new champion

Что-то я забыл про новости с ПБЕ а они интересные.
Начнем с основных нерф/бафов

ТФ Pick a card теперь выбор карты не 10, а всего несколько секунд, и долго выбранную карту на руках подержать не выйдет (пичаль-беда, заебали уже его нерфить)

Райз Ну тут риоты разошлись не на шутку: Немного повысили мувспид с ульты + базовый мувспид, уменьшили дальность действия всех навыков.

А вот Трэш балнсировка (в долгих играх наверно будет +) .75 Брони/Ап за душу, было Бонус с первой души 1, за последующие ниже на 0.005 , до минимума прироста в 0.5 за душу достигается при 101 душе.

Элайз ну тут нерф и по мне очевиден, но нерф слабоват как таковой, снизили все параметры паучков, убрали снижение урона от аое,
урон и дальность запуска паучка снижены(Volatile Spiderling, если кто не понял), убрали баг когда можно было: использовать будучи в прыжке навыки, прыгать за дальность действия навыка, паучки теперь прыгают чуть позже самой элайз

Ну а теперь по мелочнее:(исправления)
Картус: баг кнопка не использовалась на макс рендже.
баг при быстром чередовании включение/выключение аое огромный дпс ибо шел не тик в секунду, а от скорости тыка в скилk.
Мальз: из всего, стоит отметить фикс воидинга, теперь он не тыркается между таргетами если висит более 1 дота.
Нами: баг тюрьма станила дольше чем должна
ВВ: ульта наносила урон после прерывания
Фидл: пассив действовал на барона и дракона
Аше: стаки пассива набирались пока, сам он находился на кд, так же стаки фокуса появлялись в специфических случаях
+ повысили скорость регена фокуса

И о чудо (ну наконец-то блять)
Всеми давно выпрашиваемые итемы на резист + изменение старых(не пугайтесь в лучшую сторону)
Не думаю, что нужен перевод, но если надо напишу в коментах.

New Item: Spellbreaker (Melee Only)

Recipe: Hexdrinker + Avarice Blade + Gold
+ Attack Damage
+ Magic Resistance
+ Critical Strike Chance
UNIQUE Passive - Tenacity: Reduces the duration of stuns, slows, taunts, fears, silences, blinds, and immobilizes by 35%.
UNIQUE Passive - Lifeline: Upon taking magic damage that would reduce Health below 30%, grants a shield that absorbs 400 magic damage for 5 seconds (90 second cooldown.)


New Item: Spectre's Cowl

Recipe: Ruby Crystal + Negatron Cloak + Gold
+ Health
+ Magic Resistance
UNIQUE Passive: Grants bonus Health Regen per 5 seconds for up to 10 seconds after taking damage from an enemy champion.


Spirit Visage

Recipe Changed: Spectre's Cowl + Kindlegem + Gold
Health increased
Magic Resistance increased
Now additionally grants bonus Health Regen per 5 seconds


Banshee's Veil

Recipe Changed: Spectre's Cowl + Ruby Crystal + Gold
Health increased
Magic Resistance increased
No longer gives mana
Additional UNIQUE Passive: Grants significant bonus Health Regen per 5 seconds for up to 10 seconds after taking damage from an enemy champion or when the spell shield breaks.


Guardian Angel

Recipe Changed: Negatron Cloak + Chain Vest + Gold
Magic Resistance increased

А теперь нерфы вещичек:
Голем спирит -хп
Борк длительность хаст/слоу с использования уменьшена
Варден мэйл(броня из 2 за 300) замедление снижено, как и стоимоть
В следствие чего Рандуин аналогично
Фрозен харт стоимость уменьшена

Джангл
Wolves

Теперь спавн 2:05 было 1:55

Wraiths

Теперь спавн 2:05 было 1:55

Golems

Теперь спавн 2:05 было 1:55

Ancient Golem

Опыт уменьшен до 260 было 340

Lizard Elder

Опыт уменьшен до 260 было 340

Young Lizard

Опыт увеличен до 50 было 10
Хп увеличены до 400 было 300

Есть еще пара мелочей, но эти постоянные отмены/возвраты, будет по ним более четка инфа напишу.

Скины Police Vi

Victorious Elise

Реворк хеймера


Passive: Techmaturgical Repair Bots

Heimerdinger gives nearby allied champions and H-28G Evolution Turrets bonus health regeneration per 5 seconds.

10/15/20/25/30 Hp5


Q: H-28G Evolution Turret

Places a Turret at target location. Turret attacks and beams prioritize Heimerdinger’s targets and enemies attacking Heimerdinger. Their Health increases with Heimerdinger’s champion level and they shut down eight seconds after he moves out of the area.


Heimerdinger generates a Turret Kit every 24/23/22/21/20 seconds (modified by CDR), and can hold up to 1/1/2/2/3 Kits at once.

Mana Cost: 20

Cooldown: 1

H-28G Evolution Turret Stats

Health: 150 (+25 / Champion level)

Attack - Cannon: 15/22/29/36/42 (+0.125 AP) magic damage

Attack - Beam: 50/75/100/125/150 (+0.5 AP) magic damage in a line, 12 second cooldown

Maximum Turrets: 3


W: Hextech Micro-Rockets

Unleashes a barrage of 5 rockets that converge towards your cursor and fan out past it. Each rocket deals 60/90/120/150/180 (+0.45 AP) magic damage.


Enemies that are hit by more than one rocket take 20% magic damage for each additional rocket, max 105/160/215/270/325. Minions take 60% instead.

Targeting the rockets closer to Heimerdinger increases their spread.

Mana Cost: 70/80/90/100/110

Cooldown: 11


E: CH-1 Electron Storm Grenade

Hurls a grenade that deals 60/100/140/180/220 (+0.6 AP) magic damage to enemy units and slows their Movement Speed by 35% for 2 seconds. Enemies in the center of the blast are also stunned for 1.25 seconds.

Mana Cost: 85

Cooldown: 18/16/14/12/10


R: UPGRADE!!!

Heimerdinger's next basic spell is free and has bonus effects.

H-28Q Apex Turret: Places a Turret that deals 90/110/130 (+0.33 AP) magic damage with its cannon and 225/300/375 (+0.8 AP) magic damage with its beam for 8 seconds.

Hextech Rocket Swarm: Fires 4 waves that deal 135/180/225 magic damage each. Champions and Monsters hit by multiple rockets take reduced damage, max 550/750/950 (+1.8 AP).

CH-3X Lightning Grenade: Throws a grenade that discharges three times, dealing 150/200/250 (+0.6 AP) magic damage each time. Both the stun and slow areas are larger and the slow is improved to 80%.

Cooldown: 100/80/60

Mana Cost: 100


Реворк зерата

Arcanopulse ( Q ):
Xerath charge and then fires a beam of energy, dealing 70/110/150/190/230 ( +.85 AP ) magic damage to all enemies hit. Charging the spell increases it's range.

Mana cost: 70/80/90/100/110
Cool down: 7/6.5/6/5.5/5 seconds

Cosmic Strike ( W ):
Xerath calls down a blast of arcane energy, dealing 50/85/120/155/190 ( +.6 AP ) magic damage to all enemies within the target area, slowing them by 10% for 3 seconds. Enemies in the center of the blast take 60% extra damage and are slowed by 35% instead.

Mana cost: 100/110/120/130/140
Cooldown: 14/13/12/11/10 seconds

Spellshere ( E ):
Xerath unleases and orb of rraw magic, dealing 100/140/180/220/260 ( .6 AP ) magic damage. The orb explodes on contact, stunning it's target for 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2 seconds.

Mana cost: 60/65/70/75/80
Cooldown: 13/12.5/12/11.5/11

Ascension ( R ):
Xerath ascends to his true form, briefly gaining arcane vision of a large area around himself. He becomes rooted in place and his basic abilities are disabled, but he gains 4 shots of very long distance magic artillery. Fire these shots off with left or right mouse button. The effect lasts up to 7 seconds or until deactivated.

While Ascension is active, Xerath takes 10/20/30% less damage. He cannot be moved by displacement effects, but they briefly stun him.

Arcane Barrage
Xerath bombards a target area with explosive energy, dealing 150/200/250 ( .45 AP ) magic damage to all enemies hit.
Range: 2900/3600/4500
Mana Cost: 100/150/200
Cooldown: 150/135/120
Overwhelming Power ( passive ) now grants 15% bonus AP instead of up to 26% at MPen at 18.
Overwhelming Power ( passive ) now retores 12% of BASE mana up from 4% of maximum mana.

Arcanopulse ( Q ) cooldown lowered to 7/6.5/6/5.5/5 from 8/7.5/7/6.5/6 seconds.
Arcanopulse ( Q ) AP ratio reduced to ( +.7 AP ) from ( +.85 AP )
Cosmic Strike ( W ) now named Locus of Destruction.
Spellshere ( E ) now named Stasis Orb.
Stasis Orb ( E ) AP ratio reduced to ( +.45 AP ) from ( +.6 AP )
Stasis Orb (E ) base damage reduced to 85/120/155/190/225 from 100/140/180/220/260.
Ascension ( R ) AP ratio reduced to ( +.3 AP ) from (+.45 AP)
Ascension ( R ) base damage lowered to 100/150/200 from 150/200/250

Новый сплеш арт ноктюрна
А так же новые иконки самонеров, и талантов

Forecast Janna 1820 RP

Сегодня ставят патч 3.9 ждем удура.
On 07/10/13, starting at 01:30 PST, ranked queues will be disabled in preparation for patch 3.9. At 03:00 PST, the servers will be shut down and all games currently in progress will end in a draw and stats will not be recorded. We estimate the battlegrounds will be unavailable for 3 hours."
General
Death Streaks

Death Streak gold has been changed a bit. The death streak penalty has been changed to 13% for first death then 20% for every death afterwards from 13% and 30%. Additionally, the minimum gold a player can be worth is now 50g instead of 15g


Champions
Brand

Pillar of Flame ( W ) mana cost reduced to 70/75/80/85/90 from 70/80/90/100/110.
Conflagration ( E) mana cost increased to 70/75/80/85/90 from 60/65/70/75/80
Pyroclasm ( R ) mana cost decreased to 100 at all ranks from 100/150/200.


Corki

Valkyrie ( W ) mana cost reduced to 50 at all ranks from 100 at all ranks.
Missile Barrage ( R ) cost reduced to 20 at all ranks from 30/35/40.


Draven

Passive has been remade completely.It is now named "League of Draven" and reads: Draven gains a stack of Adoration when he catches a spinning axe or kills a minion or monster. When Draven kills and enemy champions, he consumes half his Adoration stacks, gaining 3 gold per stack consumed. Draven loses half the Adoration stacks upon death."

Elise

Spider Form / Human Form ( R ) No longer counts as a spellcast for the purposes of items like Tears of the Goddess, Sheen, etc.


Hecarim

Rampage ( Q ) mana cost increased to 24/28/32/36/40 from 25 at all ranks.


Jayce

Transform: Mercury Hammer / Mercury Cannon ( R ) No longer counts as a spellcast for the purposes of items like Tears of the Goddess, Sheen, etc.


Acceleration Gate ( E ) cooldown increased to 16 at all ranks from 14/13/12/11/10


Kennen

Base attack damage lowered to 47 from 51.3
Mark of the Storm duration reduced to 6 seconds from 8 seconds

LeBlanc

Sigil of Silence ( Q ) mana cost lowered to 50/60/70/80/90 from 70/75/80/85/90.
Sigil of Silence ( Q ) initial damage lowered to 55/80/105/130/155 ( +.4 AP ) from 70/110/150/190/230 ( +.6 AP )
Sigil of Silence ( Q ) mark trigger damage increased to 55/80/105/130/155 ( +.5 AP) from 20/40/60/80/100 ( +.3 AP )
Sigil of Silence ( Q ) silence reduced to 1.5 at all ranks from 2
Distortion ( W ) mana cost increased to 80/90/100/110/120 from 80/85/90/95/100.
Ethereal Chains ( E ) cooldown increased to 14/12.5/11/9.5/8 from 10 at all ranks
Ethereal Chains ( E ) time to trigger shackle decreased to 1.5 from 2.
Ethereal Chains ( E ) shackle time changed to 1.5 at all ranks from 1/1.3/1.6/1.9/2.2 seconds.
Mimic ( R ) now has different flat damages for each of LeBlancs spells. Mimicked Sigil of Silence and Ethereal Chains deal 100/200/300 (+0.65 AP) magic damage on both instances of their damage. Mimicked Distortion deals 150/300/450 (+ratio missing )magic damage.
Mimic ( R ) mana cost reduced to 0 from 100/50/0.


Leona

Solar Flare ( R ) Delay normalized from 0.5s~0.75s

Nidalee

Aspect of the Cougar ( R ) No longer counts as a spellcast for the purposes of items like Tears of the Goddess, Sheen, etc.

Nunu

Health per level decreased to 96 from 108
Consume ( Q ) damage lowered to 500/625/750/875/1000 from 600/700/800/900/1000


Shyvana

Fury of the Dragonborn ( passive ) Remade. All Fury of the Dragonborn effects are now located on the ability tooltip rather than the passive.
New passive is Dragonborn: Gains bonus Armor and Magic resistance. This bonus is increased per level. These bonuses are doubled in Dragon Form.
Flame Breath ( E ) No longer reduces Armor by 15%
Flame Breath ( E ) Now passes through all units hit instead of stopping at the first
Flame Breath ( E ) Debuff duration increased from 4 seconds
Flame Breath ( E ) Damage decreased at higher levels from 80/125/170/215/260
Flame Breath ( E ) On-hit magic damage to debuffed targets changed to a % of the target's Maximum Health from 15% of Flame Breath's damage.
Dragon's Descent ( R ) drains less Fury per second *source
Dragon's Descent ( R ) Passive Armor/Magic Resistance component removed
Dragon's Descent ( R ) Fury Gain is 2/2/2.
Dragon's Descent ( R ) Passive Fury Gain increased at later ranks from 1/1/1 per 1.5 seconds

Swain

Nevermove ( W ) Delay normalized from 0.75s~1s.

Syndra

Dark Sphere's ( Q ) tool tip now says "This spell can be cast while moving"
Force of Will's ( W ) tool tip now says "This spell can be cast while moving"

Veigar

Dark Matter ( W ) Delay normalized from 1.2s~1.5s

Ziggs

Satchel Charge ( W)Can now be reactivated while in flight, causing the Satchel Charge to detonate on landing
Satchel Charge ( W)Missile speed increased to 1750 from 1600
Satchel Charge ( W )Increased knockback distance from 350
Satchel Charge ( W )Cooldown now starts when spell is cast, not when Satchel Charge detonates


Items

Archangel's Staff

Mana Charge now grants 8 ( 10 on Crystal Scar ) mana per cast up from 6.
( Summoner's Rift ) Mana charge Cooldown is now 2 times per 8 seconds down from flat 3 second cooldown.
( Crystal Scar ) Mana charge Cooldown is now 2 times per 6 seconds from flat 3 second cooldown.


Black Cleaver

Can no longer apply more than one stack of Armor Shred per basic attack.


Manamune

Mana Charge now grants 4 ( 8 on Crystal Scar ) maximum mana.
( Crystal Scar ) Mana charge Cooldown is now 2 times per 6 seconds down from 3 seconds flat.


Maw of Malmortius

Attack damage increased to 60 from 55.
Magic resist increased to 40 from 36.
Passive increased to 1 AD for every 2% of missing HP, up to max of 35 AD from 1 per every 2.5% missing HP.


Oracle's Elixir

Now reads "(Revealing a ward in this manner grants aportion of the gold reward when that unit is killed.)"
No longer reads "until death" - persists through death now.
* Reveal Radius reduced to 600 from 750
* Duration reduced to 4 minutes from 5 minutes
* Now has a particle denoting the radius of effect


Orb of Winter ( new item! )

Total Cost: 2080
70 MR
20 HP5
UNIQUE Passive: Grants a shield that absorbs up to 30 (+10 per level) damage. The shield will refresh after 9 seconds without receiving damage.


Tear of the Goddess

Mana charge now grants 4 ( 5 on Crystal Scar ) maximum mana ..
( Summoner's Rift ) Mana charge cooldown is now 2 times every 8 seconds from 3 seconds flat.
( Crystal Scar ) Mana charge cooldown is now 2 times every 6 seconds from 3 seconds flat.


Wards

Vision and Sight Ward are now worth slightly more gold, up from 25

Wriggle's Lantern Ward is now worth slightly more gold, up from 15

Reward structure for killing wards has been changed to the following:

The killer of the ward gains 50% of the ward's base gold value

Nearby allied champions with Oracle Elixir or allied champions that have placed Vision Wards nearby split 50% of the ward's base gold value


Map Specific Changes


Twisted Treeline


Singed

Armor per level decreased to 2 from 3.5
Insanity Potion cooldown increased to 120 seconds from 100

Crystal Scar


Kassadin

Riftwalk cooldown increased to 9/8/7 seconds from 7/6/5
Riftwalk range decreased to 600 from 700

Появился 3 вариант на реворк йорика.
А так же новый скин кармы.

И вновь Xelnat показывает нам возможные наборы навыков для Йорика.
Все они основаны на разном использовании гулей, всего билдов 3.
Скрины будут под катом.
1) Основан на сохранении гулей, тк если навык используется при живом гуле, то появляется сильный доп эффект:
Q гуль так же использует данный навык;
W так же происходит дублирование, но без эффекта замедления;
E автоатаки в течении 5 сек востанавливают определенное кол-во хп за удар;
R призывает 5 гулей + 1 за каждую душу(Душу? теперь поговорим о его новом пассиве);
Пассив Фонарь Йорика получает 1 душу каждые 20 сек, души необходимы для самона гулей, они вызываются при использовании навыков против врага. Гули берут на себя 10% получаемого Йориком урона, если живы одновременно более 3-х гулей то они начинают терять здоровье.
2)Отличается от предыдущего, в первую очередь отсутствием ап рейтов, а так же:
W Дублирование эффекта проводится за счет взрыва гуля, но так же дублируется и замедление( в отличии от 1го набора навыков);
E Йорик просвечивает определенную область фонарем, если есть гуль то он чарджится в данную область и наносит аое урон;
R Призыв гулей, кол-во гулей не зависит от кол-ва душ в фонаре (5).
3)У Xelnat хорошая фантазия и чувство юмора:
Пассив генерирует не души, а гулей (25% от хп чемпиона, 10% от ад), перенос урона и пенальти за более, чем 3 гуля те же;
Q Дублирование от гуля, все то же. Еще 1 доп эффект, если в течении 2 сек был убит чемпион или большой крип/миньон генерируется халявный гуль;
W Механика дублирования изменена, если в зоне действия навыка были гули, они превращаются в взрывных гулей и бегут на ближайшего вражеского чемпиона, чтобы взорваться 100% от урона навыка замедление 40%;
E Другой навык. Йорик при помощи лопаты кидает по прямой кучу грязи, все попавшие под действие навыка ловят блайнд на 1.5 сек;
Доп эффект Йорик метает гуля, который раскидывает/пугает вражеских миньонов 1.5сек (что-то типо волибира);
R Смотреть 2ой билд.

Реворк механики и визуальной составляющей мастера Йи.(Скрины под катом)
Тонна текста на инглише, посмотрите на время кому надо те поймут.
We had three basic goals with the Master Yi updates:
Polish up Master Yi's art and aesthetics so they hit the same level of polish as new champions

Merge the most enjoyable aspects of AP and AD Yi into a single cohesive playstyle

Place more emphasis on mastering Yi's abilities so he's less frustrating in lower level play and scales better with player skill

Why'd Master Yi get a new look?
Master Yi was one of the first League of Legends champions ever created. Back then the game had a less established artistic identity. We've learned a lot over the years, but we also thought it was important to preserve his core look and feel as a part of LoL history. The differences are subtle, but when you check out the new Yi you'll notice his proportions are more in line with his fellow champs, his animations are more polished and he has some sweet new acrobatic moves on Alpha Strike, Double Strike and Highlander.

Why does Yi need a design update?
Most of AD Yi's power comes from his basic attack combined with the steroid effects on Wuju Style, Highlander and Double Strike. Without AP, there's almost no incentive to master your active skills – Meditate's not a very effective disengage and Alpha Strike can actually make you lose DPS since you could be attacking during the cast animation. By contrast, AP Yi requires careful management of Alpha Strike, Meditate and Wuju Style to maximize damage and survivability, but doesn't do a whole lot with his basic attack until he gets Lich Bane.
While both these playstyles are interesting in their own right, they don't necessarily have to be mutually exclusive, and there's probably a unified design that offers the best of both. Moreover, while AP Yi's a rather compelling late game fighter, he's extremely frustrating to face in lane, so scaling back Alpha Strike and Meditate was a necessary part of the update.

What's happening to AP Yi?
While straight AP probably won't remain a prominent build, AP Yi players will find many of the familiar elements of their playstyle intact. While Alpha Strike and Meditate are scaled back so they're less overwhelming in lane, carefully managing your active abilities will play an important role in staying alive and maximizing your DPS. You'll also have the added power of AD Yi's basic attack to make up for your less devastating Alpha Strikes.

How's the new Master Yi play?
We imagine the updated Master Yi will work well in both mid lane and the jungle. We definitely want to skew his itemization away from the typical tank-heavy fighter builds. The updated kit rewards glass cannon DPS builds that rely on disengaging with Alpha Strike and Meditate to stay alive. Most of his power still comes though items rather than natural scaling through levels. Overall, Master Yi players should have more strategic options, and more incentive to master his full kit to fight effectively."

Here is Xypherous chatting about the finer points of Master Yi's reworked kit.

"I can answer a couple things about the kit in the... 15 or so minutes I have here - sorry there isn't much. Solcrushed, who is handling a lot of the tight-end balance will be around in the afternoon, I think.

Quote:
Playstyle and Kit

Overall, none of his targetting paradigms have changed - nor have any of the abilities changed in their use case.

The majority of this was scaling, timing, cleanup and a couple minor retouches.

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Alpha Strike

For example, Alpha Strike now scales off total Attack Damage, deals physical damage and has some light interactions with critical strike and attack speed.

Hitting an enemy will reduce the cooldown of Alpha Strike - while critical strike will add mini-crits to the skill based on your critical strike chance and damage.

Alpha Strike will have fixed travel time between bounces - so an Alpha Strike on 4 targets will give you a consistent time of untargetability, rather than being proximity based. This also means that your opponents will have a better sense of when you'll fade back in, so good luck on that.

Alpha Strike has lost its AP ratio... for now. We're experimenting with some models here under-the-hood for a pure AP playstyle - unsure how it'll fully pan out.
Alpha Strike now counts as movement for the purposes of items such as Statik Shiv.

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Meditate

Meditate has changed from a flat armor / magic resistance boost to a % DR model as penetration was causing really weird damage potentials against what is supposed to be one of Yi's primary defense mechanisms.

It also restores more health the lower health you have - meditating at lower health will provide a bigger damage buffer / health restore in general than meditating at high health.

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Wuju Style

Wuju Style has been changed from a flat boost to a % boost in total attack damage. This smooths out his power curve a bit better based on how well he's doing throughout the game, rather than spiking early at around level 9 and then really needing to snowball off a couple kills to remain decent.

Wuju's style's active now deals true damage based on a % of his total attack damage - Master Yi needs to be a threat, regardless of who he's attacking - but the damage difference between destroying squishy targets and piercing high armor targets was getting a bit absurd.

In general, Wuju Style will add less attack damage early but more and more as he builds additional Attack Damage and ranking it. We've compensated some of this early damage loss with an increase in base statistics and survivability.

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Highlander

One of the things we noticed from continuous playtests was that the more you made Yi focus on Alpha Strike and Highlander gameplay - the more of a restriction Highlander became.

One of the primary skills a player needs to know while playing Yi is when to engage a fight - but seeing so many opportunities pass by because you were waiting for an apparently unrelated cooldown (Highlander) seemed counter-intuitive for the build.

Highlander now has a passive/active component - the passive restoring basic cooldowns on kills and assists - while the active keeps the speed benefits that the original highlander had. Note, however, that Highlander will not reset itself passively or actively.

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Double Strike

Double Strike was operating in a burst paradigm that seemed anti-thesis to the continuous threat pattern that we wanted to build up - Especially with Alpha Strike becoming a larger part of threat for AD - this spiked his assassin pattern to an unhealthy level.

Double Strike has been retuned as a building-up paradigm. Every 4th attack, Master Yi's next attack will strike twice for 100% damage and 50% on the second hit - but he must use this additional double strike within the next couple of seconds - This also had some neat synergies with the retuned Alpha Strike and Wuju Style."
More on Alpha Strike / Q:

"Alpha Strike's bounce range is 600.

Added the UI secondary radius indicator on Alpha Strike.

Alpha Strike will now prioritize the closest target that has not already been hit by Alpha Strike."


Ququroon on keeping the swords on Master Yi's boots:

"We have elements on our champions that are very iconic, and very dear to that champion in general. Karma's fans is a very strong example of this that we learned from.

For Master Yi, we saw no reason to remove them. They add a tiny bit of visual clutter, but for the most part, we would be making the champion more generic by removing them. They add to his fantasy, they add to his silhouette, and they add to the thought that this dude has so many swords that he's truly a master of his own style.

Additionally, did you know that the swordboots/bootswords/shoedaggers only appear on Base and Assassin? We kept this the same."

Solcrushed also had a few things to say:

When can we expect these Yi changes?:

"Definately not 3.9 (next patch) but hopefully not too far off!"

On itemization with the new Alpha Strike changes:

"Alpha can both crit & gets reduced cooldowns with each basic attack. Even with more emphasis on Alpha, AS/Crit does not lose its appeal, while flat AD becomes at least conceivable."

Will Alpha Strike apply on hit effects?

"No, that is pretty much stealing Fiora's thunder and clunking her on the head with it."

Can the second hit of E crit?

"Yes, it is an autoattack for all purposes other than dealing half damage"

Does he still lose the passive bonus on E when it's on cooldown?

"Yes, we tried it staying on and it made the skill completely mindless while taking away the coolness of the reset happening."


Riot Entropy also mentioned the old Master Yi Voice actor is returning for the update!

"We brought back his original voice actor. You're good.
Oh, and someone was asking about the taunt. He's still got it. We wanted to preserve most of the lines people expressed attachment to in addition to expanding the script."
Morello was also chummy enough to drop off updated pictures of all Master Yi's updated skins.

Arcade Hecarim (Аркадный Хекарим)
Riot Blitzcrank (Риот Блицкранк)