Developer Riot Lexical provides an update on state of the League of Legends champions team and Skarner VGU
Riot Lexical, a Riot Games developer, has provided information on the League of Legends champions team and Skarner VGU's current status. The champions' rework (ASU, VGU, and mini-rework) has been postponed for about a year. Thus, these changes are long overdue.
Riot Lexical stated that she joined the League of Legends champions team a year ago when the team suffered from the downstream effects of COVID. She further stated that Zeri, Renata, and Udyr were all pushed farther out to accommodate the many disciplines that had the other devs down due to illness, needing time to work on life changes, or leaving the team.
According to her, it became painfully clear that they were reacting to changes rather than planning for themselves as a team. Many team members have been there for over a decade, and it became a red flag.
Riot Lexical recognizes the need to slow down and regroup to build a better and more productive future. Many of their fields require reconstruction, as many of the older members went above and beyond to assist in developing a new generation of developers on the team.
Thus, the good news is that the team has many fresh faces and skills eager to see what the League of Legends community thinks of future releases.
She did have some bad news, as she admitted that the team could not develop League of Legends champions or updates when disciplines were lacking. They need engineers, designers, artists, stories, VO teams, and so on to execute projects. If they are down to one discipline, that is their bottleneck.
She informed everyone that the team has been focused on delivering as much as possible to the players and that knowledge transmission has taken a back seat. However, she mentioned they can now see the light at the
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