The PBE has been updated, but not with anything too fancy. The changes primarily consist of a slew of additional skins splash arts and some heavy alterations to the
Rengar specific item, Bonetooth Necklace.
Here are the new splash arts for
Riot Graves and
Headhunter Rengar.
Riot Graves
Headhunter Rengar
Alongside those two, several of the Katarina skins got new splash arts as well.
Mercanary Katarina
Red Card Katarina
Bilgewater Katarina
Kitty Cat Katarina
Balance wise it looks like
Rengar was in the dim spotlight. His ultimate received a minor increase on the cool down ( now: 120/85/50 , old: 120/80/40 ) and Bonetooth Necklace was reduced to 800g ( from 1000 ), it's bonus attack damage reduced to 10 ( from 20 ), the amount of trophies gained per kill was reduced from 2 to 1, and there was also a change to the final Trophy collection bonus. The last tier bonus now grants bonus effects for his ultimate instead of an activated effect.
In a closing note, the
PBE update thread mentioned that they have removed all
Pool Party Ziggs and
Astronautilus skins from all accounts. I wonder what this means exactly. Surely Riot won't be pulling the plug on those skins, so perhaps they were deployed a little too early? That, or Riot wants to give them some drastic changes (be it from external or internal feedback). Either way, I'm eager to see what the plan is.
8/14 edit (12:30 EST ):
ricklessabandon put up a post about PPZ and
Astronautilus saying they were taken down for "bug fixes and looking into performance hits." Phew!
