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I do not understand how Americans are not on the streets every single minute of the day and night trying to oust him.

@popsly_lol Aphelios, I'm pretty sure I've never played the guy xD

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@drewlevin @HappyChimeNoise I would consider making a poll that asks if people chose their secondary role because it's the second role they'd like to play, or if they pick whatever has the lowest chance of actually happening so they get their main role. Could be interesting to know!

@HappyChimeNoise I mean, there is a literal definition of the term that has a functional meaning in the context of our matchmaking systems. I get colloquialisms but at some point the words to have to mean something.

1.8 btw 2.7 for d1+ secondary is 10ish autofill really does not happen that often

@mrmegawalls @APXMK @RiotPhroxzon I agree, Riot seems to be working hard on griefing detection so we'll see how it ends up working. I do still think the bar needs to be higher, somewhere between B and A minimum and a required honor level/amount of days with no honor drop would probably be best imo.

@Scarfang_ @APXMK @RiotPhroxzon If they get punished for griefing they're ineligible for it in the future.

2026 Ranked Changes! The ranked changes this year were heavily inspired by feedback from you all about pain points and things where we could improve. 1. Queue times, especially in apex 2. Experience around autofill and autofill balance 3. Dodging and time to game Queue Times In the graph attached, we've been cooking on some optimizations to get queue times down without affecting match quality. As Meddler mentioned, these changes have now been rolled out in all regions for Ranked. In Season Start, we're also in testing on some more optimizations, that we hope can get times down even further. Some of the reasons why queue times are long today is because our current matchmaking algorithm spends a lot of time trying to make games have autofill & secondary role parity, but those optimizations are extremely costly to queue times. We believe we've found some optimizations that are in testing that can bring those times down, without compromising game quality (more to report back in January!) Autofill You've told us that y'all really don't like it when autofills are imbalanced by teams and that can make the game feel doomed in champ select. At the same time, some players detest playing autofill at all. Unfortunately, we can't cash that check to remove autofill today 😢 as players would be in queue forever. So the path we took was to make those autofill games more rewarding and incentivize you to play them out. Our changes in the new season will also make autofill balance in-role more effective (eg. fill jgl vs fill jgl) While Aegis of Valor is launching with a C or higher and no disruptive behavior transgressions (like AFK), we are open to increasing the requirements if we observe players messing around with this. Dodging Finally, on the dodging front, chain dodging has become a pretty big problem, especially in high MMR, where lobbies are repeatedly dodging the same person. At Master and higher, dodging will cost the same MMR and LP as a loss In these lobbies, repeated dodging and target bans have the biggest impact on game quality, so we want to incentivize players to play out those games. We understand that there are some games where it might feel like you're at a comp diff, but we hope that better balance around autofills in 2026 will make those games meaningfully more fair. We don't consider someone having had their lane counterpicked as a reasonable reason to dodge, as the game starts in champ select. In the same way you can't dodge after someone gets first blooded, we want to normalize champ select experience as part of the game. Having said that, we know that people being disruptive with lobby hostaging and other disruptive behaviors are still major pain points for you all. These are high priority for us to solve and we hope to have updates we can share soon. Check out the Ranked blog we wrote for more details! leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev…

@yetanotherscrub @RiotPhroxzon Because at the end of the day, people grief their teammates, and with aegis they don't even lose anything themselves. That is the issue, not their own loss, but the damage they can inflict onto their teammates. Ya feel me?

@yetanotherscrub @RiotPhroxzon Fully agreed and I get why that's good for people who still think when they're mad, but often when someone has a bad start to a game and is already prone to tilting all math goes out the window (I mean people grief even without aegis). Kinda difficult to balance this correctly.

@APXMK @mrmegawalls @RiotPhroxzon @mrmegawalls This is what I meant, I've worded it better in other threads, my bad bud. Just think that C is an extremely low bar for such a game changing system.

@mrmegawalls @Scarfang_ @RiotPhroxzon everyone knows that nowadays „running it“ does not mean dying to mid turret 15 times. You can hit jgl camps for 20 minutes straight and soft-int your team and you‘ll still get a B grade if you have somewhat normal cs

@grand_prix_geek @RiotPhroxzon I agree, it's a great concept, but C is absolutely too low of a bar for ranked. Should be B if not even B+, which should be attainable by anyone who actually tries and doesn't solo lose their team the game, in which case they shouldn't be protected imo. Thoughts @RiotPhroxzon ?

@RiotPhroxzon The C tier minimum requirement is extremely low, that's basically guaranteed no matter how hard you int. Meaning that an autofill can ruin the game on purpose nevertheless and be rewarded with no LP loss, while the rest of the team have to tank the whole L

@drewlevin @cristiannodal90 Great concept, but C is absolutely too low of a bar for ranked. Should be B if not even B+, which should be attainable by anyone who actually tries and doesn't solo lose their team the game, in which case they shouldn't be protected imo. Thoughts?

@cristiannodal90 can definitely tweak tuning once we see how it plays out live conceptually: do you think it shifts overall incentives toward or away from good games?

ok gamers let's hear it did we save solo queue or make it worse or some secret third thing

@LeagueOfLegends @RiotMeddler @RiotPabro @RiotPhreak @RiotEndstep @DashiJador Hey guys, are you at all worried about the people that are auto-filled just terrorizing games? If a filled player happens to be easily agitated and something bad happens early, what stops them from griefing the game since they're safe from LP loss and know their teammates aren't?

.@RiotMeddler and @RiotPabro are joined in this Dev Update by @RiotPhreak, @RiotEndstep, @DashiJador, and Riot CallMeKT to talk about: 🏰Season 1 2026 Theme 👀Summoner's Rift Gameplay Changes 🥇Ranked ⏩Swiftplay ⌨️WASD 😢And more Timestamps: Intro: 0:00 Season One Theme: 00:37 Summoner’s Rift Changes: 02:17 Ranked: 10:29 Swiftplay: 14:44 WASD: 17:31 ???: 20:34 Outro: 20:57

@FaltaPimienta @drewlevin Not sure if you're still wondering, but I it is very much a projectile, try using it on a custom you'll see he throws something on the floor!

@ImYuishi @TopLaneChad @kunoxya @aeroe451 hope this helps

@TopLaneChad @kunoxya @aeroe451 Tell me where I said duo to chall.

the lioness doesnt concern herself with low mastah players.

@drewlevin @JasonVelas94442 @riotgames @tarzaned The other guy was banned from playing the game again, why is one of the worst humans to ever touch this game not being treated the same way? You have the proof of threats of violence right here, and he tells people to kill themselves every other game @drewlevin

@JasonVelas94442 @riotgames @tarzaned was seen and appropriate action taken back when it happened

@Antunes1 @MrNigelNg fyi

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@drewlevin @TheOldestGreg @YuukilyKwaii Right but MMR does not equal rank, so yes you are matched with people that you'd have 50% chance of winning/against, but you aren't at that rank. Why is your skill level not reflected in your rank as soon as it is determined? Why do you have to play X mote games to reach it?

@TheOldestGreg @YuukilyKwaii that sounds like you hitting your current skill level no?

Could you reply to me though, I was wondering the same thing. i also feel like the quality of ranked/MMR and match making has been going down hill ever since emerald was added. Is it true that the system is made to keep everyone at a 50% WR if so, why?

@xQc People are not even considering the amount of hours of entertainment you get for every dollar spent. A game of this scale will likely take at the very, VERY least 50 hours to be played through once, and is 2 bucks an hour for a fantastic product not completely reasonable?

“Gamers” will pay $500 in gacha/skins for micro-transaction slop, $200 for early access to games still in development but $100 for one of the only games worth the price point in a decade is where they draw the line at. It’s 20% extra for 500% the quality/quantity. Stop crying

@RhyledUp Remove that dumbass demolish rune while we are at it

year 3 of asking for nexus durability patch What used to take a full team a few seconds , one player can now do in a single auto backdoors have become boring or frustrating like 20% of people dont even try to defend open nexus Give it HP(like triple lol), resists, cap damage

@creepydotorg I can't believe the lack of Bridge to Terabithia mentions 😢

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@Mortdog You guys are doing fantastic this set, it is really fun and extremely well balanced all things considered, keep up the good work!

Good morning and happy Monday everyone! We hope you're enjoying Patch TFT13.3! From a balance perspective it's one of the best patches in TFT history which is awesome. That being said, game isn't perfect and there's still lots we can do to make it even better. This week my posts will be talking about changes coming in TFT13.4 and today we're going to start with Sorcerer and Visionary. For the last few sets, we haven't been happy with very tall (7+) vertical classes. We end up having to shove an unhealthy amount of power into them to get them to function as a comp (see how 8 sorc is 150 AP!) and just aren't very interesting to build. Your level 8 comp is just the 7 champs plus usually the one champ that connects the best. So we're going to take the classes and reduce them to a max of 6. We still like the max being interesting, so they will keep the additional benefit (though slightly reduced since it's easier to activate). We believe this will make team building around them much more interesting since now your level 8 comp will have a few slots to work with, and can build more functional team comps around the unique bonuses. I look forward to the new different lines that will be playable around 6 Sorc and Visionary next patch! We still think vertical Origins (Rebel, Enforcer, etc) are healthy for players as those are often designed to be functional comps that are easier to ramp into. But if this goes well, this could be a shift for TFT classes in the long run. That's it for today. Stay tuned for a new post each day with some improvements for next patch. Have a great week, and take it easy :)