@RiotPhroxzon Why did you make Xin mid viable for one patch then completely gut it to the point it is worse than pre-AP buffs and never revise it again?
When you step up 1 mm in lane but you don't have exhaust, bone plating AND ninja tabi so Riven genuinely oneshots you with dblade + lucidity boots (you should have played safe)
Patch 26.12 Preview!
MSI is on Patch 26.13, so this is the penultimate patch before then.
There are a few things that we'll be monitoring on the 16.11 patch as we see how the 16.11 changes impact the Bot Lane meta, which is currently pretty heavily dominated by Enchanters and Ranged Supports.
Teleport
- Especially in Pro play recently, we've been seeing some usages of Teleport at very short ranges to prepare quite large shields for tactical usages in combats (such as objective fights)
- While this is a cool usage of the spell, it's a pretty unintuitive behavior and we want to skew its usage to be better to use for its cross-map and "joining fights" capabilities
- As a result, we're reducing the duration of the shield and increasing the shield amount by a bit to compensate
Yuumi
- Last patch, we had a change to Moonstone that fixed it being doubly impacted by either Grievous Wounds or Heal and Shield Power
- Yuumi is one of the few champions who has Heal Shield power baked into her kit and so she was disproportionately impacted
- As a result, we're compensation buffing her
Lee Sin
- On 26.10, we made some adjustments to Lee Sin that gave power back to some of the fun elements in his kit that lost a lot of power over the years (namely the amounts of dashes he has access to, etc.)
- This made Lee Sin a pretty strong champion in higher levels of play again and in a way that we think is fantasy aligned for him
- However, the magnitude is a bit too much, so we're pulling it back slightly
- We're happy with the shape of the changes and how it's affected his power curve though
Mid Meta
- For average play, AP Xin Zhao has been tearing up the rift with a lot of his power budget in healing, especially in the early lane creating some pretty uninteractive lane states
- We're tapping this down, as well as some of the top end healing in the later game
- Otherwise, a few adjustments to the champions who have a bit of room in Solo Queue like Hwei, Sylas, Syndra and nerfs to some of the top end like Cassio (who really benefited from Deathfire Touch being added) and Ryze and Ori who have been strong for pretty much the whole season
I don't get how removing "an esoteric" mechanic that good players use will help on the onboarding of new players.
Surely you shouldn't instead focus on the tutorial that makes people incapable of using unlocked cam, no info on insanely helpful settings either.
players: Riot should really care about making the game more approachable and comprehensible to people trying to learn the game
those same players: Riot is killing their game yet again by removing an esoteric minion targeting rule that 10,000 people worldwide understand