Yup, first time buying the pass this event and I'm at 36 prestige points (25 from the pass missions and 10 from like loot openings here and there over the past season), if I get the 100 prestige points that leaves me with 36 random prestige points that I can't do anything with. Most likely going to be random bundles like you mentioned to deal with leftover prestige points.
There will be "cash out" options near the end of the year for Prestige Points.
Does that confirm the assassin is a humanoid at least now that we know Yuumi was the "non humanoid one" that you were talking about? Also, do you guys follow male, female, male, female formula or is there a chance that the assassin is a girl?
We don't follow male, female, male pattern. We shipped Zoe and Kai'Sa back to back
Can never get past the surrender since you get to control two champs!! Smart.
Oh Christ what have we done
And back to Yuumi, long term do you expect her to be broad or niche
We expect her to be broadly appealing to enchanter support players, which could mean shes a bit niche, since its a more niche role
She got a pretty substantial buff across the board in the hotfix. Does this mean that you're expecting to have to revert those at some point, once Yuumi players get good enough?
I think so, but we will see
an entire Lucian culling
How did she survive to the end of the Culling? 3500 hp full tank Yuumi?
It was pretty late in the game, so she had some HP items, but yes it was probably more like half of a culling :P
Any chances she may get a mini rework in the future. The style of clinging to your ally all the time seems binary and expresses no skill at all. Her getting rewarded by attaching to allies(reduced cd, enhanced abilities for the first few seconds, anything rly) seems to be much better in terms of counter play to kill her and allowing her to express skill better.
Unless your target demographic was specifically players who don't want to put in effort into a match, then that'd be understandable
The style of clinging to your ally all the time seems binary and expresses no skill at all.
Hot take: Yuumi players who are only doing this contribute to her low winrate.
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Are you able to share who the designer would be on the choose a VGU and the DNA on Dan's champ
we are still working out the Choose your own VGU designer. DNA for Dans champ is Dan, LoneWingy and Interlocutioner
Could I also ask where the DNA goes after Yuumi
Jellbug and RiotEarp are going to jump onto the Choose a VGU Champ, while Maxwell is starting early exploration on a new champ
Right, Yuumi can't do anything about her ADC being engaged on, and all of the engage supports can just tank her poke without losing HP.
Yeah, it's on the ADC to avoid the engage, similar to what the situation would be like if there were a Sona and they had to avoid being hooked. I don't agree that tanks can tank her poke forever - I would expect Yuumi to be landing most attached empowered Q's + scorch/aery that she uses, as well as autoattack frequently. If these things aren't happening then yes it's possible Yuumi isn't providing enough presence in the lane.
/u/Reav3 how did you guys come across the gameplay hook for Yuumi
We started development with the attached support hook, which EndlessPillows pitched along time ago. One of the reasons we settled on a Cat so early in development is that we thought the theme of a Cat would work very well with the gameplay hook since cats are generally seen as lazy, and the Champion didnt have to walk anywhere
Is there any concern, even with the hotfix, that her nature makes her fundamentally invisible in the laning phase? The sheer volume of champions that have a way to completely shut her down -- from engage supports (leona, alistar, blitz, thresh, naut) to stronger defensive enchanters (janna) to mage/enchanters (lulu, karma) to flat out mages (zyra, annie), it's a colossal list of bad match ups for Yuumi and that's predicated largely on her kit, where more than likely the numbers that make her able to have presence in these match-ups make her just flagrantly overpowered in the general case.
It just seems to me that Yuumi is a support with the enchanter equivalent of Kayle's power-curve, and it seems pretty antithetical to the purpose of a support.
I think that she's very good into those engage supports because she should never be able to actually get engaged on with her W, letting her harass pretty freely. She's certainly weaker into mages/enchanters though, and has to rely more on outranging them with her attached Q. I think it takes time learning the character before you understand your strength against engage characters, however.
EDIT: Not to say that engage supports can't do anything against her, but their win condition should be to find Yuumi's ADC rather than Yuumi herself.
This question is for RiotMaxw3ll. Why are you such a memelord?
I learned from watching you.
Not a specific cat or situation but it was definitely inspired by their behavior. /u/Jellbug was my cat expert who I would always ask for approval on any cat-like animations.
Not a specific cat or situation but it was definitely inspired by their behavior. /u/Jellbug was my cat expert who I would always ask for approval on any cat-like animations.
u/Jellbug fell on the sword of watching multiple cat videos with u/riotcattlegrid. It was tough for her, I'm sure.
Apologies if this has been asked already, but what is your favorite part of her design/kit?
The attach mechanic just feels fun to use. I'm really glad that its just a viscerally satisfying thing that almost feels toylike.
It does discourage player creativity by licking it to support tho , example being G2 playing pyke top at MSI
I think it's cool when stuff like that happens occasionally, but it can really hamper a champion's main role sometimes if they have to be balanced around a role they were never intended for.
What has been your favorite champ to pair with Yuumi?
Nunu is hilarious
There was one version where it didn't have a cooldown at any point in the game (kinda like what it is now after level 11). Her laning against melee supports bot was close to unbeatable. There was another version where she was unstoppable while using it so she would just buffer all CC heading towards her team.
Oh yeah, forgot about that XP
who in your team watched the most cat videos while making her?
Of course x3
When making the trailer, these were reference for the twitch scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gdsueMGUfk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsund4l9XIk&feature=youtu.be
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