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This is fundamentally untrue. Lux and Ezreal skins are still money makers. It’s not like giving a skin to some new Champion makes way more then giving a old popular champion a skin. Champ sales themselves are extremely small compared to skin sales, especially since a large portion of new champs are acquired through blue essence. If we primarily cared about money making it would be a way stronger strategy to just move developers from champs team to make skins instead.
Did they just acknowledge that they f**ked up with Aurelion Sol's kit?
And the whole article just feels like a big excuse to justify "Human champs are hot and sell more" without saying it outright tbh.
Lol, I actually wrote this to clear that up specifically. Champs team have no revenue goals but we do have engagement goals. Looks like unfortunately I guess that didn’t come through here though.
Perfection.
It really depends on the Champion. Our goal with reworks is not the change the champion simply for the sake of change. Some champions have deeper kit issues so bigger things need to be changed, and that means the other abilities likely need to be changed as well to be in harmony with the bigger changes. Recent Champions we have done VGUs on haven't had as big core issues in the kit, so we haven't had to change as much. Like whenever we get around to Skarner that will probably have to be as big as some older champs like Galio, Sion, Urgot, Etc.
Random question, not sure if you're who to ask but hopefully you could pass it on to whoever is the right person to ask.
Would it be possible to get stat-tracking on Guardian like most other runes, and almost all the new items have? At the moment it just shows it's current shield strength, but it would be awesome if it also showed how much total damage it had shielded over the game. Like a mini locket of the iron solari.
I’ll look into it, this is a reasonable request
Hello everyone! I'm Riot Koyuncu, one of the QA Engineers on Champions team.
I'm pleased to announce that the Dr. Mundo's VGU will be available to play on the PBE starting today! The team has been hard at work updating his kit and all ten of his skins, and we would love to hear about any bugs you happen to come across during your games. Please head over to our Bug Reporting Tool and give us any information on the issue you can.
If you have any feedback on either the champion or his skins, please feel free to drop a comment here in the thread! We don’t have much time to make changes, but we will be monitoring messages in this thread to share back with the team and make what adjustments we can before his official release on Patch 11.12.
Cheers,
Mikky
... Read more External link →So, if I understand it correctly, Tank Senna is too strong, so while nerfing her range gain from souls, they throw a shitton of buffs at her (Lethality and AP ratios). how is that supposed to meaningfully weaken tank Senna? Cuz now she can just go Frostfire into Ap like Ardent. Do I miss something or Riot legit this incompetent?
Frost fire gauntlets effectiveness is reduced over 50% on ranged users
A little confused over the Senna changes
In the notes it says
E now grants AP when camouflaged
but it also says
BONUS MOVEMENT SPEED 20% ⇒ 20% (+1% per 20 AP)
Does her movement speed scale off of AP, or does she gain AP?
Should be “scales off AP”.
Ahri's E - Charm no longer causes jungle monsters' health to regenerate if used out of combat
f**kING FINALLY!!
ITS BEEN OVER A YEAR!
We did it Reddit
I love how Mundo is that gym guy in the Mundoverse splash, lol.
He really is
Shen's voice over? Are you certain? I'm comparing a video of his voice from 2012 and the current voice files listed on the wiki, and they're identical. If you updated his VO, it was extremely minor. VGUs have typically revoiced the character entirely with brand new dialogue altogether, such as the difference between old Morgana and new Morgana.
oh sorry thought this was asking about Mundo. Yeah Shen was done in a old time when we our VGU pipeline wasnt as robust
Then can I ask, why his VO was not updated with VGU? Just interesting.
It was
I wonder who the raccoon in the corner of his base splash art is. They were shown on the last champion roadmap thing too.
His Nurse obviously
Shen got a VU with half of his kit changing, but I can't remember if they tweaked the splashart or not.
Either way Orianna is the only one remaining untouched from all the TPA champions
We did tweak it with Shen's Vu
Very cool to speak with the devs a bit more in depth about the Mundo rework. This is always something that I've wanted to do but only now gotten the chance recently, so if you like things like this, please let me know! I'm always checking here for feedback :)
Great Article, and thanks for the interview. One small note, Im actually the Lead Producer for Champions Team, rather then the Lead Designer :)
Congratulations!! That cake is incredible and the cake topper is genius.
The other cake is great too and the venue looks beautiful. Hope you had an incredible day.
I can't wait until ya'll hear the new VO
Nice try rito
We would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you pesky kids.
Out of curiosity, is R used at Riot? Or is it more of a "whichever tool prefered" culture?
We do use R sometimes. For example we want to run a statistical model but the model only exists in R.
Cool visualizations using R and ggplot!
One thing I'd suggest is a URL library such as this so you don't need piece things together manually.
devtrackers.gg