Red Post Collection: Patch 12.3 & TFT Notes, VGU & Skin Thematic Voting Results, & More

"Your votes are in: Skarner and Gothic are the winners of the Season 2022 polls! 

Skarner, the Crystal Vanguard

With a decisive victory, the champion that will receive the next VGU will be Skarner!

Loads of you gave the Rift’s one and only scorpion some love this time around. Skarner stood head and shoulders (do scorpions even have shoulders?) above the other contenders, claiming the top spot in the global polls by a wide margin. 

Ryan “Reav3” Mireles, Lead Producer of Champions: We’re super excited that Skarner won the VGU vote, as we think he has tons of potential to be something truly special on the League roster. We’ve tried smaller reworks of Skarner’s kit in the past, but it never really increased his playrate, so we’ll be looking to do a massive reboot of his kit, theme, and visuals (similar to Sion and Urgot). We’ll look to keep his kidnapping ult in some form, but otherwise we’ll be rebuilding him from the ground up. 

The Brackern don’t have tons of lore currently, and we’re looking forward to diving deeper into their world and backstory. It’ll still be a couple months until we get started, but once we do we’ll share our progress in dev blogs so we can get your feedback on our scorpion friend. So keep an eye out for one of those later this year. 

Before I go, I wanted to talk about our forever-a-bridesmaid, Shyvana. We know a lot of you are disappointed that our favorite half-dragon lady keeps getting so close to winning without ever taking the crown. Like many of you, we really want to see her updated because a badass half-dragon shifter has so much potential. As you know we don’t do votes for every VGU, like with Mundo. So while we can’t promise that Shyvana will be the next big VGU we do, she is a pretty strong contender for the next one we explore outside of a VGU vote. 

Be sure to keep an eye out for updates on Skarner’s VGU this year, and we’ll be sure to share any plans for updating other champions as they come up! 

Getting Gothic

Similar to the VGU poll, the skin thematic revamp poll resulted in a landslide victory for Gothic in every region. Infernal came in a distant second, with Arclight hot on its trail.

Please leave all overcoats, canes, and top hats with the doorman, because we’re about to get Gothic. 

We’re excited to see this level of former emo kids excitement and can’t wait to deliver this angsty thematic. 

We haven’t visited the Gothic thematic in a minute—and much like emo—we’re glad it’s not dead. We’re really excited at how our middle school aesthetic might look in current League, and there are a bunch of different directions we could take it. We've started exploring some of them already, as we’re well into the discovery process—from cute and spooky to serious and dark, there are so many shades of black for us to try on. Our next steps are identifying what feels really good about the existing Gothic skins, and which direction we’d like to move in for the new skins! 

We’ll check back in on things later, but for now we’re looking forward to approaching this thematic with a sense of poise and rationality. 

From everyone on the team, a HUGE thank you for your votes, feedback, and enthusiasm for the future of League! It’s always exciting to hear all of your thoughts and to be able to incorporate them into the game."

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Teamfight Tactics Patch 12.3 Notes

"Welcome Gizmoneers and Gadgeteers! 

Most of our larger balance changes for patch 12.3 were delivered early last week in our 12.2 mid-week patch, so be sure to check those out if your looking for nerfs to Imperial, Swain, Talon, and more. That said, here are some light patch updates in preparation of Neon Nights next week! 

RODGER "MINIONSRPEOPLE2" CAUDILL 

NEON NIGHTS 

Light as the patch notes may be, we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to bring a progress-fueled mid-set with over 20 new units, over 80 new Augments, and a whole lotta content to bring your cosmetic loadout into the future. Check out the articles below for more information. 

• Neon Night Pass and More: All the Tacticians, arenas, and more coming in the new G&G Pass II.
• Neon Nights Gameplay Overview: Our largest roster swap to date shines in the latest mid-set update.
• Augments Augmented: New Augments, items, and interface updates coming in Neon Nights."

[Full notes here!] 

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• Riot Hjarta on issues following a recent mobile crash hotfix:

TFT Mobile crash fix is out!

If you're still having issues you can try these:
1) Exit game completely. Update if possible.
2) If no update is available and restarting doesn't work, try clearing cache and restarting the app.
3) if none of the above work, reinstall fully. https://t.co/QMsGbnywlF

— Riot Hjarta (@RiotHjarta) February 3, 2022

• February 4th TFT PBE Changelist

Feb 4th Deploy 

CHAMPS

1 Cost

-Nocturne

---Nocturne is mana locked for the duration of his spell

2 Cost

-Rek’sai

---Heal: 150/300/600 >>> 100/200/500

---Mana: 30/60 >>> 60/90

---Resistance Steal no longer scales with AP

3 Cost

-Gnar

---Spell Base Damage: 150/200/300 >>> 100/150/250

---Mana Reduction on Transform: 30 >>> 20

-Lucian

---Spell Damage: 225/250/325 >>> 190/210/260

-Morgana

---Spell Shield: 450/650/900 >>> 400/600/900

-Senna

---Spell % AD: 175% >>> 150%

---NEW: Spell Base Damage: 100/150/200

---REMOVED: Spell Base Healing

4 Cost

-Draven

---AD: 95 >>> 85

---VIP Armor Pen %: 50% >>> 30%

-Orianna

---Spell Damage: 350/550/1200 >>> 325/500/1200

-Renata

---Mana: 30/80 >>> 30/75

---Spell AS Slow: 25% >>> 15%

---Spell Damage: 65/90/225 >>> 70/100/250

-Sivir

---Bounce Damage: 50% >>> 40%

-Vi

---Spell Shield Amount: 300/400/900 >>> 225/325/750

---Spell Damage: 175/250/500 >>> 150/225/450

---3rd Cast Damage: 350/500/1000 >>> 300/450/900 

TRAITS

-Hextech

---Shield Amount: 160/240/480/800 >>> 150/200/400/700

-Twinshot

---Trait Structure: 2/4/6 >>> 2/3/4/5

---Chance to Proc: 40/55/70/100%

---AD: 10/25/40/60 

AUGMENTS

-Archangel’s Embrace

---Mana %: 20/30/40% >>>15/25/35%

-Concussive Blows

---Cooldown Per Unit: 5 >>> 6 seconds

-Electrocharge

---Now has a 1 second cooldown

-Golden Gifts

---Fixed a bug where one of the gold orb drops would grant nothing instead of a Spatula

-Jeweled Lotus

---NEW: Your units additionally gain 10% Critical Strike Chance.

-Sharpshooter

---Gain a Lucian >>> Gain a Corki

-Swift Justice >>> True Justice (REWORK)

---Your Enforcers deal true damage to enemies below 50% Health. Gain a Sejuani.

-Phalanx

---Resists: 35/55/70 >>> 30/45/60

-Very VIP

---HP Granted: 33% >>> 25% 

BUG FIXES

-Feeding Kassadin to TK now grants AP instead of HP 

-3* Ahri now grants 2 extra orb casts

-Hextech Stored Power now works when Hextech units combine

-Salvage Bin no longer makes Radiant Items disappear

-Edge of Night’s burst protection is now properly working in every situation"

 

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