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W PATCH LET'S GO RIOT!

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Patch 26.17 Full Preview!

Roaming Supports
- For the limited number of Pro games on 26.16, we've been seeing good movement on roaming supports and expect it to trickle down to solo queue over time (especially as players find the strategy less effective over time)
- We'll still continue to monitor this and assess whether stronger swings are necessary, though we don't want to over-punish regular roaming and a small amount of unconvential roaming strategies is reasonable, so long as they don't become broadly optimal

Xerath
- As stated in previous posts/videos, while Xerath bot is a large part of the AP bot meta, we still think AP bots add to good long term variety and add a healthy frustration to the role
- That said, Xerath is performing well in both Mid and Bot, especially for average play and is receiving a generic nerf across the board

Vayne
- Vayne top has been a strong champion in higher levels of play and also is a bit over the edge in terms of what we'd consider healthy types of available counterplay in many matchups
- Broadly, ranged tops fill a similar niche to Mage bot, which is to add long term healthy variety to the role, even though it can be frustrating in the moment and that also adds to their satisfaction when overcome
- One of the principles we hold here is that there needs to be counterplay to frustrating experiences; a combination of tactical (moment to moment) and strategic
- For Vayne top specifically, she can be a combination of tanky (with Experimental Hexplate), with a strong laning phase, while scaling well
- Overall, we think Vayne could have a bit of a weaker laning phase when played in top lane, to balance out these other attributes, but she is still going to be baseline on the frustrating side as a ranged champion that can be played top lane
- We don't think it's too far off though and Vayne still has a structural weakness of being vulnerable to ganks, especially when she's pushing a lot and doesn't provide much team utility
- This change hopefully results in her lane opponents having slightly more health in order to assist with gank attempts or trade back

Yasuo and Yone
- We're improving the incentives for Yone and Yasuo to build more Crit items in the short term, especially on first item so it can tip the scales in situations where they would otherwise build BORK and Kraken
- Long term, we want them to feel good about buying Crit, but we know that none of the items feel quite right for them so that's an itemization hole that needs to be filled long term

Leblanc
- A while ago when Statikk Shiv was an extremely good one stop shop waveclear item, we had to nerf Leblanc's Attack Speed ratio
- After we reworked Statikk Shiv to be more about on-hits, we didn't restore this ratio to Leblanc
- So we're restoring this and giving her a small buff as she's not strong in any particular skill bracket

Nasus
- Last patch, we made some adjustments to Nasus trying to resolve some of his skew between roles and restore some of the stacking power to Top lane where it is inherently higher risk than Jungle
- Structurally, we felt that balance was off
- While we suspected this change would be over-magnitude, we wanted to get a clean read on the magnitude of this lever for Top vs JG and follow up this patch after seeing how much impact it had
- This patch, we're reducing some of the net total sustain he gets in Top lane to make hitting those high stack counts a bit more challenging (incidentally, this lever doesn't affect Jungle as much)

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Chovy is built different

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+63 lp

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Challenger back after hard reset.

Hard reset was a Huge W, no more duoq and LP gains feel way better.

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LoL Ranked finally getting reset next patch, there is gonna a lot of griefers knowing their ranked will be reset anyways until next patch

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they gonna reset ranked they can't announce it or billie bob will run down ranked games

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they gonna reset ranked they can't announce it or billie bob will run down ranked games

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@drewlevin Will Aegis of Valor affect MMR or is it only LP? When you lose 0 LP do you still lose MMR?

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Orianna Video guide - https://t.co/5D5y58104D

Written Orianna guide - https://t.co/JIiB7anzEZ

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Finished Challenger with Orianna only, now a three trick!

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Pretty good indirect Syndra buff with triple tonic will allow you to snowball faster.
Phase rush nerf shouldn't change much match ups.
MS shard, Cash back might be worth looking into

[Matt Leung-Harrison @RiotPhroxzon]

Patch 25.22 Full Preview!

If you didn't watch yesterday's games, please do :D

Systems
- As mentioned yesterday, Phase Rush is a bit too good at rushing and Biscuits a bit too good as a ubiquitous option that's taking over too many pages
- Our goal here is to make the splash slots a lot more competitive and so buffing up a variety of competing options

Skarner
- Skarner is receiving a lot of buffs to his baseline damage at the cost of making his R less reliable
- We expect this to make "naked R casts" slightly slower so that if he didn't land an E beforehand these ults are harder to dodge

Solo Q Champs
- Akshan, Leblanc and Talon are all receiving nerfs as they are a bit too strong and fast at snowballing in Solo Queue
- For LB particularly, she will need to choose her spots a little more wisely, but this feels like an effective way to nerf her for regular players without impacting her Pro Play as much (where her moments to go in are a lot more limited)
- Talon Jungle has been really strong recently, especially in elite, so we're slowing down his speed to keep really high tempo on the map

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Orianna is OP

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WINNERS Q

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I love League of Legends

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Swifty boots rushing our way back to Challenger.
New Syndra guide going over the build https://t.co/RrNmNlrYN0

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The League client is so bugged you can see names in champ select lmao

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BLUE CARPET TO CHALLENGER

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Green runes are BROKEN

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Font of life has lot of value right now, they changed it a few patches back to allow the heal to work on yourself. All you need is a cc ability (Syndra's W and E for example) and it's like a mini taste of blood.
You can run it with bone plating in hard matchups to survive laning.

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league going back to 1 split a season😮