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You are unable to refund an item after you have interacted with other units. So if you dealt damage (ignite, Brand passive, Morgana pool, Tristana Bomb, etc) or helped an ally (redemption) those items might have helped you in some way and you are not able to refund your items.

This isn't so much a bug, but us making sure you can't buy a bunch of AP to enhance your DoTs after you die, only to refund it and get something else.

Endstep talked about this on his stream a bit the other day. Basically, Diana's rework was being developed on PC at the same time that the Wild Rift team was working on her. So while the core ideas are the same some of the details had changed. If we were to add any additional effects/damage then it would be too strong unless we shaved power from other places. This would have likely made things feel a bit worse as its power would need to be divided into multiple places.

As someone working on champions these are always fun to read.

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I just double-checked on LoLPC and you can not cast Kas'sa's R while charging up your E. E's charge time is intended as a lockout and being able to circumvent this with spell casts would remove the intended weakness here, so it is unlikely we would look to change it to allow her to do this.

Kai'sa is also seen as a strong marksman so buffs focused around skilled play seems unlikely.

Competitive would be a concern for sure.

Though I do want to push back on the point about champions not having 2-3 keystone options. The issue here is an issue of it FEELING like champions don't have multiple viable options. When looking at our data the vast majority of champions have 2 keystones that each preform relatively equally. The issue here is one of feeling/perception not actual power.

That isn't to say that this means it's fine as is, how something feels of equally, really more, important here. And we would like to get to a place where each champion feels like they have at least 2 options. Some examples here is that for enchanters FoL is as good as Aery, but it isn't as feel able/noticable. And for bruisers Grasp is in a similar situation. Part of this is that conqueror is just generically good. (who doesn't like damage?) So when you see so many players taking the Keystone, you assume you should too. The reddit echo chamber doesn't help here either. We a...

1. So to be clear we never said that we were only releasing once champion per month, just that we were slowing down. That is how things have ended up so far this year, but I have been told that I can say we have more than 12 champions planned this year.

2. I'm not going to get into match making here, it isn't the area I work on. But we do hear you and the people working on this are aware of the pain points/feedback. I just don't know enough about the details to speak on it.

3. We feel you on this, and it is something we want to improve. You've seen us adding items, and like we said above we have plans for more. It is fun for the team, and good for the game.

4. Sorry this is also not my area either, so I can't speak to much here. I suspect this is a problem for hard core players and the generous amount of blue motes that are given out. But its tricky to give enough for casual players and also cover hard core players. Though again this i...

That's possible for sure, but it could also be changed and give fewer options. It sounds like the issue is a feeling of a lack of options, and that can be handled with the current system, just with more options added.

I'm not trying to sound like I am splitting hairs here, I just want to make sure I understand you. The problem statement isn't that you dislike the system, it's that you feel like you don't have enough options. Still useful feedback for us for sure.

Sort of, We've talked about this a few times in other places, so I wont go too much into it here, but Asol is a popular champion for players to try out, but none really sticks with him. His winrate isn't being boosted by Asol one tricks, its still high even with those new Asol players.

This means that a lot of players want to like him, and like his theme, but that his gameplay turns them away. But even in these games you are still more likely to win with Asol. Players just don't stick with the champion. It isn't a power thing, so much as it is a perceived power/satisfaction thing. We still see powerful champions with low playrate, or weak or 50% champions that players love to play.

It is a concern for sure, but Locket already has something built in to reduce repeated uses. We can tune the item in ARAM if it becomes dominant.

I'm putting that on my resume for when I swap to become a community manager.

That is an interesting thought. How would you feel if your favorite one rotated out, knowing that it could come back at some point?

What about the risk of a champion/small group of champions feeling like they don't have a good keystone during a period of time?

So that sounds more like an issue with the options rather than an issue with the rune system itself. We do agree that we want to include some more options here, the issue being the UI problem we have talked about.

I'll quickly add that while there is a lot of perception around Conq being the only viable option. Grasp, and Fleet Footwork look to be performing as well as Conq for Baron lane Bruisers. On several such as, Baron lane Wuknog, Irelia, Gragas, and Garen Grasp is their strongest Keystone.

Marksmen tend to do fine with Fleet Footwork, but we agree it isn't an ideal situation for many of them. And we would like to give some options they are happy with.

What is it you feel is missing with the current system? A change is always a possibility, but is unlikely, especially in the short term, the UI alone would require much more work, and if that is already slowing things down you can already imagine what a larger scale change would be like.

Ya let's all feel pity for the designer who will need to balance this on ARAM.

Asol has been viable, even strong, for a while. The problem is that none enjoys the playstyle and his power is hard to appreciate.

Anyway time to go see how ARAM is doing.

A bug it be, a fix you'll soon see.

Hmmm, do something with Blitzcrank???!!!!

To the Riot cave!!!

Sorry I'm not familiar enough with those systems. I'm on the in-game team, basically stuff that happens once you load into the Rift. So I don't know what is being worked on or what challenges those teams are tackling.

Correct, the AS was put directly into champions, and the mpen allowed for the creation of Infinity Orb. This opens the door for champions who would previously build AS/Mpen boots more choice in what they can build. Now if they need vamp or tenacity they aren't losing out on dps.

Yep yep yep, we haven't said that new items are not coming and not being worked on. Items are something the team always very excited about. If you read my last item blog post, about patch 2.6, you might even be able to peer through the veil and take a guess.

To Draggles' point we would like to add more Keystones but like it has been said before it takes a bit of extra work, this doesn't mean we won't/couldn't do it, just that it'll take a bit longer than we would like.

We also have a major bug fix coming for Megadrive in 3.1. Basically late into it's development (like after it was announced late) a bug popped up that made it so if you CC multiple people you would only get one instance of the CC. This has been fixed and now CCing multiple people will grant multiple instances of the refund.

We do have that, it's called Iron (Iron is the lowest right?), and Challenger at the top. Noone can fall below Iron regardless of how many games they lose, or go above Challenger.

But really though a minimum MMR range has the same kinds of issues I was talking about before. It also means that a player can't drop in skill, and we have seen plenty of players on this same subreddit talk about how they have dropped in rank.

It would also put a lot of extra stress/pressure on those first placement games (that already have a bit of pressure), and that seems a bit off for us to do when we removed promos between tiers because of the added stress/pressure they created.

I don't know the details of the system (not the area of the game I work on), but I do know that the goal of the matchmaking system is to create fair matches where in a single game each team has a 50% chance of winning. However this system only lasts until all 10 players have hit accept, and a lot ca...