/u/RiotMeddler are those new Orianna ability icons I peep, is the team working on a new batch since its a been a hot minute since the last big update
Huh, good eye. I believe that was an accidental inclusion in the video rather than a deliberate one. Icon updates are the sort of thing we'll fit in where possible around other work, I don't believe we've got a large batch underway at once though
Don't know if you're the appropriate person to ask, but you are the person here so I'll do it anyways; It doesn't appear that the following skin stuff included in the TL;DR is actually mentioned in the skins dev article. Could that get added at some point (I know it wouldn't be immediate since y'all have to localize articles like these into other supported languages.)
Star Guardian Seraphine and Orianna will be available in Patch 13.13 and Star Guardian Senna will be available in 13.14.
Redeemed Xayah and Rakan will be released towards the end of this year.
Taliyah and Ashe will receive the next Crystalis Motus skins later this year.
Odd, will pass that on
They have emerald in Wildrift. So they probally see the good response from that and decided to add it to league, too. Plus emerald worth more than platinum so i don't see how it break the higher rank = more valuable thing
Yep, we felt consistency across similar games in our ecosystem was pretty valuable here, so wanted to adopt the same terminology and general visual approach Wild Rift had used with Emerald that was well received. TFT will be adopting Emerald as a tier as well in the moderate future (exact timing TBD)
Ashen Knights were male. So why cant they give female champs some mythic skins too?
Also, SG skins are mostly female and they are more ports than new.
Yeah we're not going to try and force particular gender ratios for a skinline. We instead want to make sure we're going for champs that make sense with that theme, bring something new but resonant to the theme etc. Sometimes that will mean particular skin lines skew towards male or female champs
Lemme double check with the team on plans there
Current thinking - we'll try some non SR Clashes as additional clash runs and some as replacement for that month's SR one. See what sentiment and play rates look like for each approach, figure out what to do longer term
When is emerald rank and no promos releasing
Mid July (same time as the 2v2v2v2 mode, Naafiri, soft ranked reset, new thematic etc)
So nothing on blue essence emporium?
Still coming, don't have an exact date to share today though
Are you able to share anything about Essence Emporium, I thought PIE was in charge of that as well
Still underway, can't offer a specific date yet.
Wouldn’t this change feel bad for people that don’t participate in ARAM clash? So hypothetically you could miss out on July’s SR clash and then not have an opportunity to play it again until September? Or is ARAM clash separate from the normal monthly?
Lemme double check with the team on plans there
Is the emerald update going live in July or next year?
July
Next split
Yep, so mid July (20th from memory, or around there)
To be fair, they're doing ASUs on champions which have a ton of skins, especially older skins, so I'm not that surprised.
Yeah. We'd very much like shorter timelines too, and if these were champs with very small skin catalogues we'd be pretty close to ship. Champs with tiny skin catalogues are generally either new (and don't need an ASU) or pretty niche (so give a lot less benefit when ASU'd, since fewer players are benefitting from the upgrade)
Man, where is the 2v2v2v2 thing..
PBEing late June, live in July
pretty much half of the Dev update is talking about skins
Something we're trying at the moment is bringing in a guest for each dev update. This time that was Steph, who leads the team that does skins and some other stuff. As a result there's a lot of focus on skins in this particular case since that's her area.
So that means jax is still getting his asu thing this year.. right?
also is tft also getting emerald? cause we use the same ranked system.
Jax - on track for this year still yes.
TFT - will get emerald at some point yes, still figuring out exactly when makes sense in terms of at a set launch, as part of the last midset with 9.5, some other time again though
And grandmaster
Diamond, Master and Challenger are also additions that weren't there from the start. Season 1 was Bronze (top 25% or so from memory), Silver (top 10%?), Gold (Top 2%? can't recall at this point) and Platinum (almost nobody).
Monthly clash instead of biweekly
Were not enough people playing Clash or too many?
The shift back to monthly isn't about population size, but about how we've seen people engage with clash, sentiment about it, perceived specialness etc. At biweekly we see a lot more "I'll just wait for the next one"/"this happens often enough it isn't that special"/"it's hard to get my team together all the time". In retrospect the monthly schedule we originally had for Clash looks like it was a better fit for a larger time commitment that requires some preparation and in exchange should be more of a high moment
Ok so no naafiri update.
When a champ's close we're going to stop talking about them in things like these Dev update videos. Want to save some surprise, some elements etc for teasers, reveal and PBE. In terms of timing Naafiri should be hitting PBE late June.
I was a bit confused by the time you posted this answer... So, the next Dev Update Video will be now in June or only July? .-.
Oh, right. Next video should be next week (around the 8th of June, though that's not a guaranteed date)
Are you able to share if you got the PIE lead in for this one
We do yes
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