6.15 PBE Cycle

PROJECT: Ashe

1820 RP [LEGENDARY]

[Loading Screen Slice]

[Hood toggles when you are "~2400 units from friendly turrets or your own base."]

Here's PROJECT: Ashe's unique voiceover:

Non-English PROJECT: Ashe voiceovers:

• Czech
• French
• German
• Greek
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Romanian
• Russian
• Spanish (EU) 
• Spanish (LATAM)
• Turkish

And here is PROJECT: Ashe's special interactions:

Here's Riot Nurse Flan with a bugs & feedback thread for PROJECT: Ashe:

"PROJECT: Ashe // ACTIVATE PBE TESTING 

//:Data // Downloads // Mission Objective
OBJECTIVE CONFIRMED // Unity 

//:Equipment // EM Caster // Electromagnetic Proficiency 

Please review subject portfolio before proceeding. 

//:Augments
Model System // Reinforced body armor
Recon Mode // Hood materializes upon infiltrating enemy territory
VFX // Steel blue digital emissions
SFX // Upgraded audio build for all abilities
Voice & Processing // A new set of audio lines for enhanced communication
Movement // A new suite of state-of-the-art animation 

//1820 RP // price subject to change 

//:Thank you for expressing interest in PROJECT: Ashe. As part of the required protocol, we would appreciate your initial thoughts and feedback. This may help us improve in the future.?"

PROJECT: Ekko

"//:Data // Downloads // Mission Objective 

OBJECTIVE CONFIRMED // Freedom 

//:Equipment // Decrypter // Override Control 

Please review subject portfolio before proceeding. 

//:Augments
Defense System // New armor installation
VFX // movement particles emit bright emerald phosphorescence
SFX // voice processing // alterations to combat audio
Recall // advanced acrobatics 

//1350 RP // price subject to change 

//:Thank you for expressing interest in PROJECT: Ekko. As part of the required protocol, we would appreciate your initial thoughts and feedback. This may help us improve in the future."

PROJECT: Katarina

Recon Drone Ward

New Hextech Crafting Components

[NOTE: After digging out the assets in the 7/18 update, everything is now up in the shop for testing!]

The new Hectech crafting components are now on the PBE for testing - including several new kinds of caches, PROJECT cores, blueprints, and more! 

As you've likely seen in this announcement, these new components will be used to craft FIRST STRIKE icons that unlock special FIRST STRIKE loading screen borders for the new PROJECT: Ashe, Ekko, and Katarina skins!

[**NOTE: All prices are currently just set to test pricing! Stay on the look out for RP and IP costs as this content moves to live in 6.15!]


TL;DR 

• AUGMENT CACHES are available for RP or by forging one with 3  AC fragments. Includes 2 cores, 1 skin shard, 1 random shard, and could contain AC fragments.
• Bundles will also be available, some even including gem stones.
• Four new summoner icons  are available for IP or RP and include a unique one time only cache.
• PROJECT Caches = 1 core, 1 specific FIRST STRIKE icon blueprint, 1 AC fragment.
• Choose between PROJECT: Ashe, Ekko, and Katarina caches based on color. 
• DISRUPTION cache = 7 cores, 1 random PROJECT skin blue print, and 2 AC fragments.
• How to get stuff:
• First strike icon & loading screen = combine 7 cores. + FIRST STRIKE ICON blue print
• PROJECT skin shard = combine 11 cores + PROJECT skin blueprint

• Augment Cache - RP only - includes 2 cores, 1 skin shard, and 1 other champion or skin shard. Can also contain an Augment cache fragment, three of which can be combined to make an Augment cache. 

• EM Caster Icon --> PROJECT: Ashe Cache - contains one PROJECT core, blueprints for PROJECT: Ashe first strike icon, and a Augment cache fragment.

• Decrypter Icon --> PROJECT: Ekko Cache - contains one PROJECT core, blueprints for PROJECT: Ekko first strike icon, and a Augment cache fragment.

• Hyper Edge Icon --> PROJECT: Katarina Cache - contains  one PROJECT core, blueprints for PROJECT: Katarina first strike icon, and a Augment cache fragment.

• DISRUPTION Icon --> Disruption Cache - contains seven PROJECT cores, one random PROJECT skin blueprint (from pool of PROJECT: Yasuo, Yi, Zed, Fiora, Leona, Lucian) which can be combined with cores for a skin shard, and 2 Augment cache fragments. 

• FIRST STRIKE ICONS AND BORDERS: It takes 7 PROJECT cores and a blueprint to make the FIRST STRIKE icons, which unlock the exclusive FIRST STRIKE loading screen borders for the selected skin! 

• PROJECT SKIN SHARDS: It takes 11 PROJECT cores and a blueprint to make the PROJECT skin shards.

• Summoner's Rift base banners added for the NA LCS Summer Finals 2016

• ONE FOR ALL is back on the PBE for additional testing! See this thread for more information, including several bug fixes + upcoming bug fixes, a reminder on Ryze's OfA interactions, and more!

• The 2016 OMG icon was updated, logo is slightly larger.

• New set of in-game tips have been added - some are gameplay related and some narrative.
• Game Tips
•  "Tibbers will enrage and attempt to avenge Annie if she is killed."
•  "Slaying the Cloud Drake grants your team permanent out of combat movement speed."
•  "Slaying the Infernal Drake increases your team's damage against champions."
•  "Slaying the Mountain Drake helps your team take down epic monsters and turrets faster."
•  "Slaying the Ocean Drake helps your team regenerate missing health and mana."
•  "Elder Dragon only appears after 35 minutes, but slaying him gives your team massive burn effects to their abilities."
•  "You can have 3 stealth wards and 1 vision ward on the map at a time."
•  "If Ekko uses his ultimate quickly after recalling, he can rewind all the way to where he started the recall."
•  "When Tahm Kench devours Rumble during his Flamespitter, he keeps the burn."
•  "Rift Herald only spawns once, and leaves the map in a hurry right before Baron shows up."
•  "Sion can jump over walls in the final leap of his ultimate."
•  "Yasuo's Wind Wall and Braum's Unbreakable won't block lasers like Lux's ultimate."
•  "The Blue Buff Golem loves to dance with Popstar Ahri."
• Narrative Tips
•  "Gateways of dark stone known as Noxtoraa are raised over roads in territories conquered by Noxus."
•  "Hextech is the fusion of magic and technology, harnessing the power contained within extremely rare crystals."
•  "Piltover is the center of mercantile trade in Valoran."
•  "Zaun's powerful Chem-Barons keep a loose alliance that prevents the city from descending into chaos."
•  "The Zaun Gray is the thick, chemical atmosphere of Zaun that can be fatal to breathe where densely settled."
•  "Ionian architecture is known for its harmonious fluidity with nature."
•  "The Black Mist can manifest anywhere in Valoran during the Harrowing, though it strikes Bilgewater most."
•  "Many structures in Bilgewater are made from remnants of ships gutted upon its rocky shores."
•  "In Bilgewater, the dead are not buried - they are given back to the ocean in submerged caskets below bobbing tombstones."
•  "True Ice never melts. Dark Ice is True Ice that has been corrupted."
•  "The Frozen Watchers are believed to be trapped in the Howling Abyss."
•  "Sivir's crossblade, the Chalicar, once belonged to Setaka, an Ascended Warrior Queen of Shurima."
•  "Illaoi was Gangplank's first love."
•  "Fantastical occurrences may indicate where the veil separating Runeterra and the Void has worn thin."
•  "Some say Yordles know secret ways through Runeterra others cannot perceive."
•  "The Bearded Lady, Mother Below, and Nagakabouros are all names Bilgewater natives call their deity."
•  "Located far from civilization, Mount Targon is utterly remote, reachable only by the most determined seeker."
•  "Those Ascended by the Sun Disc of Shurima can live for thousands of years."
•  "Demacia's army is often outnumbered, but is arguable the most elite, well-trained army in Runeterra."

Balance Changes

General

Turrets

[CONTEXT] [Turret AI changes will also be coming in 6.16 - DETAILS.]

• [NEW] Turret First Blood gold added:
•  400 total gold across the team for first turret kill- 275g local gold and 25 global gold.
• Chat all out added.

• Fortification: [Turret buff]

• Duration lowered to 5 minutes from 7 minutes.
• Damage reduction increased to 50% from 35%
• Bot lane turrets no longer have Fortification.
• Visual effect added to show you are hitting a shielded turret.*

• Outer Turret HP increased to 3500 from 3300.

Cannon Minions

[CONTEXT]

• Spawn rates have changed:
• "Each team gets one cannon minion per wave, rotating lanes.
• Bot lane gets a cannon minion on wave 3, mid gets one on wave 4, and top gets on at wave 5 - this then repeats.until 20 minutes.
• After 20 minutes, mid gets a cannon minion on wave 40 then both Bot and Top get a cannon minion on wave 41 - this then repeats until 35 minutes.
• After 35 minutes, all lanes have cannons in each wave.

• Concussive Blows (Passive) damage changed to 26-196 from 40-176
• Winter's Bite (Q) damage lowered to 60/105/150/195/240 from 70/115/160/205/250

• Attack damage lowered to 58 from 61.3
• Rampage (Q) attack damage lowered to 50/85/120/155/190 from 60/95/130/165/200

• Human
• Javelin Toss (Q) 
• Minimum damage changed to 70/85/100/115/130 from 60/77.5/95/112.5/130
• Maximum damage changed to 210/255/300/345/390 from 180/232.5/285/337.5/390
• Aspect of the Cougar (R)
• No longer resets Nidalee's basic attack
• Cougar
• Takedown (Q) 
• Minimum damage changed to 5/30/55/80 from 4/20/50/90
• Maximum damage changed to 10/67.5/137.5/220 from 8/45/125/248
• Ap ratio increased to 40% from 36%
• Damage versus Hunted targets increased to 40% from 33%
• Aspect of the Cougar (R)
• No longer resets Nidalee's basic attack

• Base health regen decreased to 1.7 from 2

• Dragon's Descent (R) now generates 1/1.5/2 fury every 1 second from 1/2/3 fury every 1.5 seconds. 

Sona
[Two Sona changes hotfixed to live on 7/19!] 

• Aria of Perseverance (W) heal lowered to 35/55/75/95/115 from 40/65/90/115/140 

• Song of Celerity (E) bonus movement speed lowered to 13/14/15/16/17% from 16/17/18/19/20% 

Taliyah

• [Reverted] Threaded Volley (Q) 
• Cooldown increased to 12/10.5/9/7.5/6 from  10/8.5/7/5.5/4
• Damage changed to 50/75/100/125/150 from 70/80/100/120/140
• Subsequent hits on same target now deal 45% reduced damage from 50% reduced damage.
• Mana refund for casting on Worked ground lowered to 25% from 50%

• Weaver's Wall (R) cooldown increased to 180/150/120 from 160/140/120 

Vayne

•  Tumble (Q)
• Changed so that basic attack and bonus damage can no longer crit separately. 
• Q now works on towers, consuming the buff to deal bonus damage.

Vladimir

• Base movement speed decreased to 330 from 335.
• Sanguine Pool (W) cooldown increased to 28/25/22/19/16 from 26/23/20/17/14

Zyra

• Deadly Spines (Q) 
• AP ratio increased to .6 from .55
• Damage increased to 60/95/130/165/200 from 60/90/120/150/180

• Two Altar bonus now also grants empowered recall in addition to buffing minions.

• New Champion Skins
• PROJECT: ASHE
• PROJECT: EKKO
• PROJECT: KATARINA
• New Ward Skin