The Patch 26.14 preview was shared by Riot Phroxzon this week, with the update set to hit live servers on Wednesday, July 15 — a week later than usual, since Riot takes its annual break in the first week of July. Coming right after MSI 2026 wraps up and with Summer Split starting later this month, this is a light tuning patch — only ten champions and five systems touched — but it goes straight after the two names: Locke and Senna.
Mid lane: Locke gets his first real haircut
Locke, the newest champion in the game since his release in 26.13, takes the biggest hit of the patch. His Q loses damage on both the base nail and the stacking bonus, the recast hold time on the ability gets shorter, and his W's grey-health shield cap is cut nearly in half at higher ranks. Riot's own framing is that his early-game snowball is "a bit too high" for a champion whose power is otherwise mastery-gated — he sits near 50% win rate in Emerald+ but under 49% across all ranks, the same skill-skewed profile as a Katarina or Akshan. Expect his pick/ban presence to shrink, but not disappear — he was strong enough to shrug off a partial nerf.
Corki gets the opposite treatment: higher AD growth and a passive that refunds more cooldown per crit auto. It's a small, scaling-focused buff rather than a burst one, which fits his identity as a poke-and-siege mid who wants games to go long. Enough to nudge him back into rotation.
Seraphine takes a light poke nerf on her Q AP ratio — a small tax on her mid/support flex rather than a real identity shift.
Top lane: Garen's execute gets softer, Jayce loses more mobility
Garen's ultimate loses a flat chunk of its true-damage numbers while keeping the missing-health scaling untouched, directly targeting his execute threshold against squishier targets.
Jayce loses movement speed on his form swap and resistances on his hammer form — a nerf aimed squarely at his pro-play mobility and lane trades rather than his ranked floor. He earned it: , and sits as
