Are those crazy spikes new champ releases/reworks?
Yes
who are those huge spikes?
New champ/VGU releases
How popular is Ez?
Pretty popular. Here is a graph that shows Yas, Lux, Ez and Lee sin playrate over the last year and half
Yasuo, and its not even close. The closest a Champion gets to Yasuo is Lee Sin, and he still isn't that close to Yasuos total global playrate
Thats exciting.
(p.s. I think you've been doing a good job despite what the internet says. Aphelios is fucking cool.)
Thanks! Well, Phel was definitely too strong on release, leading to some of the negative sentiment which has died down a lot since we got him in a more balanced state. Better Champion launch balance is a big goal for us this year so hopefully that improves more going forward.
Hey Reav3, are Quinn & Valor still a potential candidate for the next VGU poll?
yes
Were Voli and Fiddle's power levels on release as part of the commitment the champ team has to releasing more balanced champions
yes
Whens the next Champion roadmap now that Voli is out?
Sometime next week
/u/RiotScruffy are you able to share what’s the early thinking Voli now that he’s on live
So far he is within the bands we predicted for his Day 1 WR. We will continue to monitor over the weekend to see if his WR grows as expected as well. If it doesn't then we would start to discuss possible buffs
Probably not revealed, but I'm sure we'll get more teasers for them.
The roadmap will go over those 2 new champs as well as another new champ we haven’t talked about yet
When is the next roadmap sorry to be annoying Im just so excited!!!
Should be shortly after Voli hits live servers
Is there an Release Date for the Roadmap yet ?
Should be shortly after Voli hits live servers
Thanks for the reply! Will this champ not be featured in the upcoming poll then?
No, we wouldn't put a champ in the poll that we are already working on
But that unannounced VGU is aiming for 2021?
correct
Can you answer if the release date for the two new champions changed with the Covid situation? Or is still the same
So far we have not had to alter the release dates of any of our Champions. This could always change as time goes on, but so far it hasn't
Will you be talking about the unannounced VGU in the upcoming Champion Roadmap?
I mean, it's obviously very early so I wouldn't expect anything more than a few teaserish words on it if you did.
BTW, I'm really excited that we're getting a VGU outside of the poll! Thank you!
yes I will be talking about it in the roadmap
Would you consider expanding VGU polls to include more than 5 champions then? It feels weird to see it being so "limited" while there still being so many champs need some reworks *looks at Kog, Corki, Udyr who are not even considered for polling*
The poll is not meant to encompass every champ that needs a VGU, and we won't only do VGUs for champs that win polls. We currently have a unannounced VGU in early development right now, for example. Like If Voli and Fiddle weren't basically tied in the last poll, we still would have done another VGU this year, independent of the poll.
Thanks for the response, though personally I feel like you could lower the bar for which champions are considered to be in heavy need for a VGU. I mean champion quality skyrocketed towards the end of season 2 and a lot of champs aren't up to that standard yet.
So at least to me it feels like there are still tons of champs that could use an update, even if its not as dire as the previous cases.
We could, but VGUs come with the cost, and Champs that are in better shape have much higher player bases. With higher player bases there is a higher risk of alienating more players with a VGU, especially since its basically impossible to make 100% of the current mains happy with a VGU. As Champions begin to fall further behind new champ standards, and new champs come out taking away some of the mains of older champs, than the older champs that need VGUs player base begin to shrink. The smaller a Champs player base when it gets a VGU the less player pain and player disruption the VGU release causes. We have to factor all this into our VGU strategy.
Read moreKinda sad that they confirm that they'll be focusing on new champs for the rest of the year. I mean they hinted at it in the previous video, but this time they did say that this is their plan for the rest of the year.
2 VGUs for the whole year is really not a lot, I hope they return to making more in the next one :(
It's unlikely we will get to a place where we are doing lots of VGUs again. It's possible of course, if suddenly we reach a point where we have a giant list of champs in need of VGUs, like we did a couple years ago. The reason we started reducing VGUs is that we got to a point where the VGU list wasn't that long, and the Champs on the list don't need it as bad. We think VGU's are a exciting product that many players also find exciting and we don't want to get to a point where we basically "Catch up" on all the champs that need VGUs and basically stop doing them. At the pace we were going in the past we would have reached that point fairly quickly and then that would kind of be the end of VGUs. We have decided instead to reduce the pace of VGUs so that we still release them, but we don't catch up. At the current pace I predict we may not ever reach the end of the list, since overtime new champs will probably find there way on to the list. This way there will always be VGUs to look for...
Read moreI hope they got all this info from Riot giving them the blog post early so they can make an article about it and they just released it a bit early, cus some of the wording here implies there should be a blog post on the website itself
I hope they don’t resort to news sights to replace Blog posts
There will be a blog post very soon