Good morning. As promised, let’s keep getting through the easy questions so we can save the spicy stuff for the Q&A!
“Thoughts on multiple players hitting the same augment?” – For most augments, I don’t really have an issue with this. Seeing 3 people all take Golden Egg, or multiple people with a combat augment isn’t really an issue and can be interesting. However there is one exception, which is hero augments. Nothing feels worse than seeing a hero augment on 2-1, picking it, and then seeing 1 or more other people have taken the same one. It feels SO BAD, and is the kind of experience I think we need to prevent.
“When will we see Chibi Jhin/Ivern/Name of Champ?” – The answer for every champ is “Some day”. There’s a lot of League of Legends champions, and the team is making new Chibis so some day the champ you like may show up. I’ve heard that some day they want to make every champ, though even I’m skeptical of that personally lol. But hey, if and when they make Chibi Malzahar, you can bet I’ll be first in line.
“What do you think about bringing more old sets back?” – We will for sure, and have already announced another revival is coming in Q3 of this year. The first set revival (Galaxies) was generally enjoyed by players, so I can’t imagine that will be the last one. That being said, I doubt we ever have more than one old set active at a time, since any more than that likely divides the queues too much. I doubt we ever enter a world where you can just pick from any old set…but who knows what the future brings!
“Who is your favorite 5 cost of all time?” – Glutton Tahm Kench from Gizmos & Gadgets. Feeding him and powering him up was so fun, and he was the first 5 cost that spawned items on kill. Also that moment when on stream where I fed a 3* Tahm Kench a 3* 4 cost and gave him 8000 AP was too funny and one of my Top 10 TFT memories of all time!
“Can I have a code for some free eggs please?” – No. No you can’t.
“Do you design champs to be strong around certain items?” – Yes!
As we paper design each set, the team is tasked with making sure they have taken into account which items are best on each champ, so we have a nice mix of users that are after those items. You want to avoid a vertical trait (let’s say Sorcerers) where all the users want Shojin + JG + HoJ. So typically on the trait level and the cost level, we push to have a variety of best in slots designed. Even tanks we try to make sure some want different tank items more than others.
Ok that’s it for today. Happy Wednesday, hope your week is going great, and take it easy 🙂
Leave a Reply