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It's Luden's. Luden's proc damage is dealt by a missile which has a short delay (even for the primary target) before the missile is fired + damage is dealt. As such, Luden's deals its damage with a short delay, which varies based on the number of targets being hit (slightly larger delay for fewer targets so that the missiles don't overlap).

I think the part that makes this hard to interpret in spectator is that we cull or minimize some fx in spectator for clarity purposes (and in fact many vfx are slightly different for allies/enemies/self/spectator in-game for a variety of reasons, including clarity). Luden's, I believe, is one of the items that has reduced (or maybe culled?) vfx in spectator because there's not normally much value in spectators having precise information of when exactly Luden's is damaging a target.

Luden's does also have some logic to determine if the hit vfx should play if the target dies while the missile is in-flight, which might ha...

Thanks! This is a very nice summary.

You already get +4mpen for the triumphant boots, so the 750g is only giving +3mpen, +10%, and +5ms

I worked on Feats for the most part, so once the Feats stuff is on PBE I'll make a video about em.

her passive gets upgraded

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During this time period I believe all of the clips used for things like reveals, champions spotlights, etc., were taken directly from playtest footage of a few specific games that would have their replays saved after the champion's spotlight VO was recorded. So it's possible that this was used just as "this is the best clip that showcases all of Urgot's spells" or possibly just that the producer thought this clip was too funny not to use.

If you look at champion spotlights from this time period you can see other questionable gameplay since all of it is just raw playtest clips. For example, in the Evelynn spotlight ...

ah this is probably my fault, I'll take a look at it - should be fixable, no promises though

No problem! I enjoy being able to talk through thought processes and design decisions, so it's nice being able to pop in every now and then and answer questions.

Not that we tested for S14. However, I did make Mantle of the Twelfth Hour in Wild Rift as a Lifeline tank item before I left WR to come back to work on League. Based on my experience making that item in WR, I believe HoT effects usually serve the tank space better than shields for Lifeline items for a number of reasons, not least of which is that it gives tanks more power in prolonged engagements (again, similar to Jak'sho vs Stoneplate where core tank patterns are best supported by long-term power rather than concentrated momentary power - the shield is much more temporary than the heal).

I removed Stoneplate for several reasons:

1. Tanks only have space for one capstone item in a non-mythic system. Jak'sho has a much stronger theme and is much more in line with the tank fantasy (become more durable if you can survive for a while), so Jak'sho was chosen for this slot over Stoneplate.

2. Stoneplate's active in its most recent form was anti-burst, which is at odds with the general structure of tank builds, particularly with the changes for S14. We wanted to make tanks more durable across the board (which we did, by ~7% slower time to die in champ combat for tanks) which removed some need for anti-burst tools - if you're just tankier at a baseline, this naturally makes anti-burst tools less relevant and therefore less deserving of a spot in the shop.

3. Stoneplate's shape required it to be heavily teamfight bound (via the %resist scaling per enemy) in a way that was low-satisfaction and overly biased lategame tanks towards only...

It does. Shadowflame works like this:

1. Who is dealing the damage? It only checks damage dealt by the holder (this includes their pets and other things like items that are sourced back to the originating champion).

2. What type of damage is being dealt? It only proceeds if it's magic or true damage.

3. What percent health is the enemy at? If they are below the threshold, it crits, dealing the increased damage.

It has some other hidden rules, like not applying to summoner spells, but Liandry's damage would fall within these, since it deals magic damage and is being dealt by the Shadowflame holder.

All of that having been said, I would say Liandry's Shadowflame Yorick is a...bold choice.

Cryptbloom was designed as a Void Staff alternative. This led down a pretty linear path:

1. We don't want an item that does more damage than Void Staff, so it probably should have less pen and/or less AP.
2. We can give it other stats if we want to fill out the stat profile. Haste makes sense here since by the time I was working on Cryptbloom I knew that there was going to be slightly less haste in the rest of the system (no mythic passives, nerfed haste boots, no 30 haste items, etc.) and we were willing to accept AP champions getting some of that haste back with a damage tradeoff. But HP was also something I considered, though I never actually tested that version.
3. In keeping with #1, we want an effect that doesn't provide any damage, because we don't want this to compete with Void in terms of raw damage output. It also probably shouldn't be pure stats since that's what Void is, so it wants some kind of unique effect. Given the above reasoning, it shoul...

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This is completely unrelated to tethers, and is attached to another bugfix in this patch.

I used the same underlying piece of tech but not the same code. Aatrox's W uses a specialized setup to account for the abnormal shape (and also attaching the tether to a point rather than a unit), whereas every other tether is effectively a circle attached to a champion, so I wrote a new script for the other tethers that's a lot simpler since it can assume a lot of things (e.g. it's always two units being attached and the area is a circle).

Thanks very much!

This is unrelated to Soraka E, as Soraka E is not a tether. This change only addresses tethers.

I can take a look at Soraka E but no promises, as I believe the issue with that is a very different one than the tethers (to my knowledge, both are tickrate related but in a quite different way).