League of Legends Dev Tracker

Originally posted by Nintz

Just gonna hijack this to say thank you. Way back in 2013, the very first pro game I watched of League was GSG vs CJ Entus NLB Winter finals, game 5, with the legendary jungle/push Heimer comp. Your excitement during that game convinced me to download the game in the first place, and check out some other pro scenes. As you can see, I'm still here. Regardless of where you end up, I wish you the best, and hope you find a way to stay involved in the community.

Originally posted by AssPork

Thank you for the great memories Julian! I distinctly remember watching you cast the Jensen Ekko moment live in Vancouver. You were so great that series! All the best in your future

Originally posted by TripleShines

Hey i've been one of the people that has been very convinced that matchmaking is, to a degree, rigged. Part of this is due to the fact that afaik Riot has never made a statement directly denying that. Can you please state in no uncertain terms that matchmaking does NOT AT ALL take into account things like engagement, retention, match history, or player behavior, and that it focuses ONLY and without bias on finding fair matches and that each and every match is treated as its own entity without bias from previous marches?

If I hear it directly from Riot then I will gladly have faith in your statement until im shown strong evidence to the contrary.

Originally posted by xuankun

Might be unpopular opinion but Pastry is one of my favorite PBP casters. His delivery might not be as 100% clean as it could be but the hype he brought to some of my favorite competitive moments is overshadowed by only a select few.

My favorite moment of his has to be the final 15 seconds of game 5 of WE vs C9 at worlds 2017 Quarterfinals.

Link: https://youtu.be/wLnF6QM9r94?t=2038

"But Mystic, the champion, the hero, of WE will hold on! They weather a brutal storm, and will [?] push themselves to a historic semifinals!"

That line in particular never fails to give me chills and I find myself rewatching that specific clip every now and then just for the hype.

Originally posted by potatorunner

Nice, manual moderation for high MMR would help alleviate some of these issues. I agree with the overzealousness comment as well.

I'll state that matchmaking optimizes for fair matches and low queue times, full stop.

I agree that this is naturally the top priority of a matchmaking algorithm (to get fast and relatively even games with players of similar rank) but if you would please comment on the patent filing that demonstrated the matchmaking algorithm takes more into account than just skill level (https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/1a/6a/cf/ae76598bc6da06/WO2014014840A1.pdf).

Specifically this section:

"[0032] In a preferred embodiment, the matching approaches described above can be performed in conjunction with "Rank Pick" as well. An example process 6000 is shown in Fig. 10. Players are first place...

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Originally posted by RedditIronJungler

This wrong. Pulling camps has more benefits then just clear speed. It's a super important tool for avoiding invades and pulling off risky invades. Going Hurr durr gromp+blue ever clear isn't how it works and understanding when you can double camp and when you can't is jungles version of wave manipulation.

Originally posted by Proxnite

Damn, of all things today this was the least expected. He was literally casting not 6 hours ago.

MZ+PT casts will be missed.

Originally posted by MMACheerpuppy

Hi GM here.

Problems:

There are a few reasons the combination of ward tracking and patience changes encourage us to play without teams and not with them, contrary to your goals and objectives. This is mainly because the combination of patience removal (jungle timing variance) and ward tracking (needing the support to do their job) just makes it way easier for SoloQ players to play in almost complete isolation.

Camp timings become almost entirely predictable and this is a problem. You could trick a marketing team into thinking these changes are low elo friendly but you're going to make the game more frustrating to play for those players (because why do we need to play with the jungler if we have perfect omniscience on camp timings, and why do we need to play with the support if junglers have perfect omniscience of ward timings, and how do you now gank your opponents). In competitive league, you have to leverage greater unders...

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Originally posted by adek13sz

Jungle companion damage triggers Viego Q's passive every time it damages jungle monster after using his Q (and maybe W) and applying passive to monster.
Buy new jungle companion item. Take Q, Use Q on jungle monster, consume stack by aa-ing the monster, next instance of damage from companion will apply stack on jungle monster which can be consumed (by stack I mean Viego Q's passive).

Originally posted by V8_Only

Hi.

Not sure if this affects anyone else but the pets apply Viego’s Q passive. So an auto attack on a monster will cause the pet to attack and then applies the Q passive.

Originally posted by Blastedsnake526

Lots of shields are bugged visually such as kassidin q galio w
Theres also kled hp bar being weird

Originally posted by Oneprogoober

Practice tool doesn't have a "spawn chemtech drake"!

Originally posted by Taiji2

What is the consideration when deciding whether or not to implement a mechanic like last hit indicators? I do not fully see the difference between indicators for leash ranges, ultimate damage thresholds, and for minion last hits, and I'm frankly not against an indicator that reveals when your auto attack will kill a minion.

Originally posted by Ikea_desklamp

Actually I do. I think its total BS and removes skill expression from the game by giving pyke a huge "KILL NOW" indicator. Part of being good at cho (before they gave him one too) was knowing your damage threshold to not f up your ult. The game doing that for you is lame.

Originally posted by ahris00

updating patch notes text styling is unexpectedly nontrivial work because it involves multiple teams (at least, that’s what i thought during my time writing them). kudos to u/Riot_Riru ^_^! this is a huge win for accessibility, too!

Originally posted by HawkEye1337

It's easier to target a certain player in a bo5 than a bo1 because you have more info and time, MAD showed 2 main strategies in groups and EG just banned them out.

Originally posted by WaroftanksPro

I literally put in /s

Originally posted by InformalMarch

Mad Lions ain't making it out anyways.

Originally posted by WaroftanksPro

I actually don't dislike the changes, I was just making a joke expanding on the parent comment and not trying to argue any sort of slippery slope fallacy