League of Legends: Wild Rift Dev Tracker

That is why I mean by "case by case", the secret thing that they don't tell you about game dev is that it is all about trade-offs and resources. It takes a lot of work (not just from me, remember everything needs to go through QA too) to make any sort of change ESPECIALLY if art is involved. So it really comes down to how valuable we feel a particular change will be vs the cost of making that change. Both games are different and have different problems we are trying to solve so "best fit" really comes down to a few things, and often that is what problems we are trying to solve.

In the Sona example, we are not seeing a problem with Sona being a powerful solo lane champion, so it would be a rather high-cost change with no clear goal in mind.

So generally an update needs to be solving some sort of problem, and the scale of that problem. Sometimes we will have a change in mind that is low cost but has a lot of potential upsides (Ahri update), and we are able to do it.

Right, the important thing to remember here is that any ratio only matters in relation to a champion's kit. Brand, for example, doesn't have a dash and Ekko doesn't get to lay long-lasting traps. Again I'm not saying the ratios couldn't be buffed, just that saying a champion has lower ratios than another, very different champion, doesn't hold much weight. I haven't played much of Teemo myself (outside of ARAM) but yes if his damage is low there aren't a lot of places for us to buff, and his first ability's ratio is something we could target.

So 60% isn't as low as you think, looking at Brand his highest single ratio is 55%, Ekko's Timewinder is also 55%. However, I haven't been on the balance team for a while and am a bit out of the loop on where things are at, if I know there is a bug with his ultimate not that the team wants to fix and past that I have no doubt that we will make any balance changes as needed.

Having only a single damaging ability (not counting passive) isn't great both for balance and satisfaction. One thing to keep in mind is that while he does have a lower basic attack range than on PC he also has a dash. It is worth keeping in mind that no ability is in a vacuum, so something being different/lower than PC doesn't really mean much with how different their kits are at this point. This doesn't mean we can't/wont buff him (again I'm not on balance) I'm more so just bringing up than being different from PC doesn't hold a lot of weight.

I'm not sure what you mean by "up swing" can yo...

I haven't looked at Teemo's data in a while, but his big issue is satisfaction. I remember before his ultimate change he was FAR more powerful than people gave him credit for, that was the whole reason for us making the change in the first place. I assume it is a similar situation here, though like I said I haven't actually looked. Any DoT focused champion tends to be lower satisfaction unless they have a very feelable payoff for their DoT (Brand passive).

In Teemo's case having the poison on his passive, thus making room for him having a dash, is a meaningful buff. But it does mean that power needs to come from someone where else. We would like to increase his feelabilty, but it is a tricky problem for sure.

We are separate games and will do larger reworks as needed. However it is unlikely we bring over a champion in need of a large scale rework unless we have ideas on how we might want to update them, then we might take them on. Or maybe bring a champion over with smaller changes if we think they don't need large scale work. Though we are interested in these updates both large and small.

We take reworks and updates on a case by case basis, LoLPCs champion changes won't always be the best fit for Wild Rift, and change for changes sake isn't what we are looking for. We will still be doing our own updates as needed, and are 100% open to mirroring PC's changes when they make sense for Wild Rift, but we have no expectations we will mirror everything.

In Sona's case it isn't something we are looking to do right now. Her changes on PC were done to push her out of the solo lane and to focus on her being a support. Wild Rift Sona doesn't have that issue so there isn't much need for the changes.

Popular isn't the same as strong. Lee Sin has always been popular, and flashy but he has never been as strong as people give him credit for in Wild Rift.

I strongly suggest going back and looking over the history you are talking about, Godfist Lee Sin just came out and we have no plans to buff him despite us openly saying he is weak at all elos.

We want it to still be powerful, and it should be, we just overshot the mark a bit for its release.

It's not that easy to enable or find, but both major platforms have this built in! You can also use our in-game highlights feature, which will let you tag a video clip in-game before and after your trigger a highlight (similar to how consoles do it). There is some performance/battery cost though

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It's a bit more complicated in the Zed case, because the OP is talking a lot about the target being in range of the Zed shadow. So within valid cast range to affect the locked target.

Also without getting into too much detail, if the target is "pretty close" to the range of your ability we won't pick a new target. We intend for it to be more like "oh my locked target was obviously out of range and I clearly intended to cast this ability to clear minions next to me, but did not unlock my target". If you can send me clips where this is feeling bad, we're happy to review them. We are constantly looking to iterate and improve our controls to feel good.

We've kind of done that intentionally. We want judging range and deciding when to cast (even in the chaos of a teamfight) to be a skill that players develop. If we did what you proposed, you could just lock a target and smash the button until they entered range which we thought made it a bit too easy to accomplish.

I've had the chance to play against really high skill players in the past through internal testing. It's a real eye opener how good you can get at the game. I'm glad it sounds like it felt motivating to you. In those situations I found it was beneficial to really feel viscerally the level of skill you could aspire to.

Also, sometimes you get those games where the team just vibes and you all coordinate instinctively on the right plays (like everyone just hiveminds and groups at dragon instead of herald). I find those game really precious and they feel more fulfilling than when you get a player who just pops off and carries the team by 1v5ing the enemy team. Those start to happen more as you get higher in skill, but I think it's also more frustrating when it doesn't happen.

Thanks for posting this detailed video, I surfaced it to the controls team. The intent behind this change was to not have abilities fail to case or cast at obviously out of range locked targets. It sounds like the core problem here is we do not take zed shadow ranges into account. If we corrected that would it resolve the bad controls feel here? Or are there more factors involved?

Many of us actually love tanks. I've said several times that tanks are actually very strong, even more so after this patch, but are not as satisfying as playing a carry to many players. So a change that increases their satisfaction without buffing them is a MAJOR win. There is still work to be done to increase satisfaction for tanks, but it is tricky given how powerful they already are and how much players care about kills.

So this wasn't so much about making it more "accessible to the casual player" it is really about increasing satisfaction, and clarity what it is doing for you. Yes that does affect casual play but satisfaction is important at all levels.

We did intend to nerf the item, I did say it was OP. If we can do something that increases satisfaction while nerfing something that was OP that feels like a major win.

It is really an issue that it is more visible now that it is a shield instead of just increasing health. It is VERY easy to overestimate things based on how noticable they are. Even though the item is weaker than before it feels much better seeing the shield (it was very OP before). This is similar to the fact that many people underrate tanks because their impact isn't as obvious, or swear a champion is OP because they get kills.

Gargoyle is still good, it's just that it was OP and hidden before, now it isn't so hidden. But ya I don't think I would recommend it on carries, -40% damage can be rough to deal with.

Posting here for Darkbreaker. Not gonna address whether this kind of chat is "toxic". That's pretty loaded term that means different things to different people.

Instead I want to address mindset here. I get the frustration that people feel when someone on your team isn't playing well, or doing things that look obviously suboptimal to you. Especially when you're in ultra try hard mode in Legendary Queue. We all want to win when we play. So I understand why people say negative stuff in chat and I'm certainly guilty of expressing my frustration in game. You gotta ask yourself though... are you really trying to win? Are you really tryharding in all aspects? Because if you are, you should look really carefully at what you say to your teammates. Saying stuff like "u too dumb to use ult?" does not actually result in people playing better. You might be right that they should have used ult, but you're not effective at getting that person to use it more effectively in the future and ...

They are both rather competitive for her. There seems to be a bit of perception around Kraken Slayer being weak, but whenever we have looked at its power it lands similar, or even slightly ahead of Lethal Tempo for most marksmen. I think it'll really come down to if you expect to be at full LT stacks for a long time, or if you are going for shorter trades.

That's exactly right. The Diamond 4 requirement is more to ensure a decent level of experience first, not to only allow elites.