[2021] Lab of Legends is incredible and shows the devs know what we want

Thank you for your detailed thoughts! We're excited that people seem to be enjoying them, and equally excited to keep experimenting in this direction.

More to come. :)

In my experience, Heimer is almost the hard mode version. He needs the right synergies to set up, but if you can get a good set of powers for him and a defensive secondary champ to keep you alive, he can pop off with T-hexes every round.

That's a good question, and a good guess. But actually we pretty intentionally used old-er items since the mode is an experiment, like all Labs! The idea of using items in this way is something we're just starting to explore, so we don't want to anchor players (or ourselves!) too much on the idea in case it evolves in a different direction later on.

...plus, going through some of those old icons was a big nostalgia hit. Didn't quite find the right item to match Heart of Gold, maybe next time! ;)

Dig it! And yeah I just worded that poorly; no HoG in this Lab, sadly enough.

Reddit is good! Discord can also be good; I'm not sure if there are any Rioters who work directly on LoR in that Discord server, so you might want to try the official LoR one: https://discord.gg/legendsofruneterra

I'm a product lead and engineer, but I got zero design skills. That said, repeatable nexus heals in this mode are tricky business... you can get to a place where players feel like the "best choice" is to stall infinitely from a winning position, and get as many heals as possible. Same thing applies to some cards today though, so it's something we'll have to figure out how to deal with!