Meanwhile In Top Lane… [Weekly roundup - August 6]

Bye bye Bilgewater

As the end of Bilgewater draws closer with the return of Gangplank and the story coming to a close, folks took a look back at the event.

Black Market Brawlers Q&A

The team that makes all of our featured game modes hosted a Q&A sesh for “Black Market Brawlers” -- Head on over and check it out!

HUD ch-ch-changes 2.0

Folks discussed the new HUD update, which had a batch of changes to improve readability, and Riot Rayven shared more tweaks we have planned.

NA Server Roadmap Update - Phase 3

The Roadmap dudes are back with another update, this time with a location for the Phase 3 transfer of the NA game servers to a centralized location.

AMA

TDK Smoothie conducted an AMA over on the subreddit, sadly did not specify what flavor of actual smoothie he’d be.

We know, we know, we misspelled “Rito”

We dropped the 1st post in a new “Riot Pls” blog, and ya’ll dropped feels, thoughts, criticism impossible to summarize, just go check out the thread.

AHM WEAHH THE JUGGANAUTS, BITCH

Lots of discussion on the reveal of some hefty(heh) changes to Darius, Garen, Skarner, and Mordekaiser that we’re experimenting with.

Armorrific!

After SodaPopkillski aired concern on how armor nerfs could affect game balance, Meddler shared details on 3 of the planned armor items changes.

They have the technology

/u/hashexclamationpoint made a carry.gg feature that shows where your gold came from after a match, and /u/pesaru launched a site where you can sign up to be notified by email when a skin you want goes on sale.

The roffles

For your dose of fun: /u/GARhenus posted a masterful “TL;DR Version's TL;DR Version” of The Burning Tides story, and elsewhere Lost R posted a cheeky guide on when it’s okay to be an asshat in-game.

You may have missed...

We announced the winners of the “Tall Tales of Bilgewater” fanfic contest, and elsewhere announced the grand return of Mystery Wards.