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We think Gwen is a champion with a very resonant thematic, and think it's worth the fine tuning to get her balance in the right spot.

Additionally, we like that she adds another melee AP into the meta that can act as a natural release valve for certain types of top laners that allow her to scale freely.

She opens up a lot of comp flexibility in a way that Rumble, Kennen, Aurora, etc. do not.

As with any multi-role champ, it's a bit tough to land the balance, especially since her levers aren't particularly easy to forecast, but we think attempting to strike that balance is worth it.

something that's on our radar, in particular making it more clear what things contribute to honor and tuning those ratios appropriately

We pulled aatrox from the patch, couldn't get confidence on the list in time

Zoe buffs next patch. Needs a bit more time to do the right change

Please send me the ID, thanks will take a look

We're adjusting this further this patch. Due to some technical limitations which we think we've now resolved, we haven't been able to do it super effectively with tanking servers.

Acknowledged there's some pain around particular strategies here. However these changes are temporary and we're likely to relax the mid roaming condition after seeing the results of first stand. Given that the changes went in late, we were willing to accept a small hit to solo queue and relearning cost for the patch to not risk lane swaps (as previously played) being a major part of the tournament.

The person is playing very disingenuously from what I can tell, tanking their mmr to 0, swapping servers then getting boosted. Obviously that's not a thing we're happy with and need to solve systemically

An addition to this I forgot to mention: * There will be very clear messaging if you're identified as lane swapping. "Lane swap detected: please leave the area!", we might have cooked with how noisy it is * We considered referees enforcing it but what if you have a failed invade top side then Keria walks slightly too close to top on his way out, does the ref pause the game and threaten a yellow card - "don't take one more step or it's a violation!". The more we thought about all the edge cases and needing to define them the more impractical it became, as amusing as it'd be to watch

I'd say it's significantly more likely, because you're in low diamond skill level and that's where a lot of people at the top of new smurf accounts and people who are resetting out of diamond in the early parts of the season go

the emeralds look like they're actually diamond players, so since you're the only one in the lobby whose mmr is stable it looks like you're playing with emeralds, but they're actually diamonds like you. They just haven't played enough games yet

just took a quick look on opgg. doesn't seem to be anything particularly wrong. the plats are obviously smurfs and most of the emeralds seem to be ex-diamonds who haven't played enough games yet for their visual rank to stabilize. you also lost a ton in a row, so you probably lost a lot of rating

Pass me opgg?

Can you pass me the game id's and server?

There's a bug with her spell recommendations logic where w max is being suggested 2nd that is tanking her winrate badly.

She also has a bit of a mastery curve, while also having a decent play against curve so it'll go up over time

We're monitoring how her frustration plays out and not overreacting for now, but have been testing a few changelist internally

Can you send these to me please

At the risk of diving into a minefield here, I do want to separate the difference between idea and execution.

Chemtech Soul we definitely took as a point of comparison of things we want to avoid. The question is, do we think the concept of a "revive" to be a concept that is completely off-limits in League.

I think the answer to that is no. And given that one of Atakhan's [the LoR card] main thing is about reviving people we wanted to pay that off. But I do think the execution matters a lot. Chemsoul being permanent, having pretty minimal counterplay (you can't really do anything differently) made it notably different from Voracious buff in our mind.

For Voracious, we expect a lot more gameplay around waiting the buff out as it's one time, perhaps prioritizing trading objectives more than straight up fighting the opponents, etc. At the end of the day though, taking Atakhan is meant to give an advantage for the team that takes it and it's a new set of gamep...

We know Ambessa is too strong when people have learned her at the moment; wanted to get a clean read on her power and optimizations before nerfing her, otherwise it can be challenging to understand how her mastery curve is shaking out when it's also conflated with power adjustments.

We're pretty sure she's balance able but will just need a little bit of fine tuning to get her into a good spot

We did try it, it was too out of the way and didn't lead to great encounters either. Team taking it is basically pinned and has nowhere to run

These answers aren't really correct. You can look at the the players at the top of the ladder and almost all of them will be roughly around +-20.

The reason they don't get higher is simply because they are winning just as much as they're losing (50 percent winrate), because they aren't maintaning a 65% WR when they're at rank 1. They might have been when facing master, gm but not at the top.

Part of this is also because if they are actually that good (eg. Say they are 4000 mmr when the other 9 players are closer to 3000), then the teams will be balanced such that each team has a 50% chance to win (ie. The 4000 mmr player will have the lower players on their team). If the player is good enough, they'll be able to maintain that higher winrate and start to push the boundary (similar to what srtty was doing last season on NA)

Another interesting case study would be if you were to put a soloq god like showmaker or canyon in a much weaker server, you'd see the lp ...