In my opinion yuumi's release was CATastrophic, she's really weak right now even in the hands of professional support players like Zeyzal. What are the plans to bump her up, is the problem primarily on her numbers or on her kit?
We already put in a huge hotfix buff yesterday. She takes awhile to learn to play though, even for professional players. Our playtest team was having pretty big success on her in high elo, but they have played tons of games on her internally before her release
Why do you think the champ is under performing so much?
She is a very unique play pattern, which takes time to learn how to play as against, which I think is the biggest contributing factor. Our playtest team was doing quite well on her in very high elo even before the buffs, but they have played tons of games on her
Do you think Yuumi works well with melee laners like Yasuo or Irelia?
yes
Was Yuumi predestined to be just a cat? Any other designs?
There was some really early stuff where she wasn't a cat, but for the vast majority of the project she was a cat
I wanted an anime oppai loli cat girl champion instead I got a literal cat......and I'm not even disappointed. Anyway when you were making Yuumi was it always the idea for her be a literal cat or was there discussion on whether she should be a cat girl or humanoid in some way.
She was always a literal cat. We wanted to do another creature Champion, but not a monster, a cute one, since we don't really have a cute non-humanoid in the game yet
I love the early character models you guys post on the AMAs sometimes (like the gnar riding hecarim kled or thresh with a giant moustache rakan). What did you guys use to represent Yuumi before her model was complete? Can we see? 👀
For the longest time Yuumi was a recolored version of Cyber Pop Zoe
What do you think that is the strategic niche of Yuumi? Why should i pick her over Sona or Janna or any other enchantress if my goal is solely to win?
Her untargetablity is one of her strategic niches, you can pick her into comps that have ways to kill Sona or Janna. She has some of the highest safety in the game.
Hey Reav3. Are Morde and the new ad assassin still planned to be released before the end of the first half of the year or did things change a bit? Thanks
still in the first half of the year
Will the result be in the same week? or in the next 1-2 months? And would we get some early explorations for the winner? :)
We will be doing update blogs over the course of development for the winner, similar to the skin ones, but they will be much further apart since Champions take a lot longer to make then skins
Pantheon pantheon pantheon pantheon
We are already working on Pantheon
Can't they all just get reworked ? :P.
Eventually, yes. This poll is to guarantee one of them for 2020
Is anyone else really disappointed it's not a vote out of all 140+ champions?
Would love to see the numbers after that poll personally.
We already collect data from players on "What Champion you want a VGU on most" from surveys, that includes all the Champions. This is meant to actually go over what our goals are, and what problems we would be looking to solve, so players can make a more educated decision on which VGU they want.
One question, will the poll for VGU 2020 come in the next 1-3 weeks? :)
yes
Hey what difficulty would you say the new assassin has? 1-10
Probably around 8-10
Reav3 these Battle Academy skins are the best!!!
Figured you would like them
There is a duration on her w you can only be inside people and bounce around them for so long
No there isnt
Do you have a project in mind for him or is he still in ramp up
ramping up
Would Nathan Lutz be the new champ designer you guys hired
yes
I see, that's amazing! Can't wait to see the poll now! I hope you guys turn this into at least a once a year vote. :)
Yeah if it goes well we would for sure be interested in doing it again
So this means he has time to explore onto options that are not vote options and if he manages to find an exciting direction then he is gonna be doing that champion, while another designer will be onto the winner champion of that poll?
He will likely explore options that are on the poll as well, since all 5 of the Champions on the poll are high priority for us, and only one of them will get picked. He is just doing design exploration, not a core pod, so if he finds a cool direction for the Champion that gets picked in the poll that would be a great headstart for that Champion. If he finds something for a Champion that doesn't get picked, that's exciting and we can still work on that Champion and just have a different designer/pod take on the VGU poll winner.
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