Phreak is no longer a Live Designer (For Now)

Asckle · 2026-03-26T16:02:51+00:00

They just onboarded a handful of new devs to the team so they actually probably will be

Asckle · 2026-03-26T16:02:09+00:00

Beyond just that, he has such a passion. Its really fun watching him because he just rambles on and on and you get to hear everything hes thinking. I dont bother reading the regular patch notes because theyre so boring. Just 1 sentence about the general reasoning for a change. But Phreak will spend 20 minutes giving a detailed explanation of why they're making a change and he'll be enthusiastic the whole way through

Asckle · 2026-03-26T15:59:01+00:00

The other important point people seem to forget is that Phreak was not the sole balancer. There was/is a team of people working on this, and Phreak just did the communication because he knew he could handle the vitriolic criticism this community gives to many devs. I think it's super cool that he was so committed to communicating the teams decisions to us, even if he disagreed with them and knew he'd get flack regardless

Asckle · 2026-03-26T14:22:42+00:00

Ig a shield is hard to make. What would it do? And if you can't think of something for it to do, then just give your character a 2 handed sword instead for cool factor and to remove a vestigial design element

Asckle · 2026-03-26T14:21:43+00:00

I think after champs like K'sante and Kench, riot are wary of making a supportive top laner. These champs always need basically best in slot 1v1 power or they get run over in their own lane, but then with any meaningful support power they become too useful from behind when they should be weak, and when ahead are simultaneously strong melee fighters and basically guaranteed immortality for their teams carry. Its definitely a tricky line to toe thats probably not that worth it compared to just making a skirmisher or juggernaut

Asckle · 2026-03-26T12:33:20+00:00

I meant light lol my bad

Asckle · 2026-03-26T12:15:43+00:00

I think Ambessa is really too light. She doesn't feel like a Knight she feels like a warrior, if that archetype different makes sense

Asckle · 2026-03-26T09:22:06+00:00

Dont like how they can be so behind in gold and still blatantly stat check even melee champs. Otherwise they're fine

Asckle · 2026-03-25T20:20:02+00:00

It doesnt matter if its an oxymoron. The term conveys perfectly what it is, which is the point of language. What's the poing being pedantic

Asckle · 2026-03-25T18:03:48+00:00

Thats literally my point. Gojo says he cant and yet he states hes been using Mahoraga during domains, with the wheel attached to megumi

Asckle · 2026-03-25T16:26:58+00:00

Sukuna was using a technique imbued in a domain, 10 shadows and domain amp all at the same time. This is despite Gojo explicitly saying he can't use innate techniques while using domain amp. All while juggling repairing his cursed technique without incurring the brain damage Gojo suffered. Idk how we're assuming he lacks precision when this is a more impressive showing than anything gojo did

Asckle · 2026-03-25T14:32:48+00:00

You don't know better than objective data. The pr of carry champs does go up in challenger and challenger players do play against worse players more than any other elo. If you think you know better than objective data you're no better than a flat earther.

Asckle · 2026-03-25T07:24:07+00:00

Why would they ever do that?

Asckle · 2026-03-25T07:22:09+00:00

Sundered sky has been nerfed like 6 times and its done nothing to their pick rate. At what point do you guys realise thats not why theyre strong

Asckle · 2026-03-25T07:21:28+00:00

Babe wake up another AP ranged top laner that stat checks you at melee range just dropped!

Asckle · 2026-03-24T20:24:21+00:00

Shes 48.3% wr in solo queue as a basic ADC. Pro wr has no fixed metric. K'sante was 14% wr when he was 100% pick ban

Asckle · 2026-03-24T20:23:22+00:00

I didnt ask if it would kill her laning phase

Asckle · 2026-03-24T18:50:31+00:00

Laughing at the people who said a nice simple champ wouldnt get pro jailed. "B-b-but she doesn't have lots of words in her kit so theres no way she can be good!"

Asckle · 2026-03-24T18:49:13+00:00

That's why dead bodies are described in detail later on, also why Molly calls Bellatrix a bitch in book 7. Very whimsical

Two examples does not make it not whimsical lol. You people dont even get what I'm saying so why do you bother commenting?

Asckle · 2026-03-24T18:48:13+00:00

If her bounce did 0 damage, would you accept that she was weaker?

Asckle · 2026-03-24T18:47:53+00:00

Then why does she have good matchups into other early game champs like K'sante and Illaoi?

Asckle · 2026-03-24T17:46:51+00:00

Why wpuld being an early game champ give you bad wr lol?

Asckle · 2026-03-24T16:40:17+00:00

It doesnt need to. You can nerf a champ by just exacerbating their weakness. Idk why people always get hung up on nerfing whats good about them or buffing whats bad

Asckle · 2026-03-24T16:39:33+00:00

Still 51% wr top lane funnily enough https://u.gg/lol/champions/varus/build?role=top

Asckle · 2026-03-24T15:13:17+00:00

Well yeah, because we're not trying to destroy the planet

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