5.10 PBE Cycle

• New Champion: Ekko
• New Skins
• New Loading Screens Reverted
• Miscellaneous
• Balance Changes

Sandstorm Ekko

975 RP

"In the depths of a forgotten ruin in Shurima, guarded by an arcane sandstorm, hides a mysterious relic of time. A golden hourglass filled with glowing sand, the physical manifestation of Time. 

A young orphan braved the harsh trials for a relic to help save and protect the childhood friends he had left. Sandstorm Ekko emerges from the dunes, equipped and prepared to protect the forgotten and forsaken people of Shurima.

• Completely new model!
• New sandy particles for abilities!
• New recall!
• Additional new sandy SFX over his abilities!
• *This launch skin is 975 RP (pricing always subject to change!) 

As players who get the first look at this in-progress skin, it would be wonderful to hear your thoughts and feelings on Sandstorm Ekko! The feedback and bugs you leave here will help us get a better idea of things we may still have to take a look at. :] 

See you on the Rift!"

New Skins

This cycle includes three new skins! Order of the Lotus Irelia, Knockout Lee Sin, and Nightmare Tryndamere!

 Order of the Lotus Irelia

750 RP

Here's Riot KateyKhaos with a PBE feedback thread for Order of the Lotus Irelia:

"Once again, Irelia’s blade is at your service with Order of the Lotus Irelia! This skin will not cause nerfs to Irelia. ;D 

Order of the Lotus Irelia is 750 RP and includes:

• New model and texture!
• Quality of life particles for her Transcendent Blades (R) so they match her weapon. 

Order of the Lotus Irelia is now available to play on PBE! We always find bug reports and feedback super helpful, so feel free to comment in the thread below! Likewise, if you've got any questions, post 'em here, and we'll do our best to answer them! 

*Prices on PBE are subject to change."

 Knockout Lee Sin

1350 RP

Check out his new punching animations and idles in the video preview:

 Here's Galetta with a PBE feedback thread for Knockout Lee Sin:

"Ding ding ding! 

Knockout Lee Sin enters the ring! Keep your guard up and watch out for that left hook! 

This skin includes:

• All new model and texture!
• New bell particles on his shield!
• Lots of new boxing themed animations!

• 4 new idle animations!

• New Attack 1, 2 and crit animations!

• New Recall and respawn!

• New Run animation

• New Spell1 (dash) (Q)

• New Spell2 (dash) (W)

• New Spell4 (R)

• New SFX on his recall, respawn, and his (W). 

This skins price is 1350RP - (pricing subject to change) 

Your feedback and bug reports are extremely helpful to us, so please check out Knockout Lee Sin and let us know what you think! Feel free to drop any bugs you find in this thread as well! 

See you on the Rift!"

 Nightmare Tryndamere

750 RP

"This top lane is full of monsters! How can you just sit there and eat pizza?! 

A monstrous looking executioner has appeared on the Rift....Nightmare Tryndamere is here to judge the guilty! This skin includes: 

• All new model and texture!

This skins price is 750RP - (pricing subject to change)

Your feedback and bug reports are extremely helpful to us, so please check out Nightmare Tryndamere and let us know what you think! Feel free to drop any bugs you find in this thread as well! 

See you on the Rift!"

New eSports Summoner Icons

 

 

 

Miscellaneous 

• Twitch's cheese is back.
• A golden spatula has been added in the upper left part of the jungle.  Removed

• A Poro has been added to Summoner's Rift. File name is "SRU_Poro". He seems to spawn in each base if that team has a champion from Freljord on their team.

• If you load into a game with five Pool Party skins (or Rumble in the Jungle or  Surfer Singed), a yellow rubber duck will spawn on Summoner's Rift near the bottom Middle part of river.

• They've added a glow to the runes around Baron's pit.

'Hexakill: Twisted Treeline' (with BANS!) featured game mode  on the PBE!

"Hi everyone! ^.^/ 

It’s about that time again and we’re bringing back another of our tried and true modes, Hexakill: Twisted Treeline! This time around we’ve included one important addition; BANS!We heard you guys last time, so we’ve gone and squeezed bans into our Hexakill champion select screen. This is also a good test for us to see how efficiently we can resurrect old modes (it varies wildly from mode-to-mode, but you gotta start somewhere). 

Some design notes: 

-- Let us know what you think of the bans readability in the Hexakill champion select screen.
-- Obviously if any bugs, etc come up, let us know in this thread!"

Hide Eye Candy Menu Option

"Hey all, 

Recently we added an option to the Game tab in the menu called "Hide Eye Candy". Some of our more competitive players requested the the option to hide some of the less subtle movement on Summoner's Rift. We added the option to disable things like butterfiles, dragonfiles and the water wakes to help competitive players focus on what they care about, the gameplay. 

The next PBE deploy should have the hook ups enabled. Let us know if we missed anything that should've been added and if you have any other feedback regarding this new option. 

Thanks!
~Riot JxE"

• Shadow Dance (R) pass through range is now 100-200 from 150-200. If a target is marked with Akali's Q, you will only pass through half the distance (50-100). 

• [Note: Here's ricklessabandon with context tweets on these:

[1] "the akali changes are that the distance caps are down by 50 at both ends (i.e., 100-200 now) and are reduced by 50% vs mota targets "

[2] "so, if you mark someone with q you go 50-100 units behind based on distance (whereas before it would be 150-250 vs mota targets)"]

• Aspect of the Serpent (Passive) 100 stack bonus' Twin Fang heal AP ratio reduced to .06 from .1
• Twin Fang (E) mana restore on kill reduced 1.5%from 3% of maximum mana. 

• Switcheroo (Q)
• Minigun speed reduced to 30/40/50/60/70% from 30/55/80/105/130% but now scales up 0 / 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70% additional based on level. 
  
• [Note: Context for this Jinx change from Gypsylord here.]

• Gathering Fire (passive)

• CD refund on spell hit increased to 2/2.5/3 at level 1/7/13 from 2 at all levels.

• CD refund on basic attack increased to 1/1.25/1.5 at level 1/7/13 from 1 at all levels

• Focused Resolve (W)

•  AP ratio increased to 90% from 60%
•  Can now target monsters in addition to champions
  

• Renewal (R+W)

• No longer adds 75/150/225/300 (+60% AP) additional damage

• New Effect: If link is not broken increases root duration by .5/.75/1/1.25 seconds.

• Inspire (E)

• Cooldown lowered to 10/9.5/9/8.5/8 seconds from 10 seconds at all ranks

• Mana cost lowered to 60/65/70/75/80 from 60/70/80/90/100.

• Shield amount decreased to 80/110/140/170/200 from 80/120/160/200/240

Defiance (R+E)

• No longer deals 60/140/220/300 (+60% AP) damage

• Now increases primary shield by 30/90/150/210 (+30% AP)

• AoE shield amount increased to 50% of the primary target's shield from 30/70/100/150

• [NOTE: This change list was provided by ricklessabandon on twitter and is relative to live, not to the previous PBE changes.]

Leona

• Zenith Blade (E) [seems missile width lowered to 70 from 90.]

Lulu

• Base Mana regen per second increased to 1.7 from 1.2
• Mana Regen Per Second Per Level lowered to .12 from .16

• [Note: ricklessabandon noted on Twitter: "yup! trying out +2.5 mp5 at level one and being -almost- the same at 18. goal is to help lane for lulu, especially as support."

Rek'Sai

• Base HP lowered to 570 from 611.2

Ryze

• Arcane Mastery (Passive) duration now 6 seconds from 3 seconds up to 4/5/6 based on R rank.

• Overload (Q) damage increased to 65/95/125/155/185 from 65/90/115/140/165
• Desperate Power (R) duration increased to 6 seconds at all ranks from 4/5/6

+40 Ability Power
+250 Health
+60 Magic Resist  

UNIQUE Passive:Every 4 seconds emanates a pulse dealing 80 (+5 per champion level) magic damage to nearby enemy champions and reduces their Magic Resist by 5% for 6 seconds, (stacks up to 6 times, up to 30%)

• [Note: These are highly tentative. Reinboom has already commented on a few change coming in a future PBE update.]

• [Note: video preview of the current Abyssal Scepter VFX can be found here.]

•  Unique Passive - Favor now grants 3 gold  per nearby minion death from 2 gold.

• Unique Active Promote's  range was increased to 1200 from 1000. 

• Active Range increased to 550 from 450.

• Active range increased to 550 from 450

• [The highly experimental is gone again.]

• Unique passive - Favor now grants 4 gold and 10 health per nearby minion death up from 3 gold and 5 health
• Mana regen increased to 50% from 25%

• Unique Passive - Favor now grants 4 gold per nearby minion death from 3
• Unique Active cooldown reduced to 40 seconds from 60 seconds.

Mastery

Bandit

• Changed from "Melee - Grants +15 Gold on champion kill or assist Ranged - Grants +3 Gold each time an enemy champion is attacked. This cannot trigger on the same champion more than once every 5 seconds" to "Grants +3 Gold (+8 Gold on Melee champion) each time an enemy champion is attacked. This cannot trigger on the same champion more than once every 5 seconds"

**Expanded Mind

• Swapped places in Utility Tree with Meditation
• Changed from "+2/3.5/5% increased maximum Mana to "+25/50/75 Mana" 
  

**Meditation 

• Swapped places in Utility Tree with Expanded Mind
• Changed from "+1/2/3 Mana Regen per 5 seconds" to  "Restore 0.5/1.0/1.5% of missing Mana every 5 seconds" 

Intelligence

•  Changed from"+2/3.5/5% Cooldown Reduction and reduces the cooldown of Activated Items by 4/7/10%" to "+2/3.5/5% Cooldown Reduction and reduces the cooldown of Activated Items by 8/14/20%"

Inspiration

• Changed from "+5/10 Experience every 10 seconds while near a higher level allied champion" to "+10/20 Experience every 10 seconds while near a higher level allied champion"

Wanderer

•  Changed from "+5% Movement Speed out of combat" TO "+20 Movement Speed out of combat"

Reverted Changes

[NOTE: Several Twisted Treeline changes were pushed in the initial update this cycle, including adjustments to health and damage of most of the 3v3 map's jungle creeps, adjustments to Vilemaw's HP, turret changes, death timer changes, xp curve changes, specific mode item changes, and more. Riot JxE has noted that they went out early and are not planned for 5.10. They  are now all REVERTED and the map is back to live status.]

New loading screens

[NOTE: These new loading screens are a part of the map changes that went out earlier then intended and will not be released in 5.10. The second PBE deploy of 5/13 REMOVED them from the build but I'll leave them down here for the sake of visibility.

To join the new Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss loading screens from previous patches, Twisted Treeline and Crystal Scar have new loading screen backgrounds.

Twisted Treeline & Crystal Scar

The Advanced tutorial also has a new loading screen, using the Vi & Ahri vs Blue Sentinel art.