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and Bel’Veth, the monstrous manta mommy Void Empress.
Riot is as horny as it's fanbase
and Bel’Veth, the monstrous manta mommy Void Empress.
Riot is as horny as it's fanbase
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Why are Yasuo and Yone mains so powerful in the minds of Riot that they get new champions made for them in other roles ?
Something feels wrong about motivating an entire champion to appeal to Yasuo mains.
It’s not that Yasuo mains are powerful in our minds it’s that game to game variance is very important to us. We think that’s part of reason league doesn’t get boring.
Globally yasuo is usually one of if not the most picked champion in the game. A champion with that high of a pickrate actually goes against the goal of game to game variance since the champion will show up in game so often.
For Champions like that we have intentionally made some Champions who have goals to take playrate from those champions which will in turn increase game to game variance. For example, in the past we also saw Thresh dominating support pickrate and Vayne dominating ADC pickrate. Both Pyke and Kai’Sa were attempting to (and succeeded in) massively reducing those champions pick rate. Now instead of seeing Thresh 2 games in a row you might see Thresh and then Pyke, which is better variance.
Yone was a attempt to steal some of Yasuos playrate and he succeeded in that a bit but actually mostly stole from Zed (which is still good since Zed was also very high pickrate)
If that's the case, why hasn't there been really any attempt to make a champ that resonates with Ezreal players? As far as I know he's been an INCREDIBLY high pickrate champion regardless of meta or his balance. I see him almost every other game and honestly it's quite annoying.
Actually Zeri was trying to do that with the really high uptime Q and a kit reliant on skillshots
No concern about the extremely similar play pattern and abilities to Samira & Diana?
Not really, I have played her a ton in play tests and I think despite how similar they might look on the surface they actually play and feel very different
I am worried about the inverse of pursuing game variance. Because Taric and Rakan do not have high playrates, Riot might be avoiding making defensive/enchanter melee support champions. Do low playrates of archetypes necessarily indicate that players do not want to play them, or that Riot hasn't unlocked their full potential?
Of course we think about that as well. Trying to make a more broadly appealing champ in a otherwise lower appeal role is something we reach for though it’s admittingly harder to do. The next champion is a attempt to make a more broadly appealing skill fantasy tank, though who nows if that will happen or not since tanks are historically a more niche role
Despite Zeri getting pushed to this year and altered release cadence, was Nilah originally supposed to be the bot lane release of this year?
Yes
Were you guys worried a skirmisher might alienate marksman players expecting their yearly release or was it ok since Zeri wouldn't be too far back
Not really, since we also think she will be appealing to Vayne/Kai'Sa/Samira players of which their are A LOT of.