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25 Nov

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Originally posted by Bigma-Bale

Will we be seeing news on Shyvana soon? The changes at Riot obviously would have affected development on her so I hope her VGU is still in the pipeline and not impacted too heavily.

VGUs will also be part of seasons in the future. We still want to do Shyvana, but it'll be whenever that makes sense as part of the larger theme. She won't be part of Season 1 of 2025 for example, given she doesn't make any sense when we've got a heavy Noxus focus.

When we have a season that makes sense for her (e.g. themes of Demacia, dragons, transformation, Ezreal or whatever) she'll get her VGU.

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Originally posted by AobaSona

Please make all the P&Z champions still fit into the new canon. It's gonna be sad if we have another Shaco situation.

That's the plan. Will take a while in some cases, we want them to all feel like a cohesive part of that shared world though

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Originally posted by IEclipseI

meddler in the dev video is said that the this season cinematic will be focused on noxus
so its safe to assume that every season will have their own cinematic ?

We will have a big cinematic at the start of the year like we've done in (most) recent years.

We won't have cinematics at that same scale and fidelity for every season during the year though (we can't triple down on that sort of production alas)

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Originally posted by blueragemage

It almost definitely is, since they're adding 12 free skins/year.

I think this year we only got Sivir and Singed? So I can't imagine that they're just going to give 10 more out without taking some away

There is some shift from free rewards as chests to free rewards coming from the free track of the always on battle pass as part of this yeah.

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Originally posted by OddinaryEuw

One thing I'm a bit confused on is if the reroll/skin shard system will still exist in the same way ? I'm assuming yes considering they talk about how orbs will replace masterwork chests.

Yes rerolling and skin shards still exist, we just want those to be something you opt into, rather than always be driving you into it.

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Originally posted by F0RGERY

The way they're describing Seasons makes me think of the way Sentinels of Light/Ruination worked; having all the champs that year (Viego, Gwen, Akshan, Vex) all revolve around Viego's attempts to cause the ruination.

That sort of thing yeah, though trying to do a much better job (fingers crossed) on how we go about doing it. I think some of the Sentinels/Ruination arc was quite good (the new champs, the set up etc). I think we dropped the ball when it came to the sort of story we told, the tone of some of it (inconsistent, sometimes too jokey), which existing champs were/weren't involved (Yorick where?, the mediums we were story telling in (a MOBA + text isn't the way to try and resolve these big arcs) etc.

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Originally posted by kevthegamedev

after taking physical damage from a champion, grants the owner a physical shield for 10% of their maximum health for 5 seconds (with a 10 seconds cooldown)

is a pretty strong passive, sooooo

Oh yeah, that one / merc treads have already been nerfed since this article was written :P

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Originally posted by Redpeanut4

To me it still seems like it's worth WAY more than the bonus gold that was gained and will just make snowballing more prevalent but we'll just have to see I guess.

On a pro play side it seems like it's going to reward lane swap tower diving even more too. you have the chance to get 2/3 of the objectives just off that alone.

Specific numbers could definitely be OP right now, we'll nerf them if it turns out that way or snowballing becomes a lot more powerful.

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Originally posted by BigBard2

Here’s an example of what the boot upgrades look like using Plated Steelcaps:

Free Tier 2 Boot Bonus: +5 Armor

Tier 3 Upgrade: Costs 750 gold, but provides +5 Armor, +5 Movement Speed, and a new unique passive that, after taking physical damage from a champion, grants the owner a physical shield for 10% of their maximum health for 5 seconds (with a 10 seconds cooldown).

Why though? The winning team already gets a big gold lead, why give them even more buffs?

Pretty important note is that there are no gold rewards for first blood and first turret anymore. This lets us reward teams for these milestones in a way that's not immediate gold to snowball with, and try something new with power progression that provides options & scaling - the value of the Tier 2 bonus is mean to be roughly what the gold value of the FB/FT milestones were but activating later, and the Tier 3 boot is meant to be about on par with spending that same amount of gold on a legendary item.

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Originally posted by SuperSkillz10

I can't watch it til I'm back in like 5hrs yo, the wait is gonna kill me

Then boy do I have a TLDW for you.

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Originally posted by Jozoz

No mention of any changes to TP like Phreak and August were hinting at throughout this year?

This was also mentioned by Meddler here.

I hope this doesn't mean changes to Teleport are scrapped?

We missed TP changes while working on this. :( perhaps someone from the team can weigh in?

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Originally posted by AJLFC94_IV

Mel being a mage is the only reason Ambessa in Piltover happened. She's not there to help Mel with Jinx, she needs weapons to fight the Black Rose because of Mel's magic. Ambessa plays a huge part in moving the stories forward for Cait-Vi-Jinx.

It also sets up the future Noxus show, there's no way the next project isn't going to be Mel vs the black Rose in Noxus.

All of that is only established in season 2. Prior to season 2, she gave us different reasons for being in Piltover. We never needed Mel’s magic for that it (Hextech can answer it quite simply).

And did you miss the part where I said these changes would narratively strengthen her involvement in the Piltover-Zaun conflict? Again: the Noxian invasion has absolutely nothing to do with Mel’s magic.

And we don’t need it for Leblanc either. That storyline was working just fine before the reveal.

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Originally posted by RockDoveEnthusiast

But they're saying they could have written that differently. What you're describing was a writing choice.

Exactly. If they hadn’t written Mel to be a mage, then Ambessa’s motivations would have been different. And, in my opinion, that would have been for the better of the Piltover/Zaun/Noxus conflict.


24 Nov

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Originally posted by OhMilla

I think season 2 had some more glaring issues but overall a great season. I assume they're doing Noxus stuff next? Can't wait to see which characters are brought to the spotlight. They did a great job making me care about characters I didn't think twice about.

The Mel arc is the easiest fix I can see off the top, as far as season-long plot lines go.

Her mage thing added nothing to the story that couldn’t have been introduced via Ambessa, and Ambessa’s own motivations would have been much more convincing had Mel been killed at the end of season 1. Even her “courting” of Caitlyn would have been much better if they had been able to connect over the shared demise of a loved one at the hands of Jinx.

Edit: Noxus’ moves to infiltrate Zaun would have also had way more plausible deniability if one of their prominent diplomats had been killed by a “terrorist attack.” As it occurred, I’m not sure why Piltover would have believed that it was anything other than an opportunistic play at an eventual hostile takeover.

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Originally posted by TeemoKayle

"What do I care if we'll all killed by either an invading army or a world ending threat in the next day or two? Can we focus on my side of the fence being grossly uncomfortable, not on the fact there won't be anything to fight for or to improve if we don't fight this major threat?"

You’re missing the point. Of course Zaun and Piltover have to cooperate against Noxian invasion, that’s obvious. The problem is that this isn’t real life, this is a fictional story. The writers chose to resolve the conflict this way. The writers chose to erase the history of apartheid oppression, erase the liberation of Zaun, and wash away Piltover’s sins all because they had to come together to beat the big bad. It’s bad writing and even worse political analysis.

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Originally posted by TheCatsActually

You say this as if the show copped out when it was always the intention to have Piltover and Zaun maintain that tension at the end of the show. Individual Champions can die or progress past where they are in League since the game itself is kind of non-canon, but Runeterra's geopolitics have to remain consistent to the lore for the settings to make sense.

Zaun’s independence would fit better with the pre-existing lore, so I’m not sure what point you’re arguing. Tension? Yes, we need that. The perpetuation of the apartheid state? No, we didn’t.


23 Nov

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Originally posted by revoverlord

Viktor truly solved racism

At least his solution was more… equal than the bullsh*t status quo we’re left with at the end.

“One Zaunite on the council, so it’s all good now! Forget the decades of oppression and the full-scale assault we launched on y’all just a few weeks ago! Also thanks for the bodies, really helped us out against Noxus. We can still count on Zaun for cheap labor and resources though, right?”

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Originally posted by Global-Link-6040

I legit thought no way they’re resorting to the “common enemy” trope in the middle of the episode. I thought too highly of the show I guess.

Zaunite liberation deserved better respect from the story.

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Originally posted by Hannig4n

Still a good season overall but it was way overstuffed with subplots and wasn’t given enough to time to properly work through them and get a satisfying resolution to all of them.

The most glaring example is the lack of satisfying resolution to the larger Piltover-Zaun conflict.

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Originally posted by Jimsvaliant

This is going to be a controversial ending to the series for sure. I personally liked the resolution to Jayce and Viktor's story. It was an interesting time loop bromance, but they needed more time to show Viktor's philosophical shift. His outlook very suddenly changed. A well written Viktor would see the harm he's causing but commit to it with better cause. He just seemed out of character as his reasoning wasn't developed at all.

I absolutely hated what they did with Jinx and Vi. They didn't resolve the Vander/Silco conflict on how to properly handle the division of upper and lower society... Vander chose not to follow Silco and raise his daughters while Silco fought to see that Zaunites wouldn't be second class citizens... i wanted the daughters to resolve this, but they just kind of dropped that for the robot deus ex machina. Turns out the solution is to date someone on the other side.

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They just did a “both-sides” to apartheid oppression. You just have to free yourself, bro.