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Patch Chat with the Playtest Team - Patch 7.16

RiotRiot King Cobra·8/9/2017, 11:02:24 PM·1 votes·16,770 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 7.16 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!

The major goal of 7.16 was balance towards high-level competitive play. We're hitting Caitlyn (more), Ancient Coin, Cinderhulk, and a slew of mid laners.

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 Dan “penguin” Hardison Robert “ROBERTxLEE” Lee Rob "King Cobra" Rosa Trevor “ThEntropist” Thernes Arnor "Hjarta" Halldorsson Brian "Madness Heroo" Pressoir Christy "Ender L" Frierson Christopher "Auberaun" Roberts Nick "Endstep" Frijia Nabi "Novalas" Barak

136 Comments

Nebuul8/10/2017, 3:33:16 AM6 votes

I've been trying for a little while to get an answer on something. Do you know if anyone is looking at Tahm Kench at the moment? He's in a really bad place right now. I don't want to copy-paste all the stuff again, but the short version is:

  • his grey health healing is in the toilet, he lost his long range melee AA
  • all his laning abilities are minion-blockable skillshots
  • he has a large hit box which makes him get stuck in waves (compounded by aforementioned loss of range)
  • his damage vs minions and monsters was nerfed when damage was taken off his ult
  • he can hardly jungle anymore due to grey health regen + loss of damage + inability to eat buffs

His win rate, depending on which site you visit, is reported as 42-47% in any of his roles (support, top, jg). He really needs some attention. Do you know if he's on the map? I think what most Kench folks such as myself would like to see is a buff to his grey health poke healing, the return of his AA range, to make his passive do full damage on minions and monsters, and to let him 3-stack on blue/red buff so that he can eat them like enemy champions. That would help him out in so many ways without hopefully pushing him over any edges. I would wager, in fact, that he would still be below 50% win rate, but at least he would be more fun.

Thanks!

Vallalan8/9/2017, 11:07:07 PM5 votes

you guys do a mostly good job, but very serious question:

how the fuck did Duskblade get through you guys without one of you saying "wow this shit is busted"

and side question: are you the same King Cobra who mods Dekar's stream?

Jar Jar binks l8/9/2017, 11:08:30 PM5 votes

Are there ans plans to nerf adc ( or ardent censor)

jwebb01138/9/2017, 11:03:03 PM3 votes

so what was the point of nerfing Maokai's E ?

MugfaceTGE8/10/2017, 5:14:10 PM2 votes

Do you guys have any plans soon to show Skarner a little bit of love? He has received nothing but nerfs since his rework. This along with Cinderhaulk and Gaunlet nerf he really is in a terrible position. Id love to get an response from Rito here.

Spideraxe8/9/2017, 11:16:03 PM2 votes

Hey guys how fun was it testing Ornn and as for 7.16 can I King Cobra how he feels might the botlane be impacted by the mage hits especially to his main Cassi

Trap or a Trick8/9/2017, 11:20:53 PM1 votes

you ever planning on making aatrox playable again?

waiting for WoW8/9/2017, 11:15:35 PM1 votes

I don't really understand the Cassiopeia changes.

You wanted her to stop e spamming people out of lane at level 1-2 so you increased her empowered first rank E damage but lowered rank 5 empowered E? It's contradicting itself, especially when anyone can just go corrupting potion first to mitigate the base mana changes at level 1-3.