With the preseason well underway, we thought it would be a good time to check in with the devs.
Join us tomorrow, November 17, 2015 at 12 PM PST on the newly formed Developer Corner to chat about how the preseason is faring and what our plans are for the next few patches.
For real though, I hope they get enough substantial questions to actually answer as opposed to just getting nothing but shit like "Why did you guys think making everything so fucking broken was a good idea???" or "How come you want your playerbase to quit ur game???".
Seriously folks, please, keep a leveled head, and your questions will (hopefully) be answered.
randomgamer123: First question , will graves get his cigar back ? devs: no ,next question. Killerslayer: Why can kata be almost nude but graves cant have a cigar ? devs: Next question please! pro1gamer: So do you guys think graves game play will improve if you give him his cigar back ? Devs:NO! NEXT QUESTION ! Kittyteam6:How will the new masteries affect gameplay and will graves get his cigar back ? *Devs end Q&A *
Grab an umbrella.
Oh man, I hope they're ready for a shitstorm.
So, about this 
100% critical strike chance, man. A moment of silence for every game that was lost to an extremely obnoxious Yasuo in under twenty minutes.
Is it me or with these changes did they make jungle harder. I mean I know that if bad had a face it would be mine, but before the new items I could clear my jungle before I had to b and now it seems like I can't get out of the first couple camps with out almost dying.
when will Yasuo get nerfed?
ok.
I wonder when they are adding new champ select and the chest system
I know what the top question on this Q&A should be.
"Why?"
I have been finding that it is anyones game at any point of the game. I've come back from what should have been a loss because of properly executed team fights. It would be nice to see more AP as it has kind of lost all power in game. Basically crit healing is really cool but something should be done with champs that have preexisting crit abilities if the mastery system stays the same. However this much is true. It feels more like the old league where glass cannons are glass cannons and tanks are tanks. Not tanks the rekt your face. Hence the garen, mord update.
When is the real update coming out?
This is a book, so put your glasses on.
Riot you used to run in circles. I understand how the game needs change and most people like change, I for one DO. However, the current pre-season is ridiculous. The new masteries are granting people to snowball which back in S4 "You didn't want SNOWBALLS to win games." this however is false, with the new masteries alone you put every champ at garbage except the snowballers: (Xin, WW, Yi, irelia, jax, nasus, akali, katarina ETC) I could go on forever about how bad the new masteries are IMO - The concept behind them is great it truly is, but you went overboard/gave too much or too little to some champions. Vladimir for instants is trash now... You gave him 2% more lifesteal through the damage tree but starting out you have 13 AP? The starting item
is rendered useless due to the lack of AP champions being able to do anything, a mere starting 13 AP WITH a full AP runepage will still only take you to 25 starting AP. AD assassins are at large because of this. Devourer is stupid amounts of strong cause the failure to recognize the mastery fervor and deathfire touch. Jax with guinsoos rageblade and that mastery, oh man surrender at 1 item right? Sorakaa another pest, 10% increased healing and resistances FOR A MASTERY?
To put this into simpleton terms, THE CHAMPIONS THAT WORK BEST WITH THE MASTERIES ARE THE META. We used to be able to ban the few 1-6 op'est champions in the meta and still have a stronger game. This season is going to be so messed up it will be beyond repairable. AP champions = trash, Ad champions =gods, Hybrid champions = legendary gods.
Itemization - I understand that you guys wanted to create a more diverse game with the masteries and how to play, especially with marksmen... you say that^ and then... YOU BUFF STATIKK SHIV TO 1 SHOT MAGE CREEPS THROUGH ITS PASSIVE? kay, blatantly said, that item is going to be picked up by EVERY ADC no matter what, there's no diversity.
I THOUGHT WE HAD A PBE, WHAT DO YOU GUYS DO ON PBE? Looks like you guys are just letting people try things out and without any thoughts launch it to live because it's normal... In PBE you you should KNOW what's strong and whats weaker. You're ruining league of legends.
ive played since 09 and these masteries make me wanna quit (T_T) however im not a quiter so i will continue to struggle with them until i get used to them i really dont get why they have the ap and ad per level together i think it might make a little more sense to put the ad with the 2% lifesteal and the ap with 2% spellvamp but thats just my thoughts
I missed my S5 masteries.
Inb4 "What the fuck were you thinking?"
needs a buff
As a long standing player the one change I see that isn't consistent with prior Riot MVV's (Mission, Vision, and Values) is the Mastery Tree makeover. Not from an issue with any of the individual options or lack there of. The issue I see is that rather than giving the players empowerment options and difficult and viable options at each level to differentiate and make for unique gameplay the new Mastery Tree builds feel very binary and un-compelling. For Ex: Are you AD based or AP based? If AD left side blue pill. If AP red pill for you. There isn't a lot of room for hybrid champs that I see unless you want to fully commit to Cunning which I don't see it for most.
It seems like there are few interesting choices to make until the last level to complete the tree that there miss well not even be trees, rather simply having pre-loaded kits based upon general characteristics. AD crit build platform (Door #1). AP Caster Door #2, Tank Door #3 and so on. All of the choices prior to the last option of three feel very irrelevant as there isn't a lot of build path variety available. I'm not advocating that, just stating that variety is less not more with these changes.
And the reason this disagrees with Riot's philosophy is that previously I've read a lot that Riot values empowering not dumming down and making everything the same and generic. Riot wanted kits and players to feel strong and unique for a gaming experience. It doesn't feel dynamic right now. Either your champ really capitalizes on the offerings or they don't.
Can we take a look at Ashe's Q ability and differentiate it from that of Lulu's harassing skill? It doesn't have to be a completely different graphic, but at least lets agree that they don't sound like arrows going whiz and thud! and much too similar to pixie dust spam attack. I like Ashe, but I don't play ADC much, and when I do I don't want to feel like a slap and tickle support Lulu, just saying.
Congrats on the innovative direction Riot took with Corki, Graves, Quinn, MF. I applaud the very unique and fun attributes they received in their kits. All are pretty darn cool. I trust that you'll tone down Graves' early wave clear spam in time. Stylistically Graves is very well done when watching on screen as with a buffing janna, etc. I think we will find that in a skill players hand there isn't going to be a lot of direct counter play outside of your junglier coming to the rescue.
Any change to WW's E coming? He's kind of in the same spot Ashe was in for years prior to hawkshot. Possibly a smell based warning of enemy champions in bushes or unseen within a large radius and some sort of smell trail with MS buff when running in that direction passively? That would fit with his kit and model and not give him an overwhelming change in power. His current skill feels like a void, not that it doesn't have uses. There's just something missing in its execution. It would be cool if a change was made in the same vain as these ADC's that could make the champ come alive a bit more and more animate.
Thanks, the changes overall are a positive for me. Biggest negative would be the Masteries. I'd rather just buff champs than have these trees at this time as then they'd get what's unique to them only better where some champs are missing out on benefiting significantly as are others in this current version.
I do really like the Resolute tree Support sharing damage end attribute though. That's a keeper! Go Braum Go
The jungle meta, and I main Jungle. I'm so confused.
Where will I be? 
I wish I could be there for the Q&A, but I'm a working man and am unable to.
Hopefully I can still contribute a question. With the changes to minion strength and the turrets being made weaker, games have become shorter. My question is, will RIOT be satisfied with this new baseline game length, or are they going to try ways to make games around 40 minutes long again?
I personally think the new and shorter game phases are harder to work around (laning phase now lasting less than 10 minutes most games) and I wanted Riots opinion on the matter.
1- Will Grave get his cigar back? (Mandatory question) 2- You have changed a lot Jungle during the past seasons, recently revamped Bruisers (Sorry, Jaugernauth) and revamped ADC, will AP carries recieve the same kind of love eventually? 3- Will I be able to keep my champ select secret with the upcoming new "Draft mode"? I like to play different champions, I try them in custom, then in blind and eventually in Draft. The issue is the amount of kiddies who decide that my picks are "Trolls" and refuse to let me do my stuff... I tried going in Team Builder but games takes about 20 minutes to go if you attempt something different. 4- Will Graves get his cigar back? (Oops, repeating myself) 5- Can you guys offer a huge poro in the shop? Like 1m tall poro? Would be awesome... (Not really pre-season... ) 6- Ok I stop... My questions are getting off topic.
The new items are based on crit great for crit champions ie yi yasuo an really most adc/melee champs. But what im seeing is nothing really good for movement speed for ability champs. nothing really stacks up.
Hope some one asks why ad items alot of ad fighter items were converted to ad crit items and left items like 
without other items they can still go good with. unless you choose to essence reaver jayce of course
I dare you to play a game with fiddlestick jungle and win. This new season fk up fiddlestick hard.
Bring back my old 
this new one u made with his new w is worthless. I am a and he used to be one of my favorite adcs until u hurt his kit sure he dosent have a atk speed cap anymore but its worthless if theres no damage behind it. They were trying to make games longer when in fact most of the games ive played have now been shorter thanks to these changes plz bring back kogs old w back
Deep breaths. It's the preseason, which is probably the best time for them to try new ideas instead of during the climb to Gold. I'm sure many things they've implemented will be adjusted, added upon, refined, and removed by the time regular season starts again. They need to have some time to try new ideas from time to time to help keep things interesting. Keep everyone on their toes. Happy experimenting :)
Wheres my yorick rework wtf
AD overpowered AP f... up, sry that's not very eloquent but I think to the point... and the Masteries - just feel like on a smartphone game! either option A or B - not enough variables anymore...
this is about a upcoming champion update. poppy has not gotten a update yet. what will be the next champion type to get a update? tank or assassins? if poppy is built to be more like a assassin that would be cool with me.
https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/202294884-Champion-Update-Schedule
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