League of Legends Dev Tracker

Censer is currently the most built support legendary item in the game, including tanks.

Items coming online 400 gold earlier is a really big deal. The fact that supports are getting to complete more items is great but that means the items have to be tuned around actually showing up in games now and few things are more impactful than damage buffs on a marksman.

Remember that 13.9 censer provided 10-30% AS (20% AS at level 9-10) and 5-20 on-hit damage (15 damage at level 12-13). So the overall power of the passive is relatively similar to the prior version of the item... And it got 10% cheaper. So losing about 10% of the item's power is reasonable: The base stats are about as efficient as they were before (5% ms and 200 gold vs 25 AP is a pretty fair trade), so taking down the on-hit damage to be on average a bit lower is really just keeping the item balanced compared to before.

The goals of letting supports buy more items was a good one and these items should...

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Orianna is a tough one. She's got surprisingly few spots to buff that aren't either sacred (Ball Speed/Range/etc) or that skew her super hard one way or another. We also want to keep her core weaknesses intact which further limits our potential areas to buff that are still "exciting".

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It changes a bit with MMR but not massively so.

Shieldbow is more important here where if you give a champion sustain + damage + burst resistance exactly what are you meant to do to them? The item does literally everything. This is mostly a problem in the early game where one champion can't really hope to burst through a Shieldbow.

Bloodthirster is less important here but sustain is still a pretty scary stat to give early game. If BT is meant to be a satisfying life steal item, it makes many lanes completely uninteractive. You get to side step those issues by telling players "Look, this item is good, but you have to buy it later."

The cycle of Ryze continues.

It's very hard to land 7% win rate on the nose while also trying to anticipate how much learning is still to be done by live players.

The ability to switch around runes is at one of its highest points of all time. This is just factually true.

Most players just don't do it.

Pro play ends up thought-leading regular players. An example of this from recent history is Azir's play rate doubling in the middle of last year with zero changes, driven purely by sustained pro presence.

League is a game that is as much about strategy as it is about individual mechanics. Right now, the best strategy is to play around bottom lane and it doesn't appear to be close. That's boring, stale, and honestly pretty hurtful for players of other lanes.

I don't think ADCs are specifically overpowered (we see very few in top/mid/jungle), but their receptiveness to gold is clearly very high. If only pro players take durability runes and pro players use gold funneling better, then you very quickly get a congealed playstyle.

Overheal nerf hits nearly zero non-Aphelios players outside of pro play. It does affect deathball ADCs in pro play. This is a positive for the game.

TBH Shieldbow is ideally niche. It's meant to be strong enough that when you're getting oneshot by Kha'Zix this item will help you not get oneshot by Kha'Zix. But it's not meant to be a default purchase. There's meant to be a real damage loss here.

I'd argue the life steal on pop should be to coax you into fighting back. Maybe that's directionally wrong for a defensive item, but the thing has life steal. Attacking is literally a durability output. But I'm not sure if "gain damage output on shield pop" is the right shape. It at least tells a story.

I was always told life is a highway

• Jhin: Fleet
• Ezreal: PtA
• Jinx: Fleet
• MF: First Strike, PtA, Fleet
• Kai'Sa: Hail of Blades
• Lucian: PtA, First Strike, Fleet
• Caitlyn: Fleet, First Strike, Dark Harvest
• Aphelios: PtA, Fleet, Conqueror

Those are literally the 8 most played ADCs in League of Legends. All of them have better (at least situationally) options than LT.

So that nerf seemed to line up pretty well. Got a ton more variation in keystone choice now.

Aphelios is a full 2% win rate higher than he was before the buffs from 13.4. The dude could fall meaningfully just from systems changes and still wind up stronger than before.

Ideally there's a clear distinction between BT and Shieldbow. One is the offensive option where you shot call that you aren't gonna get oneshot and the other is burst protection.

Shieldbow landed weak and BT landed strong but there's meant to be a fair tradeoff there.

For most ADCs Lethal Tempo is not their strongest keystone. Stuff is plenty viable. Y'all can at least try.

I can't imagine Ardent Vel'Koz is any good.