As with every new year comes a load of major and minor changes to Summoner’s Rift as Riot Games takes the opportunity to renew and improve the player and pro experience.
Season One’s theme, Noxus, introduces new boots upgrades, new game mechanics, items, runes, changes to ranked reset, along with a new themed map and new epic jungle monster.
You can read in detail about Atakhan, the new epic jungle monster, and how it affects Rift Herald and Baron timings here.
List of all new boots upgrades on Summoner’s Rift in Season One 2025
Tier 3 boots upgrades
| NEW BOOTS UPGRADES (TIER 3) | VISUAL |
| Syncronised Souls |  |
| Boots of Swiftness |  |
| Sorcerer’s Shoes |  |
| Plated Steelcaps |  |
| Mercury’s Treads |  |
| Ionian Boots of Lucidity |  |
| Berserker’s Greaves |  |
Noxian-themed boot upgrades are available through a new mechanic called Feats of Strength.
Players can only get access to these new boots upgrades if they meet these requirements — be the first team to claim two of the following three objectives:
- first blood
- first tower
- first three epic jungle monsters (Dragons, Herald, any three Void Grubs)
Feats of Strength slightly enhances stats on the team’s tier two boots and unlock the above tier 3 Noxian boots upgrades.
Even if you haven’t upgraded your boots to tier 2, Feats of Strength is permanent. You’ll automatically receive its benefits once you make your purchase.
If you’re on the Feat winning team and have completed two legendary items, you can spend gold to upgrade your boots to tier 3 which grants another small stat bonus and a unique effect depending on which boots you upgraded.
New item Bloodletter’s Curse added to Summoner’s Rift
Bloodletter’s Curse reduces the target’s magic resistance from repeated ability hits, so Cassiopeia is the perfect champion to build this. Think of it as a Black Cleaver but for mages.
It’s technically not an entirely new item because it was present in Arena. Here’s its official description in the game mode:
“Dealing magic damage to an enemy champion applies a stack to them for 6 seconds, stacking up to 6 times. Each stack inflicts 5% magic resistance reduction, up to 30% at 6 stacks. Damaging basic attacks and spells can only apply a stack once every 2 seconds.”
In addition, expect small-scope adjustments to tank items.
New runes affecting vision added to Domination tree, plus new addition to Sorcery tree
Deep Ward, Sixth Sense, and Grisly Memento are new runes you’ll see in the Domination tree that rebalance vision-related options.
Sixth Sense automatically tracks a nearby enemy ward if you cannot already see or track it. If
you’re a melee champion, it will have a 300-second cooldown. If you’re a ranged user, it will have a 360-second cooldown.
Beginning at level 11, this rune will not only track the enemy ward, but it will also reveal it for 10 seconds, giving you a chance to take it out.
Grisly Mementos grants an infinitely stacking 5 Trinket Ability Haste upon champion takedowns. In modes where this doesn’t make sense like ARAM, the user will gain 3 Ultimate Ability Haste instead.
In the Sorcery tree, Axiom Arcanist is a brand-new addition that buffs your ultimate ability’s damage, healing, or shielding, and refunds you some cooldown on takedowns. It replaces Nullifying Orb.
“We wanted to add a rune that appealed to the caster fantasy that has a clearly defined user base that can compete with manaflow band for those who us e it well as a more interesting choice for players as they load into their game,” Riot Games explained in their dev blog.
Game-changing adjustments to Nexus turrets
For as long as League of Legends existed, once Nexus turrets are destroyed, they’re permanently gone from the map.
LoL players know all to well how difficult it can be to defend an open Nexus, which also invites backdoors.
All that’s about to change in Season One 2025 because Nexus turrets can now respawn after a set time after they’re destroyed. The rationale? It gives a lifeline to teams on the brink of defeat, increasing their chances of a comeback.
Teleport is no longer instant
The Summoner Spell Teleport will no longer instantly blink the champion after its channel, but instead, the champion will visually travel across the map.
Unleashed Teleport will cause the champion to travel at a faster rate while teleporting.
Ranked season resets reverted: we’re back to a single one at the start of the year
The ranked system (visible rank and MMR) returns to a single large reset at the beginning of each year in January, with no additional resets throughout the year.
The tuning for the January reset—including the size of the reset, the average number of games needed to climb, and related elements—follows similar patterns to those used in 2022 and earlier.
Riot is still keeping it to three Victorious skins per year, however, which is great news for players. There will be one available per season. To unlock each season’s skin, players must win 15 ranked games during that season.
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