Sivir rework confirmed for League of Legends Season 12: Changes, release date

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Sivir is the next League of Legends champion in line for one of Riot’s specialty reworks ⁠— a mid-scope update ⁠— in Season 12. The developer’s main goal is to bring back her popular crit-focused build, giving her more consistent damage tools with less utility.

Sivir was once one of League of Legends’ premier AD carries. The Shuriman fortune hunter has always been the best-in-class for waveclear and long-range poke, but that play style has fallen away to more exciting hyper carry champions.

Currently she boasts a near 50% win rate ⁠— respectable by most standards ⁠— but only a 2.88% pick rate, far behind most other options in the League of Legends Season 12 meta.

Her kit hasn’t changed much since her debut in 2009, and that staleness is part of the problem Riot is tackling in Sivir’s upcoming rework. The Battle Mistress is next on the developer’s “mid-scope update” list after successful overhauls for Taliyah, Olaf, Swain, and more.

“[The] high level goals are to legitimize her crit build and play style by giving her more consistent tools to do high DPS at the cost of some of her ability to shuttle teammates around,” developer Ray ‘Ray Yonggi’ Williams told players on June 13.

Sivir is the next champion receiving a mid-scope update in League of Legends Season 12.

Riot have not outlined the exact changes yet, but trading some utility to give Sivir more damage is the general idea.

“While having strategic diversity is important, heavy utility bot laners are exceptionally underplayed even when objectively powerful. Allowing Sivir to maintain some utility but not be her primary output is hopefully the key to providing a more resonant experience,” Williams added.

The developers have already ruled some changes out: she will keep her 500 attack range to give Riot more agency in buffing other skills. This includes reshifting her ultimate’s power to a more personal damage buff, and also refreshing the rest of her kit to be more modern.

Sivir’s iconic Spell Shield will also remain relatively unchanged. As for her passive, Boomerang Blade, and Ricochet ⁠— all those are up for adjustment, but the identity will remain the same.

“We’re looking to improve but not replace each of her spells to keep her familiar but more functional,” Williams said.

Riot wants Sivir to have more damage to live up to her fantasy of being a “fast-moving lady with a boomerang that spreads damage”.

The overall goal will ensure Sivir’s crit build shines above the rest, but it won’t completely kill her flexibility after the AD carry saw more play in Season 11 thanks to a new lethality build: “This doesn’t mean ‘killing’ lethality as an alternate build, but it won’t be the intended playstyle.”

Riot has not penciled in a release date for Sivir’s mid-scope update in League of Legends Season 12, or an exact changelist. We will keep you updated as more details are released.

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