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League of Legends designer working on a new project. Designer on Lillia, Yuumi, Gwen, K'Sante, and Hwei Findable at not-the-hellsite at https://t.co/lw8JAdNb6N
Joined September 2010
Hello friends, like @RiotAugust said, I'm the new manager for the champs team! Mostly I handle the day to day management of the team, but for everyone who hates yuumi, don't worry; I'm still making champs :D.
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ARAM update: We're pushing some new balance levers to PBE today to help out struggling classes and reduce our reliance on Damage buffs/nerfs. We intend to do more in the future with even more levers, but the first list is intentionally light so we can gather data on their effect.
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Hey all! Wanted to announce that a few weeks ago I took over as the Design Lead for the Modes Team on League of Legends! I'm going to miss making champs, but I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do!.
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So what did everyone think of Hwei? I did the initial work on the design, but it was handed off to some capable designers to work on the final spells. I'm very excited to see him on live.
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Here's a full changelist for the Lillia changes that got pushed to PBE a little while ago. There were a few tooltip bugs, but to my knowledge this is what we're planning on shipping. As always, subject to change, and if these changes don't land well, we'll be looking for followup
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@AzaelOfficial We're removing it in 13.5 or 13.6. Experiment as a part of the ARAM Preseason. I think it was an interesting mechanic that ultimately led to more degenerate states than value it provided.
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Hwei is the last champ I worked on. If you didn't like my other champs I have incredibly bad news for you.
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FUN FACT! Reav3 mispronounced K'Sante's name because we changed the pronunciation after conferring with the voice actor. @SkiptoMyLuo's research led him to the old pronunciation (kuh-SAHN-tee), but the talent was more comfortable with kuh-SAHN-tay, so we went with that!.
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The full list:. Plus 20% bonus Energy Regen on ARAM: Akali, Kennen, Lee Sin, and Zed. Plus 20% Tenacity on ARAM: Akali, Ekko, Elise, Evelynn, Fizz, Kassadin, Katarina, Kayn, Kha’Zix, LeBlanc, Pyke, Qiyana, Rek’Sai, Rengar, Talon, and Zed. Removing 20 Ability Haste on Ashe.
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The E still applies passive. My bad, I forgot to remove that from the tooltip after the one test it was in for XD.
Here are the Lillia changes on PBE, passive now heals, Q MS down early but up later as well as damage, W damage increased and no longer reduced against minions, E damage and slow up but no longer applies passive.
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We're back in the office and back to work. Submitting the following changes to ARAM balance for patch 13.1. We kept it to safer buffs/nerfs in order to give the team time to properly test updates to the systems.
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Starting in January, I'll be working on a new League project, pivoting from the Modes Design Lead position. Modes will continue work on Arena, returning modes, and even new surprises next year. Thank you to everyone who enjoyed Arena, it was one of the highlights of my career.
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Re: Lillia changes. We bumped the changes back a patch to make room for the other bigger changes, but the team is pretty happy. General goal is to reducing pro binding and increase solo queue win rate by increasing durability and scaling but lowering early game clear power 1/?.
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We have a micropatch planned to address the top ADC champs to break up the meta. Going to try and get it out ASAP.
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Thanks to everyone who's been checking out ARAM! Don't want to change too much given the coming map changes, but we want to loosen up the Heartsteel meta that's been forming. This will be shipping in 12.23:. Heartsteel.Permanent Health Gained (ARAM only): 10% damage dealt >> 5%.
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ARAM check in:.Melee champs are stronger and poke champs are weaker. This was intended but we overshot. Prepping a micro patch to go out on the biggest outliers. Tracking sentiment around terrain rubble/hexgates to see what follow up is necessary.
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Pushing a hotfix to ARAM, looking for more data on levers and to reign in some outliers (1/2): . Akali: 115% Dmg Dealt >> 110% .Ashe: 0 Bonus Attack Speed Scaling >> 2.5% .Kalista: 0 Bonus AS Scaling >> 2.5% .Kayn: 100% Healing >> 80%.Kha’zix: 115% Dmg Dealt >> 110% Dmg Dealt.
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Heads up that Pick URF will be heading to PBE this week for testing! if you have any bugs or things, please hit up the League PBE subreddit here:
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Lillia's passive is getting a regen effect while the Dot is on, more base damage, and an AP scalar. Q move speed is lower early, but the AP scalar is GIGABUFFED. Some overall damage buffs as well, plus a CD nerf on E, and nerfs to R. Happy to take questions! 2/2.
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ARAM Hotfix changes coming soon (TM) (1/3). Aatrox.Outgoing Dmg: 105% > 100.Dmg Reduction: 5% > 0. Aphelios .Outgoing Dmg: 95% > 100%. Azir .Attack Speed Scaling: 0 > 0.025.Ability Haste: 0 > 20. Dr. Mundo.Outgoing Dmg: 95% > 90.Heal Mod: 100% > 90. Draven.Dmg Reduction: 0% > 5.
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My girl is here!.
Gwen: The Hallowed Seamstress ✂️. Armed with scissors, needles, and thread, Gwen must unravel the mysteries of her past while using her tools to take down evil—wherever he may be! 🧵
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Arena is coming back soon! Check out an article I wrote on what you can expect in the new release:
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Well, its announcement time. Tomorrow, I start as a Champion designer on League for @riotgames. Big ups to my Blizzard family, I'll miss y'all a lot <3.
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I made a bunch tweaks to Yuumi on PBE, let me know what you think:.* Yuumi will now get visuals when her ally is invis.* Yuumi now sees a ring around the ally she's attached to.* Q missile spawns in the appropriate place while attached.* Hella bug fixes.
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K’Sante is a special champ for a lot of reasons. I took over design from @RiotAzuBK who had a strong vision and passion for the space, and handed it off to @riot_llama for polishing after lock. K’Sante had quite the journey to get here, but I couldn’t be more proud of him.
Yesterday’s wounds become tomorrow’s weapons. Learn, for the hunt continues.
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For all the league players confused about what’s going on in the US election, essentially Trump had a massive CS lead but Biden had multiple waves to farm and handled his rotations perfectly.
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Going to keep monitoring as things settle. The map changes were intended to make 5 squishy poke comps less oppressive. Front liners have a real role in ARAM. We hear frustration around the vision blocking and hexgate return, and are actively monitoring for the effect on the game.
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For people asking what kind of champ I’ll be working on, if you hate Yuumi, it’s more Yuumi. If you hate Gwen, it’s more Gwen. If you hate Lillia, you’re a monster.
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Just kit locked my first champion. Let me tell you, this champ design shit is WILD.
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Ooooh, I wonder who that new high skill top lane tank is?
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We're looking to get some balance changes onto PBE for Arena today. Will update when we have more concrete info.
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Quick update on Lillia: Changes landed mostly positive; her winrate in normal is up (50%!), but she's still lagging in Skilled/Elite. Want to give her some time in pro before moving on it, but looking to follow up assuming she isn't high pro presence.
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Arena back in December and Nexus Blitz is back. Modes team is popping OFF this year.
Check out @Riotbrightmoon and @Riotmeddler share updates on Ranked🪜, our plans for Arena⚔️, the return of Nexus Blitz💥, and an update on bot AI🤖. @Riotpupulasers talks about changes to Preseason🗺️ and the removal of the Mythic Item System🥾.
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AN ARTISTIC MIDLANER YOU SAY?!?!?!?. My last new champ I started before I left the team. Can't wait to share more later on!.
Welcome to Season 2023. Before you start your g̶r̶i̶n̶d̶ climb, check in with Riot Brightmoon, Riot Auberaun, and Riot Lexical to learn about:. 🔥Future Champs and Champ Updates.🥇Mid-Year Ranked Reset.🧚Skins & Thematics. ▶️ Full Lol Pls:
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Yuumi has been quite the ride. @EndlessPillows started it way back in April 2018 sussing out the attachment space. When I joined in September, my first project was to take that exploration and make a champion out of it.
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Tomorrow I start back on the Champion's team! First order of business, thoroughly dunk on @RiotAugust all day.
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(2/2).K’Sante: 100% Dmg Taken >> 90% .Lillia: 100% Dmg Taken >> 105%, 95% Dmg Dealt >> 90% .Lucian: 100% Dmg Taken >> 95% .Seraphine: 0 Ability Haste >> -20 .Shyvana: 100% Dmg Dealt >> 95% .Sona: 0 Ability Haste >> -20.
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Hey all, just a heads up that we’re disabling the Arena queue on PBE to prep for launch. We look forward to seeing y’all on live this Thursday!.
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New balance hotfix out for Nexus Blitz! CptCubone was the designer responsible for Nexus Blitz coming back, so make sure to give him a fistbump.
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@AureliaRexLoL It's to keep pro players from fishing for sleeps on a low cooldown to start fights from a safe distance.
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Hello Mode Friends! We just pushed a balance hotfix to URF on live to address some critical balance outliers. Please find the full list of changes here:
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Update on Yuumi work: have a good direction, but I think we're going to wait until 9.21 to ship it so we get a little more data from Worlds on the effects of the 9.19 nerfs. Current directions include: moving Q slow to Passive attack, removing the free W point, more W adaptive.
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(3/3). Seraphine .Heal Mod: 60% > 80.Shield Mod: 60% > 80. Sett.Ability Haste: 0 > -20.Dmg Reduction: -5% > -10. Sion .Ability Haste: 0 > -20. Sona.Heal Mod: 80% > 90.Shield Mod: 80% > 90. Vayne .Dmg Reduction: 0% > 5. Zeri .Dmg Dealt: 100% > 105.
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@RoboRosewater Me: I made this card with a programming flavor. It's probably too weird. @maro254 : no it's great put it in.
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So after two years and two (three next year!) champions, I'm moving to another team within Riot to work on an R&D project. I'm going to miss the Champions team, but I know they've got it on lockdown. @RiotStashu is taking over for my toplaner, so you can be sure its gonna rock.
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Getting to the Arena release was a hell of a journey, and we're not done yet. Take a look at the team's take on what making it was like.
We've got your ringside seats for a behind-the-scenes look at how we made League's new 2v2v2v2 mode, Arena. Watch now on YouTube ▶️
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@CaptainFlowers @RiotAugust @RiotRaptorr There is not a way on Earth you do not slip up the name on cast if we do that.
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Arena specific balance changes. We've done a fair bit of work to rein in outliers, so take a peek before loading into arena.
Huge thanks to Riot MadnessHeroo for sharing all Arena-specific champion changes
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Just posted my first changes! Testing out some small Blitzcrank changes:.Passive now scales off Max Mana rather than current. Ult passive now an on-hit delayed shock rather than random arcing. Full Context:
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@defnotSneaky The data disagrees, although assassins were still frustrating to lose to I know. We’re not done yet, there will be more work forthcoming.
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Heyo everyone. We're aware of a bug involving extra spawns of plants for Arena on PBE. We'll be working to get a fix out for tomorrow's deploy.
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Micropatch balance for Arena live now. Have a bunch of changes as well as some theory in the thread, so check it out!.
Hello to all the Arena players now that we’re live! Thanks for playing!.We’ve got a micropatch coming in. This won’t solve everything, but we are looking to hit the biggest offenders here and help some struggling champions/classes. Additional context on approach in the thread.1/5
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This change is intended to bring her in line with the original play pattern for her, hitting and running. She wants to hit you, apply the dot, then back off while she heals up and then take a second pass at you. Right now her output is too tied to her ult.
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Nerfs for Yuumi on the worlds patch are up on PBE. They're pretty heavy, but I'll be doing some follow up for 9.20. Goals are to reduce Q reliability, make it dodgeable, and give it some of its efficacy back.
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@AzaelOfficial I hear ya. It’s a tough problem to crack; the majority of players use it as a more casual experience, which is where the rubble went wrong imo. We want all champs to have an okay shot at winning, but some champs are borderline nonfunctional without mods.
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@RyutaShinohara_ Energy users are categorically weaker than mana champs by a lot. Mana users get a lot of benefits, including healing and extreme range that are much better in aram then most of what energy users get.
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(2/3). Hecarim.Outgoing Dmg: 110% > 100.Dmg Reduction: 10% > 5. Kai’sa.Dmg Reduction: 0% > 5. Kalista.Dmg Reduction: 0% > 10. Kassadin.Outgoing Dmg: 105% > 100.Dmg Reduction: 10% > 5. Katarina .Outgoing Dmg: 110% > 105. Rammus .Outgoing Dmg: 105% > 100.Dmg Reduction: 10% > 0.
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Some info on recent league stuff, and some mention of one of the things we've been working on.
A follow-up message from Riot Brightmoon and Riot Meddler on behalf of the League team. We know we failed to deliver some stuff that really matters to you folks. We want to share some thoughts and talk about how we're working to do better.
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Had a lot of great discussion on the recent Zac Reddit thread. I will be putting in a change for 9.12 to change the blob spawn to 1/bounce rather than 1/champ knocked up.
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@vympelle HOPEFULLY the tenacity changes will make it so we can take away some of the damage buff so you don't get killed by only half her kit.
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Just pushed a couple of bugfixes to live for Yuumi. Most relevantly: Attached Q no longer costs double mana, and interrupting Yuumi's dash no longer locks her out of her spells.
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This was my only contribution to Milio. I had the project for two weeks between @OdysseySotere and @Squad5lol; my goal was to figure out how to represent his power. Our artist drew a cute fire guy so I integrated it into the kit. I don't think any of my spells survived though :D.
One of the reasons we first explored fuemigo was because as a healing fire support, it was incredibly difficult to convey his spells as helpful, healing etc. Us gamers are all conditioned to avoid BIG RED GLOWING THINGS coming at you. 😆.
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Started my long journey of breeding one of my favorites from Sword/Shield and WAIT WHAT
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We’re recording Battle of the Dans for @PlayFramePlus with @DanFloydPlus and @CauseImDanJones. We have just experienced what will be referred to as the “Jackbox Incident.” The footage will not be seen. #fire #ninjacat.
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@RiotAzael I would love to see a Bo5 format where champions picked in a game were removed from the pool for the rest of the series.
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@RiotPhreak Did you know Yasuo and ziggs are the same champion? .P: a passive ability they get automatically.Q, W, E: basic abilities they can’t take from level 1.R: an ultimate ability they can take at level six?.
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When no one notices you aren’t supposed to be there but you worry that they know and just aren’t saying anything.
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@ShacoPather @Shafulyn She's 1. Much slower early game (both clear and move speed, Q CD nerf is huge), and 2, has quite a bad win rate in solo q, so has some room.
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Technology is just actual magic, you guys.
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@AithusaHere @Spideraxe30 Its a subfaction of Shurima! So within the region, but we haven't seen anyone from exactly where he's from yet.
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@RoboRosewater Every Playtester: What does this card even do?.Me: you have to set up your hand like a program and execute them in order. EP: That doesn't help.
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@strawberria5 @AzaelOfficial We tried it. Ended up helping poke characters be even more oppressive as they had additional safety tools.
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@mbembamot @Spideraxe30 Its more that people wouldn't play a ton. We try and make appealing champions because history has taught us that the love for more monstrous champions doesn't translate to people playing them. We only have so many champs per year, so we want to serve as many players as we can.
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@megmegm3g yeah, data shows her as pretty weak, like ~48%, even in the hands of high skill players. I could see her still being frustrating, but nerfing her is likely to push her below the acceptable bar of power.
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@1Zoomless @defnotSneaky Player feedback is one avenue we look at, but each game is interesting because of all the ways it resolves. The games where Qiyana gets early kills make it look like she's OP, even if she's actually weaker in most games. Data lets us look at her performance in all situations.
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You're awesome, and wonderful, and everything is going to be okay.
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Some context on the Yuumi changes on PBE: Yuumi still has high pro presence, and we expect it to get worse with Karma being nerfed. Our goal is to open a weakness up at early levels while leaving her later game power mostly intact. 1/2.
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Got to meet @DeObia… I mean K’Sante in the flesh yesterday. Very thankful he brought K’Sante to life in so many ways.
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tax billionaires because they clearly cannot be trusted with their own money.
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Worth noting that I only make fun of @RiotAugust because he is one of the best character designers working in games today. Incredibly hard working and talented, and always offering a helping hand. This kindness must be met with pure vitriol.
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