7/27 PBE Update: Splash Tweaks, Skin Bios, Tentative Balance Changes & More

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• Coven LeBlanc skin bio added:
• "Resurrected by the Black Crane, LeBlanc has rejoined her sisters with renewed purpose-- yet the gifts of the Old Gods do not come without a price. As her body twists into new and strange forms, LeBlanc has discovered that she is the vessel through which her own dead god will return, and that it has granted her impossible power."

• Coven Evelynn's splash art was tweaked very slightly on lips as noted in the feedback thread:

• Coven event ambient client music added to the PBE:

Surrender at 20 2 · Coven Event Client Background Theme

• Check out Coven Evelynn's full special interactions:

[Context]

• Hymn of Valor (Q) 
• damage AP ratio reverted from 15% to 20%
• Melody AP ratio reverted from  35% to 40%

• Aria of Perseverance (W)
• Heal AP ratio reverted from 15% to 20%
• Melody AP ratio reverted from 25%  to 30%

Items

Dark Seal
[Changelist]

• Glory passive stack lost on death increased from 4 to 5
• Dread passive AP lowered from 5 to 4

Redemption

[Changelist]

• Intervention active
• Heal increased from 180-360 to 200-400
• cooldown lowered from 120s to 90s

TFT Champions

Tier 2

Hecarim

• Healing lowered from 350 to 200/225/250

Thresh

• Damage lowered from 200/400/1000 to 175/350/800

Pyke

• Damage reverted from 175/250/400 to 150/225/325

Irelia

• Damage reduction cap lowered from 90% to 80%

Tier 3

Rakan

• damage increased from 350/500/900 to 400/550/950

Miss Fortune

• Damage lowered from 250/400/750 to 250/375/700

Nocturne

[Nocturne has changes to his ability testing on the PBE!]

• Damage changed from [50% of AD + 100/125/175] to [70% of AD + 70/85/120]

Tier 4

Galio

• Damage increased from 200/300/1000 to 200/300/1200
• Taunt duration increased from 2s to 2.5s
• Heal increased from 50% of damage blocked to 60% of damage blocked

Karma

• Damage increased from 210/260/700 to 210/260/750

Context & Notes

1) Riot Jag provided a preview of PBE changes for the 11.16 PBE cycle:

11.16 Full Preview is here!

Again, reminder that this patch will hit live 1 week later than normal.

"Post PBE Adjustments 

- Coven Ahri (Tanzanite) slightly adjusted tail colors to have more differentiation from parent skin
- Coven Ahri (Tanzanite), tweaked colors of skull prop during recall to have more differentiation from parent skin
- To give some clarity and transparency on Coven Evelynn's chromas and her lashers, we have decided to not make any adjustments as it is an gameplay ability."

"Updated: 7/26/2021 

Hey players! We're so thrilled with all the love Evelynn is receiving on this skin! As always, we value your constructive feedback/thoughts and support. Here is a list of the feedback points we wanted to address.. 

Changes:

• Lips: Lip color will be updated in her splash to better match her in-game model.
• Hair: Her hair color will be adjusted to a more platinue hue to match her in-game model. We do not want it to be too close to her skin tone, but slight tweaks will be made to be more inline with her splash art.
• Dancers: will be making the dancers more visible to increase readability
• Dance SFX: will increase volume to make more louder
• R VFX: Increasing impact and readability by adjusting timing of the R to lessen red effects
• R SFX: will be adjusted to be more impactful. The missing hit sound is a bug and should be audible. We were working on getting that back up! Thank you all for catching that!
• Clipping through belly: Fix has been submitted and will be available to players soon!
• missing VO for Q, R: VO lines were intentionally cut and removed. If you're seeing those lines exist somewhere on the web, those are not up-to-date. It is working as intended. more context here: https://twitter.com/carnivalnites/status/1417898366017556483?s=19

No changes:

• Brows: We will not be updating the eyebrows. The brows in the splash match the in-game model as intended. The highly requested arch from Evelynn's K/DA All Out brows was a specific style choice for that universe.
• Borders: The appropriate team has reviewed this feedback and no changes will be made. Recoloring is done on an extremely selective basis

Coven Cassiopeia

"updated 7/27/2021

In response to feedback:

• Tail: No adjustments will be made at this time. Coven Cassiopeia's tail matches her concept art as designed.
• W VFX: flowers will be recolored
• W SFX: improvements to clarity and impact by giving more power to the cast to be more inline with base skin. Will be making adjustments to missile to be more low end"

3) Here's Riot Jag with context on the Sona changes in today's update:

"Regarding Sona PBE feedback" 

We care about how players are responding to the changes, and we've seen a fair amount of sentiment that this is a nerf. 

From my perspective, I suspect that some people are undervaluing some of the specifics. 

We've seen a lot of playtests where Sona gets to two ultimates in the same lategame teamfight, which many players do not think will happen at all. So that's a fair amount of misalignment. 

The basic ability haste is also very front loaded compared to live, particularly if the Sona player plays the lane well. It's worse at 16, but you would need 80 Ability Haste from other sources for the old level 11 R Passive to break even with the new one. 

That being said, we're open to the perspective that we're overvaluing it. To that end, we're removing the AP Ratio nerf for tomorrow's PBE build, and we will proceed cautiously in case we need to pull back"

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 !

• 7/20 PBE Update: Coven Skins, Chromas & Much More!
• 7/21 PBE Update: Splash Art and Icon & Border Tweaks
• 7/22 PBE Update: Sona Update, New Summoner Icon, & More
• 7/26 PBE Update: Summoner Icons & Loot Assets

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