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Yeah I recall this was part of the consideration. There were a lot of different factors involved in all of the item icon updates, like consistency with function (like you identified that anti-heal is green), overall clarity, and keeping callbacks to the old icons so that you didn't feel totally lost as a veteran. In a constraint-free world it probably would be green today.

As someone who does this on Bard too one thing you don't appreciate until you try it yourself on Zeri is that you can fail the E cast and dash two inches into the wall, while Bard's portal won't cast if it's not a valid angle.

Signed, someone who dashed two inches into the wall and died.

We intentionally removed that before releasing Rell because of how low counterplay it was to force the enemy to preemptively flash, similar to what you see with Gragas E. We had the benefit of the champion not being released with a precedent yet, unlike Graggy, and like you see with Cait it's a big deal when we take something away from a champ that's had it for a while. So these are just bugfixes to Rell and Galio.

Challenger. My 9-5 might have uh...some overlap with that though.

At one point when Kayle hit level 16 in development she could permanently just fly through walls and such, no terrain collision. Because she's an ascended angel, ya know. I had a good time splitpushing with her, and then when the enemy tried to collapse on me, I would just fly off the map...It was the first time someone seriously asked the question "if you go all the way off the map on one side, do you come out of the other side like Pacman?"

It would be a QA Engineer role in the Los Angeles office - not currently posted.

The fact that this was even considered in the first place speaks volumes.

In my opinion, what it speaks to is that developers feel comfortable that they have space to experiment and that they have resources around them that can give them confidence in what their designs are able to do. Like mentioned in the article, we want to empower designers to take risks like this - and they can do so in part because GAT is able to demonstrate what the potential outcomes will be.

Hi there.

Just to first create a clear distinction: it's the designer who would decide if an idea is unworkable or not, we'd provide them data & evidence with which to make that decision. Since Pyke is on my mind, for a long time in development his W was true stealth, which we tried to make work in a number of ways before changing it to camo. At one time it was a toggle that consumed a unique secondary resource (he was manaless), eventually we made it a fixed duration, and eventually we made the warning indicator that lets you know he's stealthed nearby (which remained when we converted true stealth to camo).

I can only use this skin because of the splash

She doesn't cross the 50% banrate threshold in our internal data for the elite (D2 - Challenger) tier. She's close, but not quite there.

There is a delay :)

Haha looks like a mobile game

I don't interact with the skins team, but internally at Riot when we say "for visibility" it often means "hey just want to let you know about this thing" and isn't specifically referring to visual clarity. That's how I'd understand it in this context anyway.

I didn't interpret it as flamey at all, and good call on "enchanting" hehe. Unfortunately we probably aren't going to be shipping this soon due to tech constraints, but it's on the table for later.

We considered 300 additional warding range, not the global that's going on here :P. What we've found in testing is that Enchanters still need to take risks, unless they want to ward every single unwanted brush on the way to where they're going, and still have vulnerability to tank engage in and outside of lane.

We did explore some other stuff but this was found to be the most promising. Just looking to help Enchanters in high MMR and maybe see some more in pro, not flip the meta.

we expect this will be a helpful change for enchanters

We all go to our match history and choose one champion we've lost to in the last two weeks, then roll dice to determine the nerf magnitude. For buffs I pick champions I play to inflate my elo

this is exactly how it works, how else would it work?

It's in this patch, missed it in the notes, sorry!

Not related to that, had to do with other matchmaking changes a while ago that Clash wasn't 100% configured for.