Gotta say, it's always really cool to see devs pop in here and explain things like this in detail. Thanks for the in-depth explanation, much appreciated <3
No problem! I enjoy being able to talk through thought processes and design decisions, so it's nice being able to pop in every now and then and answer questions.
Was there an iteration of Stoneplate that worked similarly to lifeline passives, meaning if a tank went down to a certain threshold of HP, they get the big shield?
Not that we tested for S14. However, I did make Mantle of the Twelfth Hour in Wild Rift as a Lifeline tank item before I left WR to come back to work on League. Based on my experience making that item in WR, I believe HoT effects usually serve the tank space better than shields for Lifeline items for a number of reasons, not least of which is that it gives tanks more power in prolonged engagements (again, similar to Jak'sho vs Stoneplate where core tank patterns are best supported by long-term power rather than concentrated momentary power - the shield is much more temporary than the heal).
Does this mean random unranked account won’t be in emerald?
yep, that's the plan. Definitely want to hear if y'all see any. It's not intended to be like that. Even if they're absolutely destroying all their normal games; we don't want it to be easier to run accounts up the ranks and sell them.
So this means it will be easier to use point and clicks one people?
Yes. Not the range of casting them but the ease of clicking on them.
I removed Stoneplate for several reasons:
Tanks only have space for one capstone item in a non-mythic system. Jak'sho has a much stronger theme and is much more in line with the tank fantasy (become more durable if you can survive for a while), so Jak'sho was chosen for this slot over Stoneplate.
Stoneplate's active in its most recent form was anti-burst, which is at odds with the general structure of tank builds, particularly with the changes for S14. We wanted to make tanks more durable across the board (which we did, by ~7% slower time to die in champ combat for tanks) which removed some need for anti-burst tools - if you're just tankier at a baseline, this naturally makes anti-burst tools less relevant and therefore less deserving of a spot in the shop.
Stoneplate's shape required it to be heavily teamfight bound (via the %resist scaling per enemy) in a way that was low-satisfaction and overly biased lategame tanks towards only...
If you go into the shop and filter by support she shows up too. Confused newbie me a lot
I think we should probably seriously investigate those shop filters
Sick work!
The intention is you don't have full control over your prismatic items. If you rolled a good one then you're probably more likely to have a good average placement. If you didn't, it doesn't mean you're doomed, a strong player will still be able to have high average placements even through suboptimal item offerings.
Thanks so much for the response. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't something on my end. Probably a dumb question... where would I actually set the VPN to?
Chicago. League servers for NA are in Chicago.
my ping went from 50ms to 180ms after the update and hasnt gone back, i just need the ip address to reroute the connection from my isp
Which ISP are you using and which country
Hey I just wanna bump this - my friend with the same provider and same location said his ping is also like 15-20 higher.
Yes it is higher. The problem is you are in the middle between Chicago and Ashburn and routing appears to have changed. We will look at it next week and see if anything can be done to improve this. VPNs will override this routing if you can't wait.
I think Janna has an interesting win rate problem in that very bad/new and filled players will max e, making it look worse.
Many challenger players will still go for e max (often after 2 points in w) and dream maker, but it's less common than the "fun" w max build
You also are more likely to pivot to e max if you are losing, if you have died 2-3 times pre 6 it's pretty troll to continue making w
Yep that's also valid. Players shift behavior, which can't easily be cleaned up when just looking at performance from the outside.
If you're slamming as an ADC, you don't bother counter-building Soraka. If you're losing, you may as well buy Executioner's and then you may as well finish Mortal Reminder at some point.
E max Janna is only at a 53% win rate, Phreak said in his 14.7 rundown he thinks that feels weak.
Spare a thought for her player base, giving her W a love tap without compensation would kill her.
There's a huge problem with using "x Max" public data win rates without nuance because they only count games where players have reached enough levels to actually reach rank 5 of the ability. I spot-checked this once for Seraphine and it was somewhere between 1% and 2% win rate inflation at Support, less so for Mid/Bot.
If you want a better public data resource for that, just look at what's ranked up at champion level 5. You're much less to have the above bias and it'll be closer to the truth (though it has its own biases). Using lolalytics as an example, about as many players go 3W -> 5E (level 10 required) as go 5E by 9. This means you're heavily inflating "E-max" win rate builds because being 1 level higher biases toward being on the winning team.
E max Janna is like 50.5 and W max Janna is closer 53. I believe Janna is a completely reasonable champion in the 51.5-52 range if she's not severely MMR skewed.
Oh shucks I wanted to try that new graves passive… was it that OP or was it really bad?
It was bugged, ultimately.
It's a legit question! To be honest we weren't sure how much we should lean into a full seasonal event with gameplay and narrative content together. Would it feel too disruptive to the SR experience? In the past we've focused on doing one or the other, usually not both together (things like the Bilgewater event, Odyssey etc being outliers). Given the response to this seasons gameplay changes, and the overall player interest in more immersive storytelling, you can expect us to continue to go bigger on cohesive seasonal experiences in the future.
The game works without it enabled. Any chance for a fix? I have used that for like the last 10 years at this point and would suck to not be able to use it.
I think it might be pirated software though so maybe that can cause issues?
The program had a similar issue in VALORANT and they were able to fix it, if you could comment with your issue, it may help them fix it with League. I’ll reach out as well.
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Hey there,
It looks like the program "Actual Multiple Monitors" isn't working well with Vanguard. Could you try disabling that/removing it and letting me know if performance goes back to normal?
Hey I really don't know where to ask this, but has anyone else mentioned anything about having like 20-30 higher ping on NA since yesterday? I went from 30 to 55 ping and it's actually such a pain, everything else on my end seems fine so for whatever reason my connection to League is just strictly worse or something :(
Which isp and location?
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Does using a VPN to NA fix it? Try a trial one. If this does fix it, there is some sort of filtering between the server location and your ISP.
EU East is based in Frankfurt, Germany. It'll still be a bit closer to be in NA servers.
I think the best way to test this would be to make a new account in EUNE and a new account in NA and see which is better ping.
Most of the ISPs in Alaska connect back to the US, not direct to Europe. You're probably best off on NA.
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