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This is AMAZING! If you guys are ever in LA let me know - would love to bring you onto campus for a tour and what not :)

i'm sure EU is cool with her tweeting about it, without spoiling results. We don't tell the casters in NA.

Sjokz knows people.

TSM did and survived.

sick player cam reax after the replay.

nah!

Listening to MarkZ accuse Crumbz of stealing his HAYAAAA! was best part of day.

Dash doesn't know who the MVP is yet. The casting team is not told because of this reason, so they don't have to dance around how they say things. They don't tell me either because they know i'd probably blow it. My guess here is that Dash probably wanted to say the x-time mvp, but temporarily fumbled the number and the pause came from trying to course correct with the "of this team"... but then again, how do i know what dash was trying to say and why he said it this way? only Dash knows. But it's just so damn fun to making up hypothetical scenarios about the sub-text around what people say. I think Dash could possibly have been trying to secretly communicate to us that the GoT season premiere is going to be hype af and that FLY vs TL will be the perfect hype af appetizer.

Hi there!

To give some context. When a team or player does something that's a little unfamiliar given the context of the meta, I often question my own knowledge and I wonder if I missed something. Therefore, I wondered if I missed somewhere in old notes that the top resistances were removed. I had to focus on the game so I pinged production to see if they can confirm. I got a ping back saying that the resistances were the same, but they missed the small buff that top and mid got. These small mistakes do happen and while we do try our best to give the most accurate information, in high pressure situations it happens.

Thanks for understanding! My production team is really awesome :)

Great callout RE wording. We have a pretty fantastic localization team, and I can also confirm that other questions around visuals shiw this trend too (“this champion’s visuals fit their overall theme” “this champion has unique visual”, etc) I forgot the full list, I’m just on my phone rn but there’s a set of questions RE visuals for champions.

I don’t think I’ve said “we make conventionally attractive characters because people like those characters”, but I agree with the spirit of your comment! I also think we’ve been improving in this area but still have plenty of room to grow.

I actually talked about this phenomenon in my GDC talk RE champion data. If you made the “Avengers” of League of Legends champs, and just picked the most played champions, you’d end up with a lot of overlap of themes and not much diversity.

So a lot of it comes down to goals. Are you trying to find the most popular champions? Or in your case are you trying to make a champion that’s most popular? OR are you selecting champions that will have the most appeal to the most players, and making champions that give your overall roster something for everyone?

Framing around the latter goals helps explain why champions like Bard, Illaoi, Ornn, etc, are just as valuable as Kai’Sa, Xayah, etc. it’s not also about making wha...

I think you have some good points, and I appreciate how much you care about Ornn. I agree that shifting some power around would probably be helpful for him overall - and that he needs more personal power rather than shared power. Any buffs we do are probably going to look like that.

We might just be disagreeing on what actually is causing the problem. I'm not sure about Ryze, but the feeling for Ornn was the combination of his W's lane dominance plus the R's power. If you remember, the R also was nerfed as a part of his changes (less slow on R1, knockup time reduction for R2).

The short answer is that we do try to target the thing we feel is causing the problem with a strong nerf, and see where we can put power back to compensate. Our track record recently is mixed, obviously, but I think it actually trends toward positive (irelia, akali being examples).

Not entirely sure right now, but I think increasing durability early on is probably the safest route as long as it isn't tied to his trade windows like the W shield was before.

Not promising anything but I think we have space for a buff now that things have settled, and one of the things I'm going to TRY to do is see if I can give him a shield somewhere like a lot of players want. Likely going to test it on the E somewhere first.

I know it can be frustrating, but unfortunately I've needed to let things settle and take time for testing and making sure I'm not going to undo the gains we actually got.

I think in the long run a champion being kept weak because of pro strength actually hurts its playerbase more. I do think though that sometimes rough changes need to be made in order to actually solve the problem. The key is having good followup to actually give the champion back power and hopefully feel improvements to make up for it.

That's the reason there's hesitation to give him a solid buff. I think it's worth the risk though, considering the work we did to make it possible.

I think he became a bit worse in lane than I expected, but he needed that to give us the space to give him power elsewhere. If anything I think we need to buff his early game a bit but leave most of his strength in later stages of the game, which is in line with what tanks probably should be for.

Playerbase is kind of a mix, some new, some returning, some that were playing and still play. It kind of depends what things you liked about Ornn. Losing his lane dominance is only really one aspect of him.

Hey reddit, love ya, how’s it going?

Context for this is the other day I said (1) that I personally liked the skins and (2) that I hypothesized they’re more resonant with Chinese players.

This data/discussion was NOT to demonstrate Riot’s reasoning for the theme/execution of the IG skins, it was to explain MY reasoning for that hypothesis. Also the title of this post is "visual appeal of skins by region" - it's actually just the visual appeal of the base champions, which is largely splash art, somewhat in game model, and is also influenced a degree by skins, fanart, all sorts of things.

The goal of sharing this was to show that there are pretty substantial differences in visual appeal and resonance by region. When I saw the IG skins, I had this information in the back of my mind, thus I thought “huh this aligns with some of my perceptions of what Chinese players find appealing”

Also to be clear (1) ...

I don’t know where I mentioned anything about marketing. This data wasn’t used to inform skins, it was used to explain my reasoning the other day.

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