10.6 PBE Cycle

Previous PBE Cycles in 2020

[9.24] [10.1] [10.2] [10.3] [10.4] [10.5]

Table of Contents

• Champion Skins
• Cosmic Lux
• Dark Cosmic Lux
• Dark Star Malphite
• Dark Star Malphite Prestige Edition
• Dark Star Mordekaiser
• Dark Star Xerath
• Talon Blackwood
• Taric Luminshield
• Twitch Shadowfoot
• Chromas
• Summoner Icons
• Ward Skin
• Emotes
• Fiddlestick Easter Egg
• Teamfight Tactics: Galaxies
• One For All Back on PBE for Testing
• Saying Farewell to Boards
• Miscellaneous
• Balance Changes
• Patch History

"Lux has a decision to make: choose the path of the Dark Star and bring about annihilation, or resist it's pull and maintain cosmic order. 

This is a bug and feedback post for 10.6 Dark Cosmic Lux and Cosmic Lux! 

Please let me know of any bugs or feedback you have and I’ll get them to the team. We appreciate your feedback and input! 

Each of the above skins are currently priced at 1820 RP as variants. 

*Prices on PBE are subject to change. 

Also, PIE-C QA Lead KateyKhaos wrote an excellent guide on PBE feedback (and feedback in general), please read before posting:
https://boards.pbe.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/client-new-features-feedback/eBgYNeNn-how-to-give-pbe-feedback-skins-edition"

Dark Star Malphite

Dark Star Malphite Prestige Edition

Here's Riot Orphyre with a bugs & feedback thread for Dark Star Malphite Prestige Edition:

Hey everyone! 

We’ve got a new Prestige skin coming out for Dark Star Malphite! He’ll be coming with: 

• New Model and Texture: Lined with precious metals and a yellow event horizon!
• Golden VFX: Malphite’s coming in hot like a fiery star! 

Dark Star Malphite Prestige Edition is available on PBE! Feel free to leave any feedback or questions you have so far down below! 

Thanks for checking in, hope to hear from you soon! 

Riot Orphyre"

Dark Star Mordekaiser

[Ult is a little bugged in this video, here's how it should look! This will be fixed in final spotlight video!]

Dark Star Xerath

Here's 6armedrobot with a bugs & feedback thread for Dark Star Malphite, Mordekaiser, and Xerath:

"Dark Star is back and brings with it the threat of oblivion! Play as Dark Star Malphite, Mordekaiser, or Xerath and help push the Universe into chaos! 

This is a collective bug and feedback post for 10.6 Dark Star Malphite, Mordekasier, & Xerath! 

Please let me know any bugs or feedback you have and I’ll get them to the team. Thanks a ton! 

Each of the above skins are currently priced at 1350 RP. 

*Prices on PBE are subject to change. 

Also, PIE-C QA Lead KateyKhaos wrote an excellent guide on PBE feedback (and feedback in general), please read before posting:
https://boards.pbe.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/client-new-features-feedback/eBgYNeNn-how-to-give-pbe-feedback-skins-edition"

Talon Blackwood

Taric Luminshield

Twitch Shadowfoot

Here's Riot KiWiKiD with a bugs & feedback thread for the RPG skins:

"Hey everyone, this is a collective bug and feedback post for all 10.6 RPG Skins (Twitch, Taric, and Talon) 

Please let me know any bugs or feedback you have about any of these skins and I'll get them to the team to consider. Thanks! 

All skins are currently priced at 1350 RP (subject to change). 

If you're not sure, checkout KateyKhaos's PBE feedback feedback guide. I recommend reading before posting: https://boards.pbe.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/client-new-features-feedback/eBgYNeNn-how-to-give-pbe-feedback-skins-edition

Chromas

New sets of chroma are now on the PBE!

Summoner Icons

Tons of new summoner icons are now on the PBE!

Ward Skin

A new ward skin is now on the PBE!

Emotes

New emotes are now on the PBE!

Fiddlesticks Easter Egg 

Files referencing a mysterious Fiddlesticks map easter egg are now on the PBE and includes a model! You can read up a bit on the upcoming Fiddlesticks update here.. Below a look at Fiddlesticks new model, note that this is in our model viewer and may look different in game!


So far we haven't seen any ways to trigger this, but this post will be updated if anything is found!

Teamfight Tactics: Galaxies

Teamfight Tactics: Galaxies is now available for testing on the PBE! This includes a whole new set of champions, cosmetics, arenas, and more! For more info, check out these articles:

• /Dev: TFT; Galaxies Team Compositions - First reveal of champions and traits!
• Teamfight Tactics: Galaxies Pass and More - Details on a new Pass, cosmetics, ranked rewards and more!
• /Dev: Teamfight Tactics: Galaxies Systems Update - details on changed to the carousel, income, player damage, combat, and more!

Check out this set introduction video:


Here's a cheatsheet from Mobalytics showing off each champion and trait:

3/6 Changelist from Riot Mort:

"TFT - Thanks to everyone who has played Galaxies on PBE so far! It's been super useful getting all the feedback! 

We normally don't do PBE patch notes, but with new set launches we want to keep it up to date. So with tomorrow's PBE deploy, this will be on PBE for the weekend."

3/9 TFT changelist from Riot Mort:

Here's Riot Mort with a 3/11 PBE changelist:

"TFT - Here is the patch notes for the final PBE deploy that will go out later today. No more PBE changes from here on out.  

Thanks to everyone who gave feedback and reported bugs. Team worked their butt off to try to resolve it all!"

Riot Xhanghai commented on the changes to TFT champion cards using models over splashes, and noted they would be changing them back:

"Hey Everyone, 

I'm Xhanghai and I work on UX design for TFT. We wanted to let you know that your voices (and memes) came through loud and clear. After internal discussion and consideration, we are making the decision to move back to splash art across Teamfight Tactics (TFT). You should see these changes take effect on PBE within the next week. 

That being said, we also wanted to take the opportunity to walk you all through how we /were approaching models and our reasoning behind it. 

Splash arts are beautiful. They are the highest quality illustration work we do on League of Legends. Each splash art is carefully crafted to tell new stories, inspire the imagination, and make the universe of League of Legends more complete and unique. 

They are also not created with TFT (and its specific use case) in mind and we recognized a few opportunities to replace them with something that could do a few things better: 

Flexibility 

The best version of the game has thematically cohesive sets. In order to achieve this, sometimes we need to make changes to the champion models you see in-game. One example of this in the Galaxies set is Graves. 

We knew that Graves would be a great fit in the Space Pirate trait, but we didn’t have a skin that fit the thematic. We did, however have the vintage Jailbreak Graves model which we were able to make adjustments in order to bring him to life as the final member of the Space Pirate crew. 

Having four Space Pirate champions allowed us to get two levels out of the trait and build a more awesome gameplay where it was possible for players to loot items in addition to gold. 

Clarity and Quick Identification 

Using models allowed us to highlight important gameplay elements directly in the shop cards and better communicate champion-specific game mechanics. In Galaxies, Aurelion Sol’s star-fighters don’t behave in the same ring-like pattern on Summoner’s Rift. They also don’t receive a lot of visual prominence in his splash art, especially when scaled down. 

More freedom with the background also gave us the flexibility to more clearly show the relationship different champions have with each other (origin, class, role, etc.), especially if they didn’t come from the same original skin line.

Accessibility 

We also found from labs and surveys that as Teamfight Tactics expands to new audiences, new players with less League experience found it very difficult to identify the in-game models based on their splash art. 

Many of the new players that have been joining us don’t have the years of League experience behind them, and we want to ensure that just like all of you that have been with us from the jump, that we set them up to find the fun as soon as possible. 

Back to Splash Art 

At the end of the day, we're taking this feedback as a huge compliment to all of the work the splash art teams and illustrators have done through the years. Their ability to resonate with all of you is awesome. We're still trying to find ways to solve the issues we talked about so we'll keep working on solutions until we find something that we're happy with. Until then, we're paying attention to all of your feedback (and again, even the memes) so keep bringin' it and we hope you all have a blast with Teamfight Tactics: Galaxies. 

A few of us will be around to answer any other questions you may have."

Finally, here's a drop of new assets for this set:

Booms
"These cosmetics modify the damage particles of your Little Legend and units. They come in three tiers of increasing impact and style."


Dark Star Arenas
"These arenas will be available for purchase individually for 1380RP each, or as a bundle of 3 for 2900 RP."



Dark Star Little Legends

One For All Back on PBE for Testing

One for All is back on the PBE for testing! Here's glmarsi with more details:

"One For All is now active on PBE!  

There are a bunch of new faces to see and new combos to try, from Sett's bounce-house to the Yuumi mothership! We're also experimenting with a number of changes to make games quicker and smoother.  

Hop in and let us know what you think"

 Lowbo noted:

"Please hit me or @glmarsi with any OFA feedback you have! We're especially looking for: 

Weird/Unnatural champion interactions
Champs that feel very over or underpowered
Game pacing, especially if games stall out and when
Relative power of early game vs. late game champions"

Saying Farewell to Boards

Here's Riot Porosite with a thread on the PBE boards closure and where you can report bugs and post feedback:

"As some of you may already know, we are closing down the League of Legends Boards starting on March 9th. First I’d like to thank everyone that has engaged with the PBE, from critiquing upcoming content to reporting the game’s most frustrating bugs. 

Though the Boards are going away, we think the value you add to League is important for us to constantly improve what we produce! We’ve been exploring alternative solutions specifically for gathering feedback on PBE builds, but these won’t be ready by the time the Boards change to read-only next Monday. 

In the interim... 

• For bug reports please continue to use the Report A Bug button to send bugs you find our way!

• If you’re encountering any major issues and need assistance, Player Support is available! Just reach out with your Live Account and let them know you need assistance with your PBE account.
• For feedback on content that comes out before we have our alternative set up, we will be posting a Feedback post to the League of Legends subreddit.
• In addition, we will be monitoring /r/leagueoflegends more closely than usual for PBE issues.

If you’re looking for ways to stay involved with the PBE community, the Unofficial PBE Discord, a player run Discord server, is a great place to join. 

Thank you again for everything you all have contributed to the PBE and League of Legends."

Miscellaneous 

• Little Legends icons seen in the 10.5 PBE cycle are now named!
• Little Legend Abyssia Icon
• Little Legend Starmaw Icon
• Little Legend Squink Icon

• Galaxies 2020 event loot assets added:
• Galaxies 2020 Orb
• Galaxies 2020 Event Token
• Galaxies 2020 Grab Bag

• More Galaxies 2020 event loot assets added:
• 100 Prestige Points (2020) + Icon
• Dark Star Malphite Icon + Border
• Dark Star Mordekaiser Icon + Border
• Dark Star Xerath Icon + Border
• Antimatter Chroma (Dark Star Jarvan IV) + Icon
• Antimatter Chroma (Dark Star Mordekaiser) + Icon
• Antimatter Chroma (Dark Star Orianna) + Icon
• Antimatter Chroma (Dark Star Thresh) + Icon
• Antimatter Chroma (Dark Star Varus) + Icon
• Antimatter Chroma (Dark Star Xerath) + Icon

Anivia
[Context]

• Glacial Storm (R) 
• "Her ultimate is no longer cancelled by CC (of any kind)"
• Chill duration increased from 2s to 3s

Aphelios
[Changelist]

• Severum lifesteal lowered from 8-25% to 3-20%

• Infernum damage to minions lowered from 45% to 30%

• Mini-chakram damage lowered from 30-173% tAD to 24-164% tAD

Brand
[Changelist]

• Blaze (Passive)
• [New] "Brand deals 120% damage to monsters and deals a maximum of 80 damage per second."

Darius
[Changelist]

• Crippling Strike (W) 
• bonus damage lowered from 50/55/60/65/70% tAD to 40/45/50/55/60% tAD
• mana cost increased from 30 to 40

• Apprehend (E) mana cost increased from 45 to 70/60/50/40/30

Draven
[Changelist]

• Blood Rush (W) movement speed increased from 40/45/50/55/60% to 50/55/60/65/70%

Garen
[Changelist]

• MR per level lowered from 1.25 to .75
• Judgment (E) crit scaling lowered from 50% to 33%

Hecarim
[Changelist]

• Onslaught of Shadows (R) fear duration increased from .75-1.5s based on distance to 0.75-2s based on distance

Kindred
[Changelist]

• AD per level increased from 2.26 to 2.5
• Wolf's Frenzy (W) missing health restored increased from [28+4 per level] to [46+3 per level]

• Lamb's Respite (R) heal increased from 200/250/300 to 250/325/400

Morgana
[Changelist]

• Movement speed increased from 330 to 335
• Tormented Shadow (W)
• [New] "Tormented Shadow deals 150% damage to non epic monsters."

• Black Shield (E) shield amount increased from 60/120/180/240/300 to 80/135/190/245/300

Ryze
[Changelist]

• Mana regen per level increased from .8 to 1
• Rune Prison (W) damage increased from 80/100/120/140/160 to 80/110/140/170/200

Senna
[Changelist]

• Absolution (Passive)
• Mist stack AD lowered from 1 to .75
• Weakened Soul cooldown per champion changed from 4 to [6/5/4 at levels 1/6/11]

Shaco
[Changelist]

• Hallucinate (R) clone auto attack damage lowered from 75% tAD to 60% tAD

Shen
[Changelist]

• Twilight Assault (Q) max monster damage increased from 75/100/125/150/175 to 120/140/160/180/200

Soraka
[Changelist]

• Starcall (Q) 
• total heal increased from 40/50/60/70/80 to 50/60/70/80/90
• movement speed increased from 10/12.5/15/17.5/20% to 15/17.5/20/22.5/25%

Teemo
[Changelist]

• Blinding Dart (Q)
• [New] "Teemo blinds minions and monsters for 200% of his blind's base duration."

• Toxic Shot (E)
• [New] "Toxic Shot's poison does 150% damage to monsters."

Twisted Fate
[Changelist]

• Pick a Card (W)
• Blue card AP ratio increased from 50% to 90%
• Red card AP ratio increased from 50% to 60%

Urgot
[Changelist]

• Corrosive Charge (Q) slow duration increased from 1s to 1.25s

• Disdain (E) stun duration increased from .75s to 1s

Veigar
[Changelist]

• Base AD increased from 50.71 to 52
• AD per level increased from 2.625 to 2.7
• Base armor increased from 22.55 to 23
• Baleful Strike (Q) damage increased from 70/110/150/190/230 to 80/120/160/200/240

Wukong
[Changelist]
[Back for continued testing! Possible 10.6 or 10.7 release - Context]

Xerath
[Changelist]

• Eye of Destruction (W) sweet spot damage amp increased from 50% to 66.7%

• Rite of the Arcane (R) damage increased from 200/240/280 (+43% AP) to 200/250/300 (+45% AP)

Yorick
[Changelist]

• Shepherd of Souls (Passive)
• [New] Large monsters always leave a grave
• [New] "Yorick's Ghouls take 50% less damage from monsters."

Zyra
[Changelist]

• Garden of Thorns (Passive)
• [New] "Zyra's plants deal 150% damage to non-epic monsters."