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Short answer: Yes

So I looked into this. Right now Zed is middle of the pack of the 4 cost 3 stars, and sitting with a 1.4 avg finish. For comparison, the BEST 3* 4 cost is Neeko with a 1.2 avg finish. Its not really unplayable.

One of the things that catch people off guard is that since so many 3* 4 costs deal SO MUCH damage, all of a sudden their BIS changes dramatically. Do you need IE if you spell already does 1200 damage? No, what you need is healing to go infinite. Its not intuitive, but it is what it is.

Sorry you had a rough game.

Into the Arcane Release Date: November 20th

Cyber City Release Date: April 2

4 months and 2 weeks

LOL

I did not say "Difficult to balance"

What I said was: The issue with Vex as a 4 cost melee champion was that in order for her to find success, her build was VERY narrow. If you had artifacts like Zhonyas or Seekers then she could pop off, but otherwise she would dash around and get herself quickly killed doing very little. This meant we had a 4 cost who was close to unplayable unless you had a very narrow set of circumstances be true, which isn't very good if you want the game and set to be flexible. In addition, when she did finally achieve those circumstances, the play against was also pretty infuriating as she could delete backlines in less than 5 seconds, or go infinite with the stacking omnivamp.

It was a shame because I believed in the melee design and wanted it to work. The idea of Vex dashing around the battlefield was a really cool concept. But the reality was it was too narrow and bad for the flow of the game, so we had to make a last minute pivot and turn her into a stan...

Between Rengar and Graves (and Zed once he's buffed) I'm not sure this is true

Ekko is a much different design. He stays in one place, while sending out clones (which are essentially projectiles) to nearby enemies. He's actually a very standard front to back melee champion.

The vex design was much more mobile, dashing around and swapping targets quite a bit, which also caused her to either not kill anything as she left, or put herself in immediate danger.

Hey folks. We announced the double up changes in our Dev Drop and then article, and now launched on PBE, which is pretty exciting. Since then we’ve seen your feedback, and wanted to give an update on some adjustments we’re making, but also explain some of our product goals with the Double Up mode.

First and foremost, our primary goal for Double Up is to provide a fun way to play TFT with your friends, regardless of skill level. We want it to be a more fun, social experience for those who want to enjoy TFT with a friend, whether that’s intro-ing someone new to the game, queueing up with a long time player, throwing a TFT party, or anything in between. 

It should still feel like the core TFT experience (this isn’t Choncc’s Treasure), but when making tradeoffs around the design and systems, we leaned on what would feel good for a social player playing on voice comms with a friend. We don’t want to stop people from playing it competitively, and we are trying to make sure the top of the ...

Pandora's Bench isn't in double up anymore (as of PBE/Next set)

We actually tried this, having your allies team planner things marked...but it made the rolldowns way too busy between seeing your icons and your teammates icons...and it was extra weird if you both selected the same unit. So we ended up having to scrap it.

We've actually seen the opposite, where Pandoras feels weaker since between the two of you, you can smartly spread out components while still getting exactly what you need, so Pandoras feels like overkill.

Just commenting here to say that this is NOT a change we are planning to ship, nor were ever considering. Not sure if this is very old text or what, but we just checked and in game it still works as it does on live.

I actually tweeted about this almost a year ago:

https://twitter.com/Mortdog/status/1105615379949219840

TLDR - Champion ownership rates and free to play pool have a pretty significant effect on ARAM play rates.

HHH-is-Dumb

Did you guys seriously never think of this before?

I can say for sure we've thought of this before. The issue in the past was always functionality and space. Until recently, the loading screeen was a flat image so having every move description was unrealistic.

Now, recently we got mouse over tooltips on the loading screen, so you can see what runes and summoner spells do! A good first step! Now that that functionality is there, we can explore expanding that even more to ideas such as this one.

(And to be 100% clear, this is just saying its possible, not that it's planned)

RiotAugust

Jhin demanded a 4 year gap

I clapped 4 times at this reply. Well played lol

marmoshet

/u/Riot_Mort

If an item is removed from SR, it should be removed from ARAM. It was an oversight that it was in 9.23. This fixes that.

Solash1

Throw enough pebbles at a brick wall and it'll eventually break

I'm...not sure this is true...

Polskidro

Instead we made sure the surrender time is quite small (8 minutes). Sometimes you can pull out a 4v5, and if not, you can get out pretty quick. This was, and still feels like the correct call.

The problem with that is, 90% of the time you got people who refuse to surrender. And oftentimes the enemy refuses to finish the game too.

Instead of thinking you made the right call, you could try it the other way. Just to make sure you weren't wrong. Because in my eyes, it's not going to be common that people will leave an aram just because the enemy team has a sona for example.

Wouldn't this be true of remake then? They refuse to surrender in 4v5, so they refuse to remake also?

Gentoon

Tagging /u/riot_mort just in case the ARAM team has pulled its head out of its ass and has started respecting howling abyss players' time.

Making me have an epic gamer moment by forcing a 4v5 when the other 9 want to remake isn't cool. It doesn't stop afking. It just makes it as painful as possible.

Please take some time off of TFT, cho eats the world, riot board games, merchandising, esports, and whatever else you're in charge of to reconsider this awful decision.

This is probably not the right way to get a response...