League of Legends Dev Tracker

We have not started working on Shyvana. Currently, the team is focused on getting Jax and Skarner out first.

You can always blame me, personally. I am here for you, stealing the LP from your pocket.

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We do, yes. A mix of things like patch reports that come from regional offices, balance designers that speak the different languages, etc.

We have a Weibo account that we also use to communicate with Chinese players.

I personally try to stay up to date with all the different regions to make sure I'm making the right decisions.

me because I put you in loser's queue

They're quite strong right now.

We use a lot of survey data. It's really interesting what kinds of things players in other countries consider big issues. Obviously it's really hard for most of us to interact on non-English social media.

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Phantom Hit does not interact with Kraken Slayer.

Kraken Slayer activates every three auto attacks regardless of items.

Rageblade has the strongest synergy with Kraken Slayer of any mythic.

No it’s not. Kraken still has more synergy with Rageblade than any other mythic.

If you haven't already I'd suggest trying with a fresh account - we've been seeing some accounts are bugged at present. Definitely want to fix that, but as a workaround making a new one might get you in in the meantime

It'll be live for longer than 1 month. I'm very much hoping we get to bring it back reasonably soon too, but that's going to depend on whether people like it and keep playing it or not

Not reusing any of the code, but definitely inspired in part by that event from Nexus Blitz yeah

This mode will be launching with a rating system (very similar to the one Double Up in TFT uses), which we think should be a meaningful part of supporting longer term sustained engagement. Also expecting we'll do more frequent, responsive balance changes than some modes would do, given while this isn't meant to be as competitive as SR is it's still a more competitive and therefore balance sensitive experience than most of our other game modes

On initial launch at least it'll just be teams of 2. We'd like to add queueing as 8, but won't have it initially though

We did a pretty exhaustive analysis of it.

Separation of smurfs, bot accounts, separated games played with friends vs without, etc.

The only places in 1-30 where Yuumi didn't perform the best was when smurfs "new players were actually smurfs". She didn't perform that poorly in those though, because usually it was double smurfs playing with each other :shrug

No clue, that'd be an eng thing. I'd love it if so though!

Hopping in here is a bit risky, but here goes...

We agree Yuumi can be a frustrating champion and we're not trying to say otherwise. We're going to continue to balance her out of Pro and Elite play.

Having said that, the main point I wanted to make a clarification about is that the 1-30 experience is different from the average player (~mid silver) experience.

Despite being sub50 for average players on paper, if you account for her steep mastery curve, she sports very reasonable performance metrics. A lot of this is due to how different she is to other champions for a player who's played thousands of hours of league, so she has quite a different playstyle (similar to singed in that respect) and tanks a lot of winrate on games 1-5.

Having a steep mastery curve for the average player doesn't mean that's the case for a completely new player though. The reason why we tried to design around the attach is because she is far and away the best champ to pla...

Generally I agree we shouldn't change these very much once shipped.

Imo in the case of Zyra R which is a giant honking circle with delayed damage and even more delayed CC the exact precision of the center at max range matters a whole whole lot less than making sure the spell fires when you're inputting that command.

"Personally, this seems to indicate to me that the Yuumi changes were not successful at all. Wasn't the entire point to have her be playable for casuals without being too strong in pro?"

It's worth clarifying that Yuumi had a 45% solo queue win rate and like 80% presence at Worlds last year. Getting both of those to move in the correct direction is a success. She's currently 50% win rate in solo queue and trending toward ~85% presence in pro.

So if she winds up 47% and 2%, that's a marked improvement from 12.18. A partial success is better than nothing at all.