5.24 PBE Cycle

• Champion Update
• Poppy, Keeper of the Hammer
• Stats & Abilities
• Voiceover
• Updated skins
• Battle Regalia Poppy
• Scarlet Hammer Poppy
• Noxus Poppy
• Blacksmith Poppy
• Ragdoll Poppy
• Lollipoppy
• New Skins
• Snow Day Bard
• Snow Day Gnar
• Snow Day Syndra
• New Ward Skins
• New Summoner Icons
• New Login Themes
• Lore Changes
• Snowdown Minions
• Rift Herald Changes
• Persistent Chats upgraded!
• ‘Legend of the Poro King’ game mode live now on PBE
• Snowdown Shop
• New Champion Select back for testing
• New Zhonya's Hourglass VFX
• Miscellaneous
• Balance Changes
• General
• Champions
• Items
• Masteries
• SR Jungle
• Other
• History

Champion Update - Poppy

Updated skins:

All six of Poppy's current skins (including four legacy skins) has been updated to go along with her champion updates, including new splash arts for each!

New Skins

Just in time for the holidays, the 5.24 PBE cycle includes three new frosty new Snowdown skins - Snow Day Bard, Snow Day Gnar, and Snow Day Syndra!

Snow Day Bard

 Here's Riot LoveStrut with a bugs and feedback thread for Snow Day Bard:

"jolly chimes jingle in the distance, cups of hot cocoa magically manifest at the edge of your vision, ethereal penguins let out excited honks from the cosmic ether 

Everyone's favorite snowy Caretaker has arrived! Snow Day Bard is here to take you on a jolly Magical Journey, full of hot chocolate, snow balls, and magical penguin companions! 

Snow Day Bard will be 1350 RP* and will include:

• New models and textures - Bard's bundled up for his travels and donning a new icy instrument! The Meeps have been magically penguinified too!
• New particles - From icy tethers to magical snowflakes to hot chocolate health packs, lots of new particles here!
• New wintery sound effects - From the sounds of ice freezing your enemies upon a successful tether to mystical penguins honking into existence at Bard's side, tons of new sounds here too!
• New recall animations - Bard's helping his playful little snow-friends build a SnowBard!

Snow Day Bard is now available to play on PBE! Please note that PBE content is still a work in progress. Bug reports, constructive feedback and just general reactions are always welcome and appreciated, so please let us know if you have any questions or concerns, and we’ll do our best to address them! <3 

*Prices on PBE subject to change."

Snow Day Gnar

Here's Galetta with a bugs and feedback thread for Snow Day Gnar:

"Watch out for icy boomerangs and frozen penguins, Snow Day Gnar has hit the PBE!
This skin includes: 

• New model and textures!
• New recall animation(s)! (One for both little and big Gnar!)
• All new particles! (FROZEN PENGUIN BOLDER?! )
• New recall SFX!

This skin will be 975RP (PBE pricing subject to change) 

Your feedback and bug reports are extremely helpful to us, so please check out Snow Day Gnar 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!"

Snow Day Syndra

Heres Riot KateyKhaos with a bugs and feedback thread for Snow Day Syndra:

"Snowball fight! Snow Day Syndra is ready to toss some snowballs on the Rift! 

Snow Day Syndra will be 1350 RP* includes: 

• A new model and texture - she's all bundled up and ready for a snowball fight!
• New particles consisting of snow and ice! (Keep an eye out for when she maxes out her skills!)
• New wintery sound effects!
• New recall animations - do you want to build a Syndra? ;)

Snow Day Syndra is now available to play on PBE! Please note that PBE content is still a work in progress! We always find bug reports and feedback super helpful, as well as constructive feedback, 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 subject to change."

New Ward Skin

Penguin Skier Ward

Here's Riot LoveStrut with a bugs & feedback thread for the Penguin Skier Ward!

"The Penguin Skier Ward is here to add more cuddliness and snowiness to your vision game! 

The Penguin Skier Ward has... 

• All new model and textures! (Cute little penguin with winter gear and skis!)
• New sound effects! (There is currently a bug affecting these sounds, but we'll get that fixed asap!)
• New snowy particles! (Snow and sparkles!)
• New animations, including an on-hit animation! (Just don't feel too bad when you try to take out this little dude's ward)

If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to leave a comment below! :D We really appreciate your feedback."

New Summoner Icons

We also have a cool batch of new summoner icons, release details for these are available here.


While you won't be able to purchase them specifically for yourself, these next four new legacy summoner icons will be available to send to friends for 100 IP each!

"We’re also launching four new Legacy “snowball” icons that you can toss to your friends (or enemies who you want to make friends) for 100 IP each. Anyone who gets a snowball icon to the face will get to keep that icy icon and will also get a one-win IP boost. (Legacy - 100 IP)"

New Login Themes

To go along with the upcoming skins, we also have a brand new Snowdown login theme!


There was also a Poppy Update login theme added.

Lore Changes

• Dr. Mundo
• Galio
• Irelia
• Kog'Maw
• Leona
• Nidalee
• Rumble
• Varus
• Xin Zhao

If you'd prefer to view these in text form, click here.

Snowdown Minions

Minions are dressed up for Snowdown and will be jingling through Howling Abyss and Summoner's Rift during the Snowdown patch.

Rift Herald Changes

Rather than bestowing a buff to the player who slays it, Rift Herald now drops a relic at the entrance to it's pit that grants the Doom's Eye buff  to whoever walks over it.

While BOTH teams can see this relic when it drops, currently only the team who got the Rift Herald kill can actually pick it up to get the buff.

Persistent Chats upgraded

"Hi, Everyone,

A couple months ago we rolled out persistent chat rooms onto the PBE. This was an early test for building the foundation for new social features we announced with the 2016 Season Update. As we officially move forward, we've updated the name on PBE to reflect that these "chatrooms" have evolved into our earliest version of clubs.

What are clubs? They are player-named, player-organized, and player-controlled social groups. The long-term goal is to help you head into games with the right teammates every time by helping you find like-minded players to compete with. We plan on building a whole lot more on top of the current functionality of clubs but right now we’re starting simple. Just like “persistent chat rooms”, you can own one club and be a member of three at any given time, with all the same moderation tools.

With this first update, you can now set a tag for your club that can be displayed in various places including your Hovercard, and more importantly, in game. Ranked team tags will still take precedence in ranked team games. Since you can belong to multiple clubs, you now have the option of setting a club to be active, which means that club’s chat room will open on login, and other players will see that affiliation.

We plan to push out updates to clubs as they become available (which means we'll need to occasionally reset all clubs), so take a look and let us know if clubs make it easier to stay connected in League with friends!

Thanks,
Limely :3 

p.s. We are playing around with colors on tags so please put up with the current atrocity for a day or two. :3"

As mentioned in the post, your club tag will now show up in-game and on the hovercard!

While this new feature has been in testing on the PBE for a while, check out the 2016 Season Update post about clubs for more information! No ETA on live launch yet!

‘Legend of the Poro King’ game mode live now on PBE

As mentioned in the Snowdown preview, Legend of the Poro King is back on the PBE to get ready for it's return to the live servers in patch 5.24!

Here's L4T3NCY with more information:

""Now come the days of the King..." ...the PORO KING! :D

The Legend of the Poro King is returning! For those of you new to the game mode, here's the rules again: 

New summoner spells
When playing the Legend of the Poro King, your regular summoner spells are replaced with two new ones, made just for the mode: 

1) Poro Toss / Poro Dash: (20sec cooldown) 

Throw a Poro a long distance, dealing true damage to the first enemy unit hit. This ability can be recast for 3 seconds after it hits an enemy to cast Poro Dash, which will dash your champion to the target hit. Dashing to the target will reduce the cooldown of Poro Toss by 5 seconds. 

2) To the King!: (10sec cooldown) 

Passive: Hitting an enemy champion with a Poro gives your team a Poro Mark. Upon reaching 10 Poro Marks, your team summons the Poro King to fight alongside them. While the Poro King is active, no Poro Marks can be scored by either team.
Active: Quickly dash to the Poro King’s side. Can only be cast when the Poro King is summoned for your team. 

The Poro King 

The Poro King is benevolent and will aid whichever team has summoned him. He can be dispelled, but only to return again when enough favour has been curried with him. As a tanky siege minion, he brings an impressive power boost to whichever team he’s aiding. His powers include: 

-- Tanky siege minion with a LOT of health. Let him be your front line!
-- The Poro King absorbs all Poros within his range being thrown by the enemy team, making him a powerful pushing force.
-- The Poro King will heal nearby allied champions every 5 seconds for health and a smaller amount of mana based on the team’s average level.
-- Every 5 seconds, the Poro King will lob out Poros in an arc around him, dealing magic damage to enemies where they land. 

We're also bringing back the Poro icons from last year! Equipping them as your summoner icon will skin your poros in the Poro King game mode for the duration the mode is live!  

That's all for now. :) Let us know if you guys spot any bugs! 

--- L4T3NCY "

In case you need a reminder, here's what the unique poro skins look like:

• Poro
• Astronaut Poro
• Battlecast Poro
• Dragonslayer Poro
• Gentleman Poro
• Shadow Isles Poro

Miscellaneous 

• The Elderwood Hecarim splash was updated to include several more birds on the two trees near Hecarim.

Anivia

• Flash Frost (Q) reverted chill duration lowered to 2 seconds from 3 seconds. 
• Glacial Storm (R)
•  chill duration lowered to 1 seconds from 2 seconds. [s 1& s 2]
• Break range down to 1000 from 1200

Ashe

• Ranger's Focus (Q) now has a maximum of and is castable at four stacks down from five!

Bard

• Traveler's Call (Passive) Meep recharge rate reduced to 8 from 10 [s]
• Caretaker's Shrine (W):
• Initial AP ratio is up to .3 from .2 
• Maximum Charge AP ration increased to .6 from.45.

Brand

• Pillar of Flame (W) mana cost increased to 70/80/90/100/110 from 70/75/80/85/90

Dr. Mundo

• Infected Cleaver (Q) 
• Max damage to monsters  300/350/400/450/500
• Current health damage changed to 15/17.5/20/22.5/25% from 15/18/21/23/25%
• Masochism (E) 
• Maximum health scaling is now 3/3.5/4/4.5/5% from 5% at all ranks
• No longer applies extra damage to towers.

Hecarim

• Base HP reduced to 580 from 599
• HP growth reduced to 90 from 95
• Warpath (Passive) NO LONGER ignores unit collision.

• Devastating Charge (E) can now move through units during duration of buff.

Kindred

• Lamb's Respite (R) cooldown changed to 160/130/100 from 150/130/110

Kog'Maw

• Bio-Arcane Barrage (W)
• No longer has an 1.25% AD ratio.
• Now also deals 2% flat damage

Malzahar

• Null Zone (W) damage lowered to 4/4.5/5/5.5/6% of max health per second from 4/5/6/7/8%

Master Yi

• Meditate (W) **AP radio reduced to .15 from .3

• [**NOTE: Meddler has commented: This is a tooltip correction only. The actual ratio's been 0.15 for a long time.]

Miss Fortune

• Strut (W) attack speed lowered to 40/55/70/85/100% from 60/70/80/90/100%
• Make It Rain (E) slow reduced to 28/36/44/52/60% from 40/45/50/55/60%

Nidalee

• Javelin Toss ( Human Q) 
• Damage increased to 60/77.5/95/112.5/130 from 50/70/90/110/130
• Max Damage increased to 180/232.5/285/337.5/390 from 150/210/270/330/390

Quinn

• Base Damage lowered to 54.46 from 56.46
• Blinding Assault (Q) 
• Mana cost increased to 50/55/60/65/70 from 50 at all ranks
• Damage lowered to 20/45/70/95/120 from 25/55/85/115/145
• Total AD scaling reduced to .8/.9/1/1.1/1.2 from .8/.95/1.1/1.25/1.4

Rammus

• Powerball (Q) 
• Slow duration lowered to 2 seconds from 3 seconds
• Hitbox reduced  to 225 from 325

Riven

• Base Health Regen Per Second increased to 1.068 from .668

Soraka

• Star Call (Q) range reduced to 800 from 950
• Astral Infusion (W) Mana cost increased to 40/45/50/55/60 from 20/25/30/35/40
• Wish (R) no longer removes Grievous Wounds.

Swain

• Nevermove (W) root duration reduced to 1/1.3/1.5/1.8/2 seconds from 2 at all ranks

Ziggs

• Short Fuse (Passive) now deals double damage to structures, up from 150% damage.

• [Reverted] Mega Inferno Bomb (R)
• Damage increased to 300/450/600 (1.1 AP) from 250/375/500 (.9 AP)
• Enemies further away now take "two-thirds" damage from 80%

Essence Reaver

• Now reads "UNIQUE Passive: Gain increasingly more Cooldown Reduction from Critical Strike Chance provided by other sources (maximum +20% additional Cooldown Reduction at 30% Critical Strike Chance)" from "UNIQUE Passive: Gain up to +20% additional Cooldown Reduction equal to your Critical Strike Chance from other sources."

Farsight Alteration

• Cooldown is now 76-60 (at level 9-18) from 61-48 (at level 9-18)
• Vision Radius of ward decreased to 500 from 900

 [New] Murderous Intent

• Strings added for a new mastery but it hasn't been added to the tree yet.
• EFFECT: "Deal 5% increased damage to champions until you gain a kill or assist"

Ferocity:

Feast  [Ferocity- Tier 2]

• Cooldown increased to 25 seconds from 20

Deathfire Touch [Ferocity- Tier 6]

• [Damage changed]
• Base Damage changed to [8 + 50% bonus AD & 20% AP over 4 seconds] from [6 + 50% bonus AD & 20% AP over 3 seconds]
• [Duration changed]
• Burn Duration for Single target increased to 4 seconds from 3 seconds.
• Burn Duration for AoE increased to 2 seconds from 1.5 seconds
• Burn Duration for damage over time decreased to 1 second from  1.5 seconds.

Fervor of Battle [Ferocity- Tier 6]

• Now only stacks on champion hits
• Using abilities no longer stacks, they must hit enemy champion.
• Melee attacks now generate 2 stacks 
• Spell hits now generate 2 stacks (with 2 second cooldown) 
• Duration increased to 6 seconds from 5

Cunning:

[New] Assassin

• New Mastery added to tier 2 of the cunning tree, making that tier have a total of 3 options.
• "Deal 1.5% increased damage when no allied champions are nearby".
• [Rough example of range for "nearby"]

Precision [Cunning - Tier 5]

• Armor penetration increased to [ 1/2/3/4/5 (+.1/.2/.3/.4/.5 per level) ] from [ 0.6/1.2/1.8/2.4/3.0 + .06/.12/.18/.24/.3 per level) ]

Thunderlord's Decree

• Bonus AD ratio increased to 30% from 20%
• [NOTE: AP Ratio bug should be fixed - properly giving 10% AP now]

Windspeaker's Blessing  [Cunning - Tier 6]

• Heals/Shields now grants flat armor and MR based on level instead of increasing  resistances by 15%
• 5-22 Armor
• 2.5-11 MR

Resolve:

Unyielding [Resolve - Tier 1]

• Bonus Armor/MR reduced to 1/2/3/4/5% from 1.2/2.4/3.6/4.8/6%

Explorer [Resolve - Tier 2]

• Movement Speed in Brush & River increased to 15 from 12

Veteran's Scars [Resolve - Tier 3]

• Now gives 9/18/27/36/45 health from .8/1.6/2.4/3.2/4%

Bond of Stone [Resolve - Tier 6]

• Base damage reduction increased to 3% from 2%
• Damage reduction & damage transfer when near ally lowered to 6% from 8%

Greater Murkwolf

• Base HP: 1300 from 1320
• Base Armor: 10 from 9

Ancient Krug

• Base HP: 1450 from 1440
• Base Armor: 10 from 12

Other

Patch History for this cycle:

11/24 PBE Update

• Champion Update - Poppy
• New Ward Skin
• Rift Herald Changes
• Persistent Chats upgraded!
• ‘Legend of the Poro King’ game mode live now on PBE
• New Champion Select back for testing
• Balance Changes

11/30 PBE Update

• Snowdown Shop
• New Summoner Icon
• New Zhonya's Hourglass VFX
• Poppy Lore Update
• Balance Changes

12/1 PBE Update

• Snow Day Splash Art
• Snowdown Login Theme
• PROJECT: Poro
• Balance Changes

12/2 PBE Update

• Poppy Login Screen
• Balance Changes

12/3 PBE Update

• Skin Updates
• Miscellaneous
• Balance Changes

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