Enemy champs gold and XP reduced to 50%
- Defending minion and turret kills will redirect all gold to nearest allied champ
Defending champ gains 20% bonus gold and XP– removed- Detection starts at 1:30 and ends at 3:30 for top and 2:25 for mid
- Detection linger duration: 6 seconds ⇒ 20/8 seconds (top/mid)
- Top lane turret now deals 1000% damage against enemy champs (while detecting)
- Top lane turret now grants defending champ 50% damage reduction (while detecting)
Axiom Arcanist
Sixth Sense
Unflinching
Upcoming skins
- Grand Reckoning Alistar
- Grand Reckoning Rell
- Grand Reckoning Sion
- Grand Reckoning Talon
- Grand Reckoning Draven
- Sahn-Uzal Mordekaiser