League of Legends Dev Tracker

Here are some commonly asked questions we've seen being asked about Arena! Got some more questions? Drop them down below and I'll do my best to try and respond

• Will I be able to make custom games?
  No, in order to have the game more ready for summer we weren't able to include this feature. However if players play and like the mode enough we're absolutely looking at adding this in the future

• Can I queue with more than 1 friend?
  We're definitely considering adding this if the game mode does well! We just couldn't get this feature ready in time for the initial launch.

• Will Arena be permanent?
  We are really excited about the mode, but we want to make sure players are as excited as we are. If players really dig it, we'll bring it back and/or explore making a permanent version.

• When is Arena going live?
  It goes to PBE later today, and onto live servers on July 20.

Kayle is STRONG

the spaghetti withered away decades ago

Dan.

Prayge Int Sled

August.

I didn't script it myself but I can almost assure you old Fiora ult had to be scripted from scratch.

Gangplank gets some Silver Serpents to upgrade his ult.

Twisted Fate has a change to his gold stacking passive. The extra gold on champs that can get it is useful for item swaps (sell and rebuy) or buying juices.

Yes.

No.

Broken Combo:
Ultimate Revolution + Can't Touch This

Silly Combo:
Chauffeur + anything

Earthwake + Now You See Me

I'll let you try and figure out what those augments do.

This was my exact response when we removed non-flash summoners.

Cameos are intended to give you variance in the round. You need to be able to respond to them and react appropriately. Generally though, they're fairly predictable and can be played around. For example, Pyke always dashes towards the target furthest from him, Shaco boxes are visible (but can't be killed), and Naafiri stops on first champ hit (even enemy champs). You can use them to your advantage

Generally if the character needs it to function, we did our best to add the mechanic in. Bel'veth gets free stacks every round to simulate her scaling over game time.

We have explored a Mageseeker champion in the past (while working on Sylas) and it's still something we are interested in if we can make it work in game. The reason we have been hesitant is because to make a good champion you want the gameplay to match the power source/power fantasy. The Mageseekers are all about nullifying magic, and in game the kinds of kits that would do that would either be really annoying to play against (basically a kit built all around a silence mechanic) or really niche counter-pick type champ (Basically a champ that can somehow counter mages specifically like Anti-Mage on Dota) If we could figure out a gameplay kit that would be fun and healthy for the game but also deliver on the mageseeker fantasy we would be all for it, but it has proven difficult thus far.

Stacking champions will all have (relatively) appropriate stacking speeds for the mode. They should coincide vaguely with levels that would be equivalent on SR (e.g. Viktor gets evolves when he would on SR)

I love the augment where Ekko shows up and rewinds the game back to season 1

The music gets me so hyped.

Its time

The event still uses missions. All events do!

I would say it’s more that we improved the set of services that power missions and also learned a bit about how and when to deploy what amount to whom. The idea is that future events are more stable than previous.

But I’m not an engineer so if I go into too much detail I will say something very wrong.

It's certainly not a case of narrative getting discarded, or not being involved. What you are suggesting would mean a lot more "handing down" a champion to Champions team and taking away some of the teams agency in what Champs get made, which I'm not sure would be great for the team. The team isn't old to make Ionia champs, and every Champion has a narrative writer on it from day 1. Narrative usually works with art to pitch what background/region a Champion will have while it's in DNA. It just happens to be that Champions team also gets excited about some of the more popular regions. We do bring up often in DNA which regions we haven't got a Champion from in awhile, but we don't want to force it if it doesn't work. We explored a Watcher Dog for Naafiri in DNA because we are aware how long it's been since we had Freljord Champion but it just didn't work very well for the kit we were making. We really want to get a Freljord Champ out soon as well.