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Ascension is unlikely to come back in the form you're familiar with. If it's coming back, it'll come back on a different map. Currently, we've actually considered modifying the Nexus Blitz map for it (given how rounded the Nexus Blitz map is). If you notice the changes to terrain in the center "arena" area of Nexus Blitz, these changes are meant to help support much more interesting gameplay for other ways we can use that space. :)

The Crystal Scar is dead. Like so dead. Like omg dead.

The renderer for League's environment is completely different and new from what existed when Dominion (and so, Ascension) was made, meaning that a lot of what was made for that map is unusable and will need to be rebuilt. All the environments you see now were either built initially for the new renderer (Nexus Blitz or any of the TFT environments) or were rebuilt (SR, Howling Abyss). Keeping a map has to overcome the cost of that rebuild. :(

Thank you for bringing this back up!

Awkwardly, the reason the HP is as high as it is is to avoid an awkward damage timing bug. Also, champion damage is easier to isolate than item damage is.

But. We actually now have tech to solve that particular bug correctly now, which in turns lets us lower the HP. That is certainly something we can address now (albeit, for next run).

Probably not, high durability is at the top of the list of things that should be true about Rell. If Rell becomes a somewhat niche top/jungle with our efforts to serve support Rell that's fine, but we don't have plans to intentionally support those roles right now.

Yeah I think that's a valid concern. How it feels might change over time too, we're only one week into the release of a brand new character, the winrate hasn't stopped climbing yet and optimal skill order/builds haven't quite settled. You can join us in monitoring her for now, from the points already raised above we know that base stat buffs are a pretty justifiable candidate if we need to buff her.

Will caveat this with "I'm not a game designer", but to me this is a question of magnitudes. With base stats closer to the upper end of tank supports, she was really tankier than everyone else given her other tools. With base stats closer to the middle/lower end, she's still on the upper end of durability taking into account her other defenses (passive steal, W shield, W resist amp). If we said, "hey here are these tools that let you be really tanky" and then you used them and you weren't, that would be a failure imo but it doesn't seem like that's the case.

Hi Djinn!

At some point, I think that would be a great design article. In addition to other articles about modes that I believe are overdue at this point. The team and our strategies has changed quite a bit in this last year, so that is something I'm hoping to talk more about eventually as well.

Yeah, unfortunately addressing Elder was something we were hoping to get to for this round but ended up running short on time. :( Definitely on our docket for next run, though.

Interestingly, in terms of "game winning impact" (how likely you are to win the game based on getting this reward, for a given event round), it's about right in the middle of all the other rewards. Buuuut, that doesn't really describe how frustrating it is or how those games actually play out.

Oh yeah, for what it's worth I think that Ali (and other champs that can reliably interrupt mounted W engage) have favorable lane matchups into Rell. This is just talking about tuning in that she's not as far behind other tank supports in total durability as it might seem if you only look at base stats considering the tools she has.

Re: base stats some of the thinking there was that when fighting, she'll often start out with her ~120 health shield, +10% resists, and then attacking that Alistar takes away ~5 of his armor, gives it to you, where it's amped by the 10%, etc., which can (depending on items) leave you tankier than the Alistar if you manage to get the jump on him.

For new champions we generally look at winrate by day because there's usually a lot of growth - that 46% average number for example would account for the 44% day zero Rell player who doesn't know what she does as well as the 48% day five Rell player who's started to get the hang of things.

I pitched this name with the reasoning that "Fantasy should sometimes teach people cool new words." Mission accomplished, you love to see it.

A micropatch has been deployed! We are currently investigating the cause, in order ensure that this doesn't happen again. Thank you for your understanding!

This is seriously cool! They're all adorable, my favorite goes to Yordle Jinx :)

Because too much power indexed into pure damage stats results in too much Burst damage.

We have a fix for that coming tomorrow! https://twitter.com/MarkYetter/status/1338646520631967745

Not personally aware of any W mount up bugs, I can look tomorrow. If you have footage that would be helpful too!

my only issue with pi=3 is that I'm forcibly reminded of my high school phase when I used that =3 emoticon way too often... 🤦