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@Erick_League Do we know if it's a guaranteed not owned skin in those? Feel that if you can have repeat it's even worse.

I'm sorry but this is so genuinely terrible. Instead of getting newly created skins in the battlepass (like the Demacia themed Taliyah/Xerath skins this season), you now get a loot box that drops one random skin within a selected pool of old skins? The new on-season themed skins (Annie & Kindred) will be available to buy for RP in the shop. Even if Annie & Kindred are in the loot pool what are the chances you actually get them & not Street Demons Briar/2014 Demon Vi? 🫤😐

@Azzapp_LoL The only time ff is usefull is when you are getting farmed in aram and the enemy refuse to end while emote spamming . And honestly I would rather take increase gold for defending team+burning building for farming team (start if you stay near enemy base too much)than the ff option

I can't even believe I have to write a response to these. If you are bleeding out for 20 minutes after "knowing the game is already over" point, the game in fact wasn't over. If it's dragging for that long, somebody said no, at least 2 players are enjoying it and want to keep playing.

@Rolochan105 She need a new rig, the old one was fine has a shapeshifter as the focus was on the bird form ( showed in early skin variance) now that valor is just a temporary ms buff, she need more for skin to differentiate from each other

Saying that I’m disappointed is an understatement. From the start, this skin didn’t look promising since it’s based on an old and unpopular theme. The model, from what we can see, lacks detail, looks very similar to the base version (1) -

@Spideraxe30 The only adc which is ok to push ap build is trist (and this need to be on her jump), the other are to safe to be healthy for the game

AP Ezreal changes: - Q AP ratio increased from 15% to 40% - W AP ratio increased from 70 - 90% to 90% flat - R AP ratio increased from 90% to 110% - R minion base damage reduced from 175 - 375 to 150 - 350 - R minion bonus AD ratio increased from 50% to 100% - R minion AP ratio increased from 45% to 110%

@Phantasm_EUW Urgot maybe (trying to find a reason for adaptative instead of just ap scaling)

Who is this good on ?

@Paul_Dejala Du coup j'imagine que pour un semblant d'intégrité les equipe jouent sur le même patch tout du long...

Autant revenir à la fin de la saison régulière, avant ça impossible de suivre une storyline, une lutte pour la qualif en play-offs : personne ne joue au même moment. N'importe qui avec un minimum de culture sportive fait un truc plus cohérent, road-trips ou pas.

C'est franchement ridicule.

@ExcaIiburrito make it like smash mr. game and watch bucket, she store the projectile and, after a timer of 1-2s, has a short window to use it and aimed it herself

>All because people can’t learn to play around her W Yeah the massive difference here is that Yasuo or Samira negate spells. Mel can, quite literally, turn an engage on its head That Ornn, Maokai or Sejuani ult that gets deleted by Yasuo or Samira gets sent back by Mel

@i0ki_LoL still on the team of not being able to hover before ban. otp will just need to learn other stuff or reach their global elo if the champ end up being banned but can't cry anymore because "you ban their champ" (if you didn't know, it couldn't be a target ban)

This upset a lot of people. "If you ban my champion I'm going to troll!" If you're willing to throw the game over not being able to play 1 champion, you would have found a reason to throw anyways because you're a manchild. "Wouldn't you rather them play their OTP?" Learn a new champion, one that is useful. This is Ranked. "Then I'll just ban your champion too!" That's okay, it's your Ban vote. Spend it how you like. "Why not just let people play what they want to!" The same reason we don't let toddlers eat icecream for every meal. It's not good for them. "Why do YOU get to decide if they can play their champ?" Because I get 1 Ban vote, just like everyone else. Every other hero/champ-based competitive game allows you to ban champions even if your teammates want to play them. That's part of being a competitive game. Sometimes there's a 70% winrate champ and the enemy has first pick -- you shouldn't be disallowed from removing it from the game just because L9MISTERFISTER wants to play it and might waste 40 of his own minutes if he doesn't get to. The problem is that we've bent over backwards trying to appease the whims and temper tantrums of emotionally stunted League losers. You should be able to ban your teammate's hover.

@MakkroLoL ranged top discussion to me need nuance. There are legit ranged top like gnar, teemo, quinn, who kinda deserve to be viable there as it's their main lane, and the deviant one like vayne, varus,..who become a problem if they start to become the norm (remember kalista sololane)

Yesterday my matchups were 3x gnars varus jayce cassio and vayne. I think ranged tops are perfectly healthy for the game and very interactable👍My only melee matchup was an illaoi and somehow that was better and more interactive even tho its objectively a worse matchup by far👍👍

@RiotPhroxzon if you are looking into aram specific change, can we create a mechanic on akshan revive so there is a timer between each revive of the same ally, would give room to buff him a bit while reducing the frustrating part of needing to kill him first every move (in an unflankable lane)

Patch 26.8 Full Preview! Viego - There's some notable discrepancies for specifically Viego's data in our internal data that led us to want to initially buff him - Looking at external data however seems to be notably different - Going to double check this data tomorrow and validate the data pipelines before determining whether or not to proceed with the buff Hwei - In line with the fantasy fulfilment I was talking about yesterday, Hwei changes are leaning into his identity as a combo mage - It is a cool pattern and in particular, this set of changes skews him more towards being effective in mid lane compared to bot lane with the level scaling - We're not opposed to him being viable in bot lane, but pushing him towards midlane - We think this makes Hwei more uniquely satisfying compared to say having his damage come from predominantly single QQ, QW or QE casts Lillia - Lillia's power clearing and movement speed are some of her most defining aspects - We're restoring some of that clear speed to better fulfil her fantasy there Lucian - Lucian in bot lane doesn't have a strong differentiation from Corki as a similarly early game dominant ability focused caster - These changes are trying to put more of Lucian's power into his early mobility and giving him more casts of it - We're going to monitor Lucian in solo lanes Mel - We separated some of Mel's damage output in 26.3 by creating a separation between her first initial hit and the subsequent hits - We're reducing how much value she gets from this initial Q landing and backloading the damage more to give her damage more counterplay - We still think we need to do more work to Mel long term - (ARAM) Another note here is that we've been investigating some ARAM specific changes to Mel, since her reflect can be harder to play against in that mode, given the narrowness of the play area Mundo - Mundo rates very highly on our frustration metrics and our changes here are targeted at average play Jungle - Not much to say here, we think top is in a more reasonable spot

@LSXYZ9 Why limited cassio to sera tho, pick another poison champ so cass doesn't even have to land her shit and you can maybe e max (singed was nerfed so maybe it balanced out). Cassio teemo/singed bot was fun before, can't wait to try it out when I find an open minded laner in my game

uhh w/ all the squishy bot lanes ppl like to pick the changes these champs received surely this isnt right. Early lvls it nukes too & unavoidable Cass W > Seraphine E > seraphine R as its about to fade > seraphine R makes them LOOK at seraphine -> Cassio R is guaranteed to stun

@Misanthiel_lol @SaltyRamsay Pas sur qu'à bas elo les mec savent qu'il y a une pénalité. En vrai c'est une relique de la meta double item supp qui n'a plus lieu d'être depuis les role imposé. Ça va juste aider les elo où les mec savent pas last hit et les situations où le botlaner ne peut pas récup le farm

@SaltyRamsay Pas forcément, y a des mecs qui peuvent sincèrement se dire que leur ADC et un NPC et qu'ils vont carry avec les sbires (à bas elo du moins)

Ce changement va indirectement créer énormément de toxicité : - ADC : joue mal - Support : "t'es une merde" - ADC : "non c'est toi" - Support : "Ok bro" => Alistar combo pour voler les creeps - ADC : => run down

@RiotPhroxzon Nami change seems big, how much ap did she usually get as a support? As one of the most unique spell in the game( bounce mechanic), reaching a state were bounce are not nerfed is a must for the spell to feel good

Patch 26.7 Full Preview! Shyvana - We're still working on a larger set of changes for Shyvana, but they haven't been finalized yet (I mentioned the direction of some of the changes yesterday) - For this patch, just a change to make Ultimate Haste interactions and also the Sylas interaction nerf from previously Cassiopeia - Buffs to 2 areas that Cassiopeia thrives in; her initial mana pool for early all-ins when she tags with Q - Her maxed E, to reinforce her sustained DPS identity Kalista - Kalista has fallen off significantly in priority in Pro Play, which means we can buff her for regular play! - We're focusing the power in the core area where people play her; her E damage Rell - Similarly, Rell has fallen off pretty significantly as well - Her initial Ult damage will increase her threat in early all-ins, while her E will allow her to fulfil more of her mobile horse identity Veigar - Veigar is in a slightly strong spot for regular play midlane, but is really rocking the bot lane a bit too hard, especially in regular play - The nerfs are targeted at R which sits at Rank 1 in bot lane for quite a lot longer than in solo lanes Singed - Singed is looking a bit too strong in especially normal play - While this nerf looks like a bit of a meme, we expect it matters more than expected on paper just due to the number of stats impacted when ult is active Ornn - Ornn is just a little bit strong, especially given that he has a relatively steep mastery curve

@LoLDev gonna be a mess in region with multiple language

We just put out a dev blog on Team Voice in League. It includes our plans for team-based voice communications in League, and how we're approaching it to make sure its a feature with a very high quality bar worthy of your trust.

@Thinkcard With how much they push the joke, feels like ascension is coming back for April fools.Wonder if they can transpose the big ascended xerath in an existing map to avoid coding Cristal scar again (nexus blitz maybe could work)

This Xerath buff is an april fools joke right? right...??

@Escapy_ @kohnan117 @RiotPhroxzon They are the least adaptative player and it shows in those graph. Or maybe they are scared of being hurt in their ego if they play those "broken champ" and fail

@Escapy_ @kohnan117 @RiotPhroxzon These post are always funny to me. The only thing it shows is that botlaner (that still refuse to call the role by that name) are player who doesn't care if they win or not. If those champ were so broken they would play them for lp, leading them to be flag for nerf...they don't.

Patch 26.6 Full Preview Azir - We're buffing Azir to distribute some of his power back into regular play capabilities through scaling power that Azir players hopefully will appreciate - Phreak is Xerath Lissandra - Lissandra hasn't really felt the same since her Q cooldown was nerfed in Season 9 - Times have really changed since then and her perma priority waveclear + aftershock taking days and in the vein of making champions feel better to play, we're seeing if she can sustain having this cooldown again Olaf JG - These changes are targeted at Jungle, which has been languishing a bit - Top is a little bit weak, so he will be getting buffed there a bit too Sunfire Aegis - Sunfire's build cost (1000g) has been long cited as a pretty painful experience of the item - While we think having some painful build paths is valuable for the long term value of League, we think this one is a bit too painful ---------- Ranked EUW/VN Matchmaking - We've had about a week and a half now of autofill vs autofill matchmaking being Live and we're seeing excellent results - In regions like Vietnam with a high autofill rate, we're seeing autofill vs autofill go from ~25% of games to 75% of games - In EUW, regular play was already good (90% of the time autofill vs autofill), but in high MMR we went from 30% to 85% - We will continue to roll out to more regions over the coming patches as we're seeing positive results here Apex LP - So far, so good on Apex LP fix resolving most of the issues. The fix looks to be good and is holding - >98% of players should be between 19 and 21 in terms of LP gains, calibrating up and down in small amounts (+19/-21 or +21/-19 or +20/-20) - We have one small fix coming in 26.6 to make this even more consistent

@Coolkipp1 @RiotPhroxzon well, a free spell is still usefull during laning phase, this passive on the other hand really aged poorly (especially now with quest). It is just not fun in lane at all and push her toward beeing hp/res build. Let's hope the q cd will be enough for her to be proactive in lane

@The_Flemman @RiotPhroxzon Liss passive isn't something she's ever relied on 1v1. Before it was just a free spell. Her base kit is more than enough when her cooldown on her q is usable and her base damage is tuned properly. It's just been nerfed and durability crept for years.

Patch Preview 26.6! Overall - Overall, the game is looking pretty healthy in terms of balance and broad satisfaction - Over the coming patches, we're going to be looking at some of the champs that have felt a bit unloved/worse for wear and would love to hear your suggestions (both champions and systems) Systems - Chempunk Chainsword has been one of the weaker Grievous items for a while. While we don't want Grievous items to become too commonplace, as it subtly degrades champion kits when too common, it is still just a bit weak for even that purpose - The support item minion penalty has been a pain point for support users and with role quests, the risk of funneling (why it was there in the first place) has been reduced pretty significantly, so we're removing that drawback Shen - Shen Jungle has really started to take off recently, which is really awesome to see! (thanks xPetu!) - That said, he is a tad strong, especially in lower levels of play Zaahen - We're really happy to see Zaahen picking up a sizeable audience in both Top and Jungle, but now that regular players, in addition to experienced players are starting to demonstrate that top end mastery performance, he's looking too strong across the board - Currently, we think his Jungle is a bit stronger than Top, so the nerfs are mostly focused there Skarner Top focus - Skarner has been out of the spotlight for a while and since we've tapped down a few of the things that were causing him to be overbearing in Top (especially W max and the E point blank kidnaps), we think he can get a bit more power there Olaf - Jungle Olaf has fallen a little behind the pack so we're adding some power back

@Coolkipp1 @RiotPhroxzon Tbf liss need a new effect on her passive that let it work on big minion with a reduced aoe. Her passive is only good in aram and doesn't help her at all in 1v1 scenario unlike every other mage. She is too tf reliant to be enjoyable atm

@RiotPhroxzon Please fully revert the q nerf for lissandra to 6-3s, this is not enough for her to be able to reliably do her combos or lane properly. Also please revert her base damage nerfs w and e. Her ult also needs to be buffed for durability like oris.

@Krtzyy Was the lore of the game any good? Feel like for new IP if the gameplay is just ok you can't survive without one good lore that will keep player interested in the long run

Can someone smarter than me explain why a game studio would invest $200M and 4 years of development just to shut the game down after 1 month because low player counts? Like damn at least try to grow a player base for a few months before pulling the plug lol thats crazy