9/14 PBE Update: Eternal Sword Yi Chroma, New Summoner Icon, and More Tentative Balance Changes

Posted on at 4:16 PM by Aznbeat
The PBE has been updated! As we continue the 7.19 PBE cycle, today's patch includes the Eternal Sword Yi chroma,a new summoner icon, and other tentative 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.)

Table of Contents


New Chroma

The previously mentioned Eternal Sword Yi's chroma assets are now in-game! [Note: Rose Quartz is not working at the moment. Will grab pictures when it's up!]

Eternal Sword Yi

    

[Pearl / Rose Quartz / Ruby / Obsidian / Turquoise]
[Video soon!]

New Summoner Icon

We also have bright new summoner icon featuring Archlight Yorick's crown is also in today's update.


Champion Select filtering, sorting, and favoriting now enabled on PBE! 


As we noted in the 9/13 PBE post, new filtering is in champ select. Here's SapMagic with more info:
"Hey guys! We just activated some new features in champ select to help you decide what to play. Notably, we're testing a handful of changes and we hope you'll give us some feedback!

FILTER BY POSITION 
We're replacing role filters (Assassin, Tank, Mage, etc.) with position filters (Top, Mid, Jungle, etc.) 
We think we can do a better job of helping you narrow down your choices when you're playing an off-position and our existing role filters don't serve that need very well. Position filters can help you find commonly-picked champions for whatever you're playing. 
  • Displays a variety of champions for each position based on data from the previous patch
  • Every champion is in at least one filter
  • New champions will show up the patch after they're released 
We chose to use patch data to help us populate the filters because we want to avoid the data getting stale or players feeling like we're deciding what should be played where. 
SORT BY MASTERY 
Sort champions by highest to lowest champion mastery points 
You can find your mains more easily when you sort by mastery. We're not showing things like current mastery level or tokens earned for now, but we may consider these in the future. This should still help you narrow down what you want to play to get the best match-up or synergy with your team. 
FAVORITES 
Right-click champions to add as favorite by position and find them quickly in champ select 
You can sort by favorites to have them bubble up to the top of the grid and they work with the new position filters. If you play Diana at Jungle and Mid, add her as a favorite for both positions. Then, whenever you're filtering by mid champions, she'll show up - even if she isn't one of the suggested champs from the last patch. 
HEXTECH CHEST FILTER 
See champions you haven't earned a Hextech chest with in non-ranked queues 
Now you should be able to easily find champions to play to earn those sweet Hextech chests. Since temptation is a leading cause of lost LP, we only show you this filter in non-ranked queues that are eligible for chests. 
We'd love your feedback on any issues you find while you're testing out the feature, and we'll see you on the Rift!"

Miscellaneous 

  • Store assets for one of Sacred Sword Janna's four chroma were added to LCU:

  • Your Shop is back up in the client:

Balance Changes

NOTE*: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, & experimental changes. Be aware that what you see below may be relative to other changes earlier this cycle! These are not official notes.

Champions

Azir
[NoteAzir has extensive changes already in testing on the PBE!]
  • Shifting Sands (E) dash speed reverted from 1400 to 1700.

Caitlyn
[Note: Caitlyn has extensive changes already in testing on the PBE!]
  • Base HP increased from 450 to 475
  • Headshot (Passive)
    • Attacks for free headshot reverted from 8 to 6.

Janna
[Note: Janna has extensive changes already in testing on the PBE!]
  • Base AD lowered from 49 to 46
  • Base HP increased from 500 to 525
  • Attack Speed per level increased from 2.61 to 2.95
  • Base movespeed reverted from 320 to 335
  • AD per level lowered from 2 to 1.5
  • Zephyr (W) 
    • Cooldown lowered from 14/12.5/11/9.5/8 to 12/11/10/9/8
    • Bonus movement speed changed from 5/8/11/14/17% to 6/7/8/9/10%

Veigar
[Context]
  • Dark Matter (W) 
    • [New Effect] "Every 50 stacks of Phenomenal Evil reduce Dark Matter's cooldown by 10% (currently x)."

Xin Zhao
[Context] [NoteXin Zhao has a gameplay update in testing on the PBE!]
  • Wind Becomes Lightning (W)
    • Thrust damage lowered from 40/75/110/145/180 to 30/65/100/135/170
    • Thrust AD lowered from 90% tAD to 85% tAD
    • Extended duration of other abilities now scales with cast time.
    • [New Effect] "Cast time is reduced with Attack Speed provided from items and levels (minimum of 0.4 seconds)."

Items
Ardent Censer
  • Passive effect's Attack speed bonus changed from [25%] to [20-35% based on target's level].
  • Passive changed from [attacks drain 25 health on-hit] to [attacks deal an additional 20 - 35 on-hit (based on target's level)]

Context & Notes


1) Riot Xenogenic noted a change for Xin Zhao:
"Based on player feedback, going to be testing a modification to Xin's W where its cast time is reduced with Attack Speed from items/levels"

2) Here's AzuBK with context on the Veigar changes in today's PBE:
"Hey! Just piggybacking off this to clear up some confusion. The cooldown stacks multiplicatively as DefiantTheLion guessed, so you're going to see 90%, then 81%, then 73%, etc. This means that it's...drumroll...uncapped! Since this model provides a linear dps increase per stack tier. 
Currently cooking up a more understandable way to word the tooltip that indicates this behavior (also taking suggestions ;) ). 
e: Also of note - missed some base stat work that makes his early lane less soft. Veigar's trading pattern is near worst-in-class, so we felt that his base stats could use some love (he will still be very punishable)."



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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