BigBard2

Here’s an example of what the boot upgrades look like using Plated Steelcaps:

Free Tier 2 Boot Bonus: +5 Armor

Tier 3 Upgrade: Costs 750 gold, but provides +5 Armor, +5 Movement Speed, and a new unique passive that, after taking physical damage from a champion, grants the owner a physical shield for 10% of their maximum health for 5 seconds (with a 10 seconds cooldown).

Why though? The winning team already gets a big gold lead, why give them even more buffs?

Pretty important note is that there are no gold rewards for first blood and first turret anymore. This lets us reward teams for these milestones in a way that's not immediate gold to snowball with, and try something new with power progression that provides options & scaling - the value of the Tier 2 bonus is mean to be roughly what the gold value of the FB/FT milestones were but activating later, and the Tier 3 boot is meant to be about on par with spending that same amount of gold on a legendary item.

SuperSkillz10

I can't watch it til I'm back in like 5hrs yo, the wait is gonna kill me

Then boy do I have a TLDW for you.

Jozoz

No mention of any changes to TP like Phreak and August were hinting at throughout this year?

This was also mentioned by Meddler here.

I hope this doesn't mean changes to Teleport are scrapped?

We missed TP changes while working on this. :( perhaps someone from the team can weigh in?

AJLFC94_IV

Mel being a mage is the only reason Ambessa in Piltover happened. She's not there to help Mel with Jinx, she needs weapons to fight the Black Rose because of Mel's magic. Ambessa plays a huge part in moving the stories forward for Cait-Vi-Jinx.

It also sets up the future Noxus show, there's no way the next project isn't going to be Mel vs the black Rose in Noxus.

All of that is only established in season 2. Prior to season 2, she gave us different reasons for being in Piltover. We never needed Mel’s magic for that it (Hextech can answer it quite simply).

And did you miss the part where I said these changes would narratively strengthen her involvement in the Piltover-Zaun conflict? Again: the Noxian invasion has absolutely nothing to do with Mel’s magic.

And we don’t need it for Leblanc either. That storyline was working just fine before the reveal.

RockDoveEnthusiast

But they're saying they could have written that differently. What you're describing was a writing choice.

Exactly. If they hadn’t written Mel to be a mage, then Ambessa’s motivations would have been different. And, in my opinion, that would have been for the better of the Piltover/Zaun/Noxus conflict.

OhMilla

I think season 2 had some more glaring issues but overall a great season. I assume they're doing Noxus stuff next? Can't wait to see which characters are brought to the spotlight. They did a great job making me care about characters I didn't think twice about.

The Mel arc is the easiest fix I can see off the top, as far as season-long plot lines go.

Her mage thing added nothing to the story that couldn’t have been introduced via Ambessa, and Ambessa’s own motivations would have been much more convincing had Mel been killed at the end of season 1. Even her “courting” of Caitlyn would have been much better if they had been able to connect over the shared demise of a loved one at the hands of Jinx.

Edit: Noxus’ moves to infiltrate Zaun would have also had way more plausible deniability if one of their prominent diplomats had been killed by a “terrorist attack.” As it occurred, I’m not sure why Piltover would have believed that it was anything other than an opportunistic play at an eventual hostile takeover.

TeemoKayle

"What do I care if we'll all killed by either an invading army or a world ending threat in the next day or two? Can we focus on my side of the fence being grossly uncomfortable, not on the fact there won't be anything to fight for or to improve if we don't fight this major threat?"

You’re missing the point. Of course Zaun and Piltover have to cooperate against Noxian invasion, that’s obvious. The problem is that this isn’t real life, this is a fictional story. The writers chose to resolve the conflict this way. The writers chose to erase the history of apartheid oppression, erase the liberation of Zaun, and wash away Piltover’s sins all because they had to come together to beat the big bad. It’s bad writing and even worse political analysis.

TheCatsActually

You say this as if the show copped out when it was always the intention to have Piltover and Zaun maintain that tension at the end of the show. Individual Champions can die or progress past where they are in League since the game itself is kind of non-canon, but Runeterra's geopolitics have to remain consistent to the lore for the settings to make sense.

Zaun’s independence would fit better with the pre-existing lore, so I’m not sure what point you’re arguing. Tension? Yes, we need that. The perpetuation of the apartheid state? No, we didn’t.

revoverlord

Viktor truly solved racism

At least his solution was more… equal than the bullshit status quo we’re left with at the end.

“One Zaunite on the council, so it’s all good now! Forget the decades of oppression and the full-scale assault we launched on y’all just a few weeks ago! Also thanks for the bodies, really helped us out against Noxus. We can still count on Zaun for cheap labor and resources though, right?”

Global-Link-6040

I legit thought no way they’re resorting to the “common enemy” trope in the middle of the episode. I thought too highly of the show I guess.

Zaunite liberation deserved better respect from the story.

Hannig4n

Still a good season overall but it was way overstuffed with subplots and wasn’t given enough to time to properly work through them and get a satisfying resolution to all of them.

The most glaring example is the lack of satisfying resolution to the larger Piltover-Zaun conflict.

Jimsvaliant

This is going to be a controversial ending to the series for sure. I personally liked the resolution to Jayce and Viktor's story. It was an interesting time loop bromance, but they needed more time to show Viktor's philosophical shift. His outlook very suddenly changed. A well written Viktor would see the harm he's causing but commit to it with better cause. He just seemed out of character as his reasoning wasn't developed at all.

I absolutely hated what they did with Jinx and Vi. They didn't resolve the Vander/Silco conflict on how to properly handle the division of upper and lower society... Vander chose not to follow Silco and raise his daughters while Silco fought to see that Zaunites wouldn't be second class citizens... i wanted the daughters to resolve this, but they just kind of dropped that for the robot deus ex machina. Turns out the solution is to date someone on the other side.

The Ekko dimension jump episode was the best of the bunch. Shows how much he cares about the community he built. He didn't hesitate for a moment to try and get back and fix things despite having everything he could want.

I'm still not certain how to feel about the conclusion. Jinx created Viktor, who turned out to be the monster that united everyone, but that doesn’t really fix the issue of how Piltover treated Zaun nor does it comment on it at all.

I don't know that more episodes would fix my issues with Jinx and Vi's story. I also expected more cameos for the last episode. Oh well.

They just did a “both-sides” to apartheid oppression. You just have to free yourself, bro.

It wasn’t a GoT-level fumble like some others were saying, but the pacing was off and we could have gotten way more story with less music videos.

So is this really how they plan to resolve Piltover’s apartheid oppression of Zaun?

NakedHomelessPirate

Im gonna say it. Best episode of season 2, by far.

And it’s not even close. This is up there with the top stuff from season 1.

Ekko and Heim: life-affirming fairytale that provides them each with hope and a fresh perspective

Jayce:

GamerGypps

How the fuck did they even figure this out lol

I went to fix the actual balance change we made this patch because you have to manually input it on both forms (the initial implementation only did it on one, it might have even made it to PBE) and noticed this discrepancy. I fixed most of the base stats having weird decimal amounts years ago so its my bad lol

Infusion1999

This must be from the old era where most melee champions had 32.1 base MR.

Spot on

CrystalizedSeraphine

Fixed a bug where Shyvana had .1 extra Magic Resist in Dragon form.

Dead champ, no reason to pick her anymore.

Yeah my bad on that one, I missed it when I did the base stat rounding some years ago.

Stay tuned where next patch we remove Nidalee getting an extra .6 mana in cougar form (not a joke)

RiotRayYonggi

I checked this and don’t see anything wrong. Can you clarify?

JK our QA testers found it; multiple E’s in quick succession don’t give extra stacks. We will get the bug noted thanks for the report.