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You can treat inflamed skin with salty tears, though.

I don't think he is objectively. Still one of my favourites though :)

Kudos for using Class A instead of Class B. IMO it's the right decision. I've always worried about third party websites not doing their homework and use Class B instead.

We could, but VGUs come with the cost, and Champs that are in better shape have much higher player bases. With higher player bases there is a higher risk of alienating more players with a VGU, especially since its basically impossible to make 100% of the current mains happy with a VGU. As Champions begin to fall further behind new champ standards, and new champs come out taking away some of the mains of older champs, than the older champs that need VGUs player base begin to shrink. The smaller a Champs player base when it gets a VGU the less player pain and player disruption the VGU release causes. We have to factor all this into our VGU strategy.

The poll is not meant to encompass every champ that needs a VGU, and we won't only do VGUs for champs that win polls. We currently have a unannounced VGU in early development right now, for example. Like If Voli and Fiddle weren't basically tied in the last poll, we still would have done another VGU this year, independent of the poll.

Hopping in to say that my comment on stream was extremely hyperbolic. It was stupid for me to make a claim like that and I'm sorry.

U.GG IS A GREAT SITE and overall their data is good when you want to understand how strong champs are in relation to each other. My criticism comes from how the data gets sketchy when the sample size gets low (master/diamond+ games for some champs, day 1 patch data, etc.). That's what I SHOULD have been talking about in that clip instead of saying what I did.

Thanks alanliang for everything you and your team do for the community.

Fair call out on milestones. Those were high in Mecha Kingdoms (20 points), even if other things were less demanding. We went back to the lower milestone mission demands for Galaxies (15 points) and don't plan on raising them again for upcoming events.

it's okay guys, joe injected himself with lysol this morning so he's doing great ^{thisisajokedonotdothat}

I wish, I fall into that pit all the time myself with constant self justification about how I just need slightly more board presence then I'll save next round...

Probably is the strongest answer I can give you at the moment. It's a skinline that seemed to click with a fair number of players, though response wasn't quite as strong as things like Star Guardian or High Noon have been recently. Likely we bring it back at some point as a result, not confirmed yet though.

This problem needs a more holistic overhaul (something that Meddler alluded to in the article) that we are aiming to ship this year.

It's unlikely we will get to a place where we are doing lots of VGUs again. It's possible of course, if suddenly we reach a point where we have a giant list of champs in need of VGUs, like we did a couple years ago. The reason we started reducing VGUs is that we got to a point where the VGU list wasn't that long, and the Champs on the list don't need it as bad. We think VGU's are a exciting product that many players also find exciting and we don't want to get to a point where we basically "Catch up" on all the champs that need VGUs and basically stop doing them. At the pace we were going in the past we would have reached that point fairly quickly and then that would kind of be the end of VGUs. We have decided instead to reduce the pace of VGUs so that we still release them, but we don't catch up. At the current pace I predict we may not ever reach the end of the list, since overtime new champs will probably find there way on to the list. This way there will always be VGUs to look ...

The Fast 4 will be the best one.

Still a few patches away, we're starting work on it now.

Fair. I personally feel Voli's changes are similar to Morde and Fiddles, in terms of same sort of playstyle with details different some modernization. Hope he still delivers what you're after from him.

Can confirm, is incorrect.

It's A-fell-ee-os.

I heard Interlocutioner say it about 50 times.

Thank you. I don't like the whole working from home thing, but I certainly don't have any real cause to complain compared to what some people are dealing with. Hope you're doing well given the circumstances too.

1 - Data informed is still our stance. The new balance framework is certainly a shift though towards a position where we're much more confident building stronger rules using data because of how long League's been running and how clear it now is what unacceptable balance states look like.

2 - I think the current level of change is overall a good one. It's lower than I'd personally prefer as a player, and lower than some segments of the playerbase, particularly in regions like NA that are more change favoring than others, would like. On the other hand we're also not seeing the significant pain and upheaval that our previous rate of change created for a lot of other players. It's a reasonable compromise in my eyes as a result. I do think our preseasons could p...

Yeah, Kalista's been a long running challenge for us alas.

What don't you like about the Volibear VGU?

If what you're looking for is balance/gameplay specific stuff only these posts won't be too interesting a lot of the time. RiotScruffy and I are alternating weeks between Quick Gameplay thoughts on his part (balance/gameplay heavy) and Quick LoL thoughts from me (some gameplay still at times, but more of a focus on other topics).

Yeah, in retrospect while the problem those were there to solve is real the solution wasn't the best one. Optimistic this works out quite a bit better.