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The point wasnt that only mid lane has different playstyles, it was that the 2 playstyles in midlane have a similar amount of players as entire other positions. It's true top has tank and fighters, but the vast majority of top laners play fighters. Fighter players tend to play skirmishers, juggernauts, divers, and they aren't very picky between those classes, so making something in one of those classes is usually appealing to a majority of our top lane players. The amount of top lane tank players is pretty small in comparison to top fighter players or mid assassin/skirmisher players. The amount of people that play top tanks really doesn't justify making a tank every year. The same can be said for tank jungler players. We will still make tanks for these positions just not as often, and not every year. Support is interesting in that, though there are a lot of playstyles, most support players play all the different styles, this is probably due to the mentality of support mains, who te...

We weren't sure back then if the Champ would end up a skirmisher or Assassin, as we got further into development it became clear it should be a Assassin, though i still think it will be a bit of a hybrid assassin/melee carry

Marksmen is Squad5, Mage is RiotJag and tank is Stashu

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Nah, we usually have a primary position we balance around, but that doesnt mean champs wont have other positions they can flex into as well

New champ/VGU releases

Yes

Pretty popular. Here is a graph that shows Yas, Lux, Ez and Lee sin playrate over the last year and half

https://imgur.com/9Aaedmk

Yasuo, and its not even close. The closest a Champion gets to Yasuo is Lee Sin, and he still isn't that close to Yasuos total global playrate

Thanks! Well, Phel was definitely too strong on release, leading to some of the negative sentiment which has died down a lot since we got him in a more balanced state. Better Champion launch balance is a big goal for us this year so hopefully that improves more going forward.

yes

yes

Sometime next week

So far he is within the bands we predicted for his Day 1 WR. We will continue to monitor over the weekend to see if his WR grows as expected as well. If it doesn't then we would start to discuss possible buffs

The roadmap will go over those 2 new champs as well as another new champ we haven’t talked about yet

Should be shortly after Voli hits live servers

Should be shortly after Voli hits live servers

So far we have not had to alter the release dates of any of our Champions. This could always change as time goes on, but so far it hasn't

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