Quick Gameplay Thoughts: June 6

You used are for kindred because they are not alone... Well played

Hey meddler,

First I'd like to thank you for doing these, it's great to keep us informed with what's going onat riot, and that you seem to actually read most comments and reply to many, and it's great that you really take feedback here.

Nothing new on LB, I've posted about her a lot lol, but as you can probably tell, she is my favourite champion, and I'm not really happy with the rework. But is there a timescale for when you'd expect to have more solid details for the upcoming work?

Thanks, zaphod.

Meddler, could you take a look at the and charm bugs? People have been reporting that enemies aren't properly charmed, and it's a really, really annoying bug that could be the difference between winning and losing games.

Hey Meddler can I potentially ask you about Viktor since you guys mentioned you look at him after the Rylais nerf and he seems to be on the weaker end of the spectrum

Meddler,

Read the Azir: Origins post went up on the Nexus, and the sand mage idea seems incredibly cool! Now that League has had some time to grow and more VFX are possible, any chance of revisiting the idea with another champion? I imagine all of the Gaara (from Naruto) fans would love a champion that plays on the sand-control fantasy.

Any thoughts on Karma? She has nerfs on pbe and still no official word on why.

Kind of disappointed there isn't some news on tanks, given that the role as a whole has been under-performing for a while (save for about 3-5 notable exceptions). I thought one of the main points of midseason was that the itemization changes would let you guys be more proactive with tank balance moving forward.

I've been saying to remove azirs mobility for a long time, it clashes with his theme of a backline commander (why does he want to dive in?) It removes his primary weakness (should be vulnerable once up close, given he can harass and poke for almost free) and it's what makes his performance in normal v competitive so drastic

Change his E that's imo the best move for azir in relation to the game as a whole

Hey Meddler,

Before your trip, you had mentioned that there have been discussions about changes to LB that were larger then just balance adjustments.

Do you have a timeframe in mind for those changes?

Cheers

Hey there Meddler ! I got 3 simple questions !

• Can we expect the Diver's update this year ?
• Is there going to be a teaser for the new champion today, or next week ?
• Will you guys release a new Darkin champion, or a new void one this year ?

I'll be happy with just simple answers based on "Yes or No"

Keep up the good work you're all been doing man ! It's great to see finaly so many benefitial features and good things coming all of a sudden.

We are still waiting for you to communicate about other champions that are not Ryze, Azir, LB, and others. We know you are working on LB and Azir. We know the length of time it is going to take to work on them since you admiration towards popular and new champions is more important is quite clear. Please do a better job at communicating with mains about EVERYONE'S champion.

The past year Developers at Riot Games have talked about Ryze more than 30 times, and that is on the lower spectrum of what you probably do within a year. Yu have talked about Karma around 5 times and it has all been about her splash art update. You have talked about Morde less than 15 times in the past year. Hypothetically if we add 30 times you have talked about Ryze the past four years, you have talked about Ryze close to 120 times the past four years. You have talked about Karma less than 20 times in the past 4 years.

Please do a better job. You keep telling us you care about all of your champions but the realization is for the past four years you have blatantly ignored all feedback about the majority of the champions, you cater to new champions and working on their kits, and you somehow find time to aways talk about Ryze and give him a rework every year.

Do better. Feel free to read the thread and comment, but we don't expect it at this point.

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/ugRJTtTn-riot-needs-to-communicate-more-with-champion-mains-when-it-comes-to-big-reworks-nerfs-or-buffs?comment=0038

0.12 move speed seals would be fantastic tbh :)

Have you considered a price reduction for Rune Pages in light of the upcoming changes? Right now it would make no sense to buy new ones - at least until we know what compensation will be available when they become obsolete - but if you're like me and only have two, not being able to edit them in champ select can make it impossible to have the right runes available for the champ you end up playing if you get an autofilled role.

Not having the runes themselves isn't such a big deal because you can get Tier 2s for virtually nothing, but there's no workaround that I know of for not having enough pages to put them on.

What's the plan for lethality (runes & items) ?

Meddler, what do you think of the criticism towards Kindred's E that's been floating around post-rework. (ie. It has a slow and an execute, which is kinda weird, since you wanna use the slow at the start of the gank, but the execute means you should save it till the end). Feels kinda weird to use lol.

To me the problem with Rek'Sai currently seems to be that she gets blown up if she builds damage, especially since her combo requires 3 autoattacks. If she is going to be a diver/bruiser like champion she needs more survivability so that she can live to be a damage threat in teamfights. Also, have you considered raising her Attack speed per level? She was originally designed with her AS steroid on her ult, but now that it's completely gone with no compensation. Extra attack speed would help with clears and help get her combo off faster.

Meddler ,after the mana reduction changes in Udyr you mentioned that you would look further on udyr after seeing how he performs. This change really didn't affect anything and us Udyrmains would like to know if you have something else planned for him.

Hey Meddler ,

Im rly frustrated about Twitchs current spot. Its about that his lategame seems too strong and his early to midgame phase feels not cool either. Any plans about shifting that in the right direction? Maybe buffing early and nerfing his lategame as compensation? I also looking forward for a modern kit gameplay update in the future for Twitch? Really frustrating he is getting banned and picked so often recently sometimes only with abusing intention by players!

I would support and follow up such things with interest!

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Azir It'll also likely be at least a few months off, so possible other small updates come out first.

Which other champions are currently worked on or considered for small updates?

Which direction do you think is the healthiest for azir at the moment? The battle mage playstyle or the play making long range playstyle? In my opinion I like the battle mage playstyle more out of azir. He doesn't need mobility and instead should have better peel tools/ more consistent sticking onto a target to fulfill that identity. His E doesn't really fit his theme as an emperor who commands soldiers from the backline. If he gets a new E and lower poke that pushes his playstyle to sustained battle mage then i think he will be more balancable.

Sure everyone loves the shurima shuffle, but i think that whole paradigm presents large balance problems for azir and it should not exist on his kit.

What are you thinking about Perxie? She's an exact (without the true sight) copy of Lulu's E and I dont think its a great idea to give almost an entire champions ability at everyone's disposal

Kindred rework is unnecessary, i was playing them because of current health% on autos and relying on attack speed. Now it's a weak adc in forest. I think that vayne is better jungler now than kindred.

What are the current thoughts on Zac? He's dominating the jungle in many games and is also banned almost every game I'm in. Is he not thought to be too strong atm?

meddler do you think you can help fill me in with the runes and such? I'm kind of confused on how you guys explain it. what I got is the different paths but how do you get the mega runes and such like that? do you need to buy them or earn them from games?

Is Death's Dance going to be addressed soon? It's making Draven incredibly difficult to deal with and feels like it has too much overlap with BT. There isn't a clear distinction as to why you would get one over the other.

You did a terrible job on Azir. It's been exactly a year now and you promised the rework was happening in less than a year. He is the new Urgot basically.