why does it feel like female champions get so much more love than your male ones? it's a genuine question and I'm not trying to incite anything
I’m not sure I understand the question. Are u asking why we have been making more female champions then male champions recently?
Any hints on if we are ever getting a top lane tank again?
Stay tuned
REAV3 C'MON I CAN KEEP A SECRET
Well Im sold. I'll DM you the next few Champion releases
Is the "lady with the laughing jar" who has "so many hands" a teaser for the multihanded adc? They put a weird amount of emphasis on her.
Hmmm :thinking face:
Since the bot laner isn't ways off is there maybe some room to tell us more on the team working on them? so far we know about narrative/concept and gameplay but could we know just a tiny bit more? for example the VFX artist working on them or who's doing the splash etc?
Chengwei Pan is doing the splash.
So next release is Udyr? -^
no, next is the bot laner, then after that is Udyr, but he's close. Bel'Veth, the Bot laner and Udyr are all pretty close together so their wont be a huge wait in between them
That roadmap will probably be after Udyr's release but before the high skill tank top laner correct? Also are you able to say whether there are more unannounced champs planned for this year, or is the planned creature the next champ after the high skill tank?
Yes it will be sometime in between Udyr and the Tank. That's all I will say for now
Will there be a dev blog on the CGU for Aurelion Sol?
No, though I will talk more about the project in the next Champ Roadmap
Hey Reav3, was Bel'Veth ever going to have like a mind control ability, since I've been curious ever since your possession at season start
Nope. I was more trying to do like a Malzahar "Prophet of the Void" type thing to tie into the Malzahar short story we shipped around that time as well
Hey reav3, really looking forward to the Udyr rework and sorry if this seems like a stupid question, but can we expect another dev blog on him sometime? Or he just gonna just gonna be announced like new champs are?
Thier won't be another Udyr Devblog before his announce, no.
Having playtested Bel’Veth a lot over the last 6 months I will say that slapping the ever living shit out of the entire enemy team as the Empress of the Void is one of ,if not the most satisfying things in League of Legends
Sorry? Didn't you say we are going to get more humanoid champions and then give Aatrox, Nasus and Renekton as examples in the past? Sett and Ahri are basically humans. Hopefully you are not going to excuse them as humanoid champion and trick us to believe we are getting more Aatrox instead of catboys and catgirls.
No, I said we were going to be making more monstrous humans like Aatrox, Renekton and Nasus, rather then primarily making humans and humanoids like we were the last few years. We also are planning more monsters/creatures for the future. I separate the 2 since things like Yuumi would be considered a creature without being a monster. We still think the whimsical/light hearted creature space is something we don’t have much of in LoL and are excited to add more to that space as well.
This doesn’t mean we arnt going to make anymore humans and humanoids though, it just means we want to add more overall diversity to our releases. Also, to be clear, the monster we have in development right now is NOT the cute or whimsical kind
Read moreOh and sorry, last question: is it too early to ask who is working on the monster champ coming in 2023 (art, writer, designer etc)
TwinEnso, Lonewingy, and JohnODyin
Is monstrous also another thing besides humanoid or is it both bascially the same?
Humanoid would be something like Ahri/Sett/Xayah
Interesting so ult form seems to have a Long lifetime
Kinda weird she doesn't count as Monster champ since thé human form isn't That significant
I think she does count as a monster champ, she just rides the line a bit between a pure monster (like Rek’Sai or Cho’gath) and a monstrous champ like Nasus/Renekton. She’s not firmly in either. People are misinterpreting what I said. I didn’t say BV isn’t a monster champ I just said she isn’t the monster champ I was talking about when said we were planning on a pure monster champ in the future
ExEYEting
Damnit August
Have mid scope updates dramatically increased the amount of popularity/engagement of champs so far, they certainly feel better, but do the stats back it up?
Not dramatically, but we do see bumps in engagement from them
Call me dumb boss /u/Reav3, but I don't see a problem with Rell. I just feel her defensive stat 'stealing' mechanic could use a bit more umph. I love the champ truly. She is exactly what a tank should be, tons of CC with minimal damage.
I personally think we missed the mark on her fantasy. When we were in early development she was a really interesting a cool champion. When she was on her horse she was like REALLY fast, and then she was really slow when on the ground. As we started to balance the champ much later in development we found that her speed in her horse form would cause her optimal play to constantly leave her lane partner behind and just roam the whole game. It ended up being a pretty unhealthy play pattern so we had to nerf her horse movement speed to the point that her unique gameplay identity kind of disappeared. Now she is just regular speed on the horse and super slow armored, so she doesn't really get the super fast horse rider power fantasy tradeoff for being slow the other half of the time.
I think we probably need to re look at her and see if we can push her power elsewhere (not in roaming power) in a way that could give her a more unique identity and separate her from Leona more. Ideally Rell...
Read moreHi reav3 I want to ask you a question while I saw you online, does the champion team decide who gets asu, and is asu included in the champion rankings that will come out this year, for example; jungler>melee adc> udyr> asu? :> I would be very grateful if you reply. because there are rumors/misunderstandings that we will get a 2nd asu this year.
No, ASUs are chosen and handles by PIE (The Personalization team) I don't speak for other teams so you would have to talk to someone from that team if you want details on how they choose
Rell is a Champion we talk about as a possible target for a midscope update, similar to what we have recently done with Swain/Olaf/Taliyah. We think we could potentially smooth out some of the issues brought up in this thread with a update like that. We haven't started work on one yet, but she is a Champion we feel is fairly high priority.