8/16 PBE Update: Tentative Balance Changes

The PBE has been updated! As we continue the 9.17 PBE cycle, today's patch includes tentative SR and TFT 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

• Balance Changes
• Context & Notes

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

Garen
[Changelist - Garen has tons of changes in testing on the PBE!]

• Courage (W)
• Cooldown reverted from [24/23/22/21/20] to  [23/21/19/17/15] 

Pantheon
[These changes were hotfixed to live on 8/15!]

• Comet Spear (Q) Damage reduction against monsters lowered from 15% to 0%

• Aegis Assault (E) damage reduction against non-epic monsters lowered from 33% to 15%

TFT

Assassin
[Changelist]

• 3: +75% critical strike damage & 10% Critical strike chance
• 6: +150% critical strike damage & +25% critical strike chance

Context & Notes

1) Riot Axes provided a changelist for Garen in today's PBE:

"Changes tomorrow will be: 

• Q works much more like a regular attack reset, including scaling with attack speed
• W cooldown reverted
• Fixed God-King Garen's E animation behavior (the animation uses totally separate logic from base, unlike other skins, so had to be handled separately)
• R execute damage bugfix (was meant to be 20/25/30% by rank, not 20% flat)

2) Riot Mort provided an experimental TFT changelist now testing on the PBE!

"TFT EXPERIMENTAL CHANGES - On PBE starting tomorrow you'll see two changes.  

1.) The Assassin bonus is now Crit Dmg & Chance. This is DPS neutral, but should be more consistent.
2.) We've made some adjustments to Assassin movement logic so they should feel better.  

Give it a try"

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 !

• 8/13 PBE Update: Elderwood & Infernal Skins, Chromas, Icons & More!
• 8/14 PBE Update: Tentative Balance Changes
• 8/15 PBE Update: TFT Updates, Chroma Assets, and more!

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