[2022] The tankyness update in patch 12.10 is huge, dont let anyone tell you otherwise

Our goal is that it's somewhere between a 10-20% decrease in damage depending on game-time/class/items.

There's a lot of nuance to why the durability package is HP early and scales more into defense later (anti-burst vs durability). Hopefully we can go over the process in more detail later.

It's going to be noticeably different for your first few games and you are likely to lose a few kills with your damage expectations being off. But it should still be the League of Legends that you know and love.

Thanks for the benefit of the doubt. You nailed it. Base stats let us have the granularity we want WITHOUT precluding any follow-up work. We can adjust base stats per class, fine-tune the the existing numbers, and anything in between. Furthermore, we CAN still work on systemic damage if we think it's still out of line (not saying we're planning to as of yet). This is what we believe the most effective but least disruptive (to the balance of gold/items/runes) method for the project.

Sure, here's what LB provides. LeBlanc SHOULD provide a higher target access and higher kill thresholds than the DPS mages.

If she doesn't fill this niche and suffers, we'll quickly follow-up (we have changes scheduled even before the standard 2 week wait). This might mean even buffing burst on some champions.

The goal of the changes in a more defined sense (this is why we're open to buffing some burst damage back if champs suffer) - Champions that don't build burst are bursting champions too fast (i.e. Goredrinker assassins killing you in 0.1s or tanks killing you with 1 rotation) - Some burst systems lose their counterplay a bit too early (champs killing you from 100-0 before their first Mythic)

True damage (and definitely % max HP true damage) is likely going to be more valuable after the changes.

We don't want to pre-emptively nerf a champion since we're honestly likely going to be inaccurate. What if we nerf a champion that's "fine" or don't go hard enough and have to nerf them multiple times. If champions are strong, we'll look at why they're strong (like we always try to do), and identify what we think is problematic. If Vayne and Fiora are the strongest champions, it probably makes sense to tune down their % true damage as it was likely directly what made them stronger.

And before we go "but you punished the heal/shielders!", this was (to us) a more clear outlier. Mathematically, every point of health is worth significantly more. Not adjusting the health restoration mechanics seemed clearly incorrect. A point a lot of people are missing is that the effective HP is staying about the same, AND enchanters/drain tanks are staying alive longer to get more rotations off (that Lulu is now much harder to kill and their shields are stronger).

Total effective HP is up somewhere between 15-30% for all targets, meaning that being bursted from full is much less likely (but still very possible). My findings is that the game still "feels" like league, and you may go entire games without noticing any differences, but there are very common occurances where targets survive skirmishes/all-ins with 5-15% HP remaining which can be attributed to the durability update.

Is it pretty clear cut that Vayne will be above the others? Is Vayne going to be stronger than Ornn? Or Lulu? Or Aurelion Sol?

If we nerf the top end, that also means there will be new OP champs, and it's a very easy rabbit hole to go down that can easily turn very speculative.