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• Patch 6.17 Server Maintenance Announced & 6.17 PBE Cycle Roundup

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His necklace, does it have any importance to his character or his story ?

It is EXTREMELY important to his character and story."

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Like, does Yorick like Pizza and what's his favorite topping? 

Or does he have a favorite Ghoul and does he name them?!

Lol, I'm still here. Should keep some Q & A for the official Q & A through. Surprised no one has asked about his cape made of Black Mist yet...."

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HOLD ONNNNN!!!! 

IS THAT THE SAME BLACK MIST OF THE HARROWING? 

IF SO THEN HE MAYBE "CREATED" THE SHADOW ISLES SOMEHOW :O
yeah i know, stupid theory, sorry, hype adrenaline 

Edit: if pentakill yorick does not summon headbanging ghouls, i will be terribly disappointed

YES THAT VERY SAME BLACK MIST!"

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Anyone notice Thresh's lantern in the background from where the ghouls are coming? Do ghouls rise from dead bodies?
Also there are 4 ghouls in this GIF, so he can summon at least 4 ghouls and, based on predicitons, can cause them to jump to the target location or unit.
Details I Have Noticed:
1. Thresh lantern in the background (likely also Thresh's dead body)
2. 4 ghouls and Yorick can command them to jump
3. Yorick got a shadow cape
4. Is it raining? Is is night time?

Yorick is not a fan of Thresh"

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Is he a fan of Morde at least?
You know, they used to have weekly Jam out sessions...
Morde appreciates good Bass fretwork

Morde is probably one of Yoricks least liked champions. Only person he might like less is the Ruined King"

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You brought this upon yourself when you started to answer his likes and dislikes. What are his thoughts on kindred?

Him and Kindred go way back man. I have probably said to much already :)"

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Hm. I guess he's got some distinct thoughts on Kalista and Karthus then.

He has distinct thoughts on most, if not all, of the Shadow Isles characters :)"

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will the pentakill splash get an update?

It will largely be the same splash except Yorick will be updated in it."

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this is but one gif of him looking cool, a teaser if you will, the final product could still keep his hunch somewhat... though by the look of it, he isn't precisely ashamed or burdened anymore

It's his Idle. He puts the shovel in the ground and uses to prop himself up so you can see how big he really is. Generally the thing on his back (Which I am leaving vague on purpose right now) weighs him down more."

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Think we could get a better image of the ghouls? They are to out of focus and to fast to get a good look at

Well it is a teaser :P 

You will have to wait just a bit longer."

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A Worthy Trial: EU LCS Summer Finals in Kraków draw near

"Europe’s top teams converge on Kraków for the EU LCS Summer Finals taking place the 27th and 28th of August. Who will survive the fires of competition to claim victory?"

[NA ONLY] NA Finals Icon Competition

"Cloud9. Counter Logic Gaming. Immortals. TSM. Who will you lock in? 

It’s time to show your allegiance to Cloud9, Counter Logic Gaming, Immortals, or TSM. Share with us how you #NALCS with your favorite team gear, sporting an esports icon on the Rift, or share your team-inspired creations including art, cosplay, and more. 

Icon Competition

If you play a League game with one of the NA Summer Finals team icons (C9, CLG, IMT, TSM) equipped on the NA server, you’ll earn an entry for a chance to win an autographed event shirt by the team whose icon you equipped. To make it even more epic for you, it’ll also be customized with your Summoner name. Since teamwork is OP, four friends of your choice will also win signed and customized shirts with you. 

By equipping your team’s icon, you’ll not only earn an entry into our competition but you’ll also join forces with fellow Summoners to show off your team pride. Games played with the icon equipped will count towards your team’s points/standing in a battle of team pride that will culminate on August 26. We’ll be tracking the progress below to show many players are excited for NA Summer Finals."

"No new icons; rep your 2016 icons or icons from previous years for IMT, C9, CLG and TSM."

"Hey Silfari, I'll be brutally honest with you on this one, international support was something we wanted to do for this pilot program but the legal blockers that popped up were too big for this event. The tl;dr of the situation is that this falls under "sweepstakes" laws, which are incredibly prohibitive in cross-regional spaces. For this first shot, we had to keep it to US + Canada because of this."

Regarding the Aurelion Sol Remake in CLG vs TSM

"TL;DR: We’ve identified the cause of this bug, and it’s unique to Aurelion Sol. We’ll be implementing a fix on 6.18 (the Worlds patch). Read on for all the details. 

Yesterday during the NA LCS Semifinals between CLG and TSM, a game had to be remade due to a player seeing a Aurelion Sol's passive missile in the wrong place. 

Aurelion Sol's passive has the longest lasting missiles in League's history by quite a large margin, and they exposed a set of technical limitations we had never hit before with missiles. Most pertinent: this is the first time a missile is defining its motion around a unit that does not share its visibility. Previous missiles that moved based on another unit, like Ahri's Fox-Fire, share visibility with their owner - you only see the missile if you see the unit as well. 

In order to cope with this new problem, we put in some handling where the client is sent positional information about Aurelion Sol if one of his missiles is in vision but he himself is not. This allows the missiles to represent their movement without having to fully reveal the champion. However, there is a small time gap between the client gaining visibility of the missile and when it receives this positional information, and that gap is what ultimately led to Sunday's remake. 

A brief timeline, based on Twitch's VOD:
- 10:29 game time (43:38 video) - Aurelion Sol's passive spotted over wall by ward at blue buff
- 10:31 game time - Aurelion Sol and his passive fully leave TSM's vision
- Aurelion Sol remains out of TSM's vision until:
- 11:06 game time - Aurelion Sol's passive spotted in mid lane by Rek'Sai 

For a few frames at game time 11:06, TSM Bjergsen's client displayed one of Aurelion Sol's passive missiles at the position it would have been if Aurelion was at his last known position - game time 10:31. It had received the information saying that the missile should be made visible, but had not yet received an update on where the champion was, so it showed the missile relative to his last known position. 

This Aurelion Sol defect has been present since he shipped. We had some code in place to mitigate effects of this nature for him, but they were clearly not enough. In the affected game, the circumstances were such that a player's decision making was negatively affected, and lead to a remake. We are fixing the issue by preventing the client from showing these missiles in the absence of accurate positional information. This fix will be a part of the 6.18 patch cycle, which is the patch Worlds will be played on. 

Regards,~Riot Penrif"

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Can the bug be intentionally reproduced by either team? What circumstances cause it exactly? Why does it happen some times and not others?

I believe it'd be quite hard to intentionally reproduce in a competitive environment. You would need to have the other team lose vision of you at an important position, and remain completely out of vision, only to reveal just your passive to that team some point in the future and a missile might show up at the previous position for a couple frames. 

It demonstrates infrequently due to many factors. One of which is simply that the position and timing of the effect is complicated and doesn't often arise in an organic environment in a way that's noticeable. There's also a strong timing component to this as well, where the client's framerate and network updates are effectively racing each other. Initially I had a difficult time replicating the issue on my workstation as I had capped my framerate to 30Hz, which allowed the network sync to usually land in time for the issue to not display."

/ALL Chat | SHEN POOPS!

"Everybody poops! Champions are no exception. 

This week's Summoner Showcase has some terrific live-action shorts from fans, cosplay so good it'll make you cry, and more! 

**ALL CHAT ANNOUNCEMENT: NOW MONDAYS AND FRIDAYS!** 

That’s right! ALL Chat is moving to both Mondays and Fridays. 

Twice the ALL Chat each week! Stay tuned for a new schedule here on the channel and on our social media things."

REMINDERS

• The six new SKT World Championship skins are  available in the shop through September 1st! These skins are legacy and will return to the shop in the future.

• There will be a CHROMA FOR IP sale between August 25th and September 8th! This means all chroma released PRIOR TO AUGUST 2016 will be on sale for 2000 IP each  More information available here.