4/22 PBE UPDATE

The PBE has been updated! As we continue on the 6.9 PBE cycle, today's patch includes more tentative balance changes for a variety of champions!

Continue reading for more information!

(Warning: PBE Content is tentative and iterative - what you see may not reflect what eventually gets pushed to live servers! Manage your expectations accordingly. )

Table of Contents

• Balance Changes
• Upcoming PBE Changes

Balance Changes

* Remember *: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, and sometimes radical changes. The changes you see below may be lacking context or other accompanying changes that didn't make it in - don't freak out! These are not official notes.

General

Rift Herald

• Buff renamed "Glimpse of the Void" from "Void Superbuff"

Champions

Malzahar

• Void Swarm (W) 
• New Voidlings are now (once again) generated from the first time Voidlings attack monsters.
• Voidlings now deal 75% damage against monsters.

Nidalee

• Takedown (Q): [changelist]
• Execute Amp changed to  [.5/.67/.83/1% per 1% missing HP] from [1.5% per 1% missing HP].
• Base damage  changed to 5/30/55/80 from 4/20/50/90
• Total AD ratio increased to 1 from .75
• AP ratio increased to .45 from .36
• [NOTE: Smash Gizmo has tweeted these changes will likely be reduced to only having the Q's execute damage scale per rank.]

Swain

• Decrepify (Q) [damage doubled now only against minions, from non-champion targets.]

Taric

• Bastion (W) [looks like cast range reduced by about 200.]

Teemo

• Blinding Dart (Q) mana cost lowered to 70/75/80/85/90 from 70/80/90/100/110

Veigar

• Primordial Burst (R) :
• Damage lowered to [175/250/325 to 350/500/650] from [175/275/375 to 350/550/750]

Vel'Koz

• Life Form Disintegration Ray (R)  :
• Cooldown lowered to 120/100/80
• Damage lowered to 500/725/950 from 550/800/1050

Vladimir
[CONTEXT]

• Tides of Blood (E):
• [Tooltip reworded, now mentions a few extra details of how spell works such as targets hit blocking a portion of the nova.]
• Maximum Missles blocked by minions reduced to 5 from 7
• Missiles now "additionally deal their damage to neighboring minions within a small, 'under-the-hood' aoe around the target"

Zac

• [NOTE: Now that the PBE is up, this movement speed change (increased to 340 from 335) is in the AIR Client only. Movement Speed has not been changed in game. May be a change to come, maybe a value that wasn't corrected. Dunno!]

Zyra
[CONTEXT]

• Garden of Thorns (Passive): [Seeds won't spawn while Zyra is hiding in a brush.]
• Rampant Growth (W) :
• Seeds now last 60 seconds up from 45.
• [NOTE: This is for W seeds. Seeds from passive still last 45 seconds.]
• Seeds from W now grant vision in small area and vision of enemy champion for 2 seconds if stepped on.

[NOTE: As Zyra's P&W seeds have different duration/effects, P seeds are pink and W seeds are purple.]

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 !

• [Comprehensive 6.9 PBE Cycle Post]
• 4/19 PBE Update: Mid-Season 2016 Updates, New Kayle, Nocturne, and Singed Skins, and much more!
• 4/20 PBE Update:  New Anivia Icons, One for All Testing, and more!
• 4/21 PBE Update: Elemental & Elder Dragon Changes and more tentative balance changes!

Upcoming PBE Changes

For reference, here are a few upcoming PBE changes Rioters have tweeted out for next week's PBE:

Follow up Viktor changes (to the first set from 4/20) from ricklessbandon.

• "still working on lots of tuning and polish, but here's a sample of a viktor iteration we're testing internally:"

Upcoming Soraka changes from SmashGizmo (1/2), including revert on heal changes:

• "Soraka changes should update on Monday to no longer refresh Windspeakers on Rejuvination."
• "I also cut the healing lines from Q and instead opted to flatten the slow to 30% at all ranks."