bz6

Has Meddler moved completely off SR?

About a year and a half ago I moved to a new role that involved covering design across LoL as a whole. Last year I then took on some additional non design responsibilities as well. That's gradually meant less and less time with the SR team. I still playtest with them sometimes, talk about high level plans etc. I'm much less involved in discussions about champ balance, item adjustments etc though. Since that stuff's a large part of what people want to hear about I figured it would be a good time to get RiotScruffy in to cover more of that half the time.

DeadNames

more TFT 🥱

I'll keep putting TFT stuff at the end for those of you who aren't interested in it - once you see it, suggest no longer reading. Others are interested in it though hence its inclusion.

Jozoz

Thank god we finally have data that disproves this ridiculous notion that support is still the least played role.

Yep, times have changed. Used to be support was the least queued role by a huge margin (around half the selection rate of the next lowest). Still is that low in certain region/MMR cases, generally it's fairly close to other positions now though.

NicholasaGerz

honestly look like they should be helping jng more than top lol. also adc is way higher than what reddit makes it out to be

As Scruffy mentioned last week we are looking at jungle XP at the least, with preseason changes not landing as expected there either. I know the specific changes being tested aren't liked by some people, it's something that's already getting worked on though.

Wanted to bring up top since that wasn't something we'd discussed really since preseason by contrast.

StunningPlatypus7

The thing is, they never really address any big issues in the game in these posts. It's not really the function of these posts to announce big changes though - It's "quick gameplay thoughts" not "here's the AP bruiser rework guys"/"jungle is OP again guys" type of stuff, we would at best see a small footnote about them in posts like this.

Pretty much. Big announcements we'll do through more formal and polished approaches like Dev Videos, Nexus articles, Riot Pls etc. My hope with these posts is to cover things that we don't get to in those places, or to provide additional context/rationale on things we do cover there that some people want to dig deeper into.

DoubleGio

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Quick check here - is it lack of SR discussion/balance changes that gives you that reaction or are there other topics you also wish were being covered here?

ChuzCuenca

So there is no chance of getting AP Brusier items this year?

I'm assuming formally introducing AP Brusiers requires a lot of work in the hole AP ecosystem so I'm not surprised if this is delayed until the next preseason.

Any large AP bruiser item work would likely be a preseason project yeah. Smaller stuff's possible, though don't want to guarantee anything in that regard either given we're still in the planning stages for longer term work for the year.

DepressiveMicrodick

Yes please /u/RiotMeddler

I'd genuinely appreciate some more insight on the thought process behind these changes, no flame. They seem to come completely out of left field and only serve to worsen what everyone's issue with bot laners seems to be right now, but I am fully aware that I might be missing something here so I would love to hear a Rioter comment on them

Lemme check with the SR team, see if they've got something planned already or would like to jump into that discussion themselves. If not I'll get something into an upcoming post.

I assume support item changes and duo lane XP changes are things you're interested in here. Anything else I'm missing?

ToxicSummoner

When does preseason patch hit? Anyone know?

Next week on the 19th or 20th depending on which region you're in.

KasumiGotoTriss

If you don't play for the next 10 days, can you just play 10 games one after another in one day when you come back? Or will you still have to wait 24 hours between each one.

Yeah, you could burn through them all in one day once they're all released.

Shrengar

So it doesn't have to be 10 days in a row?

For the first 10 days every day a new reward becomes available. You can then play a game to claim a reward any time during the 4 weeks.

One game per reward. You just need to play 10 games over the next 4 weeks, with a limit of 1 reward per day that's passed during the first 10 days.

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Once 10 days have passed you can play all 10 games and collect all 10 rewards in one day if you really want to.

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All the rewards at a rate of one per game.

RHunterGN

Will it be any game, or Summoner's Rift specifically?

Any mode that uses matchmaking (so everything but custom games).

D4RX_

Source? /s

https://old.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/dioqnu/project_f_is_an_mmorpg_according_to_taptap/

That's a bug.

CaliburnKing

I guess I misread the post my apologies. Should I delete this?

All good, thanks for the edit there.

GhostYasuo

Iam only able to spend time playing league on weekends so can you confirm that it's just logging in or are there quests? :(

It's play a game to get each reward. You'll have a month to do so though, so should still be easy to pick them all up even playing only on weekends.

CaliburnKing

Meddler said it's a multiplayer dungeon crawler

EDIT: I was mistaken. Apologies for misleading anyone.

Meddler hasn't said anything about Project F (well, unless you count this post).