Any reason why Ambessa wasn't discussed? was she delayed to 2025?
Ambessa's not delayed, she'll still be out this year at the time originally planned
When we get fairly close to a champion's release we generally avoid revealing further info in videos like these so that champion teasers, marketing etc have more room to do interesting stuff
You mentioned in the video that the plan was for each split to have a champion associated with it, both in terms of thematics and in terms of being a new release. This is something somewhat done this year (3 champs release schedule, with 1 release per split/season).
Is that the plan for champion releases going forward? 1 champ release each ranked split, for a total of 3 champs per year?
One champion per thematic season with strong integration with the theme of each season is the plan for 2025 at least. I think it's quite likely we continue that approach in 2026, but we'll see what response from you all is to this approach before making hard calls on future years
KDA GRAGAS IS REAL
Just kidding
(not just kidding)
of course there would be massive drop off in arena when they kept adding new things to it that literally nobody asked for, most people just wanted a basic pvp game mode where you just fight and not all rng mechanics that tft has. They completely missed the point with each new alteration.
One of the challenges we've been working on with Arena is that it's got a range of different overlapping audiences within it. Some people want a pretty straight forward mode for high skill expression 2v2 in. Some want to learn new champions. Some want to try their luck in a more chaotic environment. Some want to demonstrate how adaptable they can be.
We've been experimenting with a range of different content and approaches as a result, looking to learn which groups are the largest, which are most interested in sticking around for longer runs of the mode etc.
i guess with the mention of 3 diff thematic seasons in 2025 they will continue to commit to the 3 ranked splits
We're still discussing exact ranked approach for 2025. There's definitely some appeal in being able to tie splits with thematic seasons, we're debating internally right now though whether we've got all the execution details right on the splits in terms of approach to resets, games to climb etc (though will still be doing 3 ranked skins regardless next year)
since u said 1 month later, am I right to think next dev vid is next week? just asking cause it's also start of world playing so busy week
Yep, next week's the plan
When are you going to talk about why 2025 is going to change league forever?
We've got some cool stuff coming in 2025 and will share more about it later this year. Having said that I think "Change League forever" is a bit of an oversell though. I'm really glad @RiotPupulasers is super excited about things being worked on, we're not redefining what LoL means, upgrading everything at once or anything at that sort of level though.
I thought there would at least be something like a teaser for 2025 changes, or what direction to expect etc. , is there any reason why no announcements?
We'll talk a bit about direction for 2025 gameplay and other changes around September, then a lot more about details sometime in November.
/u/RiotMeddler what are you doing about smurfs ruining rankeds at every level of play?
I think pretty much every single player has been affected by this recently, it's absolutely out of hand.
I think it's one of our bigger issues too. We've got some matchmaking work underway as one part of that. We'll talk about that in the next dev update which should be sooner than usual (so about a month or so from now is the current plan)
I've counted "We'll talk about that in the next update" at least three times, and I'm only at 3 minutes.
Seriously. Why bother? Why start with "We're going to answer your questions", and then not actually answer the questions?!
Other option was to skip this video and just wait until the next one (around a month from now most likely). We concluded even if we couldn't give specifics yet on some stuff it was better to stay in the habit of talking regularly and answer what we could.
Will you also talk about what we can expect from the anniversary? It's good to know about the rewards and stuff, but what I'd like to know is if there will be any news about the IP. Series, movies, big changes to the game... I understand that you can't go into details, but it would be cool to know if you're cooking
Focus will be just celebrating LoL and its community, not on any big reveals. So some rewards, some light stuff to engage with, bit of reminiscing and general discussion. No big reveals or wider Riot news though
does she get 3 swords?
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I wonder if they saw that thread a few weeks back complaining about skinlines...
We did and yeah, that's one of the reasons we wanted to touch on this topic. Some of this discussion was planned regardless, some got added in response to ongoing conversation
Great format! Nice to have just some standard questions answer instead of focusing on one or two topics. These are good to break up the normal dev updates but shouldn’t replace them.
Excited to see the new modes information. From the outside, it seems swarm was really positive. I’m hoping to see either a permanent mode added or an emphasis on cooperative modes that allow a more collaborative environment instead of a competitive one
Thanks for the feedback on the format. We'll probably do this approach again occasionally if we don't have enough regular content. Unlikely to be a frequent thing and certainly not a replacement for stuff we'd otherwise talk about
Calling off the duo.
Like we're eligible to duo anyway
Sorry to everyone who doesn’t play Zeri, Swain, Diana, and Caitlyn on the prestige front. That said 3 of those are my most played champs across all accounts and another sign that Riot has clearly been listening to me specifically.
In case you were wondering we made the call after Vanguard gave us all your fanfiction about them
Clearly her name has to be spelled Ytwomi with a silent Y to match her brothers Yasuo and Yone, otherwise this is irreparably immersion breaking. Don't f**k this up Riot
I was thinking Ytwoaami with the two 'a's being silent but highly important lore wise
Read moreThose masteries are looking great, Im glad y'all took player feedback into account. From the video, my feedback would be:
The orange gem for M9 should probably be brighter to pop a little more.
The Gem for M7 does look a little off and might benefit from being either a touch bigger or a touch higher or both.
Mastery 9 and 10 could have one more set of 'wings', in the old system, m7 was extremely distinct because it had so much extra wing. Also I think the shield getting wider looked really good on the older ones, 9 and 10 here look visually a bit smaller.
I don't know if the sound is getting changed, but the metallic ring of the old system was extremely impactful compared to the glassy sounds they have. To be clear the glassy noises are not bad, but I think for M8-10, the sound could be a bit longer with the metallic ring sort of 'punching' through at the end.
I don't know what particles will be associated but those gems best be shining with their coloured ...
Detailed notes appreciated, will make sure the team see them.
Surprised they're bringing back honoring opponents, given how, iirc, this was removed as people used it to flame the worst performing member of the enemy team. Are there structures in place to prevent this or is Riot just letting it rock?
I'm not sure if people using it to flame poor performers was a major part of our decision to remove it at the time (I wasn't very involved with the prior changes).
If it was though I think that was us over focusing on an occasional negative use case at the expense of the much more common positive cases
TLDR: If true, we were wrong
Yo an Azir skin
I look forward to once again deciding that maybe I can learn Azir after all, doing atrociously for a dozen games and then going back to less mechanical champs.
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