Originally Posted by Viktorious Alekt

Please, I ask the same question. Summoner Spells recommended during a Champion Spotlight are pretty much always Smite+ flash.

Originally Posted by RCIX

Which is amusing because Udyr is also really binary. A little less so with the minidash on his bear stance, but still.

Originally Posted by Squilcher

I'm sorry to hear that. Maybe you should try listening to your fan base instead of ignoring them.

Originally Posted by woopyfrood

Morello, how do you feel about Trundle's VU being the worst-received champion release in League history?

Is Riot going to do something about it?

Originally Posted by Sightless66

Can you explain this? It always seemed like the counterplay to a non-gapclosing champion was to stay out of their range. What is it about Skarner that lacks counterplay?

Originally Posted by profirix

Reading this thread after so many years and seeing all of the ideas that people have expressed concern about in terms of balance and champion design, I am humbled to know that Riot actually is listening to the fan base and has implemented so many of these concepts and continues to do so.

>Varus' creation
>Elise's creation
>Fiddle's surprise party skin
>Volibear's creation (against Zileas' vehement opposition)
Honestly the list goes on but I am too lazy to recollect every little thing

Thank you Morello and company for giving me a game that at times may frustrate the hell out of me (I blame the community) but has kept my interest now for over 2 years. To many more years of firing lasers, eating my opponents, and chasing he who should not be chased.

My only two cents in all of this: MOAR DRAGONS! Your quota for over-sized fire-breathing lizards is severely lacking.

Originally Posted by LavaCannon

Didn't Phreak, The Minion Master, bring a demonstone to you already in exchange for his new power?

Originally Posted by trazleon

Hey Morello this is the first time i have asked a question to a rioter so i hope it gets answered.

any word on Dark Crusader Mordekaiser skin that got put on hold from over a year ago??

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/...9#post19221189

Originally Posted by Sumutherguy

@Morello, do you have any plans for Alistar, given that problems with the w+q combo and the rework forced you to repeatedly and heavily nerf him into borderline nonplayability? A new rework, buffs, shifting numbers around, reverting the old rework, anything?

As a suggestion, his current passive is very awkard for laning (if i want to heal/sheen proc, i have to push/disrupt my own cs/disrupt my ally cs) and towerdiving, one of Alistar's old strengths (heal or target non-champions under the tower? better hope nobody's near you). Some means of lowering its inconvenience would be neat. Heck, remove it entirely and give him a new one, thereby killing the inconvenient passive and inherent difficulty balancing ali due to jungle strength birds with one stone.

Originally Posted by Bes7iA

has ever been a champion that when you heard about it, you think on something like this
"thats the most ridiculous idea i had ever heard"

but after more detailde explanation you change your mind and think of something like this
" Oh, thats a really good idea"

Originally Posted by Avenging Angel

Hey Morello, why did you ruin Karma? Just cause you hate sustain and don't know how to implement heals that arn't "unhealthy?". Stop terrorizing supports. Thanks.

Originally Posted by exe3

While I'm glad you have learnt this lesson i'm still bewildered as to why this was a lesson to be learnt at all, this should all be honestly common sense. Have you not seen the reaction to the reboots to many classic franchises recently when a developer goes on a tangent and forgets what the series stood for thus making the fanbase stand up and upend some tables? The unreleased FPS XCOM recently got remade because of the uproar.

Again i'm glad we won't be seeing stuff like this again except in extreme circumstances but how you thought you could blindly go in and change whatever you felt like in the first place is beyond me. It shows a disrespect to the playerbase imo.

Sorry if I come across as rude or a d!ck here, that's not my intent.

Originally Posted by Muranodo

I'm going to offer some subjective feedback here as a very passionate and outspoken niche player that enjoys a lot of monster designs in League. I find this push to be encouraging (though I wish it had been in play before the Trundle matter). That this type of system is being considered speaks of a compromise to me. So, I'm hoping you'll continue the conversation with me.

I do appreciate Lissandra and Vi much more in terms of visual fidelity. Lissandra was a very pleasant surprise to me; it's the kind of risk I'd prefer during the Syndra/Elise (drider skin, please) / Zyra (more infestor/plant skin and/or rework please) period. But there is one request I'd like to make of Riot since we're discussing the future.

Please don't leave the Traditional Trundle skin as it is. You identified it well when you mentioned he was a niche champion and would have remained one even with an expansion. He feels like a champion meant for me that wasn't otherwise offered. I've suffered from depression, feeling abandoned, and otherwise being about to give up on human connection.

His lore spoke heavily to me given this detail. The visual stand point of old Trundle further drove this home. He looked visually like an outcast in his runt-based/diseased/lanky way. I knew he'd stay niche for this, but I didn't mind. He was the kind of champion release that I treasured. After I purchased him with IP, I didn't regret it ever. I enjoyed everything about him. And I kept hoping for a cool skin.

Had new Trundle been released as a skin, I surely would have purchased it to show support. I intend to do so with his other skins if his Traditional variant is fixed. The present version of it, however, lacks the same spark as Trundle on live. I'm sure you've heard why.

I largely lump Trundle in with the likes of Gragas and Urgot that support otherwise very select niche groups. But, they offered a lot of value to someone completely new to the game that wanted to pick a different champion that didn't fit common fantasy wants. I was amazed at the choice when I joined because of this. I'm glad League is trying to stay true to variety, but the present niche needs to be preserved too. You don't have to make another Gragas, Urgot, or Trundle, but they're so valuable because they are rare.

It doesn't have to be prioritized immediately. I know there are lengthy development times. But I think it's important as a sign of good faith to admit more than the mistake and take action: Make the promise and commit the relaunch and/or skins team to fix Traditional Trundle to respect the old version! We take a lot of Riot's words on good faith. This is a way to show that you understand and appreciate all players by making Traditional Trundle the full-on old Trundle. I decided to keep purchasing RP rather than protest. Please, prove to me you're willing to support me too. It doesn't have to be another champion.

Trundle was a champion that very outwardly represented his lore. And his body type, disease effect (buzzing flies that should be on his body and not the pillar), and tripod walk/hop are all crucial there. His Q animation should be fixed too. I'm still not sure why the new Q animation was deemed fitting for a feral, diseased troll.

Keep in mind that we were promised our dirty little pigpen. I believe the skin needs to be reworked for that purpose. I understand this is not my game alone. I understand it won't be in the future. But the greatness of League is the overall representation.

Please fix Traditional Trundle for the niche and devoted base. I've talked to a lot of upset players over this past few weeks, and they love the game. This is killing a lot of them.

Just a promise for now to give the skin a proper resemblance would quiet the unrest and try to get people to support a new direction. It seems the best compromise.

I want to have faith in the ever developing direction. And I think for this group there needs to be this. Not some blight where some very devoted niche players were just left scorned. I want to move forward together. As you said, it is an important topic.

Originally Posted by Scarizard

Do not so quickly count yourself the victor, Witchlord. While it is true you may have taken one Demonstone from us - it was not your strength, nor cunning (or lack thereof) that has earned you this trophy.

In truth, the stone you hold before you is nothing more than a ruse - a clever misdirection. While you in foolishness infiltrated his domain to take from him his sacred charge, Statikk and i hastily moved the original Stone to its new home. Its Master? None other than the No-Nonsense Knight, Volty.

This dud of a 'demonstone', while certainly arcane in nature is nothing but a mere trinket compared to the Thirteen that bind you to our will. I have no doubts that whatever use you may have for its magic (which by your allusion you must certainly have) will do nothing in the grand scheme of things. We know of your plans. And they are as futile as this 'triumph' you feign here publicly.

The Tower of Balance is unmoved by your childs play, dark lord. The Thirteen Stones are safe. I would ask you to do your worst - but with this subpar attempt, i feel you may have already demonstrated your best.

Originally Posted by Psyclone Joker

Was there ever a point where you considered making a champion with more than four skills? Not counting transforming champions, I mean a normal champ with five or more skills.

Originally Posted by Xoripan

Morello, have you ever wore a skirt?

Also, where is my next yordle champ?!

Originally Posted by Jurr

What determines what skins you guys decide to create at any given time for a specific champion?

I'm asking this because you guys started releasing new champions with only one skin and many of those champions still don't have any additional skins (Diana and Zyra for example). Are there any plans on releasing a new awesome Zyra skin relatively soon?

Originally Posted by Lalawooo

Lissandra's art is boring too but people still think she's cool

Originally Posted by ProfHeimerdinger

Can you tell us when is the rework going to happen? (In one patch? two?)

Originally Posted by The Human Torch

Battlefield was going the right direction with Bad Company 2, but they steered towards "Hey Call of Duty is popular, lets be more like them" and Call of Duty is basically free for all in every game except there are modes called "Team Deathmatch" where you can't kill some people.

Originally Posted by Rauron

Originally Posted by Folly Inc

Two things I want to address here, the first adhering to your example, you should never downplay the importance of mechanics. "catch" as you call it is one of the foundations of Football. None of us can be good at the sport if we can't learn to catch first. 1v1, 2v2 have a -very- valuable place in this game. Training, Tutelage, and learning are all fundamentals of this game that are missing in virtually every way.
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Originally Posted by Metronomotopoeia

Have you considered changes that would help dueling/juking in Twilight Shroud, like a slightly larger area, or allowing her to pass through units (big help in the laning phase), or perhaps some personal increased movement speed for that Orianna Shockwave pos/neg effect?

Originally Posted by Sayath

However, what kind of ways do you propose to do so? I know game design is a tricky thing. An idea you think works in theory, might not work in practice.
At what kind of changes are we looking at? Magnitude? Adding little tricks or changing one of her abilities / her passive?

Also could you go into greater depth why you nerfed the areas you did? Especially in connection with the 5 potion limit?

Originally Posted by Zaun Lab Bot

Originally Posted by Xelnath

Summoners, watchers of secrets, harbingers of chaos...

The mighty Geeves has left to explore the world on urgent Live Realm business. In the ensuing void, I have infiltrated the tower of balance he staunchly guarded. I now walk among the inhabitants as one of them. They know not what I seek or why. In his haste... he left the precious artifact behind.

... soon I shall unleash its power to break the shackles holding another back. However, it is not what you think. Be not distracted by the explorer's unimportant tales of a mundane wanderer. That miscreant cares nothing for power or plans.

For those of you who do... look soon to the European West.

Originally Posted by McDouggal

Wait, this is open again?

Originally Posted by Cloakster1842

So I've been playing league for a while now and my bro just started to play. He has only played about 2 games and now when he goes to play a game only ranked solo and duo queue's are available (which he can't play because he is lvl 2). I tried re-logging several times and waited 24 hours and still no luck. So today I made another account for him and the exact same thing is happening (wasn't even able to play one game).

Has this happened to anyone else, and if it has how do you fix this? And It's not the IP because I can play fine on my account with his computer.

Originally Posted by Sayath

"At this point, it is more about re-increasing the reward for playing Akali by giving her fun and interesting gameplay tools that she can use to outplay and outwit her opponents rather than reverting her to a point where she simply has more raw stats and damage numbers to brute-force her way through games."
I really would love to be a clever ninja. Increasing her skill ceiling is the way to go. This will make her complex and thus more rewarding for heavily invested players. I already elaborated on this in the OP.

However, what kind of ways do you propose to do so? I know game design is a tricky thing. An idea you think works in theory, might not work in practice.

Originally Posted by 0xiDIzE

I don't know about that. FPS games allow you to rely on your own individual skill a lot more than MOBAs do.

Originally Posted by Super Explosion

You use the Y plane for vertical orientation?

Eeenteresting.

Originally Posted by raksonraksonraks

honestly im starting to do just that... even though the people im playing with are all bronzies, i at least know what im getting into.

in ranked, i expect other gold players to know what theyre doing, but every time that isnt the case.

i like how you say "then do X" instead of aknowledging the flaws of this game and maybe thinking of a way to fix them. but then again, this is a cash cow, so why fix it when people are paying for it anyways?

Originally Posted by RCIX

Okay morello, I like you and support you a lot, but really? Someone saying "I like league but the concept of depending on unreliable teammates is distasteful to me; I would like a mode where I can legitimately play solo" gets the response of (effectively) "that doesn't matter, find friends/put up or shut up"? I am disappoint

I was giddy when I saw the 1v1/2v2 map leak. I thought it meant Riot was finally recognizing how boneheaded the idea of solo queue is, or at least trying to help satisfy the parts of the playerbase that (knowingly or not) hate being 10% of a game's outcome. Come to hear it was just a showmap for LCS and Riot was missing the point? That hurt more than the year and a half and counting Dominion has been ignored.

Originally Posted by PsychoSim

I noticed there's this thing in the background... this cyclone... this eye that is in the background in the sky... what is that?