Wild Rift Patch 7.2: Yunara, New Items & Ranked Guide

Riot called it Patch 7.2: Feast On. Appropriate. They fed boot enchantments to the trash, introduced a Wild Rift new items 2026 system nobody asked for, and slapped a summer coat of paint on Ionia. It drops July 9, 2026. Season 21 ends that day too, so your Glorious Eminence Jax chase is officially over.

The patch comes in two episodes. Episode 1 is the teaser. Episode 2 has the numbers. This guide covers both, plus everything that leaked from the Chinese PBE. You're welcome.

Yunara: New Champion

Yunara, the Unbroken Faith. She is a Wild Rift marksman who spent centuries in the spirit realm training with a Kinkou relic called the Aion Er'na. The result: she hits things and they also get hit by magic. Positioning matters. Spacing matters. If you stand still, you deserve what happens to you.

Abilities

Key	Name	What It Does
Q	Cultivation of Spirit	Passive: attacks deal bonus magic damage and generate Unleash stacks. Active: activates Transcendent State: AoE cleave, more attack speed, more magic damage. Stacks decay when you stop attacking. So keep attacking.
W	Arc of Judgement	Spinning prayer bead that slows on hit and expands at max range. Upgraded to Arc of Ruin during R with reduced cooldown. Poke tool. Use it to win trades you shouldn't win.
E	Kanmei's Steps	Ghosted movement speed towards enemies, decaying. Upgraded during R to Untouchable Shadow: a dash. Repositioning tool. Also: escape if you remembered to press R first.
R	Transcend One's Self	Activates Q automatically, upgrades W and E. Duration window. Use it, stay in range, and keep swinging. Wasting this is a moral failure.

Yunara rewards staying in the fight. Her Unleash stacks reset when she stops auto-attacking. Team fights are her domain. Solo queue brain-off autopilot is her graveyard.

Boot Enchantments: Gone

Every boot enchant you've relied on since launch is deleted. Stasis boots, Glory, Veil, Dream Maker, Galeforce boots: all of it. The Wild Rift boot enchants removed decision is final. If you cried, you should have. This is the biggest item architecture change since the game launched.

What replaces them: Tier 3 boots, costing 1,000 extra gold, unlockable after the 10-minute mark. Every boot type gets its own upgrade. All Tier 2 boots now cost 1,200 gold (Ionian Boots stay at 1,000). Components are back, so early Tier 1 boots are no longer wasted gold.

Wild Rift Patch 7.2: Yunara, New Items & Ranked Guide

Boot Tier 3 Overview

Boot Type	Tier 3 Bonus	Passive
Plated Steelcaps	Armor/MR upgrades	Damage reduction on auto attacks
Berserker's Greaves	+10% attack speed	10 HP restore on hit
Greaves (Bruiser)	+10 AD, +2 Omnivamp	+5% damage above 50% HP; more healing below it
Ionian Boots	More AH	CDR on ability usage
Sorcerer's Shoes	Flat magic pen	On-hit slow

Tanks and ADCs who relied on Stasis or Glory enchants have no direct replacement. Off-role Stasis is gone. If you need Zhonya's now, you're spending an item slot and 3,300 gold for it. Good luck.

Standalone Active Items

Active effects like Stasis, Redemption, QSS, and Galeforce now live as their own Wild Rift active items in standalone completed-item slots. You still can only hold one active item at a time. The system just no longer hides them inside your shoes.

Notable New & Returning Actives

Zhonya's Hourglass (3,300g): 100 AP, 45 Armor, 20 AH. 2.5-second Stasis. 90-second cooldown. Does not break after one use, unlike PC.
Redemption (2,700g): Support healing bomb. Now a proper item slot. Still saves your team. Mages still cast it while dead.
Shurelya's Battlesong (2,600g): 50 AP, 50% mana regen, 20 AH, 5% move speed. Active: 30% MS for your team. New addition.
Locket of the Iron Solari (2,600g): Shield active absorbs 250–370 damage for 2.5 seconds. Tanks. Supports. Literally any teamfight that matters.
QSS: Still exists. Still clutch. Still getting ignored until people die to Malzahar.

AP Item System: Rebuilt From Scratch

The entire mage item pool was gutted and reconstructed. Percentage magic penetration is now exclusive to two items. Everything else was rebalanced around raw AP and flat stats. Four items were deleted outright: Awakened Soulstealer, Crown of the Shattered Queen, Psychic Projector, Bandal Fantasy.

The Wild Rift mage builds meta will look different. Hybrid and flex builds have fewer options. The pool is more focused. The good news: Void Staff is back.

Key AP Items in Patch 7.2

Item	Cost	Stats	Passive / Active
Void Staff NEW	3,000g	95 AP, 40% magic pen	That's it. Pure penetration. Bring it back.
Cryptbloom	3,000g	75 AP, 30% magic pen, 20 AH	Enemy dies after your damage = healing nova for your team. 60s CD.
Storm Surge	2,900g	90 AP, 15 flat magic pen, 6% MS	Passive: 25% max HP damage over 2.5s. Enemy dies early = AoE + 25 gold. Assassin mages rejoice.
Banshee's Veil	3,000g	105 AP, 40 MR	Spell shield. Blocks the next incoming ability. Still the answer to Blitzcrank.
Bloodletter's Curse	2,900g	350 HP, 65 AP, 15 AH	Stacks MR shred on enemies, up to 30%. Stack with an AP teammate.
Rabadon's Deathcap BUFFED	—	Even more AP than before	Late-game carry amplifier. Rush it if you can breathe at 20 minutes.
Awakened Soulstealer REMOVED	—	—	Gone. Whatever you were building around it: build around something else.

Bounty System Update

Bounties no longer care purely about kill streaks. Wild Rift bounty system now scales with total gold earned. The richest player on the map earns the biggest target on their back. A new reduction mechanic also kicks in when a team falls significantly behind: designed to slow down snowballs before they become blowouts.

In theory: more accurate representation of who's actually winning. In practice: your 10/0 ADC is worth a mortgage. Plan accordingly.

Ranked: Biggest Overhaul Yet

The Wild Rift ranked progression system is getting its largest update ever. The stated goals: make climbing clearer, more rewarding, and reflective of actual in-game performance. Details are reserved for Episode 2, which is genuinely annoying. What is confirmed:

Season 22 replaces Season 21, which ends July 9
Ranked reward: Glorious Eminence Renekton. Hit your tier. Earn it. Or don't, and admit to yourself what you are.
Progression changes affect how you gain and lose marks at every tier
Performance-based elements are expected to play a larger role than pure wins

Season 21 (Glorious Eminence Jax) ends July 8. You have one day less than you think.

Champion Updates

Ahri ASU

The Ahri ASU Wild Rift is a full Art and Sustainability Update: refreshed base model, updated skin visuals, cleaner ability effects. Gameplay unchanged. She still does what she always did. She just now does it while looking like she cost more than $3 to render.

Cho'Gath

Cho'Gath joins as the Terror of the Void. His loop: kill things, grow larger, generate more crowd control, become impossible to ignore. He is a scaling CC engine. The longer a game goes, the more he resembles a building with health bars. Engage. Eat. Repeat.

ARAM New Season

AAA ARAM launches a new season with a fresh ARAM augments Wild Rift pool. Dozens of new cards at patch launch. Six new elemental rune cards. More surprises arriving mid-patch. If you always wanted to ignore ranked and play ARAM, Riot has now given you structured seasonal reasons to do exactly that. Embarrassing. Also fine.

Skins & Cosmetics

Wild Pass: Photographer Ryze, Cosmic Skarner
Summer Ionia: Seasonal atmosphere update: new visual theme across the Rift, warm-weather palette
Standard batch of Wild Rift skins patch 7.2 across various champions. Riot loves your wallet. This is not news.

Wild Rift Patch 7.2: Yunara, New Items & Ranked Guide