4/19 PBE Update: Even More Tentative Balance Changes

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

The PBE has been updated! As we continue the 9.9 PBE cycle, today's patch includes even more tentative balance changes for Aatrox, Tahm Kench, and more!

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.)

Table of Contents

• Balance Changes
• Context & Notes

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

Aatrox
[Context / Changelist - These changes are relative to LIVE!]
[** Marked changes are present on changelist but not yet on PBE!]

• Movement Speed lowered from 345 to 335
• HP5 lowered from 8 to 5
• Deathbringer Stance (Passive)
• • [Removed] Reduces healing and shielding on champions
  • [New] Heals Aatrox for the bonus damage dealt
  • Bonus damage lowered from [8-16%] to [6-15%]
  • Cooldown lowered from 25 to 15
  • Cooldown reducing effect changed from [2 seconds per spellcast + 2 for hitting champions with sweetspots] to [2 seconds per damaging attack or spell on enemy champions + 2 on sweetspot hit]
  • Attack frame adjusted to more closely match other basic attacks

• The Darkin Blade (Q)
• • Damage increased from 10/25/40/55/70 to 10/30/50/70/90
  • ** Cooldown changed from 16/15/14/13/12 to 18/16/14/12/10
  • Max time between casts lowered from 4 to 3

• Infernal Chains (W)
• • Slow changed from 15/20/25/30/35% to 25%
  • Cooldown increased from 18/17/16/15/14 to 22/20/18/16/14

• Umbral Dash (E)
• • [Removed] Grants attack damage for 1.5 seconds
  • Passive healing source changed from [physical champion damage] to [non-periodic champion damage of any type]
  • Cooldown lowered from 9/8/7/6/5 to 8/7/6/5/4

• World Ender (R)
• • [Removed] Revive as a baseline World Ender effect
  • [Removed] Bonus movement speed on cast and while out of combat with champions
  • [Removed] Allied minion fear
  • [New] Aatrox gains 60/80/100% Movement Speed decaying over World Ender's duration
  • [New] Aatrox receives 50/75/100% increased healing during World Ender
  • [New] On takedown, extend World Ender by 5 seconds, refresh the Movement Speed, and Revive upon taking lethal damage
  • Cooldown lowered from 160/140/120 to 140/120/100
  • Cast time lowered from .5s to .25s
  • Revive self slow increased from 25% to 99%
  • Revive heal changed from [10-50% Max HP] to [30% max HP]

Rakan
[Context]

• The Quickness (R)
• • "I put in a buffering system for the R > W that should make things feel a lot more fluid. If you press W while in the R cast time it should buffer like a normal spell combo."

Tahm Kench
[Changelist]
[** Marked changes are present on changelist but not yet on PBE!]

• Tongue Lash (Q)
• • Slow duration increased from 1.5s to 2s
  • Cooldown changed from [5] to [8/7/6/5/4]
  • Missile range increased from 800 to 850
  • Slow changed from 30/40/50/60/70% to 50/55/60/65/70%

• Devour (W)
• • [New] TK is now slowed and grounded similarly to when he devours an enemy champion when devouring an allied champion. (95%)
  • Mana cost increased from 60 to 100
  • [New]Additionally refunds 50% of its mana cost on devouring an enemy
  • **Base minion spit damage lowered from 100/150/200/250/300 to 100/135/170/205/240
  • **Devour damage changed from [ 20/24/28/32/36% max hp damage] to [100/135/170/205/240 + (5/7/9/11/13% max HP)]

• Thick Skin (E)
• • Percent of grey health converted into healing increased from 15/20/25/30/35% to 20/25/30/35/40%
  • Damage converted into grey health increased from 70/75/80/85/90% to 80/85/90/95/100%
  • Mana cost lowered from [50] to [0]

• Abyssal Voyage (R)
• • Range changed from [4500/5500/6500] to [2500/5500/8500]
  • Cooldown increased from 120/110/100 to 140/130/120

Runes

Cheap Shot (D2)

• bonus true damage increased from 8-40 to 10-45

Taste of Blood (D2)

• healing lowered from 18-35 to 10-20
• Cooldown lowered from 20s to 10s

Ghost Poro (D3)

• Now also grants Adaptive bonus when Ghost Poro spots an enemy
• • "Gain an adaptive bonus of 1.2 Attack Damage or 2 Ability Power for every Ghost Poro spawned and when your Ghost Poro spots an enemy champion up to 10 stacks."

Ultimate Hunter (D4)

• CDR per stack increased from 3% to 4%

Relentless Hunter (D4)

• Movement speed increased from 8 to 9
• Movement speed per stack increased from 8 to 10

Celerity (S3)

• [New Effect] "All movement bonuses are 70% more effective on you and you have 1% additional Movement Speed."

Transcendence (S3)

• Adaptive bonus changed from [1.2 AD or 2 AP] to [1.8 AD or 3 AP]

Scorch (S4)

• bonus magic damage increased from 10-30 to 15-35

Bone Plating (R3)

• Reduced damage increased from 25-50 to 30-60

Conditioning (R3)

• Armor and MR increased from 8 to 9

Magical Footwear (I2)

• Free boots time increased from 10 minutes to 12 minutes
• Takedown timer reduction increased from 30s to 45s

Context & Notes

WIP!

1) Squad5 noted some further changes for Rakan:

"Other than the W speed thing, a thing that will be on PBE for Rakan today - I put in a buffering system for the R > W that should make things feel a lot more fluid. If you press W while in the R cast time it should buffer like a normal spell combo."

He also noted Tahm Kench changes coming today:

"Putting in a pretty big change list for Tahm Kench on PBE today. Bolded the marquee change. Goal is to get some movement on his Pro Priority. He's been in a bad place, and while I'm trying to make this a buff/at worst neutral, we see this as a first step not a full solve for TK."

2) Riot Repertoir provided an updated changelist for Aatrox in today's PBE Update:

Another Aatrox list for tomorrow. Here's what's going on:
Fixed some bugs
Did some tuning
Reduced Q's CD
Removed R's Q reset
Buffed Q Damage
Removed E AD
Added Healing Amp to R
Changed R Movement Speed model to fit better with the changed R

3) Riot Jatt gave some context on jungle changes he is testing out on the PBE:

"YO, So i'm working on this change. Couple things I want to point out:

• The goal of this change is to reduce the frustration that's caused by the super early dependency that junglers have on laners for scuttle crab help (this gets worse the higher elo you go.) But it's often creating forced conflict when most players are lvl 2, or even lvl 1.
• This is likely putting some pretty harsh pressures on the meta. It's putting an extremely strong emphasis on how powerful a jungle kit is at lvl 2, and it's putting huge value on lvl 1/lvl 2 lane priority for s
  
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