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Right but changing a lifesteal item from 10 to 8 percent for example, should not result in an 80% lifesteal buff lol no idea how that even happened.

Other things like viego and sylas interactions are understandable because of how complex their champion is.

It's not that complicated. Lifesteal is represented internally as a decimal - 8% lifesteal is .08, so naturally if you miss a decimal place or typo and put in .80 instead you end up with 80% lifesteal instead of the intended 8%. I've worked as a professional software dev before (though it's not what I do at Riot) and I can tell you that this type of error is quite common, particularly when trying to do fast iteration and push things into a testable environment (which is exactly what happened here).

In League, most of this stuff doesn't get seen by a wide audience though as it never goes to PBE and is fixed before it leaves internal environments. This is one small case where the list was shipped to PBE immediately and so was seen (and was certainly disruptive to PBE games). A parallel here to non-game dev is that you wouldn't see this type of error in other software like web pages, mobile apps, etc., because they don't have publicly-facing non-prod environments of any kind meaning wh...

HypoLoL

I'll be doing a full video over it. The nitty gritty though, I simply contacted Swimbananas, her dm's are literally open on twitter. Ultimately whenever someone tells me they are something or someone I go with it for their sake and if they continue to be around me I try and get the truth on the matter. I worked with rioters, got their approval and we were good to go! Truth is, I never believed her in the first place.

Edit: It also doesn't help there is a Riot Lily and Riot Lilith with one L. There's no way Riot would be okay with such a similar name.

I'm not an expert on the topic, but I don't think there's much (if any) policy around "similarity of Rioter names." There are at least two Riot Penguins, and probably a variety of other similar and/or exact match Riot names. Situations where that matters just don't really come up (the only situation I can think of was some humorous confusion around which Riot Penguin was being referenced in a random normal game I was playing).

gramineous

I don't understand it at all. Aren't mana buffs like that better for low elo and players newer to the champion who aren't as experienced managing mana? Isn't that the exact wrong part of the Illaoi playerbase in need of buffs?

It depends on many factors - in many cases this is true, though not always (e.g. when Darius' mana costs were raised in 10.6, his drop in winrate was relatively flat across different MMR brackets). In particular mages tend to exhibit this most, though of course it depends a lot on which champion, which spell's mana cost, and so on.

This particular case is interesting because Illaoi is one of the most (if not the most) mana-constrained fighter, so the expectation is that mana likely isn't skewed towards newer players/lower MMR players given that unlike on less mana-constrained champions, more skilled Illaoi players still have to opt into mana itemization/rune choices and still run oom with better skill usage. It is a scaling buff which tends to favor low MMR (level scaling is more impactful later in the game, games in low MMR last longer on average) so that might mean there's a light low MMR skew here for a separate reason but typically mana/level buffs don't exhibit this very strong...

F0RGERY

Yeah, getting rid of the weave spell is kinda disappointing.

I understand that Riot left out cc on purpose, and their justification makes sense, I just wish that the seamstress felt more... seamstress-y, rather than a kid running around with scissors.

It's true that part of why we didn't go forward with one of the various "thread-attachment" ults (even though they were very cool and a slam dunk on the thematic) is because they were very heavy on cc and pushed Gwen away from the skirmisher space, but there were also other reasons.

The coolest version in my opinion, which is the one shown in the gif in this article, also had an issue where it needed Gwen to input multiple different directional commands back-to-back which didn't fit well with the base kit which already asks you to do that (both Q and E are high-frequency directional casts that are often cast on different vectors). So while it was super fun to use in isolation, it was very demanding of the player to manage casting Q + E + R1 + R2 all in a short timeframe given they were typically all in different directions and some required high precision (mostly the R casts). One of the big advantages of the final ultimate, even though it has three casts instead of two, is that it (...

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how much is a bowl of dogfood worth

GreaterBelugaWhale

You really have no idea who August is do you? He’s by far the most acclaimed designer, creating unique actionable ideas without the certainlyT touch of unbalancable, and by far the best champ designer at riot, jinx gnar jhin and many others are examples of top tier design and fantasy fulfillment beyond their years while maintaining peak balance.

You really have no idea who August is do you? He’s by far the most acclaimed designer, creating unique actionable ideas without the certainlyT touch of unbalancable, and by far the best champ designer at riot, jinx gnar jhin and many others are examples of top tier design and fantasy fulfillment beyond their years while maintaining peak balance.

derbyt

You missed the best part! The names!
Or at least one of the names. Moonstone Renewer becomes the Moonstone Masterblaster. I don't know why I find that name hilarious.

to be clear this is a temp name, but moonstone masterblaster is the greatest temp name I have ever suggested

CdnSpring

Whats his job title?

professional feeder

While they do look similar, this is not correct. The ability shown in the video is actually a fair bit different, which you could probably determine by watching this quick clip a few times and some guesswork. I won't spoil it for anyone, but this early version of Irelia ultimate was actually closer to another spell that exists in the current League game than it is to Yone R.

ignore the goredrinker stuff, that's a scrapped concept from a while ago that got merged down by accident

Rexsaur

Please nerf swiftness instead of buffing its t3, thats insanity.

the adaptive force per ms is in place of the total ms passive it currently has, not additional