League of Legends Dev Tracker

The way we determine wether or not to hot fix comes down to our estimated win rate growth and where we expect them to be for players with zero experience in the champ. In Gwen’s case, we estimated that she’d grow a little under 10 percent given her fragility and high mechanical burden. Her win rate on launch plus our estimate still put her under 50%, so we did a cautious buff in order to try and get her more in line.

Yuumi was actually a learning experience for us, that we should be factoring larger growth estimates for weirder champs. That’s why these buffs are so minor. We could buff her to be 50% right now, but the goal is to buff her to be long term balanced. Like everything we do, the live environment is much different from our testing one, so we monitor the champ closely as the players grow to learn the new one.

It's an important role certainly, but at the same time LoL doesn't succeed or fail because of a single person IMO. Like other leadership at Riot this role isn't about dictating exactly what to do to the teams and people on them, but instead about building a strategy for the teams, helping people grow their skills, reviewing work etc.

Congratulations Mark, it was a blast working together!

I have such faith!

On a somewhat related note - if anyone's got serious questions do feel free to DM me here! I don't have DMs open on Twitter but happy to chat here though

Don't worry its not from the memes, for every meme or angry response there are helpful and kind ones too.

I'm ready to be memed to death on the MMO, been building meme resist for years.

Our messiah

We just hotfixed a small buff to her Q and base armor

It's normal course for a long lived game like League. People come on and off the project over time. It's healthy for the team to have fresh talent, ideas, and to let the old guard move on after many years.

Specifically I can say that the league team isn't shrinking for sure (they're growing in 2021 with lots of big plans).

Can't believe Paul let you get away with this.

We are aware, and plan on changing the entire verbiage around this, to reflect a more accurate representation of this option

Yone jungle when

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In this case it means raising the minimum output of a jungler. Or in other words, making the worst jungler players less bad at it.

just speakin the truth

hmmmm

I think it's definitely possible but far too risky.

For one, her pro presence is high enough that adding flex potential would always be dangerous; in her case it would probably be disastrous, as most of her draft responses are oriented around her lane being vulnerable.

And two, most jungle solutions would buff a pro-facing strength (Epic Monster speed).

It was really fun that she could jungle on release, and I wish we could give that back, but it's probably not great for her or the game. :(

It's not coming this week, looking like the last week of this month right now

Early ranked data is important for evaluating the balance of a champion. If a champion releases and on day 0 or day 1 they are 46%+ that usually means they are OP and could use a micropatch. Also we use "launch win-rate growth" as a metric to evaluate accessibility and mastery curve. Overall invaluable information as balancing using draft/blind pick is not reliable.

Pretty spot on take, When talking about popularity and new players in the jungle role, I couldn’t have said it better myself. I don’t think she will never be a pro flex but she is much less so, I think frustration and intuitiveness factor in here as well. Pyke mid doesn’t actually play the game like a mid laner normally does, he mostly ignores farm and roams, and when he doesn’t ignore farm he tends to just shrug off poke and never really engage in trading. Such an unintuitive play pattern tends to lead to much higher frustration levels. Pyke mid was also a bonkers winrate despite all its nerfs for a long, long time. These morgana changes arent nearly a drastic swing in winrate, and like mentioned before she hasn’t shown up in pro much so the concern there is minor, but likely will be monitored.

I mean that's the goal, and any champion we ship we feel is going to do so