League of Legends Sep. 28 PBE Update Breakdown

Riot Games released a new update onto the PBE, and with it arrived multiple quality of life changes regarding parties, additional balance changes and bug fixes regarding the new Runes system, and several Champion balance changes, many of which are directed towards Marksmen. As a reminder, PBE content is always tentative, and as such features and numbers that go live on the main servers may differ from what is listed below.

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Party Changes

While many have come to appreciate the new League of Legends client, there are still a few features that have yet to be fully implemented that could sway those still on the fence about its benefits. One such feature is the ability to change your party’s game mode. While party leaders are currently able to do this, switching the party over from an ARAM to a normal game, for example, would force the party leader into a new lobby, and new invites would be sent out to those that were in the leader’s first party. Now available for testing on the PBE, party leaders can now switch games modes instantaneously, without any griping from their teammates.

Another quality of life feature along the same thought process is the ability for all members of a party to press the “Play Again” button on the end of game screen. Up until now only party leaders were able to do this. With this latest change, any party member that has not selected the “Play Again” button will appear as “not ready”. Pressing the button will change the status to “ready” and the party leader can queue the team up for matchmaking.

Last but not least, going forward any draft game mode will remember each party member’s position preference, so players won’t have to reselect their preferred roles after each match. As this only works for game modes that have position select, other game modes such as ARAMs and normal blind pick will function as they always have.

Runes Reforged Testing & Bug Fixes

Riot employee Wrekz took to Twitter to reveal the latest changes and bug fixes for League’s brand new Rune system. While the changes are fairly self-explanatory, the Tweets themselves do not explain what each rune does. Thankfully, Riot Games recently released a tool that allows players to read up on the new runes and ‘theorycraft’ new builds.

“Quick heads up on runes changes for PBE Today: 1/x”
“Last hitting – Champions gain +5 damage on each basic attack against a lane minion”
“Sudden Impact Now activates on exiting stealth or camouflage”
“Ravenous Hunter Fixed a bug that was causing this to grant 40% spellvamp instead of 15% at max stacks”
“Lethal Tempo Fixed a bug causing this to always break the AS cap instead of only while Lethal Tempo’s bonus was active.”
“Celestial Body Damage penalty increased to 8% Damage penalty now applies to monsters as well as champions “
“Overheal – Healing from others = 100-300% over game time, no more range/melee split there”
Loading screen frames have also been adjusted to accommodate for the new Runes system.

Champion Balance Changes

The latest batch of Champion balance changes is very nearly a full list of Champion buffs, save for the Janna nerfs that were hotfixed in to the live servers on 9/27. Also of note is the fact that many of these buffs are for Marksmen. Despite the buffs being minor for the most part, the Marksmen buffs have a direct correlation with the new runes system. The new runes Riot is bringing in add base damage to champions rather than bonus attack damage, which will adversely affect Marksmen abilities that have bonus scalings, as they would be doing less damage. As such, the Marksmen abilities below – all of which have some bonus attack damage scaling – are being buffed to help keep their power levels in line.

Champions:

Caitlyn

Ace in the Hole (R) damage increased from 250/475/700 to 265/490/715

Draven

Spinning Axe (Q) damage increased from 30/35/40/45/50 to 35/40/45/50/55
Stand Aside (E) damage increased from 70/105/140/175/210 to 75/110/145/180/215
Whirling Death (R) damage increased from 175/275/375 to 185/285/385

Ezreal

Arcane Shift (E) damage increased from 75/125/175/225/275 to 80/130/180/230/280
Trueshot Barrage (R) damage increased from 350/500/650 to 355/505/655

Graves

End of the Line (Q)
- Initial damage increased from 40/55/70/85/100 to 45/60/75/90/105
- Detonation damage increased from 80/110/140/170/200 to 85/115/145/175/205
Collateral Damage (R)
- damage on pass through increased from 250/400/550 to 260/410/560
- explosion damage increased from 200/320/440 to 210/330/450

Hecarim

Rampage (Q) damage increased from 50/85/120/155/190 to 55/90/125/160/195

Janna

Base movement speed lowered from 335 to 320
Base mana lowered from 409.52 to 350
Base health lowered from 525 to 500
Zephyr (W) mana cost increased from 40/50/60/70/80 to 50/60/70/80/90

Jinx

Super Mega Death Rocket! (R) damage increased from 250/350/450 to 260/360/460

Kayn

Reaping Slash (Q) damage increased from 55/75/95/115/135 to 60/80/100/120/140
Blade’s Reach (W) damage increased from 80/125/170/215/260 to 85/130/175/220/265
Umbral Trespass (R) damage increased from 150/250/350 to 160/260/360

Kindred

Dance of Arrows (Q) damage increased from 55/75/95/115/135 60/80/100/120/140
Mounting Dread (E) bonus damage increased from 60/80/100/120/140 to 65/85/105/125/145

Lucian

Piercing Light (Q) damage increased from 80/115/150/185/220 to 85/120/155/190/225

Pantheon

Spear Shot (Q) damage increased from 65/105/145/185/225 to 75/110/155/195/235
Heartseeker Strike (E) damage 80/130/180/230/280 to 100/150/200/150/300

Talon

Noxian Diplomacy (Q) damage increased from 60/85/110/135/160 to 65/90/115/140/165
Rake (W) return damage increased from 60/85/110/135/160 to 70/95/120/145/170
Shadow Assault (R) damage increased from 90/135/180 to 95/140/185

Tristana

Explosive Change (E) damage increased from 50/75/100/125/150 to 55/80/105/130/155

Varus

Hail of Arrows (E) damage increased from 65/100/135/170/205 to 70/105/140/175/210

Vayne

Condemn (E) damage increased from 45/80/115/150/185 to 50/85/120/155/190

Xayah

Double Daggers (Q) damage increased from 40/60/80/100/120 to 45/65/85/105/125
Bladecaller (E) damage increased from 50/60/70/80/90 to 55/65/75/85/95
Featherstorm (R) damage increased from 100/150/200 to 110/160/210

Zed

Razor Shuriken (Q)
- damage increased from 70/105/140/175/210 to 80/115/150/185/220
- secondary damage increased from 42/63/84/105/126 to 45/66/87/108/129
Shadow Slash (E) damage increased from 65/90/115/140/165 to 70/95/120/145/170

Items:

Sterak’s Gage