Surrender at 20: 6.2 PBE Cycle

[NOTE: According to normal schedule, 6.2 should be headed to live around January 27th! Keep an eye out for server maintenance announcement soon!]

This mega post was last Updated on 1/21 with the 1/21 PBE Update

( With the release of patch 6.1 to live on January 14th, we started the new 6.2 PBE cycle. )

Previous PBE Cycles in 2016

[6.1]

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( Note: As the cycle continues, some images may be outdated!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

New Champion: Jhin, the Virtuoso

Champion Update: Shen

New Champion Skins

New Champion: Jhin, the Virtuoso

Our next champion Jhin, the Virtuoso is now on the PBE for testing!

Important links while Jhin is on the PBE:

Jhin, the Virtuoso

Stats & Abilities

Stats:

Range: 550
Movespeed: 325
Attack Damage: 53
Attack Damage Growth: 4
Health: 540
Health Growth: 85
Mana: 300
Mana Growth: 50
Health Regen: 1.1
Health Regen Growth: .1
Mana Regen: 1.2
Mana Regen Growth: .16
Armor: 20
Armor Growth: 3.5
Magic Resist: 30

Whisper (Passive)

Death in 4 Acts - Jhin's hand cannon has a fixed attack speed (.63 - increases at ~3% per level) and can be fired 4 times before needing to be reloaded. The 4th bullet always Crits and deals bonus damage equal to 15-25% of the target's missing health.

Every Moment Matters - Critical Strike Chance and Bonus Attack Speed have special scaling:

Attack Damage is increased by X [ (2-40 based on level)% + (40% of Crit Chance) %+ (25% of bonus attack speed)% of total AD).

Jhin's Crits deal 25% reduced damage but grant him 10% ( +40% of bonus attack speed) movement speed for 2 seconds.

[NOTE: Will reload after a short time without attacking.]

Dancing Grenade (Q)

30/35/40/45/50 Mana

7/6.5/6/5.5/5 sec Cooldown

[Range]

Jhin launches a cartridge at the targeted enemy that deals 60/85/110/135/160 (+.3/.35/.4/.45/.5 total AD) (+.6 AP) physical damage before bouncing to a nearby target that has not yet been hit.

The cartridge can hit a maximum of 4 times. Each kill by the cartridge increases the damage of subsequent hits by 35%.

Deadly Flourish (W)

50/60/70/80/90 Mana

14 sec Cooldown

[Range]

Jhin fires a long range shot that stops on the first champion hit, dealing 50/85/120/155/190 (+.7 Total AD) physical damage to it, and 65% of that damage to minions and monsters hit along the way.

If Deadly Flourish strikes a champion that has been hit by one of Jhin's basic attacks, Lotus Traps, or allies within the last 4 seconds it will root them for .75/1/1.25/1.50/1.75 seconds and grants Jhin movement speed as though he had crit them.

Captive Audience (E)

40/45/50/55/60 Mana

2 sec Cooldown

[Range]

Jhin places an invisible Lotus Trap at the target location that lasts 2 minutes and activates when stepped on, revealing nearby enemies for 4 seconds.

The trap leaves behind a zone that slows everything inside by 35%, and detonates after 2 seconds, dealing 20/80/140/200/260 (+1.2 Total AD) (+1.0 AP) magic damage (65% damage on subsequent hits and vs. minions and monsters).

Jhin prepares a new trap every 28/27/26/25/24 (reduced by CDR) seconds and can store 2 at once.

Beauty in Death - When Jhin kills an enemy champion a Lotus Trap will spawn and detonate where they were killed.

Curtain Call (R)

100 Mana

120/105/90 sec Cooldown

[Range]

Jhin sets up and channels, enabling him to fire 4 super shots at extreme range in a cone in front of him. The shots stop on the first champion hit, slowing it by 80% for .75 seconds and dealing 50/125/200 (+.25 total AD) physical damage, increased by 2% for each 1% health the target is missing. The 4th shot crits for 200% damage.

If cancelled early, Curtain Call's cooldown is refunded by 10% each unused shot.

[NOTE: Everyone can see the R cone]

Voiceover

Jhin's VO is up, clocking in at over 20 minutes! This includes oodles of special taunts - Bard, Draven, Garen, Illaoi, Jinx, Katarina, Lucian, Rek'sai , Shen, Sion, Sona, Tahm Kench, and Zed. He also has unique taunts for Ionian and Noxian champions.

[Click here for an explanation of the by Riot Utora!]

Jhin's champion select quote has been added as well:

"In carnage I bloom like a flower in the dawn"

Here are Jhin's special interactions with champions and buying items in the shop:

Interested in any of the non-English voiceovers? You can find videos here:

Background / Lore

Here's Jhin's short form in-client lore, expect a longer version on his champion page at release!

"'Art requires a certain... cruelty.''

Jhin is a meticulous criminal psychopath who believes murder is art. Once an Ionian prisoner, but freed by shadowy elements within Ionia's ruling council, the serial killer now works as their cabal's assassin. Using his gun as his paintbrush, Jhin creates works of artistic brutality, horrifying victims and onlookers. He gains a cruel pleasure from putting on his twisted theater, making him the best choice to send the most powerful of messages: terror."

Login

A login theme for Jhin is was also added!

[Click here to listen to or download music.]

Release Skin - High Noon Jhin

High Noon Jhin

1350 RP

Here's Nurse Flan with a bugs & feedback thread for High Noon Jhin:

"This premade ain't big enough for the both of us and I'm going to give you 24 hours to log off. If I see you in the lobby by this time tomorrow, it's you or me!

If you think you got the skills to deal in lead, pick up your pistols and take to the Rift!

Completely new model (so cowboy!)

New particles for abilities! (all smoke and guns!)

New recall! (100% accuracy)

New audio for most abilities! (powerful gun stuff!)

1350RP* - pricing is always subject to change!

NOTE: We are still finalizing his (E) passive, so there will be weirdness with the version that he sees!

As players who get the first look at this in-progress skin, it would be wonderful to hear your thoughts and feelings on the new High Noon skin! The feedback and bugs you leave here will help us get a better idea of things we may still have to take a look at. :]

See you on the Rift!"

Champion Update: Shen

Shen's champion update is now on the PBE, including new visuals, kit changes, and updated skins!

[NOTE: While it is very similar to the current, this is his updated splash and has bigger sword on back!]

[Click here for New vs. Old comparison]

Lore

Shen's short form in client lore has been updated, Expect a longer story and introduction on his champion page when his champion update hits live!

'The Eye is blind to fear, to hate, to love – to all things that would sway equilibrium.''

Leader of a secret clan of mystic warriors, Shen serves as the Eye of Twilight, entrusted to enforce equilibrium in the world. Longing to remain free from the confusion of emotion, prejudice, or ego, Shen continually struggles, spirit blade in hand, to walk the unseen path of dispassionate judgment."

Stats & Abilities

Stats:

Movement Speed: 340
Health: 540
Health Growth: 73
Energy: 400
Armor: 25
Armor Growth: 2.6
Health Regen: 2.0 (from 1.67)
Health Regen Growth: .15 (from .11)
Magic Resist: 32.1
Magic Resist Growth: 1.25
Damage: 60
Damage Growth: 3

Shen's maximum energy is now 400!

Ki Barrier (Passive)

After casting a spell, Shen gains a shield that absorbs 52 - 120 [+14% Bonus Health] damage for 2.5 seconds (cooldown 10 seconds). Spells that successfully affect an allied or enemy champion reduce this cooldown by 4-7.5 seconds.

Shen's power manifests as a spirit blade that he can control with abilities.

[NOTE: Allies and enemies can see the direction of the spirit blade.]

[NOTE 2: See this post from G-Mang on the blades idle behaviors.]

Twilight Assault (Q)

140/130/120/110/100 Energy

8/7.25/6.5/5.75/5 sec Cooldown

Shen recalls his spirit blade and draws it. Enemies it collides with are slowed by 35% when moving away from Shen for the next 2 seconds.

Shen's next 3 attacks deal 3/3.5/4/4.5/5% (+ ~1.5% per 100 AP ) of their target's max health as bonus magic damage. If the spirit blade collided with an enemy champion, those attacks deal 5/5.5/6/6.5/7% (+ ~2% per 100 AP) instead and have +50% Attack Speed.

Each attack deals 30 extra magic damage to monsters and minions (max 75/100/125/150/175).

Spirit's Refuge (W)

40 Energy

18/16.5/15/13.5/12 sec Cooldown

Shen's spirit blade creates a defensive zone for 1.75 seconds. Basic attacks that would hit Shen or an allied champion in the zone are blocked.

If there are no champions to protect in the zone when it starts, the spirit blade will not activate until one enters or 2 seconds pass.

Shadow Dash (E)

180 Energy

18/16/14/12/10 sec Cooldown

Passive: Dealing damage with Shadow Dash or Twilight Assault recovers 30-40 energy.

Active: Shen dashes in a direction, dealing 50/75/100/125/150 [+ 12% bonus HP] physical damage to enemy champions in his path and taunting them for 1.5 seconds.

Stand United (R)

No Cost

180/150/120 sec Cooldown

Shen grants a shield to a target allied champion that absorbs up to 250/550/850 (+1.35 AP) damage for 5 seconds. After channeling for 3 seconds, Shen and his spirit blade teleport to the ally's location.

Updated Skins

Each of Shen's six skins have also been updated, including unique visuals on his floating sword!

New Champion Skins

The three Beast Hunter skins have returned and are currently up for testing this cycle!

Beast Hunter Draven

750 RP

Beast Hunter Sejuani

750 RP

Beast Hunter Tryndamere

750 RP

Here's Galetta with a bugs & feedback thread for Beast Hunter Sejuani, Draven, and Tryndamere:

"Make sure you chow down before you hit the rift, Beast Hunters need fuel! Many strange and dangerous creatures await you!

These skins includes:

New model and textures!

Some quality of life particles on Draven and Sejuani. We kept the new weapon models consistent across the relevant particles.

These skins will be 750RP each (PBE pricing subject to change)

Your feedback and bug reports are extremely helpful to us, so please check out the Beast Hunter skins 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!"

A new Lunar Revel 2016 login theme is now up on the PBE, featuring Radiant Wukong!

[Click here for music]

Here's the still image from the login screen:

In case you missed them last PBE cycle, click here for more on the upcoming Lunar Revel content including Radiant Wukong, Lunar Wraith Morgana, and Lunar Wraith Caitlyn, new summoner icons, a new ward skin, and more!

Hextech Crafting & Loot

[NOTE: This will not be released in 6.2.]

The new Hextech Crafting and Loot system is now on the PBE for testing! Check out the 2016 season announcement to get acquainted with the new system!

Here's a short video previewing the new system:

You can access the new crafting system by pressing the gem looking button next to shop and profile.

In short the new system allows you to earn and/or purchase chests and keys then open them for loot! Keys can be earned by winning matchmade games or purchased in the shop. Chests can be earned by getting S ranks in matchmade games (limit of 4 per month, 1 per champ per season) or purchased in the shop - more details available here.

Opening chests awards loot - unlocks, champion shards, skin shards, ward skins shards, summoner icons, rare gems, and more. Note that you CAN acquire multiple shards for the same champion or for content you already own. You can get shards for any tier of champion or skin, as well as shards for legacy skins!

Once you have a shard- champion or skin - you can combine it with the appropriate essence - champion or cosmetic - to create a permanent unlock for that content! In the screen shot below I need 580 champion essence to make my Trundle champion shard into a permanent unlock of Trundle. unfortunately, I don't yet have enough essence yet!

To get more essence, you can DISENCHANT any of your shards into essence based on their normal value. Below I can disenchant Kennen, who is normally 880 RP, for 290 champion essence.

With my new champion essence in hand, I can now create a permanent Trundle unlock!

If you'd simple like to try out content, each individual champion or skin shard can be redeemed for a temporary 7 day rental of content by selecting "Activate rental" on the right click drop down. This only requires a shard and does not consume any essence.

You also have the option of REROLLING three permanent skin unlocks or three shards to obtain a random permanent unlock for that type of content. You will always reroll into an unowned champion or skin!

In the shot below I'm rerolling 3 skin shards and end up creating a new permanent skin unlock for Workshop Nunu!

The permanent skin unlock goes into your inventory where you can redeem it to permanently unlock the skin, RE-ROLL it again, or simply disenchant it for more essence. Permanent unlocks have a gold border rather than the teal border for shards.

Unlike skin unlocks, Champion permanent unlocks go right to your account rather than hanging around in your inventory.

You can also open up a RARE GEM that, in addition to also including a random shard, will give you a free chest and key! *NOTE: Socrates mentioned these may be for something else.

As you can only earn four chests a month, you can track how many you have left to earn on your profile page:

As you can only earn 1 chest per champion per season, you can track who you have earned a chest with so far on your champion page:

While things may change, here are a few notes on current values:

Disenchants yield essence equal to ~33% of the normal RP price for the content

Example: 975 RP skin will disenchant into 322 cosmetic essence.

It currently takes the content's RP cost minus 300 to upgrade a shard into a permanent piece of loot.

Example: Gnar costs 975 RP. To upgrade Gnar's shard into a permanent unlock, it will take 675 champion essence.

Be sure to check out the Hextech Crafting & Loot announcement page for more information, as well as all the red posts over on the Hextech Crafting and Loot Q&A! Bug reports for Hextech crafting can be left in this PBE boards thread.

Lore Updates

This cycle includes several minor lore updates to remove bits about retconned content - such as IoW and League - from older champion bios. To save space, pastebin of changes available here.

Annie
Blitzcrank
Jarvan IV
Riven
Talon
Urgot

Summoner Icons

Several new summoner icons have been added to the PBE!

First up we have a menacing anchor icon! While not confirmed, this may be the Ocean Week 2016 icon!

We also have nine new esports team icons for the 2016 season:

NA LCS: CLG

LCL (Russia): Team Differential

LMS: Cougar eSports, Hong Kong eSports, eXtreme Gamers eSports Club

LCK: ROX Tigers, e-mFire, Afreeca Freecs, Longzhu Gaming

The following three EU LCS team sumoner icons have been updated:

EU LCS: Roccat, Unicorns of Love, Team Vitality

Miscellaneous

Keystone masteries now display on the loading screen.

The "Snowdown shop" has been changed to the "Lunar Revel" shop, and the background has changed to a Lunar Revel theme!

[Click here for the background image!]

Looks like Riot has added a few files relating to new bots - Aatrox, Ahri, Akali, Anivia, Azir, Bard, Diana, Draven, Ekko, Elise, Evelynn, Fiora, Fizz, Gangplank, Gnar, Gragas, Hecarim, Heimerdinger, Illaoi, Janna, Jayce, Jinx, Kalista, Karma, Kassadin, Katarina, Kennen, Kha'Zix, Kindred, LeBlanc, Lee Sin, Lissandra, Lulu, Mordekaiser, Nami, Nautilus, Nocturne, Olaf, Orianna, Poppy, Rek'Sai, Rengar, Riven, Rumble, Sejuani, Shaco, Singed, Skarner, Syndra, Talon, Teemo, Thresh, Tryndamere, Twisted Fate, Twitch, Urgot, Varus, Vayne, Vel'Koz, Vi, Viktor, Volibear, Yasuo, Zac, Zed.

The leagues team page includes a preview of the 2016 Ranked Team Reward ward skins to be released at the end of the 2016 ranked season!

There is a "The Crystal Scar WIP" map option added to the game. Unsure what it is for exactly but these are generally used by devs to test some sort of changes.
There is now a Chroma selector for the new champion select experience.

Balance Changes

* Remember *: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, and sometimes radical changes. The changes you see below may be lacking context or other accompanying changes that didn't make it in - don't freak out! These are not official notes.

Champions

Cassiopeia

[Repertoir mentioned casting Twin Fang should no longer cancel Move or Attack orders.]

Dr. Mundo

Masochism (E) AD increase lowered to 20/40/60/80/100 from 40/55/70/85/100
Masochism (E) AD gained for % of health missing lowered to .2/.4/.6/.8/1.0 from .4/.55/.7/.85/1
Sadism (R) cooldown increased to 100/85/70 from 75.

Elise

Movement speed in Human reduced to 325 from 330
Movement speed in Spider reduced to 350 from 355
Spiderling movement speed reduced to 350 from 355.
Volatile Spiderling (Human W) damage reduced to 60/110/160/210/260 from 75/125/175/225/275

Gangplank

Cannon Barrage (R) cooldown increased to 160/150/140 from 140/130/120

Karma

Focused Resolve (W) mana cost lowered to 50/55/60/65/70 from 70/75/80/85/90

Kindred

Dance of Arrows (Q) mana cost at all ranks increased to 35 from 30
[Reverted] ~~Wolf's Frenzy (W)~~ ~~wolf's attacks damage lowered to 15/20/25/30/35 from 25/30/35/40/45~~
Mounting Dread (E) damage lowered to 60/90/120/150/180 from 80/110/140/170/200

Nunu

Ice Blast (E)

Cooldown lowered to 6/5.5/5/4.5/4 from 6 at all ranks
Mana cost lowered to 70/75/80/85/90 from 75/85/95/105/115
Damage lowered to 80/120/160/200/240 from 85/130/175/225/275
AP Ratio lowered to .9 from 1.0
Movement speed slow increased to 40/45/50/55/60% from 20/30/40/50/60%
Movement and attack speed slow duration lowered to 2 seconds from 3 seconds

Poppy

[Solcrushed is looking for feedback on Poppy E-Q! drop feedback off in this thread]

Rengar

[CONTEXT AND CHANGE LIST FROM PHROXZ0N]
General

When Rengar dashes, he lands slightly short of the target (prevents you from throwing bola over their head).*

Savagery (Q) :

Ferocity effect damage lowered to 130% of AD from 150%
Ferocity effect Attack damage bonus for 5 seconds increased to 20% from 10%

Bola Strike (E)

Cast time added to airborne E instead of instant cast.*
Bola can now be cast outside of your cast range.*

Thrill of the Hunt (R)

Exclamation mark range notification range increased to 1450 from 1250.*
While stealth, you will gain movement speed regardless of whether you are moving towards target or not.*

Soraka

[Revert to live functionality for both Q and W. As previously mentioned, ricklessabandon noted the changes will return for next cycle.]

Tahm Kench

An Acquired Taste (Passive) stack duration reduced to 5 seconds from 7 seconds*.
Abyssal Voyage (R) bonus magic damage bonus health ratio lowered to 2/4/6% from 4/6/8%

Items

Athene's Unholy Grail

Total cost reduced to 2700g from 2800g
Combine cost reduced to 465g from 565

Cull

AD increased to 7 from 5
Bonus gold from passive increased to 350g from 300.

Enchantment: Cinderhulk

[TOOLTIP Change: "while in combat" added to tooltip.]

Frost Queen's Claim

Cooldown increased to 90 seconds from 60 seconds
[Reverted] ~~Ability power reduced to 45 from 50.~~
[Reverted] ~~ACTIVE's slow now 20% to 50% slow based on how far ghost traveled from 40% flat.~~

Morellonomicon

Total cost reduced now 2400 from 2550.

Talisman of Ascension

[Reverted] ~~Active cooldown lowered to 40 sec from 60 sec.~~
[Reverted] ~~Cooldown reduction increased to 20% from 10%~~

Trinket

Farsight Alteration (Blue trinket)

When dropping a ward with blue trinket, your cursor will now change colors based on where it will drop. Red = on terrain, green = in brush, and blue is everywhere else. Works on mini map.