PhreakRiot

Originally posted by JoshQuest1

Hi Phreak!
Personally I'm not one on the 'Every champ is Riot trying to ruin the game' bandwagon, but I see one argument against Yuumi making the rounds recently and I'd love to see it addressed.

Recently Riot has taken a stance of 'Yuumi is baby's first support, the support to get your friends into league' which is great and I like that.
But everytime that sentence is said someone brings up how Riot was like 'Yuumi is a very complex and skill based champ, you just don't know how to play with/against her.'

I'd love to know what Riot's (and I know you don't speak for all of Riot, you're just a voice the community loves) stance is regarding that old post and if they still think its true or if they changed their mind.

Personally I'd love a world where she is both easy to play as a first champ, and offers skill expression in higher elos. I don't kno...

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Originally posted by kloricker

Phreak single handedly saving LoL a patch at a time. Phreak the saviour.

Originally posted by -ElBandito-

Slightly hot take: the balance team was already doing very well before Phreak joined. Last year Phroxzon and others kept the game much more balanced than previous seasons, and had engaging changes. The source of frustration then and now are coming from things outside of balance.

…not that I don’t love Phreak on the team. His approach on the game is awesome

Originally posted by Proxnite

What’s crazy is that while I’m glad he join the balance team and is enjoying it, it’s unlikely the dynamic of the balance team changed much and their ideas for balancing are still very much the same but what did change is people’s view on the balance team. Somehow, simply having a familiar face explain to them the balance changes makes them way less likely to instantly reach for the pitchforks.

Kinda interesting that something so small has the impact that it did and speaks volumes about the playerbase’s psychology, that a single change (which realistically didn’t change anything about balancing) can make them much less trigger happy.

Originally posted by ElliotNess

It's definitely sped up at least 10%

Originally posted by CwispyCrab

That’s the best part. They can’t because then she’d be p/b in pro

Originally posted by TheTruexy

This is something we agree with and I fully believe that our pricing model is outdated.

August and I are working on updating the BE pricing for a lot of champs to better fit modern standards and to also address some of these things. If Yuumi is meant to be an easy-to-access champion........she should probably be obtainable early.

Originally posted by tigercule

Just out of curiosity, if the scaling fantasy is fine but she's meant to lose lane, why also axe the adaptive bonus on W while crippling her lane? Aren't you just heavily hitting both there?

Originally posted by SupremeQuinn

where is the overheal change?

Originally posted by snake4641

phreak is single-handedly saving the game from the inside, that's my goat

Originally posted by BluSoap_

I just wanna thank you guys, I honestly didn’t think I’d get ten, much less a THOUSAND upvotes. It’s my Birthday today, and this is honestly the best Birthday Gift I could have gotten, I don’t wanna get sappy and all that, but you guys really made my day today, thank you.

Originally posted by Babymicrowavable

I take it it's a strong possibility ADC class update will also be delayed to 13.3 if that's the case?

Originally posted by PINKPOTATO82

I love you phreak

Originally posted by GalaxySmash

Oh hey its my favorite caster turned game designer, Jatt

Originally posted by DustyBum

Oh I did not know that, well good for him I’m sure he’ll get compensated significantly better

Originally posted by iDobleC

Are you currently working with items only? Or are there any other projects that you'll be working on? Hope that the new job is going well and Idk if this feedback is useful but if you guys could add a lil bit more "oomph" to Evenshroud I would love you all!

Originally posted by A_Very_Horny_Zed

Are you partly responsible for the AD item changes? Not to stroke your ego but they're all good changes. Hoping to see Lethality items not be dog some time soon, feels bad that they were forgotten during this preseason's big shake-up.