4.19 PBE Cycle

Jarvan IV

Rengar

Singed

Udyr

Gragas

Graves

Singed

Riot Squad Singed

Hextech Singed

Surfer Singed

Mad Scientist Singed

Augmented Singed

End of Game Gifting on PBE

Here's Saberprivateer with a heads up on the new End of Game gifting features now enabled for testing on the PBE! 

"Hey guys! 

We’ve released end of game gifting to the PBE for testing. This is a new way for players to gift fellow Summoners via the post-game lobby. Now, whether you want to thank a friendly player or reward someone’s first Pentakill, you can show your appreciation after the match! Here are the details: 

• You do NOT have to be friends to send a gift

• You can send gifts to players on both teams

• Only mystery skins and mystery gifts are available at this time

• The prices will be the same as in the store

• Gifts will count towards the daily gifting limit. In other words, you can only send/receive up to five gifts each day (For example, sending three mystery skins from the store and two end of game gifts hits your limit)

• Available in all queues except for custom games 

The Unlock team is looking forward to your feedback so please respond to this post with questions and let us know what you think!"

Balance Changes

Janna

• Zephyr (W) cooldown increased to 12 at all ranks from 12/11/10/9/8

Quinn

• Range increased to 550 from 525
• Movement Speed decreased to 330 from 335

Lucian

• Ardent Blaze (W) movement speed increased to 40/45/50/55/60 from 40 at all ranks
• Ardent Blaze (W) bonus attack damage ratio (.3 bonus AD) removed.

• The Culling (R) cooldown increased to 110/100/90 from 100/75/50
• The Culling (R) damage per shot increased to 45/55/65 from 40/50/60

Nocturne

• Unspeakable Horror (E) reverted back to live; no longer lists the new passive effect of gaining boosted movement speed towards feared targets.

Shaco

• [Tool Tip Update Only] Two-Shiv Poison (E) tooltip has been updated to include that it causes monsters to miss attacks as well as minions. 

• [Context: No functional change here. Shaco's TSP has always made monsters miss attacks and the tool tip has just been updated to be more accurate.  

Singed

• Mega Adhesive (W) tool tip cleaned up after yesterday's errors. Now includes only "If Singed flings a target into the zone, it will root them for 1 second."

• Fling (E) now also reads "If the target Singed flings lands in his Mega Adhesive, they are also rooted for 1 second"

• Insanity Potion (R) rank three now grants 80 ability power, armor, MR, Movement Speed, Health Regen and Mana regen up from 65.

• [Context: See SmashGizmo's post for more info!]

Sion

• Health per level increased to 73 from 70.
• Decimating Smash (Q) mana cost reduced to 45/50/55/60/65 from 50/55/60/65/70
• Soul Furnace (W) permanent bonus health for killing a large monster and on enemy champion kills + assists increased to 10 from 8.

• Soul Furnace (W) mana cost lowered to 65/70/75/80/85 from 70/75/80/85/90
• Roar of the Slayer (E) Mana cost increased 35 at all ranks from 25 at all ranks

• [Context: Additional context available in this post and this post by Riot Scruffy]

Ryze

• Overload (Q) damage reduced to 40/60/80/100/120 from 60/85/110/135/160.

Zilean

• Heightened Learning (Passive) now reads "Zilean and his nearby allied champions receive 8% additional experience" from "Increases experience gain of all allied champions by 8%"

• Unique Passive - Cold Steel attack speed slow increased to 15% from 10%

[10/24]Preseason Changes back on PBE

"Hi all, 

The experimental preseason changes should be back on PBE from now until early next week then they will be off until the end of this patch cycle. 

The Scuttle Crab (new River monster) isn't on PBE right now. This is NOT because we've removed him from our preseason plans, but instead because he was getting delusions of grandeur and spawning endlessly, filling the map with Scuttle Crabs (read: there's a bug :P). We'll get him fixed over the weekend and hopefully have the Scuttle Crab back on PBE on Monday."

• Experimental Prseason 2015 Changes hitting the PBE over the next few days
• Preseason 2015: Experimental Jungle changes
• Preseason 2015: Experimental objective and item changes
• Rough Notes 10/9/2014
• 10/9 PBE Update: Preseason changes added
• TESTING WINDOWS: Season 2014 Summoner's Rift + Preseason 2015 Summoner's Rift

• Unique Passive - Devastating Smite has been changed to "Upgrades Smite to Devastating Smite, which can be cast on enemy champions, dealing true damage and reducing their movement speed by 50% for 2 seconds. 

Killing Large monsters increases the damage of your next Devastating Smite cast on a champion, up to a maximum of three large monster kills."

[Name is bugged, it is not "Quick Smite" and is intended to be "Devastating Smite"]

• Health increased to 500 from 450
• Now has +25 Armor
• No longer has 10% CDR
• No longer has 5% movement speed
• Now has Unique Passive - Tenacity

• Ability power increased to 90 from 80
• Now gives 10 Magic Penetration

• Attack damage increased to 60 from 45
• Lifesteal increased to 10% from 8%

• Renamed to "Devourer" from "Stalker"
• Attack speed increased to 50% from 40%
• Now deals 40 magic damage on hit.
• No longer gives 10% CDR
• Passive reworked to "Devouring - Killing large monsters increases the Magic Damage of this item by 1 and Champion Kills or Assists increase magic damage by 2" from "Basic attacks grant +6% attack speed for 8 seconds (stacks up to 4 times) and deal 24 bonus magic damage"

• Unique Passive - Mana Font changed to "Restores 1.5% of missing mana every 5 seconds" from  "increases mana regen by 1% per 1% of mana missing"

• Now Builds out of one Cloth armor + 450g instead of two cloth armors + 200g
• Total price lowered to 750g from 800g

•  Now reads "Blocks 8 damage from single target attacks and spells from champions" from "Blocks 8 damage from champion basic attacks"

Other

[Part One] EXPERIMENTAL PRESEASON CHANGES

"General 

Pushing to the PBE sometime tonight or tomorrow. Going to throw up a really rough changelist of the subtle stuff. I'm going to take the time to call out more subtle things that are harder to notice and give much less detail about the really obvious stuff. 

These are really rough patch notes and we are highly interested in heavily iterating on a lot of these. For example, I'd love to hear your suggestions for what cool Dragon bonuses could be - and I know we're still heavily iterating on the Jungle. 

I'm going really light on context in this post because this isn't an official patch notes - I just wanted to get a good list of details out there so you guys have some inkling of what's going on when the stuff gets deployed to PBE. 

As usual, if you have questions, feel free to ask but try to keep it in this thread if possible. 

Fountain Regeneration 

Improving feel of regeneration in fountain 

1. Fountain Regeneration now heals for 25% of the amount healed on live but ticks 4 times as fast. 

Stat Growth Per Level 

Champion base stats and stat growth per level adjusted to help reduce the impact of early level advantages  

1. Roughly, characters will start the game with an additional 68% of their per level statistic compared to live.
2. Each level, characters will gain from 72 to 128% of their per level statistic compared to live, totalling to 1700% of your per level statistic. 

Bounty Changes 

With Stats Growth Per Level changes, early advantages are somewhat diminished - thus removing the unpopular gold rubberbanding mechanic from S4 to compensate for the new system of stats growth 

1. Kill gold is no longer reduced before 4 minutes.
2. Gold gained from Assists now scales from 25% to 50% over the first 210 seconds of the game. 

Death Timers 

Shifting Death Timers to be longer based on level for a larger portion of the game to give a team on the backfoot an uptime advantage 

1. Death Timers now increase by 2% every 30 seconds starting at 35 minutes, rather than 2% every 60 seconds starting at 25 minutes. 

Towers 

Towers have received some changes to change both tower feel and to simplify the calculus involved in determining your damage to a tower 

Inner Towers have been given some anti-split push / anti-siege potential. Inhibitor Towers have been given more ramp-up to make it easier to defend against single targets  

• Towers no longer gain Armor and Magic Resistance over time, but they still gain Attack Damage.
• Tower Armor and Magic Resistance have been normalized to 100.
• Tower HP has been set to the following:

• Outer: 2000 Health

• Inner: 2000 Health

• Inhibitor: 2500 Health

• Nexus: 2000 Health

• Inner Towers have a new mechanic - Shielding:

• Inner Towers have a shield protecting them that regenerates after 60 seconds of not taking damage.

• While the shield holds, nearby champions gain a moderate shield as well.

• Inhibitor Towers have a new mechanic - Beam:

• Inhibitor Towers attack their target continuously, up to 4 times a second.

• Inhibitor Towers slowly ramp their damage from 100% to 260% over the course of 6.5 seconds.

• Inhibitor Towers slowly ignore their targets armor from 40% to 100% over the course of 6.5 seconds.

• Ramp is reset when Inhibitor Towers change targets.

• Base Tower regeneration reduced to 5 hp/5 from 15 hp/5 

Minions 

Simplifying Minion Math as well as removing the ability for resistance penetration to increase wave clear power 

1. Minions no longer gain Armor and Magic Resistance
2. Minions gain increased maximum Health at a rate roughly comparable to the old resistance bonuses such that their effect HP is the same. 

Homefield Advantage

Wanted to give the defending team an advantage in their base and remove other rubberbanding mechanics 

1. While a character is in their own base, they receive a movement speed and minor resistance bonus. 

Inhibitor Respawn 

Removing this rubberbanding mechanic as the base buff seems to accomplish the same thing while not dragging the game out artificially 

1. Inhibitors respawn timers increased to 300 seconds from 240. 

Blue Buff 

Blue Buff, acquired ealy, can lead to some unbreakable siege scenarios. With two buffs, this siege power can extend to 100% uptime. Wanted to reduce the duration on the buff a bit rather than attack the power of it to shorten some extended sieging scenarios 

1. Blue Buff duration reduced to 120 seconds from 150. 

Red Buff 

Blue buff is incredibly broad in application as it is used to dominate lane and contribute to clearing minions in wave clear, while red buff has some in-combat advantages - we wanted to give red buff some kind of role to play in a siege to give greater rewards to controlling the map before a siege 

1. Grants you 1% of your maximum Health every 5 seconds.
2. Duration reduced to 120 seconds from 150.
3. Slow reduced to 5-10% / 8-15% for ranged / melee characters from 5-15% / 8-24%
4. Burn damage rescaled to 5-56 damage per second from 10-44 damage
5. Burn damage now applies to Towers 

New Powerup: Still Waters 

Adding a pickup to the lanes after 20 minutes to add some incentive to visit this area in the mid and late game, as well as provide some split pushing power 

1. In the top and bottom lanes, at the entrance to river, a powerup will spawn beginning at 20 minutes and every 3 minutes thereafter.
2. This buff confers:

• +50 out of combat movement speed.
• Standing Still for 0.5 seconds grants up to 25% increased vision range and the ability to look over walls. 

Elixirs 

Replacing current Elixirs with Elixirs that serve more divergent strategic powers, especially in the late game 

1. Elixir of Fortitude and Brilliance have been removed.
2. You may only benefit from one elixir at a time.
3. Elixirs may only be bought when your champion is level 9 or above.
4. Elixir price increased to 400 gold.
5. New Elixirs added:

• Elixir of Ruin: Grants Health, +% Tower Damage. Nearby minions gain +% Tower Damage and their movement speed is set to 90% of your own, up to 500.
• Elixir of Iron: Grants Size, Tenacity and Slow resistance. You leave a trail that increases ally movement speed by 10%
• Elixir of Sorcery: Grants AP, MP/5 and bonus true damage when damaging a champion or a tower.
• Elixir of Wrath: Grants AD, 10% physical vamp and scoring a kill or assist will extend the duration of the flask by 30 seconds. 

Baron Nashor 

Attempting to create a greater call to action for the team that has the Baron Nashor buff, rather than passively grind the opponent out 

1. Health and Regeneration removed (AD and AP boost remain the same)
2. Baron Buff additionally grants you Empowered Recall, reducing your recall time to 4 seconds. This also massively heals you and grants you an 8 second movement speed buff once it finishes.
3. Baron Buff buffs nearby minions around you significantly, causing them to gain up to 90% your Movement Speed as well as specific bonuses on type:

• Melee Minions: Gain 80% damage reduction from almost all damage types
• Ranged Minions: Gain increased damage and a minor increase in range.
• Siege Minions: Gain massive increases to range - such that they outrange towers. Their attacks are 50% slower but are AoE and deal 4x damage to towers.
• Super Minions: Gains 75% Movement Speed when nearby enemies as well as 25% Attack Speed. 

Dragon 

Dragon bonuses adjusted to be more 'back-loaded' so that a team that opts for a fast pushing strategy versus a team that goes for neutral objective control will spike in power at different times in the game 

• Slaying Dragon now grants you a stack of 'Dragonslayer' which grants different permanent bonuses depending on how many Dragons you've slain.

• Stack 1: Increased Regeneration

• Stack 2: Increased AD / AP

• Stack 3: Increased Movement Speed

• Stack 4: Increased Health

• Stack 5: Triples all other bonuses

• Dragon gives 50% reduced XP, compared to live.
• Dragon no longer grants global gold.
• Dragon deals 20% increased damage to units for every Dragon their team has slain.
• Dragon takes 7% reduced damage from units for every Dragon their team has slain. 

Itemization Updates  

Enchantment: Captain's 

Removing overlapping mechanics from Elixir of Ruin and Baron Buff - and most people didn't use Captain's for this purpose anyway 

• Minion MS amplification removed. 

Armor and Magic Resistance 

Resistances are inherently reactive buys - and the constraint of Negatron Cloak and Chain Vest makes the act of cleverly reacting to your opponent much much harder than it should be 

• All Armor and Magic Resistance items can now be built out of a cloth armor / null magic mantle.
• Recipes, gold costs, stats and build paths have been adjusted to compensate for the above change.
• In effect, there is now no meaningful difference between 'Chain Vest/Negatron Cloak' items vs. 'Cloth Armor/Null Magic Mantle' items as they will all build from the same root. 

Health and Mana Regeneration 

We're swapping from items granting flat HP/5 and MP/5 to increasing a % of your base regeneration + % level regeneration. This allows different characters to benefit from regeneration items differently - as well as allowing these items to more naturally scale as the game goes on. 

1. Items that grant Health and Mana regeneration now grant either % Base Health Regeneration or % Base Mana Regeneration
2. % Base Health / Mana Regeneration take into account your champion's Health and Mana regeneration and any Health and Mana regeneration they gain per level.
3. This does not take into account: skills, masteries, runes and other sources other than your champion statistic. 

Example: Your champion has 7 mp/5 at level 1 and 18 mp/5 at level 18. You buy an item that grants +50% Base Mana Regeneration. At level 1, this item will provide an additional +3.5 mp/5 at level 1 and 9 mp/5 at level 18.  

New Items 

Crystalline Bracer
Recipe: Rejuvenation Bead + Ruby Crystal 

1. Grants Health and Regeneration.  

Righteous Glory
Recipe: Catalyst + Crystalline Bracer 

1. Grants Health, Mana and Regeneration
2. Active: Grants +60% MS to you and nearby allies when moving towards enemies for 2 seconds. When this speed boost ends, it emits a shockwave, slowing nearby enemy champions by 80% for one second. 

Warmog's Armor

1. Health reduced to 800 from 1000.
2. Regeneration triples when out of combat.
3. Cost slightly reduced. 

Raptor's Cloak
Recipe: Rejuvenation Bead + Cloth Armor + Rejuvenation Bead 

1. Grants bonus movement speed when near turrets or Zzrot Gates.  

**Zz'rot Portal**
*Recipe: Raptor Cloak + Negatron Cloak*

1. Spawns a gate at a location that summons monsters. These monsters proceed down the nearest lane and attack minions and damage towers.

Edit: Not currently in this build. Also no one spells like that. 

Ohmwrecker 

Recipe: Raptor Cloak + Kindlegem 

1. Active now boosts the damage of nearby towers by 100% or prevents nearby enemy towers from attacking.
2. Stats adjusted to fit the recipe items (Health/Armor/Regen/CDR) 

Jungle 

Jungle is different now. For reasons! 

Reasons that are outlined in the previous PBE post. Don't look at me like that. 

General 

1. Jungle Difficulty and Rewards have been increased
2. Red and Blue buff timers moved to 2:30 

New Jungle Camp: Scuttle crab 

This neutral objective is intended to add control to the river as a setup for Baron / Dragon or provide protection/enable river ganks in the early game 

1. Spawns in top and bottom river and patrols the river it is in.
2. Is not hostile - tries to run away from enemy champions.
3. Grants a speed shrine in the river that provides vision and out of combat movement speed to people who cross it. 

Smite 

Smiting a large monster from one of the monster camps will now grant bonus XP and a monster specific bonus when you kill it - this ensures that the Jungler always potentially benefits more from the Jungle than other roles  

Brambleback (Elder Lizard) 

1. Restores a large amount of Health.  

Blue Guardian (Ancient Golem) 

1. Restore a large amount of Mana.  

Krugs (Ancient Golem) 

1. Grants Gift of Heavy Hands - adding Execute Damage to your attacks.  

Gromp (Large Wraith) 

1. Grants Gift of the Toadstool - grants Toadstool Armor, poisoning enemies that attack you.  

Raptors (Wraith Camp) 

1. Grants Gift of the Eagle Eye - grants you a buff that automatically grants you true sight for a short time the next time you are spotted by an enemy ward 

Murkwolf (Wolf Camp) 

1. Grants Wolf Sentry - A ghostly wolf patrols that quardrant of the jungle for a moderate time. If an enemy champion enters that quadrant of the jungle, it'll run at them and alert you to his position. 

Jungle Itemization 

Jungle itemization has been overhauled - all existing jungle items have been removed. 

Hunter's Machete 

1. Hunter's Machete now grants 30 magic damage on hit over 2 seconds and grants 8 health and 2 Mana per second while fighting monsters.
2. Hunter's Machete can only be bought if you have Smite as a Summoner Spell.  

Upgrades 

Hunter's Machete now upgrades into 4 items that amplify or change your Smite ability - depending on what overarching Jungle Strategy you want to do: Gank, Invade, Fast Clear, or Counterjungle 

Stalker's Blade

1. After killing 3 monsters, you can smite enemy champions, dealing a small amount of true damage and reducing their movement speed by 50% for 2 seconds. 

Poacher's Knife

1. Upgrade Smite to Quick Smite. Quick Smite has reduced cooldown - has further reduced cooldown when you kill large monsters and grants bonus gold if you use it on the monsters in the enemy jungle. 

Skirmisher's Saber

1. Upgrades Smite to Challenging Smite. Challenging Smite can be cast on an enemy champion - doing no true damage but revealing them for a long time and causing your attacks to deal bonus true damage each time you hit him. 

Ranger's Trailblazer

1. Upgrades Smite to Desolating Smite - which causes Smite to deal 50% splash damage to other nearby monsters as well as stun them for 1.5 seconds. 

MOAR UPGRADES 

The 4 above items can be enchanted with 4 enchantments that offer bonus statistics so you can customize the item based on what kind of role you want your jungler to transition to 

Enchantment: Warrior

* Grants AD and Life Steal

Enchantment: Magus

* Grants AP and CDR

Enchantment: Juggernaut

* Grants Health, CDR and Movement Speed

Enchantment: Slayer

* Grants AS, CDR and a stacking AS buff"

Towers

Still Waters Power up

Dragon

Baron

Jungle

Using smite on monsters in the jungle now gives champions unique bonuses when they kill it!

Razorbeaks grants a buff that "Alerts and gives unit magical sight. If spotted by an enemy ward in the next 60 seconds".

Gromp grants "Posion armor that damages an enemy that attacks the owner for 90 seconds"

Finally, Murkwolf "summon a ghost wolf that patrols the nearby area for up to 90 seconds"

New River Monster - Giant Enemy Crab

Items

• Nomad's Medallion: +25% Base Health Regen & +25% Base Mana Regen
• Talisman of Ascension: +75% Base Health Regen & +75% Base Mana Regen

• Atma's Impaler
• Elixir of Brilliance
• Elixir of Fortitude
• Executioner's Calling
• Feral Flare
• Guinsoo's Rageblade
• Spirit of the Ancient Golem
• Spirit of the Elder Lizard
• Spirit of Spectral Wraith
• Spirit Stone
• Sword of the Divine
• Madred's Razors
• Quill Coat
• Wriggle's Lantern

Other