League of Legends: Wild Rift Dev Tracker

Yeah we do have a standard procedure to check any peripherals used in official competitions. We’ve been doing that with mouse/keyboard for years in LoL PC, and would definitely do the same for controllers should they ever be allowed in WR competitions.

I’m located at Riot’s HQ in Los Angeles, but we do have an awesome office in Singapore. And thanks for that advice on Reddit. :) I want to be here to listen more than to talk.

Thanks for those thoughts. Here are the things we are looking at to make that decision. We haven’t committed to any direction yet. It’s also important to note the game dev team is exploring the idea of cross play between mobile and consoles but haven’t confirmed that.

First and foremost, we want players to play in the platform they prefer. If you’re a console player but sudden realize you can’t go pro because the pro scene is only mobile, that’d feel bad.

We expect players to define themselves as WR pros, specialized in certain roles. Not WR mobile or WR console pros. I think it would also be a wired narrative having two champions, one in mobile and one in console. We want to know who the best team is, regardless of the platform.

Related to that, running two of everything would add significantly complexity to our operations (imagine running two LoL PC Worlds). Also, it would likely fragment the impact of our shows and viewership. As a fan you’d have to choos...

That’s an interesting thought. Do you feel like the best place for those esports features is the game app? Or should that live separately somewhere else? As a player and fan, do you see the game app as the place you go to play or the place you go for all things Wild Rift?

That makes a lot of sense. I agree with you that creating awareness of the esports scene is very important in the early days, and the player base is definitely the place to start. Also agree that fandom towards pros and teams is key, not only to WR but really any sport. Thanks for the suggestion!

My apologies, I misread South Asia as Southeast Asia. We do have bold plans for India. We know gaming is huge in the region, and mobile feels like the right way to serve that community. We are taking steps towards a stronger presence in the region and have recently opened an office in New Delhi. Can’t speak to any other countries specifically, but when we open regional offices we usually have them overseeing a macro region with multiple countries.

That’s a cool idea. Anything that isn’t directly related to the core play or watch experience likely won’t be a focus in the early days, but this sounds like something we could explore in the future. The esports hub in the LoL PC client definitely help keep people informed of tournaments calendars/results/etc.

That’s a great, and hard, question that we are currently exploring. What do you think we should do?

I watched some of AssassinDave’s broadcasts and liked it as well! Thanks for the advice.

Can’t speak a lot to this, but we’re definitely looking at grassroots and community competitions as a significant opportunity on WR. The barrier to play and participate in tournaments is much lower if compared to other games, so we do want to see more people playing in a organized manner.

Thanks for the warm welcome! It’s still very early days for WR Esports, but generally speaking, we strongly believe that high-stakes competitions like LoL Worlds and Valorant Champions are great moments for a sport.

When the time comes to discuss partnerships, there’s no reason why we wouldn’t talk to existing LoL PC partners. They’re great supporters of esports and we’d be happy to have them in multiple titles. RedBull, as an example you mentioned, is a partner for both LoL and Valorant Esports.

You’re correct. Although Esports does informs the game development plans, Riot’s priority is to serve all players, not just pros. Whenever we have a healthy champion pool these features will likely come. But I can’t speak for non-Esports things.

Can’t share any specifics on leagues/tournaments, but we truly believe in the potential of Southeast Asia. It has everything to be a leader in the mobile esports space. I guess time will tell us how the region performs competitively and we’ll adapt plans accordingly. But we’re going all in. In fact we just announced our first official WR Esports competition in Southeast Asia, the Icon Series Preseason. More details here: https://wildrift.leagueoflegends.com/en-sg/news/announceme...

Hey all, we've seen this report a lot. Can you make sure to send a ticket to support-wildrift.riotgames.com with details about your phone model and what issues you're seeing and specifically when? That's where we're collecting a lot of info on this issue. Thank you!

You can actually see the missions that'll be available (and their rewards) with Lunar Lovers over here!

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I honestly dont know how to respond to this LOL

Personally, I totally agree. Also fwiw I do know the team (I dont work on this feature personally) has talked with other Riot teams (valorant, LoR, League pc) about their strategies and to inform our long term strategy in this space. Again, I promise nothing nor do I know but I do think there is alot of merit in having personal ownership over the social impact you as an individual have in and on the community. The more each person feels empowered to make a positive change, the more involved everyone becomes :) We build this community together

We've discussed changes to these abilities before but the main problem is despite all being channels you cannot treat them all the same. Janna in particular is tricky because unlike Kataria her ultimate has multiple, often opposing use cases. In Kat's case any time you cast her ult and cancel is in the first .25 seconds it's a mistake. It is just flatly the wrong decision so we can make an easy decision to mitigate these scenarios.

In Janna's case we originally had it harder to cancel and the feedback was overwhelmingly negative from Janna players becuase Janna's ult can vary from wanting the entire perfect full channel for maximum healing and the absolute minimum amount of healing to just leverage the knockback and move again as quickly as possible. This is a much harder balance to make as we can't predict player intent and the use cases are so extremely different from a controls perspective. I expect the team would be happy to look into adjustments here down the line, ...

Its tough since different people deal with stress... differently. Muting is a good option, but if you're up for it (I say that cause sometimes I am and sometimes I'm DEF not) you can counter with wit / banter. There was once I just asked someone "why so mean friend?". But again, its not always I'm up for something like that, but I do believe if you put good into a community it will pay dividends long term :)