VPBE

VPBE
Latest PBE Patch	June 14th, 2019
Highlights
Arcade 2019 Skins VFX Updates: Malphite
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
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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:

• Arcade Caitlyn ( 1350)
• Prestige Arcade Caitlyn (Limited)
• Arcade Kai'Sa ( 1350)
• Battle Boss Qiyana ( 1350)
• Battle Boss Yasuo ( 1350)

The following Chroma sets have been added to the store:

• Arcade Kai'Sa
  Chromas: Amethyst, Aquamarine, Catseye, Emerald, K.O., Obsidian, Rose Quartz, Ruby
• Arcade Miss Fortune
  Chromas: Amethyst, Aquamarine, Citrine, K.O., Peridot, Ruby
• Battle Boss Qiyana
  Chromas: Catseye, K.O., Obsidian, Rose Quartz, Ruby, Sapphire, Turquoise
• Arcade Riven
  Chromas: K.O.
• Arcade Sona
  Chromas: K.O.
• Battle Boss Yasuo
  Chromas: Amethyst, Aquamarine, Catseye, K.O., Meteorite, Obsidian, Rose Quartz, Ruby

The following Summoner icons have been added to store:

Master's Challenger Season 4 profileicon.png

Master's Challenger Season 4

Arcade Star

Golden Cup

Pixel Arcade Poro

Corrupted Arcade Poro

Arcade Miss Fortune

Arcade Riven

Arcade Sona

Arcade Caitlyn

Arcade Kai'Sa

Battle Boss Qiyana

Battle Boss Yasuo

Chroma Arcade Kai'Sa profileicon.png

Chroma Arcade Kai'Sa

Chroma Battle Boss Qiyana profileicon.png

Chroma Battle Boss Qiyana

Chroma Battle Boss Yasuo profileicon.png

Chroma Battle Boss Yasuo

Molten Furyhorn

Demacian Silverwing

Sentinel Runespirit

Softnosed Molediver

Pengu Featherknight

Shadow Isles Hauntling

The following Emotes have been added to the store:

Master's Challenger Season 4 Emote.png

Master's Challenger Season 4

K.O.

Game Over

Animated D'Pengu

The following Ward skins have been added to the store:

Pixel Arcade Poro Ward

League of Legends VPBE

Champions

Illaoi

• Prophet of an Elder God
  • New Effect: Now scales with 40% AP.
  • Removed: Tentacles are longer put on 1 health if Illaoi or a Vessel are not within 2000 units.
  • Range of enemies to gain vision of tentacles reduced to 1000 units from 1400.
  • Disabled tentacle duration reduced to 30 seconds from 60.
  • Bug Fix: Enemy champions no longer globally gain vision of tentacles that are slamming.
  • Undocumented: Tentacles can no longer damage or attack units if Illaoi's dead.
  • Removed: No longer has a static cooldown of seconds.
  • New Effect: Now uses a 2 charge system with a recharge time of seconds.
• Harsh Lesson
  • New Effect: Now has a minimum base damage of 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60, that can be applied on turrets.
• Test of Spirit
  • Removed: Spirit duration is no longer reduced by 1.25 seconds each time the target damages Illaoi with basic attacks, by 1 second with single target spells and by 0.66 seconds with area of effect ones.
  • Spirit duration reduced to 8 seconds from 10.
  • Target range increased to 1050 units from 950.
• Leap of Faith
  • Maximum tentacle summons increased to 6 from 5.

Malphite

• General
  • New visual effects.
  • Unstoppable Force now leaves an impact crater.
• Granite Shield
  • New Effect: Malphite's size now scales with armor, capped at about 700 total armor.
• Seismic Shard
  • Slow strength increased to 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40% from 14 / 17 / 20 / 23 / 26%.
  • Slow duration reduced to 3 seconds from 4.
  • New Effect: Malphite gains 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40% bonus movement speed instead if movement speed stolen is lower than bonus movement speed gained.
  • New Effect: Missile now spawns from his right arm rather than from behind him.
• Thunderclap (Reworked W)
  • Renamed Thunderclap from Brutal Strikes.
  • New Active: Malphite's next basic attack deals 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 / 90 (+ 20% AP) (+ 15% armor) bonus physical damage on-hit. Additionally, for 5 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: 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.
  • Mana cost increased to 35 from 25.
• Ground Slam
  • Mana cost reduced to 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 from 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70.

Mordekaiser

• Darkness Rise
  • Bug Fix: Tooltip now notes it works on large monsters.

Pyke

• Gift of the Drowned Ones
  • Removed: No longer stores 30% − 81% (based on level) of the damage he takes from enemy champions as Grey Health on his health bar, up to 80 (+ 800% bonus AD), with an upper cap of 60% of his maximum health. If unseen he no longer rapidly consumes his Grey Health to heal for the same amount.
• Bone Skewer
  • Cooldown reduced to 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 / 8 seconds from 14 / 12.5 / 11 / 9.5 / 8.
  • Stab attack damage reduced to 100% from 115%.
  • Removed: No longer deals AoE damage. Now only damages the nearest enemy, prioritizing champions.
  • Removed: The stab no longer deals 30% damage to minions and monsters beyond the closest.
• Ghostwater Dive
  • Bonus movement speed increased to 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60% from 40% at all ranks.
  • New Passive Effect: Now stores 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 / 70% of damage he takes from enemy champions as Grey Health on his health bar, up to 80 (+ 800% bonus AD), with an upper cap of 60% of his maximum health. If unseen he rapidly consumes his Grey Health to heal for the same amount.
• Phantom Undertow
  • Removed: No longer deals damage to non-champions.

Udyr

• General
  • New Effect: Starting at level 16, all abilities can gain a 6th rank.
• Tiger Stance
  • Base damage increased to 30 / 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 from 30 / 60 / 90 / 120 / 150.
  • AD ratio changed to 110 / 125 / 140 / 155 / 170 / 185% AD from 120 / 135 / 150 / 165 / 180% AD.
• Turtle Stance
  • Shield strength increased to 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200 / 235 from 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200.
• Bear Stance
  • Bonus movement speed increased to 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40% from 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35%.
  • Movement speed duration increased to 2 / 2.25 / 2.5 / 2.75 / 3 / 3.25 seconds from 2 / 2.25 / 2.5 / 2.75 / 3.
• Phoenix Stance
  • Cone base damage increased to 50 / 95 / 140 / 185 / 230 / 275 from 40 / 80 / 120 / 160 / 200.
  • Magic damage per second increased to 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 from 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50.

Wukong - Gameplay Update

• Strength of Stone
  • Renamed Strength of Stone from Stone Skin.
  • New Innate Effect: Wukong and his clones apply a stack of Crushing Blows, for 4 seconds, whenever they damage an enemy champion. Targets take 4% increased damage from him and his clones for each stack of Crushing Blows, stacking up to 5 stacks for a maximum of 20%.
  • New Innate Effect: When 3 enemy champions are visible within 1400 units, Wukong gains 22 − 56 (based on level) (+ 20% bonus armor) bonus armor and 22 − 56 (based on level) (+ 20% bonus magic resistance) bonus magic resistance for 6 seconds and renews if enemies remain near.
  • Old Innate: Wukong gains bonus armor and magic resistance for each visible enemy champion within 1400 units.
• Wuju Strike
  • Renamed Wuju Strike from Crushing Blow.
  • Mana cost changed to 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 from 40 at all ranks.
  • New Passive Effect: Gains 125 bonus basic attack range after casting any ability.
  • Damage type changed to magic from physical.
  • Base damage changed to 20 / 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 from 10 / 40 / 70 / 100 / 130.
  • AD ratio changed to 20% bonus AD at all ranks from 0 / 10 / 20 / 30 / 40% total AD.
  • New Effect: Now heals for 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 (+ 25% bonus AD) on-hit, halved against minions.
  • Removed: No longer reduces his target's armor by 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30% for 3 seconds.
• Warrior Trickster
  • Renamed Warrior Trickster from Decoy.
  • Dash distance increased to 200 units from 100.
  • New Effect: Can now dash through thin walls.
  • New Effect: Now casts in the direction of cursor rather than where Wukong was facing.
  • New Effect: The clone can now basic attack for 50% AD and apply on-hit effects.
    • New Effect: Clone now gains Wuju Strike and Nimbus Strike's bonus attack speed if cast prior to Warrior Trickster.
  • Clone duration increased to 2.5 / 3.125 / 3.75 / 4.375 / 5 seconds from 1.5.
    • Stealth duration unchanged at 1.5 seconds.
  • Cooldown reduced to 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 / 8 seconds from 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10.
  • New Effect: Cooldown now starts on clone death rather than on creation.
  • Removed: No longer deals 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250 (+ 60% AP) magic damage to all nearby enemies upon death.
• Nimbus Strike
  • New Effect: Additional images can now be targeted by enemies.
  • Secondary target check area increased.
  • Bonus AD ratio reduced to 50% bonus AD from 80%.
• Cyclone
  • New Effect: Can now cast abilities during Cyclone, cancelling the ability.

Items

Rod of Ages

• Total cost reduced to 2600 from 2700.
  • Combine cost reduced to 650 from 750.

Upcoming

Champions

Akali

• Assassin's Mark
  • Removed: No longer grants bonus movement while moving away from the ring.
  • New Effect: Triggering any of the events of Akali's passive grants her bonus movement speed for 3 seconds.
  • Ring duration reduced to 3 seconds from 4.
  • Swinging Kama duration reduced to 3 seconds from 4.
  • Removed: Swinging Kama no longer has a base damage of .
  • AD ratio increased to 50% total AD from 50% bonus AD.
  • Bonus movement speed reduced to 40% at all levels from .
  • Energy restore increased to 20 at all levels from .
• Five Point Strike
  • Cooldown increased to 4 seconds from 1.5.
• Twilight Shroud
  • Cooldown changed to 20 seconds at all ranks from 25 / 22 / 19 / 16 / 13.
  • Energy restore changed to 60 at all ranks from 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80.
  • Removed: Duration is no longer extended by 2 seconds if Akali breaks and stealth again.
• Shuriken Flip
  • Missile base damage reduced to 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 from 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210.
  • Missile AD ratio increased to 70% total AD from 70% bonus AD.
  • New Effect: Missile damage now scales with 40% AP.
  • Dash base damage reduced to 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 from 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170.
  • Dash AD ratio changed to 70% total AD from 140% bonus AD.
  • New Effect: Dash damage now scales with 40% AP.
  • Removed: Missile can no longer mark the last smoke section hit for 3 seconds.
• Perfect Execution
  • New Effect: First dash is now a unit-targeted dash instead of a direction-targeted dash. Now only damages one enemy, instead of all enemies hit.
  • First dash base damage reduced 80 / 120 / 160 from 85 / 150 / 215.
  • Second dash base damage reduced 80 / 120 / 160 from 85 / 150 / 215.
  • Second dash AP ratio increased to 50% AP from 30% AP.
  • Recast timer reduced to 1 second from 2.5 seconds.

Swain

• Ravenous Flock
  • Removed: No longer stores 5 Soul Fragments to empower Demonflare.
  • New Effect: Now permanently stores Soul Fragments increasing the maximum amount of damage Demonflare can do.
• Demonic Ascension
  • Amount of targets drained increased to from 3 at all ranks.
  • Base damage per second reduced to 30 / 40 / 50 from 35 / 50 / 65.
  • Damage per second AP ratio reduced to 12% AP from 16% AP.
  • Healing per second AP ratio reduced to 12% AP from 16% AP.
  • Health threshold increased to health from health.
• Demonflare
  • Removed: No longer deals 45 / 60 / 75 (+ 21% AP) per Soul Fragment up to a maximum of 225 / 300 / 375 (+ 105% AP).
  • New Effect: Now deals 150 / 250 / 350 (+ 40% AP) plus 10 damage per Soul Fragment.

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.

Bots

• Teemo Bot removed.

Game Modes

• Teamfight Tactics

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 and Star Guardian.
  • Other music-inspired skins like K/DA.
  • Unknown upcoming skin for Zilean.

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 non-traditional Marksman champion.

New Marksman Champion 2019 Teaser 01.gif

New Marksman Champion Teaser

Update Schedule

1. Pantheon - Visual and Gameplay Update
2. Fiddlesticks - Visual and Gameplay Update
3. Volibear - Visual and Gameplay Update

Pantheon Update Teaser

Volibear Update Concept

Fiddlesticks Update Concept

References

Patch History