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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

It won't be themed around base Runeterra lore

"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

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)

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.

Oh, sorry, that was meant to be Seraphine, Brightmoon and I just got them confused

(I kid, I kid...)

"garliclike"

TIL a new term

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.

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

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.

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

<3

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

I'll refer back to this post in 2027 when we ship 3 swords and triple crit.

And then again in 2043 when we're at 4 swords and double double crit

Ok, now I’m convinced 

Vanguard - one of the big issues right now is the number of accounts that get levelled with bots, creating a range of relatively disposable accounts that a certain type of player will then use without care for how they affect others, whether their account gets banned or restricted etc. Vanguard should let us rapidly detect and ban said accounts, hence the improvements to smurfs/inters/ban dodgers.

Arena - Doubling teams won't double duration, agree that Arena doesn't need to be a dramatically longer mode. For most teams it'll be about the same length, if you're in the final two it will likely run a little bit longer. Regardless of the number of teams present though each round half of the teams in game are going to be losing health, so elimination will mainly happen at the same pace

Thank you for the kind words, we're going to keep working on the communication thing throughout this year too of course as well :)

That's a huge part of the rationale behind adopting Vanguard here yeah. Direct cheating isn't as big an issue in LoL generally as it can be in some genres like shooters. Botted accounts however have been doing quite a bit of damage to many queues, be it encountering levelling bots that are miserable to have as team mates or people on botted accounts who don't care about their account/identity. We think addressing that should be a pretty significant improvement to the overall experience for most players