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20 Jun

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Originally posted by MNMiknik

Laure fits this so well, it’s amazing. Also Ender please don’t hunt my dreams, thanks.

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Hey all, the watch missions service went down around 24 hours ago (~6:30PM PT, June 18th) and it's now back up - you can now continue watching pro league games from this split and complete your watch missions. If you watched any games in the past 24 hours, you will not have earned any credit, but we will automatically reprocess your lost progress and reward you by Tuesday of next week.

As a quick reminder, you may watch any pro league game from this split on watch.lolesports.com, live or VOD, to earn progress :)


19 Jun

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Originally posted by zekeismydaddy

Can't make promises, but will be chatting with people about that one.

What's there to discuss? Just add a check box asking if player wants to get TFT mission notifications. It's not rocket science.

Actually, it's probably just as hard, considering we're talking about Client team.

Yeah, it's not about what we want to do, but about when it will be feasible to do it. And, as you note, the Client is not an easy thing to work in unfortunately.

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Originally posted by papu16

What about oddissey skyline? As I can remember both oddissey and galaxy slayer zed was poppular(feels like every kayn and zed mains use this legendary skins), this skinline gonna have new ... skins? u/RiotMeddler

Odyssey's on our list of thematics to return to at some point.

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Originally posted by Reoru

At least seperate TFT and League missions, pretty please.

I tried TFT and never want to play it again but it keeps popping up in the missions tab.

I just want to see my League missions seperately.

Yeah, that's a fair call on the missions tab especially, that's not a good enough experience right now.

Can't make promises, but will be chatting with people about that one.

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Originally posted by huntersniper007

i feel like SG Urgot is an exception, because that was such a huge meme

Fair. Corgi Corki's another similar case, including being well loved amongst even non Corki players for what it's worth. Beekeeper Singed and Beemo older but good examples too.

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Originally posted by Roffet

What have been the relatively newer skin lines that could be looked at for continuing development? I was trying to think the other day what new skin styles have come out and I can mostly think only of continuations of existing themes

We've got a handful of completely new skin themes you'll be seeing over the second half of this year.

For recent ish skin lines I'd call out Coven as a strong example of what good looks like personally.

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Originally posted by rob3rtisgod

Do any Meme like skin lines such as Sugar Rush, Pool Party ever do that well compared to the more serious skin lines? Also isn't a lot of the hunger linked to the champs? Other than Braum, Eve, Zilean and Ivern are all hugely unpopular, so surely the skinline would never sell well because it has no additional lore/in depth skins live Coven or SG and the champs selected didn't really fit the theme and were unpopular? Probably can't say but is there any correlation between skin theme and champ popularity? I'm wondering if you gave sugar rush to Ez, Yasuo and Lux, it would be the best selling skin line yet.

Some meme skins do well. Star Guardian Urgot's a great recent example.

In terms of hunger and popularity - our expectations for player interest in a skin are based off the popularity of the base champion, so we're not expecting Ivern, Zilean, Braum etc skins to be as popular as those for Vayne, Lux, Lee Sin etc.

Lack of depth/lore for some skin lines - agreed, and that's where the reboot approach comes in to try and get depth like that into skin lines that would benefit a lot from it.

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Originally posted by The_Yeti_Rider

theres no potential for TFT to get its own client? like its not a different game mode like aram or treeline, its a completely different game

It's not impossible we do so some day. TFT and LoL MOBA share an awful lot of functionality though. Disentangling the two would mean a substantial amount of dev time as a result. From the player perspective that means the benefits from separating the two would need to be higher than the benefits from having those same devs work on other stuff for both TFT and the MOBA side (new features, bug fixing, performance improvements, new content etc).

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Originally posted by ReallyF33lingIt

Any idea on if they'll bring back Battle Academia skins? I imagine they did quite well.

As per another comment here somewhere - yeah, we expect we'll do Battle Academia again someday (though won't be this year).

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Originally posted by IWantOffMrBones

I love how they never gave Battle Academia a chance. The majority of Katarina players in my games use her black chroma which looks really good and I see a lot of Graves players use his teacher one whenever I tune in a stream. Strange how it works.

Even sillier is how they are beating Blood Moon. Yeah, most of them look good but this years was fanfic tier.

It won't be this year, we expect we'll go back to Battle Academia at some point though. It wasn't one of the absolute strongest thematics, but was well loved by a fair number of players and we think it's got a lot of untapped potential too.

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Originally posted by Nightwing_Starfire

This here is a very important point to which Riot needs to answer

Btw thank heavens LL are being removed from ARAM. Such visual clutter

They finally realized after poor sales of LLs for TFT. Now they will make better quality LLs

LLs on TFT have been going fine for what it's worth :)

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Originally posted by WhatsAFlexitarian

I hope they remove the LL egg from battle pass missions too then

Ah, good call out. I'll check with the team, make sure we do that if it's not already planned. Will probably leave LLs in the token store, since that's purely optional by contrast.

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Originally posted by drdfrster64

They’re gonna talk about visual clarity and skins in the same blog post, but not mention how awful visual clarity OF skins has degraded over the last couple years?

Of course everyday players may not have problems but I play this game on again and off again repeatedly and every time I come back there are champions I can’t recognize that blast me with skills I’m not expecting because I think they’re someone else.

Even while I’m playing, dumb translucent sparkly effects harass me all day in ARAM because of how poor the visibility is. There’s no definition to these effects, and while it may be somewhat clear that something is flying towards you, it’s hard to tell what it is or how exactly large it is.

Skin clarity's very much on our mind and being worked on too, though there's no single change as stark as 'we're removing something from a mode' to message right now. We didn't want to leave this LL change to just patch notes, in terms of both visibility and highlighting it well in advance, hence the call out here.

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Originally posted by Azramy

sad to hear about sugar rush, i'm very happy about evelynn skin and her chromas, braum's was really good too

Yeah, we were very sad to see Sugar Rush not perform well too. We went back to it because we really wanted to see it succeed and didn't want to judge too much off its first run. Unfortunately there just doesn't seem to be enough hunger there for the theme compared to other options we could deliver instead.

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Originally posted by Ashtana

I'm still pretty sad Pool Party Pantheon didn't happen. It'd match Leona and his ult would be really good for the effect- it looks like a big dive with wave effects already.

Maybe someday? Can't make any promises, but Pool Party certainly seems like a skin line with one of the broadest appropriate champion pools.

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Originally posted by bz6

/u/RiotMeddler

Hey man hope you've been well.

What are your thoughts on VALORANT like agent contracts for League champions?

Cheers :D

We think our Champion unlock process is showing its age a bit and are interested in trying out some different approaches to it. Sett's Calling Card was our first test in that regard and we've got plans for another test this year as well.

VALORANT like contracts aren't currently something we're thinking about, but wouldn't rule things like that out entirely in the longer term.