5.12 PBE Cycle

Pool Party Draven

"Hit the beach (or the Rift) in styyyle with Pool Party Draven! 

Pool Party Draven will be 975 RP* and includes: 

• New model and texture!
• Some new particles!
• Some new sound effects!
• New recall animation! 

Pool Party Draven is now available to play on PBE! As always, we find bug reports and feedback super helpful, so please feel free to comment in the thread below! Likewise, if you’ve got questions regarding the skin, post ‘em here, and we’ll do our best to answer them! 

*Prices on PBE are subject to change."

Pool Party Dr. Mundo

"Mundo thinks he needs a vacation.
Mundo wants to go to the pool.
Mundo gonna wear his favorite blue Hawaiian shirt.
Mundo won't forget his ukulele! 

Mundo has new things today!

• New tropical model! (that Hawaiian shirt!)
• New cleaver! (ukulele!)
• Some new particles! (fun in the sun!)
• New recall! (RIP ukulele)
• *975 RP (pricing subject to change)
• He lifts, bro.

Mundo thinks you should leave your bugs and feedback in this thread. Or Mundo gets really mad. 

See you on the Mundo!"

Pool Party Lulu

"The best part about a Pool Party are the inflatable floaties! Though when too many people show up at the pool, the next best place to go is the beach! 

Pool Party Lulu's packed up her trusty inflatable squid hat and arm floaties and went to the beach to build some sand castles. Be careful with Pix the Puffer Fish though, we don't want him to pop anything! 

Check out all the cool, new, watery things this Yordle packs!

• Completely new model (the squid hat eyes bobble!)
• New particles! (so watery, with a sandcastle in the ult!)
• New recall! (the squid takes over!)
• Her clamshell staff opens up during her autoattacks!
• New watery sound effects!
• Pix the Puffer Fish!
• *1350 RP (price 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 Lulu's new Pool Party skinaw! 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!"

Pool Party Rek'Sai

"You’re gonna need a bigger ult. 

Rek’Sai joins the pool party this year – but beware – if you’re looking for a shark, you’re not gonna find her only on the land. ;D 

Pool Party Rek’Sai will be 1350 RP* and includes:

• New model and texture for Rek’Sai and her tunnels!
• All new particles!
• All new sound effects!
• New recall and Void Rush (R) animations! 

Pool Party Rek’Sai is now available to play on PBE! As always, we find bug reports and feedback super helpful, so please feel free to comment in the thread below! Likewise, if you’ve got questions regarding the skin, post ‘em here, and we’ll do our best to answer them!

*Prices on PBE are subject to change.

Pool Party Zac

"Chroma Packs are back (now with 300% more gomu gomu). We’re bouncing out four new champion base chroma packs and one champion skin chroma pack, all designed with a specific theme in mind. So whether you’re terrorizing your foes with Morgana Haunt or dropping the axe with Darius Forge, these chroma packs re-imagine champs and skins as you know them. 

This round of chroma packs includes Morgana Haunt, Darius Forge, Caitlyn Rebel , Zac Sweet, and Rocket Girl Tristana Punk for 590 RP each.

Let us know what you think of this champ and skin selection and who you think we should deck out in colors next! Got questions? Check out the Chroma Pack FAQ here.

Caitlyn: Rebel Chroma

Pink, Green, Blue
590 RP for 3

Darius: Forge Chroma

Black Iron, Bronze, Copper
590 RP for 3

Morgana: Haunt Chroma

Toxic, Pale, Ebony
590 RP for 3

Rocket Girl: Tristana Punk Chroma

Zac: Sweet Chroma

Orange, Bubblegum, Honey
590 RP for 3

VFX Changes

Galio

Check out these links to see the new VFX on each of Galio's skins:

• Enchanted Galio - Video
• Hextech Galio - Video
• Commando Galio - Video
• Gatekeeper Galio - Video
• Debonair Galio - Video

Brand

Brand has received VFX changes in today's PBE patch, most notably to his W and his R.

Cryocore Brand and Zombie Brand also has updated VFX

Here's a brief video preview of the VFX changes in action:

[Zombie Brand section of video outdated as of 6/17]

Check out these links to see the new VFX on each of Brand's skins:

• Apocalyptic Brand - Video
• Vandal Brand - Video
• Cryocore Brand - Video
• Zombie Brand - Video

Corki

As with Brand and Galio, Corki also has a set of VFX changes on the PBE! The most notable changes are to his auto attack, Q's vision reveal, W trail, and rockets!

[Corki's Auto attack is no longer a tiny missile.]

[Q Reveal VFX] 

Dragonwing Corki's R missiles have also been updated to use the same missile the big one does.

Here's a brief video of the Corki VFX updates in action:



Check out these links to see the new VFX on each of Corki's skins:

• UFO Corki - Video
• Ice Toboggan Corki - Video
• Red Baron Corki - Video
• Hot Rod Corki - Video
• Urfrider Corki - Video
• Dragonwing Corki - Video
• Fnatic Corki - Video

Nautilus

As with Galio, Brand, Corki earlier this cycle, Nautilus has received VFX tweaks in today's patch.  While mostly clean up and polish, one noticeable change is the debris removed from his E and R.

AstroNautilus also has a similar set of changes:

Here's a short video showing off Nautilus and AstroNautilus VFX tweaks:


Check out these links to see the new VFX on each of Nautilus's skins:

• Abyssal Nautilus - Video
• Subterranean Nautilus - Video
• AstroNautilus - Video
• Warden Nautilus - Video

Pool Party Minions

• Champion Mastery Emotes are now visible to enemies.

Balance Changes

• Spider Queen (Passive)

• Renamed "Spider Queen" from "Spider Swarm".
• Tooltip now displays the bonus on-hit magic damage that was previously on R's tooltip. 

•  NEW EFFECT: Attacks in spider form now heal Elise for 4/6/8/10 +( .15 AP)

• Skittering Frenzy (Spider W) Elise is no longer healed by her own or spiderling attacks while active.

• Rappel (Spider E) New Effect - "After descending, Elise's personal spider attacks have their bonuses increased by 40/55/70/85/100% for 5 seconds"

• Spider Form (R) tooltips updated to go along with passive change..

Galio

• Idol of Durand (R) base damage lowered to 200/300/400 from 220/330/440
• Idol of Durand (R) damage now increases by 10% for each attack suffered from 5%. Maximum bonus damage now up to 80% [360/540/720 (+1.08 AP)] from 40% [308/462/616 (+ .84 AP)]

Gragas

• Base HP regen per second reduced to 1.1 from 1.7356
• HP Regen per second per level reduced to .1 from .17
• Barrel Roll (Q) slow duration reduced to 1.3 seconds from 2 seconds
• Barrel Roll (Q) slow duration now also scales up to 150% as the cask ferments

• [Note: This means the slow will be ~ the same if Q is allowed to fully charge]

Jarvan IV

• Demacian Standard (E) cooldown reduced to 13/12.5/12/11.5/11 from 13 at all ranks

Jax

• Grandmaster's Might (R) active's Armor bonus increased to 30/50/70 from 20/35/50
• Grandmaster's Might (R) active's  MR bonus increased to 30/50/70 from 20/35/50

Lux

• Prismatic Barrier (W) now shields Lux immediately.
• Lucent Singularity (E) you are now able to "pre detonate" E rather than the small delay once it lands.

• [Note: These are the changes that Meddler mentioned earlier this week!]

• Brutal Strikes (W) damage for active's additional physical damage lowered to [15/30/45/60/75 +(.1 AP)] from [25/40/55/70/85 +(.15 AP)]
• Brutal Strikes (W) a .1 armor ratio has been added to the active's extra damage on hit.

• [Note: This means every 10 armor increases damage by 1.]

• Brutal Strikes (W) splash range increased to 225 from 200.

• [Note: The base damage and AP ratio were lowered because the ability also now scales up in damage with Malphite's Armor.]

• Arcane Mastery (Passive) 

• stack duration lowered to 10 seconds from 12 seconds

• supercharged duration down to [2.5 seconds increasing to 3/3.5/4/4.5/5 seconds based on Q's rank] from 6 seconds

• tooltip no longer mentions spells cooled down to a minimum of .25

• Overload (Q)

•  damage increased  to  60/95/130/165/200 from 65/95/125/155/185

•  mana cost changed to 40 at all rank from 30/35/40/45/50

•  new passive effect " "Arcane Mastery's supercharged duration is increased to 3/3.5/4/4.5/5 seconds"

•  line width increased to 55 from 50

• Rune Prison (W) 

• damage changed to 80/100/120/140/160 from 65/95/125/155/185

•  root duration changed to 1/1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4 seconds from .75/1/1.25/1.5/1.75

• Subjugate (R) % of enemy's max health drain increased to 20/27.5/35% from 20/24/28%

• [Scarizard has tweeted that Tryndamere's Critical Strike animation is now faster on the PBE, "making it easier to attackmove with crits (and harder to cancel on accident)" ]

• Three new items added. No stats, no description but they do say "This item is only available to Gangplank."

• [Note: These items have been removed off the PBE. Yo-ho-no.....]

• [The very tentative rework is back, although we've been told it is shelved for the time being.]

• Replaced by Enchantment: Runeglaive

• Builds out of [Sheen + Jungle Item + 200g]
• Stats:

• 40 AP

• 200 Mana

• +10% Cooldown Reduction

• UNIQUE Passive - Spellblade: After using an ability, the next basic attack is converted into magic damage and deals 75% Base Attack Damage (+30% of Ability Power) bonus magic damage on hit in an AoE around the target (1.5 second cooldown). When attacking a monster, this also restores 8% of your missing Mana."

• Attacks no longer slow movement speed by 10% and reduce targets damage by 15%.

• 2 Points  - "Reduced the effectiveness of slows by 7.5/15%

• 1 Point - "Reduces the duration of crowd control effects by 10%"

• 1 Point - "Gain 3% of your bonus armor as magic resist if you have more bonus armor than bonus magic resist. Gain 3% of your bonus magic resist as armor if you have more bonus magic resist than bonus armor."

• 4 Points - "Increases bonus armor and magic resist by 2/4/6/8%

• 1 Point - "Reduces damage taken by 2% from enemies that have impaired movement (slows, snares, taunts, stuns, etc)"

• 1 Point  - "+3 Armor and Magic Resist for each nearby Enemy Champion"

"Hi all, 

Just a quick note that the HUD Update is now on and will stay on until we go to live environments with it (actual date of live tbd). 

Notable changes:

• PAR bars are now on the team frames 

Notable Bugs:

• We're still working through some scaling issues 
• All of the PAR bars are Blue (Regardless as to if your team mates use mana or not) 

Thanks,

-Chager"

Upcoming Pathfinding Changes

"Hey everyone! Riot Reinboom here with context on an upcoming change to pathfinding.

The short of it: We're rewriting a lot of the "stuck pathing" rules the game has in order to make the system more predictable and, when 'stuck', more forgiving. Ideally, helping alleviate a lot of the creep blocking pains.

This change will be on the PBE but will not be going out with next patch. Changing anything with pathfinding could have some serious feels unknowns that we would like to capture and understand first.

There are three major areas this change should touch.
1. What happens when a unit is actively on top of and sticking with another unit. If you've seen someone get stuck by Krugs or a ward this is a major part of it. The new rules should detect for overlaps better and let the champion walk away freely from their overlaps (effectively, a pseuo-ghost effect if your directly on top of something).
2. How units path between packs of units, like a large minion wave. The goal here is to make this more predictable. It should be more obvious why your champion may try to move through a group of minions or why they won't try.
3. How units predict where they can go towards. For pathing, there's some amount of look-ahead needed in order to make sure a unit isn't moving towards an area they will soon be stuck in. Ideally, your character (and minions!) should be avoiding areas that will soon block them more so than on live.

We're extra interested in any reports where you get stuck by a single unit anywhere on the map. Screenshots and videos super super useful if you do find any.

Any feedback about last hitting as a melee champion is also highly encouraged. :)"