Riot Lexical (Lexi Gao)
@neolexical
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Product Management @riotgames on LoL-Champions| Prev LoR Dev | Food insta: #neolexical ~| Red: Lexical | Dalian - Vancouver - HK - LA
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Hey Guys! We heard your feedback on Smolder's face and are making some adjustment to highlight his dragon features. Thank you so much for Gem,
@O0_Y_0O
and
@White_Leyth
for making this happen! The splash team is working on some adjustments too!
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Test out all the things you can do with your Poro <3 And remember pre-reg gets Moonstruck Poro at Launch~
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Here are the tweaks for splash! Thanks Smolder Pod and
@RiotMoon_
@rudy_crut
for all of the last min fixes, touchups and glowups 🥰
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my fav bug of the year during development.. Hwei walking into a bush makes him bald :D
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Turns out he isn’t just a primordial sovereign of Ixtal… he was also a primordial sovereign of our code base. Literally carried LoL code base on his back 😅
They weren’t kidding. It was super painful and took multiple days because he is referenced by so many things that warning keep yelling at us and we dono what else we broke 😅 the older the champion the worse it gets…
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🥹my first start to finish champion. So proud of the team.
New friends make everything brighter! Say hello to Milio, on Universe now.
🧾 Biography:
💌 Milio’s Letters:
(There’s still some mail on the way… check back later for more of his adventures.)
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Smolder has a snout 🥲 the lighting wasn’t the best to show it in full frontal view. We want to able to make Smolder really expressive as a small baby dragon through his face since Smolder isn’t just a typical dragon. Stay tuned more on that later!
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Sorry for the wall of text...but I felt there was some stuff overdue!
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They weren’t kidding. It was super painful and took multiple days because he is referenced by so many things that warning keep yelling at us and we dono what else we broke 😅 the older the champion the worse it gets…
Engineer: okay we just finished deleting a cornerstone of league history.
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Finally got to work on something for my love<3 she will always be my sassy school prez queen ~ Ezreal can steal looks in the shadow! >:) feel free to ping feedbacks at me! We tried to make as much changes as we can to her silhouette.
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They are still WIP!
Shaco has a LPP Green Chroma. Will figure out why they are not appearing on PBE.
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When you are hard fangirling over Star Guardian while in line at the Expo booth then got recognized by coworkers😂🤣😭😅
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The official Poro guide! Shared by art director~
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League of Legend Rift inspired wedding :) asked her permission to post this. Check out her Red page for video!
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We will be making a slight update to Naafiri's bio up on Universe soon. We always meant for the shattering of the blades to be metaphorical as Naafiri doesn't quite understand herself what had happened! The word choice was a bit too ambiguous and we would like to clear that up!
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When did I buy this and why do I still have it? 115 XD
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That's right! Ixtal is not just Qiyana's dream ...
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I've gotten lots of questions on champions and champion updates. We are still in the process of figuring out what we can support vs the timelines. Please stay tuned for the next roadmap for further info. Smolder's and Skarner's release will not be impacted currently.
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Why is this haunting my anime? I thought we just deleted this guy 🥹
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Dear friends on League PBE. Please be gentle with SkarSkar. Since we had some delays in the last couple of days on getting him into PBE, there are some missing SFX and will be yelling some weird debug strings. We will be fixing them as the week goes.
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Engineer: okay we just finished deleting a cornerstone of league history.
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The weather today in LA fit my mood...This kinda sucks
I'm sorry.
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Best I could find for her outfit. The style kinda look similar to the Spring 2019 style xD but what do I know -shrug-
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🤣😂Reav3 had a chat with me after Skarner results came. “If Shyvana won, it would be so cool for your first VGU to do a badass dragon. I feel bad…Skarner…gona be a big difficult one :( wana do another new champ instead..we can trade?”
Lexi: -nodnod-
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Some chroma shots! They are still WIP~ with your feedbacks we may touch up on certain things! Feel free to hit me up with the quality feedbacks~
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Which champion is a bullseye for you in both theme and gameplay? How did you learn your love for the champion?
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Homeguard sparkles! Unfortunately this won’t make it right away. However, we will add it in next patch.
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Prestige Cait and Arcade Chroma! More coming up later~
Amazing work from Rudy(),
@YanmoZhang
@TommyGTeguh
Feedbacks welcome~
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How many balloons did it take to make Sett’s abs?
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Midscopes, VO updates does not bump back a champion's priority in terms of VU, VGU, VgU.
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Reminder that it will take time for 3D texture and things to make it onto PBE!
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Behind the scenes on how these were shot and my thoughts:
Lexi: Designers!! Pause the playtest, we need you all to be in a game for this cool shot. ReadY?
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Who was the first champion you main’ed? Who do you main now?
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FEMALES CAN'T HAVE ABS??? WOT?
Why when I say Naafiri will have abs everyone now think she's male.... =3=
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:) Shyvana, Arcane VGU, Arcan Champ, Freljord champ.. which one are you looking forward to?
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Best discussion about Skarner during development was if he has a hat, where would he wear it?
@RiotPehrek
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Let me know what you guys think of little legends :)! Will pass feedbacks along~ ahhhhh so cute >~<
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Hello Skarner friends! After seeing your feedback on GotS Skarner's recall animation we're making some updates to make it more unique. This will take us a bit of time though so expect to see it in patch 14.8!
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This comment on youtube for True Damage cracked me up.
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Some preview for changes we are making for Challenger Ahri! This will be the last updates for the Golden Chromas. Thanks to everyone who gave feedbacks :)
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If I write roadmap the rate August claims he is fixing Briar bugs. I will finish writing tonight 6/6 paragraphs tonight and wake up with 8 more to go tomorrow…
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After chatting with some Ivern mains... I agree each Ivern deserves his own unique sneakers! Thanks
@YanmoZhang
Sneak Peak:
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I have a problem. When I play league I can't get mad at people who feed on champs I made. I go "awwww look at that, they are playing champs I worked on uwu"
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The moment when the team fell in love with Smolder was when
@Damascus_Glenn
was explain his idea for an ult and yells “MMOOOOOOOOM”. We asked him to do that every time when he talks about the ult. 😅
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When asked: Who is the best champion in league? Lots of folks would cite Bard, Azir, Ivern etc. Many of which are the lowest playrate champions. 🤔
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The amount of talent and work that went into Naafiri on all fronts - VO, SFX, Concept, Engineering, Design, Publishing, Animation, VFX, Model, tech Art and on and on and on. It's so incredible to see it all come together first hand =^^= Big W to the team.
Woof woof bark bark. Did someone say pogchamp dogchamp?
Another banger from the incomparable
@twitterlesskenny
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Moved this poster back to our side of the wall. Which style do you like?
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YUP. I would like to not call them nemesis quests though, mostly because I don't want to limit the space we can explore with!
The new nemesis quests (champion quests) will be available in both ranked and pro play btw.
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Lessons learned from champs I lead:
Milio: frustration can be low even when unbalanced when the power is attributed to another champion
Briar: when you change the play paradigm, there is learning. Learning is highly satisfying and draw players to want to play a champion deeply.
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During Smolder's development, we coded him Young Dragon for a bit. The abbreviated form was YD, which sound like a rapper name XD Team members then made a rap verse and quick cover art for his album.
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Made some more Chroma changes for Ivern. There are also several skin changes made. Thanks to all of the Ivern mains that helped make his skin/chromas better :) While I don't work on the skins team, I know they have been discussing and taking each feedback very seriously.
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There are some other teasers undiscovered :3 Have you spotted them all?
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Champions can start with simple goals. Because I’ve found having too many constraints limit creativity and lose focus 🤔
Can you guess who?
- young male enchanter
- complex paint mage
- focus on losing control
- creature assassin that help learn the role
- cute creature marksman
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From a mysterious team member who wish to be mysterious about their sick verses. And quick sketch by
@White_Leyth
for our very own Yung Dragun
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I have seen nothing but good intentions and hard work for the players from Rioters. But they are not magicians. Now’s the time to keep morale high~ great energy from the team is what keeps the ball rolling. While it’s been feeling solemn, you’ve got this!!
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As someone who recognize ppl on slack by their profile pic rather than name, having a whole channel of lil naz x talking to each other is really confusing 😂😂😂
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Warning: Ratios and numbers are not final! For any champions that are going on PBE between the time we make the package for influencers+press and live PBE, many iterations cycles have happened.
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I just watched Sett cosplayer handle Ez cosplayer like a training weight 0-0 he did a bunch of bicep curls…
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Here are the Demacia Vice Chroma~ Bittersweet moment :) Today is my last day with League team and first day in LAX! I've learned so much from all the wonderful teammates and was so blessed to touch so many parts of one of my favorite games of all times.
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@Stormblessed545
I’m not an engineer myself but the simple way I can explain it is: fastest way to make something is to reuse, but if you reuse it for on thing and another thing reuse the reused, then you take away the original.. everything crumbles 🤣
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LOL “hey Lexi we need you in Skarner meeting room right now”
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It's taking us some time to get Smolder's splash on PBE. In the meantime, the placeholder is Kog...this jogged a repressed memory of early day Smolder where
@Damascus_Glenn
stretched Neeko skin over Monarch Kog's model...horrifying
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Feedbacks about Udyr "bear"-ness (haha) on his chest when tattoos are gone. We will not be adding tattoos back because of how busy it is. Team will try to resolve the emptiness a bit next week. Huge thanks to Justin, Edgar, Larry and Jason uwu for the extra work.
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Happy 10 years! Share your Penta to get randomly selected for 2K RP~
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Hi friends <3 Come play the game I work on: Legends of Runeterra~ <3
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Some feedbacks we are addressing on Udyr hang tight:
- SGU Udyr on kill vfx
- Def Not Recall
One I'm debating in my head: SG Udyr lvl up on 4 vs 6 points. Currently, the intent is to have the level up moment feel really special but I can see the other way too 🤔
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Champions <3 I’m not bias I swear :)
.
@RiotBrightmoon
and
@RiotMeddler
are back with updates on lore📚, Quickplay⚔️, Blue Essence Emporium💎, and language select🌏.
And
@neolexical
gives us a sneak peak at some new champs 🎨🔥and everyone's favorite scorpion🦂.
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“I would watch fearless draft at 20 games, can you imagine shaco in pro”
Me: “dude someone will die if they have to do 20 games in a row xD”
… wait we don’t even have that many champions
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What champion do you want to see in pro play?
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Noone had time to fix the concepts on the insights articles...they were always like that. I swear. Not hiding nuthin...
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Have you ever moved roles because of a champion that you wanted to pick up? From what role to what? Which champion?
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So Hype :D Which champion would you want to see a story focused single player game for? Will randomly select someone to get 2000 RP!
Just announced at
#RiotNaCCXP
- Riot Forge is our indie publishing arm, working with 3rd party developers to bring single-player / story-driven games in the Runeterra universe to all of you! Hyped for the future!
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Stages of champion clickbait titles:
NEW CHAMPION IS BROKEN?!
NEW CHAMPION IS TRASH!!UNPLAYABLE!
HIDDEN OP STRAT FOR NEW CHAMPION!
WHAT IS RIOT DOING? NEEDS A NERF!
I think I'm getting a pattern here 😅All I can say is that we are committed to fix the ups and downs.
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Which champion were you the most excited about even though you knew you were never going to play them, because their playstyle doesn't match yours?
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@Croten_1
@CanYouPetTheDog
Hi! Glad you think it’s cute ☺️ my team made this! Harassment of any kind is not tolerated.
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What’s with all these wild theories about upcoming champs? It’s Naafiri’s spotlight right now >:)
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Yups, green rengar chroma is LPP Chroma! Yorick will get Chromas too! Will get some beauty shots done today. Prestige King Charles Cavalier Fizz coming royally barking in~ Can't wait to get my hands on other prestiges to play with >:D Feedbacks welcome!
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Naafiri team love their slack emotes :P
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