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Vladimir text updated to better reflect functionality. Katarina text updated to better reflect functionality. Heimerdinger text updated to better reflect functionality. Magnum Opus (Corina Veraza's ability) visuals updated. We've updated assorted card visuals and icons, as well as the text on a couple champions (just for clarity, no functional changes). We're still keeping watch on it, and if we see significant fractions of the meta playing Ionia specifically to gain access to this tool, we'll consider rebalance or redesign.

Now that we've adjusted many of the tools that contributed toward the power of those strategies, we expect the reactive power of Deny to decrease in a similar way. Instead, we're watchlisting the Cryophoenix with the intent to modify how she functions and find a better balance in the future.ĭeny has a powerful, unique effect, and we think that its prevalence during the first preview patch was due to the outsized impact of big mana / late game / She Who Wanders decks and Deny's role in defending against them. We don't think numbers tweaks will fix these interactivity problems, so no changes for now. Thus far, we think there are lots of benefits to having such a unique and fun build-around champion in Legends of Runeterra, and she hasn't yet reached a level where we think a nerf or redesign is needed.Ĭopying, reviving, and giving Ephemeral to Anivia are all intended gameplay, but can sometimes be exceptionally frustrating to play against. There are three aspects of Fiora we're watching: her overall win rate, her ability to punish strategies that play smaller units, and the frustration of attacking into her.

We love Brood Awakening's flexibility for a "swarm the board" card, but it makes for an extremely powerful effect that we'd like to slightly delay hitting the board.įiora has an amazingly powerful effect, but requires quite a bit of work to jump through all the hoops. What we're intentionally NOT changing: Cards we're not changing for REASONS, despite the fact that some of you might be clamoring for us to do so.

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What we're keeping an eye on: Stuff we think might need tweaks, but are still evaluating or considering how to best update. When we talk about balance and card updates, we'll generally discuss three categories (sometimes not all at once): To be clear, we definitely won't hit these goals all the time–they're meant to be difficult, aspirational targets that we aim for in our never-ending quest to keep improving the game.Īs that quest continues, we plan to check in with you all on balance around once a month (when we patch). The meta should support the widest possible array of competitively viable decks. Regions should have at least one competitively viable deck. Non-champion cards should have at least one deck where they're a good option. For now, here's an extreme summary of our high-level goals for balance:Įvery champion should have a deck where they're the best fit. You may have seen our recent articles diving into our progression philosophy and reward numbers we'll eventually do something similar for our balance philosophy, but we're not ready quite yet–like we said, this patch is more about ongoing development and less about live balance. Ideally, these updates are exciting, but not overwhelming, and lead to the feeling that there's always a new deck to discover, but not an entirely different game to learn. We're intentionally trying a LOT of things before launch so we can find a sweet spot for the amount of change that happens at once. We want LoR to always feel fresh and think card updates are a key way to achieve that. That said, the scope of these changes reflects a core tenet of our design philosophy that we want to be super transparent about: LoR is still in very active development, which goes for the cards just as much as the features, bugs, polish, etc. You should NOT expect this number of changes at one time to be the norm.
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Check out this video for the full details:Īs a bonus for playing this preview patch, all your Expeditions this week are on us! Select "Expeditions" from the Play tab and use the free Expedition Token or the 8000 shards that have been added to your inventory to embark.īefore we get to the good stuff, we'd like to ask you to bear with us as we wax philosophical and give an important disclaimer: In the Expeditions mode, you draft a deck as you go, overcoming as many opponents as you can with an evolving set of cards.
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This is our first major update to the game, and it's a big one–there's a new Expeditions mode, 40+ card updates, and a bunch of technical improvements.
