VPBE

VPBE
"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating like dragonscales and it gets everywhere."
Latest PBE Patch	January 13th, 2020
Highlights
Dragon World 2020 skins Guardians of the Sands 2020 skins
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:

• Dragonslayer Diana ( 1350)
• Guardian of the Sands Janna ( 1350)
• Dragonslayer Olaf ( 1350)
• Guardian of the Sands Rengar ( 1350)
• Guardian of the Sands Ryze ( 1350)
• Dragonslayer Trundle ( 1350)

The following Chroma sets have been added to the store:

• Dragonslayer Diana
  Chromas: Citrine, Emerald, Obsidian, Pearl, Ruby, Sapphire
• Guardian of the Sands Janna
  Chromas: Catseye, Peridot, Rose Quartz, Ruby, Sapphire, Tanzanite
• Dragonslayer Olaf
  Chromas: Amethyst, Citrine, Emerald, Meteorite, Obsidian, Pearl, Ruby, Sapphire
• Guardian of the Sands Rengar
  Chromas: Amethyst, Emerald, Obsidian, Rose Quartz, Ruby, Sapphire
• Guardian of the Sands Ryze
  Chromas: Amethyst, Aquamarine, Citrine, Emerald, Obsidian, Ruby
• Dragonslayer Trundle
  Chromas: Amethyst, Catseye, Pearl, Rose Quartz, Ruby

The following Summoner icons have been added to store:

The following Emotes have been added to the store:

The following Ward skins have been added to the store:

League of Legends VPBE

Champions

Thresh

• Flay
  • Quick cast indicator updated to better match hitbox.

Wukong - Gameplay Update

• Stats
  • Base armor increased to 38 from 34.
• Stone Skin
  • New Innate: Whenever Wukong exits stealth or a brush he shields himself for 12% of his maximum health that lasts until broken. This effect can only trigger once every 12 seconds.
• Crushing Blow
  • Mana cost reduced to 25 from 40.
  • Cooldown reduced to 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 seconds from 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5.
  • Base damage changed 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 from 10 / 40 / 70 / 100 / 130.
  • AD ratio changed to 50% bonus AD from 0 / 10 / 20 / 30 / 40% total AD.
  • Removed: No longer reduces his target's armor by 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30% for 3 seconds.
  • New Effect: Now increases the damage Wukong and his clones deal to the affected target by 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 / 20% for 3 seconds.
  • Renamed Wuju Strike from Crushing Blow.
• Warrior Trickster
  • Renamed Warrior Trickster from Decoy.
  • New Effect: Now dashes at 1200 speed on cast rather then blink.
  • Dash distance increased to 350 units from 100.
  • Clone duration increased to 3 seconds from 1.5.
  • Stealth duration reduced to 1 second from 1.5.
  • New Effect: Cooldown now starts on cast rather than on clone death.
  • Cooldown increased to 24 / 21 / 18 / 15 / 12 seconds from 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10.
  • New Effect: Clone now look's identical to Wukong's animation state on spawn and animates if the S key is pressed.
  • New Effect: Now casts in the direction of cursor rather than where Wukong was facing.
  • New Effect: Clone can now basic attack for 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100% AD and apply on-hit effects, prioritizing the last enemy Wukong damaged. Basic attacks cannot critically strike.
    • New Effect: Clone now gains Wuju Strike and Nimbus Strike's bonus attack speed if cast prior to Warrior Trickster.
  • Removed: No longer deals 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250 (+ 60% AP) magic damage on clone death.
• Nimbus Strike
  • Damage type changed to magic from physical.
  • Tertiary target range check increased to 400 units from 187.5.
• Cyclone
  • New Effect: Nimbus Strike's bonus attack speed duration is now paused while active.
  • New Effect: Can now cast abilities during Cyclone, cancelling the ability.
  • New Effect: Now grants stacks of Conqueror on each tick.
  • Tick rate reduced to 1 per 0.25 seconds from 1 per 0.5.
    • Damage per second unchanged.
  • AD ratio increased to 125% AD from 110% AD.
  • Bonus movement speed changed to 30 / 40 / 50% at all times active from .

Runes

Prototype: Omnistone

• New Effect: At the start of the game you can remove 1 keystone from Omnistone's pool.

Practice Tool

Some changes are coming to the Practice Tool.

• Spawn Jungle Camps are now split into:
  • "Spawn Jungle Camps and Rift Herald"
  • "Spawn Jungle Camps and Baron Nashor"
• New "Fast Forward 10min" button.
• New "Suicide" button.
• Target dummies:
  • Health reduced to 1,000 from 10,000.
  • Armor and magic resistance to 0 from 100.
  • New "Add 100 Max HP" button.
  • New "Remove 100 Max HP" button.
    • The target dummy gains increased size the more maximum health it has, with the maximum size capped at 10,000 health.
  • New "Add 10 Resistances" button.
  • New "Remove 10 Resistances" button.
• New "Fully Stack Runes" button, which fully stacks:
  • Precision Legend runes ( Legend: Alacrity, Legend: Bloodline, Legend: Tenacity)
  • Manaflow Band
  • Domination Vision runes ( Eyeball Collection, Ghost Poro, Zombie Ward)
  • Domination Hunter runes ( Ingenious Hunter, Ravenous Hunter, Relentless Hunter, Ultimate Hunter).

Teamfight Tactics VPBE

Champions

Ezreal

• Ability damage increased to 250 / 450 / 900 from 200 / 400 / 800.

Malzahar

• Shadow Spawn health increased to 250 / 300 / 400 from 250 at all Star-levels.

Renekton

• Ability damage changed to 150 / 275 / 425 from 200 / 325 / 450.

Veigar

• Ability damage changed to 400 / 700 / 1000 from 300 / 600 / 900.

Vladimir

• Ability damage changed to 200 / 325 / 500 from 200 / 325 / 450.

Yorick

• Minion health reduced to 500 / 800 / 2000 from 600 / 1000 / 2000.
• Minion damage reduced to 100 / 175 / 250 from 100 / 200 / 300.

Traits

Assassin

• Bonus critical strike damage increased to from .

Desert

• Armor reduction changed to from .

Mage

• New Effect: 6 Mages synergy now also grants 30 bonus AP to all Mages.

Shadow

• Increased damage duration increased to 6 seconds from 4.
• Increased damage increased to from .

Summoner

• Bonus health and duration reduced to from .

Warden

• Increased armor increased to from .

Upcoming

Client

• Match History improvements in recording Teamfight Tactics matches.

Champions

Sylas

• Kingslayer
  • Bug Fix: No longer goes on cooldown if it doesn't deal damage when cast during Abduct's dash.

Teamfight Tactics

Set

Set 2

• New Champions
• New Traits
• New Items

Set 3

• Released around mid-March.
• The theme will revolve around out of this world and space:
  • PROJECT: PROJECT: Fiora
  • STAR: Star Guardian Poppy
  • BLAST and SPACE: Odyssey Jinx
  • PULSE: Pulsefire Shen

Items

Zhonya's Hourglass - New item

• Stats: 25 armor, 20 ability power
• Passive: On falling below 30% health, becomes untargetable, invulnerable, but unable to move for 4 seconds.
• Recipe: Chain Vest + Needlessly Large Rod.

Arenas

• Brand new Arena skins based on Ionia, Bilgewater, Star Guardian and Blood Moon.

Bilgewater Arena Concept

Blood Moon Arena Concept

Ionia Arena Concept

Teamfight Tactics Star Guardian Valoran Park Arena Concept 01.jpg

Star Guardian Valoran Park Arena Concept

Skins

• Unknown skin for Twitch.
• Elderwood skin for Ornn.
• True Damage Senna Prestige Edition in early 2020.
• Eldritch Horror skin for Volibear based on his appearance in Warmother, which will be free to players who owned Volibear prior to his VGU.

Elderwood Ornn Concept 1

Elderwood Ornn Concept 2

Elderwood Ornn Concept 3

Elderwood Ornn Concept 4

Elderwood Ornn Concept 5

Prestige True Damage Senna Teaser

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.

• Whimsical Non-Human Jungler
• Edgy solo-lane melee carry
• A duo-champion release, like Xayah and Rakan, consisting of a whimsical jungler and a masked demon. These may be the aforementioned characters.
• A champion who previously existed in the lore, similar to Kai'Sa and Senna.

Update Schedule

1. Fiddlesticks and Volibear - Visual and Gameplay Update

Fiddlesticks Update Concept 1

Fiddlesticks Update Concept 2

Fiddlesticks Update Concept 3

Volibear Update Concept 1

Volibear Update Concept 2

Volibear Update Concept 3

Volibear Update Concept 4

Volibear Update Concept 5

References

Patch History