The team did a lot of exploration with Ezreal. And while his League gameplay is iconic with tons of spells and high mobility, what if—and just hear us out—we leaned into his really cool explorer thematic? In his earliest design, five artifacts would shuffle into […]
Elise, the Spider Lady from… Somewhere “Champions in League typically have ‘known properties,’ or basically thematic and gameplay,” shares game design manager Shaun “UNCONKABLE” Rivera. “We also get data—thanks to the insights team—about what players think. One of the things we do with that data […]
From a celestial dragon who forged the very stars to a literal tree (actually, there are two trees), League of Legends has a wide range of champions. And when it came to bringing them to Legends of Runeterra, we had a lot to work with: […]
Rising Tides The Rising Tides expansion charts new territory with the addition of Bilgewater, the next region of Runeterra, as well as 11 new Champions and 120+ new cards! New Region: Bilgewater In the treacherous harbor of Bilgewater, locals live and die by one code: […]
SETTING SAIL TO BILGEWATER Yes Hello Hi! I’m Alexzandros “Careless Whisper” Lee, the design lead for the Rising Tides expansion. Rising Tides adds a new region—Bilgewater—and a bunch of new keywords and mechanics. In Bilgewater, fortune favors the bold and life always comes with a […]
LoR is officially launching with Patch 1.0, featuring the new Rising Tides set, iOS and Android support, all kinds of new progression and personalization, and a whole lot more.
Patch 0.9.4 features the final card updates of Open Beta—including buffs to Draven, Katarina, and Yasuo—plus tweaks to Expeditions archetypes and some user interface improvements. Hey everyone. We talked at the beginning of Open Beta about how we look at balance over the course of […]
Patch 0.9.4 features the final card updates of Open Beta—including buffs to Draven, Katarina, and Yasuo—plus tweaks to Expeditions archetypes and some user interface improvements.
Note: To make sure players get to redeem this week’s Vault with the new rewards structure detailed below, we’ll shortly disable vault redemption until after 0.9.3 goes live at ~10 AM, March 31 PT. Patch 0.9.3 features the big update to progression and the economy […]
After two preview patches, six weeks of open beta, and a whole lot of data and feedback from all of you awesome open beta players, we’re making a big update to progression and the in-game economy of Legends of Runeterra. There’s a lot to cover, […]