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We're leaning towards being inclusive by default and then assessing champs case by case.

Things that might cause us to reduce a champ's strength in JG specifically might be because it's:

• Unhealthy (excessive frustation, exceedingly low counterplay, etc.)
• Damaging their main role (eg. if the off-role JG is too high WR which causes us to nerf the main role)
• Too strong in Pro. Multi role flexes are really valuable for regular players, because players love to play their champions in multiple roles, but we know this makes champs inherently stronger in draft for Pro

What would you like to see? Things related to champ select are primarily where my team operates in the client.

TY MR TRUEXY, COULD YOU BUFF JINX NEXT?

We do have more things we can push if needed. But essentials boils down to "what fantasies can we keep on Zeri while solving some key problems".

Shortening her range and limiting the window of her R let's us keep that "infinite MS fantasy" for now by introducing new forms of counterplay. I'd say if this "fails", then we once again need to evaluate if "infinite MS" is a supportable mechanic on a ranged carry for the standard player

I’ve seen skill floor used both ways

I’ve seen it be “here’s what you can accomplish when you know nothing” and I’ve seen it be “here’s how much you need to know to be useful.” For what it’s worth I like the former more than the latter.

Yup it places her at around the 550 effective range area. Between Kai'Sa and Jhin

Essentially pans out to "ramping MS while hitting people that falls off"

Another round of Zeri changes to bring her back into viability with a (hopefully) healthier pattern.

Main changes that should contribute to improving her healthiness:

• Improved early base stats to improve interact-ability in lane
• Worse scaling dps to decrease “1v9” scenarios
• Lower range to improve counterplay for opponents
• Move from hybrid damage to mostly physical to reduce strength at 2-3 items.
• DPS steroid on E to incentivize and enable early trade patterns.
• Overall flatter power curve, similar to Kai’sa

To clarify the R, it is still infinite (you can only refresh the buff up to 5s but you can do it repeatedly just like Live)

The change is that the infinite MS stacks only last 1.5s. So essentially whenever you are out of combat, it'll drop back to the baseline 10% MS.

Hi there this is coming in 12.23!

Our goal is to make jungle easier to get into and increase the skill floor, but not change the overall skill required to master the role (not that anyone has really mastered the role anyway).

We wanted to move mastery out of unintuitive mechanics that were only satisfying for a small subset of players to mastery that is more clear and satisfying (eg. choosing and optimizing your companion, more champs can jungle, etc.) and we're still keeping some of these optimizations (like camp dragging).

Features like rec jgl paths, displaying leash ranges, etc. aren't intended to allow a Gold player to become Canyon.

Yes they do

I will ask our resident QA member to check into it tomorrow.

He's still supposed to build tank for sure; that's the point. He takes 10% increased damage because his kit is built to be a powerful initiator in 5v5 fights and that is far more accessible in an ARAM situation. I took a peek at his win rate in ARAM, and its been oscillating a half a percent under 50% for several patches now on the tank build. You are supposed to play him as a tank. If you read that he takes an additional 10% damage, and that tells you to NOT play him as a tank, then you're going to have a far worse time in that game then if you just built tank items on him.

Mastery tokens are a system handled by a different team, so I can't speak with too much authority. However, best as I can tell, there are two reasons we wouldn't want them in ARAM:

1. The mastery system encourages you to play a single champion over and over. A lot of the fun of ARAM comes from getting random champions and just throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what works. Trying to get mastery by just playing a given champ every time its up is antithetical to the intent of the mode
2. Mastery tokens are intended to be for players who want to master the skills of a specific champion and show it off. That is their primary audience and therefore its the one we want to make sure is best served by it. As with all merit-based awards, we have to be careful how freely we give them out otherwise it can end up cheapening the experience. I don't exactly think that getting a mastery token in ARAM is hugely problematic, but I want to respect the players who grinded to get m...

Adding it to rec items seems interesting. I hadn't thought of the glaive angle. I will say that people rarely build utility items in ARAM regardless of how good they are, so I'm dubious that it would make enough movement for people to feel better about traps (ie, umbral exists now but people still don't use it versus teemo/shaco). Item counterplay like this leads to fairly one dimensional outcomes; either you buy it and the trap champs can't do much or you don't and you get overwhelmed by traps (sweeper and grevious wounds are other examples of this). It works but the skill test is very low for very weak outcomes in our opinion.

Either way I'll talk to the team about it. Based on the feedback from this thread it seems like trap champ counterplay is up there in terms of current issues with ARAM. Happy to investigate at the very least.

We filled those in. Sorry it wasn't in the article. We did that super early on in the exploration when almost a whole different team was working on this.