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Yep the omnivamp was bugged so no surprise youre getting absolutely clapped. It should be fixed on this deploy! Or next idk

Sorry about that :(

Tear is on our todo list. Otherwise, we're not going to make preemptive balance changes on items - we're going to wait until the meta settles and see if we need to make adjustments from there.

Thanks for the report! I'll look into this.

"They're gonna live until they die."

Genius, beauty, insight, perfection.

While I read this as a joke and take it as a joke, I do feel a need to clarify something for anyone reading this.

I do have a stake in talent rotation, I'm one of several people involved and I share my opinions and expertise on who could / should cast different games, with a very heavy focus on LEC and EU talent primarily.

To ensure that it's a balanced decision, producers take my suggestions share their feedback and then make the final call.

I'm exceptionally proud of how I've been able to advocate and push my colleagues into bigger and bigger series with each season locally and internationally.

Not through the lolesports website, but you can find all the official VODS via Youtube.

2019, 2020, and all future global events can be found on the LoL Esports VODs and Highlights channel.

2018 and before can be found on the LoL Esports c...

You couldn't be more wrong if you tried. I know Indiana personally and professionally and your read is so so wrong. It appears to me as you have not tried to understand what she has said or attempted to comprehend what she has gone through in this industry.

I think Indiana has been right to call out certain things and I respect her strength of conviction.

Yeah, but he was definitely a full part of the roster and played multiple games at Worlds, including a game in the final.

True if you only consider "within 5 years", but it should be mentioned that Soaz has made Semis 4 times on 3 different teams.

2011 (finals with AAA)

2013 (semis with FNC)

2015 (semis with OG)

2018 (finals with FNC)

There are two issues I have with this: First, there is a "best ban" and your team must use distinct bans, meaning there are five "best bans." So while your model may say that Samira should be banned in 30% of games, she in fact should be banned in every game if players are banning optimally.

According to Lolalytics, the 5 best (play rate * win rate) bans in patch 10.21 are Samira, Zed, Jhin, Hecarim, and Lulu.

So seeing Samira and Zed in your list as disproportionately banned, despite being the two best bans in League of Legends (and, almost more importantly, the #1 Bot Lane and #1 Mid Lane bans), makes this methodology feel flawed.

The second issue is that sub-50% win rates are champions you want to see in your games because you're likely to beat them. This is why it feels odd that Jhin and Ezreal are next to each other. Jhin is indeed left up more often than his power level suggests. However, Ezreal shouldn't be banned: He doesn't win very often a...

Very nicely played. :)

We are addressing the concerns with mismatch between shreds and resists available in the overall system.

Holy shiiiit, you're incredible! I love how perfectly you captured each champ. I screamed at the Eve part.

No problem! Eclipse was one of the final mythic items so it was coming in pretty hot with mechanical changes right before it hit PBE. The fact that it was in a heavily bugged state (that had variable output, at that—the bug meant that sometimes it did a lot more damage than it should and sometimes did much less) for a bit immediately after its last set of pre-PBE changes did not help power reads at all, either for us balancing it or for the player community trying to understand it. Like, one of the reasons it ended up that powerful is that this bug led us to believe, from playtests, that it was somehow weak despite its reasonable numbers on-paper, and so we buffed it pretty dramatically. I think it's much closer now, and we'll keep following up as necessary.

Possibly of note—Eclipse is meant to be an item that some fighters can buy. I see many players stating that it must be broken because e.g. Riven likes the item, but that's not a good litmus test because it's intended! N...

Not sure if we plan to follow up with some dev articles, but I know I'd be happy to write about some of the more interesting items if we do. In the case of the assassin mythics, the goal was to give them some items that aligned themselves strongly with an assassin's wants and the different sorts of games an assassin might find themselves in. Duskblade is meant a really good item in a game where there are several squishies, making the first kill of a fight much easier to get. Prowler's Claw is meant to be powerful if you estimate getting one incredibly strong burst is your best avenue to victory (for instance, if they have a single champion who is the lynchpin of their comp, and applying very heavy burst threat with greater target access allows you to kill them or pressure them out of fights). Eclipse is meant to offer an opt-out for when you evaluate early on that you win condition is to generally avoid teamfights and aim for the splitpush or take smaller skirmishes—this is why it'...

Both internal playtesting and number-crunching contribute a lot. We also listen to what players have concerns about, from plenty of channels including Reddit—but we don't just react blindly to player feedback, because while it can alert us to some valid problems it can also be pretty far off sometimes. We heard the issues raised around total percent penetration values, for instance, and took a second look, agreed, then iterated. Thanks for taking an interest!

Not currently, but that is a cool "high-five" sorta idea. I like it. Maybe next year!

We still have a tuning pass to do on the Lethality legendary item stats, but in the meantime these mythic active nerfs should get us some good mileage towards our goal.

It's ok. I thought we fixed it last week but we didn't.