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This is a big part of it, but it still depends on the ability. By default your abilities will prioritize champions and both Annie and MF Q are frequently used for last hitting and it would be painful to need to target these at minions that frequently. Skill shots also have some nice gameplay to them that we like, and allow us to put more power into these abilities. Tap targeting does a lot to lower the skill floor of our controls, though there are plenty of times where you want to aim, and we feel that accounts for the added skill that these being targeted adds.

In Kassadin's case we knew his laning phase couldn't be as punishing as it is in LoLPC and thus he wouldn't be using this as as much of a farming tool. It being a skill shot also allowed us to make it a silence due to it inherently having some unreliability.

We always want to evaluate what is best for Wild Rift when making a champion and that might result in changes to abilities.

Thanks, it means a lot to hear people enjoy what you are working on.

Settings are a tricky thing as much as I would love to have a settings option for everything settings tend to be VERY rarely used, so we tend to want to focus on things being global changes. And we don't want settings changes to feel mandatory, or like you can't do X without changing them. Plus each setting we do add reduces the discoverability of all settings.

My personal concerns here would be 1) It could become mandatory at higher levels of play. 2) it doesn't feel intuitive to "lock" your camera at a location and move around at another location. 3) if not mandatory it becomes a HIGHLY specific setting that will see very little use. 4) the game was designed with the current camera in mind and all our designs are done with that in mind, and we feel we can make a great experience without changing this.

As a note on settings, the On Button Down was going to ship as a global change bu...

Yep yep yep, I am one of the designers working on the game's controls.

There are currently no plans for free cam controls, the game is designed around the camera and the information that it provides/obscures. We feel that the free cam is a bit less intuitive for Wild Rift's controls and we don't expect most players to be needing to focus away from their champion enough to warrant having it.

While we are still working on the game's controls, we don't expect to be making drastic changes but rather smaller tweaks as needed. Things like the "On Button Down" change last patch or some upcoming ones we are working on for future patches.

That physical damage is still affected by the targets Armor so against a target with no Armor it'll deal the full 10% (such as a jungle monster), but against a target with 100 Armor (such as the target dummy) it'll deal 5%.

Only Riot employees can have Riot in their username. It doesn't mean they work on Wild Rift, but it could. I've ran into a few other Rioters when playing, it's definitely not impossible, we do play a lot.

Edit: to be clear not every Rioter will have this tag turned on.

I was summoned! Yes, it is flat + %. This is to help balance out how valuable it is for champions building defenses and those who are not.

To be clear I just meant the bonus HP for having 400 stacks, not changes to her ultimate itself. Either way nothing planned for her atm but we would like to do something larger at some point, this passive rework was something we did to account for the Elemental Rift changes and took the opportunity to make sure a bit less feast/famine while we were at it.

I will make sure your post gets seen by our events team. I have to agree with you I'm loving this one, this and the "Who's the Champion?" have been some of my favorites they have done. I'm always super impressed with what they can pull off with the constraints they have.

We talked about being able to choose abilities, but her upgrades don't have the same kind of impact as Kai'sa or Kah'zix's upgrades do. Even if we let players choose what upgrades it wouldn't be much of a choice, there would be a correct answer as these are not playstyle or utility type upgrades, but tend to focus on damage. This also lets us control the pacing so you can't won't just always pick the strongest ones, but instead have to adapt to it.

As for her AP builds, I haven't seen the data but I don't believe this should have much of an impact on what build she can go. Nothing was changed except for her passive so before you had the roll the dice on what upgrades you could get, you know know what/when they are. If you were going AP before then it is totally possible that you didn't get the dragons that you were hoping for, now they might not be right up front but you know you can get them.

We wanted to do something a bit more exciting for her ultimate's enhanc...

We reworked how she unlocked her passive enhancements, but that shouldn't add much durability to her kit. It sounds like this is a case of PLAYER SKILL!

You can't prove that I'm jealous about how amazing that is.

Yes durability and time to kill is relative, but I'm going to push back on it being shorter than LoLPC (at least pre durability update). This was actually a contentious topic internally when the game first launched, some people felt that our longer TTK would actually hurt us when compared to LoLPC, ultimately we stuck with the levels of durability we had and LoLPC ended up adding the durability patch, that brings them both closer together. Though I am not sure where both games are relative to one another at this point.

Rammus is one I play a lot, and I do agree that in a very late game I feel a bit too squishy, but up until that point Rammus with just Thornmail and Sunfires feels plenty durable and deals good damage back.

That really comes down to what you think of as meta. If meta is what is successful in winning games, climbing the ladder, and having the agency to make plays then tank supports are already meta in solo que. If you are talking about meta as in what is popular then there is still work to be done.

Right Sona is the archetypical enchanter, and Lux has some enchanter qualities as well they should be enchanting groups. Tanks should not have the same outputs that enchanters have this is important to what makes each class unique.

Tanks are designed to work best in team fights so groups of 3-5 makes sense. But if you are a tank using your ultimate to disengage the group fight then yes Zeke's will not be helpful, though if the other team is forcing you to use your ultimate to disengage then you are already on your back foot and any enchanter style team buffs are not going to be as impactful as your ultimate would have been.

Keep in mind we also just reduced ultimate cooldowns, this is a major buff to tanks, and Zeke's (so doubling down on a buff to tanks).

Edit: forgot to address MR items

MR items are very niche. Armor is always valuable. Armor helps vs Towers, Epic Monsters, and most enemy champions, whereas MR only helps vs certain champions. And ...

So that comes back to the core issue we keep coming back to. Tanks are already strong, but the satisfaction is lower to most players. This isn't an issue where we have room to give them buffs, they are already winning a majority of their games. So giving them more durability isn't the answer and would come with a trade off. And small durability buffs (with balancing nerfs) aren't going to provide much satisfaction either.

Magnatron is an example of us trying a high satisfaction (dash+CC) tank tool as opposed to the generically powerful Stoneplate Enchant. The hope is that these two can co-exist at similar lower levels, but we Expect Magnatron to be much more flashy with a higher skill ceiling that provides good satisfaction. (Stoneplate being changed to a shield was also primarily done for satisfaction reasons).

This sounds like we might be using "tank" to refer to somewhat different things. I wouldn't say a tank should be much of a threat in a 1v1, that sounds like a bruiser or juggernaut.

When I say tank I am referring to someone who is durable and good at starting fights (Amumu, Malphite, Rammus) these tend to have great target selection or fast ways to quickly engage on a group, we call these Vanguards. Or Wardens who are less focused on starting fights (though they can) and more focused on protecting their team, or an individual (Braum and Galio).

The important thing here is that they are a team focused class and if the assassin is focusing the tank then either A) the tank is out of position or B) The tank is happy because they are tanking so the assassin doesn't focus the carry.

Often I hear people refer to Dr. Mundo or Darius as a tank and while I can see why, they are very durable, they are the ones that should be a threat over time.

I agree that...

I think the pacing comment is a fair one, but minion aggro and Ruby Crystal favor the tank. Because your defenses will compound and your opponent (with fewer defense) is also taking minion aggro.

I personally would like to make a clearer difference in bruiser and tank starting Armor/MR, but all that would really do right now is buff tanks and this is primarily a satisfaction problem, not one of power.

So reducing Bramble Vests cost would buff them, but we aren't looking to buff tanks. Really what we would want to do is actually keep them power neutral, or a slight nerf, but increase satisfaction, for tanks. So a buff to Bramble Vest would likely mean we would need to nerf it's stats. This might be worth it given the increased access to Grevious Wounds though.

So when you say they are in a rough spot I think it comes down to play style, yes supports roam a bit, but tank supports are better equipped for that than enchanters. When I'm mid and Leona or Alistair roams to my lane I'm much more concerned than seeing a Janna or Yuumi.

Assassins are designed to focus a squishy target and kill them, but tanks can still focus. For example Nautilus is great at locking down a single target, but if you want a tank built for starting fights against a group Malphite, Alistair, or Leona are going to be much better.

In my experience the difference between a good and a great tank is knowing when to start a fight and who to focus when you do. Waiting for the right opening after the opponent used an ability, or the carry took one step too far forward is VASTLY better than just being the guy who starts the fight.

We are unlikely to add an item that gives passive defenses, we already have a very similar item with Protectors Vow, and it is difficult to feel. The issue is that something like this is difficult to appreciate, Armor and MR are about as invisible as a stat can be, Protector's Vow gives a shield so that already makes it much more noticeable, and it still does a poor job.

Tank supports already have Zeke's and Protector's Vow so they have similar tools already. However enchanters and tank supports SHOULD feel different and have different tools at their disposal, giving tanks more starts to take away what makes enchanters special and we end up with little distinction between the two.

This feeling is the part that really matters here. Tanks can be strong without feeling tanky enough and that is totally valid. We would like to adjust how this feels, I personally have felt plenty durable when playing tanks (typically Rammus), at least until the very late game, but that doesn't mean they are weak.