League of Legends Dev Tracker

In my experience, it's very rare to see another Shaco at a convention, so it's always a surprise to see one! You can check out this album if you want to see my costume in full or the mask in detail. Happy jesting!

I made this costume a long time ago, back when Shaco had his old splash art and different colors for his gloves, eyes, and daggers. Here's an album of the photo I use on Twitter and Reddit, a shot I made for a contest, as well as a view of the inside of the mask. I just took a pair of sunglasses, removed their lenses and sort of taped them into place!

Oops typo, weak early games are harder to punish when durability goes up.

This was intentionally not changed for 12.10. As people have pointed out, it's not as simple as "compensate for durability". A lot of 12.10 made it so weak early games are harder to punish, so there's a lot of pros/cons of making early minion trades equally punishing.

We're keeping an eye on these types of things and are open to following up as needed. For your dragon/herald question, it (oversimplified) ended being that the "compensation" buffs would be overall miniscule for the early game durability and more importantly the tension on these objectives is the amount of time you're in 1 area forcing a fight than the actual damage you take.

As a fellow Shaco cosplayer, I really love this! It looks like you actually have glowing eyes — are those electronics? Impressive! (I just used sunglasses for mine.)

And yes, I can confirm, being a scary demon jester is a ton of fun! :D

I hear you - we can’t (and don’t) use the same measurements of success for a PvE experience that is not as repeatable as a PvP experience. Still - League as a game is not built to support these types of experiences in a way that is sustainable or empowering for the teams who have put them together. It is extremely difficult to work against what the game is natively built for to create a PvE experience, and at a certain point, it begs the question of whether or not it would be better to satisfy the PvE needs in other, more fleshed out ways (like Ruined King for example).

We know that there is a (relatively) small, but ultra-satisfied group of players who loved Odyssey, and more broadly, it was an exciting moment for League. We want to find ways to build on those feelings that are complementary to what League is designed as (a PvP game) and recreate those same “holy sh*t this is super unique!” reactions.

Q4 basically. So September - December. We are targeting Worlds. 👀

Oof, sorry. That address resolves to a local mirror. Try "ping 218.234.18.181" intsead. It should be closer to the ping you would have to KR

You could try from commandline "ping google.co.kr" and it will give you an idea

You can also do "tracert google.co.kr" to see where the different hops your internet traffic will go through

KR just has the best network infrastructure in the world and a very high player density for League so its likely you'll get a more reliable connection and faster match times for a similar skill level

Ouch, I feel your pain from playing MP games in aus back in the day. If you are going to be on that kind of latency then consistency will matter as much as another average 50ms. I would guess that KR is your best option. Also please don't use WiFi.

Great points. I think there is certainly more we could do with OFA in the future, including improvements to the “oh no their pick is the hard counter to our pick” situation that can happen sometimes. I’ll send this to the Modes team and see what they think :)

Thanks for taking the time to write this up - it’s a really constructive conversation-starter. A few thoughts to address your feedback and some of what I’m seeing others talk about in the comments:

Map accents are something we know that players like and add flavor and variety to the event. As a few people have already mentioned, Elemental Drakes made this a lot more complicated to do, since SR is a very hand-crafted map and is not modular or easy to edit at all (this is a tradeoff we made intentionally with the SR update so the game could still run on extremely low spec machines). We also have limited art bandwidth in this space. That being said - we miss the cozy feels of the snow map (as just one example) as much as all of you, and we are exploring ways to resource some changes there. I can’t make any promises about timelines, but we love how much map accents spruce up the play experience, and we want to find ways to make this easier and more sustainable ...

Damn this is legit

Only OUTER TOWERS are getting slightly tweaked, and it should only be ~1/3 a reduction from the Durability Update changes. ALL OTHER TOWERS are unchanged from their Durability Update buffs. This "towers are getting reverted" narrative is strictly false.

Assassins have higher win-rates at higher ranks yup. That's a much smaller portion of the player base, but it's still valid.

It's not really realistic for us to ignore the vast majority of the playerbase when balancing however, so while it's definitely useful to look at plat+ (and elite) to figure out if some champs are too powerful in those brackets, ignoring everything below that is disingenuous as well.

Fighters in particular are pretty bound to their items. Deaths dance, maw, steraks, etc are all designed to give fighters the ability to teamfight, which is what they need. Assassin items (on average) don't do this, so it's unlikely they swap over in the majority of cases.

If we take a swing at buffing Zed, it would likely be in a higher counterplay area than R (non-amp) damage.