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Patch 25.8 Preview! We're opening a new role; Principal Systems Designer to work on Metagame Systems - riotgames.com/en/work-with-u… - This role will be working on progression systems, rewards, quests, out-of-game content - We're looking for a senior thought leader with 7+ years of experience that has driven world-class innovations in these types of systems We're also still looking for our Senior Game Designer for Summoner's Rift Seasonal content - riotgames.com/en/work-with-u… --------------------------------------------- Systems - This patch we're doing a light amount of systems retuning to some items that have either been weak for a while or we over-nerfed in previous balance passes (Crypt, Opportunity) - Dead Man's is receiving a re-adjustment to address movespeed creep - In the future, we'll also do some adjustments to the AP system to make the builds better at their specialties and address a few outliers on generalist items (eg. Liandrys, etc.) eg. burst builds being better at burst, hp burning builds better at that, haste builds better at haste, etc. - This is larger work that will take time to do correctly (many champs, items would be affected, even with small changes), but we might do further isolated small system adjustments Ahri - Despite wanting to do the above to the AP system, Ahri's incentives and her ROA, Liandries build is netting out to be one of her strongest builds; she has a lot of them and it's hard to maintain them to all be viable at once, but this one in particular is not in line with her champion identity as a mobile, but easy to kill mage Mel - We're really happy with where Mel has landed and have a much better read on her power curve and how her strengths and weaknesses are manifesting - She's been a bit underpowered for a while and so we're excited to buff her back into the meta - Observationally, people have gotten a lot better at playing around her W and her Q range post nerf, think she can get a bit more power Last Patch - We're following up on some of the changes that didn't quite land tuning wise, but we're quite happy with the shape of how the changes affect their kit power budget distribution; Singed, Gwen, Xerath, Yone, Yorick