- Red Post Collection: Quick Gameplay Thoughts: 2/28, /Dev: Matchmaking Real Talk & More
- Champion & Skin Sale 3/2 - 3/5
- Dark Star Jarvan IV Now Available!
- 3/1 PBE Update: More Tentative Balance Changes
- Kai'Sa Bio & Short Story + Void Lore Update
Table of Contents
Quick Gameplay Thoughts: March 2
"Hey all,
Usual Disclaimers
These posts will often contain talk about future work we're doing, or planning to do, that isn't yet guaranteed to ship. The nature of the work could change or, depending on what we discover, projects mentioned may get put delayed or even stopped. If you'd like to see a Tweet whenever a new one of these posts goes up: https://twitter.com/RiotMeddler
Tweaking CSing under towers
In 8.4 we removed the extra 5 damage to minions champion AAs dealt (it got added back in pre-season) . One group of champs did get hit harder than intended though by that change. That's champs, usually but not always mages, with low base AD. They're now having to land two auto attacks on melee minions who've been hit by towers twice, rather than the previous one. To maintain prior CSing patterns around towers we're shifting it so towers deal 45% of a melee minion's health per hit instead of 43%. Impact on other champs should be very minimal.
Matchmaking Dev Blog
Many people will have already seen this, for those that haven't though I'd highly recommend checking out the recent dev blog on matchmaking as found here:
https://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/2018/02/dev-matchmaking-real-talk/
It covers a lot of topics that get brought up regularly like:
- The relationship between ranked and normal MMR
- Feeling you get matched with worse allies after winning a lot
- Why we don't use KDA for matchmaking
- Why you still get matched with people you've muted
- And a bunch of other things
Some possible 8.6 changes
We've just finished working on 8.5 and are mapping out things we'll be looking at for 8.6. Some of our current thinking below, as usual stuff will get added or removed as patch development goes on.
Items:
- Jungle items - Two potential changes. First is changing sustain so it's more missing health/mana based. Goal there is to make early ganks a bit riskier like they used to be a couple of seasons back (not ganking at or close to full health, so more chance of a turn around). Would also potentially help out those unable to clear at present because they're so mana limited. Second change is lowering early clear speed a bit as well, push first gank times back a bit later in the game again.
- Abyssal Mask - Potentially pushing it more towards just tankier users. Magic damage dealers taking it to both nullify opponent lane damage and still get sufficient personal damage hasn't generally created good gameplay.
- Duskblade - Nerfing it.
- Locket - Some investigations into ways to make Locket less consistent and less universal a purchase. More exploratory, so possible nothing ships in 8.6.
- Rageblade - Looking to make it more accessible to melee, potentially also less of a first item power spike and more tied to other item power.
Champions:
- Rakan - Looking to buff. We're also fixing a bug between him and Xayah that leads to his performance with Xayah being much, much better than with anyone else. After that bug fix he'll be weaker when paired with Xayah, so a buff even in that case should be good too.
- Rumble - Some form of buff, details TBD.
- Lee Sin - Got hit a bit by Tracker's removal and had already been a bit weak before that. Buffing, details unsure.
- LeBlanc - Changes will be on PBE during the 8.6 cycle from day 1, probably ship in a later patch though. Changes revert the majority of the previous update.
- Ahri - Might have changes in 8.6 (testing, but not certain to ship). Still looking for ways to make her highs higher and her lows lower (does more when ahead, does less when behind)
- Some Duskblade Users - We'll have some buffs to a number of champs who are pretty dependent on Duskblade at present and we expect will be too weak post Duskblade nerf.
Runes:
- Manaflow Band - Nerfing, details TBD.
- Presence of Mind - Looking to change it so it's a reasonable choice on a wider number of champions. Then probably nerfing it for its current best case users, on whom its very strong already."
On mana-gated champions, Meddler replied:
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With the nerfs to multiple mana regen runes, has Riot considered directly reducing how mana gated certain champions are instead?Our thinking's more the other way around. That we've ended up reducing mana gating too much with Manaflow Band and Presence of Mind and that's one of the big reasons to nerf them as a result."
When asked for more detail on Abyssal Mask changes, Meddler commented:
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Curious to know what will you guys do to abyssal mask, any plans already ?Currently testing a shorter aura range, not committed to that direction yet though."
When asked about whether these changes were intended to help open bot lane, Meddler replied:
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Are these and other changes up to mid season intended to help the opening of bot lane or they are just general game health changes?The listed changes above at least are just general game health. Possible some of the open up bot lane stuff does happen before midseason depending on what we conclude, nothing concrete yet though."
When asked about Cinderhulk and if it was expecting changes, Meddler confirmed:
"That's correct. We're planning on pulling the bonus health % down (to 15% or 16% from memory). We think it's both too strong in general and making it too easy to hit the health threshold on Warmogs."
Meddler also noted his thoughts on the Baron and Elder Dragon buff changes in 8.4:
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Thoughts on how the baron and elder changes worked out so far?2nd Elder looks really strong. I'll get some stats and some thoughts on that next week.
From personal experience, the caster damage reduction makes so now it takes to long to clear so most of the time is not worth trying to kill them anymore and taking 2 elders in a row is really strong even without any drakes (and most of the time worth more then baron, also helps clearing the empowered casters as is true damage)
In solo queue at least Baron impact doesn't seem to have changed that much, somewhat surprisingly. Banner of Command usage seems likely to spike up everywhere though looking at the current trends in recent pro games, so that could change. We're talking Banner today, including whether to try and rush a really late change into 8.5 for it or not."
Ahri: A New Dawn Figure
The Riot Games Merch FB posted the details on the Ahri: A New Dawn figure that will finally be hitting the merch store:
"Ahri: A New DawnThey noted the statue was completely redesigned:
March 13th, 11am PST
Limited Edition - hand numbered with certificate of authenticity.
550 statues available in North America, 550 available in Europe
Tails whirling beneath her, potent magic at the ready, League's deadly vixen returns March 13th with this very special Limited Edition statue inspired by the cinematic A New Dawn."
"Yes we completely re-did the statue - the concept itself everyone loved so we kept the intent the same but Ahri herself was reworked improving her hands, face, makeup, neck, orb, and paint. We brought in groups of Ahri main players and involved them in the redesign for feedback all along the way."Christian Bayley noted China has a batch available as well:
"China has a small batch available but we are waiting on their final total #. . .NA and EU ship to most regions (there are a few regions that we can't currently ship to like Russia, Japan and LATAM unfortunately)"Look for this statue to go on sale on March 13th!
'Ask Esports' | A retrospective on the Tainted Minds ruling
"Welcome to the first edition of Ask Esports. One of our goals for 2018 is to be more active in conversations that haven’t been adequately addressed or areas where we just haven’t been present.
The first one we wanted to tackle is a retrospective on a contentious investigation:
Tainted Minds. The last time we spoke about Tainted Minds was in our competitive ruling, where we investigated allegations that TM mistreated its players and staff and that the situation was intentionally mishandled by the OPL team because of a conflict of interest between Riot’s Head of Esports in Oceania and TM’s owner.
Reception to that ruling was not good.
The feedback we got was that the investigation lacked details. Unfortunately, while others were able to put out public documents to reinforce their perspective, we had to conduct our investigation behind closed doors to maintain the confidentiality of our sources. This is still the truth. That said, we know there’s still a lot of dissatisfaction with our response, so we’re going to instead try to give more insight as to how we investigated and made our decisions."
[Click here for the full, detailed article!]
Help us make 3 minigames in 48 hours! (Team Jam Packed - Thunderdome XI)
Here's Riot Draggles with a new challenge for Riot's Thunderdome XI:
"tl;dr Vote on the themes below. The top 3 will be used to make minigames in 48 hours!
Hey everyone,
Every so often at Riot, we run an internal 48-hour hackathon called Thunderdome. Last year, Team Player Voted Content (PVC) built and shipped an unofficial minigame, Ziggs Arcade Blast. We were super excited to see many of you participating in the discussion, giving your input during development, and ultimately enjoying the game!
This year, we’re getting the gang back together—plus a few more—for one last hurrah, and to mark the occasion… we wanna go bigger.
Presenting JAM PACKED: 3 teams. 3 minigames. 48 hours. And we need your help.
(Almost) anything goes. No restrictions on engine, platform or genre. Discord shitposting. And a whole lot of caffeine.
We’re gonna take you along every step of the way, but first, we need your input! Below you’ll see a list of themes in the League universe. Vote on your favorite, and the top 3 will be used to make the upcoming minigames. Voting will close on March 9 @ midday PST.
Big disclaimers so I don’t get in trouble: Typically the goal of Thunderdome projects isn't to ship something to the public, and it's important to note that this isn’t the team’s main goal either. We want to focus on openly sharing the dev process with everyone. This will likely be the last time we ship something directly from a Thunderdome team, so let’s go out with a jam.
These games, unlike League of Legends, Blitzcrank’s Poro Roundup, Mechs vs Minions, etc., are NOT official Riot products. When and if we get them into your hands, they’re probably going to be buggy, janky and unfinished, but we’re aiming to share them anyway. We cool? We cool.
Voting will close on March 9 @ midday PST, and development will officially begin on March 14 @ 12pm PST."
- You can follow us now on:
- https://instagram.com/teamjampacked
- https://twitter.com/teamjampacked
- … and we’ll have a Discord server set up closer to launch!
Quick Hits
- ZenontheStoic responded to feedback on the still experimental Conquerer rune that we've seen testing on the PBE:
"Hi! Thanks for this post, this is very well thought out and argued! You have very good design instincts, but we have one unfair advantage over you: we've actually been able to test out some of the things you suggest ;)
So your suggested activation paradigm where the keystone gradually ramps up in combat was the very first iteration of this rune that Stashu tried out. The problem with it was that it felt too inevitable; it didn't meet our standards for minimum gameplay as and against for a keystone. It was very much like Fervor of Battle in that way: essentially it's just a bunch of stats with no real way for the enemy to do anything about it.
My next iteration was having the keystone ramp up gradually while you were near an enemy champion. This had a couple of cool implications, such as allowing some ranged champions to opt in without making it broken OP for ADCs. Urgot was foremost on my mind here. He has a very bruiser-esque combat pattern and would really have loved this
from
http://www.surrenderat20.net/2018/03/red-post-collection-quick-gameplay.html
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