RiotScruffy talks ChampUp and Poppy!

Riot·11/12/2015, 2:40:37 AM·3 votes·55,976 views

Welcome to the first installment of the League Community Podcast, a series in which we take you behind-the-scenes with Rioters to hear about their backgrounds and work on League. You can expect an installment every couple weeks or so, with Rioters from all over dropping by to share their stories and perspective. Make sure to let us know what you guys liked in today’s episode, and what you’d like to see more of!

This week, we’ve got Lead Designer Mark “RiotScruffy” Yetter – join us as we chat with him about his background, work on the Champion Update team, and the upcoming Poppy update!

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277 Comments

Kotex11/12/2015, 7:38:47 PM123 votes

Skip to around 35:00 to actually hear about the reworks.

Honor4Honor11/12/2015, 8:35:01 PM29 votes

Signed in just to say I really enjoyed this. This is something i can find myself listening to regularly, I don't really like taking the time to watch allchat, with this I can listen and play at the same time. Where can I make sure to hear more of these podcasts? Taric

mvmlego11/12/2015, 8:49:53 PM12 votes

Regarding Taric:

I know that his lore is outdated as of the Great Retcon, and that his pizza-feet model needs to be redone, but why touch anything other than that? What design principle(s) does Taric's kit currently violate, and how exactly does it violate them?

As far as community opinions goes, why does it matter what the players who don't play Taric think about him? Players don't need to like every single champion. If you like him, play him; if not, there are another 120+ champs to chose from.

I am an avid Taric player, and I don't want to see my main changed needlessly. It's hard to stay loyal to a game when everything that you know and love about it is changing beneath your feet.

Fàded11/12/2015, 8:22:31 PM10 votes

I've been waiting for the update but I dread it at the same time. The simple, outdated and extremely powerful yordle is what I've fallen in love with. Please don't make her something she's not. Poppy Definitely excited though. It's been too long!

Stall11/12/2015, 10:10:55 PM10 votes

I listen to many podcasts and I love that Riot is doing one! However, I got really, really bored early on in the podcast because of the pointless talking. I don't know these guys, I don't want to hear about their personal lives, I don't want to hear them shoot the shit. I think that you guys need to work on getting the actual content there first, rather than straying and talking about everyday life topics. I think that this could be a great niche, but at the moment, with this content – I can't see myself listening to too many of these. I think it's ok to move into a personal realm once the audience knows you and respects your point of view and demeanor. Just my 2 cents =d

Anyway, high hopes for this! Pleeeeeeaseeee move away from personal content to actual league of legends topics.

Teä Bear11/12/2015, 9:04:23 PM6 votes

38:00 Yorick = sephiroth confirmed

Swizzle11/12/2015, 7:59:30 PM6 votes

yetter: confirmed wizard

Big family 6 brothers Entire family sports team Houston yazbicks Likes math (weirdo) Nerdy kid Math wiz kid/nerd Logo? (old people things) Plays the trumpet Married to a super awesome genre known as outrun (80's retro synth mixed with edm shit) Has no sense of what year it is Turtle mind control? Creates stars with his mind? Occasionally plays video games Scarizard describes him as a blossoming gamer? (he might be part flower) Gamer as small one, but parents denied him of happiness Ocarina of time touches him in places

Will post the full summary in its own thread

SUPERX4PANDA11/12/2015, 11:27:58 PM6 votes

My daughter is finally getting buffed... item 3070 Do me proud Poppy

SSJTribe11/12/2015, 7:17:30 PM4 votes

Pretty excited for Poppy so this is exciting

Boosted Memelord11/12/2015, 7:20:12 PM4 votes

I've been waiting for Poppy rework for quite a long while now.

Dingus Dragon11/12/2015, 8:28:43 PM4 votes

Will this also be going on the apple device podcasts app?

Apocalypsoo11/14/2015, 1:33:11 AM3 votes

I dont like this at all , i prefer all chat because thoses have closed captions, yep yep im deaf, really wish i could understand this podcast :( . Any chance we get a same version of this interview in some sort of videos format ? If not its okay, i know were in the minority.