Diamond Design Central Hub
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Welcome to the main page for Diamond Design! In this series some random guy (me!) has some opinions on design in League of Legends and wants to share them with you! Below we have a list of discussions I've written so far, go ahead and check them out if you're interested.
I try to post these once a week on Sundays, but I'm not sure how long I'm going to be able to keep that up.
#Our Discussions Thus Far
How Many Decisions Do You Really Have? Our first discussion, where I look at your abilities and how many meaningful choices each character has individually.
How Passive Should a Passive Be? In this discussion I zoom in on passives and try and figure out what passives are interesting and which could use some work.
What's the Deal with Silences? Just like airline food, we delve a little deeper into this often problematic part of champion design.
What Designs are Played Competitively? In this article we take a look at some of the values professionals use when picking their champions.
Why is Invisibility so Problematic? Here we look at stealth and invisibility and look at the natural problems they often have!
Why is a Core Fantasy so Important? Time to step back and look at what makes champions unique.
How do Items Affect Champion Balance? A brief look back at significant examples of items affecting champion balance.
Did You Think About His Power Level? Not all champions are equal at all times. Their power levels and actual levels have a big impact on this.
#Frequently Asked Questions
What the hell is this?
Diamond Design is pretty simply just one of my creative outlets. I think design is interesting and I have a lot to say about it and this is one way that allows me to talk about design on the rift with a variety of people! Who knows, we both might learn something cool!
Who are you and why do I care what you say?
Iunno. You probably don't. I'm just a diamond player who likes talking about League of Legends design and I talk about this kind of thing a lot with my friends and hopefully with you guys too! Am I an authority on this stuff? Absolutely not but hopefully there's a useful insight in there somewhere for you. (I'll get back in diamond when I play enough solo queue)
This article is entirely incorrect! How are you so stupid?
Ouch. That's harsh. Part of the reason I write these threads is because I think they're topics worth discussing. Often times I might have opinions that are controversial, unusual, or just plain incorrect. Point me out on what's wrong about it! Sometimes there are aspects of the game that I am not familiar with.
Why are you talking about that? Isn't this more interesting?
Well it depends on what "this" is. I have a bank of topics that I've thought of that I have at least something to talk about, but I'm sure you have even more that I haven't discovered yet! Definitely throw ideas at me if you want me to talk about them.
Man Riot's balance team sucks!
Uh ok. There are times I disagree with what they do, but there are other times I think they make really good decisions! There are times where I'll criticize their decisions or when I'll support them, but that's not the topic of this series!
This whole idea looks pretty similar to Facts, Myths, and Theories... what gives?
Oops you caught me. Besides design, lore is another thing I always find very interesting and dialMARK4acti0n had already started to corner that market. Bit of an inspiration since he showed me that these serial articles can work on these forums! Go check him out, pretty sure he doesn't bite.
Can I use your discussions elsewhere?
If you want to post them to reddit and steal all of my internet karma, go ahead. Just throw a link back to the source please! Other than that, go ahead and use it however you want, you can cite it, you can reference it, whatever works. Just try and make sure to relay readers back here, while I'll probably continue to write these regardless, having an audience to interact with is always much more interesting!
Do you have any other shameless plugs?
Glad you asked! Currently I do work for both The High School Starleague and Union of Purple Caster Minions! HSL is an eSports organization dedicated to giving high schoolers a chance to play eSports competitively in the US and Canada. If you're in high school and have a team for League, Dota, Hearthstone, or SC2, check it out! UPCM is the League club at the University of Washington. If you're from the PNW come say hi, we don't bite. Much. We keep Cho'gath tied up.
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