PBE round-up 5.21

Patch 5.21 will hit live in the early hours of October 28th, assuming there are no delays. Here are its contents:

 

Store Content

• Slayer Jinx
• Slayer Pantheon
• Zombie Nunu
• New Summoner Icons

Balance

• Champion Changes

Miscellaneous

• Updated Player Reports
• New Login Screens
• Lore for Shadow Isle Champions

 

Here are the most recent news in each category:

  

Slayer Jinx will be available for 1350 RP after Patch 5.21 hits live:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slayer Pantheon will be available for 975 RP:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zombie Nunu will be available for 1350 RP:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Six new Summoner icons will be available in store after Patch 5.22 hits live:

 

Four team icons will be available for players who want to support this year’s semifinalists at Worlds. As with all team icons, 20% of the proceeds to directlly to the teams.

 

Two Harrowing-themed icons with Zombie Brand and Slayer Pantheon will also be available, likely for 250 RPeach:

 

 

 

 

Feast [ R]

 

 

• If Feast kills an enemy Champion, Cho’Gath gains 2 stacks (1 stack on live)

 

 

• Health changed from 631

[+79 per level]

to 580 [+82 per level]

 

Parrrley [ Q]

 

 

• Killing a target with Parrley no longer refunds 25 mana

 

 

 

 

Nether Blade [ W]

 

 

• Cooldown decreased from 9 seconds to 7
• AP ratio on active increased from 0.6 to 0.7

 

 

 

Harvester of Sorrow [ W]

 

 

• Now only receives 50% of the experience lost by sharing a lane, decreased from 100%

 

 

 

Blade of the Exile / Wind Slash [ R]

 

 

• Cooldown increased from 110/85/50 seconds to 130/95/60

 

 

Baleful Strike [ Q]

 

 

• Base damage decreased from 80/125/170/215/260 to 70/110/150/190/230

 

 

[ Note]

 

You can find context on why Zilean’s passive is being replaced HERE.

 

Time in a Bottle [ New Passive]

 

 

Zilean stores 2/3.5/5/6/12 experience every 5 seconds (values for levels 1/6/11/16/18).

When he has enough to finish an ally’s level, he can right-click them to give them that Experience (cooldown is 120 seconds). Zilean gains as much Experience as he gives. Cannot be used in combat.

 

 

Hey everyone,

Last month, we debuted upgrades to the Instant Feedback system (reform cards, improved chat restrictions and intentional feeding bans). Now, we’re continuing the overhaul by pushing out some improvements to the report system. We made two major changes to how you report someone:

The old system had a lot of categories, some of which were redundant, not useful, or simply out-of-date. After analyzing old report data and listening to community feedback, we winnowed the list down to seven types of behavior:

Sometimes a player might display multiple offensive behaviors in game – in the old system, it wasn’t possible to report them for more than one reason. With these upgrades, we’re allowing up to 3 categories to be selected when reporting a player. Keep in mind, selecting multiple categories doesn’t increase the severity of a report, so only select the offenses that happened in the game. In the future, players who falsely report others may face penalties. The more accurate the report, the better we can help players reform their behavior.

This should be hitting the PBE shortly. Please leave a comment if you have any questions.

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There are two new loading screens – one for Worlds and the other for the upcoming Harrowing event. Here are the links on FrostyNinja’s channel:

 

 

 

 

New in-client lore has been released for most Champions from the Shadow Isles:

 

“Break their ranks and ride them down without mercy. Crush the living and feast on their terror.”

Hecarim is an armored colossus who charges from the Shadow Isles at the head of a deathly host of spectral horsemen to hunt the living. A monstrous fusion of man and beast, cursed to ride for eternity, Hecarim revels in slaughter and crushing souls beneath his armored hooves.

 

“When wronged, we seek justice. When hurt, we strike back. When betrayed, the Spear of Vengeance strikes!”

A specter of wrath and retribution, Kalista is the undying spirit of vengeance, an armored nightmare summoned from the Shadow Isles to hunt deceivers and traitors. The betrayed may cry out in blood to be avenged, but Kalista only answers those whose cause she deems worthy of her skills. Woe betide those who become the focus of Kalista’s wrath, for any pact sealed with this grim hunter can only end on the cold fire of her soul-spears.”

 

“Death is not the end of the journey, it is just the beginning…”

The harbinger of oblivion, Karthus is an undying spirit whose haunting songs are a prelude to the horror of his nightmarish appearance. The living fear the eternity of undeath, but Karthus sees only beauty and purity in its embrace, a perfect union of life and death. When Karthus emerges from the Shadow Isles, it is to bring the joy of death to mortals as an apostle of the unliving.

 

“All things must die… and yet I live on.”

The baleful revenant Mordekaiser is among the most terrifying and hateful spirits haunting the Shadow Isles. He has existed for countless centuries, shielded from true death by necromantic sorcery and the force of his own dark will. Those who dare face Mordekaiser in battle risk a horrific curse: he enslaves his victims’ souls to become instruments of destruction.

 

“The mind is a wondrous thing to tear apart.”

Sadistic and cunning, Thresh is a restless spirit who prides himself on tormenting mortals and breaking them with slow, excruciating inventiveness. His victims suffer far beyond the point of death, for Thresh wreaks agony upon their souls, imprisoning them in his lantern to torture for all eternity.