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Originally posted by AmWhaleIRL

I think it's mostly just your use of the word "Significant". There's been plenty of Valid Criticism that's gone "seemingly" unnoticed. So when people see your use of "Significant" in this particular instance it makes them think "Did he even see all the other Valid Criticisms??" It can come across as Deflection to see a Rioter address a problem that's out of their reach as "Significant" while not addressing other Valid problems that were brought up. Perhaps my use of the word "problem" is problematic in itself. I can't think of a different way to word it right now though. I like your awareness of Societal Anti-Femininity that can run deep in Online World's though. I hope to hear more from you, even if I may not agree always. Communication from Devs is always awesome to see.

Originally posted by blissfullybleak

We see you over at r/seraphinemains. Hope the teams knows how loved the champion is in all her unapologetic expression. I’ll continue “screeching” along to her ult.

Originally posted by blissfullybleak

Why is this sub obsessed her? Is the hyper femininity making everyone uncomfortable?

Originally posted by Choad_Warrior

Actually yeah, he said it not you. I assumed it's just an excerpt for people who are not using twitter, but now I opened it and saw it's not even remotely close. Apologies for that.

On the other hand, what the issue I see is that while you clearly detail in your post on twitter what you see the problematic points are you still do nothing to outliers for patches now.

Also, can we just appreciate how Seraphine got to the point where she's banned for being obnoxious gameplay-wise (and generally broken) instead of literally everything else? What exactly was the idea there? You were the designer, you must have already gotten all the feedback. I really think that release was likely the biggest learning experience in the last like 5 years or so for you guys, since she was probably the only champ ever that was received in such an overwhelmingly negative way and also the only one that was hated for non-gameplay reasons. I'm actually curious about this and since you popped u...

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Originally posted by Hellioning

I'd also want to complain about it on ARAM. You can get a takedown on every single champion fairly easily there, especially if you have some sort of buff or heal spell you can cast on allies, and it is very annoying. It also doesn't help that most champions don't buy active items and the out of combat move speed matter less there, so there's really only two choices on that row.

Originally posted by zUkUu

Ravenous Hunter gives MORE OMNIVAMP than most items in the game. Just compare how insane that is with other stats. That's like Alacrity giving 40% AS or Eyeball Collection 60 AD.

Want to nerf healing? Just remove ravenous hunter and make people have to ACTIVELY invest into omnivamp.

Originally posted by Choad_Warrior

One of the good changes this season is reducing the accessibility of AH and Mana. League's secret sauce is in the strategy not it's mindless spamming of abilities.

Then proceeds to release champs that have NO MANA and occasionally get AH from attack speed. Makes total sense! Except it f**king doesn't....

in 2020 and 2021, total of 6 new champs were released and 3 of them has no mana, and one of those has AS into AH scaling as well, so to clarify, getting rid of items that give mana nerfs a certain number of champions for sure, but definitely not the darlings like Yasuo, Yone, Riven, Sett or more recently Viego.

Originally posted by Caenen_

Unless I'm mistaken, Stachu (known as design lead for Qiyana, Aphelios, Rell) is taking on lead design for him.

Originally posted by phroxz0n

CertainlyT was unironically one of the greatest holistic Designers (not just champ designer) that League has had. I know this is going to get memed because people will say "yeah he just taught people how to make broken stuff or how to balance worse", but I don't think he did those things. Designers here are definitely good enough to have their own opinion and be able to defend it. He definitely pushed the boundaries in a way that is not everyone's cup of tea, but that's part of what makes him great. He also knew how to make simple champions (think WW update).

It's unfortunate, because players will never get to see behind the scenes of how he contributed, but one of his best attributes was that he truly passionately cares about League. He was always up to date with all the new builds (often as soon as they were popping up in KR soloQ) and he knew all the little details about the game inside-out. In his spare time, he was always prototyping stuff locally on his computer to m...

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Originally posted by Naerlyn

There's one thing that can't be forgotten in that whole topic, and it's pro play. The more CC and utility as opposed to damage, the more reliant on the team. The more reliant on the team, the more of a difference there'll be in the champion's performance among levels, peaking in pro play.

Many tanks have gone in the past through a problem of performing much better in competitive than in standard League, and the response to balance this (to try and make them adequate in both instead of alright in one / strong in the other, or alright in one / weak in the other) has been to tone down the team reliance, and to grant more ability to do things that don't depend on coordination, more agency.

Secondly, the core problem about this idea for mythics is wave clear. Tanks have low AA damage, obviously, and most of them have weak spells when it comes to AoE damage. Yet lots of them are solo laners. At some point in the game, it becomes extremely important to be able to clear a ...

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