Surrender at 20: 9/8 PBE Update: Balance changes, LCU Alpha update, & more!

The PBE has been updated! As we continue on the 6.19 PBE cycle, tonight's update includes a few 2016 WC Summoner icon emote assets and additional tentative balance changes!

Continue reading for more information!

(Warning: PBE Content is tentative and subject to change - what you see below may not reflect what eventually gets pushed to live servers at the end of the cycle! Manage your expectations accordingly.)

World Championship 2016 - Summoner Icon Emotes

Assets for the first two tiers of the special esports team in-game emotes attached to the 2016 World Championship icons have been added in today's update!

Here's an example of the first and second tier emote images for TSM and SKT:

While not yet enabled for testing, here's what they will look like in-game:

As a reminder, the new summoner icons will have three different tiers that players can upgrade too, each upgrade changing the appearance of the icon & emote and the last one changing appearance and adding in a special recall particle. Details here. These icons will be available for all 16 of the 2016 WC teams.

9/8 PBE LCU Alpha Update

An update has been pushed to the PBE LCU Alpha!

As previously mentioned, Loot is now up on the PBE LCU Alpha for testing!

New menu options for SFX changes and block list.

Balance Changes

* Remember *: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, and sometimes radical or experimental changes. Be aware that what you see below may be lacking context or other changes that didn't make it in or were implemented in an earlier patch this cycle! These are not official notes.

Champions

Aurelion Sol
[NOTE: Be aware that the actual changes in today's update were only partially implemented and aren't up for testing yet. Below is the full intended changelist from SmashGizmo. Context from Meddler available here.]

Center of the Universe (Passive): damage increased to 20-130 from 20-97
Celestial Expansion (W)

Passive's star base damage lowered to 5/10/15/20/25 from 10/20/30/40/50
Mana cost per second changed to 22/24/26/28/30 from 16/22/28/34/40

Comet of Legend (E):

"Escape Velocity removed, can now be cast any time out of combat. Goes on short cooldown when taking champion/tower damage."**
"Can no longer click to cancel, only cancelled with E recast"**
"Now Casts immediately, even if outside the cast range."**

Cassiopeia

Miasma (W)

Cloud duration lowered to 4 from 5.
Slow decreased to "40"/35/45/55/65% from 40/50/60/70/80

[I'm assuming rank 1 should be 25% to fit the scaling but it is currently set to 40%]

Cho'Gath

[NOTE: Be aware that the actual changes in today's update were only partially implemented and not yet up for testing. Below is the full intended changelist from SmashGizmo. Context from Meddler available here. ]

Feral Scream (W) :

Cooldown lowered to 13/12/11/10/9 from 13
Silence duration lowered to 1.5/1.62/1.75/1.88/2 from 1.5/1.75/2/2.25/2.5
[NEW] "Acquires target post-cast rather than pre-cast"**

Range increased to 650 from 585

Dr. Mundo
[NOTE: Sotere noted they will be trying a different Dr. Mundo change soon.]

Infected Cleaver (Q)

[NEW] Now applies Grievous Wounds
[Looks like range increased by 50-100.]

Singed

Poison Trail (Q) damage now ticks 4 times a second from 1 time a secon, damage unchanged.**

Items

Hextech Protobelt-01

Previous nerf to Unique active's damage to champs & monsters hit by multiple fire bolts reverted - back to 20% from 15%.

Check out [THIS PAGE] for a comprehensive list of the new content & changes currently on the PBE as a part of this cycle or catch up with the individual update links below !