u/RiotMeddler Can you comment on the state of Vanguard as of right now, it seems to be sleeping and not being released anywhere?
Preparation's still underway for its rollout. We didn't have anything new to say this video, so didn't want to just rehash old news. Timeline has slipped from what we'd originally predicted, we're very much in the headspace of doing it well is much more important than doing it fast though for this
I remember there was a huge conversation around Cait's VU when it happened around the modernizing of her code resulting in the removal of mechanics that players used and got used to for A WHILE.
Lee Sin has a ton of skill expression. Is the team aware this time around not to mess about with the muscle memory and remove the seemingly everlasting skill expression of Lee?
That's being worked on at the moment actually. Recent discussion with Rioters who play Lee Sin has included things like Flash and E interactions, which spells can be cast/started during others etc. Our starting point is that we want to make sure that anything that has become expected and currently supported gameplay gets preserved, even if not intended when Lee was first designed. There'll be a bit of bug fixing too though of course on some weird and definitely not intended interactions. Hopefully we'll get the distinction between the two right in each case, do give us feedback as soon as he hits PBE though on what feels correct and what feels off
is it this season that we have 3 splits? if yes when does the first one end?
It is. If you go to the Profile area in game and click Ranked you can see the remaining time in the split there too (currently says 36d, 14h, 36m for me for example)
u/RiotMeddler In the last dev update, it was mentioned by Phroxzon that you guys were going to talk a bit more about the MMR system. Why didn't you guys talk about it in this video? Were you guys working on matchmaking changes but ended up not going forward with it? I'm pretty sure it was teased in the beginning of the season that we were getting a new matchmaking system callled "True Skill 2" What happened to that?
Nothing currently ready to share to the best of my knowledge, will check with the team for potential inclusion in the next one though
I figured there’s definitely a reason for it - I just love that skin so any changes to it hurt haha.
Totally understand, hope a bit of context helps a little at least!
Could I also ask a more a League Studios related question, do you think we can expect greater alignment between art and narrative now that LoR, WR and PC League are under LS or are you guys still ramping up that pipeline, like would Shyvana's card arts in LoR and WR model be updated now that she's confirmed for a VGU and other things
Org structure shouldn't have much, if any, impact on how aligned art and narrative are across the games. Alignment like that's discussed regardless of where a game happens to live in our internal processes. The call that we discussed late last year to have everything be part of one shared Runeterra going forwards is the sort of thing that results in greater alignment on upcoming content, won't always mean we go back and retroactively change existing things necessarily though
Will the mode be lore-centric or will it just be tied to whatever skinline comes out at the time?
It won't be themed around base Runeterra lore
As a new Lee Sin player, the visual updates look really good but I personally really liked the ‘noisy’ aspect of the Storm dragon skin…
I feel like that’s kind of a nerf to the skin to bring it in line with the other skins rather than bringing the rest up to Storm Dragon’s level.
Maybe that’s just me though 🤔
"Noisy" visuals usually tend to look and feel better for a particular skin or champion in isolation if they're high quality. If everything gets pushed to be noisy like that though you unfortunately just end up with a game where nothing's readable/everything's drowned out and you can't pick out key info well enough
nah f**k that SD Leesin ponytail just whyy. his og haircut looks so good idk what's with the obsession with giving every male champ long hair.
The pony tail's a meaningful part of base Lee Sin's silhouette. We want to make sure we're reflecting it in his skins more, especially those that have had clarity issues where it hasn't been immediately clear which champ you're looking at (Storm Dragon being the prime example of that)
I'm so happy they're telling us the victorious skins ahead of time. And finally champs I PLAY.
We're trying it out. Want to see what people think of this approach, whether it encourages or discourages people from playing, whether it impacts champ pick rates etc if they know in advance versus a it being a surprise towards the end of the split.
Victorious Sona!!! Thank u riot🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 I’ve long waited for a champ I play to finally get a ranked skin 😭
Oh, sorry, that was meant to be Seraphine, Brightmoon and I just got them confused
(I kid, I kid...)
Hmm, a League themed garliclike? Sounds interesting
"garliclike"
TIL a new term
it seems like the PvE was first tested in Wild Rift on Kalista's pre-ruination survival mode
While the release timing's pretty close the two modes were developed completely separately, with the people pitching each mode not to the best of my knowledge actually aware of the other project at the start even. While they're both PVE against a fair number of enemies they play pretty differently.
/u/RiotMeddler are you able to comment on that little Malphite teaser in Skarner's theme video or is that for a future dev update.
Also what will happen to your card board counter part
Malphite - wasn't intended to be public. That's a work in progress project looking that's exploring a different approach to visual updates to see how the work required versus results achieved compares to our more common ASUs and VSUs. Kinda like how with Jax we tried rolling out a full update in a series of pieces rather than all at once. No conclusions yet, I expect we'll talk about it at some point though
Card board counter part - that is the card board version with a bit of generative AI applied
Will the next dev update come this upcoming week or in early April since after filming it it still needs edits etc
Dev updates tend to take a week and a half to two weeks post filming until they're ready for release on average. That covers editing, addition of gameplay footage, localization to other languages etc.
I'm really excited about this but as a league player of over a decade I'm not confident in their ability to deliver this on time. This feels like they're soft launching a post about how it's our fault the new mastery system isn't out, we weren't cheering hard enough.
Based on Riot's past track record, they're gonna release this in December 2025 in an unfinished state with pinky promises that they'll keep it updated, it will receive precise one update 2 years later, and then be quietely abandoned before they announce a brand new mastery system, coming soon(tm).
We'll talk a bit about where Champion Mastery is up to in the next Dev Update which we'll be filming next week. Some refinements, no massive changes to the system or timelines though.
Teemo
I stand by my perspective
Congratulation to Meddler!
<3
Meddler to busy for a Dev Update just because he was getting married? f**king fake gamer man
edit: lol @ second prestige skin for Leona
For what it's worth I'm going to do my utmost to never get married again!
We're almost exactly halfway through the current set and sets now last for four months. Next set will be mid to late March as a result
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