League of Legends: Wild Rift Dev Tracker

You are right that there is a difference in the champion select rules, but the actual in-game rules are 100% the same.

The reality is, there isn't any disagreement about there being a limit on how long games should last. The details about what that time is are what is important. I think it is easy to agree that we don't want 1h or 30min games, so it is really about finding what that time is.

I don't think this will have much of an impact on shaping behavior or what champions are picked. Several people are talking about this being used as a stalling strategy, but others are saying it could hurt these stalling champions. We don't expect this to be something that has an impact on most players. A drastically small percentage of games even make it to this point, and those that do tend to be lower elo skewed. Looking at my own match history I don't have a single game where this would come into effect, and I suspect yours doesn't have any games either.

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What is your evidence for champions needing buffs and nerfs? It is very possible that these champions do need some adjustments (I haven't looked at their data recently). Historically Akali has been weak, but is highly frustrating for many players.

You should be at full build before 22 minutes, giving even our hard scaling champions plenty of time before this this even comes into effect.

As for this only being in normal, we don't want to have different rules for ranked/normals, and this comes from player feedback, where the majority of players play primarily, or exclusively ranked games.

We don't expect the meta to sh*t to stalling, however if it does then we can adjust this mechanic nothing is set in stone.

Endstep and I were talking about her the other day. The truth of it is that while many players on this subreddit say she is weak, she is actually doing fine. We would like to find a way to increase her satisfaction, but she doesn't actually need a buff.

Reddit can be a bit of an echo chamber, and many players over value the early game, where she is intended to be weak, but she is doing better than many popular champions.

Done! The team takes multiple things into account when making balance changes, and we don't actually look at the general winrate of a champion, but when looking at winrate data we make a point to only look at their winrate in different elo brackets. This helps us target buffs/nerfs to those elos. For example lower elo games tend to go longer, so buffing a champions 3rd ability rank ups tends to favor lower elo games. Where as higher skilled players are able to close out games sooner and base stats (like base AD or health) tend to be better targets if we need to buff a champion at higher level play.

This isn't a universal rule, and different champions and abilities all have their quirks, but I hope that sheads some light on how we come to the types of changes that we do.

Hey I wanted to give some context on this feature because there seems to be a bit of understandable confusion around the details.

This is a tertiary way for games to end, we still fully expect players to end the game using Baron, Elder Dragon, Split Pushing, and Team fights, etc, long before anyone's base starts to burn. This is just there to make sure that no game drags on for longer than it needs to.

Goals:

• Bring overly long games to a close.
  • Very few games ever make it even close to 22 minutes, but we want to make sure that no one feels trapped in a game just because a team won't end. Or exhausted after expecting to play a 15-20 minute game, which ends up taking half an hour.
• Comeback potential
  • While we want advantaged teams to end games, we also want to create space for comebacks in the situations where you managed to hang on by the skin of your teeth. We don't want or expect this to become a primary win con...

Yeah, pretty much this.

The matchmaker does have some flexibility to expand the initial lobby creation MMR gap based on current population, as long as it stays within the allowed rank gap (usually +/- 1 major rank from each party's average rank).