LoL Patch 26.15 Notes: Bel'Veth Restructured, Season 3 Opens, League Classic Arrives

Patch 26.15 landed July 29, 2026. Bel'Veth got a scaling rework, five champions were nerfed, five buffed, three items were repriced and Ranked Season 3 started. Full summary.

Patch 26.15 went live on July 29, 2026 and is the patch that opens Ranked Season 3. Below is a summary of what changed; the complete list is on Riot's official notes page linked at the bottom.

Champions

Bel'Veth received the headline change: a major restructuring that reduces her early-game dominance and pushes her power into late-game scaling.

Items

Item	Change
Bastionbreaker	Cost 3200g → 3000g, damage increased
Terminus	On-hit scaling improved for late-game relevance
Yun Tal Wildarrows	Cost 850g → 750g, attack speed 40% → 45%

All three changes are cost-downs or scaling-ups

Ranked and systems

•Aegis of Valor now grants double LP for wins with no mastery requirement; loss protection removed
•Ranked Season 3 starts July 29; duo allowed in Master only, restricted in Grandmaster and Challenger
•League Classic — new retro mode with 60 champions and classic gameplay mechanics

ARAM: Mayhem and Arena

•ARAM Mayhem — damage modifiers now apply to spell, attack, item and Augment damage; Critical Missile nerfed and several underperforming augments buffed
•Arena — augment level caps reduced on overperforming options; Akali, Nocturne and Thresh among the champions adjusted
•Arena — critical strike to adaptive force conversion improved from 0.68:1 to 1:1

What it means for your queue

The Bel'Veth change is the one worth tracking: pushing power out of the early game and into scaling usually takes a jungler out of the blind-pick pool for a couple of weeks while players relearn the timings. The buffed tanks — Maokai, Zac, Alistar, Volibear — tend to be the safest early-split picks after a patch like this, because tanks are less sensitive to a meta that has not settled.