League of Legends Dev Tracker

Hi! We have to make and localize every drop so that everyone can see them in a number of countries and streams, so we usually make them up ahead of time and then trigger when they happen. Do we know? Nope, not at all! We use stats to decide which moments are likely to happen, then we pick a whole bunch more based on the performance of the teams as the games go on, and there you have it. We're not dropping any digital items this time (playlists, wallpapers, fankits) and instead worked up a little menu of other in-game stuff we're giving away to a percentage of fans watching every day.

Also, you mentioned the leagues! Each league who was running a drops program had a different plan. LEC, LCS, TCL, LCL, LLA, & EU Masters all ran drops in split 1, designed in-market by those teams for their fans based on their fans feedback. They then shot us that feedback and results to help make this MSI program feel inclusive of all the leagues battling it out. So, every time we do a drops t...

Hey there! Long time no chat! I wanted to answer a couple notes I saw so far! I'm on the drops team, so here it goes!

• Drop Tech - Yeah, we had some issues last time, and I would be insane if I didn't say we all take every error pretty seriously and work around the clock to fix it up. No excuses, just know the MSI drops team cares about this a ton and we tweak and fix everything we can as fast as our little fingers can carry us.

• The Rewards - We've heard you all and are dropping some more valuable stuff on a more randomized basis. Log in and you'll likely have a chance at scoring Hextech chests, skins, champion shards, or mystery skin tokens. We're also dropping several MSI-exclusive icons and emotes, along with a couple of exclusive ones for watch missions (we do that thing too!) so you should walk away with a few ways to flash an emote during a game of LOL or TFT.

• The Moments - We leveled up the team and brought on someone to h...

Squad5 and Kindlejack are working on the champ planned for after the bot lane marksmen (The support for the year) EndlessPillows, CarninvalKnights and BravoRay are working on the new champ after that (for 2022)

Our goal is to have a plan defined to do more frequent updates, we should not be this many versions behind, we just had to spend this past quarter upgrade our components so we can unblock the upgrade and get to the latest version of CEF.

I have heard this from many players, we know discord also uses a CEF (or chromium), we are seeing if our upgrade to CEF 90 will help fix this issue.

Its not a typo

No other champs release dates have shifted as a result

It 100% something we want to do soon, internally we are really excited to develop that region more as well. We also want to make a more herioc/good champion from that region since so far we only have Qiyana who is more villainous

Riot Lutzburg, Lonewingy, JohnODyin

It has not no. In fact we might be introduced to the new mage in the story a little bit before we release her ;)

August, Lonewingy, skiptomyluo

Oh you know it. Reddit detectives activate!

If it's the clip I'm thinking of, that's not true.

It's a spectator thing: The animation is played client-side if you can see Brand walking at an enemy champion. So if you watch Zombie Brand as a spectator you'll see the custom animation of him walking toward an enemy. The Brand player doesn't see anything different.

My impression (I may be out-of-touch) is that the frostfire build this post is about is played largely as a support in conjunction with a marksman/mage bottom laner. I have personally yet to see a Frostfire Senna "fasting" with a Tahm or something similar.

As for the fasting "adc items" Senna, that is actually 4% lower win-rate in SoloQ. In pro it's definitely much more effective, but it's no secret that SoloQ win-rates don't translate 1-1 to pro.

Sure, obviously completely personal (not reflective of my company's stances blah blah blah), but I've found Lulu to be very average right now in the meta and historically she can sit at a slightly higher win-rate without it being a problem (a-la Jinx). With that said, polymorph is my personal least favourite part of Lulu so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the buff doesn't mean more casts on enemies and instead means more casts on allies.

Good question. It's a little tough since her play-rates are pretty low across the board, but it appears, glancing at the data, that Ludens remains her best mythic (hello move speed), with Horizon Focus/Rylai's being some interesting/unexpected legendaries she can pick up midlane with good win-rates. The caveat here is that there's only like 5k game sample size for each of these (poor Taliyah) and I'm not quite data savvy enough to know where the sample size is large enough to reliably draw conclusions from.