Vanguard - one of the big issues right now is the number of accounts that get levelled with bots, creating a range of relatively disposable accounts that a certain type of player will then use without care for how they affect others, whether their account gets banned or restricted etc. Vanguard should let us rapidly detect and ban said accounts, hence the improvements to smurfs/inters/ban dodgers.

Arena - Doubling teams won't double duration, agree that Arena doesn't need to be a dramatically longer mode. For most teams it'll be about the same length, if you're in the final two it will likely run a little bit longer. Regardless of the number of teams present though each round half of the teams in game are going to be losing health, so elimination will mainly happen at the same pace

Thank you for the kind words, we're going to keep working on the communication thing throughout this year too of course as well :)

That's a huge part of the rationale behind adopting Vanguard here yeah. Direct cheating isn't as big an issue in LoL generally as it can be in some genres like shooters. Botted accounts however have been doing quite a bit of damage to many queues, be it encountering levelling bots that are miserable to have as team mates or people on botted accounts who don't care about their account/identity. We think addressing that should be a pretty significant improvement to the overall experience for most players

Sorry, nothing to report there I don't think that icon was mean to refer to steam

We'll get some more info about Linux for you all soon, it's not something i know the answer to off the top of my head and I want to make sure I talk with the team and get you the right info.

Project L is still trucking along and announcements about it will come direct from the Project L team, not via those of us on LoL, or at a LoL event like League's 15th birthday/anniversary.

Ambessa is a fighter with a clear power source. She is much easier to port into LoL then a character that doesn’t ever fight

Yet. Haven't seen her fight yet :)

I actually didn’t know this existed. I’ll start checking it out

You will still be able to reach level 10 on every champ given enough time and dedication!

The time gating of both rewards and achievements seems awful. Mastery has always been permanent. Having them be tied to Split for the reward of a title is really annoying, and feels like a FOMO approach.

Clarifying: There is a permanent and a split component.

Split component rewards the same things each split, which mostly are marks which upgrade your permanent mastery. The title is meant for folks who display strong dedication to a single champion.

We hope it doesn't inspire fomo because even if you miss on a split you will reliably be able to get those rewards next split.

Vanguard will not be required for Mac. The Mac ecosystem and OS is substantially different in ways that make us take a different approach for that system. If that changes in the future we'll reconsider

Vanguard will not be required for Mac. The Mac ecosystem and OS is substantially different in ways that make us take a different approach for that system.

Is that a real thing damn.

The team is continuing to improve and refine Arena and we're excited for you to give it another go! I know the question remains WHEN WILL ARENA BE PERMANENT .... and the answer is.... we don't know yet. We need to get it into a state where it maintains a strong level of engagement but I'm feeling really excited about this next iteration and we'll see if you all like it

I hope Ezreal still likes her.

EZREAL GOT A REAL REASON TO KISS THEM LEGGIES NOW GAMERS!

(This is not canon pls don't Shaco x Fiora me again)

Confirmed!!! Y'all have been so patient, thank you for keeping hope alive

hey folks - I know this video was longer than normal (23 min+!) but there's a ton we have in store in 2024. We'll be hanging around to answer your questions throughout today on this thread!

Hey Spideraxe, right now we're observing Hwei's performance and cautious about making drastic changes before 14.1 introduces so many changes to the map and item system.

We have seen his overall winrate steadily grow at a slow rate and an intense mastery curve showing almost linear correlation between games played and winrate growth (normally we see a taper off of winrate growth over ~20 games; we're actually working on a special internal data report to get even more information).

That said, players are still learning him right now and it's a bit unfair to his allies if most Hwei players are feeding into assassins. The armor buff coming in 14.1 seeks to lower his and allies frustration with sharp matchups without creating much thrash in terms of output power.