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Will the masked assassin be complex? Like Riven, Akali or Irelia. Hope you're able to talk about this :(
yes
Will the masked assassin be complex? Like Riven, Akali or Irelia. Hope you're able to talk about this :(
yes
would be able to state which side of the pendulum a year worth of champion releases side on (complex vs. simple)? Is there a medium level as well to champion difficulty? or is it just extremes?
Cheers
We do have medium, we have high, medium and low complexity. Our current goal is to have at least one of each, each year, but after that its pretty case by case
Is any champion this year intended to be niche or take more risks design-wise? Is the team looking into making a new Bard? It feels like despite the 6 champions per year announcement, they're all going to be focused on mass appeal.
Lillia was targeted as the Niche Champion this year. Generally non-humans end up fairly niche. The whimsical/cutsey stuff tends to also be niche, but it does have a pretty strong niche audience, one that we didn't feel existed in the Jungler role. One of the goals of Lillia was to add that type of elegant/pretty/cute theme to the jungle roster, since it doesn't currently really exist.
Boss hope you're well.
Just wanted to ask if you guys landed on some sort of cadence when it comes to releasing simple vs. complex champions. Or is it by a case to case basis.
Cheers :D
We don't have a specific cadence, but out current strategy is that we intentionally ship some amount of simple Champs every year now
so that is back to back "easy" to play champions, is the team still looking to making complex ones or?
I dont think Lillia is as easy to play as people think
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Something the video is really underselling is the movement speed.** It stacks up to 5 times and is granted on every ability hit.** Her game is about keeping the movement speed stacked up and using it to play a hit and run style or roam around the map.
Pretty fast. Not rammus fast, but she can keep it up for longer by hitting jungle camps.
Current numbers (obviously subject to change): Each stack grants 7-11% (based on Q rank) movement speed for 5 seconds, stacking up to 5 times. Stacks fall off 1 at a time, at a rate of 1/second.
Hey u/Reav3, are you able to tell if we're gonna get a Champion Insight for the next champion? I really liked what you guys did to Aphelios and Sett, it's really cool to see the devlopment
There will be yes
I was just wondering, I know development was probably delayed a fair bit from covid, has it impacted the release of the champs coming after the summer event at all?
So far it hasn’t
When you guys say he will be released after the jungler, do you mean after summer event is over, or next patch, or what?
They are both a part of the summer event. I’ll leave it at that
Mr. Reav3, Sir, pardon the offtopic question but is the Edgy champion that is getting released soon only for middle lane? Or can it be also played top?
While we are primarily testing and balancing it around mid I think it will also be pretty viable top
Could you share what do you guys think about Tryndamere. It looks to me like he is hitting all the criteria for a VGU, but he isn't mentioned often.
Gameplay: He is the last remenant of small crit % and stat increase/decrease aoe. Attack speed, his best stat, makes him look kinda silly swinging that large sword like it's a balloon. He has very little skill expression specific to his kit.
Visual: His design is okay, but it's kind of generic. Most new champions/VGUs are now you guys taking a trope and owning it, making it unique to the League universe
Potential: He has a dedicated playerbase and there is nothing wrong with his playstyle, but I feel he is a concept that could be executed so much better both gameplaywise and visually. What are yours and the teams thoughts on him?
I mentioned in a post not long ago, but yeah Trynd is high on our list for a VGU we just haven't got to him yet
Would you guys ever be open to discussing specific champions that do not end up on the VGU poll? There are champion the community seems to want reworked, but they never come up in discussion with rioters. For example RiotAugust recently said that you wanted to rework Malphite, but found out he is very popular. Are you open to more transparency like that?
Of course, i talk about those kinds of things all the time with players, though its usually in reddit comments like this rather then big blogs
Negative post ahead and I apologize, but this is not a decision I'm on board with. Narrative has spent the last few years trying to make a sustainable IP. The last time Riot tried this, they were surprised Lissandra actually won the vote.
More, if this is actually a vote about a major event like Noxus vs Ionia (an outcome that the writers should have known for a long time now), then it just means current storybuilding feels much less valuable because everything writers are planning is ultimately subject to the whims of champion production and upcoming events and a community that, for the most part, is not particularly involved in the setting as is.
The odds of Yone coming out are just increasing the feeling that more and more Narrative isn't really in charge. I hope Riot Forge can still take some risks.Edit: see Reav3's reply below.
To be clear, we currently have no plans to do a event where players vote on the direction of the base lore. This article was talking about AUs where we can do that kind of stuff and it can be fun.
But both Pantheon (pre-rework) and Mord were top laners, maybe a bot or mid is better.
If we had one that was as high priority sure, we currently don't have any bot or mids that are as high priority as Mundo. All the champs I put on the last voting poll where high priority and 4 were junglers with only Mundo being Top
Hey Reav3, can we expect a rework thinking Dr. Mundo in two lanes?
With Fiddle's rework, we lost him as support. Going from tier S+ (3% pick rate) to less than 1% pick rate due to changes. Can we dream with Dr. Mundo viable as support (like Maokai for example)?
Or are there 0% chances and he only be defined as top lane? Thanks!
I think we will likely be able to make him work in both top and jng (It was much harder to make Fiddle work in Jng and support) Though we would be looking at top primary, and jng secondary if we can make it work
Are you aiming Mundo to be a broad/popular champ or would you be alright if he remained relatively niche
We are targeting him to stay niche, we mostly want to increase his depth by rather then his breadth
Do you think Mundo will remain as a juggernaut?
We don't plan on changing his identity as a tank/juggernaut hybrid.
Was there any reason why Mundo was chosen over other potential candidates as the non poll VGU, since most of the champs you noted are showing their age as much as Mundo
Largely because we just finished 2 junglers with Fiddlesticks and Volibear and wanted to do a VGU on a different class (Top lane) to add better role diversity to our VGU line up. I mentioned it in the VGU Poll as well that we wouldn't necessarily VGU the champs in the order of most votes.
Very nice blog indeed, but the question is still unanswered; will his title stay Madman of Zaun? I dunno what I need to bribe you for it. :P
Possibly, we don't usually finalize the title until much later in the process, It will really depend on if the title still makes sense with his updated direction or not
/u/Reav3 will Mundo still be able to go where he pleases
Of course! No one tells Mundo where he should go but Mundo