10/25 PBE Update: Plants and more tentative balance changes!

Posted on at 1:07 PM by Moobeat
The PBE has been updated! As we continue the three week 6.22 PBE cycle, today's update includes more pre-season plant changes and other tentative balance changes!
Continue reading for more information!

(Warning: PBE Content is tentative and subject to change - what you see below may not reflect what eventually gets pushed to live servers at the end of the cycle! Manage your expectations accordingly.)

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Plant Spawn System Iteration 10/25 

Following a few days of testing and feeback, several changes for the new plants system hit the PBE today.

Here's Riot Gmang with more information:
"Hey everybody, 
Thanks for trying out plants and letting us know how they played. We've read a lot and are using it to inform the design. Some of the concerns we want to address right away: 
  • "Plant spawns (especially Blast Cones) feel too random and can't be planned around."
  • "Plants are adding too much clutter." 
So, based on recent feedback (especially PBE and some internal feedback), we've done a significant iteration on the plant spawn system: 
  • The locations where Blast Cones can spawn are no longer randomized, and fewer will spawn
    • The "game start" Blast Cones now represent the only possible spawn locations
    • Removed most Blast Cone spawn locations; total per quadrant: 5-6 -> 2
    • Max Blast Cones alive at any given time per quadrant: 3 -> 2
    • Respawn time now begins on corpse cleanup instead of "Ready" state
  • Respawn times increased across the board
  • Seedling growth time increased: 30 seconds -> 60 seconds
    • (This is the stage of a plant life cycle where it's scoutable but not usable yet.)
  • Made other small adjustments to plant positions
    • Nudged some Honeyfruit spawns so they aren't "inside walls" or obscured by terrain as much
    • Moved the Scryer's Bloom spawn location between Blue Buff and mid lane a little away from mid (towards river) 
These were submitted to the PBE code on 10/24 (should appear on the 10/25 build), so the details of the old system explanation will be a bit outdated. 
Try the changes out on PBE and let us know what you think!"
Additional context from Meddler available [here].

Miscellaneous

  • Worldbreaker Nautilus' splash has been properly flipped for the champion page. [New]
  • [Few new or tweaked icons for the new masteries added. The new tank mastery icon has been corrected in game to be proper icon seen on 2017 changes page. ]

Balance Changes

Remember *: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, and sometimes radical or experimental changes. Be aware that what you see below may be lacking context or other changes that didn't make it in or were implemented in an earlier patch this cycle! These are not official notes.

Champions
Akali
[REMINDERAkali currently has a smaller scope rework on the PBE as part of the assassin update.]
[tweet from ricklessabandon on 10/25 changes.]
  • Mark of the Assassin (Q) [newNow adds Grievous Wounds for 4 seconds when target is below 40% health.
  • Twilight Shroud (W) cast time back to .25
  •  Crescent Slash (E) now refunds 60% cooldown if it kills an enemy

LeBlanc
[REMINDERLeBlanc currently has a larger scope rework on the PBE as part of the assassin update.]
  • Mimic (R) cooldown for Shadow of the Rose changed 160/140/120 to 150

Rengar
[REMINDERRengar currently has a larger scope rework on the PBE as part of the assassin update.]
  • Bonetooth Necklace (Passive) time for kill to get credit increased to 1.5 from 1.
  • Savagery (Q) [tooltip added "If cast while in a leap, Savagery is postponed to the end of the leap."].

Items
Serrated Dirk
  • Lethality lowered to 10 from 15

Duskblade of Draktharr
  • Lethality lowered to 15 from 20
  • Added to tooltip for Nightstalker - "(lasts for 4 seconds after being seen by an enemy champion)"

Edge of Night
  • Lethality lowered to 15 from 20
  • Unique Active - Night's Veil cooldown increased to 45 from 30

Jungle
Rift Herald*
  • Spawn time increased to 10 minutes from 6 minutes.
  • On spawn Attack damage lowered to 119 from 147

Check out [THIS PAGEfor a comprehensive list of the new content & changes currently on the PBE as a part of this cycle or catch up with the individual update links below !

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