Today's patch starts off the 5.8 PBE cycle and it is MASSIVE! New stuff includes, andskins, several improvements and changes to ARAM, the previously announced Chroma packs forand, big changes for, Texture rebalances for, &, and MORE!Continue reading for more information!

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

Table of Contents





New Skins

To start off the cycle we have four new skins up for testing on the PBE - Risen Fiddlesticks, Forsaken Jayce, Blood Moon Zilean, and Master Arcanist Ziggs .



Risen Fiddlesticks



[Note: The helm is a little messed up atm. Should look more like this.]

1350 RP[Note: The helm is a little messed up atm. Should look more like this.]~~~~~~

Riot KateyKhaos

"From the sands comes Risen Fiddlesticks!

Risen Fiddlesticks will be 1350 RP* and includes:

New model and texture! (Oooh, shiny!)

New particles! (He gives a whole new meaning to throwing sand in your enemies' eyes!)

New sounds! (They're uh... pretty 'buggy', one might say. :D)

New recall animation! (Poor Fiddle!)

Risen Fiddlesticks is now available to play on PBE! We always find bug reports and feedback super helpful, so feel free to comment in the thread below! Likewise, if you've got any questions, post 'em here, and we'll do our best to answer them!

*Prices on PBE are subject to change."

Forsaken Jayce 1350 RP 1350 RP





Galetta with aForsaken Jayce: Here'swith a bugs & feedback thread for

"Bring down the hammer!

The dark and brooding Forsaken Jayce has descended onto the PBE! This skin includes:

All new model and texture!

All new particles!

All new recall animation!

All new SFX!

This skins price is 1350RP - (pricing subject to change)

Your feedback and bug reports are extremely helpful to us, so please check out Forsaken Jayce and let us know what you think! Feel free to drop any bugs you find in this thread as well!

See you on the Rift!

Note: His Acceleration Gate (E) is supposed to be blue. Due to game play concerns we made an entirely new particle but kept the coloring blue to make it obvious that this Gate is from a friendly Jayce. It's a similar situation to Ahris (Q) color which can't be changed since it shows if her passive is active or not."





Blood Moon Zilean 975 RP 975 RP

Nurse Flan

"Dark clouds part and reveal a sinister red moon. Its red beams of moonlight pierce through the night as Blood Moon Zilean emerges from the shadows. He has seen your future, and it was painful...

Zilean merged the blood moon arts with his powers over time, and he's ready to showcase his new abilities on the Rift! He will be priced at 975RP *

Completely new model (new mask and robe!)

Carries around a new time machine! (blood moon style!)

New particles for abilities!

New recall! (he uses his clock as a gong!)

New audio for his Recall, Q and R!

As players who get the first look at this in-progress skin, it would be wonderful to hear your thoughts and feelings on the new Blood Moon 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!

*Prices are not final and may be subject to change :)"

Master Arcanist Ziggs 1350 RP 1350 RP

Galetta with a Master Arcanist Ziggs: Here'swith a bugs & feedback thread for

"Magic first, questions later!

Master Arcanist Ziggs, the skilled arcane wizard, is ready to try out some new spells on the PBE! This skin includes:

All new model and texture!

All new particles!

All new recall animation!

All new SFX! This skins price is 1350RP - (pricing subject to change)

Your feedback and bug reports are extremely helpful to us, so please check out Master Arcanist Ziggs and let us know what you think! Feel free to drop any bugs you find in this thread as well!

See you on the Rift!"

ARAM Improvements

Riot JxE

"Hey all!

As we continue to polish and update Summoner’s Rift, we found a cool opportunity to make some improvements to Howling Abyss and ARAM. Without any further ado, let’s break the ice and get things rolling – here is the list of changes coming to the PBE today:

Gameplay Changes; My Mind is Telling Me No:

New Summoner Spell on ARAM: Mark/Dash

After analyzing the results of Legend of the Poro King, we realized that Poro Toss gave an across-the-board bump in viability to some historically unpopular picks and helped balance the playing field. After careful consideration and some tweaks we’re bringing this back to ARAM as an optional new summoner spell called Mark/Dash.



Mark allows you toss a projectile at an enemy unit, you can then follow up on a Marked unit with Dash to quickly travel to the Marked target.

Go forth and tower dive, but remember, it’s only worth it if you say so in chat.

Item Changes; Out With the New, In With the Old:

Bloodthirster added

With the recent rework of Bloodthirster, it made sense to re-introduce the SR favorite to ARAM to help out champions that rely on high AD to be more successful on the map. The passive doesn’t hurt either - shields up!

Sanguine Blade removed

10 out of 10 ADCs agree that Bloodthirster is bigger, better and bloodier than Sanguine Blade. We can't argue with that, so we’ll be retiring it from ARAM.

Warmogs added

Ever shed a tear after purchasing Giant’s Belt on ARAM only to remember you can’t build Warmogs? We’re bringing the HP behemoth to ARAM to give tanks a little love and to help them survive poke long enough to initiate at the right time. Note that we’ll be keeping a close eye on this one to make sure tanks don’t become too overpowering.

Skin Boosts; Turning the Random Dial to 11:

After flicking some switches and fiddling with a couple of dials, we've successfully added Skin Boosts to our ARAM update! Throw down 95RP and you'll give everyone on your team a one-time random skin for the champ they're using that game. You'll also earn yourself 200IP while giving your teammates 100IP.

Map & Art Changes; No More Nexus Gnomes:

We’ve skinned some of the art from Summoner’s Rift to match the Howling Abyss theme and bring some consistency between the maps. We also took this opportunity to do some general art polish, make some performance improvements and fix an issue that caused champion spells to sometimes be clipped when drawing on the ground. Check out these screenshots for more details.

Reskinned Nexuses (Nexi?)

Reskinned Minions



New Loading Screen



If you discover any bugs, please post them here!"

The new "Mark/Dash" summoner spell does not seem to be implemented on the PBE just yet.





New Feature - Chroma Packs

[These are included in today's update but Dragonfist Lee Sin is not enabled just yet.]

Lucian: Prime Chroma

590 RP









Dragonfist Lee Sin

590 RP

Context on PBE The Black Cleaver changes

Riot Axes

"Hi folks, Riot Axes here to talk about The Black Cleaver update coming to the PBE (soon!). The Black Cleaver is an item that’s been in a pretty rough spot for a while: when it’s cost effective, it makes you good at killing, well, anyone, since it gives strong burst tools through flat armor penetration, along with tank-busting power with armor shred (anyone remember League of Cleavers?). Because of these issues, we've had to tune the item accordingly, which has left is pretty mediocre at both jobs (bursting folks vs. shredding tanks).

That brings us to today. Right now we're setting out to give the item a more cohesive identity. Specifically: tank busting. We're giving TBC more max shred and a new set of stats that are best used by champions longer combat patterns – with more CDR and health, plus a movement passive – at the cost of reduced attack damage and removed flat armor pen. This should allow The Black Cleaver to be a genuinely powerful option in certain scenarios without just dominating every situation.

The item:

The Black Cleaver

Phage + Kindlegem + 825 gold (3000 gold total)

+400 Health

+40 Attack Damage

+20% Cooldown Reduction

UNIQUE Passive: Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion Cleaves them, reducing their Armor by 5% for 6 seconds (stacks up to 6 times, up to 30%).

UNIQUE Passive - Rage: Dealing physical damage grants 20 movement speed for 2 seconds. Assists on Cleaved enemy champions or kills on any unit grant 80 movement speed for 4 seconds instead. This movement speed is halved for ranged champions.

I'd love feedback on any part of this, but especially on item clarity - do you understand what's going on? Do you understand how to use it well?

Thanks!"





Texture Rebalances

Poppy

Noxus Poppy

Lollipoppy





Shaco





Mad Hatter Shaco

Royal Shaco

Nutcracko

Workshop Shaco

Asylum Shaco

Shyvana





Ironscale Shyvana

Boneclaw Shyvana





Darkflame Shyvana

Teemo





Happy Elf Teemo

Recon Teemo

Badger Teemo

Astronaut Teemo

Cottontail Teemo





Super Teemo

Panda Teemo





Mushroom





Teemo's R mushrooms have also been updated! R mushrooms have also been updated!





Ququroon

Balance Changes * Remember *: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, and sometimes radical changes. The changes you see below may be lacking context or other accompanying changes that didn't make it in - don't freak out! These are not official notes.



* Remember *: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, and sometimes radical changes. The changes you see below may be lacking context or other accompanying changes that didn't make it in - don't freak out! These areofficial notes.

Items

Farsight Orb



Tooltip now mentions "This Ward is untargetable by allies"



Hunter's Machete

Health regen per second lowered to 6 from 7

lowered to 6 from 7 New Effect: Increases to 12 health regen per second when under 50% HP

[ Experimental ] Mandrake Ward

The files for this experimental item have once again been added to the PBE but it is not back up for testing just yet.

Odyn's Veil (Dominion)



Recipe changed to Negatron Cloak + Catalyst + 450g from Null Magic + Catalyst + 800g





Randuin's Omen

Unique active has been changed and now reads: "UNIQUE Active: Slows the movement speed of nearby enemy units by 35% and afflicts them with Cold Steel's debuff for 3 seconds. For each enemy champion slowed, gain 15% attack speed for 6 seconds (60 second cooldown)." Changed: Slow duration increased to 3 seconds from 2 seconds New Effect: "For Each Enemy champion slowed, gain 15% attack speed for 6 seconds" New Effect: "afflicts them with Cold steel's debuff for 3 seconds" Removed Effect: "+1 second per 200 armor and +1 second per 200 magic resist" Righteous Glory

Health reduced to 600 from 650

The Black Cleaver

The Black Cleaver has been redesigned in today's update: Recipe: Phage + Kindlegem + 825 gold (3000 gold total) 400 HP 40 AD 20% CD Unique Passive - Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion Cleaves them, reducing their Armor by 5% for 6 seconds (stacks up to 6 times, up to 30%). Unique passive - Rage - "Dealing physical damage grants 20 movement speed for 2 seconds. Assists on Cleaved enemy champions or kills on any unit grant 80 movement speed for 4 seconds instead. This Movement Speed is halved for ranged champions (Unique Passives with the same name don't stack.) [Additional context and discussion on these changes to The Black Cleaver can be find here in Riot Axes' PBE boards thread.]

Twin Shadows (Dominion & Twisted Treeline Variant ONLY) Cost increased to 2400 from 2300.

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