The News Roundup: Contest Roundup, PBE Changes for 1/4/2013, Champion and Skin Sale, Morello on AP Mages, and more

Contest Roundup

Don't forget there are a bunch of contests active right now!

 PBE Changes for 1/4/2013

IMPORTANT: As always keep in mind this was datamined from the Game Client, and not the air client. Until the servers are back up with this patch we can not verify if these changes are live on the PBE or not.
Note: Last Update: The target of Amumu's R can still auto attack on the PBE. Have just finished testing with Diff on live to confirm this has changed

Amumu - [R] - Curse of the Sad Mummy
Amumu - [R] - Curse of the Sad Mummy
Amumu entangles surrounding enemy units,dealing 150/250/350 (+0.8)magic damage and preventing [auto] attacks and movement for 2 seconds.

Cost: 100/150/200 Mana

Range: 0

Cooldown: 150/130/110		 Amumu - [R] - Curse of the Sad Mummy
Amumu entangles surrounding enemy units,dealing 150/250/350 (+0.8)magic damage and rooting them for 2 seconds.

Cost: 100/150/200 Mana

Range: 0

Cooldown: 150/130/110
Blitzcrank - [Passive] - Mana Barrier
Blitzcrank - [Passive] - Mana Barrier
When Blitzcrank life is brought below 20% health he activates Mana Barrier.This creates a mana shield equal to 50% of his mana for 10 seconds.Mana Barrier can only occur once per minute.		 Blitzcrank - [Passive] - Mana Barrier
When Blitzcrank life is brought below 20% health he activates Mana Barrier.This creates a mana shield equal to 50% of his mana for 10 seconds.Mana Barrier can only occur once every 90 seconds.
Lee Sin - [W] - Safeguard / Iron Will
Lee Sin - [W] - Safeguard / Iron Will
Safeguard: Lee Sin rushes towards a target ally,shielding them both for 40/80/120/160/200 (+0.8)damage over the next 5 seconds.If a shield is broken,half the Energy cost is returned.After using Safeguard,Lee Sin can cast Iron Will for the next 3 seconds.

Iron Will: Lee Sin's intense training allows him to thrive in battle.For 5 seconds,Lee Sin gains 5/9/13/17/21% Lifesteal,Spell Vamp,and 10/15/20/25/30 Armor.

Cost: 50/50/50/50/50 Energy / 30/30/30/30/30 Energy

Range: 0

Cooldown: 9/9/9/9/9		 Lee Sin - [W] - Safeguard / Iron Will
Safeguard: Lee Sin rushes towards a target ally,shielding them both for 40/80/120/160/200 (+0.8)damage over the next 5 seconds.After using Safeguard,Lee Sin can cast Iron Will for the next 3 seconds.

Iron Will: Lee Sin's intense training allows him to thrive in battle.For 5 seconds,Lee Sin gains 5/10/15/20/25% Life Steal and Spell Vamp.

Cost: 50/50/50/50/50 Energy / 30/30/30/30/30 Energy

Range: 0

Cooldown: 9/9/9/9/9
Lee Sin - [E] - Tempest / Cripple
Lee Sin - [E] - Tempest / Cripple
Tempest: Lee Sin smashes the ground,sending out a shockwave that deals 60/95/130/165/200 (+)magic damage and reveals enemy units hit for 4 seconds.If Tempest hits an enemy,Lee Sin can cast Cripple for the next 3 seconds.

Cripple: Lee Sin cripples nearby enemies revealed by Tempest for 4 seconds,reducing their Movement and Attack Speed by 30/37.5/45/52.5/60%.Movement and Attack Speed recover gradually over the duration.

Cost: 50/50/50/50/50 Energy / 30/30/30/30/30 Energy

Range: 0

Cooldown: 10/10/10/10/10		 Lee Sin - [E] - Tempest / Cripple
Tempest: Lee Sin smashes the ground,sending out a shockwave that deals 60/95/130/165/200 (+)magic damage and reveals enemy units hit for 4 seconds.If Tempest hits an enemy,Lee Sin can cast Cripple for the next 3 seconds.

Cripple: Lee Sin cripples nearby enemies revealed by Tempest for 4 seconds,reducing their Movement and Attack Speed by 20/30/40/50/60%.Movement and Attack Speed recover gradually over the duration.

Cost: 50/50/50/50/50 Energy / 30/30/30/30/30 Energy

Range: 0

Cooldown: 10/10/10/10/10

Jungle Changes

User EmKaY57 on Reddit has posted that there are changes to monster HP on the PBE. However the numbers do not match the latest PBE changes. They have been updated with this patch to what is below. Check out EmKaY57's chart to see the live values!

Type Wolves Golem Wraiths Red Buff Blue Buff
Small Mob 200 300 150 203 203
Main Mob 1000 1000 900 1522 1522

 

Morello on AP Mages

Morello took the time while on vacation to reply to a thread about AP Mages, You can see the full context of the original post on our red tracker

I think this is a bit of a misnomer, but "burst mages" have been subpar for a bit. Part of this is that some utility mages also function as burst mages (Anivia and Orianna are good examples).

So it's not that burst magic damage is bad, is that there are also options for getting that function while getting utility/control. The biggest culprit was health getting better and AD items getting cheaper. 

I'm on vacation for a couple weeks, so I can't go and check on our current plans in real-time right now, but I agree there's something to look at here - I'll poke at it when I get back to the office. I do think, though, this is a bit of an over-statement, even if the original thesis (AP Bursters are sub-par right now) is correct.

Season 3 Online Tournament Streaming Information

This weekend starts the Season 3 Online Tournament, check below for dates and stream links.

Hey all,

For the online tournament coming up on January 4th and 5th, Riot organizers (Tiza, Janook, Rara, Phreak, and more) will provide directed camera streams of as many of these matches as we can. These online qualifying matches will not be casted by Riot, but any casters who would like to rebroadcast the matches should feel free to do so.

We’ll be streaming the January 11th North American Qualifiers and January 25th EU Qualifiers in full force.

Stay tuned for details. Best of luck to the teams competing in the online tournament.

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Hey everyone, once the channels are setup, you'll be able to see the list of streams here:

http://www.twitch.tv/team/riot/ 

 New Ingame Replay Survey

Jagxyz over on reddit posted about a new survey asking players the following question: "If replays were available, I would download a replay for the match I just played."

Riot Still Interested in ARAM Mode

Though no real information was added than what we had before, on the German forums riot posted saying they are still interested in the idea of a ARAM mode. You can check out the full post over on the German forms here. You can simply use google translator to get the idea of the full thread but in the end

  • This is something they love in house just as much as we do
  • This is something they are looking into but with all things there is a lot of work behind this.
  • If they are working on something like this, we would not know about it until close to release

Champion and Skin Sale

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