2/11 PBE Update: Vel'Koz, Battlecast Vel'Koz, New Kassadin VFX, and more!

Vel'koz, The Eye of the Void

SS taken at level 5.

Vel'koz's spells build Organic Deconstruction stacks on enemies. The third spell hit consumes the stacks and deals bonus 35 -205 true damage. ( based on level )

50/55/60/65/70 Mana
7/7/7/7/7 sec Cooldown 

Vel'koz shoots a plasma bolt that deals 80/120/160/200/240(+.6 ) Magic Damage and applies a slow of 70/70/70/70/70% that decays over 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2 second(s). 

Upon reactivation or upon hitting an enemy, the bolt splits at a 90 degree angle.

 50/55/60/65/70 Mana 

19/18/17/16/15 sec per Charge (Max 2)

Vel'koz opens a rift to the void that deals 30/50/70/90/110 (+.25 AP)Magic Damage. After a delay, it deals an additional 45/75/105/135/165 (+.38 AP)Magic Damage. Both hits add a stack of Organic Deconstruction.

 35/45/55/65/75 Mana
16/15/14/13/12 sec Cooldown 

Vel'koz disrupts a nearby area which, after a delay, deals 70/100/130/160/190 (+.5 AP) Magic Damage and knocks up enemies hit for .75 seconds.Any enemies hit that are close to Vel'koz will be pushed slightly in the direction the ability was cast.

100/100/100 Mana
130/110/90 sec Cooldown 

Vel'koz channels a ray of energy that follows the cursor for 2.5 seconds, dealing Magic Damage up to a total of 500/700/900(+.6 AP),  and slows enemies hit by 20% for 1 second. Adds a stack of Organic Deconstruction every 0.5 seconds. Can be cancelled by recasting

Passive

Q

Q Split

W First

W Delayed Explosion

E

R

New Skins

New Kassadin VFX

Q

W

E

R Start

R End

Team Builder updates

New Game Invites System - Now on the PBE!

"Hey everyone, 

I wanted to let you all know that we’re about to turn on our newly rebuilt Game Invitations on the PBE, and we would love to hear your feedback. 

There are several new additions to the Invitations system, but I want to take a second to explain why we focused effort and time on this project. 

In our effort to build toward a more reliable, predictable, and consistent experience in the LoL client, we had to make several major system changes, first starting with our rearchitecting of the Champion Trades system, followed by a rearchitecting of the Game Invitations system. Both systems previously lived in the Chat system, which worked for a while, but didn’t scale well. It created a bug-prone experience, and limited our ability to build and add new features. So, we removed the operations from Chat, and put them into our Platform, where Invites are now allowed to be more more intelligent about where you are and what you can or cannot do, enabling us to introduce functionality that we’ve wanted to give you all for a long time. Here is the new behavior you can expect to see while creating and inviting friends to games:

1. The ability to be invited to and accept game invitations while already in a lobby
2. Lobby owners can select teammate to be the Game Owner and “Draft Captain” in charge of bans & 1st pick
3. Improved Invitee and Lobby Statuses

• Accepted
• Pending
• Declined
• Accepted - Lobby Full
• Accepted - Quit
• Joined - Quit
• Joined
• Kicked
• Banned

4. Invitations to games no longer available will now read “The invitation from <Summoner> has expired.”
5. Grant invite privileges in Custom Games
6. Chat Lobbies will remain in-tact if someone leaves Champ Select
7 .Ability to send and receive game invites if Chat goes down

We are very eager to hear your feedback, and would welcome any questions to any of the changes listed above, or about our approach to improve the LoL client experience. 

Thanks, everyone. RBS"

Balance Changes

• Health reduced to 90 from 100
• Health regen per 5 reduced to 5 from 10

• [Context]: Read more on the changes here.