1/9 PBE Update: Thresh and AW Kayle splash arts!

Posted on at 5:23 PM by Moobeat
The PBE has been updated with several beautiful splash arts!
Continue reading for a heavy dose of PBE content including new splash arts, balance changes, a change to Yi's portrait, a new profile medal, and more!

( Warning: PBE content is highly tentative and subject to change! Some of this information may have been datamined and could likely be erroneous. )



New Splash Arts

 Thresh
Thresh's release skin
The name for this one isn't specificed but obviously it is nautical themed.
Aether Wing Kayle
FYI: Aether Wing Kayle was made available for testing before tonight's patch. Have at it!
Thresh's Ability Icons and New Names
Thresh finally received his own set of ability icons.
Along with this three of his abilities have had their names changed:  Shackle ( Q ) is now "Death Sentence", Lantern Toss ( W ) is now "Dark Passage", and Sweep ( E ) is now "Flay"


Master Yi new Portrait
Master Yi's champion portrait has been adjusted to be much more zoomed out, presumably to include more of his fantastic braided beared.
Here it is in the wild

New Profile Medal
There seems to be a strange new profile medal. Not sure what exactly it's intended for but it's currently showing up on people who have played ranked games on the PBE. None of the other ranked medals have been changed. My guess is this is just the new medal that displays when you haven't finished your qualifier matches for the season.
Here it is in action:

Balance Changes
Note: These changes are relative to the last set of PBE changes. To try to avoid confusion, I've listed the current live server value in parenthesis if the ability was changed in a previous PBE patch.

Champions:
Evelynn
  • Agony's Embrace cooldown changed to 150/120/90 from 160/120/80 ( current live server value is 120/90/60 ).
  • Agony's Embrace range lowered to 650 from 800
Thresh 
  • Lantern Toss ( W ) shield amount reduced to 60/90/120/150/180 from 60/100/140/180/200
  • Lantern Toss ( W ) mana cost increased to 50/55/60/65/70 from 40 at all ranks.

Items:
Crystalline Flask*
  • Cost increased to 345 from 225
  • Health restored changed to 120 over 12 seconds from 100 over 10 seconds.
  • Mana Restored changed to 60 over 12 seconds from 40 over 10 seconds.

* = This data comes from one of the game files but the tool tips have not been updated and the "new" cost is not acting right. It's a strange situation because you CAN NOT buy the flask, in game, for less than 345 BUT when you do buy it it only subtracts 225 gold from your total. The PBE is a strange place.

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299 comments

  1. bpe sure was busy this week

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  2. Karma remake ??????

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  3. Anthony Enrique Sánchez OrtizJanuary 9, 2013 at 5:33 PM

    8th! XD

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  4. French Maid NidaleeJanuary 9, 2013 at 5:33 PM

    Can we have Karma now?

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  5. Hope they make it so Evelynn isn't totally useless.

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  6. YEA, WHAT IS IS?? @_@

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  7. KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYLE

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  8. I WANT YOUR REWORK @_@

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  9. Reveal the Tresh Skin!

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  10. So many updates! It's been a great week o u o

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  11. Evelynn is one of the most effective champs in the game, Top 3 in highest win ratio and in KDA. These results can be seen at lolking.com if you want to check them out for yourself. But AP eve has been cleaning house world wide.

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  12. That is actually the buff...

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  13. He says it because of the last PBE nerf, not because of how Eve is on live servers.

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  14. Ignore the imposter, she doesn't even have a portrait

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  15. this is kind of awkward :/

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  16. I WANT YOUR REWORK @_@

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  17. Since your a skin, you should be concern about you new splash art too.

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  18. Crystalline Flask

    UNIQUE Passive: Holds 3 charges and refills uponvisiting the shop.
    UNIQUE Active: Consumes a charge to restore 120Health and 60 Mana over 12 seconds.

    Cost: 345

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  19. WHERE IS MY REWORK!!? >.<

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  20. French Maid NidaleeJanuary 9, 2013 at 6:10 PM

    Of course I am. But dearest Karma needs some love.

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  21. French Maid NidaleeJanuary 9, 2013 at 6:11 PM

    HOW MANY OF YOU ARE THERE?

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  22. Kayle must be on her way to construct additional pylons

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  23. Probably two. You know, one for the light side and one for the dark. Like split personalities.

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  24. I kinda wish Kayle gets a bright Halo with her E still. Kinda like a blue aura or neon lighting.

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  25. Kayles Face looks a bit odd doesnt it?

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  26. Potato, the best champion everJanuary 9, 2013 at 6:15 PM

    LoL my first thoughs

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  27. Dat Kayle looks so good.

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  28. Thresh's skin kind of looks like davy jones.

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  29. Don't mind my doubles, they're just acting a bit excited about that "rework" thing.

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  30. That Kayle's art looks amazing.

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  31. They canned her because her skin was crap. It was to much of a commando lux skin remake I believe.

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  32. LET NO JOYFUL VOICE BE HEARD

    LET NO MAN LOOK UP IN THE SKY WITH HOPE

    AND LET THIS DAY BE CURSED

    BY WE WHO READY TO WAKE

    THE KRAKEN!!!

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  33. I only need myself, when will you understand that?

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  34. Potato, the best champion everJanuary 9, 2013 at 6:23 PM

    EDIT: RELEASE THE KRAKEN

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  35. I am aware, but she is still plenty useful and viable, those nerfs were needed.

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  36. OMG love them all. except the deep sea skin.. im not so sure about that one,,, i might have to wait for his second skin. which, i normally dont do.

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  37. Davy Jones Tresh?

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  38. Potato, the best champion everJanuary 9, 2013 at 6:31 PM

    i was thinking about deap sea thresh

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  39. "Guess what's about to hit the fan?" *moans*

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  40. And where is the Yi's portrait?

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  41. I want THE BOX name changed >.< it's so plain, silly and anticlimatic

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  42. Potato, the best champion everJanuary 9, 2013 at 6:37 PM

    the post is being edited, load the page again sometimes and you will see it

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  43. Potato, the best champion everJanuary 9, 2013 at 6:37 PM

    YOU WILL BE TRAPPED ON DA BOX

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  44. Watch me flash out of it, Potato

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  45. Potato, the best champion everJanuary 9, 2013 at 6:41 PM

    WATCH ALISTAR HEADBUTTING YOU BACK, OR THRESH HOOKING YOU :D

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  46. Sometimes simple is better. I have no idea what The Box is, but I'm already worried.

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  47. Oh Crystalline Flask... what have they've done to you... ; ___;



    There goes the great tactics of being able to build flask with faerie charm! I'm going to miss it for my mid-laners and supports.

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  48. No cameras in my private space please.

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  49. why nerf Evelynn's ult, nerf her "Dark Frenzy" by lower the movement speed. thats the problem with her.

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  50. Potato, the best champion everJanuary 9, 2013 at 6:43 PM

    thresh ultimate, create a box with 5 walls, if you pop a wall (lvl 3 wall) you will get 99% slow (nasus slow NOOO D:) and 550 damage + 1 per 1.0 ap, the other walls hits half after the first is popped, and slow for 50%

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  51. Watch my ally Thresh pull me out with his dark passage :D

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  52. Something like "Sunken Thresh" or "Thresh Jones"/"Davy Thresh" I'd imagine.

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  53. Potato, the best champion everJanuary 9, 2013 at 6:44 PM

    WATCH OUR SYNDRA KNOCK YOU BACK FROM BEHIND :D

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  54. is it just me? or does Kayle look like she has sperm inside her mouth..?
    maybe i watch too much pronz...

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  55. Yeah Rengar. This is the institute of WAR not the institute of GRAMMAR & SPELLING

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  56. Potato, the best champion everJanuary 9, 2013 at 6:46 PM

    those are her teeth?

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  57. Popped Banshee's Veil. Your turn.

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  58. Potato, the best champion everJanuary 9, 2013 at 6:49 PM

    blitzcrank jungle appears to gank? im out of ideas ._.

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  59. NOOOO NOT Evelynn..... That champion isnt even as OP as people think. Just because people don't know how to lane against her doesnt make he super OP. Why don't you change Master Yi's AP ratio. AP yi is such a faceroll champ compared to Evelynn. Evelynn getting nerfed is outrageous. Buffing her up then you're going to nerf her back to the ground. Thanks Riot

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  60. Potato, the best champion everJanuary 9, 2013 at 6:52 PM

    i agreed they are overnerfing her a bit, but master yi ap is not op, if you got beat by one probably you didnt know how to fight him, even without having to stop his meditate you can win against him

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  61. His hook gets blocked by a minion

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  62. AP yi, alpha, then heal.... then u stun/knockback/up etc and pretty much insta kill him its a troll build thats easily countered, evelynn with torment and a witchcap isn't she can just run around faster than everyone and spam her q till your dead.

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  63. Was i the only one that thought of Hecarim when seeing Thresh's splash art?

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  64. Potato, the best champion everJanuary 9, 2013 at 6:54 PM

    ...... POTATO COMES AND USE HIS ULTIMATE, GENKIDAMA, I WON :D

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  65. waht u mean ranger? is dis how 2 spel?

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  66. You ulted my ghost clone, thanks Yorick! *uses Unleashed Power on Potato with 9001 dark spheres*

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  67. No one plays blind pick, no allied Thresh for you. :P

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  68. Potato, the best champion everJanuary 9, 2013 at 6:59 PM

    potato dies, but you step a teemo shroom :D

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  69. Syndra is so brilliant she's struggling to battle a potato.


    -_-

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  70. Potato, the best champion everJanuary 9, 2013 at 7:01 PM

    watch your mouth, potato is the best champion ever!

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  71. Messing around with the playthings

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  72. Nosejobs gone wrong.

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  73. Look above!
    "SO much untapped Karmas" - Riot
    (waiting to see on Karma's champ spotlight Phreak's playing her as a Jungler with tons of damage [triforce])!

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  74. Jungle Karma 2 stronk.

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  75. Syndra throws potatos at you.

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  76. build triforce! there's the only way.

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  77. As long as you ignore little miss civilized in the maid outfit up there.
    (I swear she's the most boring skin out of all of us)

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  78. Vilemaw and my spiderlings finds Frech Maid Nidalee sexier to be their meal, actually they don't find her boring. My skin Nidalee! is A spider flower :'( (cries)

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  79. Elise what are you doing.
    Get down from there.
    Elise go home, you're drunk.

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  80. The Thresh skin is obviously a knock on Davy Jones' locker, so that's possibly the name.

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  81. Seriously, enough with the Yi portrait.

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  82. He's angry because he's just bottom feeder :) Ps. Twitch I've got that new shampoo for you <3

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  83. It will probably just be Abyssal or Deep Sea.

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  84. Stalking Gragas a bit too much I'd say.

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  85. Im just a bit depressed, Vilemaw don't understand my feelings, he eaten everyone I bring to him, and said at least you can have Fizz. But damn! I hate fish I prefer another type of meat :'(

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  86. hopefully the tresh skin will have more voice lines, featuring RELEASE THE KRAKEN when he ults

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  87. Cough....wait did Rammus just utter a whole 3 sentences???!

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  88. IMO the old master yi portrait looks better..
    Why don't Riot just zoom out Morgana's / Lux's, instead of Yi?

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  89. Well this is unfortunate...

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  90. Well this is weird..

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  91. The void showed me this! The End is nigh!

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  92. KARMAS


    KARMAS EVERYWHERE


    (and this update don't even have her)

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  93. remember Syndra is untouchable...

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  94. back to buying a faerie charm instead of a crystalline flask first as a support

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  95. You and your copies are waiting...
    Well more Karmas, less starve for Vilemaw.

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  96. Enemy Thresh, give me your soul!

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  97. Still disabled, oh well....

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  98. Support? I'm an ADC!

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  99. Aether Wing Kayle art looks like trash. Hope it's not legendary.

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  100. I would but my picture is superior

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  101. It's all smoke and mirrors.

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  102. My copies are waiting, but they don't know me. Please don't eat me though, I just bought this dress!

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  103. It's not my decision, It's Vilemaw who decides if you are suitable or not to be his meal.

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  104. If they don't have the steel legion lux skin on pbe soon my head will explode

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  105. It's quite good except for her enormous face

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  106. In the The Shadow Isles!!!

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  107. Sorry to burst your bubble but flashing out of it still deals dammage :)

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  108. OMG, Its Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean.

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  109. How abou "Last Room" or "Doom Walls" ?

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  110. False: It's just like Veigar's Event Horizon, blinks like Flash and Arcane Shift will pass unharmed but dashes like Shadow Dash and Quick Draw will collide and cause the effect to activate.

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  111. New Profile Medal LOOKS LIKE AETHER WING KAYLE'S NECKLACE!!!

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  112. The release skin is Definitely Naut Thresh.

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  113. The skin is nice, but that art is too.... "Not Kayle". I really like kayle, but that artwork looks kinda derpy :c

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  114. It be me matey, Davy Jones Thresh!

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  115. ...why is evelynn getting nerfed so much...?

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  116. Totally not Lee Sin.January 9, 2013 at 9:05 PM

    I like Yi's old portrait. He looks tiny now lmao.

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  117. It should be like... Ulit-mega-soul-eating-hexbox of fiery death.

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  118. Why not Zoidberg?

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  119. RELEASE THE KRAKEN Tresh

    and the box.... is actually not a box.

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  120. wow Cho'Gath has been pretty rought recently, better nerf Evelynn

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  121. welcome back my old friend of boots. 3 pots. we had fun while it lasted actually being able to sustain on champs that have no innate sustain.

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  122. I keep calling the thing "Walls" though, plus I had a square in mind for a Box, not a pentagon.

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  123. Skaner uses tractor bea- Oh wait, I ain't got no skin :(

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  124. Васил ЧуковJanuary 9, 2013 at 10:25 PM

    Watch yourself step on a mushroom that you didn't see because you spent all your gold on a Banshee's and hadn't got enough left for oracle's. Not like it will make you go to DA BOX but it will help our syndra and thresh kill you. HA! (with Lulu's voice)

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  125. Васил ЧуковJanuary 9, 2013 at 10:33 PM

    But even more it does fit perfectly thresh's unnamed release skin.
    EDIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN5ExwsXUiQ

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  126. buy iceborn gauntlet on the classic skin... it feels like a little brother of kel'thuzad...pretty cool :D

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  127. And I can't start Machete + Flask for Jungle Cho D:

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  128. The name of his ultimate is ridiculous. And so many champions here left me... thirsty.

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  129. Evelynn isn't THAT overpowered, its just that no one calls mias or uses pink wards. The Cooldown needed a nerf, with 40% CDR at max rank, Eve has an aoe % of MAX Health Ultimate every 36 seconds. The Range nerf is gonna hurt. Now if you really gotta think about committing to a kill, because they'll see you before you ult.

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  130. How come the didn't nerf me again ... : / someone water me so i can bloom out from this dream

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  131. Not one woman in the league has a monobrow... not even Vi...

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  132. Don't Worry ... i can help you catch your prey ;) xoxo ...

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  133. I disagree and appearently riot does too. They prolly liked "The Box" and didnt change it. Besides i think its fitting.

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  134. Fine. I'll gank you with my ult + our team kills you.

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  135. I don't think that's actually a good idea...

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  136. No, you are a support. Now go back to your lane and watch the ADC farm.
    But bring some wards too, for the dragon.

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  137. only 1 skin release this patch? i was waiting for the 2nd one to leak..

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  138. skin is an octopus sort of thing, pirate of the carribean related?

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  139. Your soul will come to serve MeEeEeEeEe


    *whish brings up a good question, what would I do if he got his hands on all of Thresh's souls* hehehehehehehehe

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  140. WTF IS THAT NEEEERF??? Are they going to destroy her again and take 2 more YEARS to remake her?!?!?

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  141. cthulhu tresh would be an awesome name!

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  142. The location from that splashart looks so much like Icecrown o_O

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  143. wtf riot doesn't want us to have flask? we can buy 9 hp pots for the same effect

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  144. Julio Cesar Thome BorgesJanuary 10, 2013 at 12:37 AM

    http://www.surrenderat20.net/2012/10/reddit-user-vaeron-leaks-another-batch.html

    Probably Victor and Miss Fortune.

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  145. His skin looks amazing *o* Is that Nautilus under him?

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  146. They should call the thresh skin thresh from the deep/depths

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  147. It looks like cinematic dominin trailer lux...

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  148. Sure, make her ultimate unable to kill. Totally ok. <.< But hey, Vi has ridiculous mobility and CC and can dish out tremendous damage, let's fix her bugs so she becomes even stronger. *derp*

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  149. the zoom out for yi doesn't feel necessary to me, it looks a bit awkward when most icons' zoom rates are quite in uniform.

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  150. Don't be so cocky fireman !

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  151. Well..That second skin should be named something like "Threshy Jones" because he looks like Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean.

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  152. Then its a bug with katarina's shunpo and his ult xD

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  153. Does anyone else feel like I should be from the shadow isles? like even by chance Hecarims brother?

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  154. I like big boobies too, but not for karma, who is supposed to be a spiritualist woman, i mean, if you let karma show her boobies, like sona, katarina and so on it won't be serious, this is my opinion

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  155. Well maybe if you'd read your own lore....

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  156. as you can see eve is pretty 100% allways banned on tournaments and riot knows how to balance champions, all champions are equaly stronkkk

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  157. So a 36 sec CD AOE % of Max Hp Ult is balanced?


    They are nerfing her so that noobs can't mash buttons and kill people with her so easily.

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  158. They nerfed her to hell before and took them 2 YEARS for that remake, now they're changing too much.

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  159. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/198/bathducksej.jpg/ link to the new sej skin:3

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  160. Sweet! I've just received my free Riot Points!

    >> FreeRiotPoints.me <<

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  161. Why would they zoom out the Yi portrait? Zooming out the portraits just makes them look worse in game on the minimap (the only place they really matter)

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  162. I want it to be all capitalized like: THE BOX

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  163. You are lucky spiders are not in my diet.

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  164. I Don't Want To Be BOXLOXED!

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  165. The skin is called Abyssal Thresh in LOL Wikia! Love the kayle one, getting for sure!

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  166. Why is that? Afraid to get your fur wet?

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