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Pabro and Meddler talk about how the Season 1 gameplay changes have landed, some updates to MMR distribution, an update on ARAM: Mayhem, and answer some of your frequently asked questions. Riot Memurr and Pabro talk about our approach to Shyvana’s update.

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Happy Lunar Revel, welcome to patch 26.4!

In this week's patch we're kicking off the year of the horse off right with one of the best to grace the Rift, Lillia! Not to mention a bunch of other beautiful Petals of Spring skins plus we've got a special appearance for Divine Architect Porcelain Aurelion Sol! We'll dive into the Summoner's Rift specific changes in a second, but we've also got some love for ARAM Mayhem and Arena coming this patch. Make sure you also check out the Ionia Cup Clash happening on ARAM this patch.

We've got another larger-than-average balance patch coming your way as we continue to comb through the new season's outliers and otherwise unloved-feeling champions. While most of our changes are very standard, we also took a look at formerly-popular junglers who have other primary roles and tried to place them at a balanced state.

Celebrate the new year and revel in Patch 26.3 🎊
Game Updates - Riot Riru, Riot Sakaar - 2/3/2026

This is our first major live follow-up patch on Season 2026 after collecting our first reads on the game from a combination of playing ourselves and watching you all dive into the changes. We're honing in on item balance, following up on recent rune changes, and tweaking vision mechanics to ensure the early game has the right level of tension. We've also got balance changes. A lot of balance changes. The biggest standout here is AD junglers, who are systemically worse in the new season, but since we like the systems changes that caused this disparity, we're simply buffing them back up.

Also with this patch we're delivering a major update to ARAM Mayhem! Over 40 new augments, augment sets, and a progression track means there's a ton of crazy combinations you can cook up. For you ranked climbers we now have the climb indicator as well as a tweak to the Aegis of Valor threshold. For Demacia Rising the next two chapters will also be unlocked and available to progress in this patch, best of luck to you and your units!

This is my setup

I'd expect A and B production to be pretty similar. And C times 5/9 should be about the same as D. That's not really what I'm getting.

Snow, of course, makes this more complicated.

These are the numbers I'm being told from my installer/Tesla.

The installer's theory is that: (MPPT B) is quite a bit lower than (MPPT A) for the same array size on the same south facing side of the roof but could be related snow melt on the peak prior to snow melt on the lower roof. This theory seems to be the case on the north facing roof, with the lower array being lower than would be expected.

Seems kind of odd in November though. I can't say the exact date that tree had no leaves, but it's not exactly hanging over the panels. When the sun gets to a low angle, production dies regardless of the tree, so I don't think it's making a huge difference, particularly in the winter. Plus periods of snow are marked by 0 or near 0 production. They're not that hard to spot.

I want to say that a 20-30% difference in A's production vs B's production probably means something's wrong. Any thoughts would be welcome.

I also don't know why their numbers are so far off of what Home Assistant is showing (other than watts vs kilowatts).

Considering the lack of content in this community, this is a thread to post general stories about your games and experiences, for better or worse.

This is a phenomenon that happens to supports regularly enough that I think it's worth discussing.

Regularly in the early game I'll have a crushing bot lane. In my most recent game, I was Senna with a Draven, having tons of sustain and a huge lane advantage. We get a couple plates and recall. Mid trades 1 for 1 with their lane in a bad state, so I fix the wave state mid lane before I head back bot.

In the 1.5 waves between my mid roam and coming back bot to our crushing lane, my Draven has died.

Regularly when crushing lane as a support, my AD will think it's been them the whole time and now they can just 1v2.

I guess the way to fix this is to rank up enough that your teammates are smarter, but my god is it frustrating.