This mega post was last Updated on 1/18 with the 1/18 PBE Update

( With the release of patch 8.1 to live on January 10th, we started the new 8.2 PBE cycle. )





Previous PBE Cycles in 2018





extremely tentative , there is a possibility that things you see below will be changed or even reverted prior to the live patch.

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.

( Note: As the cycle continues, some images may be outdated!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

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



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"Hey everyone! Sorry for the wait! To make it up to all of you, we’ve got a bunch of Chromas coming out this patch! We’ll have Chromas coming out for Lunar Empress Lux, Lunar Guardian Nasus, Lunar Guardian Warwick, as well as a set of Golden Chromas for previous Lunar Revel skins (incl. Guqin Sona, Warring Kingdoms Garen, Lunar Wraith Caitlyn, Warring Kingdoms Katarina, Dragonwing Corki, and Dragonblade Riven. Whew!) Lunar Empress Lux Chromas:

New textures: “Shine bright!”

“Shine bright!” Ruby - A little red for good luck

- A little red for good luck

Peridot - I’m not jaded at all~

- I’m not jaded at all~

Rose Quartz - Peachy as ever

- Peachy as ever

Amethyst - The lotus blooms pure and untainted

- The lotus blooms pure and untainted

Turquoise - For a vivid new year Lunar Guardian Nasus Chromas:

New textures: “The cycle of life and death continues. We will live, they will die.”

“The cycle of life and death continues. We will live, they will die.” Ruby - My infernal brother’s going to be jealous

- My infernal brother’s going to be jealous

Meteorite - “The sky was naught but dying stars”

- “The sky was naught but dying stars”

Pearl - True ascension has never felt better

- True ascension has never felt better

Turquoise - “More souls for the pyre” Lunar Guardian Warwick Chromas:

New textures: “You hurt them, I hurt you.”

“You hurt them, I hurt you.” Ruby - “Blood brings rage”

- “Blood brings rage”

Meteorite - The darkness consumes, the monster emerges

- The darkness consumes, the monster emerges

Pearl - Such extravagance... delicious

- Such extravagance... delicious

Turquoise - A new year, a new beast Golden Chromas: Will be available through loot

New textures : From rags to riches!

: From rags to riches! Guqin Sona - Listen Summoner, to my new etwahl

- Listen Summoner, to my new etwahl

Warring Kingdoms Garen - For glory and Demacia!

- For glory and Demacia!

Lunar Wraith Caitlyn - The golden gun

- The golden gun

Warring Kingdoms Katarina - Let’s get these gold daggers dirty

- Let’s get these gold daggers dirty

Dragonwing Corki - Ever ride a gold dragon before?

- Ever ride a gold dragon before?

Dragonblade Riven - Just wait till you see my golden blade reforged! The Chroma sets are now available on PBE! However, there are currently a few notes: Final Names: The names in-game are not up to date, the final names are the ones you see above

The names in-game are not up to date, the final names are the ones you see above Legacy: These Chromas will be Legacy skins, meaning they will, at some point in time, become unavailable for purchase 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" Riot Mort also noted that it

"I can confirm these are not through a pass. I can also confirm they are not random, and you will be able to pick the one you want if you get one. Also while passes aren't in this event, I wouldn't say they are off the table in the future. If we find a more satisfying way to do them, they may return." They also noted that it would not require a pass to be able to get the Golden Chroma during the event:They also confirmed you should be able to get all six chroma:

"It will be possible to get all 6."





Lunar Revel Map Accents and Baron Skin The 8.2 PBE cycle brings us some Lunar Revel map accents, including Baron Nashor all dressed up for the event!





Lunar Revel Event Assets Assets for Lunar Revel themed loot are now on the PBE!



Here are the descriptions for each of the items:

Revel Golden Coin : Used to craft Golden Lunar Revel Chromas

: Used to craft Golden Lunar Revel Chromas Revel Token : Granted for completing Lunar Revel missions. Craft into exclusive rewards during the event. Tokens expire from inventory on March 12, 2018 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

: Granted for completing Lunar Revel missions. Craft into exclusive rewards during the event. Tokens expire from inventory on March 12, 2018 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Revel Grab Bag : Open to reveal 5 skin shards, one from every skin tier up to Legendary.

: Open to reveal 5 skin shards, one from every skin tier up to Legendary. Revel Skin Shard : Contains a skin shard for a random Revel skin. Does not include Lunar Empress Lux, Lunar Guardian Nasus, or Lunar Guardian Warwick

: Contains a skin shard for a random Revel skin. Does not include Lunar Empress Lux, Lunar Guardian Nasus, or Lunar Guardian Warwick Revel Orb: Get a guaranteed Skin Shard with a chance to contain bonuses like a Revel Orb, Revel Grab Bag, or Gold Coin. Gemstone and Gemstone Skin Shard drop rate multiplied by 1.5. This seems to confirm that the matching Golden Chroma and icons for the older Lunar Revel skins that we saw in the 1/9 PBE Update will be craftables. Here are the descriptions for each of the items:

Updated Miss Fortune Splashes The wait is over! Six of Miss Fortune's skin splash arts have been updated on the PBE!



Cowgirl Miss Fortune Loading Screen / Old Splash]

Waterloo Miss Fortune Loading Screen / Old Splash]

Secret Agent Miss Fortune Loading Screen / Old Splash]

Candy Cane Miss Fortune Loading Screen / Old Splash]

Road Warrior Miss Fortune Loading Screen / Old Splash]

Mafia Miss Fortune Loading Screen / Old Splash]

[Patched to Live] 2018 Season Login Themes Two new login themes are now on the PBE, celebrating the 2018 season! The files names are noted as "These logins were patched to live as of 1/12!





Still Image / Music]



Still Image / Music]

Ult Pings On the Scoreboard You can now ping ultimates and see ult cooldowns on the scoreboard! This doesn't effect the cooldown counters on the right of the screen.

Changes to Sightstone/Support Items coming to PBE Here's ItsLowbo with

"Hello! I’m Lowbo, a systems designer on the Game Systems team, and I’m here to talk to you about changes to Sightstone and the core support items!

The requirement to buy Sightstone has long existed as a tax on the support position, and while vision is an important element of the game, the way it delivers this has been a drain on satisfaction for a long time. We’d like to lift the obligation while still empowering Supports to be heavy participants in the vision game. Quick explanation of change

Sightstone and all of its upgrades will be removed from the store.

Support items will gain Sightstone’s active as their quest reward.

Support Tier 3 items now build out of Tier 2 and a Ruby Crystal, and give you the same stats as their respective line’s “Eye of the __” upgraded Sightstone on live.

For more context, read below. I’ll go through the goals and reasons behind these changes, and then give the complete changelist.

NOTE: Current names and icons for Tier 3 are temporary. We’ll have new names and icons for all three lines for Tier 2 after quest completion, and Tier 3 both pre and post quest completion. Goals of Change The main drive behind these changes is that we want supports to be more free to pursue their own build paths. Without a mandatory 800 gold purchase in the early game, Supports will be able to make more choices and have more agency over how their power is expressed. We will try to keep Sightstone timings and general support economy to be close to their live values.

One thing we’ve learned from Ardent Censer over the summer is that Support players greatly appreciated the ability to rush impactful items - they were able to feel like a bigger participant in the game. We’ve also learned that the game still functions well without a Sightstone rush - in other words, the game doesn’t break down from a lack of early vision.

We would still like Sightstone times to be a reflection of the support player’s skill, so we are putting it on the quest reward rather than just giving it out at a specific game time. We found that for most players, the existing quest rewards were very low satisfaction relative to their power level. We hope that gaining this active is a much more noticeable and satisfying reward.

Unfortunately, having an active as the quest reward requires us to remove the active branches of the item chains - Frost Queen’s Claim, Face of the Mountain, and Talisman of Ascension. Some of the actives provided important options, and so we’ll be looking at ways to bring Frost Queen’s Claim and Talisman of Ascension back in modified forms. Face of the Mountain’s active will likely not return in the immediate future. More Detailed Changelist: Sightstone and Ruby Sightstone have been removed from the store.

The quest reward from all three gold income item lines is changed to grant Sightstone’s active.

You will still be required to upgrade to Tier 2 to finish your quest.

Quest reward thresholds are reduced to 500 gold.

Your Tier 3 item will build out of your Tier 2 item and a Ruby Crystal, and will give you the same stats as an upgraded Sightstone on live. There is no longer a branching path to Tier 3 - the active variants of the items have been removed.

Upon quest completion, your Tier 2 item will have a maximum of 3 wards between trips to the store. Upgrading to Tier 3 will give you a maximum of 4 wards stored. Timing and Future Work We expect these changes will go out in 8.2, but they might be delayed a patch or two if we hit bugs or snags with implementation..

We’re still going to be ironing out some details - whether you have to return to the store to stock up on your first ward charges, around what time do we want the rewards to activate, whether this makes Spellthief’s line too risky (as you can get locked out of income generation if laning phase ends early), things like that. We will also be closely monitoring poaching by other laners and junglers. Thanks for reading! I’ll be around to answer questions." Lowbo provided a

"Sightstone and all of its upgrades will be removed from the store.

Support items will gain Sightstone’s active as their quest reward.

Support Tier 3 items now build out of Tier 2 and a Ruby Crystal, and give you the same stats as their respective line’s “Eye of the __” upgraded Sightstone on live. NOTE: Current names and icons for Tier 3 are temporary. We’ll have new names and icons for all three lines for Tier 2 after quest completion, and Tier 3 both pre and post quest completion. Please send any feedback and bugs you may have noticed playing with these changes on the PBE!" Check out the balance changes



PBE Bugs & Feedback Thread: Ally Skin Previews in Champion Select Here's Riot SapMagic with

"Hey friends! Later today we'll be activating Ally Skin Previews in Champion Select on PBE. The name pretty much says it all - starting patch 8.2, you'll be able to see which skins your teammates have selected. Now you can set up that sick Championship Thresh / Kalista bot lane or that all-Star Guardian team. The Details

Previews work in any matchmade game

Previews are only visible in Finalization Phase

Previews for other players are throttled slightly to avoid spamming, which can have negative impacts on performance

Previews only appear for skins you own Hit us with that sweet, sweet feedback and feel free to report any bugs you see as well."

Skin Collections Tab: Skin Descriptions Feature Feedback The Skins Collection tab is being updated with short and sweet skin descriptions.



Here's an example using the recently released Snow Fawn Poppy.



"The Poro King's right hand and loyal shield, Poppy enforces her furry liege's decrees and protects him from all harm. She also enjoys Snowdown festivities, a holiday she discovered on one of her many colorful adventures." Here's Riot Stellari with more:

"Hey all!



We’re really excited to announce that starting in patch 8.2 we’ll be rolling out Skin Descriptions for the Skins Collection Tab.



When we set out to make a new skin, we think a lot about how it fits into the skin’s alt-universe, what the champion’s background might be, and who the champion is in this universe. These conversations and character building inform everything about a skin, from the VFX, SFX, the recall, and of course the splash.



Sometimes we’ve shown you these stories through animations, comics, or short stories, etc… but a lot of times that background story remains head-canon and never leaves our brains...which is a shame. We want to start showing you more skin related ‘lore’ and background information, and adding descriptions to skins is one step in doing that.



We DO try to surface these background snippets in the splash or in-game elements and sometimes we succeed (Omega Squad skins). A lot of ya’ll picked up on the backstory of how Omega Squad Teemo lost his mentors and became the battle hardened Yordle psycho we know.



But sometimes we fail, like with the Immortal Journey skins. Did you know that Eternal Sword Master Yi was in love with an ascended being who guarded the Sacred Sword (cough Janna not Shen)? No? Well, if you did it was probably because you followed me on Twitter or saw my responses here. We didn’t do a very good job of telling that background story, unfortunately.



We hope with this small addition to the Skin Collection tab we’re able to give players who love skins a little bit more into the world they live in. In the future, we’ll also be adding the ability to sort by Skin Universe (did you know Project and Program share the same universe?)



As we have close to 1,000 skins in the game, categorizing and ordering them is going to be an ongoing process. Sometimes we have to go deep into the past: what was the backstory with Dark Candy Fiddlesticks? Did one exist? So this will take some time. But with each patch we’ll be adding a few more until we’re all caught up. With this initial batch, we focused on our biggest thematic sets, but you’ll be seeing a lot more shortly.



Do you have thoughts or feedback on the Skins Collection Tab? Let Riot Jedahs (Skin Collection Tab producer) and me (Skins producer) know! :)"

Miscellaneous The 8.2 PBE cycle brings us some Lunar Revel map accents, includingall dressed up for the event!The wait is over! Six ofskin splash arts have been updated on the PBE!Two new login themes are now on the PBE, celebrating the 2018 season! The files names are noted as " season2018-pre " and " season2018-post ".Here'swith changes for sightstone/support items this patch:provided a bugs and feedback thread for the Sightstone changes:Check out thebelow for more details!Here'swith a look at the new ally skin preview in champion select:The Skins Collection tab is being updated with short and sweet skin descriptions.Here's an example using the recently releasedHere's

Start of 2018 Season messaging now is now on PBE, you should see these when you first log on:



The new year brings us 8.2 withnew skins on the PBE includingand