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This is correct.

That is hilarious

Aww ♥ hahaha. I love tattoos and especially League tattoos! Thanks for sharing!

Lol the pains of swipe to text ;P

Same broh.

I cannot wait

This is a beautiful tattoo! Could you link the Instagram of the artist? I'd love to check out there other work!

Yeah, I agree. Having more going on than "I deal damage to things near me, it just costs some mana" (Karthus, Singed, Aurelion Sol, etc.) makes the toggle feel pretty weak. By comparison, Jinx and Urgot actually feel different while toggled.

Yeah I think Urgot's W, like Jinx's Q, is well done. I mentioned that a lot of toggles don't have good ways of reinforcing that they're on and that the gameplay was just turn it on until you don't want to spend mana.

By comparison, stance toggles feel a lot better. They solve all the problems around knowing which stance you're in when things like movement speed, model, and attack range change. And because in each case the stances have drawbacks (movement speed, attack range, mana cost on auto, etc.) there's also a skill test in when to use it.

So yeah, you and the person who brought up Jinx both made compelling arguments for toggles done right, which I agree with.

I was in a production truck outside of Madison Square Garden when I first met Greeley. I was producing the broadcast of Rox vs SKT. Some say it was the greatest series ever, but when there’s been so many, and they’ve all been great, who’s to say? I had heard of Greeley in some recruiting meetings, some hotshot NY Attorney who had told his family he’d leave it all behind and relocate to LA if he got his dream job, any job working for Riot Games, in any capacity, publisher of his favorite game, League of Legends. Now Greeley is an average Nami player, even worse at Lulu - and those are his mains - but he’s a kill first support possessing what the old timers call moxie. I said hi to him when he entered the truck, but was quickly distracted because Phreak, Krepo, and Jatt were in a heated argument between games 1 and 2. f*cking casters! It was a good argument, and quickly resolved, and like an ephemeral spirit, flash, Greeley was gone. Long story short, he got hired. I’ve worked with ...

I think Karthus is quite low on the list of priorities for work but I think his E is fairly uncompelling. At least it automatically turns on while dead, now. It didn't used to. I also don't know if anyone even agrees with my sentiment.

Jinx feels solid. I think she's the one toggle that feels well-done since choosing on/off is actually meaningful and is reinforced with every attack.

Hi ozmega!

I don't know the specific reasons for every region/country, but in general it breaks down into one of these reasons:

• Local law prohibits / heavily restricts predictive games (like pick'em)
• We are prohibited from operating in a region due to US sanctions or other restrictions

Yeah this is a good cautionary tale. We have implemented some penalties specific to usage of The Coin precisely for this reason.

We want everyone to be able to meme about Coin picks, and also to catch up if they missed the first few pick stages, but we don't want The Coin to somehow end up with more points than any other human XD

I'd argue that toggles are wack for a couple of reasons:

1. They're not very skill expressive. Sure you're managing mana, but you can do that with any ability. Rather, you aren't managing a cooldown. It's just "hit W until wave is dead good job I did it." There's no counter-play or anything interesting. You just hit the button once and wait until the job's done.

2. I think toggles don't do a good job of reminding you if they're up or down. There are probably solutions out there, but honestly I can't think of a single toggle ability in League's past that felt good to press right away and/or didn't have weird fiddly "did I press it? Oops I turned it off" problems.

You’re absolutely right - this sucks. We are making changes to that modal across a wide range of products, but we are focused on a couple of other higher priority changes that we’ll announce around Season Start first. Rest assured, we are very aware of the Store’s shortcomings, and can’t wait to fix some of these longstanding issues.

And FWIW ASol's overall play rate has gone up. More people are playing him than pre-rework.

Only sorta. They mentioned that uber-low playrate champions don't set off the automatic detectors. (What if Amumu Top has a 60% win rate over 45 games next patch? An extreme example, but you can see where this becomes useless.)

That said, ASol was also nerfed a couple months back.

The crystal ball picks (overall winner) will unlock Sept 25th. Group stage picks are Oct 9th. Quarterfinals are oct 19th.

some of that may depend on what timezone you are in actually - you should check the article on lolesports.com and confirm (https://lolesports.com/article/make-your-predictions-with-worlds-2021-pick%E2%80%98em!/bltfeb45b04ae95d98c)

It's October 9th. I lean over my keyboard, eyes bloodshot. My fingers bleed from the furious notes I have taken, meticulously tracking every match played in every major league throughout the entirety of 2021. There are 20 monitors on my wall, each one tracking a pro player trying to level up in EU solo queue. heh, I think to myself, These guys have nothing on Balls.

This is my moment. I am the pinnacle of league esports knowledge. I can feel my consciousness merging with the data before me. Each flash, each tower dive, each kill another row and column of data informing my mental calculus. Billions of neurons reaching, striving, demanding an answer.

Who will win worlds?

I lean back in my chair and load pickem. The time has come. A choice will be made.

I better not lose to that f*cking coin again

Yes! We also had like...a lot of perfect picks hahahaha