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Season 2 will have some direct continuity with Season 1 in some places, plus some separate themes as well. I want to be vague as to what and where to not undercut the planned ways that stuff will get experienced/revealed. I know a lot of people will look at Spirit Blossom and assume this is a less canon season than they'd expected, there's a lot of canon Runeterra stuff going on and Spirit Blossom itself is a core part of Runeterra, even if the skins within it are then interpretations of the spirit concepts onto existing champions.

We're doing one new champion per season. So Yunara will come out sometime in season 2 of the year, then another new champ sometime in season 3.

Can understand the skepticism, we'll talk more about this one in a future update once we can share some data and specifics on what we're seeing + pick your brains on whether you're feeling any changes in game or not

As part of developing these map variants for SR, plus other stuff like Arena and Bridge of Progress ARAM, we have improved our internal art tools for making maps. No promises, but that would make it easier to do things like larger map visual changes at some point in the future

Camille bio - has been completed, picking a release date at present (as in, was under discussion yesterday)

Seraphine - almost updated, about to pick a release date (might bundle with Camille, TBD)

Xin - You'll see some more of Xin this season. I expect we'll update his bio at some point but that's not where we want to be primarily driving storytelling if it's possible to use other mediums or tools

Shyv - nothing to share at present

We've penciled it in for start of 2028

Next Clash is April 19th-20th and will be standard SR. We'll share the rest of the schedule soon (still nailing down an exact date or two)

Shaco…

That’s really thoughtful (and timely with how much discussion chests have gotten recently…)

Send me his LoL account name in a DM?

Will be in April, haven’t locked an exact date yet

Hmm, that’s probably just an unintended holdover from when it was a pass skin. I’ll follow up with the team, see if there’s another reason or if we just need to update that

There will be missions this act that let you earn a couple of chests via connection to the Honor system. Those missions haven't started yet. First one at least should be live in 25.6 next week

TS2 test is still underway (figuring out how to still make sure that's covered that isn't at the expense of Clash). Don't have results ready yet, will still share them in an upcoming dev update.

Yes

You get keys with the pass and honor chests yes

In retrospect no, we agree they weren’t good enough for a pass either

We did talk a little about Jhin and Vel’koz’s BE prices. Our thinking was that having higher prices for the sake of a small joke would feel bad and that lower price for them was more important. Open to change on that, but felt like the right thing for anyone who hasn’t unlocked them yet, especially since if they haven’t they often won’t even get the reference

Chest contents will be the same as last year. Details on %s here if you scroll down a bit.

https://support-leagueoflegends.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/360036422453-Hextech-Crafting-FAQ

You're most welcome

Chests will come with keys. For the pass chests, there'll be a key the level before or after (UI doesn't currently support giving chest and key on the same level node apparently, we'll change that but won't have it in for next week's patch). For honor chests, they'll just come at the same time through a mission (initially, will get a better distribution mechanism at some point that has more honor system connection)