LOL: Riot's great failure with the old champions that changed his way of working forever

If something is liking the League of Legends of season 12 is the complete renewal that many old champions are suffering. Riot Games has devised new formulas to introduce a large number of updates in the video game that grant a second chance to the oldest or worst heroes have endured the passage of time. An almost perfect process that is convincing the bulk of the players and in which the developer is using a large number of lessons they learned in the past. In many cases, thanks to a previous failure.

The great failure of Riot Games with the ReWorks that changed everything

Before implementing the model that currently exists, Riot Games carried out those called Class ReWorks . This practice basically consisted of choosing a whole category of champions and updating them at the same time. For example, during the last stretch of season 4 they carried out a general adjustment to the colossi and a year later they decided to do the same with the shooters. In this way, dozens of changes were introduced that renewed the video game overnight. The model was the most spectacular and the idea, for the amount of adjustments, excited the community. However, it never finished working.

The complete ReWork to the shooters gave rise to situations as strange as that of Kog’maw and the colossi is considered the worst patch in the history of League of Legends for its impact on the competitive. However, if we review the historical Riot Games changes the real failure came in mid-2016 . Going forward with a practice that had already proven very problematic, a generalized update to the murderers was introduced into the video game. A total of nine characters received great changes including a complete playable re-playable reown for Leblanc or Rengar.

The update was a true disaster, being the aforementioned case of Leblanc the worst of all. Only three skills changed, but they were enough to make the champion feel too clumsy and not just convince the players. The idea was good in theory, since it modified the kit so that the character had to space her spells more and there would be time to deal with her. However, the popularity of the champion, who was previously at the top, was drastically reduced since for the majority of the community she was too clumsy.

In fact, Leblanc's Rework became the first major playability update that Riot Games reversed. It is true that rengar or Kog’maw lived similar situations, but in the case of these two champions only one skill had been completely modified. However, if we call the failure update, it is not just for this character. In the great update of the murderers there were a total of nine champions that received changes. Of these, only two remain in the video game ** Today: heel and katarina. A situation that suggests that it is no accident that this was the last great class update that Riot Games tried.

After this disappointment, The developers changed their way of working on the old champions , considerably reducing the rhythm of the changes. It was a process that lasted several years and was modified taking into account the opinions of the community. It was new errors, such as the Aatrox ReWork, and criticism for the low adjustment cadence that ended up giving rise to the model currently using the developer. League of Legends is in one of the stages in which the greatest updates carry out for the ancient heroes, but their identity is preserved and throwing them only when they are ready instead of feeling pressured by the dates.