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Hmmm, I can't really say, but I will say that one of the pods is the balance pod.

Simply put, it's a complicated problem.

It is certainly a limitation of the current model and something we discuss a lot internally. One of the values of having a transparent balancing process is that the community can understand why we are making certain balance decisions.

Including mastery curves is potentially valid, though while it has its benefits, it also has drawbacks and we'd need to weigh the pros and cons of including that information in the balance framework.

We'd also need to figure out the correct way to implement this information.

Example Considerations:

• Do we discard only the first game that a player plays?
• The first 3, 5, 10?
• Do we discard 10 games for an easy champion, but 30 games for a very hard champion?
• How do you weigh mastery for a person that played Lee Sin a lot 4 years ago, but has only played 5 games recently?
• Should a game played by a main matter equally to a perso...

I'll take the bait. Yes we play the game.

We have 7 designers on Summoners Rift Team split amongst the 3 pods. Of those, 1 is Master, 4 are Diamond, 1 is Plat and 1 is Silver.

We also have 2 QA analysts on the team, who are Master and GM respectively.

In addition to that, we have a separate Game Analysis Team who are typically minimum D3 and 7 of them are Masters+. 3 of them hover around GM/Chall.

We generally try to have as many different opinions from each different skill band as possible. It would not be a good thing to have every game designer be Challenger for example, because they would have such a myopic view of the player perspective that it would be actively damaging.

Every analyst has a background in statistics, usually a math degree or something similar. They are very proactive about making sure anybody looking at the data understands all the biases present.

We have an analyst that works on the summoner's rift team 100%. But what reddit knows as the balance team is actually only 1 of the 3 pods of the summoner's rift team. That analyst services the 3 different pods.

You wouldn't really assign a data scientist to service a particular team, that's too low scope for the type of stuff that they're trying to do. Their job is to make different types of data available for the analysts to have access to all across LoL, whether that's for Skins, Champions, Balance, etc.

We have a insights analyst who builds out all our reports (we have many reports that tell us a lot of different things; items, game pacing, winrate reports, an automated version of the champion balance framework, role power, champion learning curves, etc.)

Data scientists work on creating the pipelines to get the data to the analysts so that they can then write queries to get the data and put it in a usable format for designers, game analysts and producers, etc. So to answer your question, we do have both analysts and data scientists. Researchers like Blau are a different form of insights. They collect more qualitative assessments from players through surveys and player labs, rather than analysts or data scientists who are more quantitative.

So you're saying I gave him the wrong ult...

One of the reasons we are continuing to resolve issues with EOG is because it is the most reported player pain we receive, so we are prioritizing things that players want to see fixed.

Also, the client interacts with a number of other services, and we need those teams to help us look at the service level to identify possible issues.

I see posts regarding EOG frequently so I am doing my best to be transparent and provide updates as I have them.

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It's more that buying a skin does not interfere with other systems. It's all on your side and has no gameplay impact. Buying a champion has other considerations, which makes it less of a slam-dunk.

Yeah I just realized including "I like this" is weird when I started with "Some of these are not so good." That's my bad!

As neat as these are, I wonder how usable some of them would really be:

1. Buying a champion. This often doesn't come up, but it is real: If no one on the opposing team owns the champion, it doesn't appear for bans. One could argue that the game should just leave up all bans, but I suspect this is valuable for newer players in their first games of ranked (where they are likely to run into other new players who also don't have all the champions). So you'd only be able to buy champions in the very early declare phase. This can be problematic if it takes the store a moment to process. Even if not, I'm worried adding extra overhead and integrated systems into champion select creates a more fragile experience. Yes the store works. Yes champion select works. But truly how often do you really need to buy champions during champ select?

2. Anonymous mode. VALORANT has this and it works great IMO. In general, I'm a fan of anonymous mode and being able to keep it on...

The answer is: reddit represents a very small, vocal minority of the player base. It doesn't mean that their opinions are not valid, or any less important, but it also doesn't mean that posts here necessarily represent the majority of player sentiment towards the game.

Reddit is super useful to find new issues or "player pain" as we call it, or even find some exciting posts praising good work or fun features, but most of our players probably don't even watch streams or come to reddit.

We have seen a spike in our waiting for stats service, and we are actively working with multiple teams to solve.

I'd be tilted cause duos

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