Chapter 122: Strengthening the flag of command—Thai pants are hot!
On October 31, after a day at Santa Monica Beach, the entire ROX team accepted Riot’s invitation the next day and went to Riot’s headquarters in Los Angeles.
This trip, of course, Riot Games wants to talk to the ROX players about the selection of champion skins. After all, this topic has become a hot topic after yesterday’s live broadcast slices were leaked, and it has already sparked heated discussions in the gaming circle.
Arriving at Riot headquarters, CEO Nicolo Lauren personally greeted him at the gate, but he just said hello and left. After all, Riot invited ROX here today to discuss championship skins, so naturally he didn’t need to be a CEO to do anything. .
Regarding the fact that ROX won the championship, there were different reactions within Riot Games. For example, the operations department had a headache about this.
ROXTigers' victory inspired the enthusiasm of countless LOL players around the world, because their stories are so inspiring. After the finals, the number of global registrations and daily active users of LOL has been increasing day by day.
At first glance this may seem like a good thing, but the disbandment of the ROX Tigers is already foreseeable, and Riot headquarters even contacted the LCK for confirmation.
Like in the case of ROX Tigers, after the championship skin is released, most of the people who choose to buy the skin will be the personal fans of the players, rather than some stable team fans like SKT.
The designers felt that ROX won the championship - very cool!
Riot designers have made a lot of changes to the League of Legends game this year, starting with the addition of cornerstone talents, then the AD update in version 6.1, and the mage update in version 6.9.
On the eve of the World Championship, Riot designers generally believed that the S6 Global Finals would undoubtedly be a mid-jungle version, especially the core mage in the middle, which would have great room to play.
But ROX Tigers took a different approach. While showing the personal abilities of the world's top players, they also came up with many strange moves that made SSG, SKT and other strong teams unable to parry.
Especially in the third game against SKT, ROXTigers came up with the equipment "Flag of Command" to deal with SKT's double AP midfield combination, which made the designer who designed "Flag of Command" very excited.
"When the Flag of Command was designed, it was in the hope that players would be able to choose an equipment that strengthens their siege capabilities when their advancement is blocked. Moreover, the big nuclear mage is too powerful in the later stages, so the Flag of Command also has many confrontations. An effective weapon for the AP lineup, but other teams don’t realize the importance of this equipment!”
The ROX team members were naturally very happy for the designers' recognition, but Lin Qiguang had different opinions.
"In my opinion, there is still room for improvement and enhancement of the equipment Banner of Command. For example, its equipment attributes are very poor. Ability power, cooldown, magic resistance, and life recovery, these attributes are very important for both mages and tanks. It seems useless.”
"Every equipment slot of a mage is very valuable. While improving spell power, we must also pay attention to the selection of mana, cooldown, survival, serious damage, slowdown and other attributes. We will not consider the Flag of Command at all."
"With this piece of equipment for a tank, except for the dispensable magic resistance and cooldown, the other attributes are not necessary, making it difficult to improve combat effectiveness."
"For example, in our game against SKT, even though our economy was at an advantage and our equipment was formed faster than SKT, the attributes provided by the Banner of Command seriously hindered the combat capabilities of Trundle and Skarner. , As a result, we have never dared to have a head-on confrontation with SKT.”
"It wasn't until we relied on the super soldiers in the bottom lane to contain Baron Nash through pulling, and finally used the Flag of Command to strengthen the siege soldiers to break SKT's top high ground, and mastered the absolute advantage in the military line, that we finally won the game."
"So I think all the smart and excellent designers can consider making changes to the Flag of Command equipment to increase its frequency of appearance in pub games and games."
Regarding Lin Qiguang's analysis and suggestions, the designers looked at each other, and finally held a meeting to discuss, and then came to a result.
There is such a thing as strengthening the flag of command - Thai pants are hot!
So among the changes in version 6.22, players found this passage:
[Thanks to the opinions provided by Flashlight players, we have polished and reworked "Flag of Command". "Banner of Command" was once synthesized from a piece of tank equipment (Aegis of Legion) + mage equipment (Demonic Codex). Such a functional piece of equipment is not a good choice for mages or tanks. 】
[Because mage heroes already have a considerable amount of functional equipment, we believe that tank heroes should be given more opportunities to equip through the "Aegis of the Legion" instead of dividing the function of this equipment into several professions (tank, Mages and the occasional Burst Mage). 】
Total cost: 2900 gold coins→2200 gold coins
Synthesis route: Holy Shield of the Legion (old version) + Demonic Codex + 500 gold coins → Holy Shield of the Legion (new version) + Glacier Armor + 100 gold coins
Magic Resistance:30
Cooldown reduction:10%
New→Armor:60
New → Mana: 400
Remove → Spell Power: 40
Remove→HP: 200
Remove → Base health recovery: 100%
Promotion::Unique Active - Promotion: Greatly increases the strength of a lane minion and makes it immune to magic damage. (120 seconds cooldown)
Removed → Unique Passive – Legion: No longer provides +15 magic resistance to nearby allies
Regarding the changes to "Flag of Command" in version 6.22, players have different reactions.
[Okay, okay, it means that in the future, tanks will be unable to resist when they beat mages. Thank you, Flashlight! 】
[UuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuHe is obviously playing Jayce, Male Gun, and Lucian, but when he arrives at Riot headquarters, he wants to benefit us tank players. Flashlight is real, I cried to death! 】
[One thing to say, after the changes to Flag of Command, the synthesis route is much more comfortable and cheaper, so yeah! 】
[What bullshit change? After this equipment is released, if the dragon is taken away, the enhanced super cannon truck will be completely unsolvable, and will no one be allowed to play the game? 】
[Stop yelling, the basic attributes of this equipment are not high, and it does not enhance combat effectiveness. It is purely functional equipment. You were given the advantage by a tanky bastard and lost the baron, didn't you deserve to lose the game? 】
[What does Flashlight and the designer suggest? If this continues, the top laners in the Spring Split will all be tanks again, and then everyone will have a Banner of Command to play operations. What’s the point? 】
[Is there a possibility? The equipment of Banner of Command provides pure resistance to pressure, and Flashlight wants you to be a coward so that he can withdraw money from the jungle and the middle and lower lanes? 】
The heated discussion about the "Flag of Command" is something to talk about later.
After briefly chatting with the designers about some game content, the ROX team members officially began to communicate with Riot’s championship skin design team.
What is different from the previous life is that this time the concept designer responsible for the ROX championship skin is Alex Flores!
Maybe many players are not familiar with the name AlexFlores, but if you mention the skins and models he has designed now and in the future, you will definitely be surprised.
"Nightbringer" - Yasuo!
"Bringer of Dawn"——Ruiwen!
"Unyielding Spear", "Dragon Slaying Warrior" - Pan Sen!
"God King"——Darius!
"Project Source: Sublimation" - Jhin!
"Supreme Witch"——Morgana!
Too many hot skin concepts have been presented to the world through his masterful hands. It can be said that he is responsible for ROX's championship skin - sure!
AlexFlores explained the basic rules of Riot as usual. For example, substitute players must appear in at least one game. In principle, it is not recommended that players choose heroes whose skins have appeared in previous championships. Players’ opinions are for reference only. The final interpretation of the skin’s effect belongs to the player. Riot all and more.
Naturally, Pray, Kuro, Gorrila and Lin Qiguang have no objection to these rules. Smeb also meets the requirements for the number of appearances, and his champion skin hero selection has never appeared before.
Only Little Peanut wanted to choose "Spider Queen" Elise, but the jungle skin of the previous champion SKT was Bengi's spider.
So both sides started to have difficulties. After all, Peanut has the two heroes with the highest appearance rate in this world championship: Spider and Blind Sin. One has an S5 championship skin, and the other has an S3 championship skin, and they are both from SKT. , It’s simply a sin!
Looking at the anxious little peanut, Lin Qiguang took the initiative to communicate with Alex Flores: "Alex, there is a proverb in China - rules are dead, people are alive. Although the World Championship is the highest level League of Legends event, after all The same version is used from beginning to end, and there are not many heroes in each position that can play under the conditions of the version at that time.”
"Lee Sin and Elise were the two heroes that Peanut used most during the World Championship. Especially every time Peanut picked Elise, the audience would give warm cheers, which shows that the audience and players are very interested in it. In my heart, Peanut is already the most representative Elise user.”
"Other heroes such as Olaf, Nocturne, Rek'Sai, Skarner, etc. are not as popular as Li Sin and Elise. It is foreseeable that if these heroes are chosen as Peanut's champion skin, future skin sales will It’s also a problem.”
Regarding Lin Qiguang's view, the operations department expressed full affirmation. They could not control the quality of the skin, but when it came to sales, they had to argue with Alex.
It’s not like the rules can’t be changed. Isn’t it the fist that has the final say anyway?
sales! Sales are the key!
Want to make money!
Alex was also a little bit confused about this. He didn't expect ROX to have such a problem when it first came out. He couldn't make the decision on the key issue. After all, he was just a concept designer, not the management who made the rules.
So Alex made a direct call to CEO Niccolò Lauren.
Niccolò Lauren was silent for a while and replied to Alex with one word: "Yes."
Ever since, the "rules" were broken with almost no twists and turns.
Top order: ROXFlashlight——Lucian,
Jungler: ROXPeanut——Elise,
Mid laner: ROXKuro——Karma,
ADC: ROXPray——Ashe,
Support: ROXGOrrila——Miss Fortune,
Substitute top laner: ROXSmeb - Trundle.
In addition, Lin Qiguang also deliberately referred to the "precedent" of KkOma in his previous life, discussed with Riot Games, and obtained a guard skin for Nofe.
After returning to the hotel, Nofe was so excited that he burst into tears and almost knelt down.
"Oh, I didn't expect. I didn't expect that you would still remember that bowl of udon with eggs. It's so touching!"
"If you don't mind, I will follow you to LPL, continue to be your coach, and give you the counter position!"
Lin Qiguang smiled and nodded repeatedly, but what he was thinking was: I'm sorry, Brother Nofe. It's been a pleasure working with you these days, but I choose Redmi. (End of chapter)