Hi Ez ^.^ I got a few questions,

1. Pantheon is strong early and mid game, but falls off really bad late game, are there any plans to fix this or at least fix his ulti to be good, maybe less cast time on it or perhaps some armor and magic resist or maybe an increase of attack speed and/or % damage increase while casting and 5 seconds or so after he lands?

2. I feel like the Lulu patch hit Irelia very hard, will they be working on her or are they satisfied to how she came out?

3. I sometimes wish that I could refund a champion and get maybe 50% of the IP back or so, will this maybe happen? If so will it also happen with runes?

4. This is all I could think of at the moment, if you can't answer any of them, thanks for just looking at them ^.^

P.S. You're a great designer keep up the fantastic job

Just thought of another passive/maybe active skill idea. Didn't actually think of it, it's from one of the more popular MOBA customs in starcraft II.

The basic of it is this:

When this champion (he's melee) attacks a target from behind, he is temporarily stealthed then applies a debuff on his target which procs a slow and bonus damage after a short delay. These debuffs stack (that is, attacking while one is about to proc will add another, not refresh the duration of the last one).

I imagine the stealth would be really annoying and confusing to newer players so that would probably have to be dropped. What do you think about the rest of the mechanic though? Maybe tweak it so that you can apply more of the debuffs as long as you have one pending on the target (to prevent a trivial counter being ordering your champ to attack this guy).

Apparently, the idea of a Mapuche-themed champion is getting lots of support, so I thought I could throw out an idea.

@Ezreal (you are awesome),

A South American Indian-themed champion would not just be cool for diversity's sake, it would also be a chance to try out a new weapon. The Inca, Mapuche, and other nearby people used bolas for hunting and warfare (a bola is that thing you throw at people's legs to trip them up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolas) It is a pretty cool ranged and/or melee weapon and I think a champion that fought with bolas would be awesome. Do you think it could work well in a fighter's kit?

I agree, Skarner does need new skin's though he is a pretty recent champion.

A friend of mine and I were having a discussion a little while ago about Morgana's ultimate and using it to stealth detect. Is this something that was intended for Morgana, or did it turn out to be just one of those, "Oh, that's neat!" sort of deals?

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Hey Guys, time for another round of @Ezreal Updates. Here comes another 5 pages worth of responses. Keep asking questions and I'll be more than happy to answer as many as I can! The shorter the question the more likely I will be able to answer it.

Also, I always tweet whenever I finish a post in @Ezreal (Twitter: @RiotEzreal) (should be easier than sifting through this thread, oh, and does anyone know how I can look at the 'last' rioter post on a thread?). http://twitter.com/#!/RiotEzreal

We held on them for a few reasons. The main one was the tournament, however, that was not the singular reason we held off on the buffs / feel improvements. The live team was getting numerous reports that Ezreal was 'overpowered' in other nations. He also had a fairly high win ratio, which was not in line with what most players were preaching. So we opted to not make the changes. I'm sure a few of the changes, especially the feel ones, will make it in eventually.

1) I'm afraid that item would either be unusable or overpowered. You would only purchase the negative attribute if you didn't care that much about it (i.e. dealing damage as a support). So the bonuses garnered from the negative aspect would be worth more than the negative aspect. Making it overpowered, or, if we balanced the power with the trade off in mind, not fun.
2) I'm generally a fan of removing most RNG from games, but even competitive FPS's have some soft 'RNG'. Think about those times where your weapons kickback accidentally knocked your sights up to get you a headshot. I think having a small amount of RNG adds flavor, we just need to keep it manageable.

Haha, that has absolutely zero impact on our nerfing supports. That was a for fun game between ridiculously great players, and whatever rioters were around to play the game. They were super nice and gave us a fighting chance by running a really sub optimal group.

We have been nerfing / nerf remaking a number of supports because we believe it will make the game more fun to play and watch (check out some of my earlier posts if you want more in depth reasoning).

Haha, oh yes it is. Think of it this way, if the character would literally make you shudder at the thought of kissing it, then you've probably gone too far. For the extra mile, if you would want to kiss it, and shudder at the concept of that, then that might be even worse =-P.

1) Haha, wow, can you guess how often I used Fortify =-P.
2) I always suggest StarEdit and WarEdit. I personally started off with Starcraft I's map editor, and moved on to Warcraft's editor. I've heard that Starcraft II's map editor is top notch, albeit more difficult to use due to it's impressive capabilities. I would suggest starting there. Maybe figure out which warcraft III custom game never made it over and port it into Starcraft II.

1) Not at all actually. Ezreal came from a number of sources, though he primarily came out of the concept of an all skill shot champion. We wanted to make a unique archer who could materialize his bow whenever he fired it. So we looked into other games, comics, and shows which have done this in the past.
2) Dominion was really supposed to focus on the small scale skirmishes. If you want larger skirmishes I HIGHLY recommend ARAB (all random all botom). It's a custom game where the entire team goes bottom lane in dominion. It's a ton of fun...I think I'll go play one after I post here =-D.

Haha, I've gotten more than my fair share of trash talking because of that dance. Though however much I have disliked it, I have found that it makes him more memorable. What other champion has gotten half as much publicity for their dance?

Honestly, I am starting to become more and more alright with that proposition. If the live team can be convinced, I won't block it (where I previously have).

We want to get that Stealth update out ASAP, so probably not because worrying about more champions utilizing it would only delay the release.

whats the eta on that rework

Any news about yordle in a tank champ and dog champ?

edit: also thanks :P

Speaking of map editors, have you guys ever considered creating a map editor for LoL? I somehow never get tired of playing SR and the occasional Dominion, but being able to make your own maps for custom games would be pretty nifty.

@Ezreal

1. When will my little Evelynn get a rework ?

2. Your awesome man!

3. How did you feel after you made your first champion to League of Legends?

4. Again your awesome man!