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With the first day of June, the Pride month celebration is upon us. In addition to being rated as one of the safest workplaces for LGBT employees, Riot Games annually brings the fun to all its titles with the fun in-game events. We can expect stuff like new game modes and tons of free loot across all of Riot Games’ numerous titles!
Pride Month is here ?️? and we’re celebrating across all of our games!
No matter where you live, who you are, or who you love, we’re proud to have you as part of our community. ✨ | More Info: https://t.co/aIyCt0wLF4 pic.twitter.com/cHrxROG5TI
— Riot Games (@riotgames) May 31, 2022
For the League of Legends players in particular, there’s a big announcement that Riot sneaked into the Pride Month promotional video. The promised Art and Sustainability Update (that’s what ASU stands for) for Ahri, the Nine-Tailed Fox, seems to be already well on its way to hit the rift. At least it’s ready enough to be included in the promo – even if it’s just for 5 seconds of her simply strolling around.
This update has been in the works for quite a while – as we’ve heard Riot talk about their plans to update the currently horribly outdated model of Ahri way before her 2022 mini-rework.
And, obviously, this month won’t leave behind the Elo-hungry future challengers that care for nothing but numbers and win rates. As the long-awaited 12.10 patch – advertised by Riot as the “durability update” – was released just a week ago, we’re not done yet with the massive changes all across the board. It’s still pre-season, baby!
Massive patch. Super proud of the team and helpers for rallying together to get everything in.
We're being careful to not undo what we just did and are doing our best to maintain item choice, champion feel and identity, role balance, etc.
A lot of work to still be done 🙂 pic.twitter.com/XIK15uYSZd
— Matt Leung-Harrison (@RiotPhroxzon) June 1, 2022
Riot’s Lead Balance designer Matt Leung-Harrison once again has provided a sneak peek for another gigantic update scheduled to release sometime in June. Riot have promised to keep a close look at the post-durability-update meta, and, well, seems like they’re on their way to deliver.
As the outliers who shot up to 57% win rate were already addressed somewhat in the 12.10b hotfix, 12.11 is focused mainly on the unintended targets of the durability changes, mainly Assassins who got hit the hardest, and Fighters, for whom the durability increase was like a mid-summer Christmas miracle. If 12.10 was all about changing champion stats, 12.11 will be focused mainly on itemization, with sweeping changes to almost all Mythics as well as frequently built second- and third-item options like Death’s Dance and Maw of Malmortius.
Last but not least, the newest addition to more than a hundred-strong champion roster, Bel’Veth, can be expected to arrive at the Summoners’ Rift and the Howling Abyss by the end of the month. It’s still unclear what her exact role is – other than that she’s supposed to be nasty into enemy tanks and has infinite true damage scaling on her abilities. Another 200 years of game design experience?