(Warning: PBE Content is tentative and iterative - what you see may not reflect what eventually gets pushed to live servers! Manage your expectations accordingly. )

( Note: As the cycle continues, some images may be outdated! )

Below you will find a comprehensive list of new content, balance changes, and whatever else is included in the current PBE cycle! Be aware that these changes are, there is a possibility that things you see below will be changed or even reverted prior to the live patch.

( With the release of patch 6.24 to live on December 7th, we started the new 7.1 PBE cycle. )

This mega post was last Updated on 1/8 with end of cycle screenshots & videos.

New Champion Skins

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Dreadnova Gangplank

Nurse Flan

"As the sun sets in the Jade Kingdom, Warring Kingdoms Azir contemplates the battles ahead. He places a white marker on the Go board and reminds himself to remain focused -- enemies lurk in every shadow.

The Emperor's Array

All new VFX! (swooshy smoke!)

Some new SFX! (less sandy!)

New Recall (that is an actual "checkmate" setup!)

Set to be 1350 RP (pricing subject to change)

We'd love to hear your thoughts and feelings on Warring Kingdoms Azir as you take a first look at this in-progress 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!"

Warring Kingdoms Garen

Riot Time Wizard

"Stand at attention! Warring Kingdoms Garen is here to lead the charge into battle.

Warring Kingdoms Garen will be 1350 RP* and includes:

New model and texture (jade-bladed sword!)

(jade-bladed sword!) New particles (Dragon Whirlwind!)

(Dragon Whirlwind!) All-new SFX!

New recall animation (Blade dance and war banner!)

Warring Kingdoms Garen is now available for testing on the PBE! As always, we love bug reports and constructive feedback, so please feel encouraged to share your thoughts/suggestions with us!

For glory!

*Prices subject to change."

Warring Kingdoms Vi

Riot LoveStrut

"With her jade gauntlets, Warring Kingdoms Vi will take down any target. There's no escaping these dragon-powered fists.

The Nitty-gritty

All-new model and textures (Jade. Dragon. Gauntlets.)

All-new VFX (Jade magic empowers her fists!)

All-new SFX (Same strength, more magic.)

All-new animations! (Feel the power pound into the ground!)

Set to be 1350 RP (prices are subject to change)

We always love hearing your feedback and feelings! All bug reports and thoughts help us make these skins even more awesome, so please keep 'em coming!

Thanks, cuties! <3"

Heartseeker Lucian

1350 RP





Riot Time Wizard

"Shot through the heart, and he's to blame -- Heartseeker Lucian's looking for love!

Heartseeker Lucian will be 1350 RP* and includes:

New model and textures (shimmering VFX on his blazer!)

(shimmering VFX on his blazer!) All-new spell particles (Who knew hearts could be so threatening?!)

(Who knew hearts could be so threatening?!) All-new SFX!

New recall animation (Hidden Sexy Sax Man!)

Heartseeker Lucian is now available for testing on the PBE! As always, we love bug reports and constructive feedback, so please feel encouraged to share your thoughts/suggestions with us!

*Prices subject to change.

Heartseeker Quinn

975 RP

Riot KateyKhaos

"Love is in the air - or maybe it's just Valor! Heartseeker Quinn is scouting for love on the Rift!

Heartseeker Quinn will be 975 RP* and includes:

New model and texture for both Quinn and Valor (He's a dove!)

for both Quinn and Valor (He's a dove!) New particles (Watch out for Cupid's arrows!)

(Watch out for Cupid's arrows!) New SFX for Heightened Senses (Dove coos!)

for Heightened Senses (Dove coos!) New recall animation (Won't you be my Valentine?)

Heartseeker Quinn is now available to play on PBE! We appreciate your constructive feedback as players who experience a firsthand look at this content. Feel free to leave it in the comments below! If you have any questions, you can also drop them below and I'll do my best to answer them! ^-^

GLHF!

*Prices subject to change."





New Chroma - Firecracker Jinx

Firecracker Jinx

[290 RP each or discounted in bundles]

New Ward Skin

Love Dove Ward

[640 RP]

Crest of the Rooster Ward

X RP

[Not available for testing / missing assets]

New Summoner Icons





New Esports Summoner Icons

EU LCS: Fnatic, G2 Esports, Giants Gaming, H2K, Origen, ROCCAT, Splyce, Team Vitality, Unicorns of Love, Misfits









LCK: SK Telecom T1, RoX Tigers, Samsung Galaxy, KT Rolster, Afreeca Freecs, Jin Air Green Wings, Longzhu Gaming, MVP, Kongdoo Monster, BBQ Olivers





LPL: Royal Never Give Up, Edward Gaming, NewBee, Vici Gaming, Snake Esports, Game Talents, OMG, Invictus Gaming, I May [set 1]

LJL: Rampage, DetonationN Gaming, Rascal Jester, USG, 7th heaven, SCARZ





CBLOL: INTZ Gaming, Remo Brave eSports, CNB e-Sports Cub, Keyd Stars, RED Canids, KaBuM! IDM, paiN Gaming, Operation Kino









OPL: The Chiefs eSports Club, Avant Garde, Abyss Esports, Dire Wolves, Exile5, Legacy Esports. Sin Gaming, Tainted Minds









[A second set of TCL icons with a gold background]









Esports Emotes

Lunar Revel 2017 Login

Hextech Crafting Assets

Assets for another new chest was included but do not have unique visuals (yet?).





Ascension returns for PBE testing

Riot Stephiroth

"Hello, Summoners!

Ascension is our next mode to make it into the League Client Update, and is ready for testing!

For Ascension in-game, there have only been a few minor updates:

Added a unique icon for the Xerath Boss (he's not a dragon anymore!)

Added a timeline event to Replays for when Xerath Boss is killed. (Now you can find your sweet highlights around him :D)

Minor bug fixes for various need champs ^_^

For Ascension in-client, there are a few known issues we are working out:

Placeholder art. Currently all the art is Twisted Treeline art :P We should have some updated assets sometime later this week!

Placeholder music and/or no music in Matchmaking or Game Select. We should have updates for this as well sometime this week!

For RGM modes in general, we also have a few fixes we are looking to ship live w/ Ascension the mode:

It should be more obvious when banning phase has started, with an audio cue (this is not in yet)

It should be more obvious when it's time to pick champions, with an audio cue (this is not in yet)

If you find any bugs, feel free to drop a comment here or report them via the Report A Bug Tool!

If you have any feedback, also feel free to drop it here :3

Happy Holidays, Summoners!"

League Client Update Changes

League Client Update Open Beta. Latest update / timeline Next up are a few changes for the. Latest update / timeline here





Bots are now available in custom games.

[ADDED 1/3]

Miscellaneous

Several files added relating to "LunarlRevel_Victory" and "LunarRevel_EoGFireworks" As a guess, these seem like vfx of some sort enabled for Lunar Revel. Stay tuned for more info.

Champions



Anivia "We will be adding a "flash forming" effect for both her base and blackfrost storms." **

"Fixing a bug where Empowered Storm usually takes 1.75 seconds to form instead of 1.5 seconds (this is technically a small buff)." - **



Shifting Sands (E) [tooltip no longer mentions shield scaling with 15% of bonus health - while jarring, there is no actual gameplay change here as the ability has been bugged on live for a while.]

Camille

HP Growth lowered to 85 from 95

to 85 from 95 Adaptive Defenses (Passive) duration lowered to 1.5 seconds from 1.5/2/2.5 seconds.

Spinning Axe (Q) bonus damage changed to [flat 30/35/40/45/50 damage + 65/75/85/95/105% of bonus AD] from [45/55/65/75/85% of total AD]

Blood Rush (W) mana cost lowered to 40/35/30/25/20 from 40 at all ranks.





Rend (E)

Passive no longer deactivates when E is on CD,



Minimum units killed for for mana cost refund lowered to 1 from 2.

Focused Resolve (W) - now does the same damage over two ticks instead of three.

[ NOTE : This would nerf the R cooldown granted by damaging with the ability.]

Mantra Bonus - Defiance (R+E) shield value lowered to 30/90/150/210 from 30/100/170/240.





Slicing Maelstrom (R) few changes - damage is similar for a full duration R but upfront damage nerfed significantly.

few changes - damage is similar for a full duration R but upfront damage nerfed significantly. Damage lowered to 40/75/110 from 80/145/210



AP Ratio lowered to 20% from 40%



[ new effect ] "Successive maelstrom hits against the same enemy deal an additional 10% damage for each hit they've already suffered from this storm."

] "Successive maelstrom hits against the same enemy deal an additional 10% damage for each hit they've already suffered from this storm."

[ removed ] "Each time an enemy is struck, further hits deal 25% less damage (minimum of 50% damage)."

Dragon's Rage (R) damage lowered to 150/300/450 from 200/400/600

Lightslinger (P) second shot damage increased to [40% increasing to 60% by level 13] from [30% increasing to 60% by level 16].

Piercing Light (Q) damage increased to 80/115/150/185/220 from 80/110/140/170/200

Meddler

Iron Ambassador (P) shield duration lowered to 3 seconds from 5 seconds.

Keeper's Verdict (R) - uncharged R now does 50% of damage.

New text added "Enemies hit with an uncharged Keeper's Verdict will take half the damage and be knocked straight into the air for half the duration."

[ NOTE : Uncharged R duration knock up is unchanged vs live. It has worked like this but was previously not mentioned in tooltip - src. ]





Overload (Q) :

: Bonus movement speed lowered to 25/28/31/34/37/40 from 25/30/35/40/45/50

to 25/28/31/34/37/40 from 25/30/35/40/45/50

2 Rune Discharge Shield lowered to 65-150 from 60-200 - values.

Deceive (Q) AP ratio lowered to 40% from 50%

AP ratio lowered to 40% from 50% Two-Shiv Poison (E) AP ratio lowered to 75% fro 90%

AP ratio lowered to 75% fro 90% Hallucinate (R) explosion damage lowered to 200/300/400 from 300/450/600

Meddler

Burnout (W) no longer does +20% extra damage against monsters.





Transcendent (Passive) :

: [ changed ] Force of Will (W) additional effect at max rank changed to "Deals 20% bonus true damage." from"Grabs 2 additional spheres near the target."

Force of Will (W)

AP ratio lowered to 70% from 80%

to 70% from 80%

Damage lowered to 70/110/150/190/230 from 80/120/160/200/240

to 70/110/150/190/230 from 80/120/160/200/240 Unleashed Power (R)

Cooldown increased to 120/100/80 from 100/90/80





Mana Regen increased to 1.52 from 1.518

Mana Regen growth increased to 0.16 from 0.1

Noxian Diplomacy (Q) healing increased to [17 + 3 per level from [15 + 2 per level]





Miscellaneous

[Going to try to keep tooltip only related changes in a section like this so there isn't as much confusion!]

[ Tooltip only ] Skarner Q tooltip changed to correctly say "basic attacks against non structures" instead of "basic attacks" for the cooldown reduction - no mechanic change. - [pic]









Items Skirmisher's Sabre

No longer lists "having vision" while target is marked. - screenshot.

Zz'Rot Portal

[CONTEXT]

Active / Void Gate duration lowered to 120 seconds from 150 seconds

Active / Void Gate cooldown lowered to 120 seconds from 150 seconds.

Voidling Health per level lowered to 0 from 50.

Voidling current health decay per tick increased to 20% from 10%

Voidling Structure Damage per level increased to 20 (360 at 18) from 5 (90 at 18).

Voidlings no longer add to the creep score of enemies who kill them.

Miscellaneous [ Tooltip only ] Zeke's Harbinger - tooltip now explicitly states you can only be linked to one.

12/13 6.24 Mid-Patch Update [ These changes below debuted on the PBE during the 7.1 PBE cycle but were pushed to 6.24 on live servers with December 13th hotfix! check 6.24 patch notes for more information.]



Camille

Base AD lowered to 60 from 62.

Precision Protocol (Q) - second hit true damage lowered to 40-100% (1-16) from 55-100% (1-16)

Ivern

Triggerseed (E) :

: Shield value lowered to 70/110/130/160/190 from 80/120/160/200/240



Slow duration lowered to 2 seconds from 3 seconds.

LeBlanc Shatter Orb (Q) SoM empowered Q bounce damage to minions lowered to 40% from 80% Distortion (W) damage lowered to 85/120/155/190/225 from 85/125/165/205/245

Rengar

Savagery (Q) damage lowered to 35/55/75/95/115 from 40/60/80/100/120 Bola Strike (E) damage lowered to 50/95/140/185/230 from 50/100/150/200/250

Shaco

Deceive (Q) AP ratio lowered to 40% from 50%

AP ratio lowered to 40% from 50% Two-Shiv Poison (E) AP ratio lowered to 75% fro 90%

AP ratio lowered to 75% fro 90% Hallucinate (R) explosion damage lowered to 200/300/400 from 300/450/600

Taliyah

Threaded Volley (Q)

Damage increased to 70/95/120/145/170 from 60/80/100/120/140



AP ratio increased to 45% from 40%



Subsequent hits on same unit now deal 60% reduced damage from 50%

Smite Base heal lowered to 70 from 100.

Bugfix

RiotMEMEMEME confirmed on reddit 7.1 will include a fix for the visual only bug causing Nighthunter Rengar's leap range indicator to be larger then it should be.

KateyKhaos mentioning a few skin related bug fixes for 7.1:

mentioning a few skin related bug fixes for 7.1: [src] bug fix to Mecha Malphite's Brutal Strikes - animation and proper glow fixed.

Brutal Strikes - animation and proper glow fixed.

[src] bug fix for River Spirit Nami's tail collapsing on itself and spine issues.





Patch History for this cycle:









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