7/26 PBE Update: Monster Tamer Skins, Chromas & More

The PBE has been updated! As we start the 12.15 PBE cycle, today's patch includes Monster Tamer Kog'Maw, Lulu & Veigar, chromas, new Little Legend variants, and more!
Continue reading for more information!

Table of Contents

• Champion Skins
• Monster Tamer Kog'Maw
• Monster Tamer Lulu
• Monster Tamer Veigar
• Chromas
• Summoner Icons
• Emotes
• TFT Corner
• Balance Changes
• Context & Notes

Three new skins are now on the PBE for testing!

1350 RP

The Kog'Maw is a curious monster that baffles even the most experienced of Tamers. Sightings are limited to abandoned ruins that only the bravest dare enter. But taming one is an even more challening task. Only one Tamer has succeeded so far, their bond—and the Kog'Maw's lightning attacks—growing stronger each day.

Here's Riot DW Platypus with a bugs & feedback thread for Monster Tamer Kog'Maw:

1350 RP

Though she's new to the scene, Lulu exemplifies what it means to be a Tamer. She's studied the CORE (Compact Object for Relay and Engagement) manual front to back. She's even used it in the field a few times! Her latest discovery: Kog'Maw, a creature as dangerous as it is adorable.

Here's Riot DW Platypus with a bugs & feedback thread for Monster Tamer Lulu:

1350 RP

Veigar has big plans. BIG. First, he'll amass an army of monsters, preferably from the darkest, scariest corners of the land. Then he'll use the CORE to create a bond with said monsters and amplify their power. Then he'll take over the world!! Hmm... he might have missed a step.

Here's Riot DW Platypus with a bugs & feedback thread for Monster Tamer Veigar:

New set of chromas are now on the PBE:

New summoner icons are now on the PBE:

New emotes are now on the PBE:

New Little Legend variants are now on the PBE:

Summer Splash Ao Shin is here to make waves with their electric (guitar) debut!

"Hello! 

As many of you noticed and pointed out, we recently had several problems with keeping Chromas scope consistent with our goals and previous work. This resulted in several chroma sets having recolors on basically everything, which also made you - understandably - pretty excited. This is however unsustainable for our dev team to constantly deliver that amount of vfx per patch. It also clashes with the initial scope of chromas which were that they will only consist of new textures and occasionally have idle glows recolored to match chroma color schemes as necessary. 

Historically we didn’t think about chromas for Legendary skins (not to mention Mythic Chromas at that time) and also did not adjust scope for this tier of skins when we finally decided to make chromas also for them, but we wanted to try to do more for chromas for Legendary skins with what we could at the time. 

All of the above has led to inconsistencies in what we deliver, while combined with some misconceptions about what is classified as VFX and what is not, and have caused some disappointment. 

Therefore, I would like to clear up some things and set a baseline for chromas moving forward. 

From now on this will be ‘rule of thumb’ set for chromas, for each tier of skins they are for:

Epic skins’ chromas (1350 RP):

• All new textures, including any props during emotes/recalls or 3D elements for abilities (examples: sunbed for Pool Party Caitlyn’s Recall or Gangplank’s barrels Illaoi’s tentacles etc.)
• Idle glows will be adjusted if default ones are heavily mismatching chroma color scheme (determined on a case by case)- No VFX adjustment for emotes, recall, abilities etc.

Legendary skins’ chromas (1820 RP)

• All new textures as for Epic skins 
• Idle glows adjusted to match chroma as for Epic skins- 
• Changes to emote VFX (joke, taunt, laugh, dance) and recall

Mythic chromas:

• All new textures 
• All new VFX (idle glows, emotes, recall, abilities)

I want to also make it clear that we reserve the right to make some exceptions to the rules above, but these should be rare ones. 

Now - what does it mean for already released Chromas? 

In general we will be not retrofitting nor scrapping any VFX from already released chromas. However, we made an exception for Star Guardian Kai'sa: her chromas should be on par with visibility of recolored VFX when compared to Star Guardian Akali (most notably dance and recall) . 

While this means that existing inconsistencies remain, we hope to greatly reduce the amount of them for future releases. 

I hope that this piece will provide clarification on what to expect with chromas. 

Thanks for reading!"