Atakhan and the Blood Roses introduce new mechanics that will be vital to your next climb to Challenger (or Gold)!
League of Legends Season 1 not only changes Summoner's Rift visually, but adds new objectives and pickups that might be instrumental to your next wins. Here's everything you need to know about the new epic monster Atakhan, and the Blood Roses that he spawns.
Atakhan goes live with League of Legends Patch 25.S1.1.
Blood Roses and Blood Petals in LoL Season 1
Blood Roses are a new plant coming to Summoner's Rift. Picking them up gives a permanent bonus to the team, granting XP and Adaptive Force. Blood Roses spawn near areas where champions have died or around Atakhan's spawn location. Killing Ruinous Atakhan also spawns a bed of Roses for anyone to collect.
Blood Roses
These Blood Roses are not tied to Atakhan's spawn timer, meaning they can be on the map even before 20:00. They come in two variants, small and large.
Small Blood Roses give 3 petals, and large ones give 6, when basic attacked.
Blood Petals
1 Blood Petal gives the player who picked it up, and their team, 1-0.33 Adaptive Force and some XP. The minimum XP it awards is 25, and it can increase to a maximum of 50 XP depending on K/D/A (lower K/D/A = higher XP gain)
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Atakhan details in LoL
Atakhan is the newest Epic Monster on Summoner's Rift. At 14 minutes, he marks his spawn pit with small pieces of terrain that remain there for the rest of the game. He spawns at 20:00 on one of two pre-determined locations, either by the top or bottom lane. To accomodate for him, Baron Nashor's spawn timer has been moved to 25:00 and Rift Herald at 16:00. Atakhan only spawns once.
Games with higher action, meaning more champion damage and kills, he will spawn as Ruinous Atakhan.
Ruinous Atakhan
Ruinous Atakhan grants the team that slayed him a permanent 25% increase to all Epic monster rewards. This buff retroactively applies to rewards earned before slaying him, like Drake buffs. On top of this, the team also grants 6 Blood Petals.
6 Large and 6 Small Blood Roses spawn in a grove around Ruinous Atakhan's pit upon his death.
Voracious Atakhan
Voracious Atakhan grants the slaying team an additional 40 gold on all of their takedowns for the rest of the game. The team also gains a single-use death mitigation effect for 150 seconds. When a player with this buff dies, they instead enter stasis for 2 seconds and then goes back to their base after 3.5 seconds.
The killer of this "reviving" player is instead granted 100 gold and 1 Blood Petal.
"With Atakhan, we wanted to create an important gameplay objective that allows players to participate more in shaping the story unique to each game on Summoner's Rift," says the LoL developers. "Both team's actions, their choices to fight or not, and where and when they do, will determine Atakhan's location and form. Our goal is for this to ultimately let players actively create more variation to each game of League."
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