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Below you will find a comprehensive list of new features, skins and balance changes that are currently active in the PBE, relative to the live server. These changes are tentative and are all subject to change. Please do not replicate this information elsewhere on the site.

An entry that has been struck-through is a change that has been reverted during the current cycle or a change that did not go live from the previous cycle. These changes may return at a later date, but will be removed from this article if they have not been seen for one whole cycle.

V5.2 Forecast

  • Deathfire Grasp Deathfire Grasp
    • Removed from Summoner's Rift.
    • Some champions are intended to be nerfed by this change, with LeBlanc being named.
    • Some champions will be buffed to compensate, with Ahri and Veigar being named.
  • Assassin changes
    • Highly reliable assassins (e.g. Akali, Fizz and Zed) to receive more windows of counter play for their opponents.
    • Zed specifically will also receive a nerf to his pushing ability, since he shouldn't be one of the best 1v1 champions and have excellent pushing power.
  • Possible follow-ups to 5.1's jungle changes.

New Skins in the Store

The following skins have been added to the store:

The following Summoner Icons have been added:

The following Ward Skins have been added:

PVP.net

Replay System
  • Replays

    Replay system

    The Replay system has been pulled from the PBE, but it's still in development.
Social Networking integration
  • You can now link your Facebook account to your League of Legends account, allowing the client to recommend friends who also play League of Legends.
Nemesis Draft - Featured Mode
  • Just your standard 5v5 Draft Pick on Summoner's Rift... except each champion your team chooses is given to the enemy team, and vice versa. Just like a standard draft, the ban format is 1-1-1-1-1-1 and the pick format is 1-2-2-2-2-1, and there is a ~60 second trading/discussion period afterwards. Who do yo ban? Do you prevent the enemy team giving you the unpopular champions? Or the lowest win rate champions? Or do you ban champions you don't want to play? And who are you picking for the enemy team?

League of Legends VPBE

Metagame

Summoner Rift
  • Dragon Dragon
    • Attack range increased to 500 from 350.
    • Base damage reduced to 120 from 230.

Champions

Texture Rebalance Part 6
  • Dr Dr. Mundo - Classic, Corporate, Executioner, Mr. Mundoverse, Mundo Mundo, Toxic, and Rageborn.
  • Irelia Irelia - Classic, Aviator, Infiltrator, Nightblade, and Frostblade.
  • Jarvan IV Jarvan IV - Classic, Commando, Darkforge, and Dragonslayer.
  • Nunu Nunu - Classic, Demolisher, Bot, Grungy, Sasquatch, and Workshop.
  • Swain Swain - Classic, Bilgewater, and Northern Front.
  • Vayne Vayne - Classic, Vindicator, Aristocrat, Dragonslayer, and Heartseeker.
  • Yorick Yorick - Classic, Undertaker, and Pentakill.
Ahri Ahri
  • Orb of Deception Orb of Deception
    • New Effect: Now grants bonus Movement Speed while the orb is in flight.
  • Fox-Fire Fox-Fire
    • Base damage per flame increased to 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 from 40 / 65 / 90 / 115 / 140.
  • Charm Charm
    • Damage increased to 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 200 (+ 50% AP) from 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 (+ 35% AP).
    • No longer amplifies magic damage and Orb of Deception's Orb of Deception's true damage.
Cassiopeia Cassiopeia
Riven Riven
  • Broken Wings Broken Wings
    • Now automatically cancels spell animation. This is a complicated change, but it means that Riven can perform her Broken Wings combo and weave basic attacks in between each instance at a much faster pace.
Tristana Tristana
  • General
    • Title changed to "the Yordle Gunner" from "the Megling Gunner".
    • New lore.
    • New ability icons.
    • Visual upgrade across all skins.
    • New voice over.
  • Stats
    • Base attack damage increased to 54.54 from 52.54.
    • Attack speed per level reduced to 1.5% from 2.5%.
  • Rocket Jump Rocket Jump
    • Damage reduced to 80 / 105 / 130 / 155 / 180 (+ 50% AP) from 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250 (+ 80% AP).
    • New Effect: If Rocket Jump strikes an enemy marked with Explosive Shot Explosive Shot, Rocket Jump's damage to all targets is increased by 25% per stack of Explosive Shot Explosive Shot. Rocket Jump will also detonate Explosive Shot Explosive Shot if the target was at 4 stacks.
      • Maximum damage on Rocket Jump is 160 / 210 / 260 / 310 / 360 (+ 100% AP).
  • Explosive Shot Explosive Shot
    • New Active: Tristana places a charge on the target enemy or tower that explodes after 4 seconds, dealing damage to nearby enemies. Tristana's basic attacks against the target will increase Explosive Shot's damage by 25%, stacking up to 4 times, with the 5th attack detonating the charge immediately.
    • Damage changed to to 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 (+ 50 / 65 / 80 / 95 / 110% Bonus AD) (+ 70% AP) from 80 / 125 / 170 / 215 / 260 (+ 100% AP).
      • Maximum damage on Explosive Shot is 120 / 140 / 160 / 180 / 200 (+ 100 / 130 / 160 / 190 / 220% Bonus AD) (+ 140% AP).
    • Damage type changed to physical from magical.
    • No longer applies Griveous Wounds.
    • Cost increased to 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 from 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90.
    • Cooldown reduced to 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 from 16 at all ranks.
  • Buster Shot Buster Shot
    • Cooldown reduced to 60 at all ranks from 100 / 85 / 70. This was announced as a bug and has been reverted.

Items

Deathfire Grasp Deathfire Grasp
  • Removed.
  • Champions, including Ahri and Veigar, will be compensated (as with the Lich Bane Lich Bane changes in Patch 4.4).[1]
Dervish Blade Dervish Blade
  • Added to Summoner's Rift. This was a bug.
Giant's Belt Giant's Belt
Rylai's Crystal Scepter Rylai's Crystal Scepter
  • No longer grants Health. This is confirmed to be an unintentional bug.[2]
  • Now grants bonus Movement Speed. (These are experiments, it's expected to be reverted soon after)[3]
Hunter's Machete Hunter's Machete
  • On-hit damage over time increased to 44 from 30.
Poacher's Knife Poacher's Knife
  • Minor tweaks to icon
  • On-hit damage over time increased to 60 from 45.
Ranger's Trailblazer Ranger's Trailblazer
  • Minor tweaks to icon
  • On-hit damage over time increased to 60 from 45.
Skirmisher's Sabre Skirmisher's Sabre
  • Minor tweaks to icon
  • On-hit damage over time increased to 60 from 45.
Stalker's Blade Stalker's Blade
  • Minor tweaks to icon
  • On-hit damage over time increased to 60 from 45.
  • Using Chilling Smite puts Smite on a 60 second cooldown.
Oracle's Lens Oracle's Lens
  • Minor tweaks to icon
  • Cost reduced to 250g from 475g.

Upcoming

The following changes have been teased by Riot, but are not yet active on the PBE.
Teaser
SkinTeaser 14Jan2015

While called "Nidalee_Splash_7" in the game files, it clearly has nothing to do with Warring Kingdoms Nidalee. New Nautilus Nautilus and Sivir Sivir skins anyone? Or a new warrior woman with a giant pet guardian?


Champion Update Schedule
Riot will no longer be issuing complimentary refunds on recent purchases that receive significant visual or gameplay changes. Instead, they are now disclosing which champions are set to receive significant changes and are advising players to reconsider their purchases [4].
  • Poppy Poppy - Visual and gameplay update
Refer A Friend
Botting has become a serious issue for new players and it's largely the RAF program that enables it with it's massive IP/RP generation (which itself leads to real-world trading problem, as the referral-holder accounts are usually sold). At the moment, 70% of accounts with 10 or more friend referrals have made use of bots; and 99% of accounts with 100 or more referrals have made use of bots. The skin rewards are also becoming infeasible for players to obtain honestly - so we're overhauling the system.
  • Each friend who reaches level 10 will grant 1000 IP, up to 5 friends (with no rewards thereafter).
  • 3 referrals will award Grey Warwick Grey Warwick.
  • 5 referrals will award Medieval Twitch Medieval Twitch.
  • All players on the current system (25 referrals for Warwick and 50 for Twitch) will be upgraded automatically and rewards will be back-dated (i.e. if you already have 5 referrals you'll instantly get all rewards).
    • Players on the original system will not be upgraded automatically (the one where you get a trip to Riot with tens of thousands of friend referrals).

References

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