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As far as venting goes, I thought this was quite level-headed!

I can tell you that we do pay attention to the community, and we try to communicate with the community as openly as we can. Engaging in player discussion regarding changes can take just as much as implementing them, so hopefully you can believe we're doing our best with the time we have. A full patch-by-patch AMA seems like a cool idea that we could think about doing in the future. We also put a lot of time into every patch note, and it's hard to squeeze all the design considerations we make into a few words of context, but I can confidently say we're investing a ton of careful thought into each change we make to the game.

As far as Wukong goes - I can respect your vision of game balance. I will say that our approach does attempt to balance the game assuming that players will play to win, and consequently will build what is the most powerful item to enable that goal. At the same time, we also have a goal...

Fiddle was last year, but as I said those are just EXAMPLES I didn't list them all. Yes, however we do frequently partner with external animation studios, but we still set the art style and manage the process/provide feedback.

No worries. Dont get to upset about people being aggressive. They are just really passionate about LoL, and I'm grateful to work on a game with so many people that are so passionate about the game that it makes them emotional, even if they aren't the best at expressing their emotions in text.

Yeah we need another champ like that, especially a non-Caucasian one. It's something we want to do in the future, for sure

Not always. Annie, Ryze, Fiddle are examples of strictly internal art/video teams.

Yes of course. We are definitely lacking in good south Asian representation right now. It’s something we want to do more of in the future. Probably a lot sooner then u think :)

OMG this is so pure and precious. Love it

Thanks <3

Don't take this as comprehensive or as gospel but the two that come to mind are flat/percent MS. I think both of those can end up a bit off.

Omnivamp is diff from lifesteal in value for sure, though what that number is I cannot remember

I dont believe lethality goes beyond 0

I think that's pretty close to our internal value but I can't remember off the top of my head

Trundle can do this on Rammus/Sej, esp with aftershock. Ult em when their temp resists are up and then when they're gone they have negative. It's fun

Lethality's gold value tends to be highly undervalued. Its also a stat where the more you get the happier you are (until you're dealing true damage and it doesn't matter)

Yeah, I largely agree with this post. I hit DII recently and it is my belief that the increase was mostly off refining micro. Macro is very visible in broadcast, but the reality is that effective macro comes from tactical excellence on the micro level. Broad trends result from many small actions, improving those actions is the key to leveling up your game.

This is exactly why i say in the article its difficult to do representation well without making full humans

Yeah that why i said champs are more "inspired by" since they need to primarily read as Runeterran. With human champs its easier to get the reference since we can do skintones and facial features better. With Neeko its mostly her accent(The same actress does both the Brazilian and English Voice Lines for her)

Solid idea. I'll think about this, thanks for the suggestion.

It's not really clear what should track on these. My general philosophy is that we should track things that inform your future decisions. I'll chew on this for a bit.

Healing is weird because it's a philosophical question of whether vamp/lifesteal should track. Typically we want to do only PvP interactions. Will chew on these ones a bit.