4/12 PBE Update: Cosmic Blade Master Yi splash, new Cosmic summoner icons, and more!

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The PBE has been updated! As we continue week two of the 7.8 PBE cycle, tonight's update includes splash art for Cosmic Blade Master Yi, new themed summoner icons, and more!

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

• Cosmic Blade Master Yi Splash
• New Summoner Icons
• Balance Changes
• Context & Notes

New Splash Art - Cosmic Blade Master Yi

The splash art for our upcoming COSMIC BLADE MASTER YI is now on the PBE!

Cosmic Blade Master Yi

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New Summoner Icons

Four new summoner icons debuted in today's update - each themed around skins from the Cosmic series!

   

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.

Champions

Amumu
[Amumu has other changes in testing from an earlier update this PBE cycle.]

• Despair (W) AP ratio increased from [1% per 100 AP] to [2% per 100 AP].

Items

Randuin's Omen

• [previous PBE changes inc Thornmail recipe & related effect changes have been to be reverted.]

• New Stats:

• Total Cost: 2900
• Recipe = [Ruby Crystal + Warden's Mail + Ruby Crystal + 1100g]
• +350 HP
• +60 ARmor
• - 20% damage taken from Critical Strikes
• Unique Passive - Cold Steel: When hit by basic attacks, reduces the attacker's attack speed by 15%  (1 second duration) 
• Unique Active:  Slows the Movement Speed of nearby enemy units by 55% for 2 second (60 second cooldown)

• VS LIVE:

• Recipe changed from [Warden's Mail + Giant's Belt + 900g] to [Ruby Crystal + Warden's Mail + Ruby Crystal + 1100g]
• -150 HP
• + 10% reduced damage taken from crit strikes .
• Unique Active
• Slow increased from 35% to 55%
• Duration lowered from 4 to 2

Sterak's Gage
[Context - has previous changes from an earlier patch this cycle]

• [Following the 4/11 changes, the tooltip has been corrected to say 75% of BONUS health instead of maximum health.]

Thornmail

• [previous changes have been to be reverted - back to live functionality.]

Context & Notes

(this right here this is BIG context and it's 7 foot tall and you can't. wip. that!)

1) Remember that both Midseason AD itemization and Durability changes are currently testing on the PBE for launch in 7.9 (not 7.8!)  Meddler 4/11 gameplay thoughts also discusses some of this, Amumu changes on PBE, and more. 

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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 !

• 4/4 PBE Update: New Champions Xayah and Rakan, Conqueror Karma, Cosmic Blade Master Yi, and more! 
• 4/5 PBE Update: Tentative Udyr changes, skin tweaks, and more!
• 4/6 PBE Update: New Summoner Icons, Tentative Balance changes & more
• 4/7 PBE Update: Rakan and Xayah Login, Tentative Balance changes & more
• 4/10 PBE Update: Xayah and Rakan Bio + Pick/Ban and More Tentative balance changes
• 4/11 PBE Update: Conqueror Karma Splash Art, MSI 2017 Login Theme, Skin Tweaks, & more!

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