7.4 PBE Cycle

Below you will find a comprehensive list of new content, balance changes, and whatever else  is included in the current PBE cycle! Be aware that these changes are extremely tentative, there is a possibility that things you see below will be changed or even reverted prior to the live patch.

( Note: As the cycle continues, some images may be outdated! )

• New Champion Skin
• Festival Queen Anivia
• New Summoner Icon
• ARURF now available on PBE for testing
• Urf Emote
• Yordle Splash & In-game Finger Change
• Kill XP Changes on PBE
• Miscellaneous
• Balance Changes
• General
• Masteries
• Champions
• Items
• Patch History

New Champion Skin

A new Carnival/Carnaval themed Festival Queen Anivia skin debuted during the 7.4 PBE cycle!

Festival Queen Anivia

Here's KateyKhaos with a bugs & feedback thread for Festival Queen Anivia:

"Festival Queen Anivia is parading onto the Rift! Decorated in vibrant Carnaval colors, Anivia is ready to celebrate! 

Festival Queen Anivia will be 975 RP* and includes:

• New model and texture for Anivia and Eggnivia (so festive)!
• New particles for all skills (confetti everywhere)!
• New SFX for her recall animation and passive (let's party~)!
• New recall animation (check out her dance moves)!

Festival Queen Anivia 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."

New Summoner Icon

A new Festival Queen Anivia summoner icon has been added this cycle - no details on availability.

ARURF now available on PBE for testing

All Random Ultra Rapid Fire is returned to the PBE for RGMQ testing in the 7.4 PBE cycle!

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Here's L4T3NCY with more info on the return of ARURF, what is new, and more:

"Yo ^o^/ 

ARURF will be enabled soon on PBE for testing.

What's changed? 

Since the last time we ran ARURF the following champs have undergone some sort of decent surgery or are new! 

• Camille
• Warwick
• Assassins patch 

• Talon
• Katarina
• LeBlanc
• Rengar 

Why did ARURF take so long to come back?  

Getting ARURF working with the new League client was only one of a few reasons ARURF has taken a bit longer. If you remember, ARURF was originally a test for us trying to solve some of the problems of old URF, where it would stagnate in unique ways that other modes didn't (EG: Poro King). Old URF would get stale pretty quickly, meta would set in, and there was also some pretty unhealthy play patterns. We often talked about possible solutions to this including adding bans, daily rotation or restrictions on the champion pool or making the mode All Random (which we eventually went with). After the first run of ARURF, we've been checking to see if it was any better and are looking now to try it again.  

Known issues:  

• Reroll rates are still accelerated for both ARURF and ARAM while the mode is enabled. This unfortunately means you'll be generating wa~ay more rerolls in both ARAM and ARURF than you'd expect. How terrible.. :3 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 

• We've switched off the ostentatious damage numbers from previous versions. Should be back to just normal damage display now. 

Thanks as always for helping test stuff on PBE and find/report bugs. The mode won't be on today anytime, but we'll most likely switch it on soon to get testing started. How soon? Soon(tm). :P Also, even if we don't get to replying to every post, we do actually read ALL of what you guys comment. No joke. Our team combs these threads for bugs (and fresh memes). 

Cheers everyone. :D 

-- L4T3NCY"

Urf Emote

A very strong looking Urf in-game emote was added this cycle. No availability details yet!

Yordle Splash & In-game Finger Change

Many Yordle champion and skin have been modified to have four fingers instead of five, including Corki, Kennen, and Lulu. Yordles have four fingers but several over older champions/skins unfortunately have the wrong inconsistent number of fingers across their older assets.

Here's the updated splash arts from the 2/7 update, all of which have four fingers instead of five. For those interested, I've also put up a [old vs new gallery on IMGUR. ]

Many of the same champions & skins who received splash art tweaks have also received minor in-game model/texture changes to reduce their amount of fingers from five to four. While they can be hard to spot in game, here's a few examples of Dragon Wing Corki, Kennen, and Lulu.

Kill XP Changes on PBE

"Howdy everybody, 

Riot Colin here to give you guys some information/context about some exp changes that are currently live on PBE. We are seeing certain characters (usually supports or junglers) fall significantly behind their team in XP, even when they are playing well. They are still providing value to their team in team-fights and through utility, but these actions are frequently not rewarding enough to pull them back into the game. (Their kill XP is frequently divided across many people.) We want to increase the amount of XP they receive through rewards for kills they facilitate. We also are going to be keeping an eye on future changes for other sources of EXP that these players help earn, like Baron, Dragon and Turret kills. 

The changes listed below address this problem by adding additional XP on champion takedowns specifically for players who significantly lag behind their team. We also are slightly tuning up the “underdog” bonus on kill XP - the bonus from scoring a takedown on champions who are higher level than you. Essentially, if you outplay someone who is more powerful than you are, you should receive some amount of increased reward for your action.  

Changes  

Teamwork Bonus: Bonus XP has been added on champion takedown (kill or assist) for players who are behind their team in level. The amount of bonus XP scales with how far behind your team you are

• The bonus starts kicking in when you are just over one full level behind.
• By two full levels’ difference, you get an additional ~25% of your share of the base kill experience. The bonus reaches its max value when you are 4 levels behind your team’s average, giving an additional 60% of your share of the base kill experience.
• We put a limit of 60% on the maximum size of the bonus to prevent extreme slingshotting   

Underdog Bonus: XP bonus for takedowns (kill or assist) on champions higher level than you has been increased. Expect around 10% extra XP if you are 4 levels behind your opponent."

Miscellaneous 

• Two LCL team summoner icons have been tweaked:

Katarina

• Base MR lowered from 34.1 to 32.1 

Nidalee

• [W Trap can be basic attacked from slightly longer range.]

Ryze

• Spell Flux (E)'s extra damage bonus effect for Overload (Q) lowered from 40/55/70/85/100% to 40/50/60/70/80%

Shaco

• [W/R trap can be basic attacked from slightly longer range - increased from 50 to 125]
• Jack in the Box (W) trap now triggers when revealed by a ward or trinket.

Teemo

• [R Trap can be basic attacked from slightly longer range]
• Noxious Trap (R) - a faint collision indicator has been added around Teemo's R mushroom. Enemies can see this if the mushroom is revealed.