Hweis Ability reveal dropped and inside you can find a number of preseason changes, including map changes and Changes to Items, credit to Skinspotlights for the video, Link
Map changes:
The map is no longer (close to) symmetrical, anything listed is specifically for the locations detailed, though it does seem there was an effort made that ganking lanes is now more properly balanced out between blue and red side (Right now ganking Top is easier for Blue side Junglers and bot for Redside Junglers due to the entrance near their T1 towers)
Baron pit is the same until Baron spawns where it looks like Baron Broke down part of the pits walls as a linear Path is now carved through the pit.
Area around Mid T1 is way more open and the Jungle entrances on the south west/north east now force you to move through the Tower, walls adjusted to fit this. The long Brushes connecting Mid to the River seem to be moved outward towards River. The tower itself also looks to be moved back a little. Actually every T1 tower looks to be moved further back in lane.
The Brush on the upper part of bot side River on the red side entrance to Blue buff Quadrant is gone or moved, hard to make out in the video.
The jungle entrance between mid T1 and T2 coming from the Red buff Quadrant is different, more open than before and compared to the same entrance on Red Side
Maybe Im tripping but mid as a whole looks alot more open
Red side top entrance at T1 turret moved back, is now behind the turret instead of in front of it, killing this gank path
Blue Side bot lane now has 4 Jungle entrances with the current middle one split.
Red side botlane new Jungle entrance near Gromp
New Path added between river and Blue buff (both sides)
Red side Jungle entrance near botside T1 moved, you might be able to enter bot lane now from there without being in Towers shooting range (you should be in Vision though)
The thin wall between bot side Blue buff side Jungle and River is gone
Theres now a pixel brush on bot side river, the Brush along side the eastern River wall is gone, so is Pixel Brush on the upper part of Bot side river, top side River is uncertain but the Pixelbrush there isnt there anymore where it used to be.
Items:
Haunting guise is back, Liandries no longer a mana Item, Ludens and Liandries buyable alongside each other.
Triforce now builds out of Noonquiver
Ancient coin (Yellow supp Item) is back
Yuumi has what seems like new potions and no supp Item, she later also has the skillpoint pot in her inventory, possible Klepto return? (She has spellbook as Keystone though)
Nocturne has a weird looking Item in his inventory at one point and it seems to build into Axiom Arc, Icon seems Placeholder like.
Kaisa has a new Item at one point
Pets are still there
Red side team has a 3 stack buff using the ZZrot Icon for some reason (no the Item isnt back)
Several champions have a Yellow Shield Icon next to their Healthbars that I dont know where its from.
Ludens cd is noticeably lower and has some sort of stacking mechanic.
Completed Items that seem to stay around: Ludens, Liandries, Mejais, Shadowflame, Cleaver, Ghostblade, Eclipse, Axiom Arc, Nashors, Stormrazor, Navori, Imperial Mandate, Shurelyas, Triforce, Ravenous, Chempunk chainsword, Rocketbelt, Voidstaff (Now builds from Needlessly?), Rageblade, Kraken, Staff of flowing water, Moonstone.
If anyone finds some more things lmk
Note that nothing here is confirmed and subject to change, who knows when this was recorded
If it does, it won’t have the active. Maybe a multi-hit activation like Botrk with spells instead of autos and that still might be too much but we’ll see. I’m doubtful.
Gunblade had a lot of problems back in the day and it’d only be made worse if they bring it back. Akali with an extra slow and another damage button sounds like a bad idea.
A hybrid scaling omnivamp item would be cool but that just means they need to make Riftmaker better, if anything.
It was.so fun on Ekko and Viktor when it was in the game. Definitely not optimal but one of my favorites for sure.
Give me the old Akali with it too :(
before Katarina started to build it, the item was litterally only built on Akali.
They could balance Riftmaker around its true damage passive