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"Randomly" Disabling specific champions for various reasons.

Tentacle Love··3 votes·7,429 views

Gangplank Fizz Zed Riven Fiora Yasuo

Aside from Gangplank who was very specifically tied to the storyline, and who introduced the concept, there's been a few champions disabled due to bugs lately.

My question to Riot is this: Are you studying the effects of these "random" disables to gauge player reaction?

Having no Gangplank for a while was an interesting twist that didn't really impact the meta too much.

But these others? Holy crap. Those characters are powerful targets for bans and massive threats to deal with. When they're missing, it makes a big difference in pick/ban and global strategy.

Honestly I'm hoping that you consider doing more things like Gangplank's "death" in the future but with more than just one champion. It would be pretty sweet to have a week where Piltover is under siege and characters from there get disabled (including Jinx the one that's causing the siege).

Now I'm not insinuating that you're intentionally disabling these... shall we say "controversial" champions just to test the waters. But you absolutely did with Gangplank.

I'm asking you: Are you using feedback from this as though it WERE a test?

56 Comments

nark26 votes

We disable champions due to bugs, not because of lore. Or experiments.

GP was literally the only champion we've ever disabled due to lore.

We don't do "experiments" like that.

DanofDemacia3 votes

{quoted}

Lol no. Yasuo could literally globally Q. So we disabled him. Zed was preventing allied minions from spawning, so we disabled him. Don't remember the rest, but bugs happen and we disable the champs when they ruin the game enough.

GP was literally the only champion we've ever disabled due to lore.

We don't do "experiments" like that.

just dont fix the yasou bug and leave him disabled i wanna be able to play lux

Sasogwa3 votes

{quoted}

Lol no. Yasuo could literally globally Q. So we disabled him. Zed was preventing allied minions from spawning, so we disabled him. Don't remember the rest, but bugs happen and we disable the champs when they ruin the game enough.

GP was literally the only champion we've ever disabled due to lore.

We don't do "experiments" like that.

Those bugs sounded hilarious tho

nark20 votes

It's great dude. I'm trying to remember more. Udyr got disabled, or one of his skins did, because his model would stretch to the center of the map from wherever he was. Amumu could randomly Q globally, so could Lee.

Alljoy4 votes

What about that Amumu bug where if he dies with E or W (not sure which) active, he starts dry humping the ground?

nark9 votes

Remember Kalista passive where you could slide around the game with your death animation? Yeah, me too :) (I miss that one)

Saixos2 votes

You're one of my new favorite rioters now, this is hilarious :D Could you do this with every bug that may be amusing on the forums, just so that we can giggle a bit? :3

Alljoy2 votes

I agree, maybe a stickied thread listing all the hilarious bugs ever discovered.

Alljoy1 votes

You never know, maybe she was reliving the Disco age.

King Dellron1 votes

That one was fun.

Reminds me of the Azir dance bug where he could dance while recalling and if he moved he would continue to dance while he moved around. One of the best bugs ever. Sadly i think it got patched (if it didnt, then there is no bug and this comment never existed.)

Which brings me to a point, if the bug doesn't affect gameplay in any way and requires a player to do a specific thing like this. Wouldn't it be better to just leave it in the game, for the enjoyment of everyone around?

ModAcademy Kayn3 votes

Your diction is quite different from a lot of other reds who post. Its actually quite enjoyable.

nark7 votes

I'm from dat East Coast dough.

ModAcademy Kayn5 votes

Are you glad that Riot finally got done loafing around to get provide better connection to the East Coast? It was something that was really kneaded to get done. I mean, its the yeast that they can do for the East Coast players, even if it means rising the latency of west coast players. But hey they're just going to have to roll with it.

(Kill me, please)

nark6 votes

Of course! I went home last Christmas (my family lives in PA) and couldn't play. Like all my friends wanted to play league, I said I couldn't handle the 120 ping. And the packet loss. And everything about it.

Funny thing though, we've been working on the East Coast problem for a while, just didn't make it clear at all what we were doing. Also the timing of the NA server migration couldn't have been worse.

Umm.. and nice puns there. I had to read it twice, didn't catch em at first! Oh well.

ModAcademy Kayn4 votes

Yeah its a shame that a lot of what Riot does, happens behind close walls (Skin development, East Coast Servers, Etc). Its understandable, but causes quite a bit of Gripe. (IM looking at you Zac mains)

Alljoy2 votes

I'm not sure if this is out of your paygrade but I play from Asia with around a steady 300 ping. Is the server relocation going to make mine worse? Amumu

nark5 votes

Yes probably. You can ping this ip: 104.160.131.1 to find out.

Alljoy1 votes

0 Packet Loss but an average ping of around 600ish.

Welp, gg, might as well quit.

nark1 votes

Or play on an Asian server? TW? PH? VN?

Alljoy1 votes

I'd have to switch to Garena for that, clean slate, no?

Plus, with the language barrier that tends to crop up and the low userbase, I don't know. Only other Riot managed ones I know are China and Korea I think, and the latter's SSID restricted and the former is IP locked.

nark2 votes

{quoted}

I'd have to switch to Garena for that, clean slate, no?

Plus, with the language barrier that tends to crop up and the low userbase, I don't know. Only other Riot managed ones I know are China and Korea I think, and the latter's SSID restricted and the former is IP locked.

If you have a friend in KR, they can make an account for you. China is IP locked.

Garena would be a clean slate, but we might be able to work something out. I just got back from TW and I loved playing on the server. And the lower pop isn't really a big deal. (VN is massive btw)

Alljoy1 votes

Is there anything Riot could do about making an account on the KR server? The only Koreans I know happen to live in Canada. Also, did you have any language issues on the TW server, or did it not matter?

And I pinged that IP you gave me a couple more times and took the average of the averages, it gave me something around 400, way off the initial 600.

nark1 votes

Can't do that unfortunately. KR is very protective about accounts (it's about legality stuff)

Alljoy1 votes

Ahh, I understand.

By the way, I keep getting a ping of 300 on average on the IP you gave me so I don't know.

Is there a page with all of Riot's servers IP addresses listed so I could test others? I tried looking for one but to no avail.

Also, thanks alot, you really saved me alot of time on waiting for Support to reply, I really appreciate it.

nark1 votes

Unfortunately not.

Alljoy1 votes

What's the current IP for the NA server?

I think the one I might have is old.

Alljoy1 votes

Garena would be a clean slate, but we might be able to work something out.

Would you really? I just asked Support if I could get a free server transfer to OCE in light of the server move screwing me over but they said no.

pripustas1 votes

I get 0 packet loss and average ping 135ms. I'm from Lithuania. I don't get how is your ping that much worse.

Alljoy1 votes

I play from a corner in South East Asia, I connect to NA via HK and Singapore.

Lãg1 votes

{quoted}

Yes probably. You can ping this ip: 104.160.131.1 to find out.

Since when was there a server relocation?

Malzahard Mode1 votes

It's in the works atm, its being moved from california to chicago

Lãg1 votes

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It's in the works atm, its being moved from california to chicago

Good, that means that the server will be close to my home state.

Lugg2 votes

I pinged that IP address and got an average ping of 92. I usually get a 40-50 right now. Will this cripple my game experience?

nark3 votes

No, this device doesn't prioritize ICMP traffic. It's not the best indicator. It's much more valuable to trace to it, make sure you're not taking a ridiculous path to the servers.

Lugg2 votes

Thanks for the reply! :D

ULTRAF0RCE1 votes

28 ms average, are you guys planning to have any riot buildings in the capital of Canada? We have people who can translate to french and almost no presence of video game companies when compared to Montréal or Toronto?

Icestar11862 votes

I remember people talking about a time that Anivia could stun EVERYTHING with her Q.

Peeking At Chu1 votes

wait so then Yasuo yasuo being disabled was to fix the bug in which his q could literally globally q?

Are any of his other minor bugs being fixed? or is this all? (and will we see a patch notes on the fixes? )

Thanks!!

Catastrop1 votes

{quoted}

Lol no. Yasuo could literally globally Q. So we disabled him. Zed was preventing allied minions from spawning, so we disabled him. Don't remember the rest, but bugs happen and we disable the champs when they ruin the game enough.

GP was literally the only champion we've ever disabled due to lore.

We don't do "experiments" like that.

Global Q's?!?!?! What the hell does that even look like? Why don't you re-enable him and make him a free week just people could have some fun with this?

7ha7guy7771 votes

Is there any chance the specific bug(s) can be described in the client message in the future since they're already disabled? If not, can some witty comment like when Vel'Koz was disabled diring LotPK be used instead?

nark7 votes

Do you not remember the Vel'Koz shitshow?

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/memes/hmqI6Fjd-velkoz-has-become-engrossed-with-anal

7ha7guy7771 votes

{quoted}

Do you not remember the Vel'Koz shitshow?

Pun intended?

nark7 votes

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

OmegaTree1193 votes

You have just become my favorite Rioter.

Crowe Stalker1 votes

I am disappointed that I can't find that one comic by Zaunderground making a joke out of this...

DrMarshSwamp1 votes

{quoted}

Lol no. Yasuo could literally globally Q. So we disabled him. Zed was preventing allied minions from spawning, so we disabled him. Don't remember the rest, but bugs happen and we disable the champs when they ruin the game enough.

GP was literally the only champion we've ever disabled due to lore.

We don't do "experiments" like that.

Ok I gotta ask - how the hell was Zed stopping allied minion from spawning?

Like at least with the others it was more of a direct bug concerning parts of their kit, but I don't see how Zed just being in the game stops minions from spawning.

Note - not complaining about this, legitimately curious as to how he caused it, or at least a hint as to how/why he caused it.

Tentacle Love2 votes

{quoted}

We don't do "experiments" like that.

Not what I'm asking. I'm asking if you're analyzing the reaction to these to see if more gangplank style lore events that disable champions would have more positive reaction, or more negative reaction.

Duke Anax1 votes

Seriously the reading comprehension fail in this thread is astonishing, not only Narcmage, considering the downvotes, the majority of readers seem to think you asked that,

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