League of Legends Patch 9.9 to Likely Include Summoner Icons

Summoner icons, emotes, visual effects updates and balance changes arrived on the Public Beta Environment on Tuesday in the first update of the League of Legends Patch 9.9 cycle.

The seven new summoner icons and four emotes celebrate the 2019 Trials, while the effects updates give Ashe, Blitzcrank, Caitlyn, Jax and Renekton a facelift to keep them in line with current art and sound standards.

The balance changes in the PBE update target Blitzcrank, Kennen, Ornn and Rakan, while exploratory tests with a Teemo kit rework continue. Check out the full list of changes below.

League of Legends Patch 9.9 PBE Changes

Blitzcrank

Mana Barrier (Passive)

• Shield strength changed from 50% of current mana to 30%

Static Field (R)

• Now charges Blitzcrank’s attacks, dealing an extra 100/150/200 plus 20% AP and 3% of his maximum mana as magic damage

Kennen

Lightning Rush (E)

• No longer grants armor and magic resist

Slicing Maelstrom (R)

• Grants 20/40/60 armor and magic resist

Ornn

Living Forge (Passive)

• Frozen Fist (Masterwork item) armor lowered from 125 to 95

Rakan

The Quickness (R)

• Charm duration increased from 1/1.25/1.5 seconds to 1.5/1.75/2
• Movement speed during ultimate increased from 50% to 100%
• Bonus movement speed from hitting a champion increased from 150% to 200%
• Rakan can no longer use his W or his E during his ultimate
• No longer limited to one champion hit for the bonus movement speed

Teemo

Base Stats

• Base mana regeneration increased from 1.92 to 2.5
• Mana regeneration per level increased from 0.09 to 0.15
• Mana per level increased from 20 to 25
• Base damage lowered from 54 to 51
• Attack speed per level lowered from 3.38 to 2

Toxic Shot (Passive)

• Teemo’s basic attacks now deal 8-50 bonus magic damage and leave a poison damage over time that deals 24-180 magic damage over four seconds
• Toxic Shot damage increased by 50% whenever there are other poison debuffs on the target

Blinding Dart (Q)

• Base damage decreased from 80/125/170/215/260 to 70/105/140/175/210
• Mana cost increased from 70/75/80/85/90 to 80/85/90/95/100
• AP ratio lowered from 0.8 to 0.6
• Adds a poison debuff

Move Quick (W)

• No longer breaks stealth

Guerilla Warfare (E)

• Cooldown set to 40/37/34/31/28 seconds
• After a two second delay, Teemo becomes invisible indefinitely if standing still or in brush, and can move up to 5/6/7/8/9 Teemos while out of brush, but any non-periodic damage from champions will break him out. Tempo can see 25% farther while stealth. Upon breaking Guerrilla Warfare, Teemo gains 20/30/40/50/60% attack speed for three seconds. While on cooldown, standing in brush will tick down Guerrilla Warfare’s cooldown faster.
• Stealth duration while moving set to 2/2.25/2.5/2.75/3 seconds

Noxious Trap (R)

• Base damage decreased from 200/325/450 to 150/250/350
• AP ratio lowered from 0.5 to 0.4
• Mushroom max ammo count increased form three at all ranks to 3/4/5
• Traps become invisible after one second
• Traps can continue to bounce on other traps

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