Meanwhile In Top Lane… [Weekly roundup - August 20]
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 babies from the eighties
We released an Arcade-themed microsite with details on the skins, some fresh glitchy tunes, and a new mini-game Blitzcrank’s Poro Roundup.
Pushes glasses up on nose
/u/ShinyJumanjiMan shared a post from our new Engineering Tech Blog, with Rioters chiming in with what we hope to achieve in future posts.
The most vicious of saints
Saintvicious conducted an AMA over on the subreddit, and (bonus!) also posted a doozy of a patch rundown for 5.16 that runs a whopping 53 min.
NA server roadmap update
The Roadmap team posted an update with an exact date (8/25) for the Chicago server move and stuck around to answer questions.
Patch 5.1666, repeating of course
Folks discussed the changes affecting tanks in patch 5.16, with Fearless jumping in to share context and our intentions behind them.
Not so angry plant lady
ImNotOriginal7 kicked off a thread to discuss the recent chatter on a Zyra update -- Scruffy shared what we’re aiming for and asked for feedback.
Proposing repertoire changes to RiotRepertoir. Such poetry.
shadowarcher6 proposed removing Yasuo’s armor pen to allow strength elsewhere, and RiotRepertoir chimed in to discuss.
Feeders gettin served
Folks discussed Lyte’s confirmation that the automated report system for intentional feeding will be going live within the next few patches.
2015 Worlds format
Lots of conversation on the new format for Worlds, mainly focusing on the added transparency in the group draw and introduction of a random draw.
Putting the rune in Runeterra
/u/lollvngdead started a thread to discuss our short term plans to adjust runes (rune bundles woot!) and what we’re looking to address later on.
Don't worry not that climb
The Climb is back with a video from Irelia Carries U explaining his mental process in lane as he leverages Irelia’s strengths and weaknesses against a Challenger Olaf.
The roffles
/u/Draki1903 asked which champ has the weak-ass lore, and elsewhere /u/Kungfumanduhh shared a spreadsheet his dad used to track his ranked progress in season 2 (with dad jumping in to share some.. “wisdom”).
Thanks for tuning in, and feel free to point out any great conversations we may have missed!
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Have fun with the buff!!!