PhreakRiot

I didn’t implement the 13.7 changes.

13.3 gave him lower mana costs and health ratios as well as AP ratios. I just got the expected bonus HP wrong. And we were conservative with the AP ratios, then realized we didn’t have to be. Adaptive Force stat shards are now a competitive option on him. Diversity seems nice, don’t you agree?

13.3 was meant to be a buff along with several other tanks. 13.4 was follow-up because it missed.

13.7 was realizing his win rate was still lowish and buffing for MSI. Then 13.8 is identifying that he still has room and with Rakan and Thresh being nerfed, we wanted to ensure there were enough aggressive champions to keep bot lane interesting and not just scaling+enchanter.

As the person most responsible for suggesting Alistar changes at most points here, I promise you I’m not much of an Alistar player.

I never said it was power neutral. I literally recorded a video that went up on this very subreddit where I said the role wasn't weak and that the changes in 13.1b were buffs.

With very limited data we think he can get another 2-2.5% win rate worth of buffs but he won’t receive any changes until 13.9

I do think he is mathematically stronger than 13.3 for most players but is definitely weaker for elite players still.

Azir being in pro has never been a direct problem imo. The goal wit these changes has always been to preserve win rate and see if we can diminish pro presence at the same time, allowing for further buffs. The exception was 13.4 where we expected Azir to be overtaking as the #1 mid laner, so that was a nerf first.

Unfortunately we missed the mark on tuning with these changes, which really sucks for Azir players.

The refund scaling with haste is not a bad idea. But it was decided to change this about him with little time left in the patch before lock. It’s actually hooked up in a really weird way under the hood, too, which adds to the risk.

Long-term I’m down to make it scale off haste and start at 3.

Idk top laners are already on an island until someone else decides they should just die. Don’t feel like exacerbating that.

Likely just a miscommunication. Initially the plan was to nerf Q chain CC along with compensation but we decided to just hit the cooldown refund and leave it there. And whatever resource the folks who make the graphic look at likely wasn’t changed in time.

Yes and it was exactly what I expected: level 6 top laners showing up in bot lane.

That would be a lot of work

I made the gates with another designer.

The funniest prank gates were deemed too disruptive to include since our stuff was actually gameplay impacting. (Nexus to nexus being the primary one here.)

I also think that there’s room for more hexgates on a serious level so we kinda just included both sets and kept what we could.

That was literally the first gate I made.

Less. My MMR and skill are very close in Jungle/Bot/Support. I'm horrible in solo lanes. I'd definitely tank.

We had alcove to alcove in version 1 internally. It was definitely too much.

OMG is that my favorite QA Analyst Triptoid?

Rumble Malphite has long been one of the most one-sided lanes in the game. As Malphite has gotten popular, it was only a matter of time until Rumble showed up more often. That and his recent buffs were targeted pretty well 😎

Generally, tracking who has leads / is playing better and how that translates into actually winning.

E.g., all else equal, in three separate games, if a top laner has +400g, a mid laner has +400g, and a jungler has +400g, the jungler's team wins most often. This is a dumbed-down example but you get the point.

You really cited a lot of evidence there; I'm convinced that nothing changed despite things changing.

Not happening any time soon, maybe ever.

Depends. You on mobile right now? Yeah, Zeri nerfs are getting pulled.

For all my desktop homies, she's getting nerfed.