Revelation VR: 5/2 PBE Update: New Summoner Icon & Tentative Balance Changes

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

The PBE has been updated! As we continue the 8.10 PBE cycle, today's patch includes a Poro-riffic new summoner icon, 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.)

New Summoner Icon

A fluffy new summoner icon is now on the PBE!

Miscellaneous

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

Azir

[Many changes, hold tight!]

Ryze

[Many changes, hold tight!]

Sion

Roar of the Slayer (E)
- damage lowered from 70/105/140/175/210 to 50/75/100/125/150
- slow changed from 40/45/50/55/60% to 60% at all ranks
- slow/armor reduction duration increased from 2.5 seconds to 4 seconds

Items

Essence Reaver
[Essence Reaver has extensive changes in testing on the PBE!]

Unique Passive tooltip updated for clarity:

"After you cast your ultimate, your next basic attack within 10 seconds grants you Essence Flare for 8 seconds (30 second cooldown).

Essence Flare: Gain 30% attack speed, and basic attacks refund 20% of your remaining non-ultimate cooldowns."

Enchantment: Runic Echoes
[Context]

+60 AP
+10% CDR
+300 Mana
[New Effect] UNIQUE Passive - Echo:

Gain charges upon moving or casting. At 100 charges, the next damaging spell hit expends all charges to deal 60 (+10% of Ability Power) bonus magic damage to up to 4 targets on hit.

Thiseffect deals 250% damage to Large Monsters. Hitting a Large Monster with this effect will restore 25% of your missing Mana.

Limited to 1 Gold Income or Jungle item."

Runes

Minion Dematerializer
[Minion Dematerializer a new functionality in testing on the PBE!]

Minion values changed:

"Melee minions give 1 armor and 2 movement speed.
Caster minions give 1 magic resist and an adaptive 1.2 attack damage or 2 ability power.
Siege minions give 8 health and 2% bonus damage to structures and epic monsters."

Context & Notes

WIP!

1) Here's an excerpt from 8.10 Jungle Changes - Iteration and Additional Context covering the Runic Echoes change in today's PBE Update:

"Also small extra note: we have version of Runic Echoes on PBE that we'll be pulling in favor of a different iteration that was receiving more positive internal feedback. The shape of that item looks more like the following: "

2) Make sure to check out Meddler's quick gameplay thoughts for May 2nd, including thoughts on midseason changes, a post on supports soon, Varus' W, and more!

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 !