BarackProbama

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My recommendation as someone who's thinking a lot about the new player experience is to play Co-Op vs. AI with a friend.

One of the challenging things about traditional Summoner's Rift gameplay is how bound the success of the lanes are. This means that you can be doing your best, fail (which is normal in all things when starting out), and significantly impact the other 4 people on your team. They obviously won't enjoy this, and might tell you so. That negative feedback loop makes trying new things extremely punishing.

Bots with a friend is more tolerant of mistakes, helps you try more things, and you can learn from a human being who can adapt their advice to your specific needs in a supportive way. I am assuming you have friends who are nice people. If you don't have any friends who are playing League DM me and I can do a game or two with you :)

Any game mode will work!

The first few weeks something like this comes out, we spend a lot of time watching and thinking and talking and planning.

We will share more when there’s something concrete to share, but I just wanted folks to know that everyone on the team is paying attention. We certainly want ARAM players to have a good time.

I don’t normally talk about features before we release them for lots of reasons, but this seems relatively harmless:

We have a ticket on a team right now to add a small lockout to a champion the first time it enters the bench (3s) so that it cannot get snapped up.

It’s not like in the deep backlog, it’s coming up in the next couple of sprints if I recall correctly. I will check on it on Monday.

Now watch me reallllly regret saying this if team has to jump on something more important and people be like Barack lied he always lies 😿

Don’t need replay file, just need to zero in on the specific game. If you DM me your game name, region, and around when the match occurred we can look you up and do the rest.

Looking for help through player support (PS) is a worthy use of your time!

What I am looking for is gameIDs so we can figure out specific behaviors and map them to game triggers (or see where they don’t map) to improve our systems.

We can get some of this from PS but not all! Ticket volume sometimes makes it hard to parse through.

That was a lot of inside baseball, but the gist is we are talking about improving some of these systems and the info helps. Team tells me it’s been surprisingly hard to find solid examples given the number of times people make the complaint of people skirting AFK detection.

Pls send details about a game where you experienced it.

OP or anyone else that has a game where a player displayed this behavior, please DM me with details. We'd very much like to see them.

This is incredible work. It's slightly more impressive than knowing how to play Aphelios.

I laughed, I cried.

Now define "substantial change" in a way most people would agree with ;)

I like this one.

I mean I legit just forgot and googled it. Rekt.

Howdy, I'll give this a think out loud:

The buffs/nerfs on ARAM are designed to put the champion in an appropriate spot for the mode. If they are going well, they generally bring everyone to "fair". Assume that this is a given, since I am not involved with balance much at all.

Ok so all champions are fair, but some have stats down and some have stats up. If we displayed that in champion select, one of the challenges is that we would need to figure out which level of disclosure we were interested in.

Highest level of disclosure is probably a little blue up arrow on their portrait if they are adjusted up for the mode and a little red down arrow if they are adjusted down for the mode. Maybe some sort of Tilde (~) or something if they have some up and some down. I further assume that if you hover them you can see those details.

One immediate challenge is information overload. Most champions have some adjustment on ARAM and this could be entirel...

You and your friends look cozy af ngl gj.

I think we should probably seriously investigate those shop filters

Sick work!

OK.

So is someone going to photoshop Lee sin with a 2nd health bar and dark souls HUD or do I need to do it?