Blaustoise

I love it. The passion from this community and LoL players around the world gives me energy.

I love you.

Happy wind (wo)man :D

mfw learning the 9.14 meta

I didn't delete the tweet. I think twitter is down rn

Reddit is dead catch us on the gram or tik tok 😎👌🙌😝🤪🙈🙈🙈

Someone on EUW name changed to “Fire Blaustoise”. That was an honor for me.

I don’t speak for all devs at Riot or game devs in general, but I can tolerate the flame towards our work and actually lowkey appreciate it. It means you all are passionate. Sure, a lot of “feedback” is just people being unreasonable and nasty, but at the same time I think some game devs/studios expect their players and communities to behave with the same decorum as their professional environment.

All the hate we get is the result of love and passion for the game, and if you frame it from that perspective it makes the flame bright enough to push you harder without burning your ass all the time.

Then again I played 700 ranked games this season to be hard stuck high plat, so maybe I’m a borderline masochist like u/zv...

Stoked for Moe/Revenge, and really happy to see that me coaching him on how to play Irelia was useful!

I think their team’s yasuo vs your team’s yasuo doesn’t exist though. He’s finally just a happy (one hex over) wind man

I'm a simple man: I see Faker + Yasuo, I watch

gone, but not forgotten :'(

I've seen some people saying "it's just a meme" and OP mentioned "group think" and I could see how memes or the mores of the western communities give the perception of "katana man bad", but I think that players fundamentally engage with League (and other games) differently across the globe.

Another high n survey that we recently ran didn't focus on champions, but rather on core gameplay perceptions that I would have expected would be more universal than champion preferences. We asked a sort of "Goldilocks" question about damage in League of Legends: is damage too low, just right, or too high (the actual question was more specific; also on a 5-point scale).

Taking a look at the results, we saw pretty substantial differences in the perc...

Deal

August, your champions are hard carried BY ARTISTS, and I just sh*tpost and fake data to make Riot seem smart, and even that backfires.

CURING DID SG JINX SPLASH.

It’s an easy trade.

Fantastic as always. Makes me want to see her do a KDA Akali piece (my bias) or an ensemble.

Also way to remind us that she’s no longer RIOT Curing. Offer still stands, will happily trade myself, u/RiotAugust, and u/RiotJag to get her back.

Stoked to see this framework being communicated publicly. It's been really exciting to see Repertoire and team developing this project internally, and I've always been a proponent of us sharing more of our data and data decision-making with players to foster discussion and transparency.

Also HUGE SHOUTOUT to Riot Benobo (his name is ben, literally the bonobo of the balance team) for all of his dank data. Whenever you see me discussing data publicly, half the time it's from his internal reports.

never

P1/D4 elo is home to the most hardstuck coinflip players who giga feed on your team yet carry (and trashtalk) when against you

Only occasionally got to work with Janelle (though she loved the dank data), but more importantly I've always appreciated her engagement with the community for the skins team. She was a huge inspiration to me to engage more around gameplay, balance, and data!

It's always tough when a talented and passionate coworker moves on, and it's even harder when they're your friend too. BUT I'm super stoked for whatever is next for her, and I'm sure she's always welcome back in gaming and at Riot specifically.

u ahr mah queen