VPBE

VPBE
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Latest PBE Patch	March 22nd, 2018
Highlights
Champion Update: Irelia
Glossary
PBE Cycle: The period between two Live patches is the current cycle. Iceboxed: Content that has frozen in development and will not be released in the coming patch, but is harmless enough to remain active for testing on the PBE.
Related links
Surrender@20: Current PBE changes
Patch chronology
← Previous	V14.7
Next →	Unreleased Content

Below you will find a comprehensive list of new features, cosmetics and balance changes that are currently active in the PBE relative to the live server. These changes are all highly tentative and are all subject to change, or may even be scrapped. A change that has been scrapped will be stricken through. Reasons content might be reverted includes bugs or end-of-cycle patch preparation.

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New Cosmetics

The following Champion skins have been added to the store:

• Badlands Baron Rumble ( 1350)
• Lancer Stratus Wukong ( 1350)

The following Chroma sets have been added to the store:

The following Summoner icons have been added to store:

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Zac Paste

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AstroNautilus

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Ionia

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Veigar Crystal

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Heimerdinger Gear

The following Ward skins have been added to the store:

The following Emotes have been added to the store:

Deal with Grit

Everything is Okay

Little Camper

League of Legends VPBE

Game

Minions

• Melee minions
  • Base health increased to 480 from 473.
  • Health growth changed to 21 from 18 (+ 0.3 / 90s).
  • Gold reward changed to 21 from 20.5 (+ 0.125 / 90s).
• Caster minions
  • Base health increased to 320 from 296.
  • Health growth increased to 14 from 6.
  • Gold reward reduced to 14 from 17.5 (+ 0.125 / 90s).
• Siege minions
  • Base health increased to 900 from 828.
  • Health growth changed to 50 from 23 (+ 0.3 / 90s).
  • Gold reward increased to 60 (+ 3 / 90s) from 45.5 (+ 0.35 / 90s).

Champions

Ahri

• Essence Theft
  • Removed Innate: Whenever Ahri hits an enemy with one of her abilities, she gains a charge of Essence Theft, and can gain up to 3 charges per ability cast. Upon reaching 9 charges, her next ability heals her for (+ 9% AP) for each enemy hit.
  • New Innate: Whenever Ahri's abilities hit a champion, she refunds 15% of its mana cost.
• Orb of Deception
  • Removed: Granting bonus movement speed.
  • New Effect: Casting Orb of Deception grant one stack. At 2 stacks, Ahri's next Orb of Deception will restore (+ 9% AP) health for each enemy hit.
• Fox-Fire
  • Cooldown reduced to 6 / 5.5 / 5 / 4.5 / 4 seconds from 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5.
  • AP ratio increased to 40% AP from 30% AP.
  • Initial delay increased to 0.4 seconds from 0.25.
  • New Effect: Cooldown now begins on cast instead of after the last fox-fire attacks/expires.
  • Targets rules adjust based on how long the flames have been out:
    • 0 to 0.4: no effect.
    • 0.4 to 2: enemy champions affected by Charm within 5 seconds, or the target of Ahri's last basic attack.
    • 2 to 5: closest visible enemy, prioritizing champions, then the target of Ahri's last basic attack.
• Charm
  • Base damage reduced to 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 from 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200.
  • AP ratio reduced to 40% AP from 60% AP.
  • New Effect: If Charm hits an enemy champion, Ahri's abilities deal 20% bonus damage to them for 5 seconds.
• Spirit Rush
  • Cooldown increased to 120 / 105 / 90 seconds from 110 / 95 / 80.
  • Base damage reduced to 70 / 100 / 130 from 70 / 110 / 150.
  • AP ratio increased to 35% AP from 25% AP.
  • Dashes increased to 3 / 4 / 5 from 3 at all ranks.
  • New Effect: Each cast of Spirit Rush reduces the remaining cooldown of Ahri's other abilities by 1.5 seconds.

Diana

• Lunar Rush
  • New Effect: Ability icon nows has an aesthetic flair when the cooldown is reset.

Darius

• Noxian Guillotine
  • New Effect: Ability icon nows has an aesthetic flair when the cooldown is reset.

Draven

• Blood Rush
  • New Effect: Ability icon nows has an aesthetic flair when the cooldown is reset.

Evelynn

• Whiplash
  • New Effect: Ability icon nows has an aesthetic flair when the cooldown is reset.

Irelia - Full Relaunch

• General
  • Title changed to the Blade Dancer from the Will of the Blades.
  • Complete visual upgrade across all skins.
  • New artwork for Original Irelia, Nightblade Irelia, Aviator Irelia, Infiltrator Irelia, Frostblade Irelia, and Order of the Lotus Irelia
  • New voice over.
  • New lore.
• Stats
  • Base movement speed reduced to 340 from 345.
  • Base range increased to 200 from 125.
  • Base attack damage reduced to 63 from 70.
  • Base health reduced to 580 from 607.2.
  • Attack speed growth reduced to 2.5% from 3.2%.
  • Attack damage growth increased to 4 from 3.3.
  • Armor growth reduced to 3 from 3.75.
  • Health growth reduced to 85 from 90.
  • Mana growth reduced to 30 from 32.
  • Health regeneration growth increased to 0.85 from 0.65.
• Ionian Fervor (Innate)
• Bladesurge (Q)
• Defiant Dance (W)
• Flawless Duet (E)
• Vanguard's Edge (R)

Kalista

• Rend
  • New Effect: Ability icon nows has an aesthetic flair when the cooldown is reset.

Katarina

• Bouncing Blade
  • New Effect: Ability icon nows has an aesthetic flair when the cooldown is reset.
• Preparation
  • New Effect: Ability icon nows has an aesthetic flair when the cooldown is reset.
• Shunpo
  • New Effect: Ability icon nows has an aesthetic flair when the cooldown is reset.
• Death Lotus
  • New Effect: Ability icon nows has an aesthetic flair when the cooldown is reset.

Kayn - Changes need to be confirmed

• The Darkin Scythe
  • Passive points gained based on minutes changed to from .

Kha'Zix

• Evolved Wings
  • New Effect: Ability icon nows has an aesthetic flair when the cooldown is reset.

LeBlanc - Unrework

• Mirror Image - Reintroduced
  • Removed: Sigil of Malice.
  • Innate: When LeBlanc falls below 40% maximum health, she periodically becomes stealthed for 1 second and creates a controllable clone of herself with Template:Pp18 less health, which lasts for 8 seconds or until killed.
  • Static Cooldown: 60 seconds.
• Sigil of Malice - Reintroduced
  • Removed: Shatter Orb.
  • Active: LeBlanc projects an orb towards the target enemy, dealing 55 / 80 / 105 / 130 / 155 (+ 40% AP) magic damage and marking them for 4 seconds.
  • The mark will be consumed once LeBlanc damages the marked target with any other ability, dealing the same magic damage again.
  • Mana Cost: 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90
  • Cooldown: 6 seconds
• Distortion
  • Base damage increased to 85 / 125 / 165 / 205 / 245 from 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 / 100.
  • AP ratio increased to 60% AP from 20% AP.
  • Mana cost increased to 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120 from 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 / 110.
  • Dash speed reduced to 1450 from 1600.
  • Snapback lock-out duration changed to (0.3 seconds from finishing dash) from (0.85 seconds from starting dash).
  • Snapback window reduced to 3 seconds from 4.
• Ethereal Chains
  • Initial AP ratio reduced to 30% AP from 50% AP.
  • Root base damage increased to 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 from 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120.
  • Root AP ratio increased to 60% AP from 50% AP.
  • Mana cost increased to 70 from 40.
  • Tether range reduced to 865 from 885.
• Mimic
  • Removed: Shadow of the Rose.
  • New Active: LeBlanc casts a mimicked version of her most recently used basic ability, applying the same effects and dealing modified magic damage.
  • Cooldown: 60 / 45 / 30 seconds.
  • Mimic Sigil of Malice
    • Deals 70 / 140 / 210 (+ 40% AP) magic damage, and the mark deals 140 / 280 / 420 (+ 80% AP).
  • Mimic Distortion
    • Deals 150 / 300 / 450 (+ 60% AP) magic damage.
  • Mimic Ethereal Chains
    • Deals 60 / 120 / 180 (+ 30% AP) magic damage, plus an additional 120 / 240 / 360 (+ 60% AP) magic damage upon rooting.

Olaf

• Undertow
  • New Effect: Ability icon nows has an aesthetic flair when the cooldown is reset.

Rumble

• Flamespitter
  • Total base damage increased to 175 / 210 / 245 / 280 / 315 from 135 / 180 / 225 / 270 / 315.
  • Damage to minions changed to 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80% from 75%.
• The Equalizer

• • Total base damage increased to 700 / 1000 / 1300 from 650 / 925 / 1200.
  • Total AP ratio increased to 175% AP from 150% AP.
  • Tick rate reduced to 0.25 seconds from 0.5.
  • New Effect: Damage now lingers over 1 second.
  • Slow increased to 45% from 35%.

Ryze

• Overload
  • New Effect: Ability icon nows has an aesthetic flair when the cooldown is reset.

Swain

• Death's Hand
  • Cooldown increased to 7.5 / 6.25 / 5 / 3.75 / 2.5 seconds from 5.5 / 4.75 / 4 / 3.25 / 2.5.

Tristana

• Rocket Jump
  • New Effect: Ability icon nows has an aesthetic flair when the cooldown is reset.

Twitch

• Ambush
  • New Effect: Ability icon nows has an aesthetic flair when the cooldown is reset.

Zilean

• Time Bomb
  • New Effect: Ability icon nows has an aesthetic flair when the cooldown is reset.
• Time Warp
  • New Effect: Ability icon nows has an aesthetic flair when the cooldown is reset.

Items

Locket of the Iron Solari

• Base shield strength reduced to Template:Pp18 from Template:Pp18.
• Bonus health ratio changed to Template:Pp18 of caster's bonus health from Template:Pp18.
• Lockout time after being affected by another Locket of the Iron Solari increased to 20 seconds from 8.
• New Effect: While active, allies with this shield take 50% reduced damage from area of effect damage.

Runes

Absolute Focus

• New Effect: Now also grant an additional 5 Ability Power or 3 bonus Attack Damage (Adaptive) at level one.

Approach Velocity

• Bonus movement speed increased to 15% from 10%.

Bone Plating

• Cooldown changed to Template:Pp18 seconds from 45 at all levels.

Cut Down

• Maximum health threshold reduced to 1500 from 2000.
• Maximum bonus damage increased to 12% from 10%.

Gathering Storm

• Ability power reduced to from .
• Bonus attack damage reduced to from .

Legend: Tenacity

• Tenacity per stack increased to 2.5% from 1.5%.
  • Tenacity at 10 stacks increased to 30% from 20%.

Manaflow Band - Changes need to be confirmed

• Cooldown reduced to 60 seconds from 75.
• New Effect: Hitting an enemy champion with an ability permanently increases your maximum mana by 10, up to 400 mana (4 second cooldown). After reaching 400 bonus mana, restore 1% of your missing mana every 4 seconds.
• Removed Effect: Your next ability with a mana or energy cost has its mana or energy cost refunded, and restores 8% of your missing mana or 8% of your missing energy.

Presence of Mind - Changes need to be confirmed

• New Effect: Takedowns restore 20% of your maximum mana and grant an additional Template:Pp18 experience.
• Removed Effect: You restore mana equal to 100% of mana expended for 7 seconds whenever you score a champion takedown or level up.

Sudden Impact

• Cooldown increased to 25 seconds from 4.

Zombie Ward

• Duration reduced to Template:Pp18 seconds from Template:Pp18.

Upcoming

Upcoming skins

• SSG Gnar
• SSG Ezreal
• SSG Jarvan IV
• SSG Rakan
• SSG Taliyah
• SSG Xayah
• Pool Party Zoe

• Unknown skins for: Ahri, Amumu, Aurelion Sol, Heimerdinger, Shen, Vladimir.

Champion Update Schedule

1. Aatrox - Visual and Gameplay Update
2. Akali - Visual and Gameplay Update
3. Nunu - Visual and Gameplay Update

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Akali Update Teaser

Nunu Update teaser 01.jpg

Nunu Update Teaser

References

Patch History