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^ Yeah this is the answer. A principle we're trying to adhere to is that nothing is persistently pingable so it doesn't just become a substitute for the alive ping. We are planning to restore some contextual uses of the scoreboard pings though - for example it's reasonable and constructive to say "Wait 10s for Malphite ult before we fight" but it doesn't help anyone to spam ping that Malphite whiffed their ult right after it was fired or died without using it, they really don't need you to tell them that they made a mistake.

I'll just mention I already addressed this narrative here. Changes like this are generally approved, planned, implemented, and tested by a variety of people more than a few days before they go live.

Yep we decided on Monday to revert the ping lockout timer increase and that'll be in 13.22, the original increase was included in the original 13.19 changes but missed patch notes, sorry.

I think lowering the execute power is directionally correct. However, it's also extremely evident that last patch's changes had the opposite effect that we wanted. Thus the lowest risk version is simply undoing the buffs that we believe had the strongest bot lane skew. If we do it right, we can preserve the parts that indeed did help support and mid the most. No matter what, we're farther from where we want to be (in some roles) than we started, so some amount of reverts should absolutely happen.

The WR difference holds at every MMR. Players are also more likely to take AS as MMR increases despite AP always outperforming.

It could be that this is somehow incredibly biased toward running AS in bad matchups and AP in good ones but from my experience, even professional players are not actually sophisticated enough to do this correctly.

We found that after a player gets muted the other players in game tend to talk about it. Often, the things they have to say about the person who got muted aren't very fun to read, and it sucks having to read that without being able to defend yourself. So we made the decision to just mute the player too.

Since the system that drives this is a lot simpler than our after game chat stuff, it catches a lot more false positives. That sucks, but we think it's worth it to get certain words out of the game (although we can always improve).

But because of that we don't do any extra punishing for the chat messages we mute.

Mid and bot get equal gold. Mid gets more XP. If the numbers are targeted precisely, increased XP scaling and lower gold scaling can put mid lane ahead of the curve and bot lane behind the curve.

Numbers could be off, of course, but directionally still the case.

Confirmed /u/RiotBoppenheimer is legit, just in case anyone was a little 🤨 about lack of flair

Yeah this is a good point. I think in isolation GenG got a hard Quarterfinal draw (drawing between BLG, WBG, and KT) but a good Draw side (their path to finals). I'll make sure to bring that up next episode

Nah, I move camera with WASD and abilities on 1-2-3-4. It's habit at this point but I think it's a bit more optimal than moving camera with mouse because your mouse never really has downtime in League (aiming, movement, prepping positioning) whereas your keyboard hand has a ton of downtime if all you're using it for are abilities/items/etc.

Wait this is kinda genius.

If you don't run an AS shard, Ahri always has better attacks than before.

If you do, it's pretty negligible but is worse in some cases.

The AP shard seems to be clearly stronger on her despite being less popular. This should goad players into runing correctly.

Oops, forgot to include Ryze's actual change. He'll get AS also :)

AS, yes. But AD and mana nerfs plus AP ratio buffs does a lot to shift her builds. Currently AD builds are substantially weaker.

I trust you've done a lot here, however there are a lot more factors, as you're alluding to.

A significant portion of all physical damage taken is from auto-attacks, which are on average more multiplicative, since AS and Crit multiply them. Plus turrets and minions immutably deal physical damage. The amount of physical damage taken actually exceeds the amount of magic damage taken in most cases, which makes Armor an inherently more valuable stat than MR, even if you're getting less % gains per gold. Good luck actually doing the analysis, but the crucial missing factor is relating the math from this post back to damage actually taken.

Regardless, component costs aren't terribly important. Serrated Dirk is an intentionally over-efficient item. But you can't stack Serrated Dirks. Youmuu's fights Luden's, Prowler's Claw fights Shadowflame, etc. Similarly, Randuin's should be compared to Force of Nature. No one stacks cloth armors.

In general, I'm sure we h...

NAmen o7

He does tend to run the shard. He also has an auto-attack hook on his kit and above average level 1 AS. I tended to not buff the AS of champions who already have it pretty good there.

OK let me rephrase.

All of Vladimir's attack speed relevant stats are better than the new minimums.

Not always.

Passive is a buff for every role but APC

The rest are nerfs. She gained win rate in every role last patch. We'll see if the net result is treading water for support or not.