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Nope. Surge and Singularity do though.

Yeah! We're excited to finally get an evolving Sheriff out there! And Ares!

No, they can't. All skin effects are in first person only for competitive integrity. So your allies and enemies just see the model. It would be cool to show it off, but it doesn't outweigh the gameplay impact of your allies/enemies hearing different sounds.

It has Variants.

Glad you all like it. <3

Dapr was super articulate and gave great feedback. As we go forward, we want to continue to do events like these and get better at doing them; we're very serious about having a dialogue with the community and getting feedback from them whenever we can.

Discussions like these always generate so much learning on both sides; the community learns more about how we approach creating content and making changes, and we learn so much more about how the community engages with the game and how they feel about it. It took us a little bit to get the capability to be able to test in-dev content like this safely in a remote environment, but now that we have it, expect us to do more of this in the future!

I'm not a designer, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

I believe the idea is that her heal takes longer and makes her more vulnerable, as she has to channel while she does it.

In terms of strength: While the AOE is quite large, if you want to heal your whole team, your whole team needs to be in one spot which is normally not the optimal play. Also, it does not heal her, only her allies.

So, I think it's totally healthy and natural to approach stuff like this with skepticism. Skye can definitely heal a lot in a round in the right conditions (all her allies take heavy chip damage but don't die, and she's allowed to stand in LoS of them and channel for several seconds to heal them to full).

It is not our intention for all characters with a heal to have similar outputs. Sage's heal and Skye's heal do not need to be the same, just like Jett's smokes and Omen's smokes are not the same, or Phoenix's flashes and Breach's flashes are not the same. They do have their comparative advantages, though - Phoenix flashes don't flash for as long, but are faster to use.

Sage's heal can be used long range to heal a single ally, and can also be used to heal herself - she's a sentinel, after all. Skye's heal is close range only, requires channeling, and can't be used to heal herself, but scales with the number of allies around, encouraging grouping around the Skye. Res...

Yeah they do a really great job with those!

Awesome! Glad to hear you're enjoying all the content

Nah, it does not hit allies.

Hmm that's an interesting perspective. We tried to make it very clean/simple so that there are no distractions for the viewers. Could definitely see how making it a bit more visually diverse could be useful though.

Yeah that makes sense. One thing we always have to deal with when making videos like this (or champion spotlights for League) is that our game gets patched every two weeks. Meaning if we include all of that info it can become outdated almost immediately, so future watchers would get the wrong information.

However, the majority of views come from the release... so it's definitely a balance we try to find.

Yep. It does a small amount of damage to the first target hit (last I checked it was 30 damage, probably changed). It concusses in an AOE.

Tried out a new type of informative video for this release. Helpful? Useless cause of leaks? Let me know what you think! I'll be around to answer any questions you may have as well.

Tried out a new type of informative video for this release. Helpful? Useless cause of leaks? Let me know what you think! I'll be around to answer any questions you may have as well.

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Good take