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Best designed Champ in LoL? Though probably controversial in this subreddit but to me it's probably Yasuo. He has had a solid winrate in all elos of SoloQ for along time, which is hard to accomplish for a non-ADC. He sees some competitive play without being pick/ban. He also really embodies the feeling of playing a Samurai and is the most played Champion in the game.

Me too, at least the last Champion he designed is his most ambitious one to date

Yuumi ended up a familiar, but she didn't start that way. She just started with the goals of making a enchanter who remains attached to a ally more then 50% of the game. We also wanted to make a enchanter for our core enchanter audience since we didn't feel like we have made a Champion for those players since Nami. She ended up a familiar as the Discovery phase went on. RiotEarp while exploring different concept for the Champ had one image of a fat lazy Cat, which the whole pod loved, as the cats are generally thought of as lazy, which thematically fit perfectly for a Champ that never really walks themselves in game. This is what led to explore Yuumi and then narrative was excited about the idea of her being some witches familiar since she was a magic cat.

With Aatrox of survey data showed that players really liked his theme of demon blade wielder, but really disliked his gameplay. He was like is the bottom 3 lowest scores of all Champions for gameplay. I wanted to try something with Aatrox based on that data, which was basically the "Start over" with his theme, since the theme was so liked while the gameplay was so disliked. The idea was to basically take his visual theme, and create a fully new kit that really delivered on that visual theme.

In the end that was extremely successful as he had one of the largest jumps in playrate of any VGU we have done, if you look at is historical average playrate pre and post VGU. Unfortunately, this upset not only mains for the Champions but a lot of the community that didn't even play him and created a mistrust for future VGUs, where players were afraid there Champ would change as much as Aatrox did.

Since we know from data that a majority of players play a Champ for visual the...

Fun fact: RiotScruffy was actually the designer on the Sion VGU

Currently Kassadin doesn't even know his daughter is alive, so it wouldn't make sense for his VO to change right now

Well currently Vlad's gameplay is pretty solid, which is what is currently keeping him of the list

Well it can't get a no-go from leadership, I show that to them to get there feedback and thoughts. When I said that I meant the Champions Team Leads, which I consult with to create the Champions Roadmap and Strategy. I don't think stakeholders have every given a no-go to a design, but we have gotten plenty of design feedback from Meddler, for example, that have caused us to change or alter a design, for the better imo.

Kai'Sa is a bad comparison because ADCs have a lot of transferable skills, since they mostly rely on Orb walking and AAs, which once mastered easily transfer to other ADCs. This is why ADCs have much less winrate variance, with the exception of Kalista because her passive actually effects the AA core loop, which makes the skill not transfer well. Champions who rely on there abilties have much less transferable skills, so when a new player picks up Akali they can't rely super heavily on previous masteries.

Currently both Akali and Irelia have very healthy and strong playrate, and while they are hard to master many players genreally find them worth putting in time to learn, so I don't think it's that big of a problem. I think both of those Champions are strong once mastered right now, and giving them strong SOloQ winrates would make them absurdly strong in players hands that take the time to master them. I don't think it's bad for the game to have difficult to master Champion...

No, this is no longer handled by Champions Team. I think Splash team wants to start these back up again sometime, but I don't want to speak for that team

For sure

Rammus, Olaf, Quinn, Cho'Gath, Shaco, Skarner

I don't think its required that every Assassin has the same points in the game where they are strong. Kat has been in a good place as a late-game scaling Assassin for awhile now.

For sure. I'm not saying every Champ will need a VGU, I'm just saying that Champs sometimes get added to the list over the years

I'm optimistic right now because his depth is higher then it has been in along time as seen in the link below. This means that's while his playrate is similar, people that are playing him are playing him more often, which could mean some are finding him more satisfying to play. This may drop back to historical numbers though, which we will monitor.

https://imgur.com/a/Dgycd4W

Zoe's hook is her super long range burst. The summoners spells are more of a unique input that make her feel very different to play then other Champions, which is also important, but isn't really a super unique output

She on the list but not super high. I think she could be really cool when her time comes, might throw her on the next "Choose a VGU" poll to gauge community interest, though I haven't finalized who will be on the next one yet

Speaking of Morde, I just wanted to say thank you again for coming in and giving us great feedback on the VGU. As seen in the imgur link below Morde was one of our most successful VGUs of all time and I believe that part of that came success from your visit with the team.

https://imgur.com/a/sSfZqfq

Yes, I love playing her to much to stop

Ask me again tomorrow