League of Legends PBE Preview Hints at Gwen Healing and Kennen Damage Buffs

League of Legends is testing another batch of balance changes on the PBE. The August 4, 2026 datamine points to stronger healing for Gwen, a more powerful ultimate for Kennen, reduced late-game scaling for Bel’Veth on Summoner’s Rift, and a long series of Arena adjustments.

The changes are still provisional. The datamine warns that PBE values can change before reaching live servers, while some bug fixes may not be visible through the current testing process.

[PBE Datamine] August 4, 2026 – Gwen + Kennen, Bel'Veth Nerfs, Buffs, Item Buffs, Arena Balance Pass
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Summoner’s Rift balance changes

Gwen would receive the clearest boost among the Summoner’s Rift champions. Her passive healing would increase from 50% of damage to 66%, while the passive healing cap would move from 10-25 (+6.5% AP) to 12-40 (+7% AP).

Kennen’s ultimate would also hit harder. Its damage per strike would change from 40/75/110 (+22.5% AP) to 40/80/120 (+25% AP). That raises the maximum damage from 300/562.5/825 (+168.75% AP) to 300/600/900 (187.5% AP). His ultimate’s bonus resistances would increase from 20/40/60 to 30/55/80.

Bel’Veth would move in the opposite direction. Her health growth would fall from 110 to 105, while the attack speed granted by her ultimate would change from 5/15/25% to 6/13/20%. The ultimate’s bonus size would also change from 5/15/25% to 5/13/21%. That gives her a small first-rank increase, followed by lower values at ranks two and three.

Sivir and Xayah would both receive the same magic resistance adjustment. Their base MR would rise from 30 to 33, while MR growth would drop from 1.3 to 1.1.

Summoner’s Rift champion changes

• Bel’Veth: HP Growth: 110 → 105. R Bonus Total AS: 5/15/25% → 6/13/20%. R Bonus Size: 5/15/25% → 5/13/21%.
• Gwen: Passive healing: 50% damage → 66% damage. Passive healing cap: 10-25 (+6.5% AP) → 12-40 (+7% AP).
• Kennen: R damage per strike: 40/75/110 (+22.5% AP) → 40/80/120 (+25% AP). Maximum R damage: 300/562.5/825 (+168.75% AP) → 300/600/900 (187.5% AP). R bonus resists: 20/40/60 → 30/55/80.
• Sivir: Base MR: 30 → 33. MR growth: 1.3 → 1.1.
• Xayah: Base MR: 30 → 33. MR growth: 1.3 → 1.1.

The same preview also lists several other Summoner’s Rift champion changes. Azir is marked for a buff, but no numerical values are available yet. Camille would gain base mana, a shorter passive cooldown, and stronger Tactical Sweep damage, while her passive shield would shift to level-based scaling. Poppy would gain health regeneration, mana, mana growth, defensive scaling, and stronger damage against minions and monsters, while losing some base attack damage and Q damage against champions. Nasus would gain more Q stacks from basic enemies but fewer from champions, large minions, and large monsters.

• Azir: Listed for a buff, with no numerical values provided.
• Camille: Base mana: 339 → 375. Passive shield maximum-health ratio: 20% flat → 10/15/20% based on levels. Passive cooldown: 18/14/10/6 → 14/11/8/5 seconds. W target maximum-health damage: 6/6.5/7/7.5/8% → 7/7.5/8/8.5/9%. W cooldown: 15/14/13/12/11 → 12/11.5/11/10.5/10 seconds.
• Poppy: Base health regeneration per second: 1.6 → 1.8. Base mana: 280 → 300. Mana growth: 40 → 45. Base AD: 60 → 56. Q bonus AD ratio: 100% → 75%. Q target maximum-health damage: 9% → 7/7.5/8/8.5/9%. Q minion and monster maximum-health damage: 75/105/135/165/195 → 85/120/155/190/225. Q slow: 20/25/30/35/40% → 20/23/26/29/32% plus bonus-health scaling. W total armor and MR ratios: 12% (24% below 40% health) → 16% (32% below 40% health).
• Nasus: Q stacks from basic enemies: 3 → 4. Q stacks from champions, large minions, and large monsters: 12 → 10.

Summoner’s Rift item changes

Several items would also be adjusted. Runaan’s Hurricane would gain more movement speed and stronger bolts, while Sunfire Aegis would receive extra armor. Sundered Sky’s healing ratio would be corrected to use base AD, but its combine cost would rise without changing the item’s total price.

• Runaan’s Hurricane: Move Speed: 4% → 5%. Bolt Damage: 55% AD → 65% AD.
• Sundered Sky: The heal AD ratio would use base AD. Combine Cost: 500 Gold → 900 Gold. Total Cost would remain 3100 Gold, unchanged from live. The preview also lists HP changing from 400 to 450 and the Lightshield Strike heal changing from 100%/50% base AD plus 6% missing health to 90%/45% base AD plus 4% missing health for melee/ranged users.
• Sunfire Aegis: Armor: 45 → 50. Immolate bonus-health ratio: 1% → 1.5%. Immolate minion damage ratio: 160% → 150%. Immolate monster damage ratio: 200% → 180%. Cost: 2700 → 2800 gold.

Additional system changes would increase Eclipse’s target maximum-health damage while reducing its base shield, raise Tiamat’s attack damage, and improve several boots and marksman systems. The jungle pet would gain stronger AP, armor, magic-resistance, and bonus-health scaling, while Fleet Footwork would heal for more. Black Cleaver would gain attack damage but lose some flat movement speed for ranged users, and Chainlaced Crushers would lose five magic resistance.

• Eclipse: Target maximum-health damage: 6%/4% → 8%/5% for melee/ranged users. Base shield: 160/80 → 150/75.
• Tiamat: AD: 20 → 25.
• Spellslinger’s Shoes: Magic penetration: 18 → 20.
• Gunmetal Greaves: Attack speed: 40% → 45%.
• Berserker’s Greaves: Attack speed: 25% → 30%.
• Jungle Pet: AP scaling: 12% → 16%. Bonus armor and magic-resistance scaling: 20% → 25%. Bonus-health scaling: 3% → 4%.
• Fleet Footwork: Heal: 10-130 → 15-160 based on levels.
• Black Cleaver: AD: 40 → 45. Fervor bonus movement speed: 20 flat → 20/10 for melee/ranged users.
• Chainlaced Crushers: Magic resistance: 30 → 25.

A small general change is also being tested. Numpad Enter would be bound by default to every key that uses regular Enter.

Additional system adjustments

Hail of Blades would trade some early bonus true damage and attack speed for stronger attack-damage and ability-power scaling. The support role quest would also shift some gold toward minion executes and away from champion and tower damage.

• Hail of Blades: Bonus true damage: 4-20 (+8% bonus AD) (+6% AP) → 2-20 (+12% bonus AD) (+10% AP). Bonus attack speed: 120%/60% → 90%/60% for melee/ranged users.
• World Atlas – Shared Riches: Minion execute gold: 15 → 18. Champion and tower damage gold: 22/20 → 18 for melee/ranged users.
• Runic Compass – Shared Riches: Minion execute gold: 20 → 21. Champion and tower damage gold: 24/22 → 21 for melee/ranged users.

Most of the listed ADCs would receive three more points of base magic resistance alongside lower per-level growth. Tristana would receive the same growth change from a lower starting value.

• Akshan, Aphelios, Ashe, Caitlyn, Corki, Draven, Ezreal, Graves, Jhin, Jinx, Kai’Sa, Kalista, Kindred, Kog’Maw, Lucian, Miss Fortune, Quinn, Samira, Senna, Sivir, Smolder, Twitch, Varus, Vayne, Xayah, Yunara, Zeri: Base MR: 30 → 33. MR growth: 1.3 → 1.1.
• Tristana: Base MR: 28 → 31. MR growth: 1.3 → 1.1.

Arena receives another balance pass

Arena contains the larger portion of the datamine. Several champions would have older values restored, while others would receive stronger damage, shorter cooldowns, or extra scaling. The changes touch both high-damage picks and defensive or utility-focused champions.

Aurelion Sol would have his Q maximum-health damage per stack restored to 0.031%, and his E cooldown would return to 12 seconds. Bel’Veth would lose some of her Arena attack-speed scaling. Her passive attack speed per stack at levels 6-10 would fall from 0.1% to 0.08%, while the value at level 11 and above would drop from 0.15% to 0.10%. At level 18, that means 2% attack speed per stack would become 1.5%. Her R bonus health would return to 100/250/400.

Gnar would receive several buffs in Arena. His E maximum-health damage would rise from 6% to 8%, E attack speed would move from 40/45/50/55/60% to 50/55/60/65/70%, and W maximum-health base damage would increase from 6/8/10/12/14% to 10/12/14/16/18%. His ultimate cooldown would change from 90/60/30 seconds to 70/50/30 seconds. The datamine also mentions possible future changes to Mega Gnar’s bonus health and Rage cooldown, but those are not presented as finalized adjustments.

LeBlanc would get more frequent access to her passive and abilities. Her passive cooldown would fall from 10 seconds to 5 seconds. Q base damage would increase from 85/110/135/160/185 to 105/130/155/180/205, and the Q cooldown refund on a kill would rise from 60% to 100%. E cooldown would change from 14/13.25/12.5/11.75/11 seconds to 12/11.25/10.5/9.75/9 seconds.

• Heimerdinger: Q base damage would return to 7/11/15/19/23.
• Mordekaiser: R stat steal would return to 10%.
• Ornn: W cooldown would change from 10 seconds to 10.5/10/9.5/9/8.5 seconds.
• Poppy: Q maximum-health damage would return to 7/7.5/8/8.5/9%. W bonus resists would return to 16%, and W cooldown would return to 20/18/16/14/12 seconds.
• Rek’Sai: Fury Consumption healing would increase from 9-20% maximum Health to 10-45% maximum Health. Burrowed Q, Prey Seeker, cooldown: 10 seconds → 7.5 seconds. Burrowed bonus move speed: 5/10/15/20/25 → 10/20/30/40/50. Burrowed E tunnel cooldown: 18/17/16/15/14 seconds → 9/8/7/6/5 seconds. Burrowed E tunnel reuse cooldown: 6/5/4/3/2 seconds → 4/3/2/1/0 seconds.
• Samira: R damage per bullet would return to 20/40/60/80/100.
• Shaco: Q AD ratio: 60% bonus AD → 85% bonus AD. E AD ratio: 80% bonus AD → 100% bonus AD.
• Sona: W cooldown: 10 seconds → 13 seconds.
• Soraka: W cooldown: 6/5/4/3/2 seconds → 7/6/5/4/3 seconds.
• Swain: R healing HP ratio: 1.5% bonus Health per second → 1% bonus Health per second.
• Varus: W cooldown: 40 seconds → 20 seconds. E cooldown: 18/16/14/12/10 seconds → 16/14/12/10/8 seconds.
• Volibear: Q AD ratio: 60% bonus AD → 100% bonus AD. All W and E changes would return to their Summoner’s Rift values.
• Warwick: Q cooldown: 8/7.5/7/6.5/6 seconds → 7/6.5/6/5.5/5 seconds. E cooldown: 15/14/13/12/11 seconds → 13/12/11/10/9 seconds.

Arena item changes

The Arena item changes are shorter, but they still cover damage, health scaling, and an important ratio correction for Sundered Sky.

• Sterak’s Gage: Bonus AD: 45% base AD → 50% base AD.
• Sundered Sky: HP: 350 → 400. The heal AD ratio would use base AD.
• Void Immolation: Immolate health ratio: 7% maximum Health → 10% maximum Health.

No live-server date is attached to this PBE batch, so players should treat the August 4 values as an early look rather than a final patch preview.

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