League of Legends Dev Tracker

For this particular piece we wanted to focus on big picture goals, company values, overall approach etc, rather than trying to cram all of that and game updates together all at once, given that tends to serve neither topic as well as separate updates.

In case you missed it there was also an update on Project L in November last year:

https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/project-l-dev-finding-our-game#:~:text=So%2C%20although%20we've%20made,not%20going%20to%20rush%20it.

Bug?

Or feature?

The obvious example would be a protocol used across multiple games/platforms for handling things like avatars and props or whatever.

This already exists in VRChat. No NFTs required! Sharing assets across games and platforms is a very difficult technical issue that is a problem down to engines, legal issues, game balance issues, visual issues, stylistic issues... We can already share assets cross-platform as long as the engine is the same (see: TFT).

Note that this is such a difficult problem that even games with the same IP, like Wild Rift, do not use the same assets as in League of Legends.

Sharing assets across games is difficult, and the main challenges there are ensuring that the assets are portable between the two games (this is a very big hurdle) in terms of how they are serialized/deserialized, and that they actually fit the game they are in. For example, it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to have the Ja...

This is specifically why I did not name who I was comparing Drakos to; I've already said my piece on Shinoda's take.

As someone who plays a significant amount of VR, I can tell you that VR does not make NFTs any less useless than they already are. There is nothing specific about VR that makes it better suited to NFTs. The only thing NFTs do is allow for a place for everyone to agree on who owns what, and we already have multiple ways of achieving this with tech today, and this isn't more or less useful in VR games.

It is true that it is technically possible for this to work in games, just like it is technically possible for all games to be a clone of the same game, but that's not a desirable outcome for anyone

NFTs are, IMO, not something that Riot could just 'implement with all of our games', nor do I have personally have any desire to see Riot do this.

Sharing assets across games is a complicated problem, and the only things NFTs do in this space are:

1. Provide a speculative investment bubble (current environmental concerns aside)
2. Provide a vehicle for determining who has a digital license to which asset.

Frankly, #1 provides no value to players, and #2 is something we have already solved in literally all of our games and we did not need NFTs to do it, and solving it across game properties would be as simple as using an existing protocol like OAuth2, none of which requires NFTs.

Also, Riot has already put Jinx in Fortnite, and that didn't require NFTs either.

NFTs are a money grab by any studio willing to implement them, plain and simple.

Yup, as a player I understand how you feel. As much as you know that, obviously this champion doesnt just have a 90% winrate and they dont just stomp literally every game they are in, but it feels like it. When we look to nerf because of banrate we generally don't want to take away power as much as we want to tone down something that makes that champion frustrating our unhealthy. To be clear, usually this still involved taking away power somewhere.

why do you take manaflow sometimes, but not always

Shyvana was an easy vote for me, some of the champions in the poll im not a huge fan of, but I think Shyvanas potential to be pog is what won her the vote for me.

No news on graves as of right now. His builds are more flexible so he has other options compared to some of those that were hit harder.

Haven't looked at it recently so can't say for certain but it has consistently floating a little above 50% for quite a long time

Dejavu. Undecided, probably looking at W nerfs for Lulu and R nerfs for Zed.

Undecided, looking at R buffs

Lulu is because winrate, Zed because banrate

Mentioned elsewhere but Samira will also be getting buffs

Samira isnt on here but will be getting buffed

I do a lot of random things

I believe the PBE changes were just tooltip changes that didn't get submitted in time for the last patch. There arent any planned changes for 12.2.

Samira was definitely someone we talked about. She definitely fell as much as the windbros, but is still at a slightly better winrate overall. She is on our radar since she is definitely weaker.