I'm still hoping for an Invoker(Dota) in League, has there ever been any talks about a kit like his?
Aphelios started out with a goal to make a champion like that. CertainlyT thought it would be more interesting in the ADC space then the mage space, since the ADC space didn't have anything close to something like that, so we changed it from a mage to a ADC early in discovery
Boss I am finding a hard time understanding what her new gameplay mechanic is. Could use your help :p What is the hook you're going for here? A lot of these spells we've seen before.
Some of her more unique mechanics are hard to see in that video. Once the kit is fully revealed I think it will become more clear. She definitely has some really unique things about her
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The VA is 100% not Laura Bailey
And honestly a brilliant weapon design.
Though id prefer it being an Urumi but eh. Not easily shown anyway.
It is a Urumi! :)
Samira, akshan, belveth, tank...meanwhile when was last champ from frejlord and tagon, damacia etc
Samira is Noxus and BV is void
Akshan?
Oh yeah! I always think of him as aligned to the Sentinels rather then a region
And why not some Champs from frejlord or smehing...just shurima every year is getting so boring
When was the last Champions from Shurima we made? I can't even think of it
Sorry to bother you, but could you repost what team (art, gameplay etc) is working on the high-skill toplaner? I swear you posted it before, but I cant seem to find it
Maxw3ll did the original design though one of our newer designers took it over. I can’t remember his rioter name though. The artist is RiotEarp and SkipToMyLuo is doing the narrative
Would you say that she slaps?
She has AOE abilities, healing that gets better the more people she heals, a lot of peel and not a lot of damage.
How didnt you expect they would play her as a support?
We didnt think she wouldn't get played as support at all, we were fine with some support play. Typically though players end up playing a champion in the lane/position they are strongest in. Through internal playtesting we were confident she would be stronger in mid then support so we thought players would still primarily play her as a mid laner. We were right about that and she was stronger in mid lane, but she was very unique in the fact that most players (by a large degree) were playing her in a position that was actually statistically weaker then another position.
Have you ever thought about "evolving" a character from let's say Legends of Runeterra (by evolving I mean moving their story forward or changing them) to fit as a champion?
yeah, we would likely have to do that to some extent anyway to make the release exciting. We took a similar approach with Senna/Yone, for example. We evolved their story and visual design with their releases as champions.
Oh like Seraphine being there right next to Sona.
Serpaphines silhouette is different enough from Sona. She was also originally intended as a mid laner. I wasn't implying we couldn't have 2 champion with plant like powers (Maokai and Ivern also using plant like powers) I was saying we didn't want to make another female support with plant like powers. We certainly can and do have more then one Champion who uses a sword, and we felt we could also have more then one Champion who uses music, and that singing was different enough to playing a stringed instrument. We didn't explicitly plan for her to become a support that's just where players want to play her. Even when her winrate is higher in mid most people play her support.
Hey Reav, do you think there is a possibility of ever seeing a LoR character getting added to League? I know prior to Renata's release a lot of people thought she would actually be Corina Veraza, and I'm curious if we could see some badass characters like Atakhan, Bringer of Ruin (I mean the champion name and title is right there), or really just any cool characters or champions inspired by LoR designs.
Yeah, we talk about it a lot. It gets complicated because the characters have to be different enough and have unique enough silhouettes that they don't overlap with another character on the roster. For example, we talked about Corina when we were making Renata, but given we were making a support we felt that she had to much overlap with Zyra. Both were dark/evilish supports that use plants, or at least the best version of Corina in LoL probably does something with botany or plants. I think we will probably do that someday, but we haven't found the right opportunity yet
Hey Reav3, I have not seen this ever asked before but could you share who in your opinion has been the largest VGU in terms of development progress? And how far Udyr ranks among the list?
Im pretty sure Udyr is the largest because of his ultimate skin. Kayle was probably pretty close though due to her 4 forms
Are you still going to be the creative lead for big events like you were for sentinels of light and spirit blossom
Not anymore no. I worked a lot of the foundations of the next big event but I have ramped down on events as I have been ramping up on Gameplay. Don't really have the time to do events and all of gameplay. I'll still be involved since big events tend to have gameplay products in them as well, I just won't be leading them anymore.
Congrats mate. Well deserved and hope the extra responsibilities don't stress you out too much.
Don’t worry I’m chill. Anytime I start to get stressed I remind myself that I get to come into work everyday and work on my favorite game of all time and it instantly chills me out :)
Damn boss huge congrats 🥳 . You’re very good at what you do, especially with champions. So I hope you’ll still be involved. Question, who was lead gameplay producer before?
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Is Lexical planning on communicating as much as you have been? I would hate to lose all of the little hints and insights you provide if you are no longer in a position to provide them. Also congrats on the promotion!
I mean I’m not going far and I’m still going to be very involved in champions. If anything I’ll just be communicating about a lot more stuff then just champions
Congrats on the promotion! Are you still going to be managing champ team or are you passing that work that work to another product lead and focusing on larger league gameplay stuff
I'm still working with champs team a bit, though I am currently transitioning my responsibilities over to Lexical, who is another producer that has been on champs for awhile now. Lexical is awesome so Champs will be in great hands. I will be focusing on larger league stuff, but I will of course be involved in Champs team a lot since they are one of the teams on the gameplay initiative. I will just be also splitting my time between the other teams on Gameplay as well like SRT, etc.
Sounds like a big design challenge to me. In the sense that melee champs will always have to be heavily armored / bulky and not feminine. Even other games are struggling to overcome this visual problem. The only feminine close ranged champ I can think of is D.Va with her mecha suit providing the needed armor while her staying very feminine.
In another regard: Perhaps the whole design way of champs is male-gaze focused and female-gaze champs, in general, are not being made, no matter the gender of the champ itself.
Assassins and skirmishers don't need to be heavily/armored or bulky though
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