League of Legends announces major changes to gameplay for Season 2

Riot Games recently officially announced the gameplay update content of League of Legends Season 2. Focusing on the themes of Ionia and Spirit Blossom, the new season will be officially launched in version 25.09, bringing a series of major adjustments to maps, jungle resources, bounty mechanisms and game systems.

The biggest visual update for Season 2 comes from the "Spirit Blossom Rift". As a version theme with Ionia as the core background, the new map will retain the existing terrain structure while adding strong oriental fantasy elements and gorgeous special effects. Although the visual upgrade is significant, players do not have to worry about the tactical level being disturbed, and the battlefield terrain will maintain the same competitive fairness as the previous version.

Changes to neutral resources are a core part of this update.

• Atakhan Adjustment: This boss will only appear in the form of "Atakan of Thorns". The party that kills it will monopolize all the "roses" on the map and gain a 25% additional attribute bonus. At the same time, the whole team will gain an enhanced effect called "Spiritual Purification" - triggering area damage and causing deceleration when killing an enemy.
  
  

• Void Larva and Rift Herald: Void Larva will only spawn once in the future, avoiding resource tilt caused by multiple kills and reducing the high requirements for team operations. For Rift Herald, the "damage reduction from hero attacks" mechanism will be removed, making it easier to kill, and further enhancing its strategic value, encouraging teams to actively compete for it.

The bounty system will undergo a strategic adjustment: in the future, the bounty will only be triggered when "a team is clearly ahead as a whole", and will no longer rely on individual kills. This means that even if the number of kills is behind, if the lagging team operates properly as a whole, there is still a chance to get compensation at the resource level.

In addition, to optimize the gaming experience for junglers and support players, these two positions will automatically receive exclusive equipment to reduce misoperations and "actor behavior". During the player selection phase, Riot also introduced a role swap function to avoid position assignment errors.

The "lane swapping tactics" that were popular at the beginning of this season have also been further weakened. The new patch will set penalties for "non-mainstream auxiliary roaming strategies" to maintain the game rhythm and laning integrity. At the same time, many quality optimization (QoL) functions will be launched, including a clearer death replay interface and new multi-kill sound feedback.