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I work at Riot on the Summoner's Rift Team as a game designer. I made the changes to Axiom Arc, Horizon Focus, and Xayah that are coming in 13.1 (someone else directly implemented them).

I chose AP over Haste because the item tends to beat Shadowflame when Vel'Koz etc. are playing support and slightly underperform to Shadowflame when playing mid.

So I pushed the item toward things like wave clear and burst in order to make it a better farming mage item.

Maybe the item is actually just overall better served as a source of haste but I didn't think any more deeply than the above.

So I looked into Horizon pretty extensively. It’s pretty much tied with Shadowflame on all the usual suspects. This buff should make it clearly dominant and usher some players to try it out when they otherwise wouldn’t.

Longer term, I want to fix the bugs. But your statement isn’t accurate. It can be good even with the bugs.

If I wanted to cast in the same capacity (assignments, pay, etc.) in 2023 I could have. I chose to become a game designer.

Hey G2.Romain here, does anyone know those guys or has any way to reach out to them?
We would like to play versus them.... for science

“This red stain” LOL

Also on this list is a Xayah buff. I picked it up after the tweet was sent.

What seems to be the issue? You are running at a pretty solid 7(ish) ms per frame, with a few (rare) spikes. So, around 140fps. This is pretty normal for your CPU. You are running with frame capping on which will artificially limit your frame rate. Is that intentional?

I doubt you could ever run an entire game at 240fps - it would start at that rate, but would slow down as the game progressed.

give teemo a tiny roll

Right, that’s why the death timers were increased. I’m not arguing it was a perfect solution, I think it definitely needs some tuning or another solve, but the intention was to solve that problem

Agree if that involves taking the outer turrets as well. Death timers are only 3 seconds longer at that stage, so it’s not like you couldn’t go coast to coast in that time previously. Being able to take multiple turrets and end the game before they’re up is probably a bridge too far though

Yeah this is the intent here. The flanking positions should give assassins more play at a baseline, so they shouldn’t need the balance buffs. There is follow up to be done on that side.

The death timers (which again, we’re going to look at) were to address the knock on effect of changing the map proactively. Definitely possible we overshot and didn’t need it

It was pretty clear that the one tower falling was going to have a large impact, so rather than mix up the whole map, we wanted the terrain to impact a specific part of the map and leave the rest as is.

It definitely does. I think the death timers, as frustrating as they are, are the counterbalance here. I don't think they're doing a great job (clearly they're frustrating), so we're going to be doing some resting on alternate solves.

I see folks also use the wiki as their source of info for learning what a new champ does from scratch, which it's not the best at since it has way more detail than is really needed to get going. The client is a better resource for this since that's what we write those short descriptions and include videos for. Once you have the basic grasp of what a character does, the wiki is great for hunting down the details if you want to get into optimizing playing as and against. For all that Bel'Veth passive text, the client description is

Bel'veth gains permanent attack speed stacks after taking down large minions and monsters and champions. She also gains temporary bonus attack speed after using an ability.

and that's enough detail to grasp it. If you're now interested in "how do I optimally cycle my abilities to keep passive uptime", or "how does Riot numerically tune infinitely scaling attack speed" you can read the wiki version.

Remember that many of the ASU champions have 10+ skins. It's not just 1 champion, it's essentially 10 champs (especially if any skins are legendary).

I'm basing this off of "I havent played Akali outside of ARAM in a few months" so you might be right

No. The game doesn't lock to any specific cores - we let the OS move the process around to whatever core it sees fit (there are various reasons for that - power/heat management being one of them). The graphs you see there are averages of CPU load. If you locked the Lol process to one core, you'd probably see it hit 100% then (but that wouldn't make the game run any faster)

Don’t turn off SMT. That was only to fix a bug which is no longer in the game.

Yeah. Its not the cost of rendering the minions that is the issue, its the cost of pathfinding and logic for the minions. So they don't need to be on screen.

CPU and GPU at 10% sounds about right (depending on hardware). LoL is not GPU limited, its is CPU. And if you have lots of cores (which you do) then LoL will run one core at 100% and a few at lower percentages, which will translate to about 10% CPU.

So you moved your install to another drive? How fast is that drive? If LoL loads something mid game (which is bad, it shouldn't do that but does sometimes happen), then it could stall the frame while that load happens.