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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.

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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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I'll be sharing some data on this today :)

I'll share some more thoughts on this today

Viper would have had Penta kills in this montage

Thank you so much! Next time I will obliterate him alone :)

He's actually at around 48% in our data, but I agree he's too weak right now and am pushing for a buff for him. The point of the changes were to make it possible for us to actually buff him, which in my mind were a success because he's actually in a state where we CAN.

I never expected the balance to be perfect immediately after the changes, in fact I was surprised at how much we gained from them by themselves, but he's shifted down a bit over time.

Imo often people are too quick to conflate a champion literally just being underpowered with having some severe design problem. If we can get him a 2-3% buff he's going to feel a lot better, and hopefully not be at 100% pro presence again.

Edit just to add, before the changes he was sitting at around 44%, but was unbuffable because of his pro presence.

Drakos does a lot of the writing and creation, I try to help out with the ideation, a couple of lines and I help with flow once we have a solid structure. I was actually really happy to be involved more so with the writing and creation! Hopefully as I gain more experience, I can help Drakos out more :D

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Can you post a screenshot of your offers please? Note that if you do not own the champion it'll bundle it together for you.

Accurate

Easy clap tbh. We haven't even reached our final form.