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Patch Chat with the Playtest Team - 7.7

RiotRiot King Cobra·4/5/2017, 8:05:17 PM·1 votes·70,049 views

Hey, everyone! I'm Riot King Cobra and I'll be hosting this week's (and future) Patch Chats! 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 7.7 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. Feel free to ask us questions - we'll try to answer as many as we can!

Patch 7.7 has a number of buffs/nerfs to different champions such as Amumu, Bard, Graves, and Kassadin along with a number of other changes. I would definitely recommend checking them out!

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 "TheLastAirbender" Halldorsson

194 Comments

Urane King4/5/2017, 8:10:16 PM15 votes

I would like to know why did you give this buff to Lux? Nothing against her, but it seems quite a gigantic and questionable buff. Hope you could clarify my question.

Sebastabear4/5/2017, 10:07:37 PM7 votes

Rammus main here (yeah I know it's kind of hard to wrap your mind around why someone would do that). I think everyone would acknowledge that Rammus has a pretty bad/slow jungle clear just in general. The one camp though where he could kind of "catch up" was the Raptor camp. This "nerf" to the Raptors I think is going to really hurt Rammus. Standard technique at level 2 was to Q (powerball) and then activate his W (Defensive Ball Curl). If you did it right, the little raptors would all die just as his W wore off, or maybe one or two auto attacks later. Basically his W allowed him to clear the little raptors because of the reflected damage back. But lowering the Raptors damage means less reflected damage going back to them. And then you increase their HP to boot, which means his super slow auto attacks (once his W wears off) will be all he has left to go after all the little Raptors and the big one as well. Honestly, I'm not sure he'll even be able to clear the Raptor camp any more at low levels. Did anyone test Rammus specifically with this change? Wouldn't be a big deal normally, as I know different champs have different camps they can clear well, except that this was his one camp he could actually take early game. Any insights thoughts appreciated. Many thanks.

Best Kog NA4/5/2017, 8:42:46 PM7 votes

So I have a question about one of Syndra's changes....

BEATING A DEAD HECARIM: If Syndra's target dies mid-cast, remaining nearby Dark Spheres will continue to pummel their corpse

http://i.imgur.com/Br00TCn.gif?noredirect

Lee Cinderella4/5/2017, 8:26:43 PM7 votes

This has nothing to do with the patch but... What's the best part about your day of work and what could make it even better? I love what you guys do, and the up and down relationship with fans has to be exhausting as well as your work load at times, so what keeps you so passionate about your job at Riot? Thanks for all the hard work guys.[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Carnicore4/5/2017, 9:24:10 PM5 votes

'Sup dudes. I can see a lot of people already asked about the Lux buffs.

  • What's the status of Jinx's W critting?

  • How's LB doing?

  • Is Shaco being pushed towards building bruiser instead of assassin?

  • Are any of the assassin updates likely to be reverted?

  • Who did you vote for in /r/LoL Survivor?

  • Meddler mentioned Riot would like to do some work on Heimerdinger, no promises. What do you think needs to be fixed?

  • Can Mid Malzahar withstand any more nerfs to Support Malzahar?

supercoolisaac4/5/2017, 8:21:41 PM5 votes

Do the questions have to be about things changed for this patch specifically?

If not, what do you think is wrong with the coin line of support items? It feels like there's a disconnect between where it starts with Ancient Coin (play super passive in lane) and Talisman of Ascension (Playmaking & hard engage). The armor and active just seem out of place. Wouldnt something else like +heal/shield power and a new active or some other mix of stats make more sense. Something just seems off no matter how strong the stats are on that line.

Arcade Lulu4/5/2017, 9:02:55 PM4 votes

''However, the high cooldowns on her kit mean that even when she's sniped a priority target, Lux is left without enough tools to reliably convert that pick-off into a greater advantage. When Lux really nails her fights, she'll be rewarded with a faster recharge on her most threatening tool so she and her team can more immediately press the lead.'' ''If Final Spark kills an enemy champion, 10/30/50% of its remaining cooldown is refunded'' 'The high cooldowns' 'Without enough tools' [zombie-brand-clap] WHAT THE **** RIOT YOU SHOULD NERF LUX This just makes me sick

Doonyster4/5/2017, 8:52:46 PM4 votes

Was the adjust on Amumu simply to make players feel like they're dealing damage when playing him? Otherwise, is this more or less damage in your opinion?

P.S. Does Gunblade's passive give you health from the damage dealt via your passive but by other players or would it heal the mage who triggered the passive?

Spideraxe4/5/2017, 8:09:08 PM3 votes

Hey guys, first off did you over throw Aesah in a power struggle amongst the playtesters for the right to post these and second what do you guys think of our new champs since you get play them before anyone else? Thoughts on them played together and played separately and do you think they are viable outside of the bot lane

KairosR174/5/2017, 8:26:58 PM3 votes

Why not just remove one of the small raptors rather than increasing hp/lowering dmg?

Valor Bot4/5/2017, 9:10:13 PM2 votes

Hi guys, were the experimental Quinn changes of moving Skystrike to R(W) pulled? I thought those were pretty cool; any plans to try out something different if that's the case?

warpenguin5554/5/2017, 8:20:22 PM2 votes

Xayah or Rakan, which one did you have more fun testing?

Blutrot4/5/2017, 8:46:54 PM1 votes

You wanted to buff some junglers in there early clear but why dont use this to buff even more chmaps like sejuani her clear speed is realy bad in my opinion

Joonas4/5/2017, 8:37:11 PM1 votes

Why nerf rengar again, and not ivern?

megadethfish4/5/2017, 9:24:24 PM1 votes

I feel that the change to Volibear doesn't really do much for him. I like that it bounces more but I feel like the delay in the lightning bounce hurts him although it is thematically appropriate. Do you feel like the ult changes actually help him enough or does he need much more work?

Sun Wu Ryuumoku4/5/2017, 10:04:33 PM1 votes

What's your thougts about item 3071 state ? And is there any plan for my MonkeyKing outside the divers rework class ? his jungling is weak af