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I think this is a worthwhile discussion, so here's what I think is relevant here:

Jhin is unequivocally more powerful here. This is the best possible fight Kassadin could ever hope to get and still lost. Granted, it was close, but the scales were tipped absurdly in Kassadin's favor here, yet gold in inventory won the day.

In any other remotely fair situation, this isn't even a discussion. Keep in mind, Skarner didn't touch the guy. He got solo killed in four basic attacks. Maybe a Q for good measure. He didn't use summoners. He just clicked on him until Kassadin died. That's the gold lead at work. Sneaky could have taken his hands off his keyboard and mouse and won that fight. (Small asterisk: The Jhin Q might have been required).

The point I totally agree with you on here is a fundamental disagreement of design philosophy. I want to break apart four concepts:

1. Stop talking about kills, deaths, and cs. The real comparison is level and value o...

1. OK.
2. Yes, it's a reference to if you're going to build for the 1v1, there are items for that. As we see, Kassadin was building (slowly) toward anti-physical damage. Jhin was building toward tank-killing. For the price of that LDR, he could have had Hexdrinker (well, not with PD, but you know what I mean) and over 1k gold left over, which makes that fight easier.
3. Then he can press W to stop recall from the brush and wait for Skarner. I don't want to get into nit-picking specific gameplay interactions because that's not what this is about. The point still stands that he face-checked an assassin with two completed offensive items and blue buff while Sneaky's only defensive item was two Ruby Crystals worth of shielding in a PD. The point remains that you're playing into Kassadin's combat pattern. A 13-0 Xerath face checking a Kassadin with Luden's, Deathcap, Void Staff, Mejai's, and Sorc Shoes would also have a hard time winning that fight. This isn't Jhin-specif...

Yes. I've been playing a bunch of bot lane again recently, including Clash this last weekend. I feel super impactful.

Assassins are really deadly, yes. Lethality itemization has gotten stronger, so if the Zed is good, I'm probably always dead to him unless I have Chain Vest and a PD. But I've also known that Zed is in the game since the end of Champion Select and can make sure I buy those items by the time we're in team fights.

If I'm behind, well, that's how the game works. I'm not very useful on a 0/3 Xerath, either.

I've never felt AD Carries were bad. I still don't. Yasuo is a bit too strong in bot lane maybe, but he's like #14 in pick rate in that lane, so it's not that big of a deal.

Yep, Jhin is so outrageously ahead that he gives Kassadin the free engage so that he can lose half his health before reacting and still wins. Sounds like a slam dunk to me.

Here's the screengrab from the game state after Jhin's first auto. He gave Kassadin this FOR FREE https://imgur.com/a/X4AzTn9. He fully opted into this situation. Kassadin in no way could force that engage. Only Sneaky could put himself there.

AD Carry main here. Still don't see a problem with this.

Jhin is not a duelist. What's more, he's built for ranges longer than this. He explicitly has two abilities with 3000+ range. Rift Walk goes 500. I can't tell from the video, but I'd bet Rift Walk is stacked at least twice before the fight starts. Then Sneaky walks up next to the brush that he's in with his E and trinket both down so he can't check brush.

So why is the duel close? Because he took the actual worst possible fight. He eliminated every single advantage his character has, gave every possible advantage to the Kassadin, and EVEN THEN, still won because of a gold lead. That's why the duel is close. You fought a multi-stack Riftwalk Kassadin by letting him engage on you. You've been playing this game for ten years and you can't answer why the duel was close? I know you're better than that Sneaky. I know you're smarter than that.

You're absolutely right that if the roles were reversed you'd get ...

Wait, the delay on Senna W was supposed to make it WEAKER.

Might be referring to this archive. It's comprehensive as far as I can tell.

There is a community made forum probably more in the style of what those here are looking for, built by those that used to volunteer for the Boards. ...

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Ultimately all the credit goes to the art team. They did an amazing job and I think we have truly best in class artists working on Wild Rift.

As a researcher I talked to players and synthesized that feedback, but the artists did some amazing work, both in vision setting and execution, and definitely poured their hearts into this game.

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Hey - I am the researcher on WR and hopefully I can shed a little light on this.

We did a ton of research talking to players, and at the end of the day, we think these models are going to be a big improvement, while still staying true to our Champions.

One of the things that we spent a lot of time really talking through is figuring out what exactly it means to be attractive, sexy, beautiful, etc and how things like exposure fit into those definitions. A lot of times these words are used interchangeably, so we really wanted to clarify what all these things mean, both to us as designers, artists, researchers, etc as well as to our players.

Attractive and sexy are things that players like - there will always be room for niche characters and non-traditional ideas of beauty, but for the most part attractive and sexy is something that players like in their characters. When you look at the new model of Janna for instance, she is beautiful and attractive. When pl...

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Hey guys!

Almost a year ago now, I was playing around with a mini Kog'Maw rework idea as a pet project, but I ended up scrapping it. Somehow, someway, a remnant has resurfaced and made it to Live; thankfully, it was just the tooltip.

It'll be fixed for 10.12!

Hey everyone! Kushnood here from the Riot Social Impact team (which we affectionately call "Karma"). We just crested over 100K in donations in the mid-season streamathon (holy guacamole!) and wanted to give some extra information into where the community support will be headed. It can be a bit confusing since we're taking a different type of approach and want to be as transparent as possible!

All money raised is technically going to the Riot Games Social Impact Fund at ImpactAssets. It's a US-based nonprofit that can allow us to distribute grant money internationally. We've got a few questions as to which specific nonprofit we'll be supporting and the answer is ... hundreds all over the world.

Instead of choosing just one, we selected two professionally managed "funds" at ...

Hey, just wanted to hop in this thread and let you know that these are pieces of conversation I had with was having with Swain mains in their discord last year taken out of context. They are not a statement by me responding to the questions that you are claiming I responded to.

I've already posted a number of comments in the thread that you've linked, but I'd like to provide a bit of clarity in regards to the words that have been taken out of context/conversation.

Swain's rework intended to keep him powerful as a solo laner. As we (the playtest team back in the day) continued to optimize and understand Swain's strengths, we began to narrow in on where we felt was a good spot balance wise for his release, but then, we identified that he was actually quite a potent support. We then adjusted his power budget such that we had confidence that his mid lane was his optimal role. We acknowledged that Swain support was likely a viable offrole though. On release, Swain settle...

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Okay listen, I instinctively pressed W knowing i could spell shield it and then didnt realize that i had no mana. I also would've lived if J4 hadn't flashed. Flash for flash is worth imo.

OK, thank you. We're investigating this and I have no more information at this time, sorry :( Some players have reported that using a VPN resolves the issue for them.

Yes, I know the issues were impacting France. Are you still seeing the problem now?