Red Post Collection: Mystery Skins & March Bundles, March 16th Patch Update, Meddler on Shen, and much more!

Dragons shmagons. These guys literally wear dragon scales as clothing.
Skins included:

• Dragonslayer Braum

• Dragonslayer Pantheon

• Dragonslayer Jarvan IV

• Dragonslayer Vayne

Champions included:

• Braum

• Pantheon

• Jarvan IV

• Vayne

Wards and Icons included:

• Dragonslayer Ward

• Dragonslayer Poro Ward (Legacy)

• Dragonslayer Poro Icon (Legacy)

Mecha Bundle - 40% off at 2964 RP (4485 RP if champs needed)

Unstoppable force meets explosives and titanium plating.
Skins included:

• Mecha Aatrox

• Mecha Malphite

• Mecha Kha'Zix

Champions included:

• Aatrox

• Malphite

• Kha'Zix

Wards and Icons included:

• Mecha Ward

• Mecha Icon

LCS Outlaws Bundle - 50% off at 2623 RP (4872 RP if champs needed)

Just because they don’t make it through picks and bans in LCS doesn’t mean they won’t in ranked… hopefully.

Skins included:

• Blade Queen Lissandra

• Shockblade Zed

• Rumble in the Jungle

• Darkforge Jarvan IV

• Ravenborn Leblanc (Legacy)

Champions included:

• Lissandra

• Zed

• Rumble

• Jarvan IV

• Leblanc"

Also note that these are intended to be buffs so if we're off the mark here and she loses power from the W change we'll follow up on it. 

To answer your thoughts about the lowering of her early game chasing power and R CD:
Eve is a character who brings something INCREDIBLY powerful to the game, the ability to dodge wards. This gives her a massive advantage when it comes to ganking unwarry opponents. I can just run up to a guy, sit behind him, wait for him to burn an important spell, and then engage with my allied laner and demolish the fool :D.

So since Eve has such fine control over when and where she starts a gank we feel like it's appropriate that her actual contribution to ganks isn't as powerful as say, a Vi R. With that in mind, lowering that training potential on the W in the early game to make room for mid/late game buffs (where she tends to fall off) seems appropriate to us.

Thinking about Eve's R 150 sec CD, we tend to give long early CD's to ultimates that enable hard to avoid gank and kill situations in the early game so as to create some downtime between "I'mma kill you now" moments. Vi R is an obvious candidate for a long cooldown given its range and guaranteed nature. Globals are another big one since they let Pantheon be in your lane whenever he wants. Less obvious are the ults on champion who can reliably dodge wards like Eve and Rengar. At the end of the day, not having any way to see Eve coming creates similar situations to TF porting in behind you, there's an extra champ in your lane that you didn't prepare for. It may not be Assault and Battery but Eve's ult does give a significant boost in ganking power. I'm not saying Eve's R is in a perfect spot or that we'll never change it's cooldown but it does make sense to me why it is as high as it is"

• Shadow Walk (passive) re-stealth time reduced to 6/5/4/3 at levels 1/6/11/16 from 6 seconds at all levels.
• Dark Frenzy (W) Passive has been changed to changed to -"Passive: Evelynn's spell hits on enemy champions reduce Dark Frenzy's cooldown by 1 second" from "Evelynn's spell hits on enemy champions grant her 4/8/12/16/20 Movement Speed for 3 seconds (effect stacks up to 4 times)."

Champion Mastery Guide and discussion

• Champion  Points & Premade Bonus
• Reward Levels
• Mastery Badge Emote

• Examples of the loading screen mastery badges (and the new position for honor ribbons!)

• The in-game multikill announcement banners

• and more!

"The grades you get at the end of each game are purely skill driven based on performance percentiles. So if you just want to know how awesome you are with a champion in an objective sense that's probably the part of champ mastery you would care about. "

The grade, persistence, and a few other factors, determine how quickly you level up but it's definitely not a ranked system.

"At the end of each game, we look at what champions were played and where they were played. From there, we look at a number of game metrics and create performance percentiles. So we go "Tryndamere tops performance like this". Then, after a player plays a game we look at how they stacked up to the global averages. If you played like a complete badass, you get a high grade, if not you get a low grade. 

Some cases are a bit tricky, like jax poppy bot, or similar off meta things. For them we use some special case logic, but they're still covered."

"The system is a performance / progression hybrid. Playing with a premade requires a greater degree of teamwork and coordination than going solo, so we wanted to give something extra for parties. 

We are still tweaking numbers, so the bonus values may change."

"The risk we were concerned about is if didn't respect wins / losses as part performance, you create some weird situations that could lead to team infighting. 

At the end of the day, it's a team game and you win and lose as a team. That said, it's totally possible for your team to lose and you to get an S+. It'll just be worth less points."

"We may explore position or champion leaderboards at some point, potentially even using the technology we built here for the performance component that drives grades."

"This is something we're looking at, not sure if it'll happen though."

Awesome Bard Fan Art!

"The Wandering Caretaker’s arrival has triggered a cosmic amount of community creations! Check out all the awesome Bard fan art below, and click the artist’s names to see more of their work.

Have more Bard creations? Share your art and links in the comments below!"