Live-Updates zu Patch 9.13

We've now wrapped up our #lifeofapatch process today. I hope that you all enjoyed seeing behind the balance curtain for a patch. Even though we wont be giving you all the play by play, we're always here to answer questions about our work.

and that's a wrap on #lifeofapatch! thanks to everyone for following along during the past two weeks and yelling at me about balance changes even though i specifically said not to 🤭

Attached the final Illaoi list that is scheduled to ship to Live. Did some passive and E slight modifications following the last time I sent it out: #lifeofapatch

#lifeofapatch is almost over as 9.13 is wrapping up and getting out of our hands to get to live servers next week.
I had a blast unveiling how the team works to ship every other week update to Summoner's Rift.
Shoutout to @shioshoujo for organizing this campaign.

I always have some minor panic on branch cut day. Come in and hope I don't have to fix a difficult bug in the next hour. Today, just one minor bug was on me which was a typo on one of my tickets and not in the game. Noice. #lifeofapatch

Sivir and Essence Reaver both got nerfs. Went lighter on Sivir than she needed because the system will also reduce her power: #lifeofapatch

Ornn was actually in a place where he could get some more buffs! Always exciting to me. Buffed his Volcanic Rupture (Q)'s total AD ratio from 1.0 >>> 1.1. This is approximately +7-12 just from his base AD, but if you want to build a Black Cleaver on him, more value! ;)

I was kind of on a 'rounding numbers' spree for our simple bucket tasks this patch. Tristana got some of that attention along with a small buff to Rocket Jump: #lifeofapatch

Sylas will still be getting some longer term attention from @Squad5lol but we took some of his changelist to buff him this patch. Attack Damage :: 58 >>> 61; HP per Level :: 85 >>> 95; Kingslayer (W) Base Damage :: 60-180 >>> 65-205. #lifeofapatch

Today is our last day to check in changes for 9.13 so we will be locking down all of the numbers. #lifeofapatch

New day, new Akali to test:

Starting off today doing some prep work for preseason. Probably going to be heads down in this until morning playtest. #lifeofapatch

SONA NERFSSSSSSS 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Swain CL that is super subject to change and likely will. My initial thoughts on it in following tweets.

tfw @RiotBlaustoise solo kills me and gets up from his desk to run over and dab on me IRL

MID PLAYTEST UPDATE: Neeko bugged out so I had to swap to Morg and now I'm inting my brains out.

SR team Ritual #5: State of the Game
D+0: Patch goes Live.
D+5: Data has been gathered (win rates, ban rates, runes choices, etc).
D+8: Next Patch content is Locked (it will go through QA and Deploy)
D+14: Patch goes Live

On D+6 we do a "State of the Game" meeting

Coming out of the "state of the game" meeting we added a few tasks to 9.13:
Buffs: Randuins Omen, Sylas, Syndra, Ornn, Tristana, Leona
Nerfs: Essense Reaver, Sejuani, Karma, Sivir, Sona
#lifeofoapatch

About to play against @RiotBlaustoise in the midlane. He's playing Akali and I'm playing some Neeko. Let's see how he does. #lifeofapatch

Updated Akali list in for playtest this evening. @RiotBlaustoise playing it this time. Since last time, less change to the passive MS mechanics and some more emphasis on energy refund across the kit. Need to take a more deliberate look at passive damage next. #lifeofapatch

Evaluating nerfing or buffing Ryze post-9.12 changes #lifeofapatch

oh no they’re nerfing MY mains 😐 #lifeofapatch

stay tuned for behind-the-scene vids and pics of today's state of the game! aka the meeting where we decide the bulk of who'll get buffed or nerfed in 9.13 😋🤣😇😉😶🤭

I had a chance to playtest the Akali changes and give @RiotRepertoir feedback. Some clear things to iterate on but I overall liked the "safety down -> damage up" direction. #lifeofapatch

Since we're doing the #lifeofapatch thing, here's the Akali thing I began work on this week, including images of the internal e-mail I sent detailing the work (typos and all).

1: Current Balance Metrics
2: Design Considerations
3: Changes

Nothing is final. This isn't tuned.

And to round out our bigger mechanics' changes for the patch, @RiotJatt's Udyr list (numbers subject to change): #lifeofapatch

Think this is what @RiotRepertoir is going with for Pyke (numbers subject to change): #lifeofapatch

Today's loc lock (we lock our patterns down so tooltips can be updated across the world). That normally means no new big mechanics shifts. Numbers are always subject to change, though. This is how my Illaoi list is looking: #lifeofapatch

Today is "loc lock" for patch 9.13 so we have to finalize all changes that would require us to update tooltips. I'll do a final check on Illaoi, Pyke, and Udyr. #lifeofapatch

Thanks for all of the feedback and conversation around Swain everyone! It's all super valuable to me - the suggestions, the concerns, all of it.