I know that you partially helped design Shyvana, so I wanted to ask something about her.

Are you happy about where she is sitting right now in regards to the jungle changes? Ever since you added more health onto the bigger monsters, her clears have been hit rather badly. She takes alot of damage in the intial clear, and can easily be killed in her own jungle if she gets caught. Her ganks are nigh impossible with all of the gap closers and the much easier access to wards, and the penetration changes are making her tank steriods worth less. Not to mention the main stat she scaled so well with got more expensive. (Arkspd)

Thoughts?

thoughts on making master Yi an hybrid champion???

also about his mechanics:

is there a reason why his doublestrike doesnt refresh both on AA and with time like nocturne's passive??

could you consider to make the automatic AA after alphastrike faster?? it seems too slow and allows enemies to escape easily.

do you still believe AD yi needs a handicap when his E is on CD??? (phreak said he asked some yi players about it, but i cant really consider it necessary when there are champions with no weaknesses like lee sin out there)

and melee carries:

why do melee carries have weak lategames compared to lategame monsters like jax or olaf or even poppy??? and the fact that there's not much difference between the damage of a ranged and melee ADC??

why do melee carries have such low priority when they have been in trouble for so long???

Hey Ez, how about an earth mage that uplifts an arena (like jarvan's ult) but instead of trapping enemys and allies alike... Rises an area of terrain with aura buffs/nerfs and enemys may choose between fighting on it or falling and taking damage and slow?

Paladin
Dragon
Robot with lasers(pew pew)
Jedi(well not really but just wanted to say it)
An elemental
A demi-god/demon/Angel (angel is already kind of taken)
A ghost/specter
Someone or something wielding an ethereal weapon
Someone or something that is clearly a mage/witch/wizard(lizard)
A caster that deals auto attack damage primarily through minion attacks(has no auto attack)

Tbh, Lulu and her Pix has a kind of thematic look and auto attack that justifiably could have made her an AP auto attacker.

Kayle is the closest example of an 'AP auto attacker' at the moment. She has a rather clear indicator that she does magic damage as an auto attack because her attack range and animation changes.

Evelynn would have to be the other example. Even though it is technically not an auto attack, hate spikes runs to about the same effect as an ap auto attack. The splash in both Evelynn and Kayle's cases make it more believable.

Elise, Orianna, Cho' Gath, and Teemo are a bit deceptive with their magic damage auto attacks.

Can we please see Zelos or Tempus the community has been clamoring for them >.>

How do you feel about a storybook Giant champion? One of the most popular and known archetypes in games, childhoods and books yet missing from this game. Might be a little biased considering I am 6'10, but it would be pretty nice to have a physical representation of myself in the game rather than Renekton and Pantheon representing Rage and Honor.

I spitballed some ideas here: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/....php?t=3046054

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As always feel free to check out my @RiotEzreal Twitter, as I'll always post in it whenever I post in this thread (just makes it easier to track).

1) Well, I wanted a 'fake brush' sort of gameplay. Something that would feel similar to the 'fake treasure cubes' from mario cart. Where players see it and feel that something is out of place. I also wanted her to have a way to trigger her passive (don't forget that Caitlyn was made back when AD carries were mid lane, so she didn't have a lot of access to brush).

2) I'll talk about him more later, but the elemental hydra was a short lived idea that was ultimately passed on.

3) Most of the old school champion designers are helping out all across the company. For example, Geeves now leads the Live team!

4) Agreed, I would love to see more champion VO (voice over) interaction.

I'm afraid I don't know anything about this topic. But if there is a large playerbase there then I am sure that we will try to help out the players as soon as possible.

It turns out there aren't really any true junglers. Most of the traits players need to jungle are very applicable to the top lane. For example, I play Nocturne as purely a top lane champion!

We want to explore the melee dps class more. But to be honest, it is pretty dang hard. High dps classes are generally glass cannons, champions who are capable of dealing high amounts of dps while also not able to take high amounts of damage. The best way of dealing with this is range. Thus, melee range champions fail on this aspect almost instantly. So we end up having to create short scenarios where they can output their dps (Master Yi's Highlander, Fiora's Bladewaltz). That being said, we are looking at making a new melee dps. But it will take time as it is a very difficult class to figure out.

Interesting, we were just discussing this in the office recently. We discussed how the 'main character' of many fantasy series is the classic mage knight (the hero who can both wield a sword and cast magic). We dig the idea, but can't find a way to differentiate it enough from Draven. Thoughts?

...wat?

I remember that one, his art work was pretty bomb. He had amazing details on that character.

1) The battlecast skin line is one of my favorites. It would be silly to not make more of them.

2) Ah, I didn't know that skin was a battlecast, I'll have to look into it.

3) Yea, void champions are pretty awesome. I don't think you'll find anyone who disagrees with you there.

What's wrong with it?

Well, we just got a new void creature in Kha'Zix, and he is pretty awesome. I can see making a new one over time. What class do you think it would be?

Well, chaos magic is indeed cool, but it has a fundamental flaw. Chaos magic is usually associated with 'randomness'. A champion who is based on randomness is flawed, as it is impossible to balance. Now you could make an argument for making the chaos mage a multi elemental mage who could cast a number of different spells. But that archetype is cleaner when associated with elementalists. So I do believe it would be cool, I just don't believe chaos magic is a good place to explore in LoL (well, other than maybe overwhelming amounts of evil magic).

The community ultimately raises when we need to change characters. Then it's up to someone on the team to come up with a good way to improve the champion. They then need to prove to the team that the character needs the changes in order to be better. Once those are in place we try to find time for them to enact the positive changes. So if the community thinks Darius is problematic then they should beseech a designer to take on the cause of updating him.

1) I'm not sure.
2) Hexmage was the codename for Viktor.
3) That was a mistake on our part. Though I'm not sure if it was that we had the wrong hand on the icon, or if we changed the hand in the particle.

I hope so, the hunt is on is one of the coolest easter eggs we have ever added to the game.

As for your health as a resource question, it is a valid option that we can use again in the future. We just try to spread them out as they are generally less restricted than mana gated champions, and thus more difficult to balance.

Awesome, I'll check him out.

I'll pass this on to Live.

Ultimately dwarves have too much overlap with Yordles to be their own race in LoL. That being said, I think we could take elements from dwarves and create a pretty awesome yordle that would take on these elements. After all, why be restricted to copying what has been done in the past when we can make a new unique version using our own world.

2013 is going to have a pretty good balance between the two, but will also have a fair number of humanoids, creatures, and yordles!

We ultimately decided to pass on this character early on. We simply couldn't find a good way of placing a personality on this champion. Take for example dragons and phoenixes. These are classically intelligent creatures who have both monstrous and human qualities. Hydras on the other hand have almost universally had just monstrous qualities (barring Tiamat, who is more of a 5 headed dragon than a hydra). This led us to believe that hydra's are more likely to be an epic boss creature than a LoL champion.

hi red! <3 can you give us another AP champ next?

sup ez

How do you feel about the incoming Ezreal nerfs? His already low movement speed is being nerfed by 5 and his ult's damage is being majorly reduced in teamfights.

As a buyer of Pulsefire Ez and as someone that just likes Ezreal the bit-by-bit nerfs that have been coming (and seem to be still coming) are kind of disheartening.

Wicked thread by the way man! 650 pages of awesomeness!