5.13 PBE Cycle

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Following his champion reveal, Tahm Kench, the River King, is now on the PBE for testing!

Tahm Kench, the River King

Here's ZenonTheStoic with a PBE feedback thread following Tahm Kench's PBE debut:

"Calling all riverboat captains and friends of nautical adventures! 

Tahm Kench, the River King, is about to hit PBE! I am the champion designer who worked on him and I'll be here to field your questions. First off, a little context: 

We initially designed Tahm Kench as a top lane tank and we believe he still functions well in this role, but his support play probably eclipses all other roles. Because ally devour is so particularly powerful when used on a strong but fragile ally, playing him in the role where he can do that from level 1 just makes the most sense. That said, a top Tahm who gets ahead can affect other lanes in a unique way: waddle down into river to "ward", pick up your jungler, teleport mid--and suddenly the enemy mid laner finds himself in a 1v3 tower dive. Fun times! 

We're still fixing bugs, but anything you report now will be massively valuable to us. As always, videos are best; screenshots (preferably also a screenshot with the scoreboard open) are also great, and a description of exactly what happened in which order is super useful as well. 

One bug I'm aware of that'll be fixed with our next deploy is that Devour sometimes doesn't cost mana. Oopsie. There are also some animation issues caused by a faulty export that'll be fixed in the next deploy. 

That said, have at it! As soon as the PBE comes back up, Tahm should be available. If you're streaming your gameplay, feel free to drop a link in here as well. I'll be looking to watch as much first time gameplay as I can. 

The whole Tahm team is so very excited to bring you our very own take on the Southern Devil / gentleman / scuttlegromp. Let us know how you like him!"

Stats &Abilities

• Base HP: 610
• HP Per Level: 95
• Base Mana: 325
• Mana Per Level: 40
• Base Attack Range: 200
• Base Movement Speed: 335
• Base Damage: 56
• Damage Per Level: 3.2
• Base Attack Speed: --
• Attack Speed Per Level: 2.5
• Base HP Regen Per Second: 1.3
• HP Regen Per Second Per Level: 0.11
• Base Mana Regen Per Second: 1.1
• Mana Regen Per Second Per Level: 0.2
• Base Armor: 27
• Armor Per Level: 3
• Base Magic Resist: 32.1
• Magic Resist Per Level: 1.25

Acquired Taste (Passive)

Basic attacks and damaging spells apply stacks of An Acquired Taste to enemy champions. At three stacks, Tongue Lash and Devour become empowered against that champion.

Tongue Lash (Q)

6 sec Cooldown
50 Mana 

[Range: 800] 

Damage the first enemy hit for 80/115/150/185/220 (+.7 AP) magic damage and slow them by 30/40/50/60/70% for 2 seconds. Champions with 3 stacks of An Acquired Taste will additionally be stunned for 1.5 seconds.

Activate Devour while your tongue is in mid-air to devour monsters/minions from a distance.

Devour (W)

90 Mana
14/13/12/11/10 sec Cooldown 

[Range: 250] 

Devour a target for 4/4.5/5/5.5/6s (half that for enemy champions.) Enemies are dealt        20/23/26/29/32% (+.02 AP)% of their maximum health as magic damage.  (maximum of 400/450/500/550/600 against neutral monsters).

Enemy Champions:Requires 3 stacks of An Acquired Taste to be devoured. While holding an enemy champion, Tahm Kech is slowed by 95%

Allied Champions: While holding an allied champion, Tahm Kench gains 30/35/40/45/50% movement speed toward enemy champions (halved when not moving toward enemy champions).

Minions and monsters: Reactivate to spit, dealing 100/150/200/250/300 (+0.6 AP) magic damage to targets hit.

Thick Skin (E)

50 Mana
16/15/14/13/12 sec Cooldown 

Passive:Damage taken while this spell is not cooling down is converted to grey health. If allowed to decay, 20/26/32/38/44% of grey health will turn back into health. 

Active:Convert all of your grey health into a shield that lasts 6 seconds, but falls off gradually over that time."

Abyssal Voyage (R)

100 Mana
160/130/100 sec Cooldown 

Range: 4000/5000/6000 

Passive: Basic attacks and damaging spells deal an additional X (20 + 4/5/6% of Tahm Kench's bonus health) magic damage 

Active: Begin to channel for up to 15 seconds. During this time, one ally champion can right click Tahm Kench to join in. Alternatively, reactivate this ability to travel alone. On reactivation or once an ally has opted in, Tahm travels to the target location. Incoming champion damage breaks the channel. 

'Boy, the world's one river, and I'm its king. Ain't no place I ain't been; ain't no place I can't go again.'

Here's a video preview of Tahm Kench's abilities in action:

Voiceover

Tahm Kench's voiceover clocks in at just over 13 minutes.


Tahm Kench's champion select quote has also been added:



As you may have noticed, Tahm Kench has quite the variety of unique champion interactions.

Riot Utora explains:

":) Tahm has a ridiculous amount of VO. He also has 46 (i think) enemy specific taunts and 46 ally specific taunts. You're going to want to spam taunt in game to find out who has them! 

Also, Tahm has an unique aggressive mode where he'll play special lines - more aggressive lines when he has at least 2 stacks of his passive on someone or an enemy has been devoured. He has aggressive move, attack, and basic attack efforts for when he's in this frequent, but short lived mode. 

He'll also have some lovely critiques on the flavor of enemies he spits out ;)"

Lore

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Release Skin

Master Chef Tahm Kench

975 RP

 

New Chroma Packs

Today's update also includes a total of four new chroma packs for Bard, Dreadknight Nasus, Grim Reaper Karthus, and Shockblade Zed!

Here's Riot LoveStrut with a bugs & feedback thread for these new Chroma packs:

"Dreadknight Nasus and Grim Reaper Karthus are leading the hauntingly colorful charge with their new Plague chroma packs! 

This wave of chroma packs includes Dreadknight Nasus Plague, Grim Reaper Karthus Plague, Shockblade Zed Charge and Bard Bloom 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.

EDIT: Unfortunately, the Shockblade Zed Charge chroma pack has been delayed due to VFX issues, but you can expect to see these colorful ninjas in the future!"

Nunu

Rumble

Shyvana

• Shyvana
• Boneclaw Shyvana
• Championship Shyvana
• Darkflame Shyvana
• Icedrake Shyvana
• Ironscale Shyvana

• Updated video previews:

• Apocalyptic Brand

• Cryocore Brand

• Vandal Brand

• Zombie Brand

Balance Changes

* Remember *: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, and sometimes radical changes. The changes you see below may be lacking context or other accompanying changes that didn't make it in - don't freak out! These are not official notes.

"Passive: Kayle's Basic Attacks deal an additional 10/15/20/25/30 (.15 AP) magic damage on hit.  

Active: Kayle increases her Attack Range by 400 for 10 seconds and the passive bonus is increased to 20/30/40/50/60 (+0.3) magic damage on hit.  

In addition, enemies near her target take 20/30/40/50/60 (+20/25/30/35/40% AD) (+0.3 AP) magic damage on attack."]

Kennen

• [Tooltip Fix] Mark of the Storm (Passive) tooltip now lists stun duration as1.25 secs from 1

• [NOTE: Turns out this is just a tooltip change according to Meddler:

"This is just a tooltip fix, turns out Mark of the Storm's duration was increased to 1.25s years ago but that wasn't documented (our bad)."]

Nautilus

• Riptide (E) damage lowered to 60/95/130/165/200 from 60/100/140/180/220

Rek'Sai

• Unburrow (W) knock up area reduced ~20% - 160 from 200.

Shyvana

• Burnout (W) damage lowered to 20/33/45/58/70 from 20/35/50/65/80

Singed

• Base magic resist increased to 32.1 from 30
• Magic Resist per level increased to 1.25 from 0
• Fling (E) root for landing in Mega Adhesive increased to 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2 seconds from 1 second at all ranks

Xin Zhao

• Battle Cry (W) AP ratio on heal lowered to .5 from .7

Archangel's Staff (SR)

• Total Cost increased to 3000g from 2700g
• Recipe now NLR + Tear of the Goddess + 1030g
• AP increased to 80 from 60
• [Note: These changes are also on the Crystal Scar version.]

Athene's Unholy Grail

• Recipe now Codex + Chalice + Amp Tome

Blasting Wand

• Total cost lowered to 850g from 860g

Haunting Guise

• Total cost increased to 1500g from 1480g

Liandry's Torment

• Total cost increased to 3000g from 2900g
• Recipe now Haunting Guise + Blasting Wand
• AP increased to 80 from 50

Luden's Echo (Summoner's Rift)

• Total Cost lowered to 3000g from 3100g
• AP lowered to 100 from 120
• Movement speed increased to 10% from 7%

Morellonomicon

• Recipe now: Codex + Idol + Amp Tome

Nashor's Tooth

• Total cost increased to 3000g from 2920g
• Attack speed lowered to 40% from 50%
• AP increased to 80 from 60

Needlessly Large Rod

• Total cost lowered to 1250g from 1600g
• AP lowered to 60 from 80.

Rabadon's Death Cap

• Total cost increased to 3500g from 3300g
• Recipe now NLR + Blasting Wand + Amp Tome
• Unique Passive increased to 35% ability power amp from 30%

Rod of Ages (Summoner's Rift)

• Total cost reduced to 2700g from 2800g
• Health reduced to 300 from 450
• Mana reduced to 400 from 450
• Passive

• Health growth unchanged

• Mana growth increased to 40 growth / 400 maximum from 20 growth, 200 maximum

• AP growth increased to 4 growth / 40 maximum from 2 growth, 20 maximum

Rylai's Crystal Scepter

• Recipe now NLR + Amp Tome + Giant's Belt
• Total cost increased to 3000g from 2900g.
• Passive Updated

• Single Target: 35% Slow for 1.5 seconds --> 40% Single Target Slow for 1.5 seconds

• Instant AoE: 15% Slow for 1.5 seconds --> 40% Slow for 1 second

• DoT or Multi-hit: 15% slow for 1.5 seconds --> 20% Slow for 1 second

• Summoned Minions (NEW): 20% Slow for 1 second.

• [Note: These changes are also on the Crystal Scar version.]

• New self-only freeze particles on slowed enemies. 

Seraph's Embrace

• AP increased to 80 from 60

Zhonya's Hourglass

• Total cost lowered to 3000g from 3300g
• AP lowered to 100 from 120

Void Staff

• Total cost increased to 2500g from 2295g
• AP increased to 80 from 70

Will of the Ancients

• Spell Vamp reduced to 0% from 20%
• New Unique Passive: Your spells and abilities heal you for 15% of damage dealt, calculated before your opponent's resistances. 33% effect for AoE spells

Wooglet's Witchcap (TT & Crystal Scar)

• Now builds out of Seeker's Armguard + Needlessly Large Rod + 1050G
• Total cost now 3500g from 3540g.

Epic Monsters

Dragon

The following content made an appearance during the 5.13 PBE cycle but was reverted as it will not be released in the live patch. Expect these things to return in the 5.14 cycle.

The recently announced Butcher's Bridge ARAM map is now on the PBE for testing. This new map is one of the many things to go along with the upcoming Bilgewater event!
Before we dive in, here's Riot Bearricade with a bugs and feedback thread for Butcher's Bridge ARAM:

"Ahoy! ... [cough] Hellooo! 

We’re excited for everyone to get their first look at Butcher’s Bridge, our Bilgewater ARAM map, which is now live on PBE! It has all the same rules and chaos of our beloved Howling Abyss ARAM, but with a whole new visual twist. Please leave us any feedback you have and bugs you find down below! For bugs, it would be great if you could let us know what happened and how (if you can reproduce it). 

If you’d like a more in-depth look at Butcher’s Bridge and what’s coming then go check out the Dev Blog here. 

Thanks in advance for your help and we can’t wait to see you all in Bilgewater, but be warned we will show you no quarter! Lastly, don’t forget to expect some changes as we continue to update and polish Butcher’s Bridge. 

Current Known Issues:

• Performance -- We are aware that there are some performance issues, but we will be actively optimizing so there should be improvements in future deploys. Please be very vocal if you notice anything and it would help if you could share with us your system information/configuration.
• Missing Art Pieces -- We know that we’re missing art assets like the loading screen and client art and we will be implementing these later.
• Missing/Incorrect Text -- There is incorrect and placeholder text scattered around and will be replacing these (for example in some locations like in custom games it is listed as Howling Abyss Test).
• UPDATED Missing Audio – Some announcements are missing, but will be updated soon!"

UPDATE: Here's Riot Stephiroth with a note on Butcher's Bridge being temporarily removed from the PBE:

"Hey guys! 

Thanks for all your wonderful feedback so far :D 

We're going to be taking the map down for a few days, which will give us time to iterate on the feedback and hopefully re-enable a better map in a few days. :D 

You'll have to traverse the Howling Abyss to fuel your ARAM needs. 

See you in a few days! :P"

Screenshots

Video

[This Video outdated as of the 7/1 PBE update]

Mark / Dash

The Mark/Dash summoner spell has also been updated on Butcher's Bridge.

Assets

Butcher's Bridge music


The unique Champion Select music for Butcher's Bridge has also been added.


Butcher's Bridge Shop Keeper VO - "Bubbs and Finn"

Bilgewater Announcer

This new VO currently only plays on Butcher's Bridge BUT does also contains lines for other maps including Crystal Scar, Twisted Treeline, Howling Abyss, and Summoner's Rift.

[Note: At the moment this new announcer VO is only playing on Butcher's Bridge matchmade games and will NOT PLAY if you do a custom game on Butcher's Bridge.]

Patch History for this cycle:

6/24 PBE Cycle