3/19 PBE Update: April Fools' Skin Splash Art, Golden Spatula Summoner Icon, and more!

[3/20 Update: Small patch went out on 3/20 but nothing much worth sharing as we wrap up the cycle. Champion Mastery has also been temporarily disabled while the PBE patch is locked down for live.]

The PBE has been updated! Today's update includes a new golden spatula summoner icon and a shared splash art for the five upcoming April Fools' themed skins!

Continue reading for more information!

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

Table of Contents

• New Splash Art
• New Summoner Icon
• Balance Changes

New Splash Art

A new shared splash for the upcoming April Fools' themed skins for Amumu, Nami, Nasus, Soraka, and Udyr has been added in today's update!

Here's the splash for Archduke Nasus, Urf the Nami-tee, Order of the Banana Soraka, & Definitely Not Udyr

Surprise Party Amumu has the same splash but flipped to have him on the right.

Here are the loading screen slices for each of the five skins:

Interested in a better look at these upcoming skins in-game? Check out our comprehensive 5.6 PBE cycle post for more information!

New summoner icon

We also have new URF-y summoner icon featuring a mighty fine looking golden spatula. No details yet on availability... wonder what it could be for...

Balance Changes

* Remember *: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, and sometimes radical changes. The changes you see below may be lacking context or other accompanying changes that didn't make it in - don't freak out! These are not official notes.

Items

Athene's Unholy Grail

• Mana regen increased to 100% from 50%
• Unique Passive now restores 30% of maximum mana on kill/assist up from 15%
• [Note: This change was actually added in an earlier PBE patch in this cycle but I missed documenting it! Adding it here for visibility]

Hunter's Machete

• The Hunter's Machete changes seen in an earlier patch this PBE cycle have been reverted!

• Health regen reverted to 7 from 6.

• REMOVED - New Effect: Health gained per second increased to 12 while below 50% health

• [Note: Riot Reinboom confirmed these changes will be returning next cycle - "It will return. We didn't finish testing the numbers thoroughly enough (we're being very careful with this) and we would like.. 1/2" and "..to do some tweaks to all the upgraded machete lines."

Mandrake Ward

• [As the 5.6 PBE cycle wraps up on the PBE, this experimental item has been removed for now. See Xypherous' context post for more information on Mandrake Ward.]

Check out THIS PAGE for a comprehensive list of the new content in this PBE cycle or catch up with the individual update links below !

• [Comprehensive PBE Content List for the 5.5 Cycle]
• 3/11 PBE Update: New Amumu, Nami, Nasus, Soraka, & Udyr April Fools' skins, Champion Mastery system, and more
• 3/12 PBE Update: Surprise Party Amumu, Hunter's Machete changes, and more!
• 3/13 PBE Update: Skin Updates, New Champion Select music, and more!
• 3/16 PBE Update: Archduke Nasus R texture, new Urf summoner icon, and more!
• 3/17 PBE Update: Several tentative balance changes
• 3/18 PBE Update: Triumphant Urf ward skin