8.23 PBE Cycle

(Warning: PBE Content is tentative and iterative - what you see may not reflect what eventually gets pushed to live servers! Manage your expectations accordingly. )

• New Skins
• Eclipse Leona
• Coven Camille
• Coven Lissandra
• Pajama Guardian Ezreal
• Pajama Guardian Lulu
• Pajama Guardian Lux
• Pajama Guardian Miss Fortune
• Pajama Guardian Soraka
• New Chroma
• New Ward Skin
• New Summoner Icons
• New Emote
• K/DA Akali Skin Tweaks
• All-Star 2018 Login Theme
• Eclipse Leona Login Theme
• Ornn Changes on PBE
• Balance Changes
• Patch History

New Skins

Eclipse Leona

Here's Riot LoveStrut with a bugs & feedback thread for Lunar Eclipse Leona:

"Hearken we beseech thee, O Savage Moon, and deign to bless with the vermillion shadow of thy celestial majesty. May this shield guard against the scourge of dark enchantments, which choke our land. May this blade be the hammer against the servants of witchery and evil. I, Leona, do take this oath forevermore. 

• New tech: Lunar Eclipse Leona’s model and ambient VFX evolve upon using her ultimate and revert back upon death.
• New model and textures: Her sword, shield, and Eclipse Knight armor are all new and evolve upon using her ultimate.
• New VFX: The Lunar Eclipse empowers her abilities with extra power emanating from her body upon using her ultimate.
• New SFX and VO lines: Powerful audio fit for a legendary knight with several unique VO lines compared to Solar Eclipse Leona.
• New animations: Every animation has been changed with a unique Recall animation. 

Lunar Eclipse Leona is now available on PBE! 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"

Coven Camille

Here's Riot KiWiKiD with a bugs & feedback thread for Coven Camille:

"An ancient world grows dark, as the servants of long-dead gods prepare for their return. An ancient order of knights stands ready to fight the evil back, but will they be enough?

Coven Camille is PBE ready to dice her foes. She has: 

• New model and textures - New legs, outfit accented with blacks and dark purples
• New spell VFX - Sending chilling and mysterious vibes, with some runes
• New SFX - Dark, balanced runic hits
• New recall animation - Swipe around and uncover lost power 

Coven Camille is now available on PBE! Report back here with any bugs, feedback or questions that you have. 

Coven Camille is currently set at 1350 RP (subject to change)."

Coven Lissandra

Pajama Guardian Ezreal

Pajama Guardian Lulu

Pajama Guardian Lux 

Pajama Guardian Miss Fortune

Pajama Guardian Soraka

"November 6th: We're aware of an issue where homeguard animations are not playing for all Star Guardians. 

Pillow fight in mid lane, let’s go! Several Star Guardians have hit the Rift in their jammies! These Pajama Guardians are a new special skin known as Variants For more info on this new content type, check out this post! 

Pajama Guardians are:

• Ezreal
• Lux
• Lulu
• Miss Fortune
• Soraka 

They come with:

• A new (shared) splash that gives us a look into their sleepover shenanigans!
• New model and textures: Unique onesies (and sometime slippers!) that capture the adorable looks of their familiars! (No familiars were harmed in the making of these outfits)
• Star Guardian VFX from their original Star Guardian look!
• Star Guardian SFX from their original Star Guardian look!
• Recall animation from their original Star Guardian look! 

The Pajama Guardians are set to be 1350 RP each; if you own the original Star Guardian skin, they’ll be 945 RP each (30% off). 

The Pajama Guardians are available to play soon on the PBE! As always, we’d love to hear your feedback, so drop it in the thread below! If you have questions, feel free to ask ‘em here, and we’ll do our best to answer them! GLHF! :)"

New Chroma

New chroma sets were added  for Coven Lissandra (7) and Coven Camille (7)!

Coven Camille

Coven Lissandra

Here's Riot Orphyre with a bugs & feedback thread for the Coven Camille and Coven Lissandra chroma this cycle:

"Hey everyone! 

We’ve got some new Chromas coming up for Coven Lissandra and Coven Camille!

Coven Lissandra:

• New textures:
• Coven Lissandra (Ruby)
• Coven Lissandra (Rose Quartz)
• Coven Lissandra (Aquamarine)
• Coven Lissandra (Tanzanite)
• Coven Lissandra (Obsidian)
• Coven Lissandra (Meteorite)
• Coven Lissandra (Sandstone)

Coven Camille:

• New textures:
• Coven Camille (Tanzanite)
• Coven Camille (Aquamarine)
• Coven Camille (Obsidian)
• Coven Camille (Rose Quartz)
• Coven Camille (Ruby)
• Coven Camille (Pearl)
• Coven Camille (Turquoise) 

The Chroma sets are now available on PBE! We hope you all will enjoy the new sets; as usual, we’re looking forward to hearing your constructive feedback. I’ll do my best to answer and reply to your questions and feedback! 

Thanks!
Riot Orphyre"

New Ward Skin

A new ward skin was added this cycle, the Pajama Guardian Ward!

Pajama Guardian Ward Skin

New Summoner Icons

Nine new summoner icons are now on the PBE:

Ornn Changes on PBE

Here's Squad5 with details on Ornn changes testing on the PBE this cycle:

"Hey everyone, going to be pushing some medium scale Ornn changes to PBE for testing over the next few weeks that I'd like to get feedback from you all on. 

Ornn has had some balance issues over his time - he's been a frustrating lane opponent and consistent Pro pick for a while, at the same time maintaining a much lower win rate than you might expect given those facts. This changelist should hopefully meaningfully reduce those problems and let us bring up Ornn’s win rate for the average player. 

Let’s get into it. Disclaimer that none of these numbers are final, any numbers are the current values as I write this. 

Stats:

• Ornn HP/level increased from 90-95
• Ornn Armor/level increased from 3-4

P:

• Removed: Ornn and his allies must purchase upgrades from the shop after Ornn reaches level 13.
• New: When Ornn hits level 11 any upgradable items he currently owns or buys in the future will automatically become upgraded for no cost. For the next 4 levels after 11, each level will allow Ornn to upgrade an item for an ally (max 1 per ally) at no cost. 

Ornn must get close to his ally and click on them, which will cause him to forge his ally's item and replace it for them when he's finished. 

The intent of this change is for Ornn to be able to have multiple upgraded items, which coupled with some scaling base stat buffs should mean that Ornn is able to scale harder into the late game if he can purchase his items. Essentially think of Ornn as a gold accelerated character similar to Draven or Gangplank. The other benefit is that Ornn's allies should care a lot more about getting their items, since now they don't have to pay. 

Q:

• Mana cost reduced from 55 to 45 at all ranks

Looking to make it less necessary for Ornn to buy multiple mana crystals early on. A common buy for experienced Ornn players is two mana crystals early on to make up for his high mana costs, but it isn’t obvious for less experienced Ornns. 

W:

• Ornn's shield on using W is removed.
• Ornn's W now grants him unstoppable for the duration.
• W duration reduced from 1s to .75s
• Brittle damage increased from 7%+.3% per level to 10% +.5% per level
• Cooldown changed from 17/15/13/11/9 to 14 at all ranks 

Ornn's W currently is too much of an "I win" button - it allows him to win almost every trade and confuses enemies as to what their response should be when he presses the button. Looking to clarify for enemies that attacking Ornn when he uses W is a choice, as well as trying to get out of the way or move back to not get brittle proc'd. 

Replacing the shield isn’t intended to be a power equal trade, but it should give skilled Ornn players something to think about instead of blindly pressing W whenever possible, and should put more emphasis on Ornn proc’ing his brittle marks to win trades. 

E:

• Mana cost changed from 50 at all ranks to 35/40/45/50/55
• Knockup duration from 1s to 1.25s

R:

• R1's slow now scales with the amount of time the R1 has existed for (min 10%).
• R2's knock up duration now is decreased to 50% on subsequent targets after hitting an enemy champion. 

Ornn's R has been extremely powerful both as a pick spell and an AoE teamfight spell. Looking to make long range hitting R1 less powerful for picking off enemies, and I want to make enemy front liners feel better about getting in the way of Ornn's R. 

I’m going to be making some more changes soon, including making adjustments to what items Ornn’s passive can upgrade. Most likely you'll also see some more buffs depending on where his power read is. 

Thanks guys, I'll try to answer any questions that come up.

Aatrox

• World Ender (R) Active duration lowered from 12 seconds to 10 seconds

Ezreal

• Essence Flux (W) AP ratio changed from [70%] to [70/75/80/85/90%]

• Trueshot Barrage (R)
• Effect changed from "Deals 10% less damage for each enemy hit (minimum 30%)." to "Deals 50% damage to minions and non-epic monsters."
• (champions it passes through no longer get reduced damage, only minions & monsters)

Galio

• [All changes reverted back to live values! Expect this back next cycle for more testing!]

• Winds of War (Q) 
• mana cost lowered from 70/85/100/115/130 to 70/75/80/85/90
• damage increased from [50/80/110/140/170 (+80% AP)] to [70/105/140/175/210 (+90% AP)]
• windblast damage changed from [30/40/50/60/70 (+60% AP) + (+3% per 100 AP) of enemies max health] to [6% (+4% per 100 AP) of enemies max health]

• Hero's Entrance (R) 
• [Changed Effect] No longer knocks up enemies in the center for a longer duration. 
• All enemies hit by Hero's Entrance are knocked up for .75 seconds

Lissandra
[Full Changelist]

• "Smoother AAs - animation and actual timing better synched, missile speed to 2200 (was 2000)"
• Mana per level increased from .4 to .8
• Attack speed increased from .625 to .656
• [New] Iceborn Subjugation (Passive)
• [Gif of passive in action!]
• Tooltip:

"When an enemy champion dies near Lissandra they become a Frozen Thrall. 

Frozen Thralls seek out living enemies, slowing their movement speed when nearby by 25%. After 4 seconds, Frozen Thralls shatter from the intense cold, Dealing [120 - 520] (+30% AP) magic damage."

• Full damage value: [120/140/160/180/200/220/240/260/280/300/320/340/370/400/430/460/490/520] 

• Ice Shard (Q) mana cost changed from 75 at all ranks to 60/63/66/69/72

• Ring of Frost (W)
• Damage lowered from 70/110/150/190/230 to 70/100/130/160/190
• AP lowered from 40% to 30%
• Mana cost lowered from 50 to 40

• Frozen Tomb (R) damage AP ratio lowered from 70% to 60%

Ornn
[Context - Reverted for now, expect it to be back for more testing next cycle!]

• HP per level increased from 90 to 95
• Armor per level increased from 3 to 4
• Living Forge (Passive)
• [New Effect] "When Ornn hits level 11 any upgradable items he currently owns or buys in the future will automatically become upgraded for no cost. For the next 4 levels after 11, each level will allow Ornn to upgrade an item for an ally (max 1 per ally) at no cost.

Ornn must get close to his ally and click on them, which will cause him to forge his ally's item and replace it for them when he's finished."

• Volcanic Rupture (Q) mana cost reduced from 55 at all ranks to 45 at all ranks

• Bellows Breath (W)
• [Removed] No longer grants a shield on use
• [New] Now grants Unstoppable for the duration
• Duration lowered from 1 second to .75 seconds
• Brittle damage increased from [7% +.3% per level] to [10% + .5% per level]
• Cooldown changed from 17/15/13/11/9 to 14 at all ranks

• Searing Charge (E)
• Mana cost changed from 50 at all rank to 35/40/45/50/55
• Knockup duration increased from 1 second to 1.25 seconds

• Call of the Forge God (R)
• "R1's slow now scales with the amount of time the R1 has existed for (minimum 10%)"
• "R2's knockup duration is now decreased to 50% on subsequent targets after hitting an enemy champion."

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