3/26 PBE Update: NURF, Omega Squad Teemo R Mushroom

The PBE has been updated! Omega Squad Teemo's unique R mushroom has been added, as well as a mysterious NURF tooltip, updates to the April Fools' skins splash art, tentative Fizz changes, and more!

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

• Skin Updates
• Omega Squad Teemo
• Splash Art Update
• NURF Mode? 
• Miscellaneous
• Balance Changes

Skin Updates

Following his debut in yesterday's PBE patch, a unique R mushroom for the upcoming 1820 RP tier Omega Squad Teemo skin has been added in today's update!

Check out our 5.7 PBE cycle post for a better look at the legendary tier Omega Squad Teemo skin, including all of his new in-game effects, knife throwing Q, and unique voiceover!

Splash Art Update

The shared splash art for the five April Fools' skins (which were included in patch 5.6) has been updated and Order of the Banana Soraka's skin color has been adjusted slightly.

Here's a gif comparison of the new and old splash:

Likewise, Order of the Banana Soraka's loading screen slice has been updated:

[NEW (Left) vs OLD (Right)]

 These five upcoming skins were shipped to live in 5.6 but feel free to check out our older PBE coverage for a refresher!

NURF Mode?

Files for what appears to be a mysterious new "NURF" mode have popped up in today's patch...

Here's the tool tip for NURF's "Strategic Buff of Strategistic Strategery":

"+100% Mana and Energy consumption
+200% Cooldown Inflation on Abilities, Activated Items, and Summoner Spells
+50% Anti-Tenacity
+225 Movement Speed Reduction
+200% Delay between basic attacks
Critical strikes deal 50% of total attack damage
This unit deals critical strikes on 150% of its attacks
Protection against superfluous decisiveness
This unit is vulnerable to consequences

Source: Look Before You Leap"

Miscellaneous 

• The work in progress Arclight Vayne skin  is temporarily disabled in today's update due to a bug.

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.

Champions

Fizz

• Urchin Strike (Q) AP ratio increased to .5 from .3
• Seastone Trident (W) has received several changes:

• Passive: Now also deals 4/5/6/7/8% of target missing health over 3 seconds.
• Passive: Damage now listed as 20/30/40/50/60 from 30/40/50/60/70.

• [Note: While the number appears to be down, ricklessabandon has confirmed there is no actual change to the base damage as he just rescripted the numbers.]

• Active: now has (.25) AP ratio .
• Active: No longer deals 4/5/6/7/8%  of target's missing health as magic damage on hit.
• [TOOL TIP FIX] Active's tool tip fixed to properly list 6 seconds instead of 5.

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 5.6 Cycle]
• 3/24 PBE Update: Guardian of the Sands Rammus, Skarner, Xerath, Arclight Vayne, Morgana VFX/SFX update, Minion spawn VFX, and more!
• 3/25 PBE Update: Omega Squad Teemo