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Chapter 657: The fist is not aimed at anyone

The edg team spent the last day of their vacation at a resort hotel on the beach in Rio.

In the evening of the same day, along the Monica Beach in Los Angeles, North America, a man in a light gray suit got out of the car. Without the grace to appreciate the magnificent scenery in front of him, he buried his head and walked to the other side. The wall in front of the door was graffitied with the letters glhf. of office buildings.

The man who had just gotten off the plane and arrived in the car was none other than Ryze, the founder and director of Riot Games, who was responsible for the on-site management of the MSI Mid-Season Invitational.

This building is not very tall, but its design and decoration are full of two-dimensional style, which is Riot headquarters.

Ruiz pushed open the conference room door.

The main personnel of Riot Games' design department and balance department were all sitting around the conference table.

Including the chief designer Ghost Crab who was poached from Blizzard, Riot veteran designer Morello who has the honor of naming the Morello Code, and Rickmaha, the head of the balance department who pioneered "The weather is good today, why don't we weaken the Sword Girl", and participated in it. Repertoir, the team leader of Ryze Galio's revamped gameplay department, CertainlyT, the designer of Thresh and Yasuo, and Chun-Li, a diamond player in the American server who has just been publicly recruited to the balance department and will soon join the weakened Sword Girl camp...

Each one possesses unique skills.

The main purpose of the discussion at this meeting was to determine the general direction of the revision of League of Legends after MSI.

"I had a lot of chats with Tryndamere, Ghost Crab and Rickmaha in the past two days." We are all acquaintances, and the overall atmosphere of Riot employees is relatively open, so Ryze entered the conference room and started talking, "In general, edg won the championship. The results and the diversity of heroes used by EDG are very satisfying!”

There are rumors that Riot will deliberately weaken the championship team from last year and find ways to strengthen the North American team.

In fact, this is just the result, not the purpose of fist balance adjustment.

For Riot, star players who have won multiple championships can bring huge popularity to the league and even the game, so why target and persecute the champion team?
Riot has always had only one design and balancing strategy, which is to try to change the powerful heroes in each version to bring a continuous sense of freshness to players - there is no requirement for too many heroes on the field, try to have enough for each position in each version There are t0t1t2 heroes to choose from. At the same time, popular heroes must also have countermeasures. These heroes must have high and low operating limits, and there must be two heroes to choose from: upper and lower operating limits.

Therefore, the six heroes in the semi-finals and the finals of Meixia are not the same. Even the mid laner Galio that he got in the end was completely contrary to the designer's original intention, and he also had a backhand countermeasure. It was simply a thumbs up for the balance team.

Compared to S5S6, who won two world championships and had the hero Ryze redone three times in a row, and whose balance team was sprayed with blood by players, who wouldn’t like a player like Sakura Girl?
Seeing everyone's relieved expressions, Rezbenz raised the issue encountered in MSI.

"The first is Jace, Lucian and Syndra. The ban rate of these three heroes is very high, especially when facing Mika, they are almost 100% banned. This phenomenon is not normal. Tryndamere and I initially believe that it needs to be corrected in the future. You guys What do you think?"

Soon there was a heated discussion in the conference room.

As for the reason why Jace and Lucian became supermodels, it is generally accepted that it was caused by the significant increase in armor-piercing armor at the beginning of the season. The solution is also simple and crude. Just continue to weaken the relevant equipment. No one is worried that this reduction will make things better. The physical assassins return to the sewers. After all, they have done this kind of thing a lot. It is common for a hero to be enhanced to a supermodel first, and then slashed to a weaker value than before the enhancement.

Just because it is easy enough to do so, it is much more convenient to kick it back into the sewer than to work hard to design values. Anyway, according to the strategy of changing the main heroes in each version of League of Legends, these heroes are destined to not be the protagonists in the next version.

But Syndra is too embarrassing to talk about, because the designer originally planned to weaken it, but unexpectedly, W's full level real damage, directly let her sit at the top of the mid laner, and this was only slightly weakened by Syndra in the Spring Split. The result of pulling - look, this is a failure case where the designer did not cut off the value but acted smartly on the hero machine to activate the knife.

In the end, Ryze made the decision and decided to continue to wait and see the strength of Syndra's version.

After all, professional players do not represent the majority of gamers. In fact, Syndra's winning rate in normal games remains within the normal range. At the same time, many professional players who play Syndra do not perform like supermodels, so there is no need for the time being. Mika forced the changes alone.

It is also very simple to avoid Sakura Girl continuing to dig out Syndra in the World Championship. At worst, wait until around the World Championship version and give Syndra a rough chop and that's it.

"Then there are the heroes that Mika has used, mid laner Rambo and mid laner Galio. These two are completely out of touch with the original intention of our design..."

Gameplay designer Repertoir immediately expressed his thoughts, "The mid laner Rambo is quite boring. He just pushes the lane and roams around. However, there is no need to weaken this hero in a targeted way. Our mid-season update has already made adaptability. The helmet is a piece of equipment that has also been strengthened, and the Invigorating Armor has also been strengthened. Rambo probably won’t be able to choose it next season.

Instead, it’s the mid laner Galio, which is amazing. Mika’s mid laner Galio is so subversive. I think we can actually continue to encourage the emergence of mid laner Galio!It's not too powerful, and it's well suited to the support ability of his ultimate move. Why didn't we expect him to become a tank version of the card Rock Bird when we were designing it!It's just that the ability to clear troops in the early stage needs to be weakened a little to avoid boredom in the laning stage. "

Ghost Crab feels the same way, "I agree with repertoir's view, the mid laner Galio is so cool!!!"

Balance director Morello also expressed support, "And very importantly, the emergence of heroes like Galio can actually weaken the impact of the mid lane on the overall game. This is in line with our original concept of the S7 World Championship."

Although Sakura Girl's sudden rise in fists was welcome, MSI's three-to-zero score still detracted a lot from the enjoyment of the game.

Although no one said it clearly, it is obvious that the competition between Faker and Mika is more in line with Riot's interests. And when Sakura's operation far exceeds that of other mid laners including Faker, it is feasible to weaken the importance of the mid lane. operation.

"Is it true that retaining Galio can reduce the impact of poor mid-lane players on the game?" Ryze was not directly sure.

Rick Maher, the leader of the balance team, said, "The answer given by Mika is to choose a group fight. I think it is trustworthy to the vision of the world champion. What do you think, Chunli? You are our player with the highest ranking score!"

Chunli glanced at the team leader Ricimaher, knowing that she was asking him to show off in front of the leader, so she opened her mouth to express a point of view that neither the players nor the audience were aware of, "I think Clockwork is not Galio's best. A good counter choice! Because from the competition, I didn’t feel that Clockwork had any advantage. If you are familiar with her terrible operation, you should know that in the last game of the MSI finals, Mika won it entirely with operation. Victory has little to do with hero restraint..."

"Is that so? Is Mika hiding her tactics? Or does she not even have a solution?" Ruiz pondered for a moment and then asked.

Chun Li expressed her opinion, "I don't know about this, but my opinion is basically the same as everyone else. The mid laner Galio is cool! The hero's debut is great! So in the summer split, I will first nerf the mid laner Galio. Let’s see if anyone can find a more effective counter hero. When the hero’s basic attributes are reduced to about the same level, there should be surprises.”

Ryze nodded.

Then the issue of balancing the second version of msi was raised.

"The performance of the Blazing Incense Burner in this msi version is better than we expected. Should we continue to strengthen it or weaken it appropriately?"

Ghost Crab expressed his opinion, "On the contrary, I think the effect of the incense burner is not ideal. The only soft supports that can be used are Karma and Lulu, and the reappearance of Tahm Kench also deviates from our attempt at the beginning of the season to let the players down. The efforts of hundreds of flowers bloom..."

"And the ADC's appearance rate is also very problematic. There should be more heroes who are good at incense burners, not just Rat Mouth! As for the policewoman Han Bing, oh God, you know how many I have seen in the first two seasons. These two heroes? It’s time to take heroes with this old mechanic out of the game, well, at least not so often!”

"This is a big project." Ryze touched the stubbled bottom bar. "It seems that the bottom lane and the incense burner still need to be strengthened. However, during the change, we must try to avoid mid laner Karma or jungler Cui. A hero like God appears..."

The impact of the mid laner on the situation can be moderately reduced, but the game of the mid laner must not become boring, and the mid laner must not be allowed to become a large support position. This is his bottom line.Riot Games now rely entirely on Sakura Girl and Big Devil to expand their influence around the world.

If the mid lane is made boring, the brand of League of Legends will be ruined!
On the one hand, we must carefully protect the environment of Mika in the middle, and on the other hand, we must carefully reduce Sakura Girl's lead.

This balancing act is dancing on an egg...

Subsequently, we discussed the ecology of Ueno and the new round of revisions of auxiliary equipment. The entire meeting lasted three to 10 minutes.

"Oh my God, it's easiest to weaken the sword girl..." Chunli couldn't help but complain as she walked out of the conference room.

rickMaher said sympathetically, "Okay! This is what you suggested! Anyway, it's tiring to cut one, and it's tiring to cut two. Let's add another Sword Girl to the list of weakened ones in the next version. As for how to cut it, I'll leave it to you!!"

"Ah this..." Chunli didn't expect that Ricimaher was obviously thinking about the knife-cutting girl, but she actually gave all the work to herself!Co-authored the recruitment and came here to take the blame for the balance department? !

However, being able to weaken heroes at will seems to be a joy that simple gamers cannot experience.

So this is the fun of planning!
Chunli smiled softly.

"Hey hey hey, Dao Sister, I'm coming!"

……

In the conference room, Ryze turned on his computer and started a video call with his old friend Tryndamere.

"Hey, I heard that edg will leave Brazil tomorrow morning. Are you still on vacation in Brazil? Do you know how the conversation between tsm and mika went?"

"Oh my God, tsm contacted their sponsor this time and offered me an annual salary that surprised me!" Tryndamere shrugged. "But Mika still didn't agree. She's not Chinese. I really don't understand why she didn't come. North America! Doublelift will also come to TSM this year. If mika comes, he should be a super battleship that cannot lose to edg. It's a pity..."

Although the two of them will try to avoid partiality in order to make more money at work.

Ryze can guarantee that he has not deliberately made any balance adjustments to enhance the North American region. Of course, this is also because North America cannot afford to support A Dou. Deliberately strengthening the heroes that North American players are good at can easily be self-defeating and allow other regions to enjoy more benefits. …

But as Americans, both of them privately hope that the North American division can achieve enough honors.

"That's no problem." Ryze smiled calmly, "If mika comes to the North American Division, to be honest, I might not be able to bear to weaken the influence of the mid lane..."

The reason why he wants to determine the direction of the version for the second half of the year before Sakura Girl leaves Brazil.

He is just worried that if Mika really cannot withstand the temptation of money and chooses to move to the North American division in the summer split, he will not be able to bear it and continue to weaken the mid lane. This kind of partiality is something that a successful businessman cannot do.

Fortunately, he made the most just choice!

"What? Are the version changes confirmed for the second half of the year?" Tryndamere asked again.

"Well, it is determined to continue to increase the richness and intensity of adc and soft assistant, and weaken the influence of the mid lane lane on the game."

"Soft assistant? I have good news here. I heard that this time Mika recommended a Japanese-Brazilian female player in the master level to tsm. Her level is very good. She mainly plays soft assistant. The key is that she is only 16 years old. Maybe There is a chance to become the next [super mica]! (Super Mica, the English nickname given by mika’s American fans)!”

"Really..." Ruiz was extremely rational, "I hope I can train someone to take over..."

I watched Sakura girl crushing Faker at the MSI live, how could I believe that if someone just showed up, it would be another Mika.

It would be good if he could grow to the faker level.

As for a dazzling player like Mika, it is simply not something that mortals can hope for.

"You seem a little pessimistic? What's wrong?" Tryndamere heard the old man's subtle emotions.

"I'm still a little worried. Will a dazzling player like mika really lose control of the game and fall to the same level as faker because of the game revision?"

Tryndamere, the single archmage who is still vacationing in Brazil with his wife Ashe, is much more optimistic than Rez.

"Now go to the window on your right and look out the window!"

Riz complied without understanding.

The beach is right outside the window, and the beach is deeper into the sea. In the evening, the setting sun makes the sea sparkle.

Tryndamere said, "Look, even something as hot and bright as the sun cannot escape objective laws and must set in the evening! Not to mention people! In the field of e-sports, designers are the makers of rules. You should believe that We have a group of guys with unique skills! Except for your boss Ryze, when have they ever messed up?"

"Haha..." Ryze laughed heartily at Tryndamere's pun. "It seems like I have to keep an eye on the weakening of Ashe this time. After all, she is the wife of the Riot president!"

"Ha, feel free to cut the ice, but it's best to add two seconds to my ultimate move. Tryndamere is too weak in the game! Oh, my wife Ashe called me! See you later!" Tryndamere hurriedly said Turn off the call.

The president of Riot Games seems to also have the fun of being a president.

　After looking at Riot Company’s response department, it turned out to be only [-] words.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)