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Xenogenic

@Xenogenic

4 months

The day has come! Here is the game we've been building alongside the best community LET'S GO

SUPERVIVE

@playSUPERVIVE

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Say hello to SUPERVIVE, a neon-apocalyptic hero battle royale Watch now and sign up in the 🧵👇

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I like the direction you're heading in, but I'd really love to see a unique, strategic output for Nautilus. Might I suggest this: he can yeet his target into his own fountain

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After my ranked winrate fell below 28%, I was like: "What am I doing wrong? What could I be doing better on Master Yi?" And I realized that while we increased the reliability of Master Yi's Alpha Strike timing, we could push reliability/understandability even further:

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@neiltyson @JeffBezos And that's still shorter than a @cvspharmacy receipt.

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It's not even close

Pop Crave

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Who's your favorite fictional pop star?

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@DisguisedToast @riotgames @TFT @NeburaART Hey Diguised Toast, don't think we've met. I'm the design lead for PIE, the team that does skins etc. I think this is a great idea. I've asked the team if they could get to work on concepting and creating skins based on your likeness as featured here:

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Today is my last day at Riot. Emotions are a hell of a thing. Very sad to be leaving, on the one hand, yet excited for a new adventure on the other. The MMO team is absolutely world-class. It's been such an honor to be able to be a part of it.

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This was my last project on the champions team before moving to our events/skins team. My main man @EndlessPillows took it over when I was about to switch teams to level it up and carry it to the finish line. Say hello to the new king of top lane.

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Well that's a new Cho'gath record for me: 9260 hp (with an elixir of iron); 22 stacks

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@shoe0nhead @livesmattershow "Your candidate is winning by popular vote so would you still want to abolish the electoral college if he wins?" ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????SDFolkjasd fadsf

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So! Why is @Rovient taking my spot as the Design Lead for our skins/events/Eternals/etc. team? Because I'm joining our MMO team as a Principal Game Designer! The last 4 years working on League has been the honor and privilege of my 13 year career. (1/2)

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3 years

We're nerfing QSS by making you not want to buy it

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@Sirhaian

3 years

We put a lot of emphasis and time in his Ultimate, in which he teleports you to his city. This was legit the most challenging effect I've ever gotten to work on.

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You come at me with this shit and I'm still going to be nice to you.

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4 years

Uh, yes please rito

Feh

@redstringoffeh

4 years

K/DA Fanboy Nunu & Willump fanskin #KDAMORE #skintober #ArtofLegends

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As some of you know, a bug made it to PBE where Ekko would moonwalk during his passive. We fixed it, and many of you reached out to ask "wtf rito?" (I'll explain why below) So, @AnimBaum set up a new moonwalk anim that isn't his homeguard and we've hooked it back up:

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If you don’t Then you love me don’t deserve at my me at my

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3 years

What is your favorite spec/rotation in any MMO, and why? Tell me what you love about it

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Players on PBE noticed they were completing this mission that requires you to perform an action as Riven on champions that were not Riven. After deep investigation, I figured out it's because they fed Poros. Don't see the connection? Welcome to game development.

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I finally got to tell someone on voice to shut the fuck up for asking a female player if she has a boyfriend instead of letting her play the game in peace. It felt as good as I had imagined it would, and he apologized.

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@Xenogenic

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We just compiled the matches played data for the past week for Galaxies to see which path Lux might take: Duty, or Ambition? By a very, very small fraction, Duty (cosmic) has pulled ahead!

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@Xenogenic

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Sometimes the truth isn't what you expected, or perhaps what you wanted to hear

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@Xenogenic

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This is a joke that stems from a thread some of us had here: New designer: use instincts to try to make cool stuff Mid designer: over-index on trying to demonstrate skill Senior: care less about demonstrating skill, make cool stuff again w/ wisdom Principal: make 3 hit passives

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While I was on champions team, I got pins for champions we made. Now we are doing that tradition on PIE! I never knew how much I enjoyed collecting pins. Can you figure out which pin goes with which new champ, champ update, or event? (They aren’t placed in any order right now)

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To the League players: getting to ship Nunu and Morde's updates was the highlight of my 15 year career. I love you all so much. Thank you. To the Val players: the nonstop requests for gun buddies never bothered me. I'm so glad you like our game that much. Thank you too :)

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Out of curiosity: How many of you that follow me and play League have been chat restricted? And if you have, how many of you read the log and felt like you didn't deserve it? Do any of you in that spot still have the log?

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@Xenogenic

3 years

New champion release means it's time for my favorite gameshow "WILL. IT. JUNGLE?!"

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@Xenogenic

4 years

Little known fact: K/DA had to descend into Mordekaiser's realm, Mitna Rachnun, to fetch that deeeep bass during Akali's solo. He said they weren't worthy of its dirty depth, but it only took a minute to get what he had.

K/DA

@KDA_MUSIC

4 years

Call it a flex. K/DA "THE BADDEST" ft. @G_I_DLE , @beamiller , and @wolftyla . 💎YouTube: 💠Apple Music: 💓Spotify: #KDA #THEBADDEST #AHRI #EVELYNN #KAISA #AKALI #THEBADDEST

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Alright, friends! I passed 10k followers in the night, so I'm now officially doing my 10k RP giveaway! This will go until 11 AM PT tomorrow, then submissions will be cut off. :) There are 2 categories, with 5000 RP rewards each. I'm choosing my favorite answers subjectively

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3 years

So many people thinking the Chris Rock, Will Smith drama was staged to help the Oscars. Am I the only one who noticed the pain on Jada’s face when Chris made fun of her health condition? I really do not think she signed up to have her health mocked to benefit the Oscars.

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@Xenogenic

5 years

We published an Ask Riot in which I answered a common question about our Events, their quality overall, custom game modes, etc. You can read it here:

Ask Riot: Events and Game Modes

Plus an update on Clash.

nexus.leagueoflegends.com

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Person in champ select: What do you do at Riot? Me: I'm a game design lead Them: How did you let Samira through?! Me, hovering Samira: After you see me play her, you will think she's underpowered as hell

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Spirit Guard Udyr fans: I'm about to checkin a change such that the ultimate forms of his abilities come online at 5 points in the abilities instead of 6. I'm open to feedback if you feel strongly it should be even earlier but feel like this is a good place to start.

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@Xenogenic

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"you going red kayn?" "of course I am"

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@Xenogenic

5 years

Can we talk about the VFX in this Jhin ult that @Sirhaian did? Sorry that each and every one of you is a Jhin main now (me too).

League of Legends // UK, IE & Nordics

@LoLUKN

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Become death. Become beauty. Become all.

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A lot of people ask what I’m most excited about in working on Riot’s MMO and I think so far it’s @Ghostcrawler sending the design team to live in an underwater facility in the ocean for a few months so we can finally tackle this problem.

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@Xenogenic

5 years

Some potentially interesting data from the April Fools event: -More players picked dogs than cats -More cat players completed all of their missions (% wise) than dog players -A lot of you decided to Go Fast and do the Nunu speed objective (more than expected)

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Here is an update for the ongoing contest between Cosmic Lux and Dark Cosmic Lux: -We are looking at the average number of games played by members of the two sides to determine which way the story goes, and remarkably, both sides are tied right now

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@AnimBaum So the solution we're shipping is that Ekko and his allies see the moonwalk, but enemies don't. Then we have no gameplay concerns and the dope moonwalk makes it back in.

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4 years

Total token budget for PsyOps: -300 from free missions -200 from buying the event pass -1000 from Wins of the Week -150 extra from a mission closer to the end because we had to shorten the event 5 days Therefore, total from missions: 1650

Junko Enoshima

@EnoshimaJunkoDQ

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@Xenogenic How much token Will we gain from weekly missions ?

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@Xenogenic

7 years

I often feel like QA folks are really underappreciated in games. They're so damn helpful and have a tough job, so shout out to them.

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4 years

We ran the numbers against yesterday to see which path Lux might be taking: Duty, or Ambition? Currently, Duty (cosmic) has pulled ahead a bit more, though the totals are still extremely close! There's one week left to help lock in her fate by playing!

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As I mentioned the other week, today I turn 40. I think I'm supposed to be bummed about it but I'm not, not at all. In fact, I think my 40s will be the best decade of my adult life (overall). Here's some ramblings about my adulthood so far:

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Monthly reminder: if you want to be a mechanics designer, pay attention during linear algebra. You know how we're always asking of math classes, "When will I ever need to know this?" Well, if you're a mechanics designer, you'll use vectors often. Knowing how to math them helps

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With all of the data in, we have announced that Lux has chosen the path of Ambition! In the final tally, Ambition players averaged just a single game more during the event than Duty players - that is how close it was!

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We've officially begun design work for Series 2 Eternals. Like Series 1, these are sets of 3 unique Eternals for each champion. If you have ideas for Eternals you would like on your favorite champions, let us know in this thread!

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Teammate takes my krugs when I'm level 3, so I'm still 4 when enemy JG is 6. Can't gank, can't contest objectives. Spend the next 15 minutes power farming to stay relevant. Get flamed for farming. Grit my teeth and we win anyway. Ya'all ever have games like that?

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Total tokens available from missions (for pass owners): -300 from free missions -200 from buying the pass -1000 from Weekly Wins (5 weeks, 200 each)

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@a_gus96

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@KenAdamsNSA @Xenogenic how many tokens we win for free? And how many we get with the pass? 200 with the purchase plus 940 of the weekly wins missions?

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Which champ(s) make you feel bad when you ban them because of their VO? Ekko comes to mind for me. He says “You used to be cool” and sounds actually sad, and I’m like listen, I’m sorry, but you know what you were about to do. I feel kinda bad though

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Yesterday was my 3 year anniversary of working at Riot and last month was my 12th year as a designer. As such, I’m familiar with many studios and their cultures, work environments, etc. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. Riot is truly special, and I’m so grateful.

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Players in game: "What do you do at Riot" Me: "I'm a game design lead, which means I used to game design, now I go to meetings"

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Hey folks! I made a post on reddit regarding the final Wins of the Week mission here: tl;dr - we're going to ship another mission that grants 140 additional tokens with an objective of "Play 1 game" to bring this total to 340 (the 200 here + 140 more)

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Now that Spirit Blossom is over, I'd love to have a conversation with all of you for your feedback! Tagging in @RiotGearhook as well since she designed the Spirit Bonds system and missions. What did you like? What didn't you like? How was tuning? And so forth! Let us know

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I just had the craziest game design epiphany. You're not ready, but here it goes: it's theoretically possible to design a fishing minigame wherein the player only catches fish and doesn't also catch useless junk

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The Trials standings have been updated! The current House standings are: 1st place - United 2nd place - Warband 3rd place - Faceless 4th place - Council The competition is actually quite close, and remember: the upcoming weeks are worth more points, so it's anybody's game!

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Quick update on the Cosmic Lux contest: We're waiting for all event data to come in from all regions around the world. It's incredibly close, so while Duty has been winning (barely), it really is down to this final data. We'll update either late this week or early next week!

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Here is a player thinking it takes that studio 10 minutes to concept, design, write, script/code, model, animate, make audio for, and test. I hate to break it to you but it takes me 10 minutes just to correctly type my long-ass password so I can begin opening my software.

Eric Bailey

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while it's true that people are generally poor at grasping large numbers sometimes i think they're not so great at the little ones either

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@KateyAnthony Oh we're just getting started.

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The Worlds 2019 Event Pass is live! As we've been talking about for a bit now, we're making changes to events and event passes so they are more rewarding, feel more worth your time, etc. A step in that direction is live in this pass with increased milestone rewards:

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@Xenogenic

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So with 9.24 comes a new event and a new Event Pass. We're making some improvements/iterations, and I'd like to chat with you about some of them! Thread below:

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Just to boost visibility: we saw/heard the feedback around the True Damage loading screen borders, as detailed here: The team agreed to update them, but can't do in time for the ir launch. Look for it in a patch in the near-ish future, though!

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Hey folks, we wanted to give you some insight into the token reward changes for the Galaxies event:

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Alright, friends! The Worlds event is live, as is its Event Pass! Wanted to highlight the differences again with this one: -400 free tokens from missions + watching Worlds finals -30 Event Pass Milestone Missions (50 prestige points and more!) -1225 tokens from Weekly Wins

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BEHOLD

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Twitter has become my preferred platform for interacting with players. I've had a chance to talk to so many of you and really enjoy my time here Definitely concerns me that Musk misunderstands that freedom of speech does not mean the freedom to say anything without consequence

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I win. You lose.

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If you've tried the Ekko skin, I want to talk about how much fun it was to work with @RiotJirsan on making the music interact with his abilities. That kind of collaboration is definitely one of my favorite parts of being on this team :)

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Finally feeling better after my covid booster calls for some dad jokes in Ultimate Spellbook (my favorite game mode of all time, no joke)

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A little over a week left of the Mecha Kingdoms event in LoL, so it's that time for you all to hit me with your feedback again! Anything is fair game, but especially interested in knowing: -What are your thoughts around the Event Pass Milestone pacing? Too fast/slow/just right?

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Giving world-class design answers to world-class design questions in League lobbies

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I can't believe it's been 2021 for 4 months already

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In showing you this S-tier emote, I will also say that we are still discussing expanding the emote wheel. The team that would do that work has much higher priority work for the time being, though, but just wanted to say it's on our list. I need this emote now :(

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@themermaidxo

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That's it. That's the tweet.

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As per usual, Seraphine's Eternals will be activated in the upcoming patch (10.23)! They are: "Star Power" - Total damage dealt with passive "Fans to Stans" - Muliple (2+) champs hit by R "ADSR" - CCs upgraded by E

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2 years

First day with our new president has been busy but fun.

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5 years

Doing some work on Fiddlestick's Eternals, and since people will probably just scrape the files, I'll release these spoilers here so we control the narrative: -Fiddle has a Passive, a W, and an R that we're making Eternals for

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I've noticed the completely understandable confusion/misuse of "mob" in the context of games. What it doesn't mean: -Group of monsters. That's a "pack" What it does mean: -Single monster. Why? Because it stands for "mobile object," which was important in ancient times

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What are your guesses? :)

League of Legends

@LeagueOfLegends

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Who's ready for some sand, sun, and surf?🌞🌊

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Here's a gif I just made that feels like an overly-ripe canvas for memes.

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I'm also going to do an RP giveaway! Do this to receive some RP: -Using MSPaint, draw your favorite champion in a new, funny skin thematic (someone said Fast Food Nunu, things like that) and reply to this tweet with it, along with an explanation of what it is.

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Gonna be honest, I really did not enjoy leveling in Lost Ark whatsoever. Compared to MMOs, it was fast to get to endgame, yet still too long for what it was. But I'm actually really enjoying the endgame. Did the 8 player abyssal dungeons last night and they were awesome

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You wake up in game design jail. What did you do?

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Wow guys, we invite @loltyler1 to play and we can't accommodate him with a chair of the right size? That's messed up.

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Since I worked on Fiddle's Eternals, which involves a fair amount of testing, I have to say: he gives me the damn heebie-jeebies. S+ execution on making him terrifying by that team. Really can't wait to play him

League of Legends

@LeagueOfLegends

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Terror in Demacia

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This week's patch brings Samira's Eternals! As a reminder, if you own the Series 1 pass, you automatically get every new Series 1 set as they come out, forever. They are: -Enemy champs knocked up by Passive -Ult projectiles destroyed with W -Enemy champ multikills with R

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You asked for it

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@LeagueOfLegends

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Power Cuteness These are my weapons

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Also quick update regarding the "what's your favorite spec?" thread: my dad passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on the 21st. It's been a long and difficult 1.5 weeks since. I'm back in LA now and got back to work today, so I will still review the thread in its entirety

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Yes, this is important! By choosing a side, your engagement (games) help "vote" for which side she chooses! She must choose between her duty to protect the universe and her ambition to harness the power of the Dark Star. Make a choice and play to help decide the official lore

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If you didn't see: We built and deployed missions today that reward Arcade event tokens for playing TFT. Full info is here:

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A few weeks ago, I gathered feedback about the Mecha Kingdoms event, so I'd like to share some of the common things I heard and whether we will or won't be able to address them in the next event. If not, rest assured - they're on our list of things we want to do.

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Around 20 years ago, I planted thousands of trees on my grandpa’s land in Wisconsin. I never visited them again until last weekend. It was such a surreal feeling to walk in a large section of forest that I was responsible for.

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4 years

The worst part of Spirit Blossom for me is figuring out how I'm going to make all these champs work in the jungle because I need to play them with their new skins

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The total tokens from Weekly Wins are 940 - almost half of the prestige skin. Given the flexibility of when you can do these and the increase in rewards, we expect the grind will feel meaningfully reduced to get Prestige skins - let us know how you feel about that!

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So! If trends continue, I will hit 10k followers sometime in the relatively near future, so I want to do a 10k RP giveaway. Looking for feedback on how ya'all would like to see that go. Questions like: -Is 1 big payout more exciting? Or multiple payouts to reach 10k?

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Just to clarify the tokens available /before/ your tokens for just playing: 200 from the pass 300 from missions 940 from wins (200 per week but the last week is 340 - has more than 7 days) Total: 1440 Wins on SR/ARAM still give 12 and 8, respectively, etc.

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@Xenogenic

5 years

The total tokens from Weekly Wins are 940 - almost half of the prestige skin. Given the flexibility of when you can do these and the increase in rewards, we expect the grind will feel meaningfully reduced to get Prestige skins - let us know how you feel about that!

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A) I love that this is becoming a meme B) This one is especially true and hilarious @Riotswimbananas @loltyler1

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Taking this as my profile pic before @blaustoise can

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How would you feel if a Rioter just insta-locked Viego before saying anything? Haha, what? No, of course I wouldn't do that, just curious how you'd feel if someone with the Riot tag did that, hypothetically speaking, haha ...haha

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