@MisturBanana1
@Spideraxe30
Thank you! 🥰🥰🥰
I named this one, super grateful for the opportunity to try my hand at some narrative.
We workshopped as a whole team for region, theming, and naming conventions. But I was able to propose a lot of names and write flavor text for all the new items!
Finally a small little something extra, we set ourselves a stretch goal of updating Haunting Guise for its reintroduction into the system and I don't think it made it in time for the first round of PBE earlier.
So (I think) for the first time, here is the updated icon!
Who wants higher-quality item icon art for all the new stuff coming in Season 14? YOU want higher-quality item icon art for all the new stuff coming in Season 14.
All of the icons were done by our wonderful artist Gouff Gouff with help from Kindlejack on edit passes!
#Thread
Alright, April Fools is officially wrapped! Now that it's over I can share some of the Loading Screen Tips we wrote and implemented for the event.
Some of these are just straight-up incorrect. Many are based on memes from the community.
Which one was your favorite?
April fools is here again! Take a look at the awesome art that the China team created for the moment!
Jump into quickplay and let us know your thoughts! The team worked so hard this year to create something fun. I’ll be back all week with fun dev stories if y’all are interested.
Ivern’s Midscope should also be hitting the PBE today! Between that and Neeko going live yesterday, be sure to take a look at some of these older champs with (hopefully) exciting new changes!
This is one of my first big pieces of content I've helped with to hit live!
Super happy to work with the team on her and bring her new updated kit to life!
Yuumi is going Live in 13.5. We want Yuumi to be a great champion to bring a new friend into the game (and also a great duo experience generally) and we’re making changes to our outdated pricing model this patch to reflect this philosophy (she will be 450 BE now).
@Spideraxe30
Happy to hear most folks are excited about the direction! Looking forward to delivering some cool item updates for you all when this content drops!
To round out Support item upgrades, we have Bloodsong repping for fighters and skirmishers everywhere.
Then we'll dive more into the fighter item space with Experimental Hexplate, Sundered Sky, & the new component Tunneler
On 14.4 PBE search for “gun” should now bring up Collector, RFC, and Luden’s Companion! All the guns finally guns.
Terminus was added as ‘bow’ as well, as well as one other search term for it as a little lore funsies if you can figure it out :P
First up, the item-theme poll winner, it's... Trailblazer!
As well as the icons for the first three tiers of Support Quest Items:
World Atlas, Runic Compass, & Bounty of Worlds
The last little bits of flavor text should be on PBE for the next deploy.
They also are now always shown rather than hidden in extended tooltips which let us get rid of a few extended that weren't needed anymore!
Finally, here's the high res art for the new Rune!
As promised! Here’s a closer look at what’s coming in the next season, and even still the 7 minute video can’t cover everything! You’ll have to wait for PBE later today!
Getting into more of the Support space, here are 4 of the 5 upgrades to the Support Quest Items!
1st is my favorite: Dream Maker the little plushie. So excited to have one as an item in League finally!
Then we have Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Solstice Sleigh, & Celestial Opposition
Okay second to last and then I'll wrap it up. New assassin items!
For those who have the Hubris to build it, a statue awaits you.
That is if you have the Opportunity in your build.
Okay okay I'm done, rounding out the sneaky stabby stuff is Profane Hydra and Voltaic Cyclosword
Okay, we had some polish to do on this one, but here's the updated icon for Hollow Radiance!
Again big shout out to the team, designers for making the awesome items, concept artists in Gouf Gouf and Kindlejack for making them come to life, and everyone who helped with narrative!
The icons just don't stop, now into the Mage space with some really exciting new ones.
Cryptbloom in all its spooky glory.
Malignance ready to clap back at hextech with an AP item of their own.
Caster's companion, that has something to say about that.
And finally, Stormsurge!
A few of the new items in Season 2024 should be getting some flavor text on PBE today! To see it you’ll need to expand the tooltip by using shift while hovering over the item.
What do people think? Should flavor text always be shown? Or hidden with the nerdy details like now?
Today is the big day! So excited for players to see what the amazing folks who worked so hard on this cinematic did! The song is one of my favorites this year.
And of course everyone getting onto the right for all our new changes this year!
Let's give our components a little space before the end.
The return of the King, The Brutalizer is back and refreshed baby!
Rectrix is a new assassin component for only game masters who move really fast.
But now that it’s off, I can at least share the full list of Epitaphs that we implemented. I got to work closely with
@Sirhaian
to help make these happen and they were a ton of fun to write for those I did.
What’s your favorite?
Okay we're almost home now, so let's go over some Tank and Marksmen items.
The new sentinel-inspired item Terminus for Marksment.
A drain-tank special straight from the Shadow Isles, Unending despair.
And the magebane itself, Kaenic Rookern.
Really looking forward to what you all think about seasonal updates as we’re able to reveal more in the future!
First up: removal of mythic items! Some will be going away forever, some will be returning as legendary versions. What items do you want to see return?
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🥾.
MSI Patch 13.8!
The meta is looking pretty good overall. We're adding a few more champs into the Jungle meta and addressing some weak/strong outliers for Solo Q (ASol, J4, Garen, Janna).
Kha'Zix changes from W evolve to Q landed well, but he needs a little more power
Hey folks, unfortunately due to an unintentional interaction with Neeko we are turning off both the head-scuttlecrabs and the minion epitaphs (the music when you kill a minion and the death lines in chat) for the duration of the April fools event.
Hope you enjoyed them!
Playing catchup before mentioning new classes.
The last fighter component I couldn't mention: the return (err debut) of Steel Sigil!
+ The now Shattered Armguard to replace stopwatch.
Dawncore, a spicy new enchanter capstone item.
And Glowing Mote, a new basic haste item.
14.5!
We're pulling runaans and Galio from the patch due to some unforseen issues
Items
- Passes this patch to bring some items up to viability (sunfire, heartsteel, dream maker, celestial)
- we're still undecided on navori
- we're also throwing in some minor changes to Lich…
So SRT now has a meme wall as a result of one of our retros. Riot Meagatron made them look really nice and now we get to put up our favorites and wheel it around the pit.
Who knows maybe your copy pasta will be next?
My first article as a League Dev is out! Dream come true!
I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has about midscopes, the process, or anything I'm able to here!
Want to learn more about Midscopes?
@RiotYasuna
and
@RiotRaptorr
talk about the process, share an update on Rell, and talk about a friendly tree-shaped forest friend and his rock pal.🌲👨🦰🪨🌼
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Y’all should be getting your hands on the Iron Maiden here soon! Super excited as she was the first project I took on at Riot, even though she’s shipping as the last of them for a hot minute.
Hope y’all like her!
14.6!
ADC
- We've been hearing a lot of discussion around the state of ADC
- The strong state of supports prevents us from buffing them heavily and returning to a "bot meta"
- Crit items are getting some buffs to make them more competitive vs on-hit and lethality.
- We're still…
This industry is so amazing with so many people with passion and talent and drive. We give so much of ourselves, and for many it’s so much more than a job.
That’s what makes the volatility of the industry even harder, I personally am safe but many are not. It breaks my heart.
🧲Happy Rell Midscope PBE day everyone! 🐎As promised, here's the full changelist with some annotations explaining the reasoning.
Don't worry too much about the specific numbers, we're still getting her fine tuned. Let us know what you think of the update!
It’s Neeko! The strongest Tomato is up on PBE right now! Can’t wait to hear everyone’s thoughts!
Given the complexity of her kit there are a few known bugs but we’re ironing them out over the next weeks before she hits live.
@nenevns
@RiotPhroxzon
Definitely hear the frustration there. We're working on an article that explains some of the context for the pivot and shuffling of resources. We will get her to you, and appreciate your patience in the meantime!
Just took a look at the item poll results and it’s looking SHOCKINGLY close. The winner is only ahead by a few %!
So go get your vote on! Let your voice be heard!
Super big shout out to the whole team, these items are so fun to play with, and absolutely inspiring to watch the whole process come together. Our concept folks have also been KILLING IT between Arena, Champs, and our own item work so big thank you to everyone involved.
Phroxzon is out this week, so we'll be stepping in for this Preview!
Small patch this time as we prepare for 13.10, which will be our biggest patch since season start. 13.9 focuses on lifting some champions that haven't felt great, including bigger changes for Neeko and Kayle.
I am also curious to hear people's thoughts overall. This year we changed our internal process so it wasn't just an SRT-led development process, but a gameplay-wide volunteer basis.
The team had a lot of fun making it, but what did everyone think of this year's shenanigans?
Come check out the
@riotgames
Panel at TGEX 23 in San Diego this weekend on Sunday! I'm so excited to be there with some of my fellow Rioters and talk to folks interested in Riot as well as getting into the Industry in general!
@leyin99
@Spideraxe30
Rell is still coming! Just the way that things shook out with scheduling and resourcing.
Ivern we needed to get out with Midseason due to the buff sharing changes.
@Prayer_LoL
Lol y’all realize I’m
A) not a designer and therefore not doing the numbers
B) play with my bronze and iron friends 90% of the time? You need to chill XD
Really really excited to finally be able to share a little of what we’ve been working on for Preseason in the near future! The team has been working really really hard on everything and we’re super excited about it all!
Big fun casting Riot Rumble today! First real time casting, so I was super nervous but I thought I did alright!
Congrats to the winners Ct+Alt+Defeat! Enjoy your jackets!
Larger scope changes to LB, Yuumi, Jungle adjustments (+power into farming/counterjg, nerfing ganking), Azir.
Still mostly following up from Navori changes, Jungle adjustments and getting Mage items into a better spot.
After this, gearing up for MSI focused balance from 13.6
Usually don’t post about work stuff but this was a nice surprise that it came in today when it was a rough day to start with.
Really excited, wearing my Dr. Who dress and I’m gonna go be fantastic.
Quick follow up micropatch is coming! The team did such a good job with the initial launch, and we’re doing fast follow up to ensure things are looking good!
How was your first 48 hours of play? Hopefully you’re enjoying the new season!
Overall:
Overall, we're pretty happy with how the patch has landed.
- No critical bugs (there's a few bugs with Rift Herald, Hwei, etc. that we're fixing)
- Balance is decent (no champion moved more than 4% in either direction)
Shoutout to QA, Engineering in particular for…
@Hemitherme
No plans right now that I'm aware of! If we touch the item in a meaningful way then maybe, but I don't think we'd update it without something like that to go along with it.
14.4 Preview!
Overall
Supports: We're pretty happy directionally with where supports have landed after everything's settled.
Support item is having 1st+2nd stack charges start earlier and charge rate is reduced slightly to:
- Buffs melee wave dynamics for 1st and 2nd wave
-…
@aaashmoreee
@RiotPhroxzon
Definitely hear you and understand that it can be frustrating. I'm hoping to talk about it a bit in a dev blog later in more detail.
With the size of the nerfs the team handed her we felt it was important to bump her up to top priority ahead of some of the others.
Overall: Our early indications of how 13.20 has landed have been pretty positive! Players have been appreciating the slower paced games, better fight pacing and reduced snowball out of the early game. Game time is up about a minute and back to where it was in ~Season 7-8.…
@GyerchakTwt
I'd encourange you to give her a shot, I understand your stance but I really do have confidence this will be better.
Especially in higher elos it was frustrating to have her auto and q poke, then when you get her low she's just like "lol I'm not gonna die" and that is worse now
Also FR the song from the cinematic was stuck in my head for MONTHS with no way to listen to it on loop because it wasn’t released publically yet and internal links were only live for 10-15 minutes.
Now I can finally feel it in my blood and in my veins, over and over.
I just had a thought- when you read “Riot Yasuna” do you think of it as being related to Yasuo?
It totally isn’t and I never stopped to consider it until now. Do people just- assume in a Yasuo fangirl with a genderbent OC or something!?
@Wendy_Pleakley_
@BessWisty
We have articles planned, not sure on their live date. We also have a spotlight video which goes into all the changes at a super high level, it’s already super long so it doesn’t go into every item.
@MattyLoveGaming
Oh spooky to see myself there 👀
And I fwiw I do work directly to work as Delivery Lead. I just don’t contribute directly to in-game things like art, code, or design.
Producers are like- servant team leaders. Helping remove roadblocks, schedule stuff, get resources.
13.19 is the Worlds patch.
We're looking at a few more of the champs that are a bit weak overall and a few nerfs.
Chatting about some of the notable changes...
Galio: Generally pretty weak and is countered particularly hard by some of the mid-range mages in the meta.
GP:…
Happy to work on a patch where I get to buck the meme of “Better Nerf Irelia”
Almost wrote it on the doc as “Better Buff Irelia”, it wouldn’t have even broke alphabetical order XD
Last patch:
* Naafiri landed well
* Jarvan benefited from Shojin & Gore (we knew he would, but not how much)
* Blue Kayn moved, but Red was neutral from Gore
* Trynd moved a lot, even with pre-emptive nerfs, we're pulling back a bit
So, follow up nerfs on J4, Red Kayn, Trynd
Can’t wait to play some games later today! I’ll be on with some other Rioters like
@RiotPhreak
around 2PM Pacific. Come play with us, test your might 😤
@RiotKingCobra
It doesn’t feel like Riot without you. I’m so sad we can’t make the SRT duo that we dreamed about happen. Any studio will be lucky to have you, and I’m here for you.
@Lxnnxrdxd
We have some high confidence that this helps remove a lot of her frustrations.
A lot of her power in pro also came from the oppressive poke and then untargetable after you trade back, which she lacks now. But like any change we will keep an eye on it if it becomes a problem.
@leyin99
@Spideraxe30
Can’t say anything concrete of course but I suspect you’ll be pleasantly surprised, and hopefully will feel like she’s worth the wait
Big shout out to
@RiotRaptorr
@RiotPehrek
and Megan for being the brains and talent behind her, for putting up with me as I learned the ropes, and for making dev overall Rell-y smooth.