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Yeah we don’t want everything to be so super serious and edgy all the time. (Though many people like that sh*t to be fair)

Glad you’re liking the playful tone.

As someone who plays Rumble mid on occasion, I can’t wait myself. ;)

Thanks for the note Djinn. Internally we saw some people that loved the animal angle and some that loved the humans. We decided why not both? :)

Love your observations about color and execution. It’s really fulfilling for the development team to see players recognize the effort put in.

You’re absolutely right that there’s a ton of flexibility in Space Groove. We’ll be watching the results and also surveying players afterwards to make sure we understand whether people liked it and why or why not.

Assuming it does well we’re super excited to extend this universe to a bunch of other champs. :)

We are super excited to have this thematic see the light of day. We wanted to try something really different here and were excited to see whether or not folks dig these as much as we did while making them.

Also RIP 1000 day club.

Yeah I definitely can't help you if you preferred a specific build and it got weaker =[

I’ll give you that it wasn’t a massive huff but his winrate also didn’t tank. So I’ll accept a “we were all wrong.”

Relatable. I can't play against Elise - except the Death Blossom skin. I dodge her in solo queue, and people have to use that skin in playtests with me internally.

I'm fine with her in TFT though...? And I don't know why because it's the same assets.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I mean let's be real. IG is just better than TSM or C9 or whoever.

Obviously good communication makes you a better team. But League has a lot of skill checks in it and communication is not the biggest one. Sometimes you have to cover for weaker players with comms. As Doublelift mentioned, reminding playoff players of dragon timers is a real thing. I've micromanaged my jungler's gank route to someone else's lane in competitive play before.

Sure it'd be ideal if every player was always perfect but we know they aren't. Not even Faker is perfect. So considering players are neither telepathic nor perfect, it's your job to provide actionable information.

Karthus can't watch lanes while clearing his jungle. I guess you can look at the minimap, but you functionally can't scroll the map without missing a Q. So if I'm doing my first clear on Karthus, the only way I know how any lane is doing is if they tell me or I'm walking between raptors and wolves. That's it. Othe...

its actually purple today!

This is an incredible thread. Thank you.

Yeah really liking what we got coming down the pipeline, I worked closely with Truexy the designer for the Xin Zhao update so I feel extra confident on that. Ofc thanks for the chat as well :)

Indeed, I think there is also this unforunate scenario where a champ that is function and even good design wise like Neeko gets overshadowed by champions that more desperately need work done to keep them up to bar.

I wasn't here for Neeko's dev cycle so I can't speak on it personally. I doubt she was rushed out of production because we have a high bar for quality, though she was released a long time ago and things were likely different in a variety of ways back then. As far as being as "Neeko" as she can be, the identity of a champ is hard to speak on because realistically they are who they are, whether thats for the best or not. I personally do not believe Neeko as a design is fully realized, though thats not to say I think its a poor design. I personally love the design, and I also think the champ could also be so much more. A lot of where I think we could advance her further (mainly her W) stems from areas where we likely just didn't have the tech to do what we can do now with champions.

So I know it's not the most visible location (definitely pretty deep in the client), but if you go to the Ranked tab inside the profile, and filter the ladder by "Top Solo/Duo Players" you can spectate games in progress from the top solo queue players if they have a "spectate eye" next to their name.

You just right click on the name and click `Spectate Game`.

I was told it is intended, and while I disagree and don't feel it matches my expectations, I don't feel strongly enough to challenge that call.

We try to have fun when the stakes are slightly lower. Glad you enjoyed!

Hey this is a good question. The main reason why we end up keeping it more vague with these types of projects is because of the way they are developed.

Most of our work (patches, champs, preseason, skins, etc) are staffed and planned for in a very long term way. We have the full set of people needed and plan around a release date that we can almost always hit.

These smaller emergent updates are the opposite - we look at problems we would like to solve in the game and try to fix them in a more responsive way. Because of the uncertainty of the work it's not possible to have consistent staffing around them - for example one type of project might need a lot of VFX and sound but no animation, but another might need a ton of animation but no VFX. So the way we usually ship these is on a flexible timeline where we catch the spare time of an animator of VFX artist who is inbetween large projects.

This isn't a super satisfying answer because we probably still wont ...

Alright did some digging:

There is a mix here of bugs that are being tracked and worked on being fixed, some new things uncovered that I have reported, as well as some here that are working as intended.

Some specifics- the hitbox thing feels off, I will look into it and see what I can but no promises.

Comet/HoB being visual when disguised is working as intended. I believe the bug is when they DON'T show when disguised.

Skin bugs are outside the realm of where I can help unfortunately.

Biggest thing I can say here is Neeko's HP not showing while disguised is known and being tracked.