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20 Feb

Why are there literally no indications at all in champ selection for champions that are nerfed in ARAM/URF?

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"If I knew a champion was nerfed in this modes, I wouldn't play them"

This is one of the reasons right here. Champions that are nerfed in these modes tend to be strong, not weak.

If you read "Ziggs does 10% less damage" the reaction is to not pick him because he's "bad". The reality is that he is still very powerful.

Understand the pain point in regards to wanting a source of truth, but showing nerfs/buffs in champ select could often mislead players who care about power into picking the opposite of what they're looking for.


18 Feb

Why did Vi go from a nearly 0.1% pickrate for nearly 9 years in a row to 50%+ presence for the last 3 years? (ESPORTS)

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I'm guessing patch 11.22 had a lot to do with it. She still didn't get picked for a while after, but that patch made her significantly more consistent in executing her combos. Sometimes it can take a while for changes like that to catch on, especially on a champion who had been considered weak in pro for years.


08 Feb

After 12 years and 1434 levels I have just hit challenger for the first time

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I see you've played a lot of Jinx, Jhin, and Zeri :3

Congrats on challenger! Glad you've been enjoying the game for so long :D (now how do I hit high elo as an AD Yuumi main).


17 Nov

For the record, August is in favor of people being able to ban your hover

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Originally posted by ElderTitanic

August also unironically wears a "uwu" beanie so he is not to be trusted

true


11 Sep

My Briar Cosplay

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Great cosplay!


26 Aug

Riot August announces that he will take a sabbatical

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Originally posted by thySilhouettes

I happened to be lucky and randomly get August on my team in a norms game last week. Super chill guy. Happy he’s able to take some much needed time off.

please tell me it wasn't the one where I went 0-7 as Zeri


15 Apr

Which champions are considered to be popular/mainstream by the community but their playrate is actually very low?

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Originally posted by Xey2510

Mage supports. If you read reddit you'd sometimes think they weren't by far the least popular supports while Enchanters are insanely popular.

Lux is the most played support in the game


08 Apr

Arena, Lee Sin & PvE Mode First-Look | Dev Update - League of Legends

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Originally posted by RiotMeddler

"garliclike"

TIL a new term

Love me some garlic


31 Jan

What happens when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force in URF

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Thanks, this brightened my day


05 Dec

Patch 13.24 Notes

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Originally posted by Danface247

Every single time Briar shows up in the patch notes for her bi-monthly nerf, Riot says "as players continue continue to get better with her", but how? How has the learning curve not been hit among the playerbase on this self-taunting ball of statcheck?

Are players really continuing to improve on the yuumi of bruisers? Are they? What is this hidden tech in her kit that's being mastered after 3 months?

While not mechanically intense like Yasuo, Briar HEAVILY tests a player's decision making. Most of her spells straight up kill her if she uses them incorrectly so there's a lot of mastery to be found in learning when to cast spells and when to hold them.

Additionally, good Briar players have more outplay potential than you'd expect with the E DR + knockback and W Dash.


20 Oct

Squad5 has been promoted to Lead Champion Designer

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Originally posted by Boudynasr

a quick glance at the comments and damn people hate tf out of August lol, maybe I'm minority but will miss that bald dude

His Ws were much more than his Ls imo

It's cause all I do is ruin the game


17 Oct

Patch 13.21 Preview

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Originally posted by RanaDelLey

yeah, it's august's turn now.

Challenger here I come


12 Oct

Champs, Lore & More | Dev Update - League of Legends

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Can't wait for the new champs :D


30 Sep

Riot August on Upcoming Jinx Buffs and Bel'Veth Nerfs

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Originally posted by benwithvees

I’m surprised I don’t see more people asking August to stay way from any champs in general

Same.


26 Sep

Jax can now fish.

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Cool to see this get an animation :D


15 Sep

Which supports would be the most OP if they had solo gold and xp?

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Sona


27 Aug

“Forbidden” tab on league of legends client page?

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Seems like a bug


26 Aug

POV: It's 2013. League is soon to enter Season 4, and just 4 days after the Worlds Finals SK Telecom T1 vs Royal Club, Riot drops this banger.

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Originally posted by Mr_Roll288

this video is the exact reason why I started playing League AND why I started studying animation. 10 years later I still play League AND work for an animation studio that often does work for RIOT (unfortunatelly not worked on any of those projects yet)

that is so cool

POV: It's 2013. League is soon to enter Season 4, and just 4 days after the Worlds Finals SK Telecom T1 vs Royal Club, Riot drops this banger.

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Brings me back


23 Aug

Phreak: "On day 1 (after the patch), more than half of Zeri players built Trinity Force first item. So we know that players don't read"

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Originally posted by averysillyman

Would it be possible for game designers to actively code in single-patch exceptions to the recommendation system when they make a big change to a champion that they expect will make the current popular build no longer viable? (Like when Azir's recommended skill order was intentionally hard-coded to be W max after his rework.)

Not every player can be expected to do the theorycraft necessary to figure out the implications of all patch changes. So it would be great if the recommender could err on the side of caution to avoid recommending something completely troll.

For example, if you make a big change to Zeri to remove Triforce synergy, then the recommender should stop recommending Triforce for one patch. If it turns out that Triforce is still good on Zeri after the nerf, then the recommender will go right back to recommending it on the next patch, and for that one patch where Triforce wasn't being recommended, well at least those players who autopilot recommended bui...

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We've done this before. Removed Divine Sunderer from Jax's rec items for a patch (he has ALWAYS been significantly stronger with Trinity Force) and his winrate went up as people swapped over!

The difficulty with manually setting things is upkeep and maintenance. The reason we do automated rec items is to ensure the majority of champs have good rec items for the majority of the time. In the old system where we manually set everything it was easy for entire classes of champs to fall through the cracks when an item or meta changed