Test Realm Patch - 5/04

[schild]

From Shurelia:

==Champions==

===Amumu===
*Increased his health per level to 84 from 76.
*Increased his base damage to 45 from 40.
*Decreased his damage per level to 3.6 from 3.8.
*Increased his mana regen per level to 0.065 from 0.06.
*Despair
**Changed the aura range to be 350 at all ranks from 250/275/300/325/350.
**Added a base damage of 8/12/16/20/24 to the damage dealt based on the target's health.
**Decreased the health percent to 1.3/1.6/1.9/2.2/2.5% from 2.3/2.6/2.9/3.2/3.5%.
*Tantrum
**Reduced the cooldown to 10/9/8/7/6 from 21/18/15/12/9.
**Lowered the cooldown reduced upon being hit to 0.5 seconds from 1 second.

===Anivia===
*Removed "Rebirth Ready" buff
*Added a buff for when Rebirth is on cooldown
*Increased base damage to 45 from 38.5
*Decreased damage per level to 3.2 from 3.5
*Increased base HP regen from to .93 from .88

===Garen===
* Fixed the buff tooltip for perseverance to show the correct value.
* Fixed Decisive Strike to correctly silence targets for 2.5 seconds.

===Malphite===
* Increased his attack range to 125 from 100.
* Increased his base movement speed to 310 from 300.
* Fixed a bug with Unstoppable Force wherein it was sometimes uncastable while Malphite was at low health.

===Master Yi===
* Attack Range increased to 125 from 100.
* Double Strike
** Now deals Double Strike on every 7th attack instead of by percent chance.
* Alpha Strike
** Reduced the cooldown to 18/16/14/12/10 from 18.
** Reduced the mana cost to 80/90/100/110/120 from 90/105/120/135/150.
** Reduced the total spell cast windup time.
** Increased the missile speed.
* Meditate
** Reduced the cooldown to 35 from 45.
** Meditate now ticks every .5 seconds down from 1 second.
** Reduced the heal amount to 140/280/420/560/700 from 150/300/500/750/1100.
** Reduced the mana cost to 70/85/100/115/130 from 80/100/120/140/160.
** Increased the armor and magic resist gained while channeling to 50/100/150/200/250 from 30/30/30/30/30
* Wuju Style
** Reduced the cooldown to 25 from 30.
* Highlander
** Assists now reduce all of Master Yi's cooldowns by half of the base cooldown amount.

===Pantheon===
* Added a new sound to Heartseeker Spear.
* Players are no longer able to cast summoner spells while Pantheon is falling from the sky in Grand Skyfall.
* Heartseeker Strike
** Reduced the cooldown to 26/24/22/20/18 from 30/28/26/24/22.

===Twitch===
* Increased Twitch's magic resistance to 30 from 25.
* Fixed Ambush's tooltip to give the correct attack speed buff value.

===Warwick===
* Hunter's call attack speed buff changed to 40%/50%/60%/70%/80% from 50%/55%/60%/65%/70%. Allies receive half of that effect.

===Veigar===
* Primordial burst deals 75/150/225 bonus magical damage to non-mana users.

==Items==
* Leviathan now gains 1 stack for each assist instead of 2.
* Increased Regrowth Pendant's Health Regen per 5 sec to +15 from +14.
* Decreased Regrowth Pendant's cost to 450 from 475.


==General==
* Multikill timer now resets after every kill as opposed to being a static window.
* Crest of Flowing Water movement speed buff decreased to 30% from 45%.

[schild]

==General==
* Multikill timer now resets after every kill as opposed to being a static window.

Hot.

Otherwise, nothing but boring for me.

Malphite and Yi Attack range buffs are nice though, move speed for Malphite is huge.

[MrHat]

New champ went in too.

[Thrawn]

New champ went in too.

Fuck new champions, where's my third rune page and draft/random/whatever game mode?

[Kail]

Buffs for Amumu look nice, though I'm not crazy about the %damage nerf to Despair.  Right now, it's used for killing tanks and other high HP targets, and it's not exactly quick at it.  It's being nerfed to do a bit more damage to lower HP targets (presumably to help with farming minions) but less to tanks, making it even more useless for killing tanks and still not that great for anything else.  Tantrum changes look good, though.

I am liking the change that prohibits Panth from casting summoner spells while falling.  Skyfall + exhaust was frustrating for me.

Changing Veigar's ult seems kind of like a cop-out to me.  He's a counter to casters, and countered by non-mana champs.  Changing it so that he's a better counter to non-mana champs seems to kind of miss the point (hint: if you're throwing Primordial Burst at Shen, you're doing it wrong).  This does nothing to counter the problems Veigar has.

Reverting Leviathan seems weird to me, too.  I guess it's due to the improved assist system, but it seems like the item is back to useless.

Other than that, nothing really interesting so far.

Edit:  I'm hearing that the Flash spell is being replaced by an activateable item (boots), though...  That would be kind of a big deal 0_o

[Hoax]

Malphite finally getting a tiny boost is nice, I do enjoy playing him despite his ugly tiny stupid head.

Fairly basic patch, no buff to Kennen is the only thing that I find surprising.

[Kail]

Thread was updated today with some new stuff.

Minor nerfs to Shen across the board, Ezreal's heal nerfed by 30%.  Both characters I like.  Boo.

Gangplank got a new buff: '* Added "Yarr! I'm a mighty Pirate!" buff.'  More pirate champs incoming, maybe?

Edit: also, they removed Veigar's buff.

[Thrawn]

Minor nerfs to Shen across the board, Ezreal's heal nerfed by 30%.  Both characters I like.  Boo.

Shen needed nerfs across the board though.

[schild]

===Nidalee===
* Pounce
** Pounce is no longer affected by Cooldown Reduction and maintains a static 3 second cooldown.

Fuck. At least give me back the old animation.

[Tsalrioth]

I am very happy with that Bird change.  Can finally figure out what my egg will be back!

[Thrawn]

I wish people would hurry up and realize that Garen isn't very good, getting tired of having him take up space on almost every team I'm on.

[Astorax]

I wish people would hurry up and realize that Garen isn't very good, getting tired of having him take up space on almost every team I'm on.

He's not that bad either...still better than Yi (until the patch at least).

[Prospero]

His silence is annoying as hell.

[Thrawn]

Best patch ever, can't even make a practice game to try out the new champ.  Just get unable to connect errors when the game is launching.

[Kail]

Works fine for me.

So far, seems like kind of a non-event.  New champ was introduced, but not many people I'm seeing are playing as her for some reason. 

Gentleman Cho'Gath is awesome, but $15 for a joke skin is a bit much.

Changes on Amumu are almost unnoticeable.  Changes on Shen are almost unnoticeable.  Ezreal is noticeably weaker, but plays the exact same.

[MrHat]

Notice any Yi's up?

[Slayerik]

Havent seen any Yi's, but I've seen plenty of the new chick. Luckily, I like fighting against her as Singed.

[Thrawn]

The Yi changes won't be enough to make him not bad still.  Still just a mostly glass cannon melee character.

[Thrawn]

My quick two cents early opinion on the new champion, I've won a few games with her, lost a few games with her.  She is really strong early lane as she can burst out a lot of damage at low levels.  But the later the game goes the worse she gets as she's so easy to shut down and kill.  She's almost like a bad Shaco in a lot of ways.  Although if you are losing a fight to her you will never escape, she will always catch you.  

The obvious build for her seems to be something along the lines of Sheen>Boots>Guinsoo's.  Could go Trinity force or Lichbane probably.

[Astorax]

My quick two cents early opinion on the new champion, I've won a few games with her, lost a few games with her.  She is really strong early lane as she can burst out a lot of damage at low levels.  But the later the game goes the worse she gets as she's so easy to shut down and kill.  She's almost like a bad Shaco in a lot of ways.  Although if you are losing a fight to her you will never escape, she will always catch you.  

The obvious build for her seems to be something along the lines of Sheen>Boots>Guinsoo's.  Could go Trinity force or Lichbane probably.

I've gotten pretty good with her, I usually go sword of dmg pwn-ness with more kills (forget what it's called), then sheen, then depends on how we're doing...if I'm continuing to get assassin kills, I'll go to trinity force, if not, then I'll get some life steal, bloodthirster, etc.

Basically, if I get jumped, and I have lifesteal, that opening salvo of her Q ability and a hit, then whirlwind gets back any life I lost usually (assuming it wasn't a stun, but that's why you take cleanse on her) then pop W to hide in if you need a getaway, and/or just pop Q again to destroy them.

[Kail]

Some interesting stuff on the TR at the moment:

• A new, unannounced hero: Al'Zahar, The Prophet of the Void (sounds like a caster/debuffer with a pet)
• Some serious buffs for Teemo
• Ashe's E skill (Plentiful Bounty) reworked, turned into a Clairvoyance type scouting ability
• Armor penetration and magic resistance penetration reworked, now all penetration is a percentage rather than a flat value
• Three new items, two of which have +spell vamp

Among other things...

[schild]

What are the teemo buffs? Can you be more specific about this stuff?

[schild]

Nevermind, starting a thread.