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WILD RIFT /DEV: BALANCING WILD RIFT
5K View2020-10-22“Master Yi is SO OP.”
“Jinx is BUSTED!”
“WTF is this champ?!”
Jonathan here. I lead the balance team on Wild Rift, and the above is just a sample of the quotes… from our last internal playtest.
We wanted to give a quick intro to Wild Rift’s balance team, what we’re responsible for, and how we plan our patches. We’ll keep up the communication as the game evolves.
WHO’S ON THE BALANCE TEAM?
We’re a group of folks with a range of experience from different backgrounds:
∙ I’m Jonathan “JCM1117” Chao. I’ve led the balance team on Wild Rift for over a year now. I peaked at Masters on LoL PC and reached top ranks in other mobile MOBAs. Before Riot, I worked on mobile and AAA titles at Ubisoft.
∙ Alex “Wav3Break” Huang is a longtime Rioter who worked on LoL PC champions and balance for five seasons. Alex has been a core member in Wild Rift’s development from the early stages and is also responsible for our gameplay controls design. Bao “ShinKaigan” Nguyen works both on balance and future maps and modes.
∙ Bao was the Vainglory Season 2 world champion while he played for Ardent Alliance; he then transitioned to working on the game’s dev team.
∙ Mike “RogueFool” Breese is the newest member of the team, joining us from Warner Bros. Avalanche. He’s currently working on standardizing mana usage across all champions and tweaking the Rift Herald.
∙ We also work with partners around the world who give us insights on regional data and gameplay.
WHAT DOES THE BALANCE TEAM DO?
We’re part of the overall gameplay team that develops and maintains the in-game portion of Wild Rift—so basically, anything from the moment you load into a game until somebody’s Nexus goes kaboom. We look after things like:
∙ Champion stats and abilities after release
∙ Runes, summoner spells, and items
∙ Recommended loadouts
∙ Overall game pacing
∙ Structures and minions
∙ Jungle monsters and neutral objectives
WHAT’S OUR GOAL?
Simply: We want to make Wild Rift the most balanced mobile MOBA ever.
We’re serious about ensuring that every champ is viable, and no champ or strategy becomes overwhelmingly dominant at all levels of play.
That said, Wild Rift is still a new game. Without a lot of data, our current game balance is built on the foundation that League of Legends PC has built, plus countless internal Wild Rift playtests. Inevitably, we will miss the mark sometimes, but we’re constantly monitoring various player feedback channels and game data to make sure we catch imbalances as soon as possible and roll out fixes in a timely manner.
At Riot, we use the term “data-informed,” not “data-driven,” so we’ll always be looking at win percentages, pick rates, and a hell of a lot of graphs, but we also acknowledge that something can be technically balanced, yet frustrating.
If there’s something you’re not happy with, let us know!
HOW OFTEN WILL WE BALANCE?
Major balance patches will hit roughly every two weeks on a fixed day of the week so you’ll always know when to expect them. However, as we’re still figuring out our development timelines, the initial patching frequency after Wild Rift heads into Regional Open Beta may be less rhythmic. Our primary focus right now is making sure the game is shipped at a high quality to as many players as possible.
We want to avoid situations where we have to adjust something multiple times in back-to-back patches, so normally, balance changes go through a full development pipeline that includes data validation, designer discussions, implementation, playtest validation, and quality control. This means that some outliers may not be addressed immediately in the next patch.
Bigger changes or bug fixes may require a full client update, and unlike League PC, Wild Rift needs to go through third-party stores for these changes—a process that takes time as well. When we notice something that is wildly OP or broken (*cough cough* 66% win rate Camille *cough cough*), we will push out emergency hotfixes. With the amount of champion releases coming up, we do expect this to happen every now and then.
[b]That’s all for now. In a few days, we’ll be posting a follow-up from Lead Balance Designer, Alex “Riot Wav3Break” Huang (his business cards are very long). He’ll be breaking down how we decide what to change at different skill levels, and take you all through a specific balance change so you can get an idea of all that goes into it. He also plays Zed, ‘nuff said.
Thanks everyone![/b]
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WILD RIFT Real Talk - Sep 22
[b]Source: Official Facebook
[/b]Hey folks!
I’m Brian Feeney (some of you might know me as FeralPony), and I’m the Design Director on League of Legends: Wild Rift! I work with the game design folks here on everything from champs, to balance, to ranked and beyond. Before joining Wild Rift, I worked on a ton of teams across League of Legends PC. A fun fact about me: I have a bunch of animals, two of which you can meet in the latest /dev diary we released a few days ago:
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WILD RIFT /DEV: KEEPING THE BALANCE
Source: League of Legends: Wild Rift
“-5 AD? LITERALLY unplayable!” “Why would you nerf Zed? EVERYONE can build Zhonya’s?!” Besides asking our trusty magic eight ball, we also inform ourselves with a lot of gameplay data when it comes to planning the buffs and nerfs for a patch.
I’m going to shed some light on the basic thinking process we try to apply to each change we make and set the tone for how we will approach balance in the early stages of Wild Rift’s life cycle as a new game.
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“League of Legends: Wild Rift” Dev Diary: June 2020 - Gameplay Reveal
Wild Rift is coming to the end of its Regional Alpha, and we are grateful to the players who helped us in this initial stage, but we bet you're wondering what's next. While you can sign up for updates here, we thought now would be a great time to let the team take the reins and answer some of your pressing questions for the future of Wild Rift.
❑ WHY DOESN’T THE GAME HAVE THE [FEATURE]?
We got a lot of questions like this! At this phase in our development, we're not considering it "step 1"—this is more like "step 0.5." The Regional Alpha is just a small slice of the game that we plan to launch with. A bunch of features was deliberately left out of the Alpha version, so we could make sure to focus on stability. As we head into the game going life for more players, we'll be developing with your feedback in mind and adding features as we go. More info later this year!
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