League of Legends 2026 Brings Role Quests and Atakhan’s Death

2025 is nearly coming to an end. The Riot dev team has announced the changes coming in 2026 Season One of League of Legends. Atakhan came to the rift this year, and it will be his only one. All roles are getting quests, with updates to the existing ones. More items are coming to give more options to more champions in League of Legends.

League of Legends Time Changes

For the longest time, minions have spawned at 1:05, with the first champions spawning at 1:30 in League of Legends. In 2026, all timers for the early game are moved 35 seconds earlier. It will result in less wait time and more precise invade timings.

League of Legends Objective Changes

Atakhan has been a contentious objective since his arrival in League of Legends. He has been the reason why teams lose games. His stay on the rift will only last a year. In 2026, he will no longer appear alongside the petals throughout the rift. Atakhan’s removal brings Baron Nashor‘s spawn timer back to 20 minutes.

Feats of Strength are another aspect removed in 2026. As a result, gold is returning for First Blood and First Tower kills. First Blood rewards 100 bonus gold, while First Tower grants 300 bonus gold.

All Epic Monsters are becoming more durable, and Dragon’s Vengeance will grant additional durability. Damage reductions are paired alongside the durability increases. Most Epic Monsters will grant less gold, with some giving more XP and others less. All Epic Monsters will scale with Champion level instead of game time.

Vision Control

Faelights are special locations that grant additional ward vision if a ward is in them. Depending on the position of the Faelights, their spawn time varies. Yellow trinkets will generate faster alongside more Scryer’s blooms. All these changes aim to enable split pushing.

Split Pushing and Sieging

Speaking of splitpushing, Riot is making numerous changes to enable split pushing and sieging. The list of changes is:

• Crystalline Overgrowth
  • Builds up on towers over time to deal bonus damage to turrets – similar to demolish
    • Demolish becomes a three-hit passive instead.
• Plates remain permanent and feature on outer and inhibitor turrets.
  • The current gold for destroying these towers will spread out among the plates.
• Homeguards
  • Persist until you reach the outer turret.
    • Extends to the farthest pushed minion in each lane after the laning phase ends.
• Turret Damage Taken
  • Melee champions deal 20% increased damage to turrets.
  • Removed reduced damage from minions and ranged champions.
  • Increased turret health.
  • Inner Turrets no longer gain resists.
  • Outer Turrets gain less AD in the mid-late game.
• Minion Spawns
  • Occur more frequently in the mid-late game.
  • One fewer melee minion spawns if it is a canon wave – mid game
  • One fewer caster minion spawns if it is a canon wave – late game
  • Nexus Towers
    • Will respawn with 40% of their health

New League of Legends Items

Nine items are coming to the rift in 2026. Below is the list of items with their temporary names.

• Scepter of Bonking
  • AP Fighter Sheen item
• Emblem of All-ining
  • ADC Zeal item
• Blood Sphere
  • AD Omnviamp item
• Assassin Item
  • AD Assassin item to help end the game.
• Mananomicon
  • AP Mana Active item
• Snowbow
  • Long-Range ADC item
• Buff Engine
  • Attack Speed Aura item for melee supports
• Mantle of the Twelfth Hour
  • Lifeline tank item
• Savior’s Manabell+Superbell
  • Upgradable Tear item for enchanters
• Hextech Gunblade
  • Return of the signature hybrid item
• Stormrazor
  • Returning ADC item

League of Legends Role Quests

Every League of Legends role is getting a quest in 2026. The current quests for Jungle and Support will receive updates. Your role determines the quest you get. Killing minions, champions, plates, etc., grants progress. You gain additional progress through completing these in your assigned lane.

Top Lane

Upon completing the quest, Top laners gain the Summoner Teleport for free. If you have the summoner spell, you gain a max-health shield on use. Top laners gain bonus experience up front as well as additional experience from all sources. Top laners will gain an increased level cap.

Mid Lane

Mid laners gain a free tier 3 boot upgrade, similar to the ones gained from feats. They also gain a 4-second recall that has a cooldown.

Bot Lane

Bot laners gain upfront gold and increased gold from minion kills, and takedowns for the rest of the game. They also gain a seventh item slot that holds their boots, allowing them to have six core items. Crit damage is going to 200%.

Jungle

Junglers will have their early clear speeds lowered. Completing their quest grants increased gold and XP from large monsters and bonus movement speed in the jungle. To help Junglers secure objectives, they will gain additional damage on smite alongside the extra resists on the objective.

Support

Completing a Support quest now also grants a slot for control wards. These control wards can be bought for a reduced price. Support will gain more passive gold generation.