6.14 PBE Cycle

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New Champion Skins

We've diving into the 6.14 PBE cycle with three new Pool Party skins - Fiora, Miss Fortune, and Taric!

Pool Party Fiora

Here's Nurse Flan with a Bugs & Feedback thread for Pool Party Fiora:

"Pool Party Fiora is ready for some fun in the sun - with her pool noodle sword! 

Fun Development Fact: We named the crab in her recall, "Kelly the Krab" after the artist that suggested a fencing crab! 

• Completely new model! (It's a pool party!)
• New VFX for all abilities! (So splashy!)
• New audio for abilties! (Water splashes and popping balloons! And more!)
• New recall! (Kelly the Krab!)
• She has special tech on her pool noodle sword that makes it wobble!
• Set to be 1350 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 the new Pool Party Fiora! 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 Miss Fortune

Here's Riot Aotus with a Bugs & Feedback Thread for Pool Party Miss Fortune:

"It's raining coconuts.... 

Pool Party Miss Fortune includes: 

• All new model and textures!
• All new particles!
• New Recall Animation!
• All new SFX on spells and recall! 

This skin will be 1350RP! (PBE pricing subject to change) 

Your feedback and bug reports are extremely helpful to us, so please check out Pool Party Miss Fortune 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!"

Pool Party Taric

Here's Riot KateyKhaos with a Bugs & Feedback thread for Pool Party Taric:

"Everybody in the pool! 

Pool Party Taric is ready to keep an eye out to make sure everyone's safe on the Rift!  

• New model and texture: Lifeguard outfit, complete with a jacket that can be taken off!
• New VFX: All sorts of splashy water effects, and a sweet sun with deal with it shades in his ult!
• New audio: Of course, to accompany the water effects, splashy sound effects!
• New recall animation: Taric takes of his jacket and hops into the pool! 

Pool Party Taric will be 1350 RP. * 

Pool Party Taric is now available to play on the PBE! As players who experience a firsthand look at this content, we appreciate constructive feedback - feel free to leave it in the comments below! If you have any questions, you can also drop them below and I'll do my best to answer them! ^-^ 

GLHF! 

*Prices subject to change."

Ryze Champion Update

Stats & Abilities:

As the Ryze champion update includes significant changes to Ryze's gameplay, here's a run down of his new abilities, scaling, ratios, and stats/growth.


Stats

• Base Health: 558.48
• Health Growth: 86
• Base Health Regen: 1.4
• Health Regen Growth: 0.11
• Base Mana: 400
• Mana Growth: 50
• Base Mana Regen: 1.2
• Mana Regen Growth: 0.16
• Movespeed: 340
• Attack Range:  550
• Base Attack: 55.04
• Attack Growth: 3
• Base Armor:  21.552
• Armor Growth: 3
• MR: 30

As mentioned above, Ryze can level his Q 6 times and his R 2 times.

Arcane Mastery (Passive)

Ryze's spells deal extra damage based on his Bonus Mana, and his maximum Mana is increased by 5% per 100 Ability Power. 

Current Increase: X%

Overload (Q)

40 Mana
6 sec Cooldown 

[Range]  

Passive: Rune Prison and Spell Flux reset Overload's Cooldown and charge a Rune for 4 seconds, up to 2 Runes. 

Active: Unleash a runic blast, dealing 60/85/110/135/160/185 (+45% AP) (+3% bonus mana) magic damage to the firsr enemy struck. Any active Runes are discharged. 

If 2 Runes are discharged, they Overload, shielding Ryze from [60-200] (+60% AP) (+3% bonus mana) damage and increasing his Movement Speed by 25/30/35/40/45/50% for 2 seconds.

•  Shield base value - [60/70/80/90/100/110/120/130/140/150/160/170/175/180/185/190/195/200]

Rune Prison (W)

50/60/70/80/90 Mana
13/12/11/10/9 sec Cooldown 

[Range]  

Instantly root and enemy for 1 second and deal 80/100/120/140/160 (+20% AP) (+1% bonus mana) magic damage.

Spell Flux (E)

40/55/70/85/100 Mana
2.25 sec Cooldown 

[Range]  

Apply Flux to an enemy, dealing 50/75/100/125/150 (+30% AP) (+2% bonus mana) magic damage. Spells consume Flux for bonus effects: 

Overload: Deals 40/55/70/85/100% more damage and spreads to nearby enemies with Flux.
Rune Prison: Root duration is doubled to 2 seconds.
Spell Flux: Spreads Spell Flux to nearby enemies.  

Spells that kill enemies affected by Flux spread Spell Flux to nearby enemies. 

Realm Warp (R)

100 Mana
120 sec Cooldown 

[Range] 

Ryze opens a portal to a location up to 1500/3000 range away. After 2 seconds, all allies near the portal are teleported to that location.  

If Ryze becomes unable to cast or move, Realm Warp is cancelled. 

Voiceover:

Ryze's champion update also includes a new voiceover, clocking in at over 12 minutes!


Here's a video looking at Ryze's special champion interactions:


Ryze's new champion select quote was added:



Several non-English Ryze voiceovers were also added this cycle:

• Brazilian Portuguese
• Czech
• French
• German
• Greek
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Korean
• Latin American Spanish
• Polish
• Romanian
• Spanish 
• Turkish

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Ability Previews

Now that you've seen his kit, here's a base ability preview:

Updated Skins:

With Ryze's update also comes updated versions of all 8 of his skins!

New Summoner Icon

KateyKhaos mentioned on twitter this "Soy LoLero" summoner  icon will be for LAS players only on release with other servers being able to obtain it at a later date. src [1][2]

We also have a set of six new Pool Party Themed summoner icons added this cycle!

New Ward Skin

A new pool party themed HIS ROYAL CRABNESS ward skin is now on the PBE!

"Something In Brush" 

A few mysterious files labelled "Something in Brush" have been added.  While not a confirmation, this seems reminiscent of the Tahm Kench and Kindred  in-game teasers we saw prior to their release.

Walking near the inner turret brush on either side has a chance to play vfx of grass stirring and play a peculiar animal-like sound.

This effect seems to only trigger once per game and only in one of the four potential brush per game. Minions can also trigger it and it can be heard and seen through the fog of war.

Here are six different sounds that can play:


[SPECULATION: This is very reminiscent of things like the Tahm Kench, Bard, and Kindred teasers! Assuming this is a teaser for a new champion, similarly styled teasers in the past have been at least a full patch apart from when the champion is released - which would put this at a ~6.16 release, which fits in with Meddler comments we'd have a new champion by 6.18. This is all a guess though, stay tuned for more information!]

Cooldown Pings on PBE

"Hello friends! Today, we've put a new feature onto PBE for testing. As the title hopefully implies, you'll soon be able to ping various icons in your HUD to automatically message your team with the remaining cooldown duration. However, pictures are worth so much more than words so here we go!

Here John can ping when his ultimate is up so Alex knows when to go in!

Kory is able to tell his team when red buff is about to spawn and also ping dragon's timer to give his team some time to get ready. 

For now, we're working to implement this feature for:

• Ultimate cooldowns (ALT+Click)

• Major items (ALT+Click)

• Infinity Edge

• Trinity Force

• Items with cooldowns!

• Blade of the Ruined King

• Locket of the Iron Solari

• Health bars and Mana Bars

• Jungle timers (Click. Just Click.)

Feel free to ask any early questions you have or any thoughts about this cool new feature! 

PS: Pings are controlled by ALT. The scoreboard is controlled by Tab. Please don't ALT+Tab! We special-cased the Jungle timer ping to not require ALT for this reason! ALT+Tab will not help you in team fights!"

Full list of items it pings

"I think this is the full list: 

Abyssal Scepter, Archangel's Staff, Frozen Mallet, Twin Shadows, Iceborn Gauntlet, Guardian Angel, Rod of Ages, Infinity Edge, Seraph's Embrace, Phantom Dancer, Seraph's Embrace, Zeke's Harbinger, Sterak's Gage, Banner of Command, Sunfire Cape, Talisman of Ascension, The Black Cleaver, The Bloodthirster), Ravenous Hydra, Trinity Force, Warmog's Armor, Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, Banshee's Veil, Frozen Heart, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Guinsoo's Rageblade, Youmuu's Ghostblade, Randuin's Omen, Hextech Gunblade, Duskblade of Draktharr, Zhonya's Hourglass, Athene's Unholy Grail, Locket of the Iron Solari, Mikael's Crucible, Essence Reaver, Dead Man's Plate, Titanic Hydra"

Continued NEXUS SIEGE Testing

"Hey guys! 

We're back with tons of new updates :D 

• Total game time should be aggregating now! Before you were only getting rewarded with IP/XP for the duration of the second round :(
• More new sounds! Obliterator should sound 50000000x more Obliteratory.
• Icons! So many icons! There should no longer be placeholder icons. :D
• Fixed some minor bugs with the deployables!
• Probably more too :3 <3 

If you find any bugs, let us know! :)"

Here's a brief preview of the OBLITERATOR sounds!

Click here for more NEXUS SIEGE previews from last PBE cycle!

Miscellaneous 

• Pool Party Minions are back on the PBE! These debuted during the Pool Party Event last in 2015.

Rod of Ages, Tear of the Goddess, Manamune, Archangel's Staff (Crystal Scar Variants)

• Crystal Scar variants renamed to (Quick Charge) from (Crystal Scar)

Jungle

After the name and assets hit the PBE earlier in the cycle, the new NEXUS SIEGE game mode is now up for testing on the PBE!

To put it quickly, NEXUS SIEGE is a 5v5 game mode on Summoner's Rift where teams take turns playing OFFENSE and DEFENSE to see who can siege the enemy nexus the fastest with the help from special abilities that replaces summoner spells! Players on offense aim to push their way down the lanes and siege the defender's player base, gadgets such as teleporters, turret upgrades, the Obliterator , and more are used by both teams to spice things up! At the end of the game and two rounds (each team playing offense and defense once), the team with the shorted siege time as offense wins!
For an introduction to the new game mode, here's L4T3NCY with an overview and known issues!

"Heya everyone, it's been a lo~ong time since we've dropped a brand new mode, as we were busy building the RGM queue! To top it off, Nexus Siege is probably one of the biggest modes we've ever attempted making. 

You came here to get details. ^_^ Let's go. 

Nexus Siege 

TL;DR: 

Nexus Siege is a round based attack & defense game mode, where teams take turns at sieging the enemy's Nexus using an arsenal of deadly new Siege Weapons. The team who destroys the enemy's Nexus in the fastest time wins! 

Players: 5v5
Map: Modified Summoner's Rift
Mode type: Blind Draft pick type with Attack + Defend rounds. 

General mechanics: 

Round based: 

Each team will take turns at sieging the enemy team's base. Team 1 will set a time for destroying the enemy Nexus, then teams will swap sides. The longer Team 2 can hold out and defend, the more time they give themselves to push when its their turn to attack! If they can destroy the enemy nexus faster than Team 1 did, they win! 

Siege Warp trinket and teleporting: 

Both team have a variety of teleport pads to warp out to from fountain. Use the Siege Warp trinket to get into battle faster! 

Crystal Shards: 

This currency is the fuel for your siege Attack or Defense. All new Siege Weapons are purchased using Crystal Shards. Earn them by: 

Attack side: 

-- Kill enemy champions
-- Passively earned over time 

Defense side: 

--Kill enemy champions
--When the 1st tower in each lane is destroyed
--For each minion escorted and pushed into the enemy fountain
--Passively earned over time 

Normalised EXP & Gold: 

Gold & EXP are normalised for Nexus Siege across both teams. This means don't worry about last-hitting, just push those minions as fast as you can! 

Obliterator (Defense team only): 

The Defense team is rewarded everytime they manage to safely escort and push a minion into one of the Attacking team's fountains. If they can push 15 total minions up there, they trigger the Obliterator laser. 

The Obliterator will kill all enemies in all lanes. All of them. Dead.
Very dead. 

No seriously, get out of the lane if you're not on the Defense team. :3
This is also a great lane reset for the Defending team, buying them precious extra minutes to stall.

Siege Weapons: 

Both the Attack and Defense teams have 4 unique Siege Weapons they can purchase using Crystal Shards they earn during the game. All Siege Weapons use the Summoner Spell slot and are cast or deployed similar to Summoner Spells. You can carry up to 2 different Siege Weapons at once, and they do not stack in your Summoner Spell inventory (1 at a time). As you might have guessed, this also means there are NO Summoner Spells in Siege Mode. :) 

Attack: 

Siege Ballista
A long ranged siege engine that will hammer away at enemy towers. These are excellent for applying pressure on defending teams who continually turtle and never come out from under their towers.

Vanguard Banner
Gives nearby allied minion significant combat stats for extra pushing power.

Shield Totem
Nearby allied Siege Weapons gain a recharging shield making them tougher to destroy.

Port Pad
Deploy additional teleport locations for your team, moving your forward point closer to the enemy base.

Defense: 

Tower Surge: Beam of Ruination
Attach to a nearby tower giving you control of 3 beam blasts from the tower. This does SERIOUS damage to enemy champions. 'Ruinate' your enemies. Do it. :)

Tower Surge: Firestorm Bulwark
An emergency Zhonya style shield for your tower that makes it invulnerable for a few seconds, then WRECKS all enemies that were around it in a rain of missiles. Great for clutch saves on a tower about to go down, buying you precious extra time.

Entropy Field
Freezes all enemy minions and slows all enemy champs within it's zone. Can completely change the balance of a team fight.

Flash Zone
Throw down a large area that gives all allied champions inside the zone unlimited Flash on a 1sec cooldown. Great for team engages or reaching hidden nests of Siege Ballistae.

We won't be immediately turning this mode on for PBE, but it will be coming soon. As you guys can see, there's A LOT we need to get through for testing, so once we flip it on all help is appreciated. <3 

Let the siege begin. :)
-- L4T3NCY 

EDIT: Nexus Siege is now live for testing on PBE. 

Known Bugs:
-- Placeholder icons. There are many icons around the shop, siege weapons, buff bar, etc that are clearly placeholder. These will be updated as we go.
-- Placeholder or missing sounds. There are a variety of sound FX that are still WIP or missing, these will be updated as we go.
-- Titan bar icon for Crystal Generator will be removed. Ignore this feature.
-- Shopkeepers are missing after the round swap. We're still figuring out where they went (short vacation?)
-- Siege Weapons in shop that you can't afford aren't correctly grey out, indicating that you can't currently afford them.
-- General performance. Low spec machines might struggle somewhat as we continue to optimise the mode's visuals.
-- End of Game screen has some new columns in it unique to Nexus Siege, but they are not yet hooked up and will look empty.
-- Spectator. Various spectator bugs."

He also clarified how to win exactly in another post:

"Whichever team kills the nexus in the shortest amount of time wins. If in the first round a team takes 15 minutes to kill the Nexus (e.g. 5 minutes remaining on the clock) we change the timer in the second round to start at 15 minutes. If the second team kills the nexus at all (e.g. any time remaining on the clock), it means they beat the first team's time and they win. If the second team fails to do so, it means that any time they would have taken to kill the nexus was longer than the first team's, so the first team automatically wins at that point. We are definitely doing a bad job of messaging this in game (as in, not at all). 

We'll probably try to add a bit more announcement and ceremony to help folks understand why you win or lose before we go live. Thanks for the feedback!"

To supplement the post above, here's a few more screenshots and such that we've taken, including map, items, deployables, and more!

Map

General

The map is walled off to about half of the normal size, teams are unable to enter the river area as all entrances are blocked with walls!

Defending

Attacking

Items/Resources

Crystal Shards

Offense: Earn shards by killing enemy champions and passively over time.

Defense: Earn shards by killing enemy champions, when your tower is destroyed, escorting your minions to the enemy  fountain, and passively over time.
Trinket #1

Defense: While on the summoning platform, you have a Siege Warp trinket to port to any friendly port pads (several on map around turrets + deployable pads). Defense team has extra pads.

Trinket #2
Offense: After leaving the platform your trinket switches to the Seer Stone.
Defense: After leaving the platform your trinket switches to the Siege Sight Warder


Offensive Siege Weapons:

Defensive Siege Weapons:

July 1st PBE LCU Alpha Update

Here's CapnBranFlakes with updates on the LCU changes made today, including mention that the champion overview pages in collection are not up yet but will be soon:

"===UPDATE: 1 JULY 2016=== 

Hi League client update PBE testers! 

We've pushed out a new build to the PBE alpha client today that adds some more client settings, turns on the server-side storing of said settings, and adds advanced match details at the end-of-game screen. We were also hoping to patch in the champion overview pages under the collection section we mentioned recently, but we ran into an issue with them for today's build, so they're not included. We'll update this thread again once we push out another update. 

Thanks for testing out the above additions and reporting any bugs you find -- we'll see you on the frontline! :D"

The PBE LCU is open to all PBE testers, see [this thread] for more information on how to get started with testing as well as known issues and updates! Sign ups for the LIVE (not PBE) LCU Alpha can be found here.

Patch History for this cycle:

6/27 PBE Update

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