League of Legends preseason patch highlights and improves assassins

Another season has come to a close for League of Legends, and that means a preseason patch that can turn everything on its ear. After all, players have time to get used to the new meta before the next seasons starts up. Patch 6.22 for the game targets Assassin characters, and as the notes explain, the goal here isn’t to do a comprehensive top-down rework of every single character but to provide more differentiation between existing characters while also improving the class mechanics as a whole.

To coincide with this update, the game is also reworking its stealth mechanics, splitting stealth into two different categories of stealth and invisibility while also giving players new ways to locate stealthed characters by hitting them and causing a “shimmer” effect. The result should be a more interesting game of cat and mouse for players; check out the full notes for all of the individual champion revamps and more details on the stealth shifts, as well as items and new plant life.