New Champion: Pyke

Riot Szymba

Heya!

As of yesterday, the Bloodharbor Riper, Pyke has been unleashed on the PBE. However, we still are very much working on the final touches on him. Let us know of any issues/bugs you find on him here, so we can make sure we know about every one of them.

Still in the works:

- R kill system on Zombies and other odd EnterDead states

- Assist gold "Your Cut" item will work properly in all cases

- Fog of War Sounds and VFX

- Death Recap & Buff/Debuff tooltips

- Ongoing tuning on his balance

Thanks a bunch for helping us make Pyke better throughout this PBE cycle!

-Szymba"

Pyke, the Bloodharbor Ripper

[Blade can toggle from normal to watery using CTRL+5]

Stats & Abilities

Base HP: 600

HP Per Level: 110

HP Regen Growth: 0.1

Base Mana: 380

Mana Per Level: 50

Base MR: 32

MR Per Level: 1.25

Base AD: 60

AD per level: 2

Base Armor: 42

Armor Per Level: 4

Attack Speed: .667

Attack Speed Growth: 2.5

Base Move Speed: 330

Attack Range: 150

Abilities:

"If Pyke cannot be seen by enemies, he will rapidly regenerate [30 - 81%] of damage he has recently taken from champions, up to x.

Pyke converts all extra Maximum Health from any source into Attack Damage instead. (1 AD per 14 Health - Currently: x)"

Bonus Health to AD Scaling is [14 bonus HP = 1 AD]

Regen Rate based on level - 30/33/36/39/42/45/48/51/54/57/60/63/66/69/72/75/78/81%



Maximum Health Regen = [25% to 50% of HP, scales up with AD - 238 AD to hit cap]



[238 AD to hit maximum effect of 50%]

Cost: 70 Mana

Cooldown: 16/14/12/10/8

Range: 400

"Tap: Pyke strikes all enemies in front of him dealing x (+x) [115% of HOLD damage] physical damage.

Hold: Pyke throws his harpoon, pulling the first enemy struck towards him and dealing 75/125/175/225/275 (+60% Bonus AD) physical damage.

Targets hit by either attack are slowed by 90% for 1 second.

Tapping deals 50% reduced damage to minions and monsters beyond the closest."





Cost: 75 Mana

Cooldown: 12/11.5/11/10.5/10 sec

Range: 600

"Pyke gains Camouflage and 60/65/70/75/80% (+4% per 100 bonus AD) decaying movement speed for 5s.

Stealth - Camouflage: Pyke is hidden from view while enemy champions remain outside his detection radius. Attacking or casting spells ends Camouflage."

Cost: 50 Mana

Cooldown: 15 sec

Range: 550

"Pyke dashes, leaving a drowned phantom behind him. After a short delay the phantom returns to Pyke, striking all enemies along it's path dealing 95/130/165/200/235 (+80% Bonus AD) physical damage and stunning for 1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4/1.5s."





Cost: 100 Mana

Cooldown: 120/100/80 sec

Range: 750

"Pyke strikes all enemy champions in an X, blinking to and executing targets below 190 - 655 (+60% Bonus AD) health. Enemies not executed instead take physical damage equal to the threshold.

When an enemy champion dies in the X from any source, an assisting ally also gains full kill gold and Pyke may re-cast Death From Below again within 20 seconds.

Total gold granted: x"

R's base damage scales with Pyke's Level (starting at 6) = 185/225/265/305/345/385/420/455/490/525/560/590/620

Gold granted to ally via an inventory item called "Your Cut".

The execute will bypass shields if target is under threshold .

[Execute indicator]

Voiceover

Lore

"A renowned harpooner from the slaughter docks of Bilgewater, Pyke should have met his death in the belly of a gigantic jaull-fish; and yet, he returned. Now, stalking the dank alleys and backways of his former hometown, he uses his new supernatural gifts to bring a swift and gruesome end to those who make their fortune by exploiting others-- and a city that prides itself on hunting monsters now finds a monster hunting them."

Release Skin

Sand Wraith Pyke 1350 RP [ 1350 RP [ Src

[Blade can toggle from normal to sandy using CTRL+5]

New Skins

Dark Waters Diana



"Diana was once an extremist within the Order of the Mother Serpent, but now spends her days murdering her employer's enemies by the light of the moon. In Bilgewater it's less about who you were, and more about the message you send." Loading Screen] 1350 RP [ Src

Nurse Flan

"Dark Waters Diana is the latest Bilgewater-themed skin! Spooky, moonlight dark water themed!

New model and textures - Fancy leather, with an even fancier hat!

New VFX for all spells - Dark, magical water manipulation!

New SFX for all spells - Underwater maaaaagic!

New recall animations - Floaty, whirlpool danger!

New light VO processing - Underwater echo-y!

As players who get the first look at this in-progress skin, it would be wonderful to hear your constructive thoughts and feelings on the new Dark Waters skin! The feedback and bugs you leave here will help us get a better idea of things we may still have to take a look at. :]

See you on the Rift!"

Dark Waters Vladimir



"In his younger days, Vladimir practiced at a school of medicine known for magically manipulating the humors of a patient's body. Turns out in Bilgewater there's more coin to be made killing than saving, and now he's found himself in a much more lucrative—if not messier—line of work." Loading Screen] 1350 RP [ Src

Nurse Flan

"Dark Waters Vladimir is surfacing as one of the new Bilgewater-themed skins!

New model and textures - He's got that fancy water cape!

New VFX for all spells - Dark, spooky water.

New SFX for all spells - Splish splash, he's taking a bath! (aka - water splashies, but scary ones)

New recall animations - Spooky water manipulation!

New light VO processing - Underwater ripple-y!

As players who get the first look at this in-progress skin, it would be wonderful to hear your constructive thoughts and feelings on the new Dark Waters skin! The feedback and bugs you leave here will help us get a better idea of things we may still have to take a look at. :]

See you on the Rift!"

New Chroma

Dark Waters Vladimir





Dark Waters Diana

Sand Wraith Pyke

Riot Orphyre

Hey everyone!

We’ve got some new Chromas coming up for our newest Champion’s skin, Sand Wraith Pyke, as well as Dark Waters Diana, and Dark Waters Vladimir!

Sandwraith Pyke:

New textures: “Welcome to the Underdune.”

“Welcome to the Underdune.” Sand Wraith Pyke (Catseye)



Sand Wraith Pyke (Obsidian)



Sand Wraith Pyke (Sapphire)



Sand Wraith Pyke (Tanzanite)



Sand Wraith Pyke (Rose Quartz)



Sand Wraith Pyke (Turquoise)



Sand Wraith Pyke (Pearl)

Dark Waters Diana:

New textures: “A new moon is rising.”

“A new moon is rising.” Dark Waters Diana (Pearl)



Dark Waters Diana (Ruby)



Dark Waters Diana (Obsidian)



Dark Waters Diana (Turquoise)



Dark Waters Diana (Sapphire)

Dark Waters Vladimir:

New textures: “The rivers will run red.”

“The rivers will run red.” Dark Waters Vladimir (Pearl)



Dark Waters Vladimir (Obsidian)



Dark Waters Vladimir (Tanzanite)



Dark Waters Vladimir (Emerald)



Dark Waters Vladimir (Sandstone)

The chroma sets are now available on PBE! We hope you all will enjoy the new sets, but we’re also looking forward to hearing your constructive feedback. I’ll do my best to answer and reply to your questions and feedback!

Thanks!

Riot Orphyre"

New Summoner Icons

Esports Summoner Icons

New Emotes

New Ward Skin

The Ripper Ward

640 RP

Pyke Login Theme

ARAM Updates on PBE

Riot Popc0rner

We've got some changes to ARAM coming to PBE!

Here's a quick list of what's new. We'll be posting a full /dev article on the Nexus that breaks down the reasons behind some of these changes (and more) soon.

You now start with the correct amount of experience for Level 3, instead of starting with no experience

Warmog's Armor has been removed

Dark Harvest soul drop amounts have been reduced from 5 (takedown) / 4 (cannon minion) to 4 / 2. We've added 3 new experimental items to ARAM:

Ghostwalkers

Bloodletter's Veil

Spectral Cutlass

Go check them out, and keep an eye out for the Nexus article, where we'll be going into much more detail.

Catch you out on the Abyss!"





New Tutorials are live on PBE!

Riot Bazaam

Hey folks!

I'm Riot Bazaam, coming to you from the New Player Experience team at Riot. Ya, we know, this has been a long time coming... but today, our brand new tutorials are ready to see the world on PBE. This set of 3 tutorials will replace the old HA Tutorial and Battle Training. There are still a few kinks we're working out, but we're in the home stretch and getting prepared to release these in the wild.

Two quick notes!

1) We are not yet rolling this out to all accounts, so your account may still run the old tutorial and battle training. This is not a bug

2) To access the tutorials, go to Play --> Training --> Tutorial and it should take you to our new tutorial menu. If the first card in the selection carousel shows Howling Abyss, unfortunately your account is still using the old tutorials.

Enjoy, and of course post any bugs and questions below. RIP Thornmail Ashe



-=Riot Bazaam"

Fighter Items on PBE for 8.12

Lowbo

"Hello friends!

I’m Lowbo, a designer on the Gameplay Systems team, and I’m here to talk to you about some changes to Fighter items coming to PBE, intended for release in 8.12.

Our goal with these changes is to give fighters some tools they can use to carry in a wider variety of game states than they can on live. Currently, a fed fighter is generally restricted to carrying via splitpushing and skirmishing, and most fall off by the lategame. Even when they can, the path to success for some is to build pretty tanky, even if ahead. That may be effective, but isn’t the experience many players of those champs are looking for.

Some changes that should help out Fighters are already on PBE and are shipping in 8.11: Changes to Last Whisper and its upgrades, Blade of the Ruined King, Bloodthirster, Maw of Malmortius, and Guardian Angel. These changes are supplementary to the 8.11 changes.

We have some new items, and some changes to existing items:

Spear of Shojin

This item is intended to help champions that build a lot of AD rather than defensive items survive in the middle of teamfights. A lot of champions are capable of bursting one enemy, but the often sacrifice their life to do so. This item will offer survivability in that scenario, enabling them to escape or begin attacking the next target. The range for activation is pretty small, so we’re not expecting this item to be good for most Marksmen. This icon is temporary - new one coming soon!

Atma's Reckoning

A familiar face, in a different form. Heavier fighters are generally forced to stop scaling their offense to build survivability. This item will help them remain a big threat throughout the whole game, trading off some survivability to do so. Enjoy my designer art icon for now, a new icon is coming soon.

Sterak's Gage

50% Base AD >>> 50% Base AD as Bonus AD

The way Sterak’s Gage is currently built, it’s either balanced on Triforce champions and weak on everyone else, or balanced on most champions but overpowered on Triforce champs. Breaking this synergy allows Sterak’s to become a situational item for a much wider variety of champions.

Next, some changes to the Hydra items. Fighter builds are some of the most expensive in the game, and the Hydra items are a big part of that. Due to Fighters’ traditional lack of scaling, they have had to have extreme spikes on two items. Now that we are giving them some better lategame tools, shouldn’t spike as hard - and we can take steps to address the pain point of having to build such expensive items.

Ravenous Hydra

Total Cost: 3500 >>> 3250

Build Path: Tiamat + Vamp Scepter + Pickaxe + 525g >>> Tiamat + Vamp Scepter + Long Sword + 800g

AD: 80 >>> 70

Titanic Hydra

Total Cost: 3500 >>> 3250

Build Path: Tiamat + Jaurim’s Fist + Ruby Crystal + 700g >>> Tiamat + Giant’s Belt + 1050g

AD: 40 >>> 30

That’s it for now! Thanks for reading, and happy playtesting! Questions, comments, and concerns are much appreciated, and I’ll be doing as much as I can to be in the thread today and chat."

Miscellaneous

Nautilus' in-client bio was updated on the PBE: "A lonely legend as old as the first piers sunk in Bilgewater, the armored goliath known as Nautilus roams the dark waters off the coast of the Blue Flame Isles. Driven by a forgotten betrayal, he strikes without warning, swinging his enormous anchor to save the wretched, and drag the greedy to their doom. It is said he comes for those who forget to pay the "Bilgewater tithe", pulling them down beneath the waves with him-- an iron-clad reminder that none can escape the depths." Fizz's in-client bio was also tweaked [new in green]: "Fizz is an amphibious yordle, who dwells among the reefs surrounding Bilgewater. He often retrieves and returns the tithes cast into the sea by superstitious captains, but even the saltiest of sailors know better than to cross him-- for many are the tales of those who have underestimated this slippery character. Often mistaken for some manner of capricious ocean spirit, he seems able to command the beasts of the deep, and delights in confounding his allies and enemies alike." New Bilgewater themed loot items were added to the PBE:

Golden Kraken : Reveals one skin shard, one Legendary Skin Permanent, and loot from one Bloodharbor Medallion (one Bilgewater skin shard and one random skin shard).

: Reveals one skin shard, one Legendary Skin Permanent, and loot from one Bloodharbor Medallion (one Bilgewater skin shard and one random skin shard).

Bloodharbor Medallion : Reveals one Bilgewater skin shard and one random skin shard.

: Reveals one Bilgewater skin shard and one random skin shard.

Cursed Capsule: Get three skin shards (with one guaranteed to be Epic or higher), 225 Orange Essence, and a chance to obtain an event-only Bloodharbor Medallion or Golden Kraken. Gemstone and Gemstone Skin drop rate multiplied by 1.5.



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