Trailers without knowing the kit always look confusing. I remember that being the case for Pyke and Xayah/Rakan, never mind Irelia and Akali.
But did it make you HYPE!? Or is it just confusion? Not knowing exactly what is going on can be kinda fun sometimes, no?
I think it's the lack of distinction that it's the different environments that change her abilities. Although I do think that the trailer did a really good job of providing intrigue to the champion. I think if you had shown her w in action a bit more clearly it would have helped display that it's an act of player choice with the ring/passive rather then assuming it's based on the location of the champion.
That's great feedback. It's tough to communicate it without showing the mouse cursor over the part of the map you're clicking on, but we may have been able to find a more creative way to solve that. Thanks for the feedback!
Honestly, there are so many dashes on so many abilities nowadays that we can't discern which is which (especially without seeing the abilities page first). I had to do a few takes on the Ezreal clip to see that she W'd back over the wall. In this particular case, the CD on the dashes being so short doesn't help either, and her Q and R look pretty similar to me, to the point I am starting to get pretty confused and kinda scared of how that'll translate to live.
Btw, I thought the eagle view was cool, but it made me kind of dizzy, and the scenario changing like that distracted me from the action (even if it made sense thematically).
Gotcha. That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the feedback!
I'm just glad you show champion abilities with the video - Evelynn was a real mystery, especially for her ult.
That's interesting. Sometimes we try to go more for tone/theme and less showing exactly what she does. I personally love the Evelynn trailer because of how clearly it represents WHO Evelynn is even though WHAT she does is a little more vague.
Totally fair feedback though. Always a tough balance.
i mean i think its like you said, the trailers focus on the theme of the champion rather the the gameplay which is pretty obvious if you look at the yuumi one since she keeps teleporting around the map since that's true to her lore but not game play. I just think that since you're releasing these trailers before we know how the champions actually works its super easy for the community to overreact, good example is the zoe trailer, without knowing her kit its easy to assume that she can for all you know always have 3 flashes. i can see why it'd be problematic to release the trailers after the ability unveil but i also think that people see them as- or want them to be a showcase of what the new champion looks like when played in action, which is why having it be a thematic trailer is a bit odd to begin with.
Interesting take on it. I can definitely see where you're coming from. I also love your example of the Zoe trailer, because clearly once she was fully released the community got to see how wrong their overreaction was /s :P
Thanks for the feedback!
Honestly I'd rather just wait for her skillsets: so much is happening yet again that I have no idea whats going on
Though I personally like wall interactions
Would love to hear this feedback fleshed out a bit. We are always iterating on how we making these trailers and if you feel like we're not representing the character well I'd love to hear it!
For context, we tend to focus on the champion's fantasy in these trailers. We're not trying to teach the kit 1 to 1 but trying to show the intended fantasy of the character. Did you also feel that you couldn't understand the character for Yuumi? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZWEV3bACZo
Thanks for the feedback :)
Read moreHey! This is my team's responsibility. There are tons of excuses (we have it on our backlog, been busy with higher priority projects, yada yada) but I agree this is really not a good experience.
I can't commit to getting it done by the next patch but I will bring it up tomorrow to see if we can find a way to prioritize it and get this fixed.
Appreciate your response! Don't mean to be annoying, but other people have pointed out on this post that other champions also have outdated abilities on their clients, Fizz (w and r showing the mark from his rework) and Shyvana (dragon skills still being the ones before her rework) come to mind
Yeah we keep a log, just haven't been able to burn through it. I do agree that it's built up beyond an acceptable level.
Not annoying at all for calling us out on our shit. I appreciate it.
After Channeling for 4 seconds, teleports your champion to target allied structure, minion, or ward. Can be canceled.
Cooldown: 240 seconds
That...that was the dominion map....
Oh no, I don't want there to be confusion. We often use different maps for scenes because they stylistically fit. Plus, Yuumi is a traveler in her lore. Yuumi's release doesn't have any connection with Dominion, sorry if we got your hopes up :(
Why must you play with my feelings like that :(
Cat.
Maybe not Dominion, but that green forest towards the end HAS to be a teaser, right?
O_O