Please Update Champion Update Schedule

Please tell my that by "adc small updates" you mean Quinn.

I just gotta say, I like what you do scruffy, you do well so keep doing what you're doing :)

we'd probably want to build her from the ground up (new model, anims, kit etc).

This is very worrying. I really like the current Irelia, and I think all she really needs is a texture fix for her hair.

I would rather we enhance the things that Irelia mains love than just create something cool, but too different.

In this case, I would say not to change her a lot. Especially not a ground-up rework.

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When we do start working on her, we will definitely have some dialogue about what are the things that current irelia has that are really working. I would rather we enhance the things that irelia mains love than just create something cool, but too different.

You know, the big thing that bugs me about riot's dialogues is that by the time that you guys have them with the players, the main things already tend to be decided on. Let's say there are 3-4 potential irelia directions, and of them 2 that will make her fans happy. Well riot will have picked which direction they want to go in even if it pisses off half the fans before talking to people.

Poppy is a good example of this. Riot picked tank well before talking to the fans. Fans wanted her as a fighter/bruiser hypercarry/anticarry. Well, screw the Poppy mains who build damage, they're getting a tank.

Sorry to sound so jaded but I've gone through too many champ reworks where the big issues of the champ was decided without talking to the fans before deciding things, a bad direction was picked for a lot of the fans of that champ, and no new champ was made to compensate for whatever was lost from the game.

Soraka is another example. A number of people had fun taking her mid. She was a niche mid. Riot didn't even think about them in her rework. So you can't even play her in that role anymore just because her kit is so ill equipped to handle a lane she was viable in before her rework. Did her fans want a health cost on her W? Nope, a good number of them didn't and that's still one of the biggest complaints about her from her fans.

Question, and this isn't meant to be sarcastic, but why do you decide to seek feedback on some champions meant to be reworked, while others you don't? Champions such as Mordekaiser and Cassiopeia wouldn't be so controversial if players had the chance to say what we liked about them. On the flip side, Sion, Gangplank, and Ashe seem to be popular reworks.

Is there in any future plans a possible revision and feedback on Cassiopeia and people who are discontent with her? Ty.

Really? How so?

Edit: Did I really deserve these downvotes? I'm generally curious. Or did I fail to notice sarcasm? Again.

Probably she will still receive some touches to keep in par with the MM changes. not too heavy i suppose.

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There are a lot of them in progress, and we've mentioned a few already (MF/Quinn). Not sure if I should spoil the rest.

There will be a bunch of them with like 1 skill or mechanic change (like the juggernauts) focused on making them more unique. Some marksmen, Lucian and Graves for example, have a ton of overlap in playstyle and strengths/weaknesses. We hope to fix those type of overlaps.

On top of the characters getting "reworks" we are probably going to do a stat/scaling pass on nearly all of the marksmen to go with the updated marksmen items that are being worked on by the systems team.

Since you mentioned Marksmen being updated ala. juggernaut style, does that mean that Quinn will be more of a botlane ADC (by being grouped together with the other ADCs) or will she stay as an assassin? I'm just terrified of you guys taking away mid/top/jungle-Quinn D;

It's aight if you don't want to answer.

Isn't there something to Lucian and Graves' overlapping playstyles that's interesting and enjoyable though?

This isn't coming out of a resistance to change, but I think their similarities provide a few things that league is otherwise lacking because of the fear of similarity design philosophy. For one, they create a sub-species of marksman that a player can purposefully direct their development toward, but they also provide for an interesting skill matchup in opposition and slight alternative in allied composition. I think they fill a similar niche in playstyle, but offer different enough assets to their composition when it comes down to why you'd decide on either one. Granting them a hypothetical equality in balance -- graves fits better into a wombo combo composition, while lucian fits better as a kiting and chasing duelist. The option to offer variety to your team while still being able to play to your stylistic strengths is a good thing, and something the adc role in particular suffers from (to clarify, ability-wise -- not auto-attack-wise, haha.)

Champion similarities can be healthy and good as long as what differences there are provide a unique identity, I think Lucian and Graves fulfill this concept beautifully.

Please no Draven... PLEASE!