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ADC changes for next patch have some systems changes and some light champion buffs (don't get your hopes up on the champion stuff, it's small). In general, tactics are going to be up to the designer. I really like systems stuff so I gravitate there naturally. Could be a weakness, could be that it's frequently the right place.

Have crit items hit PBE yet? I only submitted them to PBE this afternoon so IDK when they reach y'all.

Essence Reaver was someone else as were the fighter items that this thread is about.

Long term I want to get Shieldbow to legendary if a good idea pans out.

Generally, moving around whole item systems is not something that happens in a week and a half.

I'm still pretty happy with how 13.2 is shipping. I'll probably post about it tomorrow.

Funny thing is, Collector does things that people always fail to math (executing at 5% and guaranteeing the gold on the carry). It fails the math test but is actually good.

Radiant Virtue just straight up passes the math test and is good.

Oh and there's more. :)

We here at Riot Games have very good rocket ships.

Hey, I know this guy!

Super handsome. Just wonderful human beings.

That's the plan!

I spoke with Jatt when I was first considering the transition. I don’t think our convo really pushed me in any direction. Was just useful to get his perspective.

Nah just caitlyn mana buffs.

Given more time I could probably think of a better niche for horizon focus. Honestly the item may need a rework. But for now the reveal is about as strong as it needs to be and the rest comes down to the item being functional and competitive. 15 AP should put it in a very solid place compared to Shadowflame, which is its current closest competitor.

Yeah that's the plan. Now with extra context on my changes!

I already do those for most patches on my own youtube channel (plug: youtube.com/phreak).

I work at Riot on the Summoner's Rift Team as a game designer. I made the changes to Axiom Arc, Horizon Focus, and Xayah that are coming in 13.1 (someone else directly implemented them).

I chose AP over Haste because the item tends to beat Shadowflame when Vel'Koz etc. are playing support and slightly underperform to Shadowflame when playing mid.

So I pushed the item toward things like wave clear and burst in order to make it a better farming mage item.

Maybe the item is actually just overall better served as a source of haste but I didn't think any more deeply than the above.

So I looked into Horizon pretty extensively. It’s pretty much tied with Shadowflame on all the usual suspects. This buff should make it clearly dominant and usher some players to try it out when they otherwise wouldn’t.

Longer term, I want to fix the bugs. But your statement isn’t accurate. It can be good even with the bugs.

If I wanted to cast in the same capacity (assignments, pay, etc.) in 2023 I could have. I chose to become a game designer.

Also on this list is a Xayah buff. I picked it up after the tweet was sent.

As a quick thing about this, you have to compare items as a whole.

Duskblade, Youmuu's, etc. all have much more AD than, for example, LDR.

Especially early game, flat AD is a very important stat. So building items that give 60+ AD as well as 10-20 lethality is a really good stat profile for killing Ashe and the like.

Ravenous Hydra appears to still be exceptionally strong, arguably overpowered. It's almost certainly Zed's best first item. Not going to debate that one. That said, for second item Zed, both Duskblade and Prowler's appear to out-perform Cleaver. So players are opting toward bruisery target-agnostic builds, but lethality appears to out-perform.