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you mean riven/fiora kind of fighter or jax/darius style?
I think players that like any of those 4 champs will dig her
you mean riven/fiora kind of fighter or jax/darius style?
I think players that like any of those 4 champs will dig her
Why another midlaner mage so close to Hwei's release?
Well she was originally being designed as a toplaner. While she was pretty fun to play, she was incredibly frustrating to play against for top lane fighters. At that time she had less burst damage (more sustained damage) and was a lot tankier. She was generally OP because of this, since she had damage, mobility, range and tankiness. We had to take something away from her, and tankiness made the most sense based on how her art/theme had developed. In return we upped her burst potential a bit as well. This change made her more fair to play against, but also pushed her more towards a midlaner rather then a toplaner. We didn't want to FORCE her into top, as the things we would have had to do would either make her less fun to play, or less fun to play against, so we just let her drift towards midlane towards the end of development.
On the brightside the next Champion release is a top laner, and one I think top lane fighter players will really dig
Ambessa is going to be top at least, right?
Ambessa is top yes. I think her kit will be very appealing to top lane fighter players
She's supposed to be a toplaner? This is a Naafiri situation I think, Midlaners are gonna be all over her. (me first)
She’s actually more of a midlaner that can flex into top sometimes.
But if they banned 50k accounts that used to play and there are those that left how can the daily numbers be unaffected ? Doesn't this mean that people just got more accounts/smurfs to compensate, there's no way that someone that wasn't interested in the game decided to start playing because of Vanguard.
It because Arena came out right after vanguard. Arena launching greatly increased overall players in LoL and has been doing that since it released.
Hello Reav, hope you've been well! I know it's probably too early to talk about it, but will the preseason changes (or just 2025 changes) be as big as the map, baron and jungle changes this year? Or should be expect something a bit more conservative?
I wouldn't expect anything conservative
Hey, I’m not familiar with this graph - what do the axes represent?
The X axis is raw play rate per patch or breadth. The Y is how often a champion gets played consecutively by the same players in a patch, or depth. Each point on a champions line represents a patch. The higher to the top, right a champion is, the more popular they are, the lower they are to the bottom left the least popular.
Hey reav3 are you able to share the current breadth and depth chart? Been a while a since we saw it
Looking at the data, holistically Corki is the least popular champion right now. Kled has the lowest raw playrate
Exciting! So will we perhaps get a 6th map over the course of this run, or is this planning for the 4th iteration?
And are you able to share how the team feels about the continued existence of cameos?
We like some of the things they are doing (forcing you to move around the map, forcing you to approach fights differently) but we don't think they are the best execution of those goals. We do want to eventually replace them with a better objective system, and you can see with the new map that we are already, in some ways, doing that. For this iteration of Arena we felt that the predictability of the item system and the number of players were higher value to address, in order to add more game to game variance/depth.
I've never been this exited
Same
prismatics sound like mythic items 2.0 lol.
interesting changes, but would like more info
The major difference is that you can't select whatever prismatic you want. They are powerful, but the round you get a prismatic, it is similar to getting a augment, in that you get to pick 1orf 3 randomly shown to you (you can reroll like augments though) Same thing happens if you buy a prismatic anvil. Thier is no way to directly purchase a prismatic item.
Do you know if Riot plans to do multiple balance changes during this run of arena? Because I feel like that would definitely keep engagement up, if some of the top tiers/annoyances got nerfed.
Yes, we are planning to do balance patches. We are also looking into to doing a small content drop at some point (with probably a few new augments/prismatic items)
Sylas was developed as a midlaner fyi
Sorry to bother you but last roadmap in October the Freljord champ was called she but in this roadmap it was just neutral mage. Is it ok for me to expect a female mage this time? :(
Yes she’s still female
That makes sense! I assume the story of Arcane 2 also played a role in her choice as a champion. Happy for her, sad for Sevika :')
Excited for all the new champs and updates!
I mean just because we are making Ambessa now doesnt mean we will never make Sevika. I think if characters from Arcane, who have clear combat abilities, end up really popular with players, then we would consider bringing them over to LoL as new champions
Are you able to elaborate what that is, seems a bit simplistic to go with strength again since darius already embodies that so well
I cant at this point no, want to keep some things a surprise. The fact that she is clearly a warrior that fights makes it a lot easier then Silco though. That why we gave Renata the robot, to kind of be like her "goon" since chembarons usually have goons fight for them. It would have been weird to suddenly give Silco a robot that was never in the show
Hey reav3, I recall you mentioning that for a time the team looked at potentially porting silco for renata glasc, but that didn't pan out. Are you able to share how the team got to being able to port ambessa now
Ambessa is a fighter with a clear power source. She is much easier to port into LoL then a character that doesn’t ever fight
We try our best to give as much feedback as possible on /r/LeagueArena but it seems to just fall on deaf ears most often. It's like player opinion is not being discussed outside of Riot's internal testing team and then you're wondering why no one is sticking around to play it?
Perhaps we can get something going together on the sub, just maybe a collection of feedback?
I actually didn’t know this existed. I’ll start checking it out
Quickplay is great, the champ select is buggy which I hate but the mode itself is great imo.
We are working on fixes for the UI right now. We want to get them out sometime early this year. We are also working on the ability to queue for as the same champion in multiple roles