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LuxannaVeritas·4/5/2018, 8:09:35 PM·1 votes·310 views

This isn't a hate thread at all; I'm just looking for collected discussion here.

Irelia was on the PBE for 2 weeks, which is fine. Most champions and skins are as well. During that time, players on the PBE played Irelia and gave Riot feedback on how good she was, etc.

So why was she released with a stat set that had to hot-fixed after the first day? I imagine many people didn't even get a chance to play her because new champions/reworked champions are usually banned heavily, so the fact that she did perform so well that first day, well...

I'm just wondering what went wrong in the PBE process. Perhaps...

  • In blind pick games, both sides picked Irelia very often so most feedback involved mirror matches?
  • Players in the PBE who played Irelia were biased fighter players, and gave Riot biased opinions that led to nothing being done at first?
  • Riot misinterpreted the feedback given by the PBE players?
  • The PBE players didn't give enough constructive feedback?

What does everyone think happened?

2 Comments

Kaioko4/5/2018, 8:12:52 PM2 votes

You seem to think like the PBE is this magic place where all balance issues are identified and immediately fixed -- it's not.

There's not that many of that play it for starters and the main goal of it is to identify absolutely game breaking bugs. Irelia's hot fixes were to lower some of her ratios and stun duration. Nothing overly crazy.