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We really wanted to do it, we just didn't have time to do it by the event. It's definitely something we want to add to the mode in the future.
We really wanted to do it, we just didn't have time to do it by the event. It's definitely something we want to add to the mode in the future.
Riot's on vacation, hopefully they actively balance the game mode on PBE when they come back
We plan on doing a pass at balance before it goes live and also during the event each patch of the event. Taric is for sure getting nerfed before it goes live
I can understand why a mageseeker might be hard to do, but a new Demacian champion (in general) is still possible right?
yes, of course
I'll tap pandora's box and ask where did Seraphine's champion opportunity space come from. You've said several times she wasn't made for the K/DA comeback event, but people still believe she was. I always thought the idea was to design a musical champion and then K/DA was happening, so the projects just got blent in together naturally.
But even if she was made for K/DA she's proven to stand as her own character, so there shouldn't be a problem to talk about it
She was made originally with the intent of making a singing based champion in League, or Runeterra's version of a pop star. We were making her before we even knew we were going to do K/DA for that worlds. At some point Joe Tung, who was the lead producer of LoL at the time called a meeting with all the leads from all the teams and said we were going to do K/DA comeback for worlds and we had a brainstorm about what cool things we could do for Worlds. I shared that Champions Team was making a pop star champion and showed early concept art for it. People loved the concept art and then we decided to make her part of the K/DA moment. The skin, twitter campaign and everything else came after that as we brainstormed cool ways to include her in the moment.
What about demacia, mageseeker added a lot of lore and characters and we still don't have a mageseeker champ even though their important to the lore in demacia or even the durand family
We have explored a Mageseeker champion in the past (while working on Sylas) and it's still something we are interested in if we can make it work in game. The reason we have been hesitant is because to make a good champion you want the gameplay to match the power source/power fantasy. The Mageseekers are all about nullifying magic, and in game the kinds of kits that would do that would either be really annoying to play against (basically a kit built all around a silence mechanic) or really niche counter-pick type champ (Basically a champ that can somehow counter mages specifically like Anti-Mage on Dota) If we could figure out a gameplay kit that would be fun and healthy for the game but also deliver on the mageseeker fantasy we would be all for it, but it has proven difficult thus far.
Read moreI appreciate this comment but to raise a tangential concern, in the last few years, especially with LoR's existence, it's felt more and more like Narrative is not having enough of a priority on champion releases.
I'm not really questioning the quality or way that certain thematics are reached, but from your comment and judging the output of the last 3-5 years, it feels like League champion development should really start considering region parity and narrative roles in each region a lot more. At least IMO champions should be a microcosm of the world and their respective regions and have a diversity of viewpoints and personalities but it doesn't feel like this facet of roster diversity and utility is being considered.
E.g. Ionia and PnZ are getting champions faster than some regions that have about 1/4th of their roster. I appreciate that at least Ixtal is getting some work done now, but it really needs to be more consistent to prevent content gaps like 6 years witho...
It's certainly not a case of narrative getting discarded, or not being involved. What you are suggesting would mean a lot more "handing down" a champion to Champions team and taking away some of the teams agency in what Champs get made, which I'm not sure would be great for the team. The team isn't old to make Ionia champs, and every Champion has a narrative writer on it from day 1. Narrative usually works with art to pitch what background/region a Champion will have while it's in DNA. It just happens to be that Champions team also gets excited about some of the more popular regions. We do bring up often in DNA which regions we haven't got a Champion from in awhile, but we don't want to force it if it doesn't work. We explored a Watcher Dog for Naafiri in DNA because we are aware how long it's been since we had Freljord Champion but it just didn't work very well for the kit we were making. We really want to get a Freljord Champ out soon as well.
Hello, hope you're having a good weekend. I just finished watching August's stream and he was saying somthing that I found a bit concerning, not sure if you can shed some light on the situation or simply just have a conversation about it.
August seemed a bit sad and was even hinting that Briar could be his last project. I'm paraphrasing here, but he started saying how creativity and autonomy when it comes to champion ideation has been decreasing year after year. Champion ideas are mostly handed down from management. Champion designers don't get to "pitch" champion concepts anymore and just end up receiving such work from up top.
How do you feel about that?
Feels incorrect to me. It is true that every once in awhile we do a Champion that has a very defined opportunity space, and that is handed to a DNA team. To be clear that isnt handed to the DNA team from upper management, its handed to them by the Leadership team ON the champions team, of which August is a part of since he is a design lead. Ultimately the Product Owner approves the opportunity spaces before a team starts on them but they are usually generated by and created by other people, many of times from members of the Champions Team. The only time they are "handed down" is for stuff like Senna, but even then, that was a opportunity space I put together as Lead of the team, and also talked to the team about it and the team was SUPER excited to make her, so it wasn't like we "forced" it on the team.
Viego came about when August himself came to me after Sennas release and said we should do the Ruined King now, since tons of players were asking about him with Sennas rele...
Read moreHey Reav3 are you able to share if the cameo champs will be the SF champs going forward or is that just going to be unique to event, like the Ruined map for Ult Spellbook, and you guys will swap them out.
Its just unique to this event
The are basically stage hazards
wasn’t Varus looking for Valeeva? why did you swap her for Naafiri? Also, wasn’t the temple on Dark Kin the one where Myisha murdered the other darkin? Wouldn’t be safer to hide her somewhere else? Just make this clearer, is Naafiri a reborn version of Cebotaru or Valeeva?
Where does it say he was looking for Valeeva?
In that exact order?
- Briar
- Jax
- Ink Mage
Currently yes. Things can always change though
Reav3 once mentioned that Naafiri was already part of the lore lol, where does she appear? I can only remember Valeeva and Cebotaru, I don't remember her in any stories lol.
She is who Varus was looking for in the Shuriman temple. She was gone because the grace robber stole her
Yes, that's great news! In Naafiri's article, it was written that a high skilled toplaner (Ksante) and Naafiri as an easier assassin was something you wanted to do, is there any other role where you think there is something missing?
I mean tons of stuff. I'm not the lead on Champs team anymore so Lexical is the main person making champ opportunity spaces, but I still had TONS of opportunity spaces in my head when I moved off the team :) Me and Lexical still talk about Champ Opportunity spaces all the time though, so maybe some of my ideas still make it through, lol :)
Reav3 there is any plans to release another adult mage woman in midlane the last one was lissandra
Like its been sometime i was hoping that the ink mage would be that but it turns out its a male
its been 10 years since the last one
maaaaaayyyybeeeeee ;)
Is there anything we (as regual players) can do to make Soul Fighter game mode permament?
Play it a lot! Give Feedback as to what you think about it
Hi reav! Quick question, do you happen to know if things are still on track for the jungler and artistic midlaner? Or is the final champ of the year only going to be the jungler? Thanks!
Currently Briar, Jax and the mid laner are still on track. The midlaner could possibly slip to next year but right now we feel pretty good about it still making it towards the end of this year. *crosses fingers because that champ is lit AF*
Read moreHey /u/Reav3 quick random thoughts here:
There's obviously huge buzz around this new game mode, and its something the casual community has been asking for for a long time. I get that the competitive Summoners Rift experience isn't for everybody, but does the SR team ever think of the possibility of game modes cannibalizing SR's player base?
At the beginning of Season 13 and with the huge disappointment surrounding the start of year cinematic, the community was very vocal about the perception that League of Legends as a whole is seeing less priority within Riot. I wanted to bring up the same conversation but direct it specifically to Summoners Rift. My reasoning for this mostly revolves around a couple of things, first, the reallocation of resources to rebuild the Modes department from a team (Champions) who I deem pivotal to League and its evolution. Second, the scope and innovation of pre-seasons a...
So I can't speak for what people did in the past, but I can say that I am personally a fan of taking big risks. I was the Lead producer on the old mid season class updates we did in the past, as well as the producer of many loved/hated champions in league (like Yuumi) I was also one of the producers of the Preseason where we added Dragon.
In general I like pushing the envelope rather then playing it safe, so I wouldn't expect to see a tame preseason this year :)
Hey Reav3 were you the creative lead for the coming event or is that someone else since you're lead gameplay producer
I was not. I stopped working on events when I took the gameplay lead position. The gamemodes team is on the gameplay initiative though, so I was very involved in the 2v2v2v2 game mode though!
This skin line will also be Naafiri's release skin right? The little glitch with the eye at the end of the teaser looks similar to the eye found on Naafiri's dagger, and they release the same patch
Oh yeah, and Naafiri is sooo fun in the game mode
I love when we get updated looks across lor and league, would love to see LeBlanc look more like runeterra for example
Same. LoR has been great for reworking Champs looks in a much faster way then LoL can. Makes it easier for us for when we do get around to updating them in LoL