League of Legends Dev Tracker

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Very first version the spectator champs they were using as a workaround for broadcast were targetable, from memory one got killed by a Karthus ult giving extra gold to one of the teams even. Version after that had them untargetable and invulnerable. Then we got the actual proper spectator system in.

I mean some will and some won't. I still believe that new games modes are a very important part of gameplays strategy going forward, so given that I still want to make sure the modes team is healthy and can keep making exciting things for players. That does mean that other teams might need to be a bit smaller then they have been historically so that modes can continue to make awesome things for players.

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You will have to wait and see, just like everyone else

For your final point: would love to include more visual teasers, but because the turnaround time for these videos is roughly 7-10 days (including weekends) from filming to publishing (including a few days for localization, which requires the video to be LOCKED), and we don't 100% have talking points locked until we actually film, it's hard to get visuals since we don't necessarily have topics locked.

We want the artists to focus on getting content into game, and while we'd love some teasers and stuff, sometimes we just don't have anything ready.

That said, we'll try to find places to add more art if we have good opportunities to do so!

It still is on track, yes

A Brand VFX update did get started by a VFX artist as a side project a while back. It's not currently on hold, given said artist had to swap all their time to some other higher priority stuff. I expect we'll get it finished and shipped at some point, but whether that's soon or a really long way out no idea at present, depends on other VFX projects.

Naafiri will be available for Worlds

Yeah, Naafiri will be playable at Worlds, Briar will not be

We don't know exact dates yet. 4-6 weeks is our general target. We'll go more like 4 weeks if there's a lot of stuff we've identified we can/should talk about, more like 6 if we've got less for this particular round but want to stay in the habit and cover some stuff. Going to start looking at potential topics next week, I suspect we'll have a fair bit this time so might be closer to 4 than 6, can't make any promises yet though

We also always post it to https://twitter.com/lolesportsstats!

Oh sorry, when I say "League" here I'm just shorthanding "League of Legends the PC game", not implying that he's on something unrelated to the League IP

We'll share updated thoughts on Mythics in terms of what we've learned, future plans etc whenever we talk preseason gameplay in detail (plausibly this next update, depending on how many other topics we have possible that ends up in a deep dive slightly later)

Yeah, hard to say given how much has evolved over time. Looking at current state of things, I'd imagine a 6th player would mean a lot of additional roaming support style play from said position, probably with some jungle camps being taken as well? Guess could also be a second duo lane with some degree of roaming, but I suspect two champs generally out of FoW + more ability to contest jungle camps including on invades probably trumps presence in lane

I mean, if an example from more than 7 years ago is the best case you've got...

She'll be out before Worlds yeah. I don't believe she'll be playable at Worlds however since she'll be a very recent release (possible I'm wrong on that and she'll be disabled for playoffs but available at Worlds, will check)

Piece of trivia - League was originally 6v6 back in internal alpha (2008, maybe early 2009?), and the old Nexus art reflected that (hence 6 statues on it instead of 5). It's the reason Hexakill was relatively easy to add in the early days (code was all set up for teams of 6 already). Change to teams of 5 was well before my time at Riot, my understanding though is that teamfight clarity and lethality were both really problematic in testing at the time, and cutting a player per team did a lot to help things out.

Our first priority, and likely focus for quite a while, is going to be on better bots to help players get into the game. To state the obvious, accessibility for new players is a real weakness on League's part. A healthy flow of new players is essential for long lived games though so that's very much on our minds, given we want the game to have a vibrant community for a really long time if possible

Assuming that new player work goes well, we would like to try for other use cases after it though (to be clear, I'm speculating about future years). Things like better practice environment for players who know League but want to learn a new kit or like taking over from a disconnected/AFK player at whatever levels that can lead to a fair experience for both teams etc. Maybe someday a challenging experience for high skill players? Would very much like to, but our focus for bots is going to be on other use cases first, with other features and updates aimed at/prioritizing higher skil...

hey i nerfed Jhin at least 4 times after the 44 buffs