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My guess would be that your concepts aren't being beat up by a full team of people with competing ideas and inspirations. Every champ pod has art, design, and narrative embedded, and that's not even including the gameplay teams, art discipline, other champ teams, etc.

Champions evolve and improve a LOT because of (sometime-difficult) collaboration and the push-and-pull of what different people think is cool or right for the character. I bet if you aggressively chased feedback and tried to incorporate it into your ideas, you'd start to find that missing piece.

that would be u/RiotPhoenix/ -- VFX artist extraordinaire

https://gph.is/2IHxqOw

says who

Desk tidiness is quite a spectrum at Riot, from "literally nothing" to "i can't see you behind all those dishes"

If you want to know more about art and see part of a VO script we talked about both a bit in the PAX Irelia panel

That would be Swain, in his magnificent placeholder Feeney art.

You can play one,two or all three days. You can also start on any day but the more games you win the better your rewards will be. Your first day will always be a 4 team bracket. If you win that you'll go to an 8 team bracket. If you lose you can put in tickets for the next day to try the last bracket you lost again.

These are pieces on concept art from a side-scrolling beat-em-up a group of Rioters made during Thunderdome (our internal hackathon). We brought it on the road for the NA finals in Miami.

Yes

I don't have a specific one, but in general it's reading the lane/understanding what matchup we're in. So many times my ADC is either ALWAYS AGGRESSIVE IT DOESN'T MATTER THAT I'M VAYNE AND WEAK RIGHT NOW or NEVER AGGRESSIVE THANKS FOR THE SHIELD IT'S REALLY GONNA HELP ME STAND BEHIND YOU DOING NOTHING.

Honestly one of the most challenging parts of being a support main is learning to read the patterns of rando ADCs

who keeps hitting all these dead people's save buttons

tbh any recurring thing is hard. even Ask Riot is way harder than it looks; thank god u/bananaband1t is so good at keeping people answering.

Well then. I'll take one of these...

despite all odds

-opens this thread

-sighs

"Is this right? This can't be right, right? Can someone math this?"

-scrolls down

"Thank god for real heroes."

-logs back into WoW

big if true

When I interviewed at Riot I was relatively new to League and I spent a good chunk of my interview explaining to a senior leader why taking teleport on Sona was the only correct way to play her

let go

If you lose two in a row step away from ranked, maybe for the rest of the day. Probably the best possible advice.

Beyond that, it's:

*Focus on one role (and even one champ)

*Understand that no single game matters. You'll lose, you'll win -- keep your eye on the big picture

*Learn as much as you can about League. Most of low-Elo climbing is about situational awareness and game sense over mechanics. You can get to Gold just by making better decisions than the other team.

*Learn to trade. An ADC that knows how to effectively trade in Bronze/Silver won't be there long.

But, overall, stay posi and remember League is here for you to have fun. If it ever starts to stress you out, take a couple days off :)