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Where were you when we started development?

Everyone asks why is Hwei, but no one ever asks how is Hwei

After careful review of this pitch the team gas agreed that Hwei will be getting more nerfs instead

As it turns out, number of abilities doesn't correlate to typos otherwise champions would have 0 abilities because I've nevr made a typo.

Hello Redditors and aspiring Hwei mains!

We’re some of the dev team members that brought you League’s most recent champion, Hwei, and we’re here to answer your questions! Hwei’s been leaving his mark on the Rift for about a week now, so we figured this would be a good time to say hi and see if you have any burning questions you’re looking to ask.

This AMA will run from 10am-12pm PT, but a few Rioters will likely stick around to keep answering questions afterwards.

Rioters joining the AMA will include:

Riot_Riru (Community Manager) | RiotEmizery (Game Design) | orkidian (Narrative Writer) | NeoLexical (Team Lead) | ProfRincewind (VO Producer) | RiotComrade (Researcher) | Etlios (QA Engineer) | Riot_Wubs (Sound Design)

Let’s kick it off!!

EDIT: And we're at time! Thank you so much to everyone that dropped by and asked questions about our broody painter boy, Hwei. A few of us will be staying around to keep answering questions, but unti...

It’s here as a RGM for this launch. No news to share on whether or not it will be permanent though

Just 2, 3, 4, and 8 at the moment. The team couldn’t add 5-7 players due to match fixing concerns

Imagine being the sucker that had to type those out

Not everything has names yet so some are just passive for now

Working on this now, thanks!

Hey there, wanted to apologize for the confusion here. Redeemed Star Guardian Rakan (and Xayah) will be available for direct purchase with RP similar to Legendary skins (1820 RP) when they're live. We're also going to be doing a bundled discount for the two of them for 2002 RP. They will be purchasable for a limited time until the end of the year directly for RP, after that we'll vault them, similar to them being available for a limited time in WR. We apologize for the confusion. Thanks!

Thanks! A lot of it has been going back and forth with asking the devs questions so we can be more clear around specific points.

For example, with Tryn last patch it was obvious +50 range would be a hot topic so we tried to tackle the question "why exactly are we buffing Tryn with 50+ attack range and how do we explain this in a way that will make sense to players and shows that we believe this will be the best direction for Tryn going forward?"

Some people will always disagree with us, but the least we can do is provide some insight for players that want to try and understand where the team is coming from.

Also having a team of incredibly knowledgeable devs like u/phroxz0n and ...

Hey there, I'm sorry about the incorrect information that made it into the patch notes recently. I do my best to make sure everything that goes into the notes is accurate, but i'm only human and sometimes I do make mistakes. When I realize there are issues I try to correct them ASAP, but obviously players that read them immediately on release still see the incorrect information.

I am working to make sure these issues become less and less frequent and eventually disappear altogether though, so I hope you'll continue to read the patch notes.

This was indeed written a week ago. We generally have to lock everything ~1 week in advance in so it can be translated globally

Hmm I wonder if I could ever get a job working in video games…

No problem! Next dev video should be coming out early next week