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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...

np

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).

It's possible, I recall when we were working on them there was discussion around things like this. I'm not up to date on whether there's still followup happening or not though, that would be on the Live pod which is more Phreak's area.

I believe Varus R uses a different system but I'll take a look at it later today and see if it could be improved

good summary, thanks

Zac Q tether range change is part of a larger set of tether changes, it's now an edge check rather than center check. This PBE deploy has a bug where the initial check on Zac Q is still center rather than edge but that will hopefully be fixed in the next deploy. (Also the tether changes are only partially on PBE, and subject to further changes).

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BasicAttack exclusion on Malignance comes from original testing without it where a number of cases were technically correct, but violated expectations. For example, should formswapper attacks in their alternate forms create Malignance pools? What about if they have damage attached to their ultimate swapping like Jayce R? Without the BasicAttack exclusion it's hard to intuit why Jayce R > AA can trigger Malignance but Elise can't trigger Malignance at all (or even decide whether Spiderlings should have the ultimate tag or not). The current version is the set of rules that generally aligned with people's expectations (though I agree there are some cases in the current ruleset that aren't the most intuitive - at some point I might revisit and see if there's not a better ruleset out there that matches player expectations closer than this one).

If it were designed to exclude pet attacks that's a whole separate tag that, as mentioned, could easily be excluded (and there's no int...

Malignance's damage was originally not tagged properly (didn't have the "proc" tag) which is what caused it to count for Eclipse. The tag is fixed in this patch, meaning anything that disregards proc damage will no longer register Malignance damage as a contributor.

It does, but as with all crit damage modifiers on Shadowflame, it only applies to the bonus damage from the crit, not the original damage.

So if you deal 100 magic damage and it's amped 20% by Shadowflame to 120, Randuin's doesn't decrease the entire 120 magic damage, just the 20 bonus being added by Shadowflame. In this case Randuin's would reduce the damage to 114.

This is a bug we're aware of, it is purely visual however - the gameplay works, but the visuals on the healthbar don't always properly represent the status of the shield. We'll hopefully have a solution for this soon regardless.

probably 14.2

me fix

no problemo

Thanks for the thoughts - (maybe) helpful quick answers to these in case I never get around to another video:

General thoughts on how we structure classes - a lot of this comes down to power budgeting classes as a whole and deciding what to trade off when looking to shift a class strength or weakness to a different spot. Using a (somewhat incomplete, but hopefully illustrative) example here with mages, compared to other classes, mages generally have the most AoE and high teamfight impact as strengths, with immobility and meaningful resource costs as weaknesses. By making them less target-agnostic by removing some of their anti-tank outputs, we then generate room to add more AP which is the most satisfying stat we can give mages and this has the side effect of raising the variance of the mage class (since they are now sharper, dealing and taking more damage overall due to the loss of HP + haste and higher AP) which is generally a positive in this case considering that they ...

Yep, sounds like the stream I did with Phlox last month. Thanks for watching, I had a lot of fun on that one.

Quick answers to these questions:

• It's definitely possible jungle will need further adjustments, but we expect that with the changes to the jungle and there being more objectives in the earlygame to take that there will still be a lot of earlygame power in the jungle.
• It's definitely too early to tell on diversity goals - to be clear here, the type of diversity we're looking for is quite different from the goals of the mythic system, where we are much more accepting of champions being bound to specific items or combination of items when appropriate (e.g. Rumble buying Liandry's first every game is not a failure, but an expectation). We do still want to provide some variety, but it doesn't have to be in every slot in this system, and it's simply too early to tell what the actual long-term structure looks like, especially given there's balanc...