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First and foremost, these are super cool! I love the Trickster Ezreal mock-up the most.

Secondly, I've seen the topic of rewards come up a bunch on different channels, and I'd like to add a little more color to the discussion here.

So, here goes:

When we wanted to add stat-trackers to League, we looked at what other games were doing in this space and how we could level it up. While flexing your stats was cool at a base level, we saw an opportunity to add a progression layer on top of it to give players who invested in the system something to chase and ultimately show-off when they got it, regardless of other personalization decisions they made on that champion. Basically, we didn't want to create a scenario where you would unlock something by engaging with Eternals and then have that reward come at the cost of something else you like (base chromas were something we talked about, but it means that to show off your unlock you have to choose between a skin yo...

Hey Folks

Primetime Draven and Surprise Party Fiddlesticks are permanently discounted Legendary skins and, like all Legendary skins, are not eligible for additional discounts. Due to the tagging on our older skins (Surprise Party Fiddlesticks is 8 years old, holy cow) these were accidentally placed into the wrong pool and included in our sales schedule. We’ll keep Fiddlesticks in for this week as this is our bad, but this is not our general policy and we will continue to keep them in the scope of legendaries in the case of all future visual upgrades.

no im pretty sure we need detective mittens, with her pulling out a giant magnifying glass and an actual rat for the Q, leaving footprints.

Biggest tradegy was that her Q wasn't a mouse since it, you know, moves with the player's mouse

does the purple hair imply that kai'sa is the mother? do kai'sa's void powers cancel yasuo's wind powers (no wind in a vacuum) or do the opposing forces join and empower them? is there a word for when children are born in runeterra without any of their parents' extraordinary powers, similar to squibs in Harry Potter? if kai'sa is the mother, shouldn't they have four kids, and what will the final two be named?

Yeah, missed it on my list. Slow duration from E is replaced with the W Eternal we talked about

To be clear: we do not want any paid feature to be "pay 2 win." This particular output is one that we discussed earlier in development (stats updating in real time leading to giving information). The stats should exist to give you feedback on performing the actions successfully, and not give you some tactical advantage for paying attention to them.

That said, many of the examples, at least, do give feedback even if you can't see the target. Lux Q, Sion Q, etc. play sounds if you hit something. They are subtle, and I would agree that the stat tab is probably easier to notice, especially with other noises going on. And others do not (Viktor's W, for example, has no feedback that I'm aware of for hitting a target in fog of war - great callout).

As /u/Ken_Adams_NSA ...

Good feedback, I definitely see your point and agree that question needed to be more focused on one or the other to be useful.

Oh....my....goddess, this is such a cool idea. I really like that. Syndra makes a lot of sense as the monarch that thinks she can better the world under her singular rule and stomping out other people in power that argue against that. I can definitely see Zed as her champion that would do what it takes to solidify her position, considering that he's rebelled against authority that he disagreed with in the past.

Just picturing these badass queens going into battle in order to do what they think is best gives much such excitement. It almost feels reminiscent of the Battle of Freljord between Ashe, Liss, and Sejuani but expanded out to a much larger scale + adding in champion partnerships.

Questions that stand out to me now are:
- What is the power source of this universe and how does it differentiate from our classic LoL universe?

- How would we create a visual identity for this universe that makes players immediately go "that's the Warring Queens them...

For sure, I get that. Putting our words into action is what matters. The reason you've seen new skins for Shaco, Ivern, Udyr, Galio, Anivia, and Nunu recently is because of these efforts, and we're planning on doing more in the future. /u/Bellissimoh gave some extra context on this here. Hopefully we can regain your trust by putting out skins for our less common champs that you and other really love.

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Thanks! Yeah, one of the things that we have to be careful of with skins is to remember that we're not only designing a skin for the player using the skin. We're designing a skin for the 9 other players in their game too, so things like readability are extremely important.

And totally agree on Swain! If there's any tanky mage to apply this thematic to, it's definitely him.

Ahh ok, so straight up Shadow Isles, with the teal flame aesthetic that you see on Kalista and Hecarim. Also, we do have Gravelord Azir!

Wow, that's amazing. We appreciate the kind words. I'll pass this on to the team. :]

Can't speak to what exactly is planned for the future, noted on the Harrowing.

I totally understand what you mean when you compare Ornn directly with champs like Taliyah and Kalista. SSG Taliyah and SKT Kalista were uniquely chosen because they were picked by Crown and Bang after winning Worlds and seemed like good selections to us. Championship Kalista was also chosen because of her heavy play during Worlds, but things like her play rate and uniqueness in the current Championship catalog factored in. So even though a champ may be in pro play or in meta, that's just one area that is considered when we're selecting which champs to make skins for. I can't give specifics, but I will say that Ornn is on our radar as needing a new skin.

We will definately hold a retrospective meeting to see what went wrong, why and how to fix it in the future. We do this after every event.

One issue I can talk about right now is the toilet situation. Usually the inventory comes with the venue rent as an included service. I was made aware by a local partner that this will not be the case here, so through them I booked and paid for cleaning and toilet inventory. Turns out it was not provided to all of the public toilets. We had a meeting with the partner after we were made aware of this and fixed it for the next day. This is no finger pointing though, I should have personally checked all of toilets before the first show day... lesson learned!

Hiya, y'all~

I'm the Producer on the Thematic Development Team for PIE (Player Immersion and Expression aka "Personalization") on League, where we source new thematic ideas and develop them through narrative and visual exploration.

I love how you took the Shocking skins post and merged it with the Red Force skin concept! The thought you put into each skin here is so admirable. The Pink Ranger was always my favorite, so I'm especially excited about the Pink Thunder Force Anivia idea you got here. I'm just imagining what it would look like for her to get reborn in a thunderous crack of pink lightning or to decimate a team fight with a pink electrical storm (R). Ugh, I want!

I've personally been noodling on how to execute on a thematic that draws from Power Rangers, Super Sentai, and other similar inspirations, so I really appreciate this post. <3

May I ask what about this kind of thematic particularly excites y'all?

We are all very sorry for the problems yesterday and glad that we could provide a better experience today. (See also u/RCrower post from yesterday)

Thank you very much for attending and the kind words. My feet are killing me and I am falling asleep now, so good night to all of you!

There are sooo many incredible ideas here, and the amount of work of you put into this, u/Kampsycho, is really admirable.

While I can't speak to what exactly we're creating in the future, I will say that putting out skins for our champs that haven't gotten skins in a while is part of our plans. /u/Bellissimoh gives some extra context on this topic ...

Ahh, I can absolutely see that with the visuals that /u/for_gentlemen_only laid out.

Oh wow, this is incredible. You've put so much thought into this! I'm such a lore nerd, so this gets me super excited. I really enjoy the relationships that you've built here between SyndraxZed and YasuoxRiven because they're complex partnerships that keep you wondering: "How long is this partnership going to last? Is this a true partnership? What will happen if X occurs?"

In your eyes, what's this primary conflict of this universe? Different monarchies fighting for power in a Game of Thrones-esque type of setting?

Wow, that's a fascinating visual style! I think that's a unique direction that we haven't really explored in LoL so far. I love your thematic wrapper of Nightmares and Dreams as a way to execute this direction. I'll bring this up with the team, thank you. :]