I'm Willing to Sacrifice The Next Champion Release to Prioritise Fixes and Reworks for Old Champions

Evil Jester·1/7/2015, 1:54:30 AM·1,304 votes·161,856 views

Hey all Evil Jester here,

Anywho I will be the first to defend Riot to anyone saying that they don't care what players want. After this thread has been posted there were many in support of Reworks and changes for our older champions that at the time we felt were becoming less relevant to the game as more new champions entered with new flashy skills, and sick plays, as well as newer abilities. Riot not only responded to it, but spent that last year (or more) making heavy changes and reworks for our old champions based on feedback to be more relevant with the kits of the newer released champions. All I can say is......

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Though some changes were better than others and I'm sure a lot of us have at least one change we weren't necessarily fond of, but the amount of time and effort put into this project I think is more than deserving of some well earned praise. League has come a long way in development and these updates have brought some welcomed changes to the game and our champions.

To the people who gave feedback and upvotes, thank you for the overwhelming support. And most of all thank you Riot Team for the awesome job you all have done on our champions.

546 Comments

RiotRiot Scruffy1/7/2015, 7:12:13 PM126 votes

Hey Sinwrath, we totally feel like you do in terms of how much we need to (and want to) update our old champs. The potential of these characters to be awesome is really high. Just in terms of designers on the champion update team, this year we are growing from 4 to 6, and at the same time I think (hope) we're getting better at what we do.

We don't have any set timelines like "expect 1 update a patch," but we will release as many high quality updates as we can this year (both big and small). We are in progress on a bunch of the champs you have listed above, and the work is looking very promising so far.

That said, we don't have any plans to slow down new champion releases. IMO new champs are part of the lifeblood of what keeps League fresh and evolving.

2015 is gonna be a good one.

Sachabot1/7/2015, 4:17:34 AM50 votes

Different teams. Different jobs. Different solutions. Different speeds.

Yoella1/7/2015, 8:40:32 AM21 votes

Quality over quantity +1

Khell DarkWolf1/7/2015, 6:14:15 AM17 votes

I want my Taric to feel Fabulous again.

Is that so much to ask?

LoliOG1/7/2015, 9:56:11 AM13 votes

Hecarim doesn't need anything to my idea but Poppy and Taric need to have their models upgraded but what i really agree is having Yorick and Urgot getting a new full rework. also champs like Zilean ,Shen ,Amumu ,Alistar and a few more need to have their models upgraded. and they really need to do something about Evelynn she isn't anything right now.

Iittala1/7/2015, 4:53:38 AM11 votes

Poor old zilean Zilean

In time i guess In time.

Mazianos1/7/2015, 4:34:42 AM8 votes

Unicorns of Love: played Yorick and Poppy and TF Jungle and made it too either the LCS or pretty close(can't remember)