I want to make clear that the version of Elemental Rift that Alan talked about is a test. Things like the number of dragons, what dragons, the buffs themselves, when the map changes, Elder Dragon, and Dragon Soul can and will change based on player feedback.

We are expecting to get a lot of feedback from you all once you have a chance to play it. Depending on what feedback you all have, things will change.

With that in mind our major goals to guide this feedback are:

1 Increase the power of individual carry potential.

Meaning a player should be able to feel like they are better able to carry on their own. This doesn't mean all games should be 1v9 carries, but if you are dominating you should feel a bit better about winning the game even if your team is struggling.

2 Reduce stress, particularly in the early game and around team coordination/objectives.

We feel there is a lot of stress caused by the power of the early game, and objectives. Often times players feel the game is over after the first dragon, and we want to reduce/remove some of that feeling. This doesn't mean neutral objectives will/should be worthless, just that losing one shouldn't feel like it's GG.

Ultimately it comes down to what players enjoy.

I'll be talking a lot about this over the course of this test, and am looking forward to all your feedback.

This goes along with that perception of dragon power I was talking about and is actually the opposite problem of cloud drake. Where infernal dragon's effects are easy to over value. Early game % damage isn't going to do much for you, but it is a powerful lategame buff.

It's been a while since I last looked, but when I did all 4 dragons seem to translate roughly into the same likelihood of winning (obviously individual champions have their own drake preference). But Infernal is valued very highly because it is damage, and cloud drake is undervalued because it is difficult to feel.

Not wrong, your experience is not the average of all players and will reflect your playstyle and champion pool. First Drake is very powerful, and that stress you are feeling is exactly what I meant when I said it is something we want to address here.

There are a few longer term issues that we hope to address with supports but I suspect these goals will still help them a lot. Larger individual carry power should still help with supports, when you choose the correct ally to enhance or enemy to lock down.

To be clear I don't want to give the impression that this is some silver bullet, but I suspect a step in the right direction.

LoLPC didn't always, and their team is much larger and working on their game for much longer.

We are watching all champions with this change, but we don't expect ASol to be disproportionately affected by this. And it doesn't make sense to compensate him, or any champion, when we don't even know what the final changes will be...Especially with removing Cloud Drake being a test, and it might come back.

Like many movement speed focused champions, (Rammus, Singed) Asol is actually on the stronger end right now. But it is difficult to feel these champion's power and these are regular thought of as weak by the playerbase, this happens in both Wild Rift and LolPC.

Shyvana's passive literally calls out Cloud Drake, and if Cloud Drake is removed it must change to be functional.

Lol that is not the case, if you want to think that way then go right ahead. If feedback points to it being needed it can always come back. We are still not convinced it is, and this surfaces more of the exciting dragons and more feel able mechanics, while also meaning less mental burden to worry about.