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Ksante needs to play most fights as a tank in order to succeed. I think that’s where newer or lower elo players misread him. You give up a ton if you just ult at the start of a fight and shred your health to try and one v one someone.

The gameplay before you ult doesn’t feel like any other tank, but the outputs are all very tank focused. Q is a heavy slow, w is a stun and displacement, e is a shield. The passive attacks sub in for the percent health damage that most tanks have in their abilities. They’re low cooldown and he feels very flighty, but his output is squarely on protecting his team and tying up the enemy.

I think it’s a misnomer that tanks can’t do damage. Tanks absolutely can (and should, I argue) kill you if they get to stick to a squishy target for long periods of time. Ksante just has a mode that lets him play a different role briefly.

She used to be a jungler that had two forms that swapped on a bespoke timer. The Costco of having two forms meant both kits had to be simple, but player labs showed us the audience didn’t want that. We didn’t want to make her super complex, so we pivoted off the two forms and had to find a new kit

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Mission accomplished! That’s great to hear, thank you!

Lillia was probably the most stressful because we had to pivot her kit super late in dev, but I’m the happiest with where she ended up. Simple abilities but a ton of depth.

Exactly

100%

Lmfao Dan.

*thumb moves to down position*

No, not really. League is going through a refocusing right now. SR is getting a lot of support coming up. New champions are being scaled back to accommodate for the increased focus on modes, but the Summoner's Rift team has been hard at work on a bunch of cool stuff for SR that isn't quite ready for show time.

I had a pass at a jungler that constructed pylons across the map. Pylons that were close to eachother linked up and he could grind on the links like rails. It was super fun building your own network, but you just built your network on one lane and then turbo ganked it. I don't think that can work without a lot of iteration.

Midlaner.

He definitely did what he was supposed to do: make tank gameplay in pro more fun to watch. He definitely is too prevalent in pro and likely needs to be addressed although I'm not a part of the team that's going to do that work.

I think overall he's a little too pro skewed, but he's definitely a real hard champ to learn and rewards the time you put in. I have a lot of faith in the balance team sorting him out eventually.

Prayge

for the foreseeable future, League is heavy on modes, so I don't think that's getting reversed anytime soon. I loved working on champs, probably the most fun I've had as a game designer, but it's also good to let others get a crack doing it while I help out where I can

We do love to cook here at Riot

Unfortunately there’s onnnnnnne more in the pipe for later this year >:D

In Dan we trust

Tread carefully

We're going to be filming it tomorrow. Editing, processing, localization etc means should then be ready to go out around the end of July or so.