Original Post — Direct link
about 4 years ago - /u/RiotScruffy - Direct link

Originally posted by bz6

/u/RiotScruffy

Hey boss hope you had a great week off.

First off great post, one of the better ones. Covers a lot of topics I care about when it comes to LoL. But the most important one at the moment in my opinion relative to the preseason changes is:

With the curtain starting to get lifted around the pre-season item changes for next year, do you think the changes will heavily impact the power postion philosophy you outlined a while back? On a related yet more specific note, how will the item changes affect scaling? We are seeing early iterations where tanks are getting a "dcap" item. Is the goal to homogenize scaling across champions, roles, and sub-classes an intended target or?

Because that would be really boring and take away even more of the strategic nuances the game has been losing for years now.

Yea this is a great question. We still want different classes and different champs to have distinct power curves.

Even with a "capstone" item, tanks should still be more of a midgame spike and ADC will outscale at 6 items.

There will definitely be a few small shifts in power curves, but homogenization is not a goal and we're going to be making these shifts intentionally.