Riot Meddler on Initial Thoughts of the Season

Originally posted by alaskadotpink

Unlocking new champions via blue essence wasn't meant to get harder.

This is a joke, how can he even say this? They removed so many many ways to get BE/Champ shards and replaced them with hardly anything to compensate. Like it doesn't take a genius to have some foresight here?

I misunderstood a line.

Originally posted by alaskadotpink

Okay, thanks for clarifying. I misunderstood the original text so I'm happy to be wrong. Sorry!

Originally posted by Jeremithiandiah

What do people think of swift play? I actually quite like it because it feels like a normal summoners rift game but you just get to late game faster. It doesn’t feel like an accelerated normal game but it is.

Originally posted by Sweprolle

How was the matchmaking for you? Every game so far me and my premades have gone up against people level 10 to 30..

Originally posted by nikkicocoa7

played it once to try it but you can't make eternals progress so probably won't really play it much unless a friend wants to

Originally posted by Dapper-Welcome-5286

Big fan of the casual, comeback heavy nature of the mode so far, kudos to y'all for the hard work! When y'all were workshopping swiftplay, was it always the intention to use the quick play champion pre-select system, or did you explore other queue styles before settling on the quick play format. (This is a long-winded way to beg for blind pick back)

Originally posted by Jeremithiandiah

My only concern is that I remember years ago that draft pick was removed from some regions. I think everyone should have access to an experience that is exactly like ranked for practice reasons, or so new players understand how the game really works in a competitive setting, without risking lp. The way swift play works, it could have completely different meta than the original game and may evolve into a quite different experience in the future.

Originally posted by Wrevellyn

Can you elaborate on this? I tried a game and just got obliterated, enemy team was way out of my league. Some of my teammates were really good too, but I am *not good* at the game (trying to get better), and I just had no shot. Been maybe better after some of my friends teamed with me, but I have yet to have a good experience after 4 games which is about all I can manage in the time frame.

Originally posted by Kingofthered

I really want to like it, but I was under the impression it was going to be tuned to be much faster than a regular rift game.

I'm happy people are liking it, but I've been surprised with my 25-30 minute games so far. Doesn't really feel like it's significantly different to a draft game, aside from the time saved queuing up.

Originally posted by Dapper-Welcome-5286

I figured, since the quickplay system cuts down on the interstitial time between games so much, but thought it worthwhile to ask! 

One more question, if it's cool with you! What kind of balance support are we going to be seeing with swiftplay in the weeks and months ahead? Is the plan to implement mode-specific nerfs a-la ARAM or Arena, or to essentially let it ride as a mirror of summoner's rift? 

Originally posted by BuizelNA

Lobby UI is atrocious. It's like trying to do champ select on ⅓ of the normal size. Champions Sort by: Mastery would be great.

For swiftplay itself, some elements of summoners still feel so sluggish. Why do we still have to afk for nearly 2 min before minions spawn?

Death timers also feel really rough. Having to afk for 65+ seconds at 20 minutes is awful

Originally posted by HaxorViper

Would making objectives and waves come up in less time help with this? I was thinking something similar to Wild Rift which has really quick games. The accelerated gold is neat but I also feel like getting full build quicker doesn’t necessarily make the game faster, especially if a full build is tanky.

Originally posted by crazydavy

Yea I played 4 swift matches this morning and every game was between 28 and 36 minutes long. I feel like we need more damage to structures of even 3 less towers per team. Maybe even start us at level 3 or 6. I love the concept of a faster game and more even gold generation. I just want it to actually be a shorter game lol.

Originally posted by Sent1k

Have you considered having the nexuses (nexi?) coming alive and moving towards the centre of the map to attack each other. Pretty cool idea imo.

Originally posted by KingKangst

Hi Galaxy!!! how are you i hope that you are fine!

Swiftplay is good addition, i had fun playing some games and the fast pace.

Would it be possible for you to experiment with a new "slot" for games that go beyond 30 minutes or something like that? like a new slot for another item that only unlocks after certain amount of time or objectives? It could be filled with a new item, or a powerfull elixir, or maybe a dropable item when you are killed?

maybe this would help with those games that go beyond 30 minutes.

Originally posted by Salty-Hold-5708

Some spells might need adjustments in their CD's, i understand that the game is meant to go faster but there's been times where in order to keep a solid pace and scale, I don't really have a chance to retreat and purchase items and refill mana. Makes it incredibly punishing if you have to use resources to even contest your enemies when they are resourceless. Since all they need to stay relevant early games is d shield + second wind, makes it almost impossible to not lose gold/xp to stay relevant.

Originally posted by LifeAsSoph

Do you know when/if swiftplay is coming to OCE, alot of my ARAM only friends are excited to use it as a way to ease back into summoners rift

Originally posted by Arnotts_shapes

Hey Galaxysmash, do you know when it’s arriving in OCE? There’s been zero communication and we still have quickplay?

Originally posted by JoshQuest1

In my head it's just the clash sudden death where the outermost structures slowly burn when the soft time limit starts guaranteeing a Nexus hits 0 by a hard time limit. (which would need to account for respawning Nexus turrets now too.)

Originally posted by Arnotts_shapes

Do we have a timeframe for when? It doesn’t say in the patch notes.

Originally posted by MuggyTheMugMan

Hello! Thank you for your work! I wanted to ask on your thoughts on removing(/reducing) the 1 minute 30 second window of dead time at the start of the game with this mode, feels kinda weird when you go right into loading screen and its supposed to be faster