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Snowdown Ending Soon

Riot··3 votes·82,320 views

And now, a special announcement from His Royal Highness, the Poro King:

My dearest friends,

It has been a most wonderful Snowdown, and I thank each of you for joining in the celebrations from far and wide. There is still some time left before Snowdown’s end, so please continue to enjoy these festivities:

Legend of the Poro King: Play with friend and poro alike while trying out my four new poro snax flavors! Your last chance to play Legend of the Poro King this Snowdown goes from January 6, 2017 (12:00 PM PT) - January 10, 2017 (4:00 AM PT), and with it go all poro skins and emotes that came with icons.

Winter Summoner’s Rift: Enjoy the snowy landscape on the Rift in Co-op vs. AI, Normal Draft, and Blind Pick modes before it melts on January 9, 2017 at 23:59 PT.

Royal Poro Snax Factory: Create, deliver, and receive your own poro snax before the gates close on January 9, 2017 at 23:59 PT.

Snowdown Crafting: Make sure to purchase Winter Chests, Snowdown Chests, and Poro King’s Treasure Chest to craft special icons and loot by January 9, 2017 at 23:59 PT.

Legacy Content: Buy your favorite Snowdown Legacy skins, icons, and wards by January 9, 2017 at 23:59 PT so you can celebrate Snowdown all year.

Regally yours,

Poro King

237 Comments

ARE YOU PC BRO112 votes

What a great Snowdown season your majesty ;) I guess it was just all the good KARMAKarma overshadowing the GRAVESGraves of 2016 (and its B.S.)

lightdragoon88117 votes

Urgot to be kidding me with these puns.

Stop banniing me17 votes

Logged in to downvote both of you. you should be ashamed

Stop banniing me18 votes

Downvote my comment if you agree with me

Nediak79 votes

you sure got them

baw21 votes

updated password just to login just to downvote

ZeekVibe15 votes

real heroes wear kites*[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]*

Eunbi Bias26 votes

Anniebody else know more than three puns? I Garentee you I know more :3 If not, go Diana hole. Just kidding ily and I wish you good Lux with your games! Lul u

ImBrinn18 votes

that was to funny now I'm going to Jax off bye :)

SrEmi8 votes

I dont know Vi but I found this funny...

Thunder Pampers5 votes

These puns are too hot. Where you find them? In Ahri Sona Cuz I've dRiven there and I couldn't find any. I guess you guys Urgot them all. Sorry if these puns suck, I've been trying to MonkeyKing them.

anBuu292 votes

This comment made my ranked loss to a Viktor e

Inventus16 votes

Irelia need ya guys to stop, because you are Draven me crazy!

Hyper Potions65 votes

W H E R E I S U R F

5000000000000000147 votes

Where you surf?

Weight of Law9 votes

no he is obviously asking "where I surf" as in where do I surf or where can I surf.

pass that joint7 votes

naw...where is urf

I am Pacman53 votes

Joke . . . . . . . Your head

Aeszarck14 votes

[{quoted}](name=Hyper Potions,realm=NA,application-id=Ag8jgd8Q,discussion-id=AVuI4gfm,comment-id=000e,timestamp=2017-01-02T20:39:00.890+0000)

W H E R E I S U R F

Ultra Rapid Fire doesn't work on the updated client. Read this post for more information: http://boards.pbe.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/champions-gameplay-feedback/iTaWNxjn-air-client-league-client-update-ascension-is-now-enabled-for-testing?comment=0000000000010000

Galihan7 votes

Even if that's what they say the reason is, more elaboration on HOW it isnt working might be appreciated because the out-of-match client shouldn't in any way be impacted from what's in a match itself.

TheGrandKoopa4 votes

#W H E R E I S U R F

Bored Stalker20 votes

Oak's words echoed... "There's a time and place for everything, but not now"

Cratossss21 votes

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Jeredo8 votes

Reason being is we got Hextech Crafting.

Mr Meep Monkey21 votes

We also got riot Kayle earlier this year.

BeardedLuchador19 votes

Woo! Time for Winter Rift to go back wherever Butcher Bay is hiding! We'll never see it again! Too bad it's too hard for Riot to roll between two maps in the lobby (before the game even starts loading).

You know, like how it was in 2009+ (before the update), or like any other MOBA with multiple maps.

Hieracoxphinx4 votes

I just played on Butcher Bay yesterday though

Raicov9 votes

whats butcher bay

ADC Is Trash34 votes

The difference is that League of Legends only has 3 different map types. It's hard to roll a skin over something on Riots side, because they have to completely edit the appearance of the walls of that map, these walls I am referring to are the invisible barriers that make up the map restrictions; an example of this, if you have ever rolled a mage in world of warcraft, and blinked into a wall and you see nothing, but cannot cross the barrier. These 'walls' (I'm sure there is a technical name for them) need to have the mesh that sits on top of them redone. This is not as easy as custom skins suggest, custom skins simply rest on top of the current mesh, changing things in on the surface, but as a perfectional company, Riot can't just put a skin on top of the map; in essence, we are almost looking at a brand new map itself, just with an identical build to Summoners Rift. Compared to early League days, when we got a champion every 2 weeks; Riot has made progress by leaps and bounds to make that overall experience better for everyone. Between LCS, Champions, all the bugs we find, PBE, and a whole assortment of things I haven't even talked about, Riot can Reskin the map because it's just adding some mesh lines and removing some others, but for them to make a new map, its a lot of work that might not even pay off. For example, if they release a new map, and no one likes how it feels, that is thousands of dollars in development funding wasted. Games like Heros of the storm, an MOBA that features multiple maps, you don't get an option where you play, it is selected for you (I could be wrong, I don't play a whole lot of HOTS anymore). Riot comes up with original, unique champions; Blizzard made a great move by basing their heroes off of pre-existing characters already created. League has more consistency and is more team oriented with the idea that teamwork is what wins games, HOTS is the same way, but is never kill oriented or revolves more around Objectives. If you have never played HOTS, and disagree with me saying this, go play 1 game of HOTS, and you will understand that you can literally not even touch an enemy hero and still win the game due to the on map objective, in League, you need the kill to help secure objectives, hence it being easy to steal them. Where HOTS has many maps, we have rotating game modes. For all we know riot is still working on the Magma chamber from 2013 (14?) but for what Riot gives up weekly, I really don't think we can complain about 3 maps, that don't always get a lot of attention. I know you were making more of a statement but I just wanted to post this. Happy Snowdown!

Reins5 votes

I love this guy ^

MagicFlyingLlama17 votes

Good points, except almost all of that is wrong with regards to LoL. The pathfinding/terrain has nothing to do with the visuals of the map - they can, in fact, just put a skin over it.

BB already exists, change a little scripting and it would be ready for use. We will probably see it again.

TheKemperor2 votes

BB would have to be redone, in regards with the new items, champs, and previous texture problems it had.

ShacObama4 votes

The only thing that would have to be done is the previous texture problems, the items and champions don't effect the map, its literally a Howling Abyss skin that changes the snowball to a orange and ship.

Leyden0516 votes

League of Legends has 15 characters in it.

Someoneudk4 votes

Indeed.

CytheGuy12 votes

Riot Games you should be ashamed of yourself! You gave Graves a candy cane and lit up our hearts with the splash, and then, when we get into game, IT'S NOT THERE. I bought that skin for the candy cane, and now I can't have it and I have no refund tokens to spends. GIVE US THE CANDY CANE RIOT! MAKE US HAPPY LIKE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO!

Knight Sky7 votes

I mean at least you got the recall with the carrot

12ManyMarijuanas12 votes

You bought it for the Candy Cane, but no cigar? [slayer-jinx-wink]

Transexual11 votes

Did someone realised that Graves got a cigar on the snowdown splash? It's a candy cane but it's still similar....

500000000000000011 votes

His recall animation gives him a carrot

Knight Sky27 votes

From cigar to vegan, wonderful..

L Rayquaza13 votes

don't forget, he also vapes

Aeszarck5 votes

{quoted}

Did someone realised that Graves got a cigar on the snowdown splash? It's a candy cane but it's still similar....

Yes, Riot was trying to appease the player base by implying the cigar while not actually promoting tobacco use.

And yes, people have realized: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/ikoLqdqu-snowdown-graves-splash-art

Egg loli8 votes

i think there shoul be another skin for Jhin X

plz get it i work hard to get this originality xD

Itsbeghdev31 votes

Can't even remember the name of whoever came up with this pure genius skin concept, but... Golfer Jhin.

"FORE!"

Akali ßot6 votes

[slayer-jinx-wink]

Rułe 341 votes

Academy Jinx?

L Rayquaza6 votes

Slayer Jinx, Halloween skin

Mishka946 votes

When will we recieve the snowdown special icons (gifting to a friend)

DrCyanide5 votes

Is the Poro Snax Factory having issues? It's telling me to "upgrade to a modern browser" when I'm on the most up-to-date version of Chrome for Windows 10.

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