What is the timeframe for that? Like can I still get the skin if I get honor level 5 in July for example?
With our current plans if you miss Shen in the shop and if you hit honor level 5 this coming July, you would be fine and get Shen.
We have a target date for these changes but we don't want to communicate them just yet because things can change. Keep an eye out for patch notes as these things are rolling through and we'll keep yall updated.
Did Endless Elixir still make the cut
It did not
When they say that they will add "ALL" honor skins to the honor shop for extra tokens, does that also include the Shen skin?
Okay yeah it looks like we're adding Shen into the shop when we do this (and once he's live in game).
So all skins will now have borders to guarantee you get a border for whatever skin you pull?
The milestones on the pass effectively make it so that the next milestone after the skin, should be its border. So technically it’s not impossible to have one and not the other, but it’s like…right there. 😂
(Except the prestige, that’ll have the icon and border in the same milestone)
The only thing changing here is the whole token redemption element.
It's a pretty minor detail, but is the new teleport "dash" unstoppable? Or can you run into a random Poppy W or something and get interrupted. It says Unleashed TP is very fast, so maybe it doesn't matter, but I can imagine players having the reaction time to knock people out of it if it's possible, whether that be from Poppy or Alistar or whoever.
It also could spoil some otherwise very good TP flanks if you can just see the person flying past you. I think it's fine to have a travel time, but I'm not sure if they should be visible to enemies while doing it.
It's unstoppable yeah, think like a Hexgate.
is atakhan gonna stay just one season?
Nope, he'll be sticking around
Borders in the paid pass correspond to skins also in the paid pass. So that scenario where you have a border but not the skin should be impossible.
(Unless some really weird bug happens and if so, report that)
Will arena be back soon?
We'll talk about modes a bit in the next video (start of January), including when in the year Arena will return
We already have a mode that's "SR but faster", why try this instead of tweaking URF into something you can leave up long-term?
We think the two modes serve pretty different needs. URF loses a lot of the strategy, personal power build-up, and narrative arc that a Summoner's Rift match has because of how accelerated everything is, to the point that a lot of characters have pretty distorted gameplay. Pulling that back to the point that Swiftplay is at really makes it an entirely different mode, which is why we want to keep them distinct.
The update didn’t touch on the Jinx exalted skin or nexus finishers. Are those still coming next patch or are they pushed back?
Still planned for next patch. Didn't have any additional updates to share about them, so spent our time elsewhere
When they say that they will add "ALL" honor skins to the honor shop for extra tokens, does that also include the Shen skin?
Actually don’t know the answer to this one but I’m asking. Edit: Yep we're adding Shen when he's live.
If not it’ll still be obtainable/granted when hitting honor level 5 next year after this change.
Looks like we had something slip through in this edit of this blog, the random should be a 1350 rp skin or below, (not 975).
Not entire sure how that happened but apologies for the confusion.
Updating the blog to get that corrected as well.
Is there a prestige skin list for 2025..?
The start of January dev update video will include a list of Season 1's prestige skins.
They are replacing quickplay....they are killing team builder...again.
Why...the fuck...they always DO THIS! We had matchmaking tools, that ensures that you can play the champ you actually want to, twice now. Both times you guys removed it for "something better". For fuck sake stop doing this!
Let us play the champs we want in a normal matchmade que!
Swiftplay will still let you pick your champ in advance just like Quickplay today does. You'll also be able to select the same champ for both roles you queue as
Hi Meddler!! I'll wait as long as needed for a super cool rework :D How does Ezreal fit in all this though?
Sorry, couldn't resist the old callback
How will this impact regions that don't have draft? Does this mean ranked is the only alternative if we want to play normal SR?
For the initial test of this we're only going to be launching Swiftplay where Normal Draft already exists, so there'll always be an unranked standard-ruleset SR option available. We'll need to learn more about how y'all enjoy and interact with this queue before making permanent decisions.
I get she doesn't fit the thematic but it feels kinda rude that Shyvana players have been waiting since 2019, were told she was getting worked on in 2022 and are now just left in a limbo for whenever the right theme rolls around
Yeah, we messed up on this one. We should never have announced her so far in advance, let alone without a committed direction or clear timeline. Feels like a broken promise as a result.
Is VIktor Dead? I thought the ending was open, if they died, or they could be transported, time travel.
I think the fate of a lot of champions in Arcane 2 is open to interpretation
I don't mean to be mean so if I come off that way I apologize. I'm genuinely just confused how this is considered a vgu?? Only thing changing is his ult, and it's still mostly the same. Is this not more of an asu?
We did originally explore much larger changes to Viktor's kit. Reaction from Viktor players was pretty negative to a few different versions though. There wasn't a pressing game health or balance need behind those changes, so we concluded it was better to update Viktor's art, audio etc but keep his established gameplay.
so her progress is stopped at the moment and we wont get any news for a while and she wont be in 2025? its sad you didnt inform us earlier about this cause some people were really looking forward to her vgu especially after the long wait...
Correct, she won't be in 2025. Completely agree the long wait here is a really poor experience for those looking forward to her update and our apologies. We're going to avoid revealing updates like this so far in advance in the future to avoid that broken promise feeling.