Check out the pre-season changes!

Riot·10/18/2016, 5:22:34 PM·5 votes·32,728 views

Join Riot designers at 2 PM Pacific Time for a pre-season Q&A and live demos of the assassin reworks. If you’re here a bit early, leave your questions in the comments below so we can address them right off the bat!


You can also watch the stream directly or check out past VODs on the League Twitch channel.

326 Comments

ArcRaizen10/18/2016, 6:22:48 PM89 votes

Why can't we just get details on the changes right now? You've always released a big article detailing the changes before they hit the PBE, but now you're doing a livestream with 2 hours notice? Tons of people, including me, will miss it, but a simple article would be all that's necessary.

Literally Kappa10/18/2016, 7:18:51 PM14 votes

any hopes for a zohnyas hourglass that an ad champion can build since qss cant save you from the 7/0 zed's ult. seriously rito are you guys a bunch of zed mains that wanna see him make adc's cry?

PFG10/18/2016, 6:55:24 PM11 votes

Can we look forward to any voice line updates for the assassins being reworked? I'd love to hear more from Katarina and Talon

YLOr89tbSD10/18/2016, 6:36:13 PM10 votes

Pleasepleasepleaseplease tell me there will be a reason to play Rengar after this rework. By far my fav champ and trying to stay optimistic.

NothingAwesome10/18/2016, 7:38:12 PM6 votes

So when are we going to make Janna an assassin?

The Pale Woman10/18/2016, 7:13:52 PM5 votes

Is LeBlanc's AA going to be changed to help with her laning phase? Its pretty weak and has a long pause between each AA.

A Liberal10/18/2016, 6:44:24 PM5 votes

Riot has said multiple times that one of the goals of the assassin rework was to increase the amount of time it takes for assassins to kill targets. If assassin damage isn't instant, what is there to differentiate them from non-asassin burst mages, say Annie or Ahri?

PFG10/18/2016, 6:39:03 PM5 votes

So are there going to be any changes to armor pen items or build paths to vary the early game adc meta?

ChampOfGlaceon10/18/2016, 6:29:52 PM5 votes

All of these new reworks make me wonder, does Riot Games ever intend on helping out my boy Aatrox ?

SwiftKitten8810/18/2016, 7:31:11 PM4 votes

you said you had some changes in the works for RekSai

Meddler: We're planning on doing some work on Rek'Sai to shift her back towards a more damage focused champ. That'll likely involve transferring utility or tank power into damage, or at least pushing her towards more damage focused itemization. Details on that haven't been figured out yet. We wanted to mention it at this point since we've nerfed Rek'Sai a number of times recently but in not ways that have indicated that's our direction however (shorter term changes basically, working within her current state more than pushing her towards what we think she should be).

how are those coming along? what idea have you thought of you might try out for her?

ProtestantCaesar10/18/2016, 8:17:55 PM4 votes

No Kassadin changes? Why or why not?

My Boy Thresh10/18/2016, 8:38:36 PM4 votes

katarina?? whats gonna happen to her .Katarina

Quicksi1ver10/18/2016, 8:06:45 PM3 votes

Hey Riot, Quick here. My concern with the assassin update is that if assassins are made too strong (not necessarily too bursty, just having too little weaknesses), then a good portion of the mages updated in the mage update are going to become obsolete, as they will get wrecked by buffed assassins. The only mid mages that would remain in the meta (other than counter-specific champs) are the ones who are already causing problems in mid by being too oppressive and lacking weaknesses, e.g. Syndra, Malzahar. As a mid main since season 1, I am fearing mid might turn into a "pick one of the top 5 OP champs" lane or lose. Please tell me I am wrong.

Thank you - looking forward to a great preseason

ThisBrokenBlade10/18/2016, 8:30:49 PM3 votes

Please show off Kat for me <3 I'm pretty excited for the rework, I just hope they don't make her too easy or nerf her to the groud :P

FuriousDestroy1210/18/2016, 11:51:54 PM3 votes

Urgot

Bird Daddy Rakan10/18/2016, 6:43:57 PM3 votes

Will there be a lot of major changes to Khazix ? If so, will he have the same basic gameplay style, and will he have big buffs or nerfs?

dustinphan310/18/2016, 6:46:45 PM2 votes

How will Talon be reworked without his e? Will he still be an assasin?

Rajeevssjgod10/18/2016, 8:54:45 PM1 votes

riot, aren't you going to help us yasuo mains out a bit here? you have nerfed him so much and this isn't fair! at least nerf someone else!![slayer-jinx-unamused]