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Bard's on the list!
Reminder to look out for Bard!
Bard's on the list!
is there a tenative buff list? or not yet
Should have one coming in the next few days
I have a feeling they're going to wait either until the next proper patch or until the Z-tier is mostly stabilized before committing more to buffs, since preventing champs from breaking the game is higher priority. But yeah, I definitely hope we can get more buffs to the bottom tier champs, some of them feel like they'd be a lot of fun but just don't really work.
Yea, bunch of buffs slated for 13.15
i hope to God you guys do Ima be honest you guys don't have a good track record when it comes to fun modes in regard to bringing them back instead of one and done deals. Please prove me wrong and also please balance this mode its fun but so beyond busted balance wise.
We just pushed another hotfix targeting the oppressive adcs and enchanters
We're currently prepping a change for 13.15 so pets + summons will take damage in the fire. It will additionally add ramping grievous wounds to keep people from perma healing inside it.
The inkmage will be a harder champ right? Can I draw yuumi and throw her at my enemies
Will be a more complicated champ (go figure). Not going to talk about mechanics though.
But K'sante was only made by Azubk no? afaik AzuBK made Kante alone
AzuBK started Ksante and came up with the core design of a warden that becomes a skirmisher when he ults. I came in after and figured out the spell designs. One of our newer designs actually took him over the finish line doing polish and tuning.
make tank gameplay in pro more fun to watch
What are your thoughts about how some people view Ksante as not really being a tank? I've seen some complaints that a new tank champ wasn't actually made and that K'sante "makes tanks more fun" by making him not a tank so they deserve to have a new "actual" tank release.
Ksante needs to play most fights as a tank in order to succeed. I think that’s where newer or lower elo players misread him. You give up a ton if you just ult at the start of a fight and shred your health to try and one v one someone.
The gameplay before you ult doesn’t feel like any other tank, but the outputs are all very tank focused. Q is a heavy slow, w is a stun and displacement, e is a shield. The passive attacks sub in for the percent health damage that most tanks have in their abilities. They’re low cooldown and he feels very flighty, but his output is squarely on protecting his team and tying up the enemy.
I think it’s a misnomer that tanks can’t do damage. Tanks absolutely can (and should, I argue) kill you if they get to stick to a squishy target for long periods of time. Ksante just has a mode that lets him play a different role briefly.
What was the reason for the pivot, if you can share?
She used to be a jungler that had two forms that swapped on a bespoke timer. The Costco of having two forms meant both kits had to be simple, but player labs showed us the audience didn’t want that. We didn’t want to make her super complex, so we pivoted off the two forms and had to find a new kit
Lmfao Dan.
Oops I’m on Reddit mom
FWIW as a random Plat ADC main, K'sante made me love playing tanks for the first real time. He's so much fun.
Mission accomplished! That’s great to hear, thank you!
Kinda curious, which champion have you enjoyed working on the most?
Lillia was probably the most stressful because we had to pivot her kit super late in dev, but I’m the happiest with where she ended up. Simple abilities but a ton of depth.
im sorry i ever bad mouthed yuumi please maxwell spare me
*thumb moves to down position*
"for the foreseeable future, League is heavy on modes"
from an outsiders perspective one could deduce that Summoners Rift is falling in priority, is that a fair statement to make?
No, not really. League is going through a refocusing right now. SR is getting a lot of support coming up. New champions are being scaled back to accommodate for the increased focus on modes, but the Summoner's Rift team has been hard at work on a bunch of cool stuff for SR that isn't quite ready for show time.
I'm kinda curious about this. Are there any failed/never-will-be-seen champion designs that you might be allowed to tell us? Or, maybe some cool tidbits of prior iterations of champions before they became what they were at release?
I had a pass at a jungler that constructed pylons across the map. Pylons that were close to eachother linked up and he could grind on the links like rails. It was super fun building your own network, but you just built your network on one lane and then turbo ganked it. I don't think that can work without a lot of iteration.
Noooooooooooo jk I legit enjoy playing Lillia, Gwen and K'Sante so thank you for designing them! Is your next champion Briar or the midlaner?
Midlaner.
Jokes aside, what you think about how community ended up with K'sante? Dude is Hella fun to play, but have some... Balance issues. Any plans for him?
He definitely did what he was supposed to do: make tank gameplay in pro more fun to watch. He definitely is too prevalent in pro and likely needs to be addressed although I'm not a part of the team that's going to do that work.
I think overall he's a little too pro skewed, but he's definitely a real hard champ to learn and rewards the time you put in. I have a lot of faith in the balance team sorting him out eventually.
In Dan we trust
Prayge
