10/20 PBE Update: Loot Assets & Tentative Balance Changes

The PBE has been updated! As we continue the 10.22 PBE cycle, today's patch includes new loot assets & tentative 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

• Miscellaneous
• Balance Changes
• Context & Notes

Miscellaneous 

• Loot assets added in today's update:
• Honor Level 3 Capsule
• Honor Level 4 Capsule
• Honor Level 5 Capsule

  

• K/DA ALL OUT Ahri Icon + Border
• K/DA ALL OUT Akali Icon + Border
• K/DA ALL OUT Evelynn Icon + Border
• K/DA ALL OUT Kai'Sa Icon + Border

   

• BADDEST Chroma (K/DA ALL OUT Ahri) + Icon
• BADDEST Chroma (K/DA ALL OUT Akali) + Icon
• BADDEST Chroma (K/DA ALL OUT Evelynn) + Icon

  

• K/DA Origins Bag
• "Open to reveal one K/DA Origins Bonus Roll and three random skin shards. The bonus roll guarantees at least two skin shards from the 2018 K/DA and True Damage thematics, but the luckiest among us will reunite the full gang. Gemstone and Mythic Skin Permanent drop rates multiplied by 1.5. Please visit our Support page for more details.
• K/DA Icon Capsule
• Open to reveal two exclusive K/DA icons.
• K/DA 2020 Orb
• Open to reveal a guaranteed random Skin Shard with a 4% chance to obtain a K/DA Origins Bag. Gemstone and Mythic Skin Permanent drop rates multiplied by 1.5.

  

• Here's a look at Ornn's Preseason Masterwork items:

               

Balance Changes

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

Champions

Amumu

• Mana lowered from 287.2 to 285
• Mana per level increased from 40 to 60
• Base health increased from 613.12 to 615

Cho'Gath

• Mana lowered from 272.2 to 270
• Mana per level increased from 40 to 60
• MP5 lowered from 7.206 to 7.2

LeBlanc

[Changelist]

• Ethereal Chains (E)
• mana cost lowered from 70 to 50
• base damage increased from 40/60/80/100/120 to 50/70/90/110/130
• delayed damage increased from 70/110/150/190/230 to 80/120/160/200/240

Malphite

• Base HP increased from 574.2 to 575
• Mana lowered from 282.2 to 280
• Mana per level increased from 40 to 60

Ornn

[Changelist]

• Living Forge (Passive)
• "every time he upgrades any mythic to a masterwork his passive Armor/MR amp increases by 5% (10% without upgrades, same as live)"

Sejuani

[Changelist]

• Glacial Prison (R) 
• short range damage increased from 100/125/150 to 125/150/175
• long range (and delayed explosion) damage increased from 150/250/350 to 200/300/400

Volibear

[Context]

• Sky Splitter (E)
• Cooldown reverted from 15/14/13/12/11 to 15 at all ranks
• [New] Now notes "This ability's cooldown gets reduced by 1 second per 50 Ability Power, to a minimum of 5 seconds."

Xayah

[Changelist]

• Attack speed per level increased from 3.3 to 3.9

Items

Abyssal Mask
[Changelist]

• Ruin effect changed from [reduce their Armor and Magic Resist by 20% for 4 seconds] to [take 15% increased damage for 4 seconds]

Winged Moonplate

• Movespeed lowered from 7% to 5%

Sanguine Blade

• Removed 15% life steal
• Added 12 physical vamp

Titanic Hydra

• Cleave damage lowered from [5+ (1.5% max health) bonus physical damage] to [3.75 + (1.125% max health) physical damage]
• On Hit damage lowered from [40 +(3% max health) physical damage] to [30 + (2.25% max health) physical damage]
• Can now be purchased on Ranged champs.
• Ranged damage: 75%

Leeching Leer

• Renamed from Catalyst

Accelerated Chemtank

• Renamed from Berzerker Suit

Infernal Fang

• Renamed from On-Hit Knife

Riftmaker

• Renamed from Axamuk's Folly

Duskblade of Draktharr

[Changelist]

• Damage changed from [51-150 (+0.3 bAD)] to [75 (+0.3 bAD)

Prowler's Claw

[Changelist]

• Removed 30% armor shred
• Added 15% increased damage
• Damage changed from [100-200 (+0.45 bAD)] to [100 (+0.3 bAD)]

Eclipse

[Changelist - Doesn't fully match changelist!]

• Shield changed from [150 (+0.8 bAD)] to [150 (+0.4bAD)]
• Ranged shield changed from [100 (+0.4 bAD)] to [100 (+0.3 bAD)]

Lord Dominik's Regards

[Changelist]

• Cost lowered from 3200g to 2900g
• Armor penetration lowered from 30% to 25%
• Giant Slayer passive lowered from 20% to 15% max increased damage

Divine Sunderer

• Renamed from Divine Devourer

Runes

Legend: Destroyer (P3)

• Removed - Context

TFT Traits

Divine

[Changes are live with hotfix!]

• Damage reduction & true damage lowered from 50 to 40

Adept

[Changes are live with hotfix!]

• Attack speed debuff duration lowered from 2.5/4/7 to 2/3.5/6

Keeper

• 4 unit shield reverted from 300 to  250 
• 6 unit shield reverted from 600 to 400 

TFT Champions

Tier 2

Vi

• Ability damage increased from 250/400/600 to 250/400/750

Tier 3

Xin Zhao

• Ability damage increased from 200/250/350% to 200/250/425%

Nunu & Willump

• Ability damage increased from 450/650/1300 to 450/650/1650

Evelynn

• Ability damage increased from 350/500/900 to 350/550/1250

Akali

[Changes are live with hotfix!]

• Ability damage lowered from 150/225/400 to 150/225/350

Tier 5

Sett

• Ability primary damage increased from 35/45/400% to 40/60/400%

Context & Notes

1) Riot Scruffy tweeted Patch 10.22 balance changelists:

"10.22 Patch Preview with full changes. Not 100% locked but pretty close."

He also noted:

"Just to confirm (you may have already seen on PBE) - we’re pulling the tenacity affecting knockups change from this preseason  

We may come back to it in the future, but with all of the item changes we didn’t want to do this too and not have the bandwidth for appropriate follow up"

He added a look at upcoming items changes:

"Preseason PBE update - we're doing significant tuning passes across all of the items  

Here are two upcoming iterations after our audit of:  

-Assassin Mythic damage 

-Sources of Shreds, % Pen, and overall effectiveness of countering resists"

2) Riot Phlox noted Ornn changes in testing on the PBE:

"Put an experimental change to Ornn for preseason on PBE. Now every time he upgrades any mythic to a masterwork his passive Armor/MR amp increases by 5% (10% without upgrades, same as live)"

3) Here's Riot Lowbo with more Preseason ARAM changes now testing on the PBE:

Hello once again! We have some more ARAM changes for preseason coming to PBE. Once again, going to list the changes and then the goals for the changes. 

First, the little one. Alternating cannon waves removed. This was an unsuccessful experiment that stayed far too long. 

Second, the bigger one. Oracle's Extract removed. Instead, each cannon and super minion will have one charge of Umbral Glaive's Blackout passive, with some modifications to suit ARAM. (900 unit detection range, and traps stay visible for 4 seconds rather than 2 once detected) 

The chief problem we're trying to solve is that invisibility and trap champions, especially Teemo, have vastly different power levels depending on if their opponents know to buy Oracle's Extract. This makes them really hard to balance! Teemo has an 8.5% lower winrate in high MMR. 

In addition, Oracle's Extract detects invisibility, which is normally undetectable in Summoner's Rift. That means that some champions have core defensive abilities that can be irrelevant in ARAM if their opponents have the extract activated. 

Finally, Extract is power that feels bad on all sides. It feels bad to have to spend 300 gold to deal with Teemo, and it feels bad for Teemo to have his traps made totally irrelevant. We're hoping that this change opens up more fun play and counterplay for both sides. 

We understand that this will likely have unpredictable impacts to the power levels of invis/trap champions, so we're going to ship it with preseason which will shake things up anyway. We're going to be paying closer attention to ARAM balance in the following patches. 

Anyway, this change should be on PBE for testing today! I'll try to get some games in to see how the game is feeling. As always, happy to discuss any questions or comments y'all have on these changes and the goals for them."

 4) Riot Katana provided a list of updates made to the K/DA ALL OUT Skins this cycle:

"We've read all your thoughts and feedback over the past week and made some changes. We can't always take every suggestion, needing to balance between differing opinions and what's possible during the PBE window but hope these updates will feel good!"

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 !

• 10/13 PBE Update: Seraphine, K/DA ALL OUT Skins, Chromas, & Much More!
• 10/14 PBE Update: Continued Preseason 2021 Testing & Tentative Balance Changes
• 10/15 PBE Update: Splash Art & Tentative Balance Changes
• 10/19 PBE Update: Splash Tweaks, Special Borders, Skin Bios & More

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