5/4 PBE Update: Splash, Chroma & Icons Tweaks, Balance Changes, & More

**Blitzcrank-Bot** · 5. Mai 2022

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Table of Contents
Miscellaneous
Balance Changes
Context & Notes

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The PBE has been updated! As we continue the 12.9 PBE cycle, today's patch includes tons of tweaks to splashes, chromas, icons, plus balance changes and feedback thread updates.

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.)

Miscellaneous

New loot assets are now on the PBE:
- MSI Esports Capsule 2022
  - Contains LoL Esports related content.
- Prime Gaming Capsule
  - 350 RP, 5 Mythic Essence, an unowned 1350 RP Skin Permanent, 200 Orange Essence, 5 Champion Shards, 2 Series 1 Eternals Shards, and a 30-Day XP Boost

Splashes tweaked:
- High Noon Katarina (minor tweaks)

- High Noon Talon (minor tweaks, Talon mouth changed)

- High Noon Varus (minor tweaks, Talon mouth changed)

Summoner icons tweaked:

Emotes tweaked:

High Noon Leona chroma assets tweaked

Balance Changes

* NOTE*: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, & potentially experimental changes. Be aware that what you see below may be relative to other changes from earlier this cycle! These are not official notes and may be incomplete.

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Context & Notes

1) Riot Phroxzon provided a 12.9 balance changelists:

Changelists are still subject to change. All of the champion adjustment lists are pretty lengthy, but some of the notable changes are listed here.

We're holding off on doing significant item or burst champion changes until after the durability update patch (12.10) pic.twitter.com/RfRXhvlTps
— Matt Leung-Harrison (@RiotPhroxzon) May 4, 2022

2) Here's latest from the r/LeaguePBE feedback threads:

High Noon Katarina

"Update:

Hi all! Thanks for all your feedback. After discussing with the team, we'll be making the following changes:

Splash: Unfortunately we're unable to completely change the pose, but we did adjust the shadow to help make her neck feel more connected. We then broke up her hair shape with more loos hair, and then added more local color to her face.

Sound: We added some ricochets to the Q land and bells to the blades spinning to help push the thematic a bit more. There's also more bells and gunshots with the E. We know there was a lot asking for gun shot sounds and visuals for the R. Unfortunately there's a gameplay concern that it would read as Samira and loose the blade swiftness feel that's special to Katarina.

VFX: Increased Smoke on Auto attack and ability reset.

Icon and Emote: Some minor adjustments and added her beauty mark!

- Riot Eneopa"

High Noon Talon

Update: Hi all! Thanks for all your feedback. After discussing with the team, we'll be making the following changes:

Model: We've extended his blade! Thanks for this call out.

Splash: We've adjusted his smile.

VFX: We've adjusted his R Missiles so that the missile head doesn't compete with the the trail. The W spell now animates slightly. The W trail intensity was also reduce on the way back to increase blade readability.

- Riot Eneopa"

High Noon Varus

"Update: Hi all! Thanks for all your feedback. After discussing with the team, we'll be making the following changes:

Icon and Emote: We adjust both the icon and emote to make him feel more like Varus.

Model: We hear you about wanting him to have long hair. Making a change like this, at this stage can risk an introduction of a lot of bugs. Varus will be keeping his shorter hair this time round.

VFX: Added more elements into Varus WQ so it feels more powered up than regular Q. We also added some extra smoke to his W and the decal was slightly adjusted for better readability."

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 !