League of Legends Preseason 2022: A closer look at Quick Gameplay Thoughts

League of Legends Preseason 2022: Phroxzon, the Summoners Rift Team’s new design lead, shared his thoughts and views on the League of Legends Preseason 2022. Let’s take a look at the Chemtech & Hextech Dragons, Objective Bounties, Runes, Summoner Spells, & Items. Let’s get into it and get a closer look at quick gameplay thoughts.

League of Legends Preseason 2022: A closer look at Quick Gameplay Thoughts

Quick Gameplay Thoughts 1/14: A closer look at how Preseason 2022 has landed.

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League of Legends Preseason 2022: Chemtech & Hextech Dragons

Let’s start off with the new Elemental Rifts and Souls. We’re seeing positive sentiment and are generally happy with the Hextech Rift, but we hear your frustrations around the Chemtech Rift, which we knew would be contentious with its stealth mechanic. In testing, we found that it had great potential for fun and unique high moments like flanking from the fog as a team, but those also came with frustrating tradeoffs. We’ve also observed high levels of frustration around the Chemtech Soul, which may also contribute to negative sentiment towards the terrain. We’re with you that trying to face check a team that has Chemtech Soul in the Chemtech Fog is difficult as you’re usually at both a combat strength & vision deficit.

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League of Legends Preseason 2022: A closer look at Quick Gameplay Thoughts

League of Legends Preseason 2022: A closer look at Quick Gameplay Thoughts

League of Legends Preseason 2022: Objective Bounties

Next is Objective Bounties. On launch, we agreed they were turning on too early when the game was still relatively close, and falling off too late after the losing team had already clawed back some of the deficit. They also had deactivation timers that would reset anytime an objective with an active bounty was engaged, which led to some pretty extreme gold swings when teams chain-secured objectives without letting the bounty status reset. Thanks to all your feedback and game data, we were able to stabilize the system relatively quickly. (The first hour that the feature went live gave us more information than we could produce with internal testing in 200 years!)

League of Legends Preseason 2022: A closer look at Quick Gameplay Thoughts

League of Legends Preseason 2022: Runes, Summoner Spells, & Items

We also changed some runes since preseason launched. Lethal Tempo has, despite the 11.24 nerfs, still skewed some melee power curves too heavily towards the early game, so patch 12.2 will give it a more scaling profile. Glacial Augment has landed in a pretty good spot for melee users, but we hope to see a few more enchanters pick it over Aery as a more defensive and higher utility option in the long term.

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