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Patch Chat with the Playtest Team - 7.8

RiotRiot King Cobra·4/19/2017, 7:30:20 PM·1 votes·57,474 views

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Hey, everyone! I'm Riot King Cobra and it's time for another round of Patch Chat! These threads serve as opportunity for us to talk about the patches that come out every two weeks. You can find the most recent patch by following this link: Patch 7.8 Notes.

I'm on Riot's Playtest Team, a group of high elo players who play with the new champions, reworks, balance tweaks, items, and map updates before they are released. It's our job to the test the changes that our designers come up with and ensure that we're introducing positive changes to League in terms of both balance and fun. Ask us questions - we'll try to answer as many as we can!

Patch 7.8 is largely a preparation patch for the upcoming midseason changes and features changes to some dominant picks such as Ivern, Nautilus, and Shen. There's also some changes for Karthus and Ryze aimed at helping players who are playing on higher latency. Udyr, Amumu, Lissandra, and Aatrox also got some attention in this patch. Additionally, this is the patch our new champions Rakan and Xayah debut!

All of us on the Playtest Team are avid gamers so feel free to talk to us as fellow LoL players!

Ben “Cezium” Burkhardt Don “Aesah” Ding Nicolas “Gleeb” Haddad Dan “penguin” Hardison Robert “ROBERTxLEE” Lee Rob "King Cobra" Rosa Nicholas “Nickwu” Smith Blake “S0be” Soberanis Trevor “ThEntropist” Thernes Arnor "Hjarta" Halldorsson Brian "AurionKratos" Pressior

158 Comments

Doonyster4/19/2017, 10:28:22 PM10 votes

I was #1 on the report a bug boards for a week with high views and comments about a quality of life bug concerning Veigar , but the filter system on the boards got me buried 6 days later and no response from the bug team!! How does one go about getting a bug fixed!?
I love this champ and you guys won't fix him [zombie-nunu-bummed]

The link to my Post: https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/bug-report/fft1gXhr-help-veigers-e-wont-stun-in-time?comment=0003

2nelsons4/19/2017, 10:21:09 PM6 votes

Did you guys test Aatrox out in the jungle after these changes? I used to love playing him jungle but the new passive still feels hard to gank with. Thoughts?

69469238DEL14/19/2017, 8:15:50 PM5 votes

When will Cosmic Blade Master Yi be coming out?

iahim984/19/2017, 8:04:58 PM4 votes

Are there any plans for the old version of bashe's veil or a tanky bashe's veil to come back, seems weird to remove the option for tanks or ADs to build it, without giving another option (if you don't count edge) , or are the new Gargoyle Stoneplate and Adaptive Helm (but banshe's was not good in the situation where adaptive is anyway) those options.

Chroud4/19/2017, 7:45:02 PM4 votes

Fiddlesticks Jungle Question in upcoming patches:

Dear team is there any plan to Buff fiddlesticks so that he stays as more of a jungle main rather then a Mid/Support?

He needs just a little more clear speed to keep up with the rest of the junglers in todays meta.

I bake good cookies with the right answer.

Thank you.

edacity4/19/2017, 10:09:20 PM3 votes

I don't have much time to play games each day and so when you introduced ARAM I was very happy as it introduced a faster and more varied gamemode. However I feel that the latest patch, even though its vision was good, has ruined the gamemode. It has taken the worst parts about ARAM and made them worse. The things in ARAM that have always been a problem are: a game being decided in champion select; someone missing the beginning of the game (it is a casual gamemode so fine), and people quitting in champion select.

Your patch to make the game faster has made it a lot harder to come back into the game and a slight advantage at the beginning of the game is now all it takes to decide it. So if the opponent's team comp is more early game than yours, game over. Someone goes afk at the beginning, game over. Someone makes a mistake at the begining, gameover. The point is that the game is decided in the first 5-10 minutes. You then have to sit there until 15 mins, trying your hardest to get back in but always behind and always losing. Now that the games are decided based on team comps there is almost no point staying in the champ select if your champion is a late game champ as your chances of getting there are almost nothing.

As I said I don't have much time to game and with these changes you have made it almost pointless for me to play league. If you wanted to improve ARAM then you should add things like: remake for an afk player; the ability to lock in a champion in champion select, it could take both your rerolls to lock a champion and then even if someone quits at champion select you will be able to play that champion; a different summoner spell or item for squishy champions to counter tanks.

You need ways to make it so the game isn't decided before it even loads and to also not punish players who have been sitting through a silly number of champion selects each time getting a champion they haven't played for ages but then someone quits everytime and the game they then play is a champion that they have had many times before. The enjoyment of ARAM for me is being able to play a variety of champions that I haven't played for a while in weird combinations and feeling that each champion has an impact on the game. Your recent patch has taken the enjoyment out of ARAM and I feel that that is a massive loss for your game

WoonStruck4/19/2017, 7:35:43 PM3 votes

Are you going to be keeping a close eye on how itemization changes will affect Vlad?

Spirit Visage, Abyssal, and the new Banshee's could drastically affect how he performs, both purchasing the items himself and playing against them.

Carnicore4/19/2017, 8:11:16 PM3 votes

Is BotRK overpowered, or do you think it's just a decent item that other items are too underpowered to compete with as a first item? Mainly with regards to ADCs I mean.

Linna Excel4/19/2017, 7:38:40 PM2 votes

Why is Xayah weaker than Rakan atm? Everyone is saying he's OP and she's trash.

Swedish4/19/2017, 8:06:04 PM2 votes

Cobra, you're a Sol player, right? What are your thoughts on the current state of the champion? I remember a few months back a Rioter said they had plans to improve his playability and accessibility, but he's been completely off the radar since then, it seems.

Carnicore4/19/2017, 8:16:43 PM2 votes

Is it hard to get good feedback for changes to Twisted Treeline?

Jar Jar binks l4/19/2017, 8:41:45 PM1 votes

How will the Item changes effect Volibear? He is already one of the weakest class around and reducing Health will hurt him even more, his W scales with health which is getting reduced

Carnicore4/19/2017, 8:21:06 PM1 votes

Do you think the game may be oversaturated with "automated splitpushing" mechanics, with the Rift Herald rework? It looks very uninteractive and uncreative for gameplay.