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I have no intention of moving at all. I love Berlin, LOVE BERLIN, I've got my own place, a dog, my wife, my family in the UK. I don't wanna leave Berlin and more importantly, I don't wanna leave the LEC. EVAR!

Very possible!

I think it might just be that you're too good?

It really just needs a bleed.

That's always tough for me. I've been a gamer my whole life, and I know how much it sucks when something you like is changed, nerfed, etc.

It's a difficult balance between trying not to ruin something that people love, but also trying to create something new that even more people will love for years to come. I try to be extremely respectful of what/who the champion was and why people loved them when I do a rework. Of course, you will never please everybody. I feel the best I can do is try to really understand why people loved the old champion and look for ways to bring that essence forward, even if specific abilities change.

I don't want to get into particular examples here (Akali/Qiyana) but I think this is a pretty interesting post and I like your approach to making your argument.

Something we go back and forth on a lot in champion design is the balance between holding to conventional strengths and weaknesses versus finding creative/unique ways to differentiate new play patterns. Let me interrupt the memes here before they start: yes, adding new and unique kits to League of Legends is important, and always will be. The challenge is ensuring they have the proper constraints.

To be more topical, a Skirmisher crossing into Assassin territory on certain outputs is reasonable (we do this with FioraE [burst damage] and YasuoR [target access] for instance), and vice versa, but we've also definitely crossed into territory where we end up giving certain champions too much. One of the reasons you see this a lot in our modern fighter design is that a ton of our recent efforts are pretty aggr...

I don't actually know if we're released the timeline yet. So I'm going to hold off on that question :P

Hey that's awesome!

I animated these attacks, as well as most of the rest of her.

I do have to give a huge amount of credit to Jason Hendrich however (He animated Irelia and Evelynn), he made the initial pass of the posing and motion for the auto attacks when she was in preproduction. I animated them based on that work.

(Oh it appears I lost my Riot tag on reddit? I haven't posted in a good while :X)

Consider the average viewer habits of of our viewers, they don't watch 5 hours a day every day. It's a real challenge to cast and make everyone happy, but we make some conscious choices on certain stories to make sure they land to a wide group. If you're a hardcore viewer that watches every game every week, you're gonna hear things more regularly. Storytelling a team, player, league or gameplay is something we actively discuss strategically and do our best to find the appropriate balance. Sometimes what we chose to focus on is different to what you wanna hear, that isn't inherently bad, it just wasn't to your expectations and taste.

Also remember that I'm explaining a point in a simple to digest concept, if you're perspective over my rating isn't on the same page that's fine, I was just making a conceptual point for our internal drife.

When it comes to the show, we're really proud of our growth and quality bar and always want to do better regardless of how good it was. I hope everyone at home can see we are constantly pushing ourselves. The team here read Reddit and socials all the time, so keep the feedback coming. Critical and positive is super welcome and we take it into consideration always.

Really appreciate folks coming out and trying to advocate on our behalf. My name is Bellissimoh and I’m the Lead Producer for Personalization on League.

I’ve spent most of my 15 year career working on “Free to Play” or service model based games. Almost every single company I’ve worked for has optimized for profit and ignored the concept of player trust.

Riot is the first place I’ve worked where the strategy isn’t myopically focused on generating revenue short term. If it were, then as you’ve noted, you’d likely not see skins like Dark Star Shaco or Papercraft Anivia. We believe that making skins like these connect us with our audience, reward players who are dedicated to those champs, and show people that we’re not just “all about the benjamins”.

On another note, we’re trying to find ways to increase the number of skins we’re capable of producing. In a world where we can create more skins per year, we can cover more champions, as well as better suppor...

I'd wait to play it a bit before we get worried about pool size. We aren't trying to block 3 star units, we want people to get them :P Give it a shot first and then let me know how it feels.

Nope