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Patch Chat with the Playtest Team - 7.23

Novalas·11/21/2017, 8:54:52 PM·1 votes·42,936 views

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Hey everyone and welcome to the Patch 7.23, the ZOE PATCH!

I’m Riot Novalas & I’m a QA Analyst on Riot’s Playtest Team, a group of high elo players who work on Core Gameplay playing new champions, reworks, balance tweaks, items, and map updates before they’re released. It’s our job to 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.

Patch Chat serves as an 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: https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/patch/patch-723-notes

The latest black licorice champion in League of Legends hits the rift! Say hello to Zoe, the Aspect of Twilight! Our team has been assisting with Zoe for awhile so feel free to ask any questions, specifically to penguin and King Cobra as they’re the primary playtesters for her!

Accompanying Zoe, we’re also buffing Gragas and Taliyah, nerfing Shyvana, nerfing Summon Aery, buffing Predator, and more!

Ask us anything about Zoe, our favorite rune builds on YOUR favorite champions, our favorite pair of socks (please) , how often we execute to jungle camps, and more!... Or feel free to just chat with us! We like people (mostly).

Disclaimer: We don’t have any insight into skins.

Don “Riot Aesah” Ding Adam “Riot Afic” Cohen Chris “Auberaun” Roberts Christy “Riot Ender L” Frierson Nick “Riot Endstep” Frijia Sigmundur “GangIeri” Helgason Arnor “Riot Hjarta” Halldorsson Rob “Riot King Cobra” Rosa Miktat “Riot Koyuncu” Koyuncu Brian “Riot Madness Heroo” Pressoir Nabi “Riot Novalas” Barak Dan “Riot penguin” Hardison Robert “ROBERTxLEE” Lee Trevor “Riot ThEntropist” Thernes

290 Comments

dude846211/27/2017, 10:14:17 PM3 votes

@ROBERTxLEE are you working for riot now? I'm glad you found something to do after retiring from the pro scene. Go complexity!

waiting for WoW11/21/2017, 9:22:48 PM3 votes

Are there any plans to make off-meta rune picks like Lethal Tempo Azir viable via adaptive starting stats for precision? I know 18% attack speed is good on him to but I'd also like to be able to take starting AP if I play something like Press The Attack Kennen, or Lethal Tempo Azir.

Thryale11/22/2017, 11:54:25 AM3 votes

well fudge, I missed the Q&A by a good 15 hours.

But if any of ya'll are still up for chatting, can we talk about veigar for a bit?

Presently veig's ult deals a wide spectrum of damage, from 300-600 dmg early game to a whopping 900-1800 dmg late game, thus making knowing exactly how much damage his ult will do to individual targets extremely frustrating to calculate on the fly. And when it's veigar's job to eliminate a single target as quickly and efficiently as possible, it becomes difficult to do so, as most time the veigar player will either waste a lot of potential damage on his ult or run the risk of not killing the target at all.

I understand the point of execution abilities, but when a champ's end game fantasy is pressing the delete button on a single champ.

Long story short, can we see about getting visual indicators for when a target can be killed by a veig ult? (soz for the rush, had to go earlier than planned)

Jinzo Torrance11/21/2017, 9:52:44 PM2 votes

When are the Viktor changes hinted 4 months ago at? Last time I asked about them you guys answered that you wanted to wait to see how new runes would impact Viktor but he's still at a 46% winrate, same as before, for a full year right now.

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Stoneplate/Locket - At the very least strong. Unclear if that sort of strong you'd expect from combining effects in the right circumstances or too strong yet however.

Viktor - Another mage who's been tough to balance between organized play and regular. Expect we'll want to do some work on him at some point, probably looking at his wave clear in particular so we can give him more power elsewhere. That's a guess though, haven't picked the team's brains on him for a bit.

Another champ - It's pretty unlikely I'll personally do the game design on another champ. Doing so takes a lot of time and you need to be available to work with the rest of the team when needed too, so it's not always flexible time. That doesn't fit well with the responsibilities of my role now. I do miss getting to make stuff like that directly, getting to work with a wide range of folks and help them make stuff's been really cool too though.

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Kayn - About the right mark, potentially still too big a difference between forms.

Nautilus - Probably needs a bit more help, would want to do so without just giving him a bunch of waveclear back (lead to some low interaction laning).

Galio - Organized play/regular play challenges. Expect we'll siphon power from his ult elsewhere as a result.

Viktor - As previously discussed needs less waveclear we suspect to be properly balanceable.

Morde - Is metal and ghost.

World Ender11/21/2017, 9:00:18 PM2 votes

Thoughts about attack speed slows? I get why they exist, but especially against champs like Malph who not only have an innate ability but also like to stack AS slowing items, it feels ridiculous trying to fight them as any auto based champ, especially melees like Trynd or Yasuo.

LéNoir11/21/2017, 9:00:49 PM2 votes

Hey :D Shaco main here! I heard some time ago about Shaco`s lore. Will it be upgraded or something? I think it really needs some attention and he needs some attention with his skins, his skin are just like chromas for the original design and the only one with some new particles is Masked, but to be honest, no one likes that skin. Will be a Shaco new good skin with some particles and booom wooow design soon? Thank you, have a nice day!!

Mordepool11/21/2017, 9:05:08 PM1 votes

How does Mordekaiser feel to play?

Evil Yasuo11/24/2017, 9:44:19 PM1 votes

I'd like to take predator on Talon but electrocute is just too good on him for laning. In what cases do you think I can or should take predator? Do you think predator is just more so a jungler rune?

The Bad Touch11/26/2017, 4:18:30 PM1 votes

So is this thread Rito's safe place or what?

No red responses in "Gameplay" in ages.

Why don't some of yall get out there and admit this patch was ass already. :P

Eleshakai11/22/2017, 4:27:28 PM1 votes

Have there been any concerns with build linearity for enchanters? I feel kind of stuck with only one or two minor choices to make... and for the most part, since neither runes nor itemization is really in my favour anymore, I just feel kind of underwhelming in the current environment.

Maybe it's just me sucking(probably) but it just feels kind of limiting and underwhelming as it stands right now.

(of course, ignoring the obvious problem children like Sona)

Solidair311/27/2017, 2:45:55 PM1 votes

Do you guys feel that the buffs to Camille on the PBE at present will do enough to bring her power up to an appropriate place? (A .5 sec increase to the amount of time her true damage is available and .5 second increase to her passive shield duration)

Both will feel good, I'm sure, but I'm wondering if it will be enough to get her to where she used to be, especially with the nerf to Press the Attack going up along side it.

Spideraxe11/21/2017, 8:58:23 PM1 votes

Hey guys, can I ask how you guys feel about the changes DCap is doing to Morgana, the passive rework, do they feel good. Also could I ask who's the lead playtester on Swain and working with Herlache on him. And personally, how are you guys going to spend Thanksgiving and or Black Friday