VPBE

VPBE
"Go Beyond! Plus Ultra!"
Latest PBE Patch	May 7th, 2019
Highlights
New Champion: Yuumi Battle Academia skins New Legendary Skin: Battle Academia Ezreal
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:

• Battle Academia Ezreal ( 1820)
• Battle Professor Graves ( 1350)
• Battle Academia Jayce ( 1350)
• Battle Academia Katarina ( 1350)
• Battle Academia Lux ( 1350)
• Prestige Battle Academia Lux ( 100)
• Battle Principal Yuumi ( 1350)

The following Chroma sets have been added to the store:

• Battle Professor Graves
  Chromas: Formal, Obsidian, Pearl, Rose Quartz, Ruby, Sapphire, Tanzanite, Turquoise
• Battle Academia Jayce
  Chromas: Emerald, Formal, Obsidian, Pearl, Rose Quartz, Ruby, Sapphire, Tanzanite, Turquoise
• Battle Academia Katarina
  Chromas: Citrine, Formal, Obsidian, Pearl, Ruby, Sapphire, Tanzanite, Turquoise
• Battle Principal Yuumi
  Chromas: Citrine, Formal, Granite, Obsidian, Pearl, Rose Quartz, Ruby, Sapphire, Tanzanite

The following Summoner icons have been added to store:

Battle Academia

Battle Academia Ezreal

Battle Professor Graves

Battle Academia Jayce

Battle Academia Katarina

Battle Academia Lux

Battle Principal Yuumi

Battle Academia Formal Graves

Battle Academia Formal Jayce

Battle Academia Formal Katarina

Battle Academia Formal Yuumi

The following Emotes have been added to the store:

Dislike

What the Bread?

It Me

Never Again

Hype Pengu Purple

Hype Pengu Blue

Hype Pengu Red

Hype Pengu Orange

B-baka!

All For You

The Golden Council

The Golden United

The Golden Faceless

The Golden Warband

The following Ward skins have been added to the store:

Battle Academia Durandal Ward

Battle Academia Desk Ward

League of Legends VPBE

Champions

Brand

• Conflagration
  • Base damage increased to 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 / 170 from 70 / 90 / 110 / 130 / 150.
  • AP ratio increased to 45% AP from 35% AP.

Caitlyn

• Yordle Snap Trap
  • Base damage increased to 60 / 105 / 150 / 195 / 240 from 40 / 90 / 140 / 190 / 240.

Graves

• End of the Line
  • Detonation base damage increased to 85 / 120 / 155 / 190 / 225 from 85 / 115 / 145 / 175 / 205.

Master Yi

• Alpha Strike
  • Removed: No longer has a 0.1-second cast time.
  • New Effect: If Master Yi has struck less then the maximum amount of targets and there are no eligible targets nearby, he strikes the same target for 25% damage before checking again. These minor strikes deal damage instantly.
  • New Effect: Duration is now always 0.8 seconds, rather than depending on the number of targets.
• Meditate
  • Removed No longer has a 0.05-second cast time.
• Wuju Style
  • Removed: No longer gains 10% bonus AD while off cooldown.
• Highlander
  • Bonus movement speed changed to 40 / 50 / 60% bonus movement speed from 25 / 35 / 45% multiplicative movement speed.
  • Base duration increased to 9 seconds from 7.
  • Takedown duration extension reduced to 5 seconds from 7.

Riven

• Broken Wings
  • Cooldown reduced to 12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10 seconds from 13 at all ranks.
• Valor
  • Cooldown increased to 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 seconds from 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6.

Shaco

• Hallucinate
  • New Effect: Now goes in the direction of the cursor upon cast while the clone spawns in the oppsite direction.

Soraka

• Starcall
  • Rejuvenation bonus movement speed increased to 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35% from 14 / 18 / 22 / 26 / 30%.

Tryndamere

• Spinning Slash
  • AP ratio reduced to 80% AP from 100% AP.
  • Cooldown reduced to 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 / 8 seconds from 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9.

Vayne

• Final Hour
  • Tumble cooldown reduction reduced to 30 / 40 / 50% from 50% at all ranks.
  • Cooldown reduced to 90 / 80 / 70 seconds from 100 / 85 / 70.

Xin Zhao

• Three Talon Strike
  • Cooldown reduced to 7 / 6.5 / 6 / 5.5 / 5 seconds from 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5.
  • Bonus AD ratio increased to 50% bonus AD from 40%.

Yuumi - New Champion

• Bop 'n' Block (Innate)
• Prowling Projectile (Q)
• You and Me! (W)
• Zoomies (E)
• Final Chapter (R)

Items

Essence Reaver

• Attack damage increased to 70 from 65.

Guinsoo's Rageblade

• Phantom hit frequency increased to every third attack from every second attack.
• Armor penetration increased to 15% at all levels from 6.5% − 15% (based on level).
• Magic resistance penetration increased to 15% at all levels from 6.5% − 15% (based on level).

Runic Echoes

• Total cost reduced to 2500 from 2625.
  • Combine cost reduced to 250 from 375.

Runes

Conqueror

• Full stack heal and true damage reduced to 8% from 10%.

Upcoming

Champions

Malphite

• General
  • New visual effects.
  • Unstoppable Force now leaves an impact crater.
• Granite Shield
  • New Effect: Malphite's size now scales with bonus armor, capped at about 350 bonus armor.
• Seismic Shard
  • Range increased to 700 from 625.
  • Missile speed increased to 1400 from 1200.
  • Cast time increased to 0.4 seconds from 0.25.
  • Removed: No longer steals the target's movement speed for 14 / 17 / 20 / 23 / 26% for 4 seconds.
  • New Effect: Now grants 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40% bonus movement speed for 3 seconds.
  • New Effect: Now slows the target for 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40% for 3 seconds.
  • New Effect: Missile now spawns from his right arm rather then from behind him.
  • AP ratio reduced to 40% AP from 60% AP.
• Thunderclap (Reworked W)
  • Renamed to Thunderclap from Brutal Strikes.
  • New Active: Malphite's next basic attack deals 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 / 100 (+ 30% AP) (+ 15% armor) bonus physical damage on-hit. Additionally, for 6 seconds, Malphite's basic attacks also deal 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 (+ 20% AP) (+ 10% armor) physical damage in a cone to units behind his target.
  • New Active Effect: Thunderclap resets Malphite's basic attack timer.
  • Removed Active: Active: For 6 seconds, Malphite's basic attacks deal 15 / 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 (+ 10% AP) (+ 15% armor) bonus physical damage which splashes to enemies around his target.

Teemo - Gameplay Update

• Stats
  • Base mana regeneration increased to 12.5 from 9.6.
  • Mana regeneration growth increased to 0.75 from 0.45.
  • Mana growth increased to 25 from 20.
  • Base attack damage reduced to 51 from 54.
  • Attack speed growth reduced to 2% from 3.38%.
• Toxic Shot (Reworked innate)
  • Swapped with Guerrilla Warfare.
  • Teemo's basic attacks poison their target, dealing 8 − 50 (based on level) (+ 20% AP) magic damage on-hit and 24 − 180 (based on level) (+ 40% AP) magic damage over 4 seconds, with each tick applying each second. Subsequent attacks refresh the poison's duration.
  • Toxic Shot's venom intensifies when reacting with other poisonous effects, increasing its damage by 50%.
• Blinding Dart
  • Base damage reduced to 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210 from 80 / 125 / 170 / 215 / 260.
  • Mana cost increased to 80 / 85 / 90 / 95 / 100 from 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90.
  • AP ratio reduced to 60% AP from 80% AP.
  • New Effect: Now counts as a poison for the duration of the blind.
  • New Effect: New animation for blinding melee and ranged targets.
• Move Quick
  • New Effect: No longer breaks stealth.
• Guerrilla Warfare (Reworked E)
  • Swapped with Toxic Shot.
  • After a 2-second delay, Teemo becomes invisible. Invisibility lasts until he casts a damaging ability, receives non-periodic damage from a champion or moves more than 500 / 600 / 700 / 800 / 900 units. Movement within a brush is not counted.
  • While invisible, Teemo's sight range is increased by 25%.
  • Upon breaking Guerrilla Warfare, Teemo gains 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60% bonus attack speed for 3 seconds.
  • Guerrilla Warfare's cooldown refreshes twice as fast while in a brush.
  • Mana Cost: 50.
  • Cooldown: 40 / 37 / 34 / 31 / 28 seconds.
• Noxious Trap
  • Base damage reduced to 150 / 250 / 350 from 150 / 300 / 450.
  • AP ratio reduced to 40% AP from 50% AP.
  • Mushroom ammo amount increased to 3 / 4 / 5 from 3 at all ranks.
  • New Effect: Shrooms can now infinitely bounce off other shrooms, rather than only once.
  • New Effect: Shrooms no longer detonate from a non-aggroed Rift Scuttler.

Wukong

• Decoy
  • Dash distance increased to 200 units from 100.
  • New Effect: The clone can now basic attack for a portion of Wukong's attack damage and applies on-hit effects.
  • Removed: No longer deals 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250 (+ 60% AP) to all nearby enemies.

Zac

• Unstable Matter
  • New Effect: Health ratio now scales for 1% per 100 AP.
• Let's Bounce! - Rework
  • New Effect:
    • Active: Zac bounces 4 times, gaining 20 - 50% bonus movement speed as he does so but becoming unable to use basic attacks, Stretching Strike, or Elastic Slingshot for the duration.
    • Each bounce deals 140 / 210 / 280 (+ 40% AP) magic damage to all nearby enemies, knocking them back for 1 second and subsequently slowing them by 20% for the same duration.
    • Enemies can be damaged by multiple bounces, with each beyond the first dealing 50% damage but not displacing them.
    • Effect Radius: 300 / 400.
    • Cooldown: 130 / 115 / 100 seconds.
  • Old Effect:
    • Active - First Cast: Zac squishes himself down while charging for up to 2.5 seconds, during which he is unstoppable, and slowing by 30 / 40 / 50% any enemies standing on top of him.
    • Second Cast: Zac knocks back nearby enemies 275 units over 1 second and deals 150 / 250 / 350 (+ 90% AP) magic damage. If charged for at least 1 second before recasting, Zac instead scoops up enemies on top of him, carrying them towards the target location. While flying through the air, Zac is immune to crowd control.
    • Upon landing, nearby and transported enemies take the same magic damage and are slowed by 25% for 0.5 seconds.
    • Target Range: 700 / 850 / 1000.
    • Effect Radius: 300.
    • Cooldown: 130 / 115 / 100 seconds.

Howling Abyss

Map-specific balancing

• Azir
  • Damage dealt increased by 5%.
• Janna
  • Reduces shielding done by 8%.
• Kalista
  • Damage dealt increased by 5%.
• Katarina
  • Damage dealt increased by 8%.
  • Decreases incoming damage by 8%.
• Maokai
  • Bonus damage dealt changed to -10% from -8%.
• Mordekaiser
  • Damage dealt increased by 5%.
  • Decreases incoming damage by 5%.
• Sona
  • Reduces shielding done by 15%.
  • Healing done modifier changed to -15% from -25%.
• Taliyah
  • Damage dealt increased by 5%.
• Tristana
  • Damage dealt increased by 5%.
• Zac
  • Damage dealt increased by 5%.
  • Decreases incoming damage by 8%.
• Zoe
  • Damage dealt increased by 5%.

Bots

• Teemo Bot removed.
• Yasuo Bot removed (Co-op vs. AI only).
• Bots can now use and .

Skins

• On January 27th, a new /dev diary video about Skins in Season 2019 was released with the following content:
  • The return of popular skin lines like PROJECT, Arcade and Star Guardian.
  • Other music-inspired skins like K/DA.
  • Unknown upcoming skins for Jhin (legendary), Shaco & Zilean.

• A Little Demon skin for Tristana, which was decided based on a vote.

Chromas

• Grey Warwick and Medieval Twitch Honor 5 chromas

Champion Roadmap

New Champions

The following teasers may or may not be intended to be taken literally, and may provide hints to the champion rather than their development.

• New solo-lane AD Assassin champion from The Jungle.
• New non-traditional Marksman champion.

New Assassin Champion 2019 Teaser 01.jpg

New Assassin Champion Teaser

New Marksman Champion 2019 Teaser 01.gif

New Marksman Champion Teaser

Update Schedule

1. Mordekaiser - Visual and Gameplay Update
2. Pantheon - Visual and Gameplay Update
3. A Visual and Gameplay Update for Dr. Mundo, Fiddlesticks, Nocturne, Shyvana, or Volibear based on player voting

Shadow Isles Mordekaisers Castle.jpg

Mordekaiser Update Teaser 1

Mordekaiser Update Teaser 2

Pantheon Update Teaser

References

Patch History