Revelation VR: 2/26 PBE Update

[WIP!] [STATUS: PBE is currently offline.]

The PBE has been updated! As we continue the 8.5 PBE cycle, today's patch includes a login theme featuring Kai'Sa, as well as more tentative balance 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.)

Kai'Sa Login Theme

A new login theme featuring Kai'Sa is now on the PBE:

[Music / Still Image]

Miscellaneous

Here's videos of the Battlecast Cho'Gath and Bullet Angel Kai'Sa chroma from SkinSpotlights:

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

Ryze

Items

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Runes

Context & Notes

WIP

1) Riot Xenogenic is here with a changelist and context on Quinn changes coming to the PBE soon. These changes are slated for 8.6. Here are the full details:

"Hey folks! As Meddler mentioned, we’ve been looking at ways to improve Quinn in the short-term, so this post is going to outline some changes we’ve been testing and are coming to PBE next week. The changes are not currently targeted for 8.5, but we’d love to get your feedback as soon as possible.

So, with that said, here are the goals for our changelist:

Increase her overall power, particularly by late game, without increasing her ability to bully in lane

Improve the quality of life for Quinn players by fixing a number of bugs, especially with her ultimate

Reduce the number of rules and exceptions around Quinn’s ult so it’s more fun to use

Shift a little of her early game power into late game power

And here are the changes we’ve been testing:

Passive - Harrier - Quality of life improvement and power increase

Auto-attacks that are already in-flight will now trigger and consume the Harrier mark

Base Stats - Shift some of her early game power into late game power

Starting AD reduced: 62 >>> 59

AD per level increased : 2.4 >>> 3 (AD at 18: 103 >>> 110)

R - Behind Enemy Lines - Bug fixes, quality of life improvements, and teamfight usability improvement

Fixed a bug that would sometimes prevent Skystrike from firing

Skystrike now applies her Harrier mark to all enemy champions hit

Fixed a bug where Skystrike would deal double damage if fired by re-activating her R

Channeling no longer breaks when taking damage

Removed the in-combat state that would refresh R’s cooldown every time combat was entered

Taking damage from non-minions while channeling or while Behind Enemy Lines is active no longer breaks the channel or form. Instead, the movement speed bonus is removed for 2 seconds. Taking damage from minions no longer has any effect.

As I said above, this is not currently slated for 8.5, so we have some time to discuss it and test it on PBE. Please let us know what you think. Thanks!

“Sometimes I swear that bird is just showing off.” - Quinn"

2) Riot Maple noted likely nerfs to Skarner soon:

"We're likely to need to nerf Skarner at some point in the future - but I certainly don't think we're talking about a gutting. We'd already been talking about keeping a fast followup changelist of his stun scaling from 1-1.5 on his E when we shipped his buffs on 8.1, or normalizing it to 1.25 seconds or something like that"

3) Here's Riot Orphyre with a bugs & feedback thread for the Resistance Illaoi, Battlecast Prime Cho'Gath, and Bullet Angel Kai'Sa chroma:

"Hey everyone!

We’ve got more Chromas for you! Some for old skins, and some for new skins--Come and check 'em out!

Resistance Illaoi Chromas:

New textures: “The Resistance needs you.”

Ruby

Pearl

Catseye

Obsidian

Aquamarine

Tanzanite

Rose Quartz

Battlecast Prime Cho’Gath Chromas:

New textures: “The world of humans is ending.”

Ruby

Catseye

Sapphire

Pearl

Obsidian

Tanzanite

Bullet Angel Kai’Sa Chromas:

New textures: “Technology doesn’t evolve, It upgrades.”

Ruby

Rose Quartz

Aquamarine

Obsidian

Granite

Amethyst

Pearl

Catseye

The chroma sets are now available on PBE! We hope you all will enjoy the new sets, but we’re also looking forward to hearing your constructive feedback. I’ll do my best to answer and reply to your questions and feedback!

Thanks!

Riot Orphyre"

Check out [THIS PAGE] for 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 !