New Skins

Championship Kha'Zix

1350 RP

Riot KiWiKiD

"Championship Kha’Zix leaps onto the Rift with the following features:

New model and textures: Sleek blue and silver metals shimmering all over.

New VFX for all spells: Celebrate worlds with gorgeous--yet fierce--metallic effects.

New SFX for all spells: Your enemy won’t forget the sharp sounds of a champion.

New recall animation: Secret fireworks hidden away for the right time!

Championship Kha’Zix is now available to play on PBE! As players who experience this content firsthand, your constructive feedback is appreciated. If you have any questions, do drop them below and I’ll do my best to answer them.

Championship Kha’Zix is set to be 1350 RP.

Prices are subject to change"

Hextech Malzahar

Loot Exclusive



Here's Nurse Flan with a Hextech Malzahar:

"Hextech Malzahar is the newest addition to the Hextech collection! Ooo so ominous, has he taken over Hextech Poppy's lab!? New model and textures - Malz is now a Hextech machine!

New VFX for all spells - Hextech magic!

New SFX for all spells - Zippy zap!

New recall animations - A Hextech gem face hidden beneath his mask!

Hextech Voidling babies!! 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 Hextech 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! :) This skin is intended to be sold for a number of Gemstones.

Pricing is subject to change. See you on the Rift!" Here'swith a bugs & feedback thread for





New Chroma

Championship Shyvana, Kha'zix, Zed, Thresh, and Kalista have each received a golden chroma! Look for more details on how to unlock these chroma later in the cycle! Neolexical Championship Riven Golden chroma coming!



Like Championship Ashe in 2017,, andhave each received a golden chroma! Look for more details on how to unlock these chroma later in the cycle! noted there would also be aGolden chroma coming!

Championship Kha'Zix Championship Kha'zix will have a total of 24 team chromas, special loading screen, and summoner icon, one for each team to qualify for Worlds! (28 shown below, 2 regions have not yet locked!)



Championship Riven

Championship Shyvana Notably,will have a total of 24 team chromas, special loading screen, and summoner icon, one for each team to qualify for Worlds! (28 shown below, 2 regions have not yet locked!)

Championship Zed

Championship Thresh

Championship Kalista









New Esports Icons & Emotes









New Summoner Icons

Championship Kha'Zix Icon, Championship Ashe Chibi Icon, Champion Minions Icon, World Champion Minions Icon, On Duty Icon





Gold Worlds Master Pass Icon, [Unnamed]





Worlds Icon 2018, Epic Worlds Icon 2018, Mythic Worlds Icon 2018





Pick 'Ems Poro 2018, Pick 'Ems Wizard 2018 Icon



Championship Lantern, Championship Spears, Championship Blade, Championship Sword and Championship Gauntlet





Jakarta 2018





[As of yet unnamed]

[As of yet unnamed]

New Emote

New Ward Skins & Emote

2018 Championship Ward & Championship 2018 Emote





2018 Golden Championship Ward & Golden Championship 2018 Emote







Worlds 2018 Login Theme A new login themed around Worlds 2018 is now on the PBE:



Still Image / Music]

Worlds 2018 Loot Assets As we get closer to Worlds 2018, new loot assets have been added to the PBE! Details are still forthcoming, but here's a look at the assets:





Worlds 2018 Orb "Open to reveal a guaranteed random Skin Shard with a chance to contain bonuses like Orange Essence, a Gemstone, or a Mythic Skin permanent. Gemstone and Gemstone Skin drop rates multiplied by 1.5" Worlds 2018 Token "Forge your Worlds 2018 Tokens into Worlds 2018 orbs, icons, borders and more. Worlds 2018 Tokens expire from inventory on December 3rd, 2018 at 11:59 p.m. PT."

Championship Kalista Border + Icon, Championship Kalista (Golden Chroma)

Championship Kha'Zix Border + Icon, Championship Kha'Zix (Golden Chroma)

Championship Riven Border + Icon, Championship Riven 2016 (Golden Chroma)

Championship Shyvana Border + Icon, Championship Shyvana (Golden Chroma)

Championship Thresh Border + Icon, Championship Thresh (Golden Chroma)

Championship Zed Border + Icon, Championship Zed (Golden Chroma)

A new login themed around Worlds 2018 is now on the PBE:As we get closer to Worlds 2018, new loot assets have been added to the PBE! Details are still forthcoming, but here's a look at the assets:

Visual Effect and Sound Effect updates to Jarvan, Lee Sin, Veigar and Vi

Beardilocks

"Summoners!

On the PBE for testing this patch are updates to the visual effects (VFX) and sound effects (SFX) of four champions—Jarvan IV, Lee Sin, Veigar and Vi.

These older champions have great character art or fun gameplay, but they were developed before we established guidelines for how effects should appear in the game.

These guidelines include things like: making sure an ability's visual or audio representation matches its power relative to other spells, or using elements that clearly show the hitbox for a spell. You can read more about our guidelines for visual effects in our Visual Effects Style Guide.

Older champions whose effects don't meet these standards can be confusing in a teamfight or harder to learn to play. Champions like J4, Lee Sin, Veigar, and Vi are prime candidates for VFX and SFX updates because their effects aren’t up to today’s standards, but they also aren't high-priority for full VGUs. We can update their VFX and SFX in a significantly shorter time than it would take to do a full VGU, which allows us to deliver this kind of update much faster.

Here’s a breakdown of the updates you can expect to see on the PBE:

Veigar

Full upgrade of visual and sound FX.

Q - Baleful Strike now clearly indicates the hitbox

W - Dark Matter now feels appropriately like dark matter; explosion is 100% more satisfying

E - Event Horizon walls now more accurately show the hitbox

R - Primordial Burst is 200% more evil and burns the ground with its dark energy

All Veigar skins that previously used base VFX have been updated to use the new ones

Bad Santa Veigar and Leprechaun Veigar have also received an update to their unique VFX

Lee Sin

Full upgrade of visual and sound FX.

Q - Sonic Wave’s VFX look less flickery; audio and visual FX are now more like a sonic wave

W - Safeguard shield actually looks like a shield; scrolls received a visual upgrade

E - Tempest now clearly indicates the hitbox

R - Dragon's Rage has improved hit FX and leaves a fiery trail

All Lee Sin skins that previously used base VFX have been updated to use the new ones

Knockout Lee Sin's shield has been updated

Pool Party Lee Sin's Q mark has been updated

God Fist Lee Sin's E - Tempest now clearly indicates the hitbox

Jarvan

Full upgrade of visual and sound FX.

Auto attacks - Jarvan's auto attacks should look and sound more powerful, particularly his Martial Cadence

Q - Dragon Strike now clearly indicates the hitbox and looks suitably powerful

W - Golden Aegis VFX are cleaner; the shield is more golden and glowy

E - Demacian Standard's impact and glow effects have been upgraded

R - Cataclysm has improved visuals that reduce noise; looks 100% less like poop on destruction

All Jarvan skins that previously used base VFX have been updated to use the new ones

Vi

Visual effects cleanup and optimization—she should run much smoother on slower machines. Sound FX unaltered.

W - Denting Blows’ shield icon has been reduced to an appropriate size for the importance of the armor shred debuff

We’ve playtested these updates internally, and now we need your help—especially if you main one of these champions. Please try them out on the PBE and leave us your feedback here. There are a number of other champs whose VFX and SFX we’d like to update if these changes are well-received, so please help us to make these a success!"

Riot Sirhaian

"For those wondering, here's the difference between early and late game Veigar's ult missile. It scales up like on Live~

Let us know how you feel about this!"

Sirhaian

"Heyo! Made a little update for Veigar's ultimate (and a few small qol changes here and there), after reading tons of amazing feedback for his VFX update! Here's what it looks like now on PBE~! (Impact VFX reflects the changes too!)"

We're starting to test positional matchmaking on PBE

Riot SapMagic

"Hello summoners!

Back in April, we talked about our changes to Ranked for 2019. As part of those changes, we talked about how we had noticed player skill varies a lot by position, leading to unfair matchmaking and bad feels when you get your secondary position or get autofilled.

One way we're planning to address this is positional matchmaking, where we track your skill for each position and matchmake you based on that. This is a relatively large change, so we're going to be testing it starting in Patch 8.19 in all regions with Normal Draft. To kick off that process, we're turning it on for PBE.

Here's what you should expect to see later today when you play on PBE:

The Details

Everything should continue to work as normal in terms of queue times and position assignment

At the end of the game you'll see an indicator of the position we're updating the skill rating for

If we think you swapped positions, you'll see that too

Note: Matchmaking should feel roughly the same on PBE, not better, since it's a more experimental environment with fewer consistent players.

Try it out when you get a chance and give us feedback on how position detection feels. Thanks for all the help, and we'll see you on the Rift!

-Sap"

Miscellaneous

Two new skins are headed our way in the 8.19 PBE cycle -andHere'swith a bugs & feedback thread forEach of the teams participating in Worlds 2018 have had new summoner icons and emotes added to the PBE! Here's an example of each of the summoner icons and matching emotes. Not all of the teams will make it to Worlds, and only the qualifying teams icons/emote sets will make it to live.Each team qualified for Worlds will also have achroma and matching icon! Here is a look at the icon:A handful of new summoner icons are now on the PBE:A new "" emote is now on the PBE! This matches theTwo new Championship ward skins and matching emotes are now on the PBE!Here's with details on some VFX and SFX changes testing on the PBE:also provided an extra comparison shot forR: noted some continued changes forVFX:Here's a video showing off the changes for each champion (and skins if changed):Here's with details on positional matchmaking testing on the PBE: