League of Legends Dev Tracker

Hey, if it's deliberate and with other consenting adults, go nuts...

Video doesn't work well without the accompanying blog (which has some concept art of VGU Skarner). He's still very much a scorpion, not humanoid. We're working to get that blog posted as soon as we can now. In retrospect what we should have said instead in the video was that it was the current execution on scorpion that isn't compelling, not that scorpion couldn't be a compelling core for a champion.

They'll be a fairly regular thing, though not on an exact fixed schedule since we'd rather do one a little earlier or a little later depending on what we've got to say. At a guess, that probably means something like every 4-6 weeks or so, but that's a rough approximation, not a hard rule

And yeah, current thinking is these replace LoL Pls, given there's a lot of overlap otherwise and LoL Pls has some limitations to it we're looking to move away from (overly focused on good news only, slower production/release times)

You know what, I like this version better.

Sure, nip slip.

Short version - a lot of stuff had to be manually implemented every time we ran it. Took a lot of time, was error prone (given a lot of data entry to get wrong) etc. Needed to be rebuilt in a better manner

Don't worry on that front at least, we're very much sticking with a creature scorpion, not going human with scorpion elements

Yeah, not the ideal choice of phrasing in retrospect. What I meant to convey was that "now that Yuumi's not taking bandwidth away from other midscopes and can be addressed through the balance process again", rather than "now that Yuumi's totally fixed forever"

For what it's worth I do think this verison of Yuumi will be meaningfully more balanceable, agree that what shipped at a minimum wasn't tuned right though (to state the obvious)

Video was meant to go out at 12.30pm PDT, not 12:30am PDT. We're working to get it and the blogs up properly now, apologies for the mess

To clarify - champ and role are individual picks. You're doing things like choosing:

1. Mid - as Zed
2. Support - as Blitz

Not going to get assigned Zed as support as a result

It's really unfortunate the video went out early without the dev blog to accompany it, given the comments in the video don't stand on their own as well without all the extra context. We're working on getting everything posted properly now, some bits from the blog while we wait though:

"With Skarner's update, we wanted to take the chance to revisit the Brackern and reinvent what they are as a species, while maintaining their immense power and presence in Runeterra.

Where we landed was making the Brackern Runeterra's first earth elementalists, dating back to pre-civilization. Ancient and powerful, they're revered for their primal knowledge of earth, which they taught to the people of Runeterra long ago."

"Skarner currently resides in Shurima. However, with a new direction for the Brackern, we thought that Ixtal, with its deep connection to elemental magic, would be the perfect region for them.

With the Brackern as the first earth elementalists, we're e...

Hey folks

So uh, this was meant to go out at 12.30pm PDT, not 12.30am PDT, hence the lack of the mentioned blogs, lack of any of us replying on social media, video being set to private etc. We're going to stuff posted properly as soon as we can, apologies this process has been extra messy today...

Have them reach out to our team - [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) as we will need specific information to permit them due to all the malicious activity we've observed from anon VPNs and cloud based services.

player count doesn't matter, it's about percentages and if all roles aren't at 20% select rate you're going to need autofill. if 25% people want to mid and 15% want to jungle but you need 1 person in each role to start a game, you're going to need offroled players unfortunately.

Both Winter Wonder and Conqueror should be good now for 13.6.

Out of all the legacies that exist, this is one of them 😂

I’ll brag to my pooch about it

Maybe!

Drake change should be pretty meaningful there. Remember that high objective value doesn't just give you the snowball of claiming the objective, it also prompts bigger fights which means more kills giving gold and XP.

That said, snowball isn't that far out of its historic levels right now for most players. It's pretty high for top tier players relatively, but for average play we're pretty close to historic levels.

So, I'm gonna disagree with him a bit here. And one of the things I want to get across here is that Riot game designers are not a monolith - we each have a different perspective on things, and that's a strength of the organization, not a weakness.

ADC was relatively a bit underpowered on 13.1a, in addition to having some systems design that was not optimized well to feel good. Since then we both buffed their items and nerfed one of the competing carry classes quite hard in mid-late game carry potential (Fighters), which is also a relative boost for ADCs, so a solid buff ended up landing them relatively somewhat overpowered.

Dragon changes will also have an impact, but that one's complicated - it's lane-to-lane balance and how snowbally the game gets at the same time.

10 out of 10 stars. Incredible

I mean there's a minimum LP gain amount that's set, but it's not too relevant in this case because these people are all getting banned anyway