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Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about something or add some points too
-Akshan was out the door, but then they realized they kneecapped Shurima without a 'build around champ' so he survived
-Nami survived alongside Fizz because thats the kinda BS spellslinging that Bilge should be doing I guess
-Zoe got the axe because her elusive nonsense wasn't Targon enough.... Yeah this one makes no sense
-They can't keep up with both eternal ranked and standard ranked being on at all times so thats why eternal ranked isn't always on (edit for more context, its also about queue times like if 50% of people are playing standard and 50% are on eternal they seemed worried about people reactions to longer wait times, although open to feedback)
-There is talks of Champs 2.0 being a reworked version, but its unclear if that means the old champ with new text completely, leona style reworks, or full blown variants with new reworked ideas
-FR was apparently (according to them) TOO GOOD at a bit of everything so they took out stuff so it wasn't a one stop shop (similar to BC)
-They reaffirmed the importance of a regional colorpie and that as stated above regions shouldn't be 1 stop shops and that while you can play mono decks that should come at a cost (while not actually elaborating at all on what the regions should really be doing)
-They are balancing and rotating with future content in mind
-They are looking for feedback and will use that to determine things like future rotations etc
There's more there, like we might end up seeing some return to forms (They mentioned Draven I believe as a 3/3 as an example) in eternal with some buffs to a higher power level, but in general thats the memorable stuff
Personally I think this just makes me have a bit less faith in the direction right now, it absolutely baffles me that Zoe get's the axe, but Fizz and Nami (and Shelley) alongside Akshan are okay? The fact they keep mentioning a color pie that is fairly ambiguous at the moment also just makes it hard to trust any of this in good faith because without knowing what it is, they can just make it up as they go (like they seemed to cherry pick Zoe out not because of the invoking, but because she's an elusive beater).
I sincerely feel like this is just a wonky standard banlist that missed the mark on multiple problematic cards and didn't have the self-awareness to realize things like 'if rotating Akshan means Shurima has basically nothing in our opinion, theres a bigger problem with our rotation than rotating Akshan'.
Ultimately not a fan, and that really only ended up leaving more questions unanswered and creating a lot of new questions.
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