( With the release of patch 8.5 to live on March 7th, we started the new 8.6 PBE cycle. )

Previous PBE Cycles in 2018

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.

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( Note: As the cycle continues, some images may be outdated!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

Table of Contents

New Summoner Icons



Also on the PBE are four April Fools themed icons:

New Emotes

New Ward Skin





Exo Ward

[Included in GG MF Premium Bundle





Pizza Chicken Ward ?? A second ward skin featuring a pizza AND a chicken is now on the PBE:

Gun Goddess Miss Fortune Login Theme

April Fools Login Theme

One for All is coming to PBE

Riot Popc0rner

"After a long hiatus, we're excited to bring One For All back to Summoner's Rift!

Ever wondered how fast 5 fully-geared Sivirs can run? Or what happens when a Tahm Kench eats a Tahm Kench who's eaten a Tahm Kench? Now's your chance to hop on PBE and find out.

What's One For All?

5v5 Battle on Summoner's Rift

All 5 players on each team play the same champion

Vote for your champion in Champ Select (Now with 5 bans!)

What's new?

Summoner's Rift has been sped up for One For All. You'll start at level 3, gain experience and gold faster, and more!

Shields and most buffs now stack. The main exception is slows, which "stack", but only apply the single strongest value.

Four votes are required to lock in a champion, instead of three.

Champions that haven't seen the light of OFA before:

Camille

Xayah

Rakan

Kayn

Ornn

Zoe

Kaisa

Champions that have been reworked since last time:

Warwick

Galio

Urgot

Xin Zhao

Evelynn

Swain

Disabled champions:

Teemo

Karthus

Wait, did you say Summoner's Rift is faster?

I did! We're trying to let people cut right to the fun of One For All, do the Wombo Combo™ a couple of times and then have the game end. During playtests, we found that the midgame was, by far, the most fun part of a game of OFA. Thus, most of the changes we made in this vein are intended to accelerate both teams into the midgame quickly, blend into the late-game for a while, and then tip decisively in the winning team's favor. As an extra benefit, being out-voted into a champion you don't like, or accidentally winding up in a really bad matchup isn't a big deal -- you can move onto the next game pretty quickly.

Overall, we're shooting for a game length of 20-25 minutes. If you have a game that's significantly longer than that, we want to know about it!

Thanks for reading, and as ever, let us know what you think!"

Waveclear work for 8.6 or later

Riot Repertoir

Hello!

It's been noticed that there are some changes to minions on the PBE, and those haven't been socialized at all, so here's a place to discuss those things.

Basic Idea

The changes are primarily aimed at making it more difficult to easily clear minion waves. I think that some version of that is good primarily because it means you'll have to spend more time in your lane actively managing the wave, resulting in increased time for you and your opponent to interact with each other. The more opportunities you have to interact with your opponent, the more you can demonstrate your own skill over them, and League could use a more opportunities to demonstrate skill over your opponent that don't necessarily manifest as "push and roam" strategies or other map-influencing strategies. This aims to improve the ability for players to beat their opponent in lane. There will certainly be balance outliers created on the top end as a result of this work, and they will need to be addressed if we move forward.

There are additional changes to minion gold value that concentrate it into cannons without meaningfully altering the amount of gold gained from minions (especially pre 20 minutes). This is another tactic to create regular conflict between lane opponents.

Straight up, I do NOT expect these changes to be immediately popular. Still, I could see doing them if I thought they increased the quality of the game over the long term especially. Both those things said, I'm not necessarily convinced this is the perfect list to get the best results. It's on the PBE regardless so that there can be conversation around it before things are finalized.

Here are the changes:

"Upgrades" occur every 3 waves, so using the melee minion example below, they go from gaining 18 Health (plus 0.3 per upgrade) every 3 waves to ganing 21 Health every 3 waves.

Melee Minions

Base HP :: 473 >>> 480



HP Growth :: 18 +0.3/upgrade >>> 21



Gold Value :: 20 >>> 21



Gold Value Growth :: 0.125 >>> 0

Caster Minions

Base HP :: 296 >>> 320



HP Growth :: 6 >>> 14



Gold Value :: 17 >>> 14



Gold Value Growth :: 0.125 >>> 0

Cannon Minions

Base HP :: 828 >>> 900



HP Growth :: 23 +0.3/upgrade >>> 50



Gold Value :: 45 >>> 60



Gold Value Growth :: 0.35 >>> 3 Thanks in advance for any input."

Miscellaneous

Loot strings for an upcoming event added, including newa few loot descriptions. While these are likely new event purchasables, keep an eye out more in the near future. "Score! Birdie's got your back. Open the bag to find a random, complete set of skin shards for over 60 skin lines such as Blood Moon, Star Guardian, and PROJECT. Limited and Mythic skins are excluded." "What's the word? Get three 975+ RP skin shards, 150 Orange Essence, and a chance to obtain an event-only Birdie Bag, Gemstone, or Gemstone Skin. Gemstone and Gemstone Skin drop rate multiplied by 1.5." Another handful of skin bios were added to the PBE, here's Resistance Illaoi as an example: "Chief enforcer of the human-led resistance, Illaoi was once the subject of a failed Battlecast conversion that left her with control over nearby machines. Seizing her newfound power, she has single handedly decimated Viktor's forces in countless battles, becoming a beacon of hope for rebels across the world." Your Shop is back up for testing on the PBE! Mysterious new Raptor models found in game.



A total of five newsummoner icons are now on the PBE, one for each of her suits included with skin purchase and one portrait icon included in her premium bundle. More info here Six new emotes have appeared this PBE cycle -andAlong withwe also have the newskin, available exclusively in her p remium bundle. A new login theme featuringis now on the PBE:will feature an animated splash like other ultimate skins! Here it is in action:A new April Fools themed login is now on the PBE featuringHere'swith details on the triumphant return of One for All for testing on the PBE!Here'swith a thread on waveclear changes now testing on the PBE: