Riot Games accidentally removes LoL patch 13.1b

Chaos broke out briefly in League of Legends yesterday when a glitch caused the changes from the last patch (13.1b) to be undone. As a result, ranked matches had to be deactivated.

Meanwhile, Riot Games got the problem under control again! The live servers are back to the correct patch level and you can play ranked again as normal.

Tomorrow, the next patch 13.3 will be released, as part of which tanks will be buffed, Annie reworked, and Ahri’s Splashart will get a revision. 

Ranked was disabled after glitch

Right after the 13.1b patch went live, ranked play in League was disabled and it seems Riot’s engineers have been busy working on a quick fix as well. About an hour later, Riot confirmed that there was a bug that put the live server on the old patch version 13.1.

As a result, more than 20 champion changes were simply gone, as were changes to items, runes, and the map. Fortunately, the developers deactivated the ranking directly, because then many players would have complained. But it’s not exactly nice when you suddenly play on the old patch without knowing it and suddenly completely different champions are strong.

Issues with Riot Games

According to a Riot employee Ray Yonggi, who raised the bug on Discord, the glitch arose while preparing for the next patch. Because patch 13.1b was more of a hotfix than a patch, it was overwritten when the new patch was applied. It probably mostly bothered AD carries, as it threw away a lot of changes to ADCs and unintentionally weakened the botlaners again.

Among others, Ashe, Caitlyn, Kai’Sa, Lucian, and Xayah have lost their key mana changes, while 23 items from Black Cleaver to Navori Quickblades have been restored to their original Season 13 starting states.

Team Fight Tactics was also affected, running again on the 13.1b patch. Actually, the autobattler was already on patch 13.1c. After difficult weeks in which Riot Games had to deal with the hacker attack, this problem has now been added.

On Jan. 20, the studio admitted it was hit by a “social engineering attack” that has thrown the League and TFT’s schedules off balance. Hopefully, things will run more smoothly from now on, but we’ll see tomorrow when the next patch hits the live servers!

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