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There will be a Qiyana Champion spotlight. It will go live at 1pm when she goes live

We're going to be addressing this in more depth in a dev post soon, but the TL;DR: we're not going to give BE/XP through TFT at launch, but we may reconsider once we know more about how TFT looks in the real world.

- At launch, we don't want to include BE/XP as part of TFT because there's a lot we don't know yet about how typical games of TFT will go once the meta is settled. Stuff like how long a game lasts, how long it takes to get to your next game, and how different those numbers are for 1st vs. 8th place are all things we're tracking. We don't want to make assumptions and end up giving out way too much BE/XP, potentially unbalancing those systems.

- With new accounts coming in specifically to play TFT, giving them XP could allow them to reach level 30 without ever playing Summoner's Rift. Playing TFT isn't the best preparation for Ranked, so we'd like those accounts to play some Summoner's Rift games before entering Ranked. There are definitely other solutions ...

I only want to meet the good pyke players on g2

I'd say the best thing is to make/work on a game! Be it a grad school project or an indie game. Find likeminded people in the gaming space and work on the narrative. And if that doesn't work, you can also try to work at a game studio first doing whatever and then move into writing. I started out as a production coordinator on a documentaries team at Riot before becoming a narrative writer. Good luck!

The magical 'crit' is bigger than intended. Shall be smaller next patch.

I kinda agree with this. I played a bunch of underlords and love their interpretation of the item system, especially as it also includes buffs for classes and synergies which I thought was an awesome touch. I'm hopeful enough people play this mode so that it sticks around and our dev team can really dive into developing it further.

I am not at this event! Using the tim for some planning and training back in Berlin.

TSM. They will smurf soon. TSM’s wrath will be swift. All these peasants thinking they aren’t good. Lmfao

Pretty sure anyone sleeping on TL is gonna be surprised as hell --> they have the best or second best bottom lane in the tournament lol

Cloud9 isn't so great? Are you kidding me? When was the last time you saw a team with such an ability and movement? Cloud9 puts the game on another level, and we will be blessed if we ever see a team with this skill and passion for the game again. Fnatic breaks records. G2 breaks records. Cloud9 breaks the rules. You can keep your statistics. I prefer the magic.

Updated the post to reflect this but definitely meant TFT on PBE will be disabled

This video is useful

Nice job! Champ/Skins writer here. I like your Encounters and how you hint at Janna having been around long enough to know tidbits about other champs' backstories. If you're looking for feedback, one thing we writers tell ourselves is to go line by line and cover up the name (in this case Janna) and ask yourself, could another champ say this line? If so, it's good to rewrite it to make it more unique to them. For example, I can see Soraka saying "This isn't my purpose" while attacking but I can only really see Janna saying "Tempest protect you!" as she ults (so great line there!)

Yep. Probably just a short term thing though at least, especially with NA open and TFT not yet on other servers. Amongst other things contributing we're seeing some folks playing on NA who normally play elsewhere which will assumedly stop once TFT's fully rolled out.

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That's correct, the various rewards you can earn are distributed through the mission system effectively so they'll be available once that's switched on.

Different teams work on different content is the short answer.

Hey there! Designer who implemented the new crit animation here.

TLDR: I actually agree with you on too big, and implemented a change to reduce their initial and ending size by a decent amount. This will be in place for next patch.

Longer answer: There are two factors that decide the scale size of damage text in League: 1) How large the designer wanted the text to be compared to other damage sources (so, we generally wanted crit to be 25%-50% larger than non-crits). 2) The magnitude of the actual damage dealt compared to a standard number for each player level. Eg: we have a standard damage magnitude of say 70 for level 1, if you deal damage of 140 due to a special attack or ability, this damage text will scale up to be significantly larger than other damage text.

However, there's a 'worst case scenario', probably shown in that screenshot, where the player is low level, has high AD and an infinity edge. What this means is that they'll deal significantly m...

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