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I think this is a cool video and thanks to LS for making it.

However I have a different stance. I’ll agree to one premise, which is that eventually people will get better at laning than now and matchups can feel more solved.

However I diverge from LS in that these lanes are indeed not solved. There is an array of possible ways the lane can go. Even long-term with matchups “solved” there is inbuilt variability via ganks and roams.

So because there is variability, that means optimal play dictates making choices with all of those eventualities in mind. LS, if I understand correctly, suggests that this variability means all early game choices are bad. I take a more moderate stance that any matchups sufficiently likely to have meaningful early game interaction should probably have early game runes.

It doesn’t matter if the matchup is clearly LeBlanc favored in four years. What matters is that LeBlanc vs. Ahri is scrappy right now and so player...

No I’m just taking 5% as a reasonable measurement of a hard counter. Sylas malphite is the hardest counter in the game. If the single highest matchup delta is 8%, then just saying anything north of 5 is a hard counter holds water in my book.

That’s what I’m saying. The average actual hard counter that’s worth considering crippling a comp for is one that provides +5% win rate. The question is then how much is hurts your overall comp.

Hey, so you’re doing this wrong. Champions have arbitrarily high resting win rates so just taking the resulting win rate doesn’t say much. Illaoi vs trundle is “illaoi is strong” and “illaoi is good vs. trundle” until you separate those two you don’t have anything to say yet.

Some matchups are north of 5%. Sylas malphite is +8-10. But in general a hard counter is roughly 5%. Then there are a bunch of roughly flat ones that pros call “counters” that aren’t.

I think Lucian in a solo lane is a defensible option. But the winrate delta of an extreme counter-pick is like 5%. The winrate delta of picking no engage is much higher than that.

So, sorry, you’ve inted if you’ve gotten the draft to that point.

Obviously the context here is without an engage somewhere else in the comp and I stand behind that.

Thank you Pira for the interview! It was fun!

Shoutout to Ahrisoo and everyone on my team (and so many more) for helping out with writing this one! Was a fun time :D

pot calling the kettle black :P I also reply on threads about payment issues, if I see them. But those tend to get fewer upvotes compared to degen threads, so here I am.

The Zoe flair isn't helping their case either...

But +1, I'm hopping on this heckn love Arcane train too! :)

Hello, designer for the tank here.

I understand the concerns here; high skill generally translates to high agency (semi pro-skewed), and tanks in general tend to be pro skewed as well. One thing I want to clear up is that 'high skill' isn't really a mechanic that has too much game impact. Its more a consideration of audience. The current roster of tanks tend to have fairly easy to figure out patterns and approach fights in similar ways. Our goal with this character is to create a tank who appeals to players who like deep mastery curves and characters who really test your ability to approach fights in clever ways. I don't believe we'd ever cut that aspect of the character, since that was the whole impetus for making them.

We have a couple things we're working on to mitigate the balance concerns. I don't want to get into specifics since we're still pretty far out and not everything is sorted yet, but generally we're looking at making sure they're more gold reliant th...

The Personalization team works on ASUs, and I don't comment on other teams work, which is why I didn't mention it in the roadmap

Great catch! I can confirm this happens and we have made a bug ticket for it and are looking to fix ASAP

The ironic thing was the reigning world champion, Ruler, and reigning MSI champion, Uzi, played exclusively marksmen at that point in time.

Yet Rekkles still claimed marksmen were non-viable. 🤷‍♂️

Alright we are going down the rabbit hole on this one. Thanks for the report, we are looking into it.

We were so concerned about whether or not we could, we didn't stop and consider whether or not we should.

We are actually investigating this issue, it occurs with all jungle camps and generally happens when you dash into vision. No promise on a ship date but we want to look into this in the coming patches.

ty <3 I've been having fun making them. Gonna try to make more about design stuff in the future

Can’t wait for Jhingle (Jhungle?) to hit 44.44% winrate

I was testing this, decided to buff something else tho

Yes we did actually! Since we knew LoL Udyr would come after LoR we coordinated to make the stories connect and progress his lore. Basically the Udyr in LoR is shortly after he got back from Ionia so it's like in-between Spirit Guard Udyr and LoL Udyr VGU. Then the Udyr VGU we are working on is after he went into the wilderness to train for a few years and now is more rugged and shed more of his Ionian stuff

I see what you did there