RiotMeddler

Originally posted by friendmode

Subjective first reaction, as someone who's played League for 15 years and does about 60%/40% ARAM + ranked nowadays: I was excited about the new game mode up until reading about augments. There's a huge hole in game modes to be able to pick the champ you want to play, play it in a match that typically takes <15 minutes, and not have massive mechanical gimmicks that makes everything play like a different champ. I do understand that's a challenging mix to make work with League pacing, but having a quick game mode to pick a champ and have roughly transferable practice/muscle memory to rift matches feels like such a clear opportunity that's currently missed.

The first iteration of Nexus Blitz was the most fun because it was the closest to that model, and each successive version that introduced more Mario Party-style mechanics just interrupted the essence of what made it enjoyable/sticky. I think Ultimate Spellbook actually struck closest to the best balance on that otherwise....

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Originally posted by BarackProbama

Meddler wanted it but one pricing meme was enough ;)

Originally posted by Mazrim_reddit

I wonder if the wild rift ports are part of riot accepting wild rift is somewhat dieing or was a failure - giving up trying to entice people over with unique skins.

Personally I never saw the appeal of playing as complex a game as a moba on mobile, and play/activity rates at least in the west seem to reflect that pretty heavily.

Originally posted by ThunderCrasH24

Get those LoR skins in there too.

Originally posted by Leyin99

Do you have already a first expectation on how much the new change will affect new champs? Since while I agree these stuff need more focus would be for example sad if we ony get 2 new champs in a year or so

Originally posted by EkkoThruTime

This is probably a controversial opinion, but I don't think every story across all mediums have to be 100% consistent with each other. There's a trade off between cohesiveness and creative freedom among different teams; finding the right balance is undoubtedly a difficult task.

I think what's most important is understanding and staying true to the core identity of the champions, the little details don't need to always be the same if it's a detriment to the creative process IMO. For example, I know some LoL lore fans are upset Arcane doesn't follow canon 100% but to me it's not that big of a problem as long as Arcane's canon is consistent with itself and doesn't betray the core essence of the characters. The Last of Us show is another good example of what I mean. There are a few details that aren't "canon" to the game but they don't break what's fundamental to the story, in fact they enhance the story for the given medium that it's in. I hope this makes sense.

Originally posted by thatwitchguy

When you say not centralising do you mean like for example, arcane is still its own thing outside of canon but how they do something would influence canon and vice versa?

Originally posted by GGABueno

'Grab a space in the office, talk about what's happening, get stuff out quicker'

I like seeing glimpses of the Riot office like this, it's fun.

Also can't wait to see future Champions, skins and updates leaked through someone's monitor!

Originally posted by JailsinhoHue

Can you talk more about the 'Less New Champions' topic please

Originally posted by HandsomeTaco

Hey Meddler, can I ask if there is any expected timeframe for further lore news? Is this a general "talk about it later" or is it coming within the next couple of months?

Originally posted by TemiOO

Seeing devs communicate like this is always good so thanks Riot for putting in the effort

On theme with the pricing changes, I wonder if Riot will ever make all champs free in practice tool. It elevates the new player experience by a lot imo, being able to make a more informed decision with your BE is pretty big. I remember having champions that I wanted to buy for weeks and when I finally got enough IP I realised I didn’t like them as much as I thought I would

Originally posted by Halfscan

Augments sounds like fun. I want medic Ziggs back. I imagine the 2s mode will have a new map? Maybe like Ascension with a center focus point to force players into each other?

Originally posted by myraclejb

Smurf accounts about to go OFF

Originally posted by TabaCh1

Props to the rioter who came up with Jhin at 4444

Originally posted by Dawnbringer_Fortune

Thats the Answer. Shes just too complex for newer players to understand and therefore shes one of the least fun Champions

Originally posted by Commercial_Trifle975

Rioter might be looking for comments to reply to in this thread, so I am going to inhale all my copium and ask.

In the future, far or near, will it be possible for Mordekaisers dragon to come back?

Originally posted by G0ldenfruit

Feedback on the 2v2v2v2: Augments sound very fun but one of the issues with nexus blitz was repetition of gimmicks. Once you've seen each a few times - only a couple remain fun, others get frustrating.

Hope this can help and 2v2s in LoL itself is the base for the fun of the mode rather than needing extras :)

Originally posted by AsamasHMR

What I am curious about are older game mods like blood moon, nexus siege, project, etc. You don't mention them anywhere which leads me to believe we shouldn't be expecting them at all? Just feels a little worried that Riot almost pretends they never existed.

Originally posted by basedandrevv

is the modes team the group that deals with clash? has there been any news on when it will be back?

Originally posted by RiotMeddler

Next step, adding controllable units to TFT, let's just keep looping it around and around