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Un-Pro skewing some champs

• Over the years, we've unskewed a lot of champions from Pro, including Akali, Sylas, Irelia, etc. to make them more effective for normal players

• These champs are now really playable for regular players, which is great, but we're investigating adding some of their skew back so they're more usable in Pro/High MMR in some situations

• Pro has been suffering from a lack of viable aggressive options and even the ones that do (Ahri, LB, etc.) frequently purchase things like defensive boots, etc.

Teleport

• It's been a long time coming, but we're investigating changes to Teleport to resolve its ability to wash lanes, while also still avoiding the bot lane party

• We haven't been happy with it in its current state or how inelegant some of the solutions we're thinking about but it's gotten to the point where early TP's are so uninteractive, we feel we need to act

Defensive Boots

• Defensive boots are a little too strong and have been for a while (eg. Mercs), though the changes we did earlier to Steelcaps ended up being too power positive, so we'll likely scale them back

• It might take a bit of time to land on a good solution here, but we're thinking about the problem

More on champions tomorrow

• https://x.com/RiotPhroxzon/status/1810519980544557086

#PBE CHANGES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Credit to /u/FrankTheBoxMonster for PBE changes.

#>>> Champion Buffs <<<

##Aphelios

##Cho'Gath

##Hecarim

• HP per level increased 99 >>> 106

• [W] Spirit of Dread adjustments:

  • Healing post-mitigation damage ratio increased 20% >>> 25%
  • Duration reduced 5 >>> 4 seconds
  • Cooldown reduced 16/15.5/15/14.5/14 >>> 14 flat seconds

• [E] Devastating Charge cooldown adjusted 18 flat >>> 20/19/18/17/16 seconds

##Jayce

##Sion

##Zed

#>>> Champion Nerfs <<<

##Bel'Veth

##Brand

##Corki

"Reducing the power of Corki's scaling to skew him a bit towards bot lane and an overall nerf. His normal winrate is also depressed because of wrong max orders"

##Jax

##Kindred

##Lillia

• Dream-Laden Bough heal effectiveness against targets beyond the first reduced 33% >>> 15%

• [E] Swirlseed damage reduced 70/95/120/145/170 (+60% AP) >>> 60/85/110/135/160 (+50% AP)

##Nidalee

• [Cougar-W] Pounce damage adjusted 60/110/160/210 (+30% AP) >>> 55/100/145/190 (+30% AP) (+50% bAD)

• [Cougar-E] Swipe damage adjusted 80/140/200/260 (+45% AP) (+40% bAD) >>> 60/115/170/225 (+40% AP) (+70% bAD)

##Rumble

• [Q] Flamespitter nerfs:
  • Base damage per tick reduced 10.417/11.667/12.917/14.167/15.417 >>> 6.667/8.75/10.833/12.917/15 (125/140/155/170/185 >>> 80/105/130/155/180 total)
  • Minion damage ratio adjusted 55/60/65/70/75% >>> 70% flat

##Tristana

"Reducing the power of Trist's early game pushing power"

##Zyra

#>>> Champion Adjustments <<<

##Aurelion Sol

• Base AD increased 55 >>> 58

• Attack Range increased 550 >>> 575

• [Q] Breath of Light mana cost adjusted 15/17.5/20/22.5/25 per 0.5 seconds >>> 30/35/40/45/50 for the first 0-1 seconds regardless of duration, then 15/17.5/20/22.5/25 per 0.5 seconds after 1 second

• [W] Astral Flight cast range adjusted 1200 (+750% Stardust stacks) >>> 1500/1600/1700/1800/1900 (+650% Stardust stacks)

• [E] Singularity adjustments:

  • Mana cost reduced 80/85/90/95/100 >>> 80 flat
  • No longer reduces summoned minions' Move Speed to 0

• [R/Empowered-R] Falling Star/The Skies Descend adjustments:

  • [R] Falling Star damage AP ratio increased 65% >>> 75%
  • [Empowered-R] The Skies Descend shockwave damage adjusted 150/250/350 (+65% AP) >>> 135/225/315 (+67.5% AP)

##Irelia

##Milio

• [P] Fired Up! nerfs:

  • Bonus magic damage ally AD ratio reduced 15% flat >>> 7/11/15% (levels 1/6/9)
  • Burn base damage reduced 15-50 >>> 10-50 (based on levels 1-18, linear)

• [Q] Ultra Mega Fire Kick buffs:

  • Range increased 1000 >>> 1200
  • Cooldown reduced 12 >>> 10 seconds
  • Now refunds 50% mana cost when hitting at least one enemy champion

• [W] Cozy Campfire recast range increased 700 >>> 3000

• [E] Warm Hugs shield adjusted 60/90/120/150/180 (+30% AP) >>> 45/75/105/135/165 (+45% AP)

#>>> System Nerfs <<<

##Absorb Life

"We're looking at reducing the power of early sustain (Fleet adjustments in 14.15 as well) by nerfing Absorb Life in the early game and skewing its power more towards late game"

##Warmog's Armor

"Warmogs is finally in a spot where it's seeing play which is good

It's a little too good in general though, especially 1st on supports

For some champs, we're OK with it as a first rush, but primarily gearing it towards being good second and just nerfing it generally

We think warmogs is a great tank pattern in general and are happy it's seeing more play though"

#>>> Arena <<<

"If you've been following @RiotRogueFool and @Damascus_Glenn, we've been preparing some new content for Arena coming in Patch 14.15!

Check out their accounts for some additional deets

This will be a bunch of new Prismatic items, augments and a few other adjustments"

##Arena Champion Buffs

• Hecarim
• Irelia
• Ivern
• Kennen
• Kog'Maw
• Neeko
• Nidalee
• Orianna
• Pantheon
• Thresh
• Twitch

##Arena Champion Nerfs

• Alistar
• Brand
• Garen
• Master Yi
• Naafiri
• Pyke
• Shaco
• Swain
• Yorick
• Zed

##Arena Augment Buffs

• Feel the Burn
• Phenomenal Evil
• Snowball Fight
• Urf's Champion

##Arena Augment Nerfs

• The Brutalizer

##Arena Item Nerfs

• Duskblade of Draktharr
• Gargoyle's Stoneplate
• Prowler's Claw

#>>> ARAM <<<

##ARAM Champion Nerfs

• Lulu
• Thresh
• Viego
• Zeri

I know it's probably too early to tell but I've been working weekends lately so it's been hard to watch the LCS and catch up, even though I was excited about this season. How are people enjoying the changes? Bo3's seem like a positive change so far?

What about people from other regions? Have they had changes to their esports that seem positive or negative so far?

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Matt Leung-Harrison @RiotPhroxzon Patch 14.13!

Will chat about champions tomorrow.

Domination Keystone Pass

• This patch we're taking a swing at differentiating Electrocute and Dark Harvest, making Electrocute more of an early game focused rune and having Dark Harvest lean more into the stacking fantasy
• Simultaneously, there is a stretch goal to have Dark Harvest be better for laning champions by bringing the cooldown down so it can stack more quickly
• We're simultaneously changing several Dark Harvest users, so trying to be a bit more risk averse here

Opportunity

• Opportunity has become the default choice for many Pro ADC's particularly as the games are slower and they are more reliant on high impact, low frequency moments
• We think the gap between Opportunity and other Lethality items could be reduced some, so we are nerfing the item for Ranged champions, while leaving melee intact

Kalista/Varus

• Kalista Varus have been some of the stronger Pro champs for a while
• At the same time, we expect Ezreal to enter the meta in a big way in 14.12 (already seeing play in 14.11) and we haven't seen him for a while
• We are looking at some changes to Varus to make him a little less valuable in Pro while still retaining both of his builds in some capacity
• Right now, Lethality is clearly the best build though and we're looking to make on-hit more competitive

Other

• We're choosing to nerf several of the champions who buy Fated Ashes items, as we believe the items are in a reasonable spot.
• We're also trying to be a bit more cautious with these changes as surrounding systems like Domination keystones are changing and we can't rule out changing Fated Ashes at a later stage

Arena Overall, Arena balance feels like it is in a good spot, props to the team for diligent followup here. How has the experience been with 16 bans?

Our main focus with this set of changes was to audit any Arena specific buffs and nerfs to target satisfaction of abilities that are baseline weaker in the mode due to less champions or map traversal value, like Taliyah R, Kassadin E, etc.

• Buffs: Back to Basics, Demonic Embrace, Overlord's Bloodmail, Detonation Orb, Akali, Blitz, Yone, Azir, Corki, Heimerdinger, Kai'sa, Taliyah, Kassadin, Rek'Sai

• Nerfs: Kha'Zix, Sylas, Pyke, Kayn, Hamstringer

• Adjustments: Vi (making the spell have value at rank 1 again)

Check out these confirmed watch parties and meet up with fellow LCS fans for Opening Week! Outside of Opening Week, we’ll continue to add confirmed watch parties to this list throughout the Summer Split.

CA: GuildHouse, 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA 95113
FL: UCF Student Union, 3rd Floor, 12715 Pegasus Dr, Orlando, FL 32816
IL: Ignite Gaming Lounge, 8125 Skokie Blvd, Skokie, IL 60077
MO: Center Hall, 402 Kentucky Blvd., Columbia MO, 65201
NY: BrookLAN, 339 Troutman St. Brooklyn, NY 11237
NY: OS NYC, 50 Bowery, New York, NY 10013
WI: Isthmian Gaming Lounge, 2500 Rimrock Rd, Madison, WI 53713

As always, you can watch the LCS Broadcast on lolesports.com, YouTube, or Twitch. Co-Streamers will be making a return appearance during the Summer Split - stay tuned for that announcement.

• Originally posted by "LCS Official"

The hunt is on.

Arcane, the final season coming this November to Netflix.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16069250

There is a community forming right now that aims to write a MOBA from scratch, mostly fueled due to the Vanguard incident on Linux. I am not affiliated with the project, but wanted to raise attention to it (as I am currently on cold League turkey since a month).

The announcement post on rEdDiT: https://old.reddit.com/r/opensourcegames/comments/1cz3212/open_source_league_of_legends_an_attempt/

GitHub: https://github.com/OpenChamp

Discord: https://discord.gg/f6DGjvTWYT

Related Lemmy post: https://lemmy.world/post/16065982

Overwhelming majority of these bans displayed are for scripters, rather than botted accounts.

Most of the leveling bots have been prevented since they were running in virtualized environments. We are keeping track of the farms new methods though, but that's not really represented in this graph. We may update later with some before and after about botted accounts/queues popular with those bots.

• RiotK3o

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