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@drewlevin Does Riot plan to modify the 'new account experience' at all? I'm glad for the smurfing crackdown, but people are spending $ on accounts bc hand-leveling is tedious.

absolute scenes today watching a bunch of people crash out because they’re starting to understand we’re serious about enforcing our rules and a bunch of other people crash out because they think I have a secret button where I unilaterally ban challengers for giggles

@drewlevin Is the state of Resolve primary currently under discussion? Grasp feels ubiquitous in Master+ top. I'd love to see Demolish/Absorb Life swapped in respective trees, and Grasp's power curve adjusted to be weaker in lane but scale better (and remove the perma-stacking).

making a thread of useful resources for people tweeting at me since I run into many of the same conversations over and over and won’t have time to reply to every single person at the rate that folks are sending stuff to me (sorry! I also have a job I have to do).

@RiotPhroxzon I like that grasp rewards an extended laning pattern and makes skirmishers like Gwen/Fiora/Ambessa more viable in pro, but I wish it wasn't near-mandatory in GM+. I'd also love omnivamp (with its new, reduced minion healing rule) to return to doran's blade.

@RiotPhroxzon I'd love if GP's crit itemization was steered towards less burst-artillery (Collector-IE) and more towards DPS + brawling (ER-Shieldbow). This is also a larger systems thing, but I wish grasp scaled better (weaker early) and Demolish swapped with absorb life in their trees.

Patch 25.16 Full Preview! Balance Strategy - As mentioned yesterday, heading into the back half of the year where things are pretty well balanced, we're going to be spending a lot more time trying to find opportunistic alt builds, alternate roles and other things that feel like opportunities for players to express creativity - If you have any suggestions for builds or roles that could use a little bit of love, earflicks that can be fixed, we'd love to hear them - This also can include things where it might take a little more time to land a more involved gameplay change to them (like Rek'Sai's returning of E damage, or improving clarity and counterplay of Illaoi's E) - There are a multitude of such changes in the patch, (better balance of WW JG vs Top, Lane Viego, AD Morde, Qiyana JG, AD Sion, JG Sylas, etc.) - In the meantime, our high level strategy is to be more nerf heavy on the jungle role, as we think the role is too strong overall and are avoiding net buffing it over time Shaco - Shaco has had an extremely high banrate for a pretty extended period of time at this point - We're looking to bring down his frustration overall and he doesn't need to be close to 50 to be a satisfying champion for his audience