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Nope, we're tuning it from actual data. There should be NO CHANGE whatsoever for the vast majority of our players.

Worth mentioning that we will be paying close attention to the Debonair Event data. If we need to adjust or tune our mission requirements as a result of this change for future events, we'll absolutely be doing so. It's previously been very challenging to accurately tune the "Play X games" missions to be fair for the majority of our League players when we have to compare real, hard-fought PVP games with TFT AFK games.

We do not want to make passes harder to complete. We do want players feeling free to play whatever mode they like to make progress in our Events.

It is not, and it will be fixed in the next patch.

This is correct. Last update we gave was "need to hire more designers before we can resume work on them". This has since happened.

"transparency without giving any real expectations". That's unfortunately not the case. A passing comment, or suggestion made by a Rioter is often interpreted as a statement of fact, or a promise from Riot.

For example, in my comment above I said "we have some changes in internal playtesting right now", and you yourself stated that "now you go back on it and wonder why it's called out as damage control".

Damage control would have been saying something like this the minute it was pointed out a few weeks ago. This is follow-up communication once we have a plan that looks promising.

We absolutely heard you all on this one.

We were certainly stuck between a rock and a hard place: we cleaned up her code, now more closely resembling tagliatelle rather than spaghetti, yet that clean-up also ejected some of the "bugs" that produced that snappy trap/headshot responsiveness that you loved. We all agreed internally that this was not OK, but there was simply no time to produce a set of new tweaks or replacement mechanics that we could be confident in before we launched her in 11.23.

As such, we have some changes in internal playtesting right now which are, according to our game analysis team, "Chef's Kiss", which should be shipping out to you all soon enough. Apologies on the radio silence, but we had to be sure that Caitlyn's changes would be in a solid place before talking with you all.

Hopefully the next pro combos video might be a little longer.

You'll be able to disenchant both the champion shard and/or the skin if you'd like (you big meanie!).

This is correct.

Could you describe the technique used? YouTube video link etc?

They may also have been trying at 200 ping if on PBE. I'll be paying attention to this issue, anyway.

Nope.

This came up in discussions during her development, but we decided that this would be altering her GAMEPLAY too much to be acceptable as an ASU.

What makes you think anything was changed with her mechanics at all? Genuinely interested in this.

There's more coming on 2nd half of the Event (very soon).

I don't actually know. I should look into that.

I like this suggestion! Butt what about a super clear icon above/on the Ward being scanned instead? Control/blue/stealth Ward icon?

Reason being that this kind of change probably wouldn't require engineering support and therefore could be achieved.

I already love Wild Rift's "you're in brush" icon.

Disclaimer: this is likely a gameplay change and I'm not able to make calls or decisions on those parts of the game. Thus, this is not a declaration that Riot will do anything at all. 🙂

Yeah I thought the switch to Healing Reduction was a slam dunk and then a smarter designer than me pointed it out. So there you have it! I did however add a description of Grievous Wounds to a the items that apply it, so I got that much. 🙂

I love this thread! I proposed doing the same thing as I worked on the item tooltips last year. However. Other designers pointed out that "Healing reduction" sounded like it could stack, whereas a champ can only have 1 "Grievous wounds" debuff on them at once (taking the most severe one as priority). This is why.

Great question!

"Sorry team, I think we had this one until Vayne decided to open an all-you-can-eat buffet on top lane"

Don't panic just yet...