Meanwhile In Top Lane… [Weekly roundup for July 2]

RiotA Small Man·7/2/2015, 11:53:35 PM·9 votes·10,904 views


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:



Take you on a Tahm Cruise (thanks mr KBOOM)

The team behind the hungry hungry River King conducted a Q&A on his gameplay, story, art, and more


ClakeyD Q&A

New Between Two Turrets, a series for ya’ll to talk to individual Rioters about LoL n' life, featuring LCS camera commander and PTL dude ClakeyD


It’s called RUNEterra for a reason

/u/xCBTUNA started a discussion on how we could remix the way runes are obtained after proposing a “welcome to 30” rune bundle starter kit


Pepperidge Farm remembers

Camielion started a discussion on champ simplicity after making a playful comparison between the simple champs of 2011 and the Kalista-Ekkos of 2015


Item remix [featuring DJ Sona]

We detailed upcoming item updates to Sated Devourer and Zeke’s Herald, prompting lots of discussion on how the changes will impact gameplay


Sad spider

Lordnewb posted a detailed breakdown of Elise’s pain points and fix ideas -- Meddler replied with plans for how we might buff her in the future


Rek’Kalista

Folks discussed ideas on balance tweaks that could be made to Kalista and Rek’Sai after Meddler shared his theory on their core issues


Champ select disconnect

/u/applewub questioned why he didn’t auto-dodge after his internet cut out during champ select, with RiotBoourns joining to discuss solution ideas


Days of our LCS

Tons of conversation around our ruling on LCS team owner Chris Badawi after multiple other owners came forward with additional poaching accusations


Survey feedback

/u/PrismAzure kicked off a discussion about the value of ranked rewards after receiving a survey on an idea we have for changes to Victorious skins


Businessy things

We announced that we’ve made a minority investment in Curse, sparking speculation on what the partnership could mean for LoL in the future


The roffles

For your dose of fun: In honor of International Joke Day, /u/MsFoxTrott posted a thread for folks to share their best League jokes


You may have missed

Mystery champs are on their way in waves, so keep an eye on this page to see when we’re done distributing to make sure you get yours. We also announced how/when you can get Worlds 2015 tickets.




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

18 Comments

ExecutorDill7/4/2015, 12:04:23 AM3 votes

Meanwhile..... Where is the Shen rework?

Jack º7/5/2015, 2:57:21 AM3 votes

When will the Poppy reworked kit be relesed? ... We know its done... but when will we get to hear about it Poppy item 3151

FiveDollar7/3/2015, 2:24:31 AM2 votes

hi everyone

JuhnZeiFox7/4/2015, 4:46:26 PM2 votes

meanwhile in top lane Darius still cant auto attack.......but um yeahh. and I think curse is good cause you get an in game volume over lay. now all they need to do is fix it so the shop isnt put under that overlay. I need to see the items I'm buying thank you.

Cosnirak7/5/2015, 4:35:08 AM2 votes

I love 'Meanwhile In Top Lane!' Thank you for this feature and keep up the awesomeness. :D

Kürama7/3/2015, 3:10:01 AM1 votes

Do you have plans to invest in any other teams? :D