


Some things, fancy or otherwise, never make it to the larger player base.

For example, Wukong rework was first presented in late 2019, tweaked for testing during PBE 10.2 cycle, but never made it into the live build of Patch 10.2. This includes balance changes, skins, new champions/reworks.Īpart from changes for the next numerical version, League developers may update PBE with things for later releases and/or experimental stuff. The game is less flexible this way, but at least you get to check out new stuff much earlier. Shortly after, Riot Games uploaded the contents of Patch 10.3 to the PBE server. For example, Patch 10.2 was released on January 22. League of Legends operates on two-week patch cycles, so new versions have to be completed almost a month in advance. If you feel like the delay makes too much of a difference, avoid playing during peak NA time. As a European, I tend to have a ping of about 200.Ī silver lining here is that most people would be playing with higher ping as well. Riot only hosts instances in North America. Unfortunately, regional diversity is not as good as the linguistic one when it comes to the PBE.
