Meanwhile In Top Lane… [Weekly roundup - August 13]
Hey guys, welcome to this week’s 'Meanwhile in Top Lane...', your one-stop-shop for great conversations from the last 7 days (with hawt banner courtesy of Crazy Boris).
Here's what you may have missed while you were busy climbing the ranked ladder:
For the honor
/u/stauffenburg kicked off a thread to discuss the state of the honor system and whether or not it’s outdated -- Lyte chimed in with his take.
NA server roadmap update
The Roadmap team posted an update on the server move to Chicago, this time sharing more details on what to expect and when.
Five AMAs in one
The boys of Team Liquid conducted an AMA over on their main site, liquidlegends.net.
Go ninja go ninja go
Akaliholic posted a thread breaking down why Akali is in a bad state -- Riot Scruffy jumped in to discuss our early thoughts on how to improve her.
Between Two Turrets
New Between Two Turrets, a series for ya’ll to talk to individual Rioters about LoL n’ life, featuring composer ProtoShredanoid.
Different strokes for different folks
Folks discussed the differences in how LoL and DOTA are balanced after Ghostcrawler shared context on why we do things differently.
We pay them in Teemo hats
A bunch of current Riot interns hopped onto the Boards to chat about their experience this Summer and answer questions about the program.
CiaoWeiCiao
After we posted a competitive ruling for XiaoWeiXiao, folks discussed the details of the investigation and whether or not his punishment was fair.
The simple things
Lots of chatter around Mordekaiser after longtime main TheKingofEloHell chronicled his experience and shared his take on the upcoming changes.
Gone smurfin’
After Ghostcrawler shared that we’re exploring how to improve the levelling experience, folks discussed their own frustrations and ideas for solutions.
DRIVE: Pobelter
New episode of DRIVE, a series that gives an in-depth look at the background of individual LCS players -- This week follows CLG Pobelter.
The roffles
For your dose of fun: /u/Liberator posted the opening for a LoL anime (yep, that’s a thing that exists), and /u/pokemonconspiracies shared a tool to help folks meet other LoL players at their university.
You may have missed...
We released Live / Play, a documentary that tells the stories of five different LoL players from around the world.
Thanks for tuning in, and feel free to point out any great conversations we may have missed!
