Meanwhile In Top Lane… [Weekly roundup - Dec 11]

RiotGogoUsagi·12/11/2015, 7:35:12 PM·8 votes·29,815 views


Hey guys, welcome to this week’s 'Meanwhile in Top Lane...', your one-stop-shop for great conversations from the last 7 days. Here's what you may have missed while you were busy climbing the ranked ladder:



Meddler’s corner

Meddler shared some thoughts on what
we’d like to change about runes someday
and plans for evolving the new masteries.

Includes sketches!

The team behind the upcoming new champ select shared their thought process and context around the new design.


Poppy champ select

SerBlaise kicked off a discussion on how having a Poppy in game changes the dynamic of champ select.

Ch-ch-changes

You guys had lots of uh.. strong feelings about the upcoming changes to the NA & EU LCS formats.





Between Two Turrets

Creator Support Specialist Jynx dropped by
to chat with you guys on our latest BTT.

Not that climb

‘The Climb’ is back with Phroxzon teaching how to punish your opponent’s bad habits
and find the right moment to all-in.


A face only a mother could love

We posted some context on why we decided to delay the release of the Ahri statue.

In a van down bah the rivuh

Over in the dev corner, ZenonTheStoic shared our internal design review for Tahm Kench.





IRL chime collecting anyone?

Soul Furnace asked folks what would
happen if they acquired their favorite
champ’s passive.


This could take a while...

/u/JebusMcAzn kicked off a bracketed elimination-style “Best Champion” contest.





Thanks for tuning in, and feel free to point out any great conversations we may have missed!

25 Comments

MasterSomething12/12/2015, 12:25:44 AM4 votes

That climb picture... why would you do this

DR4GDE4LER12/12/2015, 12:55:30 PM3 votes

Illaoi nerfffffffffff

MYXYN12/13/2015, 8:07:06 PM2 votes

This is kind of random but, NEW META: ADC AND SUP MID LANE AND PUT THE MID LANER BOT it might not seem good at first but hear me out 1.mid is a lot safer than bot when a jg comes in for a gank 2.adc could help out with the rift herald and dragon 3.dont you want the support,( the main warder on your team) to be at the center of the map. 4.its better to push mid anyways, with an adc mid, the mid lane will get pushed a lot faster. I mean how bad could this be tho

Ericles12/11/2015, 7:41:25 PM2 votes

First comment

Dairdrek12/13/2015, 9:13:11 PM1 votes

If I acquired my favorite champs passive, I would get extra attack speed when I killed someone for 6 seconds. Lame

Desypher12/15/2015, 8:17:43 PM1 votes

Garen NERF PLEASE

ABoldGoose12/16/2015, 11:40:58 PM1 votes

Ok put this into consideration for a new champ

Name: Valaby Sub-Name: the Spirit Earthwarden Passive: On any impassible terrain summons a okaraby (rock elemental) to random spots dealing damage to nearby enemies. If A okaraby hits a soul it explodes dealing more damage. Q: Earthen Spike Passive: after Earthen Spike hits an enemy champion grants death tested to that champion. If Valaby hits that champion within 10 seconds their soul gets knocked out. Defeating this soul grants 5 okaraby to surrounding area and granting soul mark. Active: Valaby strikes the ground with her Zaluga sending a fissure to target area knocking up enemy champion. W: Earthborn Weapon Passive: deals bonus true damage to soul marked champions. Active: Self cast: Empowers Zaluga granting bonus ad and armor to Valaby Ally Cast: Grants Bonus armor and movespeed to target champion Enemy Cast: Jump-Strikes target enemy champion dealing damage to enemy champion and orders all okaraby to attack that target champion if they are in range. E: Blue Lava Blast: Passive: Killing Minions and monsters Grants Valaby 0.25 armor and ap. Active: Blasts Target With Blue Lava Dealing Magic Damage. R: Comet Strike Valaby Throws Zaluga toward target location dealing massive damage to enemies hit in that line Weapon: Zaluga. A Stone Spear Tipped With Lava.

RiftGoblin12/18/2015, 5:44:27 AM1 votes

plz lets talk about illaoi

honestly i think the only problem with her is the fact she was made to be able to played as both solo lane and support, if almost any champion is able to paly a solo lane there base stats have to be high enuf to do so and any support champion has to be tanky / supportive enuf to do so bu illaoi has both, much like tham kench she is tanky with a high sustained and poke damage output. both building tanky and get damage passively, but are oppressive enough to play as support, let me just say it is not her damage or oppressiveness that need addressed it is only one of them she needs to be a support or a toplaner, it needs to be decided for her as a champion to move on to the next stage of development

i would personally say she needs to be a toplaner with reduced ad scaling and a hitbox fix on her tenticals +the ability to kill ult spawned tenticals and most of all the absurd non option when she lands an E (run and die if you are low or fight and die)

i will admit she has some couterplay but she is still overpowered, anyway im out (drops mic)

Dalanin12/11/2015, 7:56:24 PM1 votes

Hi mom.

Bigdawg chigga12/12/2015, 5:49:04 AM1 votes

Hi

Arcade Andrew12/13/2015, 3:15:55 AM1 votes

No draven pun? this makes me sad...

then again I rarely make arcade puns and I dont own arcade miss fortune :c