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Inc AP Jungler and Baron Laner, just like you wanted.

We do want players to be able to play their favorite champions. Typically a high ban rate points to the champion being high frustration, but it can also mean they are perceived as powerful. So we do take ban rates into account when making adjustments. This doesn't always mean nerfs though, but it can mean we shift their power around into less frustrating areas.

All this is to say that we do expect some champions ban rates to increase, and are keeping an eye on them for if adjustments are needed.

Problems I wish we had.

We do expect it to have a larger learning curve than most items. But our hope is that we made it intuitive enough for people to start using. I am super excited to see what you all do with it.

Lux: To root you to your devastation

We keep an eye on how things are performing on LoLPC for sure. If we believe they would help address problems in Wild Rift we are likely to look at bringing them over. This was a big reason for bringing over BV and EoN from LoLPC. It takes some time to build everything, but don't worry we hear you.

I have no idea what the skin plans are, watching these videos is basically when I find out what skins are coming.

My plan was to start begging for a LeVAhri Burton skin.

We currently have no plans to add potions. Instead, we opted to add Honeyfruit in each lane. We feel this creates a similar use case, but also opens up more gameplay (stealing fruit, forcing opponents to take it, knowing where they will be when they do), they also arn't very feelable, it's really hard to feel good about slow ticking health regen), whereas burst healing is something you notice. Potions/consumables would also require more buttons/screen space. So these reasons pushed us to find something else, in this case, Honeyfruit in lanes.

It has been hard not to spoil it.

Short answer, he is fine, people undervalue him.

He is unique and it can be difficult to fit him into a comp, but if you are looking to win lane or need an AP top. He can do alot, he is also good at ambushing or winning objectives with a trail of shrooms before opponents even get to it.

Nothing that I'm aware of, sorry.

That's what I am saying though, Sona isn't a a flat out worse support. There are, and should be, situations where one is better than the other. But if you line them up side by side Sona is winning more games. Now it might be fair to say that Seraphine is better early game, and that you value the early game more than the late game. However those kind of options/differences are important for champions to have for them to be different. If I as a player/team want to have a stronger late game, at the cost of my early game, that option exists. And doing anything that puts power into Sona's early game means we need to pull it from her late game. This makes these characters more similar and dulls the strategic choice between them.

When it comes to initiation I don't think either of these champions is great, both can do it in a pinch for sure. But both are better at following up an initiation. Though I'd argue Seraphine is better at following up here, while Sonas is better if you ...

You are right that Rammus is a powerful and under appreciated pick by most players. However you are wrong in saying the Sona isn't viable, even when directly compared to Seraphine (using the definition we stated earlier) Sona is a fine, and actually a stronger pick than Seraphine. Sona is THE late game support and pays for that with weaknesses in the early game.

Even talking about newer vs older champion kits, both Riven and Darius are rather old kits (from PCs release dates), but even then Darius is the newer kit.

It is understandable that you are saying dashes can be frustrating but Sona is actually rather uneffected by them. Her abilities are targeted, and her ultimate is very quick with a large AoE.

No worries at all, I'm always happy to see engaging discussions on here.

What do you mean by "keep up"? When I read this I assume you mean they struggle to stay relevant in the game when other champions are added. That is a concern when we create new champions for sure. We don't want to release a champion who is just a better version of another (in multiple aspects, but here I'll focus on power, theme, and role/identity).

There will always be some overlaps, and those can be good, think of the champions with very little overlap (Teemo, Singed, Asol) and you see some of the most misunderstood and least popular champions. What we want to avoid is too much overlap.

In the case of Sona and Seraphine, there is a lot of overlap at a surface level. But Seraphine is primary a mid laner, requiring levels and exp to do her job. While Sona brings powerful (and hard to appreciate auras and team buffs. Their Ultimates and Ws (2s) are similar for sure, but even with tha...

But do you think these champions are more popular because players enjoy them?

Let's say every champions was perfectly balanced at all elos (in this case I'll define perfectly balanced as having an equal chance of winning in their intended 1-2 positions. IE a 50% winrate). Do you think people have preferred playstyles, or champions that are more appealing to a wider audience?

If yes then those popular champions would show up more frequently than the, equally balanced, but less popular champions.

Then when players don't see the less popular champions as often they assume they are weak. Thus these champion's pickrates go down further. This won't hit 0, every champion has players that enjoy them, but it is a cycle. We see this with many unpopular champions, even with they are objectively strong.

People tend to over value flashly champions and champions who are good at getting multi-kills. The reality is that having a tank on your team is a good sign you are going to win the game. And Amumu is one of the strongest at any rank.

Ya I need more, the team knocked it out of the park.

Happy to hear you enjoyed Arcane and are enjoying Wild Rift. There is plenty of both on this sub.

I wouldn't worry too much about the "fast jungle clear meta" fast clear times are always important sure, but really all those champions I listed are doing fine and some of the highest winrate jungles have slow clear times. (Amumu and Rammus have always been some of the highest winrate jungles, regardless of elo, and aren't thought of as fast). You are right that tank Nunu is the preferred build, but his AP off but shouldn't be terrible.

Nothing on Varus that I am aware of, or could share if I was. Sorry

Thank you for the kind words! It's always great to hear people enjoying the game.

"Hoping this won't get me banned"

Oh it would.