League of Designs

Overall we're looking to shift Yuumi's power more towards enchanter style play as originally intended. At the same time we're also making changes aimed at making her easier to balance for both pro and regular play. Removal of TP following is part of that. In terms of why Summoner TP only, rather than all long range teleports, I need to follow up with the team about that, my inclination is consistency's appropriate here.

He is looking strong with Conqueror, no immediate plans for any nerfs though. We'll see where Conqueror nerfs leave him and others then reassess, current estimate is we won't need to do anything to him directly.

Nothing immediately planned. Right now we want to give the post Worlds buffs she got more time to soak. Could be open to a small scale update to address some gameplay issues at some point, but nothing scheduled at present.

I'm flying out Tuesday night so still around for a bit including today :)

In terms of goals/direction for next year, yeah, we'll have a video covering a range of things around season start as we did this year.

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Aphelios narrative goals: examine how faith could be required in a world with gods. Create a relationship between the player and Aphelios/Alune that's as deep as the night is dark, and as soft, as whispered as the moon is light. Aphelios feeling too much and protecting himself with numbness is something very personal to me; sometimes developing a character, you can find a truth in yourself. I needed to to reconcile and enrich everything we've said about the Lunari so far, develop their faith into a philosophy that's more than just "moon"...

There were dozens of goals and it would be hard to list them all, really.

Alune is the primary voice because "silent monk assassin" is a cool archetype, and silence reinforces many of Aphelios's themes. Again, there are dozens of ways it does that, it would be hard to list them all, they're better discovered and experienced by players.

Alune spends much of her time in the spirit realm meditating, glimpsing futures and truths that can only be seen there. Alune loves to explore, to see beauty and wonder. In a way, she can explore more now, the temple projecting her thoughts anywhere. But to truly see the world through two eyes, she needs the help of her brother.

Alune and Yuumi meeting is canon. Sometimes her meditation is broken by small adventures like that. The temple has a garden, for food.

Yeah, three champs in a row is tough to pull off. Jellbug did it as well this year with Kayle, Morgana, and Yuumi. Personally, I benefited a lot from Mary/a highwayman's help. She was editor on Senna and Aphelios for most of production. Senna was the hardest champ I ever had to write, until just days later it was Aphelios. For a few months I was working on all three at the same time.

On League of Legends, we have worked with contract writers a tiny bit in the past. A lot of the skins in the Star Guardian Jinx/Elementalist Lux era were done by contractors. But in general, we found we got better results in house. The process at Riot is very collaborative, that's the nice way to put it (there are a lot of conversations, and pivots large and small, that writing needs to capture). Thermal Kitten ended up moving to skins to be their writer, and now, we all pledge allegiance to Carnival Knights, SkiptomyLuo, and Riot Pls.

As the Universe platform ramps up, there may be more opportunities for prose (non-game) writing from contractors. I have less visibility there though!

Yes. A lot of concept art and splash illustration is done by contractors. Often, the contractors post their League work to Artstation! (Does your gf have a page?)

And not to be harsh. I'm at least half joking. Okay... maybe 45%. {{sticker:slayer-jinx-wink}}

Drawing professionally for a game is as much a craft as an art. We couldn't ship "Starry Night" as our next champion, though it's stunning AF, to create the most ridiculous example possible... If you said your gf has created concepts with great readability from in-game camera angles, clear thematic, etc., I think I would've spit out my Kool-aid, and then a bunch of $100 bills to hire her (and I'm just a writer, lol). There are very specific things we'd be looking for from concept artists in particular, skills that are sometimes as rare as broader artistic talent.

Anyway, if your gf has a page or sample work online lemme know, I'll pass it on!

Mister 8ight said () :

Make q gain range every time you stack kills with it (like nasus q). The changes on w seems good but it should be able to jump over small and walls. E change is good but should scale with ad. I have no problem with the new ult although I think the ad in the first point should do more damage cuz now it lite Does less damage than garen e. The passive is a great change. Yeehaw

Playing with Wukong's staff range is a really cool idea that several of us on the team are also excited to explore someday. Unfortunately those types of ideas are way out of scope for this particular project.

E scales with AD, by the way.

Omg why Teemo said () :

I find everything here interesting and refreshing, I'd say my biggest issues seem to have been dealt with. Of course I have a question about decoy, like so many others:

You state Decoy land on-hit-effects, and upon spawning will appear as if you've pressed S - fantastic. Does it also get the attackspeed from E? What about blue/red-buff and buffs like it, does it show on the decoy? What if I activate Q before I hit W, will the decoy have 1 attack with increased range? Can Nami empower the clone's attacks?

If the answer to these questions are yes, cool If the answer to these questions are no, then... why not?

The answer to most (if not all) of these is YES. There may be certain interactions that are hard/impossible to implement due to code and time constraints, but Meddler already hooked up most of the stuff you mentioned here.

no

DK Country said () :

Why cant wu just have his whole kit be ad dmg why this magic dmg on his e now? Also if possible i know everyone is bothering you already but can we get numbers to his kit so far? example. (like his scaling % how his E actually works now atk sped % this much % magic dmg but its flat 200 physicaly dmg etc.) cause i see that ap dmg and i actually choked i was drinking something at the time but this made me choke lol

The damage and ratios on E are all identical to LIVE; the damage type is simply changed to magic. It still scales with AD, not AP. Since most characters have lower MR than Armor, and MR doesn't scale with level as strongly as Armor does, this will generally cause E to deal more damage in the early/mid game, but less in the late game assuming he's building a lot of lethality.

This is in accordance with our stated goal of shifting some of Wukong's power to the early game from late game.

sobs in cowboy another year

Miss Genki said () :

I don't like the new passive. It is directly tied to W. So until you have W you don't have a passive. It should be a passive on the W and do something else for his passive. Either that or allow it to function like Duskblade with an ICD after the shield has been damaged so you can use brush and FoW to your advantage.

It works based on the enemy not having vision of Wukong, which can happen in all sorts of situations; using W is just one of them. But appearing from Fog of War or dipping in and out of brushes during a fight will also work.