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11 Dec

Split 2 Rewards & Monetization | Dev Update - League of Legends

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Originally posted by Spideraxe30

/u/RiotMeddler thanks for a year of dev updates, I was wondering, with Riot branching out into more games and IP expressions. Could you share if visual designs from other games will be the designs of the champs going forward since some champs are starting fork like Janna having separate visuals in WR and LoR or Vlad and Syndra getting updated designs in WR

We want to make sure the core essence of a champion's maintained throughout the different places they appear. We also want to support different art styles and tones though, so some degree of variance is deliberate. Going to be case by case. A lot of the time though is one product demonstrates a strong upgrade to an existing character we'll want to adopt that elsewhere too whenever we next work on them (e.g. LoR Nid's a great take on the character I'd love to see elsewhere, Arcane's take on Caitlyn was something we wanted to adopt everywhere once we saw it etc)

Split 2 Rewards & Monetization | Dev Update - League of Legends

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Originally posted by MazrimReddit

An important thing in this video that is easy to skip over is the upgrading of minimum stats for league.

League has been designed for potatoes for a very long time, would love if a rioter could say exactly how high the specs are going to be now.

Is it going to be barely noticeable or allow Riot to do more things like skins matching elementalist lux

This change is about phasing out support for older operating systems, not about hardware. Won't mean more memory available for development, will mean things like a somewhat easier development process, slightly streamlined QA, better security etc though instead.


08 Dec

Blue Essence Emporium

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Originally posted by yukine95

Wait /u/RiotMeddler said in the dev blog video that we would get mistery icons (not the mini) and the mistery wards back since there weren't in this summer Emporium. What happened?

Following up with folks to find out (hoping it's just that we didn't put that stuff in the FAQ, not sure yet though)


27 Nov

Set 9 legends and the lack of flexibility in recent sets have created a huge divide in the community.

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Originally posted by femboy4femboy69

I didn't realize you were on the TFT team! Is this a recent development?

It's been a thing for about four and a half years :)

I split my time between helping League, TFT and Wild Rift depending on what's needed any given week. Haven't posted much about TFT for a long time though!


26 Nov

Set 9 legends and the lack of flexibility in recent sets have created a huge divide in the community.

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Originally posted by ipkandskiIl

I am pretty sure they said legends are going to come back in some form for future sets.

Maybe. I expect we’ll explore pre game choice(s) again at some point. When, and whether that’s Legends, modified Legends or something different we haven’t made any calls on though


21 Nov

My quickplay got replaced with blindpick?

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We found a major bug with Quickplay right before the patch went out. We've disabled it and re-enabled blind pick while we work on the bug.


15 Nov

Will there be a new "The call" opening video for the new season?

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Yes, there'll be a new season start cinematic of the same sort of style, approach etc as The Call


07 Nov

Varus Q indicator is so awful, we should have an option for quick cast not be forced to use it regardless of what you select

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Originally posted by HeiMaoMiao

They need to revert it. Feels like they did this to lower amount of lethality Varus'

Good news, this is bugged and will be corrected in tomorrow's patch


12 Oct

Champs, Lore & More | Dev Update - League of Legends

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Originally posted by KillerBee4100

u/RiotMeddler with Arcane being made canon, will there be any large/overaching changes to the already established timeline? There's one scene in particiular I'm refering to, when Jayce is put on trial and Heimerdinger starts talking about what seems to presumably be the Rune Wars. But with Heimerdinger being 307 years old in Arcane, according to himself, he shouldn't have been alive to see the Rune Wars, as they happened a good 700 years before his birth in the currently established timeline. Can you talk about this one already, or are you still in the process of figuring that sort of stuff out?

Just asking, since making Arcane canon could open up a massive can of worms in terms of the established timeline

Can’t go into exact details, can say there has been more than one rune war/conflict though, some bigger, some smaller

Champs, Lore & More | Dev Update - League of Legends: Riot Brightmoon, Meddler, Riot Lexical, and Poisonpixxi share updates on League’s lore, new champions, Skarner’s VGU, Quickplay, language select, and the Blue Essence Emporium.

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Originally posted by THESuperStuntMan

All around good news except for no estimated release for Skarner still. Here's to the stopping with the pointless non-canon stories for this already fictional world.

Skarner - early 2024

Champs, Lore & More | Dev Update - League of Legends

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Originally posted by trauja

one question but such cinematic is for next year season start? cuz that'd be a long time

For the upcoming January season start yeah

Champs, Lore & More | Dev Update - League of Legends

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Originally posted by Spideraxe30

Could I also ask how Project L will play into the new canon, or would it be up to that game team to talk about it

Yeah, that's up to that team. Our central lore focused people, like Laura in the video, certainly also work with the Project L team too though for what it's worth!

Champs, Lore & More | Dev Update - League of Legends

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Originally posted by UberEinstein99

You’re right... Because it’s actually Neeko!

BRB, asking if we can spend way too much money to create this as an out take...

Champs, Lore & More | Dev Update - League of Legends

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Originally posted by Ancient_Response_317

Super lame they are removing blind pick for those that play it (honestly, I never did once I have draft) but quick play sounds nice. Being able to just skip like a solid 5-10 minutes of draft and just play sounds super nice

Quickplay and Blindpick over lap a lot in terms of the player needs they serve. We're confident at this point that Quickplay does so better however. That means we believe it's better to remove Blind Pick so that everyone's using the same queue, which allows better matchmaking balance and match times. Splitting the player base over multiple queues, even for a large game like League, comes with some pretty significant trade offs, so is something we want to avoid unnecessarily

Champs, Lore & More | Dev Update - League of Legends

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Originally posted by Yeon_Yihwa

Just wanted to say, i really like the dev update videos. Keep it up!

Appreciated and will do. We've got one more coming this year sometime in late November at a guess, then you'll see us again at the start of January with Season Start!

Champs, Lore & More | Dev Update - League of Legends

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Originally posted by Mana_Croissant

Wow i didn’t expect to get an answer. So glad that you answered and also glad to hear that Camille is not forgotten.

Glad to hear about Viktor too.

Maybe it is me being a bit too emotional about this but Arcane is my favorite show in years and it is the show that made me experience the same hype, emotions and joys when i first started watching anime a decade ago but eventually lost and now i am barely getting joy out of anything i watch. So I am really hyped for Arcane and wish with all my heart that it will be a grand success like its first season and its quality and story will live up to the expectations so i am/was kinda worried about the limitations that might come from having to have thinks match up to the characters in game.

Once again thank you so much for the answer

So glad you love it!

Having a shared world certainly brings some constraints and challenges for telling stories in things like Arcane. At the same time though we're pretty convinced it gives things a lot more resonance, helps build stronger again connections if you know the character development shown will also be reflected everywhere else etc.

Champs, Lore & More | Dev Update - League of Legends

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Originally posted by eliedacc

NEW CUTE CREATURE CHAMP IS SHYVANA AND JARVAN 4'S BABY DRAGON EGG??

Lexi, Reav3, I think we need to re-evaluate our plans

Champs, Lore & More | Dev Update - League of Legends

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Originally posted by AobaSona

there will still be some of the restricted chromas (League Partner program etc)

Aren't those usually available though, just for 10k BE instead of the regular price?

Ah crap, you're right. Ok, not the best example...

Champs, Lore & More | Dev Update - League of Legends

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Originally posted by AobaSona

How does that work for future seasons though? And for Piltover/Zaun characters who are in the game but not in Arcane?

I fully support bringing certain things from Arcane to main canon (Silco, Vander, Jayce/Viktor friendship and creating hextech), but by this point the two timelines have already diverged a lot.

Echo's Forge game for example is literally impossible to coexist with Arcane in the same universe.

While Arcane doesn't show the full Piltover/Zaun cast, it's not intended to come across as characters not shown can't exist in that world at all. We don't show Mundo for example in Season 1, but that's not taking the stance that Mundo isn't or can't be a part of that shared canon, just that any given story can only include so many characters before it becomes overloaded.

Champs, Lore & More | Dev Update - League of Legends

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Originally posted by Solash1

Are you able to touch a bit on Legends of Runeterra? I know a lotta people are unsure if that game's events and stories are meant to be canon as sometimes it occasionally conflicts with established lore (The Petricite Colossi for example). Would be nice to know whether LoR's stories are also in this converged canon, or if there's any stories shown in that game that Riot would wanna retcon or change

A lot of LoR's stuff is consistent with this unified canon already. Some bits will need to be updated though whenever we next release something in those parts of the lore.