7.5 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( Note: As the cycle continues, some images may be outdated!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 Skins
• Dragon Sorceress Zyra
• Dragonslayer Xin Zhao
• New Chroma
• Dragonslayer Xin Zhao
• Dragonslayer Pantheon
• New Ward Skin - "Eye of the Dragon Ward"
• New Summoner Icons
• Dragonslayer Xin Zhao login theme
• Adding Simple Recalls to Older Champs
• Legend of the Poro King: Portal Party Coming Soon to PBE!
• Miscellaneous
• Balance Changes
• Summoner Spells
• Masteries
• Champions
• Items
• Patch History

New Champion Skins

Two new champion skins debuted in the 7.5 cycle - Dragon Sorceress Zyra and Dragonslayer Xin Zhao.
Here's Riot LoveStrut with a bugs and feedback thread for Dragonslayer Xin Zhao:

"I may be outnumbered, but not even the odds can stand against me!" 

Dragonslayer Xin Zhao climbs up the mountains to the cave of the mysterious woman rumored to be behind the sudden dragon resurgence terrorizing the kingdom. His fierce determination to protect his people drives him onward, no matter the cost. 

Slaying in Style 

• All-new model and textures (Dragonslayer Set: +50 vs. Dragons)
• All-new VFX (His spear burns with his desire to protect his people.)
• All-new SFX (Ahh, the sweet sounds of dragon slayage.)
• All-new animations (Dragons always seem to attack when you're just trying to head home.)
• Set to be 1350 RP (prices are subject to change) 

We always love hearing your feedback and feelings! All bug reports and thoughts help us make these skins even more awesome, so please keep 'em coming! 

Thanks, cuties! <3"

New Chroma

New chroma on for both the new Dragonslayer Xin Zhao skin and for Dragonslayer Pantheon:

Dragonslayer Pantheon 

New Ward Skin

Keep watch on those dragons (or hunters!) with the new Eye of the Dragon Ward!

New Summoner Icons

Three new summoner icons to go with the new skins were also added this cycle:


A new Demacia emblem summoner icon was also added this cycle.

Dragonslayer Xin Zhao Login Theme

We also have a new login theme featuring Dragonslayer Xin Zhao!

Adding simple recalls to older champs 

Simple recalls are being added to 74 older champions and 351 skins! These simple recalls are reused animations from idles  and emotes!

Here's context from Ququroon.

"Hello, everyone! It's time for every champion to have recalls, and it's time for it to hit PBE! 

In case you haven't heard, we're repurposing existing animations to give every champion in the game a recall! You can read more about it here! 

As you may suspect, this change affects a -lot- of different champions, so the testing here will be a bit broad. The bugs on this should be rather limited, probably just a skin missing an animation at worst. Feedback is what is really useful, so here are some questions to think about. 

Were you excited to see your champion now has a recall?
Does the recall match your expectation?
Does it meet these rules for the project?

Ruuuuruuus:

• Only use existing animations. No new animations will be created.
• Absolutely no gameplay animations (spells, attacks, anything).
• Absolutely no stealing animations from other skins.
• Avoid breaking the recall ring (don't have the champion move too far away).
• Look for Champion Personality moments (ie. Amumu crying).
• The animation does not need to be 8s long (opt to return to Idle1 for shorter animations).
• Trend towards Idle variants (they're seen far less in the game, as you're often not standing still).
• Trend away from dances - dancing is already something you do for the animation, so we don't want to double up unless it really fits the champion, or there are no other options.

I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts, and I hope you have a nice day. :D"

[FULL LIST OF 70 + champions and 300+ skins here]

Miscellaneous

• Several 7.5 Visual changes  for ability tool tips, including color scheme changes, layout tweaks, mention when ability is an ultimate, and have horizontal rules!

• New Render Code Path being tested on Kha'Zix/Gromp -

"Riot JxE from the Render Strike Team here. We're the team that's been refactoring our rendering code in order to clean up the code for our other engineers!

We've put a test on the PBE this patch that's running Kha'Zix and Gromp through our new rendering code. There should be NO visual differences between the two, so let us know if you see any weird visuals or rendering bugs on Kha'Zix and/or Gromp. Please post screenshots in this thread if you find any."

Aatrox
[Context & Changelist from ricklessabandon]

• Blood Well (Passive) - [reworked]

• Base Blood Well Capacity decreased from 105 to 100

• Blood Well capacity growth per level decreased from 45 to 0

• Dark Flight (Q)

• Cost lowered from [10% current health] to [no cost]

• Damage changed from [70/115/160/205/250 (+60% bonus AD)] to [10/35/60/95/120 (+110% total AD)]

• [new effect] Now fills 20% of the Blood Well upon cast

• Blood Thirst / Blood Price (W)

• Blood Thirst

• Heal changed from [20/25/30/35/40 (+25% bonus AD] to [30/45/60/75/90 (+5% missing health)]

• [removed effect] No longer triples the healing while below 50% health

• Blood Price

• Cost lowered from [15/23.75/32.5/41.25/50 (+25% bonus AD)] to [no cost]

• Damage changed from [60/95/130/165/200 (+100% bonus AD)] to [30/60/90/120/150 (+75% bonus AD)]

• [new effect] Now fills 20% of the Blood Well when hit effect occurs

• Blades of Torment (E)

• Cost changed from 5% current health to 30 health

• Damage changed from [75/110/145/180/215 (+60% AP)(+60% Bonus AD)] to [70/110/150/190/230 (+70% bonus AD)]

• Damage type changed from magic to physical

• Slow potency changed from 40% at all ranks to 30/35/40/45/50%

• Slow duration changed from 1.75/2/2.25/2.5/2.75 to 2 seconds at all ranks

• [new effect] Now fills 20% of the Blood Well upon cast

•  "Better match between W spell effect area and actual area affected." - Meddler - source.

Fizz
[Changelist from phroxz0n]

• Urchin Strike (Q)

• AP ratio increased from 35% to 55%

• Seastone Trident (W)

• Bleed duration lowered from 4 seconds to 3 seconds
• Mark duration increased from 4 seconds to 6 seconds

• Chum The Waters (R)

• Auto pick up on miss is less generous. -src.

• "Ground attach removed (fix now flops on ground and plays death animation when it misses)"

Kindred
[Changelist from ricklessabandon]

•  "Better sync between attack animations and actual impacts, attack sequence for the ult, some E clarity." - Meddler - source.

LeBlanc
[Changelist from ricklessabandon]

• Shatter Orb (Q) damage to minions increased from 40% to 80%
• Damage changed from [22/36/50/64/78 (+20% AP)] to [44/72/100/128/156/ (+40% AP)]

• Distortion (W) damage lowered from [85/120/155/190/225 (+60% AP)] to [40/55/70/85/100 (+20% AP)]

• Mimic'd Distortion (R+W) damage lowered from [125/225/325 (+50% AP)] to [60/120/180 (+30% AP)]

• Piercing Light (Q) new effect to tool tip - "Piercing Light's cast time decreases slightly as Lucian gains levels."

• "Q cast time now scales from 0.4s down to 0.25s by Lucian's level (was 0.35 flat previously)"- src.

• (W) cast time lowered to 0.25 from 0.35 - src.
• Q + W - :"Post cast lock on both Q and W should now be able to be consistently overridden by other actions (attacks, movement, spell casts) rather than sometimes requiring multiple clicks on a target, clicking to move then clicking to attack etc. " - src.

•  "E tether range indicator for Nocturne, R slight animation adjustments." - Meddler - source.

Miss Fortune

• Double Up (Q) 
• [removed - "If the first shot kills its target, the second deals 50% increased damage."
• Second shot damage lowered to match 1st shot damage 

Quinn
[Context]

• Vault (E): [ALL CHANGES REVERTED]
• Cooldown increased from 12/11/10/9/8 to 15/13.5/12/10.5/9
• Mana cost increased from 50 to 70 at all ranks.

Rengar

• Base armor lowered from 25.88 to 22.

• Battle Roar (W)  increased % dmg healed from monster attacks lowered from 100% to 50%

Ryze

• Rune Prison (W) root duration lowered from 1 second to 0.75 seconds.

Varus
[Context]

• Piercing Arrow (Q) 

• Cooldown increased from 16/14/12/10/8 to 20/18/16/14/12

• Total AD ratio on Maximum Damage lowered from 165% to 150%

• [new effect] "Piercing Arrow's cooldown is reduced by 4 seconds (affected by Varus' cooldown reduction) if the arrow detonates Blight stacks from at least one enemy champion"

Doran's Shield -

•  [Experimental changes reverted. They may return next cycle or in future patch.]

• AD lowered from 60 to 55
• Unique Active Cooldown increased from 30 to 45
• Unique Active Duration lowered from 10 seconds to 5 seconds