You have been consistent in restricting a single defensive stat in offensive items from a design standpoint.
Armor - Zhonya, GA
MR - Maw, Banshee, Wit's
Why are you not following this rule in DD's case since you are giving it both mr and armor?
The item will be meta defining given how busted it is... please respect your own design philosophy!
sorry wut
How does Sett hit not any thresholds with 52% winrate 15% pickrate 50% banrate and being pick and ban in proplay? And how exactly did Singed hit the threshold? That one Bwipo games must have been too much right?
His pro presence is not high enough to trigger (>=95% one patch since he was last nerfed 10.3). 52% winrate is within reasonable bounds, but at the high end for a champ thats significantly banned.
But sett is over that (53.8% jungle Avg Elo) and is getting nerfs for 10.5.
Have the Black Cleaver changes been decided yet?
there aren't any cleaver changes
Ok so give back the 20 ad to deaths dance pls
It still has the 30 AR and MR. This is just a tooltip error because there are multiple loc files since DD is not shipping but is on PBE
There's only one real tweak to support items, it's the "ally nearby" requirement.
I was confused as hell by those changes, just realized they're the preseason changes that are already live. Ignore all the value changes as they're old news, no idea why they're there.
yeah this confused me as well >.> think S@20's bot bopped itself
btw dead allies count so if you adc jumps in a fire and leaves you alone in lane their corpse still counts x.x
You can say "200 years" for a lot of decisions, but in this case they are following a balance framework for mandatory nerfs that they have made fully transparent. They didn't have to nerf him in 10.4 because he didn't meet any nerf thresholds during the 10.3 patch. It is likely that he will meet such thresholds (or be much closer) during this patch with the sunfire changes (I think squad5 said this IIRC). In that case, he would be nerfed next patch.
If you take issue with the thresholds that they've set, that's one thing, but that isn't the same as them being incompetent.
he still doesn't hit any thresholds (pro is not on 10.4), but we plan on nerfing him as a separate call
Is there a way you guys could look at how Cinderhulk interacts with Amumu's Bandage Toss? The item makes me a sad Amumu cuz both in the ganks and when clearing the jungle Cinderhulk just goes off in thin air and while I would normally say that it only makes Amumu's tears stronger, it's still a sad time.
the triggering cc spell also does the damage (unfortunately for amumu that still means you need to hit the unit u want to damage)
I have a sincere question.
When you guys release a champion do you guys purposely design it like broken or slightly OP? Or you believe it's just beacuse players don't know how to counterplay?
almost always OP. players take a long time to learn how to play champs. Yuumi started at 29% winrate day 1, and that was at a tuning that we were certain was actually super op (we est 56+% winrate resting if we just let her coast without changes). Course 29% is still too low for her to be a reasonable pick so we have to buff her (and then spent the next year nerfing her as players got better)
Its not fair to anyone playing if theres a 29% winrate champ in the game, even if that champ is actually long term at a reasonable power level
this is further confounded by the fact that higher elo players also just play the game more and learn these new champs faster. LS was telling me about how he "only" had like 70 games on sett the patch he was released, and i'm just thinking "yeah the average sett player is probably on like, game 2 - and it'll take them 6 months before they have the same amount of experience learning the champ as you do right now"
Read morewhat prompted that dd change????
Item has significant overlap with BT, and generally is stat-ed in a way that makes it too squishy for most fighters/bruisers to reasonably consider in all but extremely snowballed games (which botrk is moving into with it's melee mod). Believe moving it to a more hybridized offensive/defensive profile serves the item system better. Resists also synergize with lifesteal and the raw health items fighters tend to build.
its not shipping 10.5, we'll be tuning it further since right now its almost certainly too pushed for testing
Can you look into why either the Abyssal mask’s or the Sunfire’s effect is not centered on some champions? First comes to mind is Naut.
we offset things one pixel to trigger people
working on a vfx pass to make it more noticable
why do you feel like the legend line needs nerfs? its just another nerf to adcs for no reason
Pulled power out of farming to stack it since bloodline generally out performs the other options for adcs in pro. Could probably buff them in the future, just pulling an elo skewed lever since I suspect it's also making later build lifesteal items worthless on adcs (cause they got enough from bloodline)
Hey /u/greaterbelugawhale could you explain the Zed energy restore on monsters change, because AFAIK his W on live already restores energy vs monsters
lul oops
Legend runes need 20 points for 1 stack. Minion kills provide very few points towards stacks. Now the runes will stack slower throughout the game. Though I'm a bit confused because it's only large monsters that give 5 points towards a stack... But it clearly says minions.
player facing its 20 points for 1 stack. internally is 100 points for 1 stack, just the numbers are divided down. the actual patchnote will probably read something like "20 minion kills to get a stack >>> 25 minion kills to get a stack"
Think of how many times you do your heal so it reaches an ally but you can't give them an aura because of positioning. Does it refund on cast or does it refund it the aura ever touches an ally?
ever touches
correcto. of course our numbers tend to be slightly different from the numbers on public sites since they don't have all the data. we also don't like back to back nerfing a champ (sett was nerfed in 10.3 so not gonna nerf him again in 10.4, especially since pro play isn't even on 10.3)
we have some changes in testing for kai'sa, but are being cautious since she is historically known to show up and dominate pro long before shes viable elsewhere, and we have already nerfed/are nerfing marksmen that actually significantly out-range her and can keep her down in lane, which we suspect is lowering her pick priority in pro (Senna + Aphelios). Course once again pro is lagging behind so we can't be confident that after those two champs are nerfed kai'sa isn't right back in the meta.
We are also talking about how to include winrate into elite tier data with a reasonable degree of confidence despite the sample size generally being way too small, so that might get updated in the future
Read moreis it true you guys are reverting tiamat/hydra/botrk changes for this patch? I see an image quoting you that it's getting reverted but there's no trace of it in yoir post history
Yeah we are gonna let those changes soak longer internally
can this CD scale, or be affected by CDR at least? this give most 1 use in TFs nowadays
item cdr is a thing
What is wrong with you
its 4:50 am saturday morning and I'm still browsing the league subreddit for one
mozzarella or cheddar cheese in toast?
imagine being a peasant and eating bread