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Riot should slow down, just a tad

zeskgames·6/7/2019, 1:52:56 PM·1 votes·1,809 views

For those unaware a new champion, Qiyana, has been teased by Riot. Now at first I thought this was great, new champion right? But then I realized something, Morde's rework isn't even out yet and Riot is teasing a new champion? This reminds me of something similar that Riot did a few years ago. (Granted, I wasn't playing the game at this time so all the info I have is from videos and veteran players, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) Apparently, a few years ago Riot would release champions rapid-fire. A new champion would come out every 2 weeks. And at first that sounds great right? Wrong, it was a balancing nightmare. Normally, new champions have a "honeymoon period" where they are either really strong (Camille Zoe) or really weak (Taliyah Ivern) on release, and slowly but surely the balance team would either push them down or bring them up to a more balanced state, usually over the period of a month or two. But because new champs were getting pumped out so fast, the balance team couldn't keep up. Meaning champs that were released broken would stay broken because the balance team wouldn't be able to meaningfully fix them before the next broken champion came out. With Qiyana being teased before Morde is even released, it almost looks like we're falling back into that "new champ every 2 weeks" period, which I don't think players (and the balance team) want a repeat of.

TLDR; Quality over quantity, I think the majority of the community would rather have well designed, well balanced champions that come out once every month or two, rather than unbalanced, hurriedly designed champions that come out every two weeks. So Riot, feel free to take your time.

7 Comments

Oleandervine6/7/2019, 1:56:36 PM7 votes

This was not them rushing a production. This was just the cosmic alignment of timing. Champions take well over 6 months to produce or VGU, and there are I believe 5 teams working concurrently. So generally they're not all on the same schedule, as they move to a new champion/VGU once the previous one completes, however, if some take quicker than anticipated, or longer than anticipated, this can throw off the timing, and possibly push release dates closer together.

So it's uncanny, but Riot isn't actually speeding out production that I'm aware of. It just so happened that 3 different teams completed their work around the same time.

Saezio6/7/2019, 2:10:32 PM1 votes

Different teams are working on new champs and reworks as far as I am aware.

If this is not the case, can someone correct me so I delete this post?

U R Good At Game6/7/2019, 3:31:24 PM1 votes

To be fair, havent all their releases and reworks over the past year been a balance nightmare? At least 80% lol. I feel like they dont use PBE enough. People will point out all the balance problems in PBE but they still release the champion. I guess maybe higher-ups may be pushing for champs release once it is teased so they can keep hype up for the skin/bundle sales that come on release.