RiotKingCobra

Thanks for posting. We'll look into this - in the meantime sounds like Kayne is gonna have some nasty alcove ganks 0_0.

The map changes before 4th dragon - it happens after the 2nd dragon dies. Is this when you start experiencing FPS loss? Also, if you're able to, shoot me a DM with your laptop specs. I surely don't want this to be the last patch that you play League!

EDIT: Thanks for the messages everybody and sorry about your impacted experience. We're going investigating some performance related issues at the moment that may resolve some of these issues. I likely won't be able to respond to each and every one of you, but we do appreciate the posts as they do help inform us as to what may be causing issues.

Hey folks! You currently cannot self-select the elemental terrain by spawning specific types of dragons. This is a feature that we're looking into implementing in a future patch. At the moment, we're aware that practice tool dragon spawning and the elemental terrain aren't playing nice together - we'll be cleaning this up in upcoming patches. Thanks for posting here and providing visibility!

We're working on a fix for his ambient birds at the moment. :) We suspect they have been broken for quite a while (potentially broke last year around Worlds when we enabled a Worlds map skin). Hitting an enemy with W should still spawn birds around the location for a brief amount of time, but the ambient ones likely fail to appear at all.

With the preseason changing terrain in some games, we've revisited his birds, re-positioning them so they don't spawn on terrain that could potentially be destroyed at the least. I will check up on the status of fixing the ambient birds.

The fix for Jax should be more similar to Master Yi. How he interacts with Rageblade on Live is technically correct in the sense that Rageblade's phantom hit specifically says that it applies on-hits twice and since Jax's Ultimate passive stacks aren't technically on-hits they don't get applied twice.

Of course, this doesn't match with player expectations because, for the longest time, his passive DID work with Rageblade's.

The fix is to basically make Jax's passive trigger on-hit and then slightly modify his tooltip so it reads as an on-hit. This functionally doesn't change how Jax behaves other than now he'll benefit from Rageblade.

The reason it wasn't included in this patch is that Jax's R is scripted in a surprisingly complex way and by the time that we decided on how we'd move forward we didn't want to make such complicated changes.

I don't think it does mostly because those dragons count towards the dragon soul which is a pretty powerful permanent buff. For example, I don't think the promise of 3 Infernal Dragons outweighs the risk of 'gifting' a dragon to the enemy team.

Infernal dragons will then continue to spawn until one team gets to 4 dragons. In this case, another infernal dragon would spawn and then either the team with 2 dragons would get it which prompts ANOTHER infernal dragon to spawn or the team that already has 3 gets it and then they get the soul which prompts an Elder Dragon spawn.

Here's how it works:

• First two dragons will always be different from one another and also will not be the element that the Rift eventually transitions into.
• When the second dragon dies, the Rift will transform into whatever element the 3rd dragon is going to be.
• For the rest of the game, only that type of dragon will spawn until a team gets 4 dragons. The team with 4 gets the Dragon Soul.
• From that point on Elder Dragons spawn.

I'm not the one making the specific changes, but I believe the solve is closer to the latter thing you said.

That is how his passive works with the nerfed rageblade, same as Vayne.

That is exactly what we are doing. :) We are going to be restoring the functionality to how players expect it to work so Jax will also proc his ultimate passive every other hit.

The CD nerfs were specifically to open up more windows of opportunity for opponents to feel like they could interact with Riven. They just went too hard on her so we want to give her some power back in a way that doesn't increase the play-against frustration.

Well it depends on the champion but we may not be able to buff them for other reasons. For example, if a champion has a 48% WR like Riven but has an exceedingly high ban rate in some skill brackets of play, it's probably not a great idea that we buff them. If a champion is classically a pro-scene issue when they are strong then we probably shouldn't buff them either. This may indicate that we should look at that champion closer and make changes to them such that we CAN buff them. It may also just be what their resting WR looks like when players deem them tolerable to play against.

Riven is pretty weak right now - sporting a 48% WR in high elo.

The reason Riven is getting a buff and not other champs with similar a WR is because we do not buff champions based on WR alone and per our balance framework that is outlined here - https://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/2019/05/dev-champion-balance-framework/ - there are likely reasons preventing us from doing so.

Those numbers are incorrect. Well, the numbers ARE that on PBE but they SHOULD be 150/225/300.

Wind Slash will never do less damage than Live. Your second statement is correct. :)

Riven's ultimate is an execute that does more damage based on the enemies missing health. The maximum damage that her ultimate does on live is reached when the target has 75% of their health missing.

At that percentage, her ultimate does 200% increased damage - in other words, it does 3x the damage it normally would: (100% + 200%) so 200 (+60% bAD) + 200 (+60% bAD) + 200 (+60% bAD) = 600 (+180% bAD).

Now, it only does 100% more damage: (100% + 100%) so it doubles: 300 (+90% bAD) + 300 (+90% bAD) = 600 (+180% bAD).

Nope! The maximum damage is identical to live. This is strictly a moderate buff to the minimum damage that the ability can do - her 1v1s should be about the same as live unless she R2's early and her teamfights are probably a little bit better if she hits multiple people with her ult that might be healthier than her primary target.

No.

Live Riven R minimum damage: 100/150/200(+60% bonus AD) Live Riven R maximum damage ( at 75% missing health): 300/450/600 (+180% bonus AD)

PBE Riven min damage: 150/225/300 (90% bonus AD) PBE Riven max damage (at 75% missing health): 300/450/600 (180% bonus AD)

Just a heads up there is a line missing in Riven's changelist...

For her ultimate: % increase based on missing health :: 0-200% >>> 0-100%