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What handsome people
You're up early wtf you doin
What handsome people
You're up early wtf you doin
Well I'll be here answering any questions if possible....but mostly defending why the blue pet is the best one.
How do you justify your stance that the stinky, poopoo blue pet is best when it is ABSOLUTELY undeniable that the best pet is the sweet, beautiful, handsome, perfect green lizard? I demand answer in essay form.
Riot Cashmiir is a writer and Gold support main. When she isn’t doing words, she’s stealing kills from her ADC and wondering why she’s hardstuck.
lol, you and me both my friend
A fellow Zyra appreciator🙏
what do you mean by three direction spread that was standard?
In the past we've shared some of the classic early concept spreads that show three different directions for a character. It's usually three spreads (but sometimes there are more) because three is just a perfect number :)
Did you research any other West African countries for inspiration?? Or did the idea of basing K'Sante on Ghana come early in the development?
The team wanted to create a West African-inspired champ from early on, and Ghana was chosen very early. West Africa isn't a monolith of culture, but there's some overlap between some of the countries--especially considering much of the modern borders in Africa were drawn by white European nations and ignored a lot of the differences between different groups of peoples.
They did look at the region overall, and highlighted a lot of the regional traditions, but tried to stick closely to Ghanaian inspirations.
His mana is alright. You definitely can’t waste your W, but unless you spam q AND e you probably aren’t running out.
His laning is strong. Not top class early game champ but can definitely fight you and trade effectively. With his ult, he can definitely turn around a 1v2 if the enemy doesn’t respect the angles of the knockback
unless you spam q AND e you probably aren’t running out.
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what is the asian group called? how many groups are there?
There is FAR, the Filipinos at Riot RIG, who recently put on a Night Market in partnership with Riot Unidos, the Latino Rioter RIG. API is for Asian & Pacific Islander Rioters. There's one for underrepped genders and gender identities, and also one for veterans. I think there could be more, but I'll admit I'm not super active with RIGs.
I appreciate Riot having RIGs for their minorities, but did you really need to name them Riot Noir and Rainbow Rioters?
The RIGs (ERGs) name themselves!
That point about how all the other black characters in League are defined by their struggle is one that I've never considered. Yes, character problems drive growth and create interesting story opportunities, but that doesn't mean that's all they have to have (nor does it make the ones that do bad characters by any stretch of the imagination).
I'm an African-American kid who's grown up around stories where very rarely do people who look and talk like me get to be the protagonist or hero just because, especially in fantasy and fantasy adjacent settings. K'Sante is a well crafted and interesting character beyond the color of his skin of course, but when you add that in the first feeling I get is "See! People like you are welcome here! You've got every right to exist in this place." It may seem trite or unnecessary to some but I can't tell you how much I wish I had this type of character to identify with growing up.
Representation matters.
I'm sorry that entertainment media has failed you and other BIPOC folks so holistically in the past (and will probably do so in the future). K'Sante isn't, and can't be, the solution to all the missed opportunities for diverse and inclusive storytelling. But I hope this is a step in the right direction.
These stories matter. Diverse stories matter. I'm glad you've found representation in K'Sante, and I know the team will be as well. They put so much care and thought into him, and it's such an honor to be able to help show that.
Kinda lame they don't show they alternative champion concepts like they used to, seeing the different "could have been" versions of champions like sett was cool
We didn't include it here but the exploration for K'Sante was mainly focused on his weapons, hair, and costuming. They knew they were going to make a Black, West African-inspired man from the start. So there wasn't the standard three direction spread we've shared in the past.
updating patch notes text styling is unexpectedly nontrivial work because it involves multiple teams (at least, that’s what i thought during my time writing them). kudos to u/Riot_Riru ^_^! this is a huge win for accessibility, too!
OMG I MISS YOU COME BACK
I have a question about stuff at riot. Is it okay if I DM you? No troll.
Ya
Put this in the game you cowards
Wait...
Why is the pixellation so long in the front view???
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I want Nudyr now.
So thankful for our new president 🙏🙏🙏
https://twitter.com/LeagueOfLegends/status/1570441441142525957?t=wt9ifMmdWXbpw6kXcCjYtw&s=19
And that Guardian Angel attack change is interesting, we are going to throw gold at people? D:
Ya everyone's just changed into Samira
The health change actually got pulled from the patch but this part was left in by accident. It should be removed soon!
sweats in editor
They speedran the development. They did it in something like 6 months as I recall. They were only able to do that by reusing league assets.
The reason for the speedrun was people were unsure about the longevity of the genre. They wanted to get in on the hype before it died down, and they didn't want to dump resources into a game they weren't sure was going to last long.
It took 18 weeks.
Thanks for the write up, interesting to glimpse behind the curtains.
We filmed at the end of June, so months is kinda right if you go by months but date-wise it was about a month and 2 weeks!
That seems reasonable. Phroxzon tweet made it sound like it was filmed in the beginning of the year.
When Reav3 says in the beginng "for some reason they choose me to talk about all of LoL this time" is that something that comes from Reav3 or do you carefully place each individual word onto his lips? Or is that something he chooses as introduction in step 4?
Because it sounds genuine but seems like everything is planned.
Thanks Phroxzon lol. Ya tbf when we started the process it was months since scripting and prep work is probably another 4 weeks. But the filming was about 6 weeks ago.
Reav3 writes his own scripts. And we were kind of trying to imply that he has his new role of Lead Producer of Gameplay (sorry I don't remember if this is 100% the correct title now).
In previous videos he was always Lead Producer of Champions, but he got a promotion this year to this new role so he oversees all of League gameplay initiatives including Champions team! So he was implying that now he doesn't just get to talk about champions, but ALL of League.
A few MONTHS ago?
The yearly update was filmed a few MONTHS ago?
What?
Hi yes. A senior person who handles the scripts for these here!
I am not a League dev. I don't make the game. So I have no idea what the teams are working on until I talk to them. The process is:
Talk to League leadership to understand a high level view of what we want to talk about. (This is a week or so to account for schedules and PTO.)
Reach out to the development teams themselves to fill in the details. This takes a pretty big chunk of our time because we want to make sure we're not too disruptive of their time. For example Phroxzon is the lead on Summoner's Rift Team, and his team does active game balance, Preseason, midscopes, and they write stuff like Quick Gameplay Thoughts and Patch Notes. They're busy folks and I gotta give them space to do their jobs!
My fellow writers and I get started actually writing the thing. We take everything the devs give us and put it into a script that sounds cohesive, coherent, and has ...