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Originally posted by QUINN_VALOR_VGU_WHEN

Hey Reav3, seeing as Quinn may be on the next VGU poll, is there any way I could sign up for any potential playtesting or feedback for her VGU? I’ve been playing and thinking about the champion for years, and have even done some art exploration of potential thematic directions, including what she might look like as a Raptor Knight. I’d love to add my voice to any aspect of her development I can, for whatever little my opinions are worth — though I do live a ways away from California (Miamian here).

Originally posted by Ilyak1986

So, first off, is there a discord channel that you frequent that one can have a bit of a back-and-forth dialogue with you? The data sites I frequent seem to be immune to pulling data from into an R instance, and I'd love to work with even a fraction of the data you guys at Riot work with that you use to justify your decisions.

As for addressing Yasuo: again, I submit that there's a lot of popularity factor going into his playrate. That is, if he looked like a pile of goo, and wasn't voiced by one of the most talented voice actors in the world (Liam O'Brien is awesome), and just "felt awesome" to play, I think his playrate would be much lower.

For instance, if Yasuo had Shaco's absolutely unreal statistics, I'm sure he'd get absolutely hammered.

Regarding mastery curves: finally, I've succeeded in making myself clear (I'm probably not too good at that :( ). My frustration, I suppose, is that there a...

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Originally posted by Ilyak1986

NOW WE'RE TALKING. This is exactly the sort of data I wanted to see! Thank you so much!

I'm seeing that once you get higher up the "previous games" curve, that the data starts becoming a bit fuzzy--for instance, Akali's mastery curve starts to really encounter some noise. I am guessing that this means that a very small proportion of players actually play her for that many games.

How does that compare to someone like say, Shaco, Karthus, Kayle, Zac, Rengar, or Khazix? For instance, when I sort the LoLalytics table for this patch by main winrate (that is, the yellow win column), I see Shaco at an astounding 60.9% main winrate.

My assertion/frustration is that there may be some champions that are just outright better than champions like Akali, Yasuo, Riven, Irelia, etc. at every point on the curve. While I am fully willing to concede that champions like Ionian hard-to-master champs should definitely be lower starting o...

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Originally posted by Ilyak1986

Thank you so much! Yeah, these charts sort of confirm some of my frustrations. Namely that it seems like these "hard to master" champs might never eclipse an "easier to play" champion like a Garen, or this patch, a Shaco.

Ideally, in a perfect world, every champion gets a chance to shine after some amount of games. That is, do you want to just one-trick 2-3 champions? Well, maybe you can swap between Irelia, Akali, and oh, Camille. Want to play a bunch of champions? Maybe pick up some easier-to-get-going-with champions like Shaco, Garen, etc.

However, what would distress me is that as a a player, if your goal is simply to maximize winrate, that there are champions you should never play (any hard to master champ, pro-play taxed champs like Sejuani, Tahm Kench, etc.).

Some champs, I'll concede, are simply problematic when they're good (Tahm...

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Originally posted by VniSalska

I know that some self-proclaimed champion mains get upset because fo reworks but it is healthier for bot game and lol universe, don't you think so?

Reworked champions can easily be integrated the other Riot games such as TFT, Legends of Runeterra etc. I'm not even talking about in-game related stuff because there is no need.

Thanks to the hard work you guys put in the previous years, there are very few champs left that should be reworked.

I feel like, Other than 3 candidates that were included in the poll, namely Shyvana, Dr. Mundo and Shyvana, there are 6 more champions that need rework asap. In my opinion, these champions are: Skarner, Malphite, Kog'Maw, Cho'Gath, Udyr and Corki.

I feel like you could've slowed down the rework train after getting these champions. But I totally understand your concerns. It is fair.

I don't want to bother you but I'd appreciate it if you can answer one more question: I know due to the resource-scarce, you st...

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Originally posted by IWantOffMrBones

Dude, sorry but what the f**k? What is your opinion about Vladimir? Do you honestly believe he is okay for the game when the majority of the playerbase hates on him? Mundo? Who is viable only because he has been flextaped into it since he is so ancient that there was one effect ruining his whole idea but the balance team made sure this isn't a problem about him anymore. Tryndamere? A walking paradox of a super cheesy champion and walking ultimate in the same time, not even fullfilling his fantasy. Zilean? Who is .. strange. There isn't meaningful cointerplay to his bullshit but because he is so unpopular it is fine.

Like I can understand you hate the bitching of current mains every time you change their obscured character. I get it you care about them since it shows with Pantheon or Kayle's rework, even the fact you are keeping the point and click fear of Fiddle, even though everybody but them hates it.

I am not even trying to bitch at you, though it looks like this...

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Originally posted by cyberrobocop

Should rename Klepto to something else then as the new effect doesn't match with the current name

Originally posted by VniSalska

Do we have a new poll for a reworked champion after Fiddle and Voli?

I remember in previous poll both Fiddle and Voli got 24 percent whereas Shyvana got 20 percent of the votes.

So I'm wondering if you'll go with Shyvana (pls) or there will be another poll or none at all?

Btw I'm very sad that you decreased the number of reworks. I think reworks are more exciting than new champions but that's just my two cents.

Originally posted by Ilyak1986

:( :( :( :( :(

Irelia is in such an awful state right now it's sad.

And then when I asked /u/Reav3 about her mastery curve, he gave me a f**king popularity chart. Well, no wonder.

Originally posted by Ilyak1986

:( :( :( :( :(

Irelia is in such an awful state right now it's sad.

And then when I asked /u/Reav3 about her mastery curve, he gave me a f**king popularity chart. Well, no wonder.

Originally posted by Ilyak1986

Reav3, with the majority of the games at World's finished, Irelia's coming in at around 7% pick rate and 20% ban rate. She falls through most picks/bans regularly, her bans seem incredibly questionable given that next to nobody picks her up when she's let through. You guys at Riot utterly crushed her when her solo queue numbers were in a reasonable spot as early as Patch 8.23, when her average winrate across Diamond+ globally was 48.9%.. Ever since then, it's felt that every single change has been directed at dislodging her from pro presence that was the result of artifacts present in pro-play only (flex pick drafting, extreme amounts of coordination). In pro games she was picked at worlds, she's won 3 of 7, and very easily could have been 2 of 7 had HKA not hard thrown vs. C9. In those games, her damage % share is tiny (less than 20% in several of them), which shouldn't be the case for bruisers/dive...

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Originally posted by Beekeeper_Bard

Are these going to be in the aram pool as well?

Originally posted by Rin_Hoshizura

This is ominous.

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Originally posted by nothumbnails

hey, so my client is broken. It is black and white with text scattered everywhere. I redownloaded the client and it worked, but when i logged out and reopened it is black and white again with text scattered everywhere missing important links and cant access anything in the settings tab. Do i have to keep redownload the client and just never log out?

Originally posted by Arishmael

So you didnt get a good look for the script for groups i'm gonna have to assume? ;)

Originally posted by shekurika

I picked the same as you in knockouts, but after seeing your groups Im really questioning if thats a good thing

Originally posted by -2W-

what do you have against EU???