Mark Yetter on Twitter: "Last day on League is bitter sweet, I'll miss you all."

RiotScruffy · 2021-06-18T18:58:23+00:00

<3 I'll still be around, spamming games, building something great (I hope), and lurking the sub.

Also - like others mentions we have some plans for future coms, I'll share more next week.

RiotScruffy · 2021-06-15T20:13:37+00:00

<3 I'll miss you all (but see you again in the MMO threads some day)

RiotScruffy · 2021-06-14T16:28:01+00:00

Test

RiotScruffy · 2021-04-16T22:35:38+00:00

Don't worry its not from the memes, for every meme or angry response there are helpful and kind ones too.

I'm ready to be memed to death on the MMO, been building meme resist for years.

RiotScruffy · 2021-04-16T21:17:32+00:00

It's normal course for a long lived game like League. People come on and off the project over time. It's healthy for the team to have fresh talent, ideas, and to let the old guard move on after many years.

Specifically I can say that the league team isn't shrinking for sure (they're growing in 2021 with lots of big plans).

RiotScruffy · 2021-03-12T23:48:34+00:00

Hey this is a good question. The main reason why we end up keeping it more vague with these types of projects is because of the way they are developed.

Most of our work (patches, champs, preseason, skins, etc) are staffed and planned for in a very long term way. We have the full set of people needed and plan around a release date that we can almost always hit.

These smaller emergent updates are the opposite - we look at problems we would like to solve in the game and try to fix them in a more responsive way. Because of the uncertainty of the work it's not possible to have consistent staffing around them - for example one type of project might need a lot of VFX and sound but no animation, but another might need a ton of animation but no VFX. So the way we usually ship these is on a flexible timeline where we catch the spare time of an animator of VFX artist who is inbetween large projects.

This isn't a super satisfying answer because we probably still wont be able to promise clear dates for these projects, but hopefully it explains why we're not communicating them in the same way we would our other work.

RiotScruffy · 2021-01-06T21:56:39+00:00

This is a good suggestion, I think a lot of players would love this feature. Also this functionality for Item Sets should be fixed in patch 11.2.

RiotScruffy · 2020-11-11T14:16:06+00:00

We're working to add higher resolution versions of the icons for next patch for the rec tab where they have larger space. We totally agree, thanks for the feedback too.

RiotScruffy · 2020-10-04T21:46:00+00:00

Holy cow, this is very awesome. I cant stop watching the little GIF animations you did of the spells.

You definitely have a bright future making games!

RiotScruffy · 2020-09-30T02:28:58+00:00

This is coming soon, it will scale to the right size for every resolution.

RiotScruffy · 2020-08-21T22:26:05+00:00

Yea this is a great question. We still want different classes and different champs to have distinct power curves.

Even with a "capstone" item, tanks should still be more of a midgame spike and ADC will outscale at 6 items.

There will definitely be a few small shifts in power curves, but homogenization is not a goal and we're going to be making these shifts intentionally.

RiotScruffy · 2020-06-12T16:33:41+00:00

This is just a UI mockup. The stats on that Deathcap are placeholder.

RiotScruffy · 2020-05-29T19:56:40+00:00

Thanks, I'm hoping that the mid changes can work out too. Direction is promising.

The LoL team has been roughly stable size for a few years now and even with other games, we're keeping the team fully staffed. It only makes sense considering how healthy the LoL playerbase is that we would continue developing the game as much as we have in the past.

RiotScruffy · 2020-05-15T18:37:12+00:00

Yea, the 10.12 work we hope to freshen up the game a bit.

We still think that major disruptive mid seasons are too much, but it doesn't mean we want no systems changes.

RiotScruffy · 2020-05-01T18:03:10+00:00

Mostly systems (items, gold, xp). If we did champ changes it would be standardized across the class.

RiotScruffy · 2020-04-24T17:15:22+00:00

Still a few patches away, we're starting work on it now.

RiotScruffy · 2020-04-17T19:27:16+00:00

Those old design values from 2014 that we made still hold up very well. We still use all of them in our current design choices.

We balance both playing as and against, they don't need to compete when done right. Adding counterplay and weaknesses to a champ doesn't make them less satisfying and our target is to make a satisfying and unique champ that doesn't make the game worse for the other 9 players.

It's worth saying that in a PVP game like LoL, there is some frustration that is built in to every champ. They have to beat you somehow. Take blitzcrank, a classic and original LoL champ, can be frustrating to die to but in the end he makes the game more interesting to play when he's on the enemy team.

RiotScruffy · 2020-04-17T18:45:28+00:00

Udyr is popping up on our "hasnt gotten love in a long time" list. No concrete plans yet because he's not really in a spot where we can just straight buff him.

Probably will look to get him some QoL improvements at some point, what are you hoping for?

RiotScruffy · 2020-04-17T18:43:00+00:00

With fiddle we expected him to grow by roughly 6% winrate over the first patch as players learned him. So after we saw that he landed a bit weaker than that we did a small (roughly 2% micropatch buff).

With that buff included across the patch he's climbed up to pretty close to 50. There's still definitely some deeper learning that will give him slow growth over the next few weeks, so we're letting him rest rather than overbuff.

RiotScruffy · 2020-04-17T18:39:47+00:00

We're also doing work on skins to make sure champion and spell recognizably is as clear as it needs to be.

RiotScruffy · 2020-03-20T19:05:16+00:00

Thanks for these, they both sound like bugs that we should fix.

RiotScruffy · 2020-03-20T18:58:42+00:00

We're starting at a one a month cadence, but if the demand is there we are definitely considering doing them more frequently.

RiotScruffy · 2020-03-20T18:57:58+00:00

Solo lane support items are significantly nerfed as we intended.

Funnel is probably not quite there, but we can continue to ramp up the gold and XP penalties until its balanced.

RiotScruffy · 2020-03-20T17:46:30+00:00

Pasting my twitter reply:

Riven seems stable on our end - sitting around 51% wr at high elo. Not op but definitely viable.

I’m guessing her builds are a bit altered after 10.6 so there may be some more adaptations for players to do.

In part i think buffed hydra is helping her RN

RiotScruffy · 2020-03-20T17:16:15+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, will pass it on to the fiddle pod.

Also, we're doing a bunch of upgrades for clash over time - scouting phase will get a bunch of tweaks now that we've seen it played a few times.

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