8/7 PBE Update: Cosmic Splash Arts, Continued Nexus Blitz Testing & More!

The PBE has been updated! As we continue the 8.16 PBE cycle, today's patch includes splash art for the upcoming Cosmic skins for Ashe, Lulu, and Xin Zhao, tentative balance changes, 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

• New Splash Art
• Continued Nexus Blitz Testing
• Miscellaneous
• Balance Changes
• Context & Notes

New Splash Art

The splash art for the upcoming Cosmic Queen Ashe, Cosmic Enchantress Lulu, and Cosmic Defender Xin Zhao:

Cosmic Queen Ashe

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 Cosmic Enchantress Lulu

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Cosmic Defender Xin Zhao

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Continued Nexus Blitz Testing

 Riot August posted a Nexus Blitz change list for 8/7:

"HOTFIXED THE DARK HARVEST BUG 

Patch notes for 8/7 deploy 

We're reducing gold from objectives further to lower overall snowball. Taking an objective is already incredibly powerful due to the buffs and map control, so giving a boatload of gold on top of it isn't needed. 

Also nerfing a bug where FoN was giving stacking CDR

Objective Gold:

• Turret Gold:: 100 local + 50 global >>> 25 last hit + 50 global
• Blue and Red buff gold:: 240 local + 70 global >>> 200 local + 60 global

Towers:

• Added 15% armor penetration to all towers

Items:

Force of Nature

• Removed the 10% SECRET STACKABLE COOLDOWN REDUCTION that FoN was granting (oops)

Events: 

Treasure Teemo

• Health reduced by 15%

Push the Cart

• Can now spawn in bottom lane
• Fixed numerous bugs that would cause the cart to move in odd ways

Sudden Death

• Nexus Armor:: 270 >>> 250
• Nexus MR:: 220 >>> 200

Bardle Royale

• Circle burn no longer goes through shields and invulnerability effects

Runes:

• Fixed Dark Harvest bug where killing jungle monsters would sometimes give 100+ souls."

Keep in mind the experimental mode Nexus Blitz is getting ready for a live alphatest with 8.16!

Additional recent reading:

• Nexus Blitz Dev 8/3: Jungle Goals
• Nexus Blitz Dev 8/6: Champion Specific Balance

Miscellaneous 

• As noted by Riot Stellari, the SSG Xayah and Rakan loading screens (both normal and signed) have been updated to fit better when they are together on the loading screen:

"Update on the SSG Xayah & Rakan load screen. Splash artists did a tweak to align them better when they load-in together. There's a version floating around we couldn't do because they're off center when loading alone, and other places in game. This will be live in patch 8.16"

SSG Xayah [New / New Signed Version]

SSG Rakan [New / New Signed Version]

• Mafia Braum chroma previews:

Balance Changes

* NOTE*: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, & experimental changes. Be aware that what you see below may be relative to other changes earlier this cycle! These are not official notes.

Champions

Aatrox

• Umbral Dash (E) 
• healing from damage done to non-champions lowered from 33% to 15%
• charges gained when first learning the ability lowered from 2 to 1

• World Ender (R) Cooldown increased from 140/130/120 to 160/140/120

Fizz

• Seastone Trident (W)
• Bonus magic damage AP ratio lowered from 60% to 50%
• Bonus on-hit damage AP ratio lowered from 40% to 35%

• Chum the Waters (R) 
• [NOTE: These values are not showing on the tooltip, but are observable in game!]
• Guppy AP Ratio lowered from 90% to 80%
• Chomper AP Ratio lowered from 110% to 100%
• Gigalodon AP ratio lowered from 130% to 120%

Hecarim 

• Rampage (Q)
• AD ratio increased from 60% to 70%
• Damage increased from 55/90/125/160/195 to 55/95/135/175/215

Lee Sin

• Sonic Wave / Resonating Strike (Q)
• Sonic Wave damage increased from 50/75/100/125/150 to 50/80/110/140/170
• Resonating Strike damage increased from 50/75/100/125/150 to 50/80/110/140/170

Nautilus
[Nautilus has other changes in testing on the PBE!]

• Titan's Wrath (W) cost reverted from 60 to 80

Orianna

• Base MR lowered from 30 to 26

Quinn

• AD per level lowered from 3 to 2.4

Rakan

• Base HP lowered from 510 to 480
• Base armor lowered from 36 to 33

Taliyah

• Base movespeed lowered from 340 to 335
• Seismic Shove (W) cooldown increased from 12 at all ranks to 16/15/14/13/12

• Weaver's Wall (R)
• [Removed] No longer grants vision

Trundle

• Chomp (Q) 
• damage lowered from 20/40/60/80/100 to 20/30/40/50/60
• AD ratio increased from 100/105/110/115/120% to 100/110/120/130/140%
• bonus AD duration lowered from 8 seconds to 5 seconds

Wukong

• Crushing Blow (Q) 
• damage lowered from 30/60/90/120/150 to 10/40/70/100/130
• AD ratio lowered from 10/20/30/40/50% to 0/10/20/30/40%

Yasuo

• Last Breath (R) bonus AD increased from 150% to 250%

Summoner Spells

Heal

• Cooldown lowered from 270 to 240

Context & Notes

1) The League of Legends BR twitter tweeted a combined splash art image featuring each of the three newest Cosmic skins:

"A corte real do espaço foi definida. São guerreiros que montam um time especial e capaz de derrotar qualquer ameaça cósmica. E, além disso tudo, temos uma arma secreta: O PIX É O AURELION!  As novas skins estão quase chegando!"

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 !

• 7/31 PBE Update: New Skins, Experimental Mode - Nexus Blitz, and much more!
• 8/1 PBE Update: Continued Nexus Blitz Testing
• 8/2 PBE Update: Skin Tweaks & Nexus Blitz Balance
• 8/3 PBE Update: Continued Nexus Blitz Testing & Tentative Balance Changes
• 8/6 PBE Update: Mecha Aurelion Sol & Mafia Braum Splash Art

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