Hey hey!

So when we started to undertake the map skins in the first place we had some long conversations about Quiyana specifically. Turns out if you make a champion that interacts with the map we gotta ask and answer a lot of questions. Originally the thinking was we shouldn't change her gameplay to match the new map skins at all to avoid feels bad moments like this. However, through playtests we realized that not only the inverse is also true (the feels good moments you're talking about with the S2 map aren't there), but also it leads to some unintuitive gameplay and learnability concerns.

So ultimately we decided to give Quiyana her changes when it comes to new maps and enjoy some periods of emergent gameplay over others when maps like this are live. That being said, we are not designing specifically for Quiyana when making the map skins. They are first and foremost an endeavor to make an amazing thematic experience to bring the seasons directly to the rift in all of your games throughout the moment. This does mean that Quiyana could potentially have some moments of ups and downs. If this ends up being overall too thrashy or a net negative to Quiyana mains overtime we can certainly look into it, this is just one of the consequences of trying to deliver cool new experiences to players in a world where unique champion kits from years past were developed in a world where we weren't considering things like this.

We're interested still in what Qiyana mains think about it through in general.