Summoners!- RiotRara, Service Community Manager, via the official forums.
We have some exciting things in store for you in the coming patch, so to ensure that we devote the time necessary to upholding the highest standards of quality we’re releasing our upcoming champion in a week, pending some additional polish work. During this time we’ll be gathering additional feedback, and iterating rapidly on all aspects of the champion. We apologize for the interruption to your regular gameplay schedule, but we think that once you get your hands on this community-desired champion, you’ll agree that it was ”worth it.”
The next champion too, will require more time for development, testing and iteration; so the target release date for the next champion will be following the same three week time frame to ensure quality.
Thanks for your patience, summoners, and thanks for playing League of Legends!
Next Champion Arriving In a Week
Look like we know not to get our hopes up for a champion this upcoming Tuesday! Aww shucks!