League of Legends: Wild Rift Dev Tracker

Those are good suggestions and they are the types of things we discuss pretty often. It's a bit tricky to allow a "wait longer" option because if a given player decides to wait longer, then all the other players who may need that player in their match also have to wait longer. Basically, we have to balance very deliberately any feature that allows one player to force another player to wait longer.

Ironically, it's also the higher-ranked players where finding matches becomes the most difficult because, by definition, there are always fewer of them. The current balance has been allowing many players to find matches who, previous to this patch, could not play at all. So making it more picky at the top would currently prevent many of them from being able to play Ranked at all.

That said, we actually do allow up to 20-minute wait times. But like I alluded to above, when it comes to finding as fair a match as we can within 20 minutes, it isn't so much the difference betwe...

Keep in mind that 70/30 is not the most common, it's just the worst possible. The most common is still 50/50 and then it decreases in occurrence from there.

Also, it's not just wait time we are trading off against, it's position preference. Before position preference, most matches were close to 50/50. When you get a less fair match it's almost always because it was trying to make sure everyone got the lane they wanted. Once it has 10 players within the allowed rank restrictions, it will often prioritize getting you your position over optimizing the fairness. If possible it will still aim for close to 50/50, but it's currently "allowed" to go higher to keep positions.

Unfortunately if someone is troll picking summoners we don't really penalize them right now, it really difficult to say they are not just trying something off-meta. Which is totally OK if you're playing to win. One of the tough things about this problem space is that behavior that is obviously "bad" to the human eye can be hard to translate into something a machine can reliably identify.

We are continually improving our intentional losing detection behind the scenes and we just deployed some new changes Monday. However it is very conservative because we feel strongly about avoiding false positives. It would feel terrible to be trying to win, then lose the game, and then have the system tell you that you were intentionally feeding :( The pace of change can be slow because we are manually reviewing detected games for false positives before allow something to start penalizing players.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but the enemy ultimate ping hitzone is bigger in the scoreboard (a lot bigger) than the ally display portraits by the minimap so it would be harder to hit accurately there? However, I recognize that summoner cooldown is not that easy to do in scoreboard because it's a secondary function compared to getting meta information on both teams.

Thanks for making this, it's my fault that the scoreboard and pings has a bunch of functionality that is hard to discover. The unfortunate tradeoff that we have is screen size + legibility vs functionality. Generally the approach is we identify information of functionality that is most important and make that easy to find. For the scoreboard that means that we really put the focus on displaying information about the players in the game. Almost everything else is secondary to that. So when we add quality of life features like pinging items, cooldowns, etc. we often have to compromise on how easy they are to find in order to preserve legibility of the essential scoreboard information.

If y'all have feedback on some of these functions that we could make more accessible and what we could deprioritize to give it more prominence I'd love to hear it. We tried to strike a good balance, but suggestions are welcome.

Not exactly, no, we prioritize matchmaking success. Meaning, we don't want there to be a bunch of players completely unable to play at all.

The Rank gaps are determined by the amount of population in each rank, making sure there's enough within any given gap to find a match in a reasonable amount of time. As you get into the higher ranks, there are of course less and less players by design, so they require an expanded gap to be able to play the game at all.

TrioQ: If you are solo queue and play against a TrioQ, then your team will always also have a TrioQ on it. I see zero cases otherwise in all of yesterday's games. So both sides have a trio.

The matchmaker will grab the 10 closest players by both rank and MMR during the time that you search. If you have one of the highest MMRs during when you search, then it is possible to get put on a team often where you are the best player. Your opponents will have often have a similar composition. There's a team balancer that takes the 10 players found and finds a combination of placement that honors both position preference as well as keeps the fairness within at worst 70/30. We are evaluating whether that 70/30 should be reduced to 60/40, though that would result in longer wait times.

So that's one way to consistently get worse teammates, being better than most during the time you search. To know for sure you could PM me your info and I could verify.

At a high level, if a player's MMR is higher than it should be for their rank, they should be able to rank skip sometimes.

You don't need win streaks or a high-win rate (since neither of those are very accurate).

Actually, the system detects when a player is hard stuck and let's them rank skip more, or gives extra fortitude, to offset the 50/50 sessions.

I don't know what website you are talking about, but I assume you are talking about anti-cheat detection systems (something I don't know about)... Those are also different than the MMR system.

Nope each queue has its own MMR. So your ranked, pvp, and ARAM games do NOT affect each other. I suggest using this as a way to try some new champions/roles before taking them into ranked.

It's also worth noting that going on a winning streak will not affect the outcome of the next game you play.

Hey, u/catnip-addict1010 I just saw you posted this, I wanted to make sure you had a chance to see this response.

The short answer is no there is no winners or losers queue.

The long answer is still no, but with a bit more details on the problem you brought up. A bit of a caveat here, I am not a designer on matchmaking, we have smarter people than me who handle that. But while I don't know the details of the system I have spoken with them about the system.

When this topic comes up I often see someone mention something along the lines of "the game tries to give you a 50% winrate". This comes from a misunderstanding of the matchmaking system. It doesn't care what your account/season/recent games winrate is, and isn't trying to get that to 50%. The system tries to make it so that ...

Don't worry, popularity is one of the things we take into account when deciding when to bring a champion to Wild Rift.

Preventing only new accounts doesn't help people who's account might have been hacked. Restricting new friends goes along way to protecting players who might have Wild Cores laying around and got hacked. This is why we didn't just limit it to new accounts.

The 50% reduction on Redemption and Locket was somewhat of a concern for sure. We talked about changing it to be 50% from OTHER redemption/lockets, but decided to see how things play out before seeing if that was needed. It would be a bit more work to do, and would be especially bad if that was the cause of it being too strong. (Bug not withstanding)

Active items are a very important part of any kit (hint everyone should buy actives within their first 3 items), but supports tend to buy them sooner, and get some fun utility, with it. So we know this item has alot of potential power and don't want to see it as a common pick up outside of support.

This is why the item can't have high amounts of AP. I don't think you want to live in a world where this is frequently picked up by mages with good CC.

As for champions like Soraka not having CC tools to make use of it. You are correct that she isn't the best user, but she also isn't one of the intended users. We co...

The biggest, and as far as I am concerned only, issue with Hextech Megadrive is that it doesn't fulfill its promised fantasy of letting you use your active item twice in a fight. Unfortunately, this comes from a complex bug that showed up right before shipping the item, and it was too late for us to fix. Though we are working on it, though it'll still take longer than we would have liked.

The bug is that if you CC multiple targets with a single effect you will get multiple refunds at once, this is what allows for skillful use of the item, however this bug causes it so that even if you CC all 5 members of the enemy team at once you still only get a single instance of the refund. If it is still not fulfilling this fantasy than its a simple matter of adjusting some numbers.

Its stat line is intended for short-range supports (Morg, Rakan, Lulu, even Thresh), who tend to make use of both CC and heal/shielding, while still being within reach for other supports who might c...

The last post was over the character limit so I had to trim down some of the sections I was replying to and move something into another post.

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Alright, time to address something that didn't exactly fit into the above points. Ixtali Seedjar has been looking strong later into the game, particularly at higher skill levels. We expected higher skill levels to better utilize this item and teach the rest of the player base how to use it.

There is also the expectation of this item being a good first item (currently it's ok as a first item) due to its roaming and the obvious synergy with Honefruits. We were being careful about people rushing and creating un-interactive lanes, but given that there is a strong desire for this to be a first item I could see us pulling power out of its later game stats for early game ones.

The issue here seems to be a case of satisfaction vs power. First to make sure the distinction is clear. Something can be powerful bu...

Hey sorry for the delay, I'm just getting back into the swing of things.

- I love that it was an item intended to encourage roaming supports. I think this is something every support starts to learn around Gold rank and above. That you impact the game greater by roaming and treating your role as more similar to a jungler than anything else. Your role is TEAM SUPPORT, not ADC PET. Once laning phase is over (and a choice few times during) find your carry (or carriers) and help them. That player isn’t always your duo laner. Sidenote: I hope devs add more roaming supports like Bard to Wild Rift soon.

- I love that it created a fun new mechanic. Roaming around picking up seeds for your team was a great new way to have FUN. It brought JOY to the gameplay.

- I love how unique the item is. It’s an item unlike any other and showed me that Wild Rift devs are really flexing their creative muscles.

- I love that it‘s an item that enc...