Surrender at 20: 12/16 PBE Update: Dragonslayer Trundle & Guardian of the Sands Janna Splash, Balance & More

The PBE has been updated! As we continue the 10.1 PBE cycle, today's patch includes new splash art for Dragonslayer Trundle & Guardian of the Sands Janna, 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.)

Splash Art

Splash arts for Dragonslayer Trundle and Guardian of the Sands Janna are now on the PBE!

Dragonslayer Trundle

Guardian of the Sands Janna

Thresh VFX Update

As noted by Riot Sirhaian, Thresh's VFX update is now on the PBE for testing!

ARURF Available for Testing

Here's Riot Popc0rner with details on ARURF back for testing on the PBE:

"Hi folks! We've enabled ARURF for testing on PBE!

ARURF, not URF?

In a recent /dev article, we talked about why running URF was probably going to be a one-time experiment. Put simply: the results from that experiment aren't in yet. But we still want to deliver some rapid-fire fun in the meantime, and that's why we'll be turning on ARURF early next year.

New Stuff

The Rise of the Elements is upon us, and ARURF is no exception! The Elder Dragon no longer rules the roost, and the elemental dragons are back in force.

Elemental dragons:
Spawn at 4 minutes Respawn after 2.5 minutes
Dragon Soul effect is doubled Have increased Max HP, increasing further as the game goes on

Like Summoner's Rift, Elder Dragons will appear after the Dragon Soul has been claimed, and grant the same execution buff.

We've done another balance sweep, including new champions (hi, Aphelios!), and we'll continue to tweak ARURF the same way we do ARAM, with a goal that every champion has a winrate between 45-55%.

ARURF is enabled on the PBE now, so hop on and let us know what you think!

Riot Popc0rner"

Miscellaneous

Special loading screen borders for Mecha Kingdoms Garen, Jax, Sett, and Leona were added to the PBE:

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

Alistar
[Changelist]

Base HP increased from 573.36 to 575
Base Damage increased from 61.1116 to 62
AD per level increased from 3.62 to 3.75
Triumphant Roar (Passive) heal increased from 20-139 to 25-161

Ezreal
[Changelist]

Mystic Shot (Q) AD ratio increased from 110% to 120%

Garen
[Changelist]

Judgement (E) Damage from champion level increased from 0-6.6 to 0-8.2

Gnar
[Changelist]

Boulder Toss (Mega Q) AD ratio increased from 120% tAD to 140% tAD

Wallop (Mega W) damage increased from 25/45/65/85/105 to 25/55/85/115/145

Graves
[Changelist]

Quickdraw (E) cooldown lowered from 18/17/16/15/14 to 16/15/14/13/12

Heimerdinger
[Changelist]

Hectech Micro Rockets (W) damage per rocket lowered from 60/90/120/150/180 to 50/80/110/140/170

Upgrade!!! (R) CH-3X Lightning Grenade (E Upgrade) damage changed from [150/250/350 (+75% AP)] to [100/200/300 (+60%)]

Shaco
[Changelist]

Two-Shiv Poison (E)

Mana cost increased from 50/55/60/65/70 to 65 at all ranks
AD ratio lowered from 80% bAD to 70% bAD
AP ratio lowered from 60% to 55%

Shyvana
[Changelist (more coming soon!)]

Fury of the Dragonborn (Passive)

"Shyvana passive now gains a stack with Elder Dragon "
"Cloud Dragon now increases fury gains on Shyvana by the same amount of Ult CDR it grants (cause her ult has no actual cooldown)"

Sylas
[Context - Sylas has extensive changes in testing on the PBE!]

Petricite Burst (Passive) now notes "While Sylas has a charge of Petricite Burst, he gains 60% attack speed."

Kingslayer (W)

Back to needing to hit a champion for heal to go off

TFT Changes

These changes are tentative and may not be complete! Always refer to official notes for the full picture!

Ranger

6 champ values reverted from [100% chance to increased AS by 2.25%] to [100% chance to increased AS by 2.5%]

Assassin

3 champ critical strike lowered from 75% to 50%

Electric

2 champion damage lowered from 100 to 80
3 champion damage lowered from 300 to 250

Inferno

6 champion damage increased from 120% to 140%
9 champion damage increased from 180% to 210%

Ashe

Damage per arrow lowered from 30/40/50% to 30/35/40%

Vs. Live: from 25/30/35% to 30/35/40%

Karma

ally bonus attack speed changed from 100/150/200 to 100 at all ranks

Kindred

Damage reverted from 150/300/600 to 150/325/650

Leona

Damage reduction increased from 35/70/105 to 40/90/140

Lucian

base bullets lowered from 10 to 9

Nocturne

% damage healed lowered from 40/50/60% to 40/45/50%

Vs. Live: from 40/60/80% to 40/45/50%

Senna

On hit damage lowered from 30/50/85 to 20/40/75

Vs Live: from 25/45/75 to 20/40/75

Yorick

Minion health lowered from 600/1000/2000 to 450/750/2000
Minion damage changed from 100/200/300 to 150/200/250

Zyra

Flame Spitter damage changed from 50/55/60 to 50/60/70

Vs Live: From 70/80/90 to 50/60/70

Context & Notes

1) Riot Scruffy noted details on the upcoming 9.24b patch:

[1] "Patch 9.24b preview - this is a micropatch meant to tune preseason systems and a few champs before the holidays."

[2] Should be coming roughly mid week.

2) Playtest Penguin and Riot PhRoXzOn noted changes to Sylas's passive coming to the PBE soon:

[1] "Sylas players on PBE -- Sylas' passive was not correct giving him the attack speed it was supposed to grant him on this iteration for testing. I let @RiotPhRoXzOn know so hopefully it'll be fixed for the next PBE deploy (Should be tomorrow but I'm unsure of PBE deploy schedules)"

[2] "Super sorry everyone, sylas attack speed while he has passive stacks was not functioning, so he should feel a lot better to play when it's fixed. It will miss pbe deploy today but should make pbe deploy tomorrow barring any unforseen issues. We know everyone's super sad about the attack resets being removed but we're hoping that this version will retain the feel of his passive flow, while bringing up his accessibility floor."

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 !

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12/16 PBE Update: Dragonslayer Trundle & Guardian of the Sands Janna Splash, Balance & More

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