RiotMeddler

So I know there's some trolling/joking about Janna play here. At the same time though it's true that detection needs to take context into account. Power farming jungle and not ganking? Sometimes appropriate for certain junglers, almost always inappropriate from a laner stealing everything from their jungler and not contributing. Being significantly behind everyone else on levels and spending a lot of time not farming? Can be perfectly normal for support play, warning flag for some solo laners though not all etc etc.

Can understand the skepticism, given this has been a long running issue. The commitment to talking monthly is meant to help both give you folks ongoing visibility into what we're doing and give you an avenue to hold us accountable if progress isn't happening.

That's our intent certainly. The risk of incorrectly flagging people who aren't trolling is why we're starting with a data gathering phase and then, once we've got a large enough sample size and confidence we're distinguishing trolling from unusual behavior, turning on penalties a bit later.

We think it'll be impactful yeah, though not enough by itself. The way I'm currently thinking about this issue is there are three elements that all need to be working well:

1. Detection of players ruining games
2. Appropriate penalties (ideally applied quickly) for those actions
3. Visibility into that process for others so it's understood action is being taken and that that sort of behavior has consequences

The improved notifications should help a lot with #3 there. As per the original post our next focus is on better detection.

That's a fair call out, will make sure it's one of the things we discuss again.

Yep, that's the sort of thing that makes this tricky. It means we can't simply penalize off KDA in a single game for example, just doesn't give enough context. Incorporating a lot more sources of information (multiple games, when in the games deaths occurred, odd behavior like avoiding all teamfights/objectives, etc) should give better accuracy. Still leaves the question of what rate of incorrect penalties is appropriate though hence the interest in hearing people's thoughts on that. It's probably one of those things that also varies meaningfully by MMR, region and other contexts too.

Streamers wise - definitely not trying to move conversation away from both how streamers get affected by trolling and trolling can be influenced by streamers. Did want to be clear though that we're interested in the wider impact, in addition to how high profile players get affected.

I don't think he is objectively. Still one of my favourites though :)

Fair call out on milestones. Those were high in Mecha Kingdoms (20 points), even if other things were less demanding. We went back to the lower milestone mission demands for Galaxies (15 points) and don't plan on raising them again for upcoming events.

I wish, I fall into that pit all the time myself with constant self justification about how I just need slightly more board presence then I'll save next round...

Probably is the strongest answer I can give you at the moment. It's a skinline that seemed to click with a fair number of players, though response wasn't quite as strong as things like Star Guardian or High Noon have been recently. Likely we bring it back at some point as a result, not confirmed yet though.

Fair. I personally feel Voli's changes are similar to Morde and Fiddles, in terms of same sort of playstyle with details different some modernization. Hope he still delivers what you're after from him.

Thank you. I don't like the whole working from home thing, but I certainly don't have any real cause to complain compared to what some people are dealing with. Hope you're doing well given the circumstances too.

1 - Data informed is still our stance. The new balance framework is certainly a shift though towards a position where we're much more confident building stronger rules using data because of how long League's been running and how clear it now is what unacceptable balance states look like.

2 - I think the current level of change is overall a good one. It's lower than I'd personally prefer as a player, and lower than some segments of the playerbase, particularly in regions like NA that are more change favoring than others, would like. On the other hand we're also not seeing the significant pain and upheaval that our previous rate of change created for a lot of other players. It's a reasonable compromise in my eyes as a result. I do think our preseasons could p...

Yeah, Kalista's been a long running challenge for us alas.

What don't you like about the Volibear VGU?

If what you're looking for is balance/gameplay specific stuff only these posts won't be too interesting a lot of the time. RiotScruffy and I are alternating weeks between Quick Gameplay thoughts on his part (balance/gameplay heavy) and Quick LoL thoughts from me (some gameplay still at times, but more of a focus on other topics).

Yeah, in retrospect while the problem those were there to solve is real the solution wasn't the best one. Optimistic this works out quite a bit better.

Correct. He's working on something else in another part of the company at the moment.

Being able to see your TFT pass progress should be available pretty soon, we're getting the core game rolled out everywhere first though. It is tracking progress in the background already though.

In terms of buying other stuff, that'll come a bit later.

At 56% yeah, we'd probably hotfix if her playrate was also high. If she was 56% and an extremely uncommon pick still for some reason we'd probably wait on the next regular patch.

Something experimental we're going to try is giving other abilities beyond Q scaling based off his Q stacks. No guarantees that works out though, so might just fall back on simple ability/stat number buffs.