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Sona and Sejuani Changes

If you missed the PBE patch today, there were only a few changes. check them out here.

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Aatrox Reddit AMA

Below is a full roundup of every Q&A post from today's AMA. For more Aatrox goodness, check out PBE 3.8 Patch 1 for skill info, and patch 2 for video previews.

Originally Posted by Riot (View Reddit Source)

Q: [ddangho914]

I might have simply not read his lore that closely, but I'll act as the dummy that doesn't pay attention in class and ask anyway. Through the Explorer Ezreal posts it clearly stated that Aatrox was a great mystery, and that he had existed throughout the history of Valoran as a shadow figure. However, how do we know that there are five remaining Darkins? And how do we even know what race he is? Did Aatrox share his secrets when he joined the league? Or did the League and Government agents of each state already know of the existence of the Darkins, but never revealed them in public?

A: [RiotHarrow]

The world as a whole doesn't know how many Darkin there are. That's some privileged information you get as a reader ;)

As a bit of a future spoiler: three of the five, including Aatrox, are known to history, turning up in myths etc. The other two are completely unknown to the rest of the world. It's unclear whether even the other Darkin know of them. They don't talk much.

PBE 3.8 Patch 3

It looks like the changes for sona we first saw riot talking about here have reached the PBE.
Both Ghost Bridge Morgana and Woad King Darius are now live on the PBE for 975 RP. 

[PBE 3.8 Patch 1]  [PBE 3.8 Patch 2]

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Ghost Bride Morgana

Some new voice files (attack and move) were added for this skin. HOWEVER, as of this time, they are 100% the exact same as her base model.

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Champion Changes

UPDATE- Second PBE Patch - More Aatrox Changes

It looks like the Evelynn change, and most of the Aatrox changes from last patch were reverted. Check out the patch changes for crossed out items. Those have been removed.

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[PBE] Aatrox, the Darkin Blade In Game Video Preview

Make sure not to miss the rest of the PBE changes found here today. NOTE: in this video, he has 6000% spell vamp at times. Ignore how fast he heals :P [Bug]

Justicar Aatrox

Update

Our game diffs have been fixed. MANY champion and item changes can now be found below

Update 2 - 9:19 PM EST

A Second PBE patch has hit!

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For those who don't know. Aatrox was on the air client of the last pbe patch for about 5 mins. Make sure to read all the changes there, along with what Riot had to say about all the changes. We won't be reposting it all. You can view the last pbe Patch post here.

Update: Skins and champion are not enabled! (oh no!) fear not though. We are still grabbing videos of the skins :)
Update2: Aatrox was enabled for about 10 mins before servers going down. Check below for a video preview

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 Aatrox Champion Preview

PBE Skin Preview - Justicar Aatrox

Aatrox Sound and Voices

Some quick Tryndamere Interaction sounds.

 

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 PBE - Woad King Darius Skin Preview

 

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 PBE - Ghost Bride Morgana Skin Preview [Incorrect W,R particles]

There is a weird situation with this skin. The skin is marked as skin 5. However her particles are marked as "Skin 6". Due to this, our normal tools for showing skins not released is not working as it should. We will try to fix this as soon as we are done getting you all the ability and item changes.

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Champions With Unqiue New Sounds

Looks like Aatrox's release skin, New Darius and Morgana skin have unqiue sounds. (Note: Voices would be in the main folder, these look to just be sound effects)

files/DATA/Sounds/FMOD/LoL_SFX_aatrox_base.fsb
files/DATA/Sounds/FMOD/LoL_SFX_darius_norseking.fsb
files/DATA/Sounds/FMOD/LoL_SFX_morgana_skin05.fsb
files/DATA/Sounds/FMOD/LoL_SFX_aatrox_skin01.fsb

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 New (not active) Health Bars

A new file "files/DATA/Images/waldo_healthbarsDefault.tga" is on the PBE. Pabro over on Reddit has a in-game picture using the new health bars. Make sure to head to his thread and give him a pat for getting a picture in-game.

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Custom Game Map Update

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Ashe's Passive

Ashe's Passive change made it into the PBE. Her bow and quiver pulses and glows when you are at 100 stacks.

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Champion Changes

All champion changes are the same as last patch. You can see them here.

We have our game client diff fixed. and there ARE some changes. We will need to format this. Keep in mind these are compared to THE LAST PATCH, and not live.

UPDATE: A second patch has hit. Crossed out items were removed in the second patch

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 Item Changes

These are compared to last patch.

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New Tips

game_startup_tip_28_ziggsidle
	One of Ziggs� idle animations is based on a Rioter�s celebratory dance.
game_startup_tip_29_gravesnoc
	Graves will taunt Nocturne if he lands his smokescreen on him.
game_startup_tip_30_syndrathrow
	As Syndra, throw a neutral monster that has a buff for additional effects!
game_startup_tip_31_commandoskin
	The defining characteristic of the Commando skin line: sunglasses and machismo. Even for Lux.
game_startup_tip_32_porosnax
	Poros love Poro-Snax.
game_startup_tip_33_teemochew
	Teemo made a special appearance in the game Cho�gath Eats the World on April 1st, 2013.
game_startup_tip_34_rocketgrab
	Blitzcrank�s Rocket Grab fires from his right hand�you can use this positioning to your advantage!
game_startup_tip_35_dembelief
	Demacia prizes itself as the home of the righteous and just.
game_startup_tip_36_noxbelief
	Noxus believes that strength, in all its forms, determines the worth of an individual.
game_startup_tip_37_demnoxrival
	Demacia and Noxus, the largest two factions on Runeterra, are ancient rivals.
game_startup_tip_38_piltbelief
	Piltover, the self-titled City of Progress, seeks to better the world with technology.
game_startup_tip_39_zuanbelief
	Zaun is a land of unchecked scientific experimentation.
game_startup_tip_40_banbelief
	In Bandle City, the yordles have built a merry utopia, hidden from the dangers around them.
game_startup_tip_41_ionbelief
	Ionia is an island continent, home to people who revere mysticism and spirituality.
game_startup_tip_42_bilgebelief
	Bilgewater provides harbor for those who seek profit and adventure without the yoke of law.
game_startup_tip_43_frelbelief
	The people of Freljord wage a constant war of survival on two fronts: against each other and the harshness of their environment.
game_startup_tip_44_zyrault
	Zyra�s ultimate, Stranglethorns, increases the attack speed of summoned plants in its radius by 50%.
game_startup_tip_45_smartpingalert
	Teams that use smart pings to alert other players to threats are more likely to win the game.
game_startup_tip_46_smartpingcom
	Smart pings are an effective way to communicate with your teammates and can help your team win the game.
game_startup_tip_47_givehonor
	You can reward players who are sportsmanlike and friendly by giving them Honor in the post-game screen.
game_startup_tip_48_crestsofhonor
	Crests are a reward from Honor that require consistent, sportsmanlike behavior, but can decay over time.
game_startup_tip_49_honorunlock
	By consistently earning Honor from a wide variety of players, you can unlock Crests of Honor that are displayed throughout the game.
game_startup_tip_50_santabaron
	The Santa Baron Summoner Icon was a special reward for sportsmanlike players in 2012.
game_startup_tip_51_sportsmanwin
	Highly sportsmanlike players tend to have more enjoyable games. They also have more wins�and more comebacks.
game_startup_tip_52_honorcrests
	Crests of Honor are a reward from the Honor Initiative that are unlocked by consistently receiving a variety of Honor.
game_startup_tip_53_tribunalvote
	The Tribunal is a system that reforms or removes toxic players. Make your voice heard today and vote in the Tribunal!
game_startup_tip_54_tribunalimproved
	The Tribunal is a system that has improved the behaviors of over 280,000 players in the past 12 months.
game_startup_tip_55_punishslurs
	The community overwhelmingly votes to punish homophobic or racial slurs in the Tribunal system.
game_startup_tip_56_levelupability
	You can assign hotkeys to quickly level up your abilities. (Ctrl + Q/W/E/R by default)
game_startup_tip_57_mutetab
	You can mute a player by using the TAB menu and clicking the speech bubble next to a player's name on the scoreboard.
game_startup_tip_58_wardambush
	Wards can prevent ambushes from enemy champions by granting vision of the map to your teammates.
game_startup_tip_59_lasthithold
	If you land the last hit that kills a minion or neutral monster in the jungle, you earn the gold for that kill.
game_startup_tip_60_destroytower
	Destroying enemy towers is a critical advantage for your team that provides more control of the map.
game_startup_tip_61_minimap
	The minimap in the corner of the screen provides vital information about the current state of the game.
game_startup_tip_62_renamerune
	You can rename Rune Pages by clicking on the title of the rune page.
game_startup_tip_63_alistarcombo
	Alistar can Pulverize while he is mid-Head Butt to do a fancy combo.
game_startup_tip_64_cooldownmax
	You can only get a maximum of 40% cool-down reduction.
game_startup_tip_65_wardexpire
	Wards only last for 3 minutes. You can click on them to view their remaining duration.
game_startup_tip_66_postgamefriends
	You can add players you enjoyed playing with to your friends list at the post-game screen.

 

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IronStylus on Leona Skins

Originally Posted by Riot (View RedTracker Source)

So, here's a thing. Yes, Sunbathing/beach bash Leona will most likely be a reality barring some major issue or slotting problem. That does sometimes happen. I never want to set certainty that could be subject to change.

It's past the concept phase, having been fully fleshed out, and will move onto modeling. I reconcepted her after PAX for better readability and some other more thought-out touches. She'll probably move onto 3D very soon, then through the animation and particle pipeline. Depending on priority, this could be a few months, we'll see.

One of the reasons it's been a while since she's had a skin is because we actually brought a couple skins of hers up to the modeling phase, and plugged them into the game, but then realized they either weren't cutting the quality/theme bar, or the skin had to be bumped because of saturation of similar themes. These skins might some day come to release, but I'm not certain of that at all.

I don't want to really delve into what those skins were because at least one wasn't terribly strong in differentiation from her other skins. It might even only really equate to a model swap. I made a call to kill the skin and possibly focus on a legendary skin for her down the line that would be a much stronger theme than what I had produced. You actually have seen the beginning of that skin in one of the videos that was released about champion production. A picture had been circulated of an armored figure from the bust up that was very early on in iteration. That was a potential Leona skin, but again, in the end it wasnt very strong.

This can happen. We actually had a mecha-cho'gath finished and animated but it was really lame. We scrapped it and decided to make him a Battlecast skin which was a MUCH stronger theme. While sometimes skins can be cool, and we feel they're neat ideas, until we get it plugged into the game we don't really know if the skin will work.

Concept art can't solve all the problems up front. Concept, meaning "idea", is just that. Until our 3D brows get that thing walking round, only then can we know that it works 100%. So while it can be unfortunate that we have to kill content that we know some players will want, we want to make sure we're delivering the right thing at the right time, and these particular unreleased skins weren't hitting the bar. My hope is that we can revisit them and make them work! Who knows!

IMPORTANT: Ghost Bride Morgana haunting soon - in Game Pictures, Transfers to the Brazil server now available!
Update for EU: Read this for server information

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 PBE Patch for 5/17 - Aatrox and More

So if you only checked the post once, you need to give it a second look. Riot has posted a few red posts about the various champion nerfs/buffs that we saw. Also make sure to click the "view in redtracker" if it's a topic/champion you care about, they responded to some Q&A in each thread.

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Next Ultimate Skin Now in June - Delay on Summoner Icon Rewards for Lifetime RP

Riothippalus hit Reddit to give some information on a few delays.

Originally Posted by Riot (View Reddit Source)

OP is correct - we have not come through with the summoner icon rewards for lifetime RP purchases yet. There have been a few different reasons for the delay, but the good news is that when they do finally come, they should be much cooler than I originally envisioned.

And while I'm fessing up to missing target dates I've put out there, I should mention that the next ultimate skin will not make it in May. Hopefully June!

PBE Patch for 5/17

FULL STORY: So a air client only patch hit the PBE. 5 mins after, another air client patch removed all the changes. 10 mins after that a third air client hit with no changes. 20 mins after that point. LIVE SERVERS got the air client that was on the PBE

What does this mean: TBH (This is only a guess) it looks like we got a patch we should not have seen. From the Riot posts (which you can read below) it looks like some of these changes are meant for patch 3.8 while others not listed might be going in 3.9 KEEP THIS IN MIND, THIS MEANS THESE NUMBERS ARE NOT FOR OUR EYES YET. Riot is most likely still messing with these on their end.

ANOTHER UPDATE 9:44 PM EST - A fourth air client has hit
ANOTHER UPDATE 10:23 PM EST - A fifth air client has hit

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Aatrox the Darkin Blade

Release Skin Name: Justicar Aatrox

 

Damage: 55 (+ 3.2 ) 
Health: 395 (+ 85 ) 
Mana: 75 (+ 45 ) [Rog Note: He does not use mana, this is just whats in the air client]
Movement Speed: 345
Armor: 14 (+ 3.8 ) 
Magic Resist: 30 (+ 1.25 ) 
Health Per 5 Sec: 5.75 (+ 0.5 )
Mana Per 5 Sec: 0 (+ 0 )
Range: 150 
Defense Rating: 4 
Magic Rating: 3 
Difficulty Rating: 6 
Attack Rating: 8 

Tags: carry,melee 

Tips: *Avoid engaging in a fight with low health unless your Blood Well is full so that you regain enough health to continue fighting.*Building Life Steal can be very potent on Aatrox to help compensate for his health costs.*Massacre is great at turning the tide of a battle, make sure to use it at the right moment to maximize the benefits from it. 
Opponent Tips: *When Aatrox takes fatal damage he is healed for the amount currently in his resource bar, landing a fatal blow on him while the resource bar is low will result in him reviving with a lower amount of health.*When Aatrox casts Dark Flight towards your location, avoid being knocked up by moving away from the center of impact.*Aatrox is auto attack reliant for most of his damage and survivability, reducing his attack speed by purchasing Randuins Omen or Frozen Heart can help reduce both of those components greatly.

[Passive] - Blood Well	Aatrox - [Passive] - Blood Well  When using an ability that costs Health, Aatrox stores the self-inflicted damage into the Blood Well. Upon taking fatal damage Aatrox extracts the blood from the well and recovers it as health over a brief duration.
[Q] - Dark Flight	Aatrox - [Q] - Dark Flight  Aatrox takes flight and slams down at a targeted location, dealing 70/115/160/205/250 (+) physical damage to all nearby enemies and knocking up targets at the center of impact for 1/1/1/1/1 second.  Cost: 0/10/10/10/10 % of Current Health ()  Range: 650  Cooldown: 16/15/14/13/12
[W] - Blood Thirst / Blood Price	Aatrox - [W] - Blood Thirst / Blood Price  Activate to switch between Blood Thirst and Blood Price. Blood Thirst: Every third attack, Aatrox restores 20/25/30/35/40 (+) Health, increased by 200/200/200/200/200% when below half Health. Blood Price: Every third attack, Aatrox deals 60/95/130/165/200 (+) bonus physical damage and loses Health.  Cost:  Range: 0  Cooldown: 1/1/1/1/1
[E] - Blades of Torment	Aatrox - [E] - Blades of Torment  Aatrox unleashes and sends forward the power of his blade, dealing 75/120/165/210/255 (+0.6) Magic Damage to all enemies hit and slowing them by 40/40/40/40/40% for 1.75/2/2.25/2.5/2.75 seconds.  Cost: 5/5/5/5/5 % of Current Health ()  Range: 900  Cooldown: 12/11/10/9/8
[R] - Massacre	Aatrox - [R] - Massacre  On activation Aatrox draws in the blood of his foes, dealing magic damage to all enemy champions around him equal to 15/15/15% + 0.01% of their current Health. For the next 12/12/12 seconds, Aatrox's Maximum Health increases by 100/175/250 + 50/65/80 per champion hit, Attack Speed increases by 25/35/45% + 10/10/10% per champion hit, and he gains 175 Attack Range.  Cost:  Range: 0  Cooldown: 120/100/80

 Recommended Items

Recommended Items: We have them, however they are not formatted!
Update: jayjinde on reddit has formatted them for us. Make sure to give him thanks for his time!

• Starting Items: Doran's Blade
• Essential Items: Blade of the Ruined King, Ninja Tabi, Maw of Malmortius
• Offensive Items: The Bloodthirster, Zephyr, Ravenous Hydra
• Defensive Items: Randuin's Omen, Warmog's Armor, Spirit Visage
• Consumables: Health Pot, Sight Ward, Red Elixir

AatroxAatrox

Aatrox Aatrox is a legendary warrior, one of only five that remain of an ancient race known as the Darkin. He wields his massive blade with grace and poise, slicing through legions in a style that is hypnotic to behold. With each foe felled, Aatrox's seemingly living blade drinks in their blood, empowering him and fueling his brutal, elegant campaign of slaughter. The earliest tale of Aatrox is as old as recorded history. It tells of a war between two great factions remembered only as the Protectorate and the Magelords. Over time, the Magelords won a series of crushing victories, leaving them on the brink of obliterating their sworn enemy forever. On the day of their final confrontation, the Protectorate army found themselves outnumbered, exhausted, and poorly equipped. They braced for inevitable defeat. Just when all hope seemed lost, Aatrox appeared among the ranks of the Protectorate. With but a few words, he urged the soldiers to fight to the last before throwing himself into battle. His presence inspired the desperate warriors. At first, they could only watch in awe as this unknown hero cleaved through their enemies, his body and blade moving in unison as if one being. Soon, the warriors found themselves imbued with a potent thirst for battle. They followed Aatrox into the fray, each fighting with the furious strength of ten until they had won a most unlikely victory. Aatrox vanished after that battle, but the Protectorate army's newfound fury did not. Their surprising triumph led to many more until they were able to finally return home victorious. Their countrymen hailed them as heroes, but though they had saved their entire civilization from destruction, darkness lingered in the mind of each warrior. Something within them had changed. Over time, their memories of battle faded, only to be replaced with a grim revelation: their acts of heroism were, in fact, brutal atrocities committed by their own hands. Tales like these appear among the myths of many cultures. If they are all to be believed, Aatrox's presence has changed the course of some of the most important wars in history. Though these stories remember him as a savior in dark times, Aatrox's true legacy may be a world filled with conflict and strife. Some fight for honor, some fight for glory. It matters only that you fight. Aatrox

 

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5/17/2013 Context Post - PBE for Patch 3.08

Originally Posted by Riot (View RedTracker Source)

Hey Summoners,

As you know, we use the PBE servers as a testing ground for a lot of our experimental changes, but we’ve run into situations where sometimes a change requires a bit more nuance to understand. As a result, we’ll be driving these PBE context posts when we can offer some more context.

Also note that these changes are tentative, like anything else on the PBE, so they are all very subject to change.

Kha'Zix

• Taste Their Fear
• Isolation bonus redesigned as "increases damage by 45%".
• Evolution adds 8% Missing Health damage. (Which can also be increased by isolation.)
• Void Spikes
• Now slows targets hit for 2 seconds.
• Mana cost reduced
• Evolution no longer consumes passive to apply effects. Instead triples shot.

Ultimately we just wanted to increase your viable choices when picking evolutions. Kha’Zix was getting huge damage, high poke, and great utility from evolving Void Spikes. Now Void Spikes gets a slow as part of the base skill, so W is a reasonable one-point wonder. Evolving and maxing it first also works though, just not so well that it dominates the other skills. Taste Their Fear’s evolution was previously reliant on having targets isolated. Now it works whether they are isolated or not, but does more damage against isolated targets, making it a more reliable choice.

Lissandra

• Ring of Frost
• Cooldown reduced
• Damage reduced
• Frozen Tomb
• Slow increases per level
• Damage reduced at later levels

For a control mage with a kit she has, Lissandra was throwing out a lot of front-loaded damage in team fights. The intention of these changes was to lower her damage, but to also increase her crowd control abilities. These were made to better highlight her core strengths as a strong DPS mage with high in-fight control.

Jungle

• Wolves
• Initial spawn time increased to 1:55 from 1:45
• Respawn time reduced to 50 seconds from 60
• Wraiths
• Initial spawn time increased to 1:55 from 1:45
• Golems
• Initial spawn time increased to 1:55 from 1:45
• Respawn time reduced to 50 seconds from 60
• Ancient Golem
• Base Experience granted increased to 275 from 220
• Now plays a particle effect to show who the buff transferred to
• Lizard Elder
• Base Experience granted increased to 275 from 220
• Now plays a particle effect to show who the buff transferred to

We’ve increased the initial spawn times of jungle creeps to get rid of the frustrating experience advantage players could get by killing certain jungle monsters before laning phase begins. This was a much requested change from a lot of pro teams around the world, as the only real counter was to switch lanes or to try to prevent it altogether. The other changes are to reassure junglers since they’ll feel like they’ve “lost” a full camp clear since they won’t be able to start wolves or wraiths before heading to their buffs. So Elder Lizard and Ancient Golem will give more EXP, and jungle camps will spawn a little faster. Faster spawns will also help some champions who have exceptionally high clear times and want to just stay in the jungle.

Items

• Madred's Razors
• UNIQUE Passive - Maim
• Now deals bonus damage to monsters with every basic attack
• Wriggle's Lantern
• UNIQUE Passive - Maim
• Now deals bonus damage to monsters with every basic attack
• Attack Damage increased
• Life Steal increased
• Combine cost increased

These changes are currently tentative. We just want to increase consistency on Madred’s and Wriggles in order to let players plan their jungle routes better with these items. There were a lot of odd cases where junglers would accidentally steal a buff from their teammate due to a random proc, or a jungler would fall behind because they weren’t getting enough procs. Overall we had to lower the damage output in comparison to the old Madred’s and Wriggle’s (if you simply average out the old Madred’s and Wriggle’s damage by four) because of the consistency involved and the fact that it never deals “overkill” damage, where it would proc on a small creep (or on a near-dead jungle unit), thereby wasting its damage.

• Wit's End
• New Recipe: Recurve Bow + Null Magic Mantle + Dagger + 600 gold = 2300 gold
• Attack Speed increased slightly
• Revised Passive - Your attacks steal Magic Resist from the target, stacks up to 5 times
• Nashor's Tooth
• Combine Cost increased
• Ability Power reduced slightly
• Additional Passive - Your attacks deal 15 + 15% of your Ability Power bonus magic damage on hit
• Malady
• Removed from the game

We've moved Malady's passives to the two other Attack Speed items to further solidify Nashor's Tooth's niche role as an Ability Power focused auto-attacker item, while moving the magic shred onto Wit's End to better synergize with magic damage based fighters (even for those that don’t deal magic damage, Sunfire Cape synergizes quite well with Wit’s End). Malady has been removed as it has simply been a poor fit in the current space that it was in.

One thing some of you may notice is absent are the Shyvana buffs i'd talked about a few weeks ago.

The buffs make sense, and we're going to do them. Just not for this patch. The reason being that along with the change to Wriggle's Lantern proc'ing on every attack, Wits end reducing Magic Resistance, and lowered respawns for jungle camps - we couldn't accurately assess Shyvana's balance.

As with all of our balance changes, there is always a rippling effect. Items being buffed or nerfed can mean more success or failure with champions who buy them. Taric's nerfs saw a universal increase in performance across every support. In the same vein, each of the above changes are also buffs to Shyvana and until we can judge the effect of the item/jungle changes would have on her power level, i don't want to pull the trigger on the changes just yet. Statikk and i are looking to have Shyvana Balance changes with Patch 3.9 pending iteration after 3.8 goes live.

 

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[3.8] Improvements to the PVP.net experience on smaller resolutions

Originally Posted by Riot (View RedTracker Source)

Summoners,
As part of the 3.8 patch, we've introduced some code in PVP.net that will automatically scale itself down to 1150x720 or 1024x640, whichever is most appropriate. The most common desktop resolutions that will see their experience impacted are:

• 1366x768
• 1280x768
• 1280x700
• 1182x864

Prior to 3.8, the client defaulted to a specific, unchanging window size; for those of you with widescreen laptops running 1366x768 or smaller footprint monitors like 1280x720, this has meant having key functionality hidden behind the Windows task bar. No more!

This change represents a shift in the player experience and we felt it was important to reach out to those of you affected to see how you feel about it, and better understand what else we can do to improve the PVP.net experience on the above-named resolutions. Please spend some time poking around on PBE once 3.8 has arrived and feel free to share your thoughts on other ways we can improve the smaller-resolution League experience.

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Riot on Vi's Change this PBE Patch

Originally Posted by Riot (View RedTracker Source)

The change currently on PBE is obviously still in testing. However I need to jump in here to clarify that even with this change Vi's ultimate is still unstoppable it simply doesn't discard the CC, however she will feel the effects of the CC when the charge ends. Knockbacks and Knockups however since they are displacing the charging champion's movement are completely ignored to allow the Ultimate to complete.

What does this mean in game? 
If Vi uses her ultimate on Lux who lands a light binding while charging. Vi will finish the charge and smash Lux into the ground. Then, Vi will be rooted for the remainder of the duration of the binding. 

The other ultimates with similar mechanics such as Malphite also have this change, however totally blocking CC effects was not directly referenced in tooltips outside of Vi's before which is why you are only seeing a change in hers. 

Champions effected by this change iirc are Malphite, Hecarim, J4, Nocturne, and Vi. The goal here is to add a little bit more counterplay to these abilities while still keeping them "unstoppable". We want these abilities to be uninterruptable and they will, however we also don't feel that them completely nullifying other champions crowd control effects and cooldowns even after the charge is compete is fair. We felt this was a nice and logical compromise, but we'll see how testing goes. 

I'll work on the tooltip wording to try and make this a bit more clear. I don't feel this will ultimately be a bit power hit but if we feel it is - or becomes one we'll adjust the individual champions effected as needed.

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Riot on the Lissandra Changes

Originally Posted by Riot (View RedTracker Source)

Our goal with the Lissandra changes currently in testing was to shift Lissandra's power a little bit more towards utility (lower W CD, stronger slow at higher levels on ult) and away from burst (base damage at higher ranks on W and ult). These changes aren't intended to be a nerf and shouldn't impact her laning phase much at all, bar the lower W CD. We suspect they may actually may be a slight buff, though it's that realignment of power towards desired strengths that's the key thing here.

In terms of overall performance Lissandra's also still pretty new so we're still assessing her overall state as well, particularly given some people started playing her in her first week, others when she dropped to 6300 IP and yet more of course during her current free week. This means quite a wide range of experience on her from individual players, resulting in a fair bit of variation in performance still.

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Riot on Annie Changes

Originally Posted by Riot (View RedTracker Source)

Please realize that the PBE changes are datamined from just the tooltips.

The tooltip for the stats just got moved to the spell level up tooltip. There is also another siginificant buff we are testing that the datamining missed.

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Abilities

Super important - Everything below is from the air client, which has now been removed (5 mins after being uploaded) by a second, third, and fourth air client patch. Read up top for a quess on why. These abilities look to have been released too early.

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Items