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For this run of Nexus Blitz, we're starting it knowing it didn't get enough attention, but that will be taken into account when looking at the data. We, simply, ran out of time but changes are still planned.

Nexus Blitz is not one of the more popular modes to begin with (OFA and URF are the current reigning champions there), at least in terms of % of people played or how much folks are playing. For every release so far that has been true. But it's also not unpopular so we are interested trying more on it. :)

Oh woah! This design space is wonderful and had not been considered yet. Awesome idea, /u/gramineous :D

They have. I won't go into much detail here, but the short of it is that it'll likely be awhile before we return to PvE modes and if/when we do, the approach will be something pretty different than Star Guardian or Odyssey.

Ascension is unlikely to come back in the form you're familiar with. If it's coming back, it'll come back on a different map. Currently, we've actually considered modifying the Nexus Blitz map for it (given how rounded the Nexus Blitz map is). If you notice the changes to terrain in the center "arena" area of Nexus Blitz, these changes are meant to help support much more interesting gameplay for other ways we can use that space. :)

The Crystal Scar is dead. Like so dead. Like omg dead.

The renderer for League's environment is completely different and new from what existed when Dominion (and so, Ascension) was made, meaning that a lot of what was made for that map is unusable and will need to be rebuilt. All the environments you see now were either built initially for the new renderer (Nexus Blitz or any of the TFT environments) or were rebuilt (SR, Howling Abyss). Keeping a map has to overcome the cost of that rebuild. :(

Thank you for bringing this back up!

Awkwardly, the reason the HP is as high as it is is to avoid an awkward damage timing bug. Also, champion damage is easier to isolate than item damage is.

But. We actually now have tech to solve that particular bug correctly now, which in turns lets us lower the HP. That is certainly something we can address now (albeit, for next run).

Hi Djinn!

At some point, I think that would be a great design article. In addition to other articles about modes that I believe are overdue at this point. The team and our strategies has changed quite a bit in this last year, so that is something I'm hoping to talk more about eventually as well.

Yeah, unfortunately addressing Elder was something we were hoping to get to for this round but ended up running short on time. :( Definitely on our docket for next run, though.

Interestingly, in terms of "game winning impact" (how likely you are to win the game based on getting this reward, for a given event round), it's about right in the middle of all the other rewards. Buuuut, that doesn't really describe how frustrating it is or how those games actually play out.

That's definitely not great.
We'll be looking to change the per-champion mode balancing system to exclude summoner spells and potentially items, but it will need to be sometime after this run of Nexus Blitz.

Focused testing won't arrive at quite the rules at play, though /u/DoransLab 's work is delightful to look at where it gets close enough in some parts :) . Both who you target with your attacks is important, and what other actions are occurring is important.

Most pertinently for the minion-champion swapping: It doesn't reset your current crit tracking value. Instead, there are two values: one tracked for "vs champions" and one tracked for "vs minions". So you can't build up against minions for usage against champions.

If the actual solution is discovered though, as a caution, that would be a significant prompt for us to change it. :P

Awkward. Veigar was named after someone.

So, I'd just like to say that I love that idea and representation of it. We've played around with other things similar to it, but hadn't gotten a display that made sense.

We wouldn't be able to get something in for 10.18 (it's too late in the patch cycle, especially since we'd need to localize the display), but I think something like what you wrote here is certainly worth exploring in the future. :)

I can only respond to that question with a "technically yes"... but also it's not incorrect to do so (as /u/Les_Petits_Morts well described).
Our base unit class is unfortunately named "Minion". It's possible to rename, but would be really annoying to do (will likely occur at some point). The minion that you probably most commonly think of when you think of a "minion" though are lane minions. Though all Lane Minions have the Minion class, the Minion class does NOT imply all the behavior of the Lane Minions.

The issue in this video is more related to handling swapping between two kinds of characters: A structure --> "Allied Epic Monster" (like Rift Herald). Part of the data for the structure half is incomplete. It will take adding a little bit of code to make that possible in our engine and...

Thank you, but not a sir

Yes, it does mean that. :)
Our aim is that this isn't the last of Nexus Blitz and is instead an ongoing part of our modes roster that we'll bring back in the future as well.

It will still be there.

If it has the grid, then it isn't typed out manually. There's a system that generates the grid.

Technical details:

So, the way we used to build tooltips is PRETTY bad. Basically, imagine ALL the text in the tooltip in a single long string. The title, "Mana Cost", and so forth. There are some variable values (like how much mana cost, or how much damage), but for the most part... all the text was clumped together. Importantly, this includes "structural details". And to just outright reveal that ugly truth... here's an old tooltip in its raw form!:

tr "game_spell_tooltip_EzrealMysticShot" = "Mystic Shot (@Level@)[@Hotkey@]@Cost@ Mana@Cooldown@ sec CooldownEzreal fires a bolt of energy, dealing @Effect1Amount@ (+@CharTotalPhysical@) (+@CharAbilityPower2@) physical damage (applies on-hit effects).

Ezreal's cooldowns are reduced by @Effect2Amount@ seconds if Mystic Shot hits a target."

All that stuff is that structural detail. And all of that goes to our localization teams. Which is not an easy mess to sift through if you're not r...

It's an incomplete feature that only some champs (and only some spells on those champs) have the appropriate data for. You will also notice a few other oddities littered throughout tooltips currently. For example, sometimes you will see icons as scalers and sometimes you won't.
I can't promise exactly when, but all champs WILL get this in the future. I'll provide technical details in a followup comment.

Of all the firecannons, it's one of the most rapid.

This is accurate!

The item shop’s behavior can be recreated with a bit of data. Notably: http://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com/cdn/9.24.1/data/en_US/item.json and http://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com/cdn/9.24.1/data/en_US/language.json (or as appropriate by patch and language).

This is a reflection of some of the data the game uses. We’d just need to combine it a bit.

The League item shop makes a “searchable key” out of: An items name (“name”), colloquialisms for that item (“colloq”, which you’ll notice is often “;”, this is important), adds a “;”, and th...