8/24 PBE Update: Yorick tweaks & tentative balance changes

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The PBE has been updated! Following the massive content drop in the 8/23 update, tonight's update includes additional tweaks to the Yorick update and more balance changes!

Continue reading for more information!

(Warning: PBE Content is tentative and subject to change - what you see below may not reflect what eventually gets pushed to live servers at the end of the cycle! Manage your expectations accordingly.)

Table of Contents

• Yorick Updates
• Balance Changes

Yorick Updates

With his new champion update up for testing, few tweaks for Yorick in today's update!

Pentakill Yorick's passive graves are a different color.

[New Vs. Old Comparison]

Base Yorick also has a few very minor tweaks, including his W ground cracks being adjusted and a slight color change to Maiden of the mist.

 [New Vs. Old Comparison]

[New Vs. Old Compare]

Several Non-English voiceovers for Yorick were also added:

• Czech
• French
• German
• Greek
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Latin American Spanish
• Polish
• Romanian
• Spanish

Balance Changes

* Remember *: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, and sometimes radical or experimental changes. Be aware that what you see below may be lacking context or other changes that didn't make it in or were implemented in an earlier patch this cycle! These are not official notes.

[NOTE: Lots of reverts from 8/23.]

Champions

Kindred

• AD growth reverted to 1.7 from 2.5
• Mounting Dread (E)  maximum health damage reverted to 5% from 7%

Lissandra - 

• Health Growth lowered to 75 from 78 (84 on live)
• Ice Shard (Q) mana cost changed to 80/85/90/95/100 from 95 at all ranks
•  (NOTE: This is a change to a previous PBE change. Value is 85 at all ranks on live)

Shen

• Ki Barrier (Passive) shield duration reverted to 2.5 seconds from 1.5 seconds.

• Twilight Assault (Q) [damage on hit after spirit blade hits lowered to 4/4.5/5/5.5/6% from 5/5.5/6/6.5/7%

Taliyah

• Mana growth reverted to 60 from 50
• Base Mana regem reverted to 1.4 from 1.2
• Mana regen growth reverted to .17 from .16
• Unraveled Earth (E) damage lowered to 70/90/110/130/150 from 80/100/120/140/160 (live value is 80-180)

Vladimir

• Transfusion (Q) Crimson Rush healing reverted to [4% per 100 AP] from [3.3% per 100 AP]

Check out [THIS PAGE] for a comprehensive list of the new content & changes currently on the PBE as a part of this cycle or catch up with the individual update links below !

• [Comprehensive 6.18 PBE Cycle Post]
• 8/23 PBE Update: Yorick Champion Update, Chef skins, Championship Zed, and more!

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