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Talking mostly about the timing of it!

I think it's surprising for a team to drop their coach / GM two weeks into the split if they weren't going to do it in between splits - generally signals that something exploded and they are reacting quickly.

This paired w/ the fact that IMT hasn't tweeted, or put anything on their website etc about the official people taking over duties makes it seem like it's pretty out of left field even for the team itself.

Don't worry - Eternals Capsules are the only way that Loot will drop Eternals Shards. Also, if you don't want the Eternals Shards, you can disenchant the shards for Orange Essence.

It was mostly skilled Ryze players playing it, but that in itself should tell you that it was known to be the optimal build. It wasn't like it was one Ryze player doing it for the lulz. The sample size was statistically significant

On one hand I agree with you, on the other hand, the difference was so large on such an unintuitive build that leveling the 'normal' way you do with every other champion was essentially a trap. It wasn't so much that the skip R build was a playstyle so much as the optimal way to play the champion if you were solo. Building juggernaut items on Darius isn't a playstyle, it's just the best way to play him - similar thing here.

Ryze was changed for reasons unrelated to this max order, I believe - More to do with the massive gulf between his pro play and regular play performance.

His waveclear with his old E scaling was very strong, particularly in the laning phase, so it had to be changed. Shifting the damage increase of Q away from E ranks to his ult was a great way of doing that. It just so happened that it also made his leveling order more similar to every other champion (ie max a single ability at a time, always level your ult when you can). It's a useful tactic, be...

Ryze, before his most recent rework, had a significant (read: 10 points) winrate increase if he didn't skill his ultimate at level 6 but instead at level 11. His most optimal leveling looked something like 3 points in Q then max E and then take R in solo queue.

Back then, his ult only had two ranks and not very useful at rank 1 in solo queue because of its short range. Ranking up your E instead would give you significantly more waveclear because your Q damage on targets with E would scale with E rank, not Q.

This was before his flux damage scaled with his ult. That change pretty much killed that strategy.

Thank you, but not a sir

Huh. Reddit pings me when tagged in comments but not posts. TIL

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Can't wait to play some more NB. I miss.

We're actively working on these issues. I understand the frustration on these issues, and I know it probably sounds like BS to everyone in the thread, but we've been making a lot of progress on a lot of these bugs.

I really wish I had the bandwidth to review all individual cases but we've been working on getting these players out of game. Please report any abusers, I know the turnaround might not be instant but we use this information to help come up with detection and fixes.

Yes, it does mean that. :)
Our aim is that this isn't the last of Nexus Blitz and is instead an ongoing part of our modes roster that we'll bring back in the future as well.

so gooooooooodddddddddddd

I think so many people underestimate FLY and forget they were in the Finals last split! Not saying they have EXTREME competition, but making it to the Finals is still pretty great, and they didn't change roster. I'm excited to see what FLY will do.

Hi everybody! Nexus Blitz is back!

You can check out a full description of the changes here: https://eune.leagueoflegends.com/en-pl/news/dev/dev-return-of-nexus-blitz/

Enjoy, and as always, let us know what you think.

It will still be there.

I hadn't considered this one. Thanks for the thorough explanation. Can't promise anything, but I'll put it on my list of backlogged "maybe this could be good" champ changes.

I work mostly on preseason now, not patch balance. Just saw an opportunity to add some fun. :)

Not much—the modes team balances ARAM separately, and we're confident that they'll follow up appropriately if anything ends up being out of line. The reason we mostly disregard ARAM is because there is already an incredible number of constraints on any balance work when you consider all of the audiences (MMR, Role, Pro/Normal) that play the game even just on SR.

Glad you enjoy them!

Cheers, I've been happy to see other people from the olden days reminiscing about AP Kog and excited to give it another spin. Have fun!