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We mentioned before why dodging is bad for League: When a player dodges, the matchmaker has to throw everyone back into queue and form new teams out of the remaining players.

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The changes start going live starting in patch 11.15, so we wanted to talk more about the philosophy and data behind the problems we’re trying to solve.

When we previously discussed our plans for dodge penalty escalation, we saw some pretty strong reactions. „Hey all, BarackProbama here to talk some more about a very chill and cool topic that no one ever has opinions on: Champion Select dodging and penalties. Here’s a new /dev blog from BarackProbama on queue dodging – „Why dodging is a problem for League, and what we’re doing about it.“

Sona is currently planned for patch 11.16, which ships next month!“ /dev: Tackling Queue Dodging We chose ultimate cooldown refund as a reward here to encourage very exciting, aggressive Crescendo plays. This new passive rewards Sona for using Q and W well in a duo lane, rather than penalizing her like the mana refund did.Īfter Sona reaches the cap for Accelerando, subsequent stacks will instead refund a bit of R – Crescendo’s cooldown. Striking two different champions with Q will grant two stacks, and W can grant up to 5 stacks if it heals an ally and blocks damage on all four allies.

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Now, when Sona damages enemy champions with Q – Hymn of Valor or uses W – Aria of Perseverance to heal an injured ally or protect them from damage with the shield (the full base value a tiny bit of ambient damage won’t count), she will permanently gain a stack of Accelerando, granting ability haste for her basic abilities (up to a cap). A positive incentive rather than a negative one that doesn’t punish her by preventing her from casting future spells will make for a generally more enjoyable experience. In place of high mana costs and a mana refund, we are replacing Sona’s Ultimate cooldown passive with a stacking mechanic that rewards her for using Q and W in a way that matches the mindshare of those spells. Well we are now re-visiting Sona to replace this mana refund mechanic with something that Sona players will be more excited about. Preventing her from casting spells (by running her out of mana) unless she played around an effect she often didn’t think about made for a less fun version of Sona. Functional, but not very fun: Sona loves to cast lots of spells, and her auras are actually a small amount of the mindshare of each one. We added a mana refund that tied her to sharing auras with allies, and increased her mana costs. Last year we made some changes to Sona in order to give us a way to address solo lane Sona without hitting from Bot/Support Sona. In addition, this strategy was particularly feels-bad, since top laners got endlessly harassed by long ranged attacks and auto-targeted spells. camp clearing buffs to allow more champs to jungle, adding more ratios for champs to scale with alternate builds), this playstyle violated a core laning skill test-in lane, someone should be attempting to farm minions and contesting that should be valuable for the opponent. While we generally like alternative play styles (ex. If you might recall, Sona was briefly meta as a top laner who took the support item and just harassed and roamed, without really trying to even last hit.

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„Hi, Captain Gameplay here with an update on upcoming Sona work. Here’s Captain Gameplay with this weeks quick gameplay thoughts – „We’re targeting patch 11.16 for a mid-scope Sona update.“