Wild Rift Patch 4.0: new champions, skins, gameplay updates

The preview for Wild Rift Patch 4.0 has been revealed by Riot Games. The upcoming major update contains various new additions to the game, such as two new champions, skins, the return of ARURF game mode, and gameplay changes. Check out the highlights below.

New Champions

• Zoe, the Aspect of Twilight – This champion is categorized as a burst mage with spam teleport abilities and massive burst damage. She can also utilize the spells and enchantments of other players.
• Zeri, the Spark of Zaun – She is a marksman champion who receives an increase in movement speed when shielded. She is quite dexterous on the battlefield and can dash up walls to escape quickly.

Gameplay Updates

Wild Rift Patch 4.0 focuses on increasing the likelihood of comebacks while maintaining the game's frenetic pace. Patch 4.0 will therefore introduce the following changes:

• Inhibitors will now respawn after a certain period of time. Thus, if a team loses a minion early, the game will not feel over, and players will be able to focus more on the enemy team and less on their minions.
• As the game nears its conclusion, towers will begin to burn and eventually fall. This mechanic should not activate frequently, but when it does, players should feel compelled to push their advantages or overcome their disadvantages through team fights, as opposed to waiting or farming for extended periods.

Tank Changes

As a follow-up to the role work implemented in Patch 3.5 for the Jungle, Patch 4.0 will introduce some changes to tank items that will enhance the overall tank champion experience. The ultimate purpose of these item modifications is to make tank players' successes and accomplishments more visible to all players:

• [NEW] Dawnshroud: When you immobilize an enemy champion, the passive effect of Dawnshroud deals damage and reveals nearby enemy champions. This effect will also activate if you are rendered immobile.
• [REWORK] Randuin's Omen: When struck by a critical strike, you will now gain stacks. Attack a champion to consume the stacks and receive healing proportional to the damage you took. This replaces an old passive of the item that reduced damage from all critical strikes. Starting with this patch, you'll need to actively attack to maximize your damage reduction rather than passively gaining it. This will reward tanking skills and good decision-making.
• [REWORK] Frozen Heart: For 5 seconds, basic attacks and magic damage caused by you or inflicted on you and nearby teammates will apply stacks of Chill on the enemy champion. Each stack of Chill reduces the enemy's attack speed by a maximum amount. The developers hope that with a stacking debuff instead of a constant effect, Frozen Heart will have a greater overall effect.

Return of ARURF mode

All Random Ultra Rapid Fire (ARURF) Mode returns to the Rift in triumphant fashion. Play a completely random champion whose abilities have low cooldowns.

In addition, Execute-Smite will be introduced in this version of ARURF. Junglers may select Smite as usual, but Smite's effect will become passive instead of an active button. When you deal enough damage to a monster to reduce its health below Smite's total damage, the spell will automatically activate and smite the camp for you. In ARURF, there is no cooldown for this effect.

Wild Rift Ranked Season 8 Skin Reward

The exclusive skin reward for the Wild Rift Ranked Season 8 is Glorious Crimson Nami. Players can play Ranked games to claim the skin from the Season Rewards tab. It also features a Weapon Augment Upgrade, which can be acquired from the Ranked Store.

Wild Pass Season 8 Skin Reward

Supervillain Graves is on his way to the end of Wild Pass Season 8. Players can grab his Ascended skin from the Wild Pass Emporium.

Events

The start of a new year is a busy time, so players will need to work together to prepare and deliver delectable food to the Mythmakers in their cozy but busy food stall. In addition, Lunar New Year map effects will return with Patch 4.0. There will be lanterns and fireworks in the player's base, as well as a new firework effect when an enemy is killed.

Patch 4.0 will introduce PROJECT SURGE. When this event begins later in the patch, players can anticipate receiving new skins and rewards.

New Skins

• Mythmaker Caitlyn
• Mythmaker Zoe
• Mythmaker Seraphine
• Mythmaker Gwen
• Mythmaker Caitlyn Special Edition
• Dragon Fist Lee Sin
• Firecracker Vayne
• PROJECT Lucian
• PROJECT Master Yi
• PROJECT Renekton
• PROJECT Zeri
• Battle Academia Leona
• Battle Principal Yuumi

Quality Of Life Changes

• Adding sub-tiers to certain ARAM games makes it easier for players to track their progression.
• The addition of a Role Leaderboard, where players can compare their role scores with those of their friends. Additionally, players will be able to view the best players in their region for each role. The absolute best will receive a special title.
• Role scores will be reset at the start of the new ranked season. In the future, however, players will receive a boost for role score increases based on their performance during the previous season.

Source: Riot Games