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It’s tough. For the first time it feels like individual melee champions can hard carry a game the way that Twitch or almost any other ADC has been able to for like a decade.

That said, an ahead ADC can be oneshot if the Akali just plays well. You don’t have that same luxury vs. Aatrox. But also Aatrox doesn’t 1v9 unless you actually keep screwing up into him.

Idk. I’m not done thinking about it.

Yes transcendence was part of it.

FWIW League of Cleaver was never actually a thing. It was a meme build. People just pretended that 5x Black Cleaver was good but it never was.

Wow this comment took a hard right off a cliff at the end...

GLHF!

Kraken Stormrazor IE.

Thanks. You are definitely seeing a different problem.

You're first 10 or 15 minutes are pretty much OK, running at around 140 to 100 fps. After 15 min, I'm seeing a weird oscillating frame rate, from 140 to 60fps, every half second or so.

Do you see this every game, with every champ?

I'll flag this as a potential bug internally and see if we can repro it.

I mention where it is in the original post. “League of Legends/Logs/Performance Logs/“ it’s a couple of MB in size, so just upload it to a cloud storage site like Google Drive or whatever you prefer.

If you are having a problem then this is a different problem. Please send me an RPD and I’ll have a look.

Yep! I moved to League earlier this year as a champion designer.

Very excited about next year! ;)

Honestly I love working for Riot!

If for some reason Riot vanished into thin air, I'd prefer to start my own game company.

There was only one option for me after I learned it's possible to make video games for a living :x but before that I considered going into botany. I own no plants so probably made the right call.

Role: Mid/Support

Champs: Veigar, Lux, Nami, Lulu

Career: Game Designer

f*ck YEAH, DASH!

To (1) - they're very different spaces, don't think decisions on one necessarily tell us what the optimal decision on the other is.

For a bruiser, assuming we're going to tune them to about the same spot (...somewhat lower than how they're doing today, but not that much lower), if they have less repeatable output, we either have to make them even more durable, or make them burst harder, or sustain harder or find something else for them to be good at. Think repeatable outputs are closer to the fantasy and closer to being fair than the alternatives. I realize some folks are going to disagree.

For many mages, I think we get a different answer as to what the right tradeoffs are. But mages are such a diverse group that I suspect we just need to better support the differences within the class. AD being cheaper than AP is weird... it's not intrinsically a problem (we tune ratios around the items that exist, if we added a lot more AP you'd probably see your ratios go down t...

We're not massively reworking the Grievous Wounds mechanic. Frankly, it has flaws, but the alternatives also have flaws (including "just delete it").

The direction will be something much closer to the pre-Items Update system - components with 40% grievous wounds so that you can access a counter when you need it, growing into stat sticks that make more sense within builds, but not specifically upgrading the GW amount. For example, Mortal Reminder will once again trade off against Lord Dominik's Regards - will have armor penetration and grievous (vs armor pen and giant slayer). I'm aware that this won't fully solve the issue - we're looking at healing soon as well.

That is the current plan, yes.

(1) Think this is hyperbolic for most tanks vs bruisers, except the big sustain bruisers (more in point 2).

(2) Not in a good spot, too much healing in the game. Currently working on grievous wounds items and likely to also take a swing at healing values.

(3) Yes but the problem is difficult and the game isn't necessarily terrible when champions cast a lot of spells, so it's a bit further down the priorities list.

(4) Highly successful, still a major factor that we actively consider for patch changes. It's going to fluctuate. More damage was added in 12.23 than removed. More damage is being removed in this micropatch than added.

We're micropatch nerfing it while working to get it back to a similar balance state for tanks (considering tactics like making it stack percent bonus resists instead of flat resists, for example).

We have few tools to reshape an item in a micropatch since it can't change any client data, including the text of tooltips, unfortunately.

Worth noting that the conditioning change is tooltip only. The functionality has always only worked on bonus resists.