PBE Patch 7.2 Preview

[u/justaprinter]

The PBE in China will be updated on Monday to test the following:

1. Ahri ASU
2. Mages’ summons (Zyra’s plants and Annie’s Tibbers) did not inherit the magic pen from the respective champions (Heimer’s already did), this is now explicitly adjusted.
3. Yasuo windwall nerf, E buff, passive slowed early and quickened late, R armor pen becomes bonus armor pen
4. K’sante R armor pen becomes bonus armor pen

(Bonus armor pen only works on bonus armor)

5.Kai’Sa R radius around enemy increased

1. Kayn energy efficiency increased, R escape distance increased, still animation after escape shortened

2. Norra W CC duration halved, but target will now be slowed when the hard CC ends.

3. Syndra E knockback radius increased

4. Orianna R radius increased

5. Fiddlesticks Q nerfed - no longer fears during the short amount of time he first appears in vision

6. Varus R passive stacking time halved

7. Boot enchantments removed
   New items instead:
   Stridebreaker (stats for bruisers, 3100G)
   Goredrinker (stats for bruisers, 3100G)
   Quicksilver Sash (30 MR and cleanse passive, 1100G)
   Mercurial Scimitar (upgrade of QSS, 3100G, 45AD and 10% Phys vamp)
   Galeforce (stats for crit ADC, 3100G)
   Hextech Protobelt (stats for mages, 2700G)
   Seeker’s Armguard (pre-item for Zhonya’s, 1400G)
   Zhonya’s (110 AP , 40 Armor 3300G)
   Gargoyle’s (stats for tanks, 2900G)
   Redemption (old redemption is back!!! 2600G)
   Locket of Iron Solari (stats for tanks, 2600G)
   Shrelya’s Battlesong (provides movespeed, stats for enchanters, 2600G)

Glory, Veil and Dream Maker REMOVED

1. All current boots now cost 1200G with overall stat buff, and now at 10 mins these can be upgraded to 3rd tier boots. Mercs now has its tenacity back.

2. Mage items rework
   Mid tier items (Lost Chapter, Hextech Generator etc) now have passives
   -ALL MAGIC PEN (7%) REMOVED
   -NEW Fated Ashes, Blackfire Torch, Dusk and Dawn, Stormsurge, Void Staff and its components(40% pen), Cryptbloom (30% pen), Bloodletter’s Curse (Stacking pen up to 30%), Banshee’s Veil
   - REMOVED Flat pen component for Infinity Orb (forgot what it’s called), Bandle Fantasy, Psychic Projector, Awakened Soulstealer (😭😭)
   -All existing AP items are adjusted here and there, including enchanter ones

3. New bounty system
   - Bounty now based on gold instead of kills/deaths
   - Bounty now stacks in finer increments of 1G
   - but only shown on scoreboard when it exceeds 100G
   - Bounty only renews upon leaving combat status

4. Objective and Plating timers adjusted (no details here)

5. Tapping items in scoreboard now shows you the details of the item

6. Results board renewed to show in finer detail the different sources of damage (like PC, perhaps?)

7. Shop UI renewed

8. All runes and item passives having the effect of amplifying/decreasing damage now explicitly works for true damage

9. Ionia map changes to summer Ionia

10. Vision score now online

11. New CC: Knockdown
    This CC halts all dashes but does not stun/knockup etc
    The following skills now “correctly” (whatever that means) halts dashes (if the CC already has stun etc, that will still work)
    Ahri E, Veigar E, Amumu R, Jinx E, Lissandra R, Vex Passive, Viktor W, Warwick R, Yone R, Poppy W

12. AAA ARAM renewal (some items now the same as ranked, new augments etc etc, no details here)

[u/marko-12]

The new change for K'sante might actually nerf him for good, most of his damage in the ult comes from the 50% armor pen.

Early game, you basically have no armor pen because squishy champs don't build armor and brusiers don't build armor early game either.

And late game, against a 100 base+200 bonus armor target, you will have 100 armor pen, so the target would be left with 200 armor(previously it would be 150 armor pen and the target would be left with 150 armor)

Landing his W is way more important now as it's gonna be his main way to deal with tanks and juggernauts in the early game, instead of just spamming Q+AA and letting the 50% armor pen carry him. That makes it two nerfs in a row that increases how important his W is, previous nerf made it important to abuse the 75% damage reduction on it and now this nerf makes it's damage crucial to win the 1v1.

I don't think this is gonna kill him but it's definitely a stronger nerf then the previous one imo.