Honor, Skins & More | Dev Update - League of Legends

Meddler and Pabro answer questions from players on Swarm and Arena, stream sniping, the ADC meta, autofill parity, Honor system updates, behavioral system changes, matchmaking, Vanguard, champion skins and thematics, the Mastery crest update, and whether or not they’ll delete Yuumi.

Timestamps:
Intro: 0:00
Modes: 0:28
Stream Sniping: 1:06
ADCs Everywhere: 1:52
Autofill Parity: 2:33
Honor: 3:00
Behavioral Systems: 3:18
New Player Matchmaking: 4:01
Vanguard: 4:45
Mastery Crests: 5:59
Skins: 6:20
Yuumi: 7:36
Outro: 8:00

[Vandiril]

Honoring opponents is BACK?!
Oh boy, LONG HAVE WE WAITED!

[KupoKro]

Finally, after 7 years, we can honor enemies and multiple teammates again.

[shikigamigourmet]

I think Toomi will be a great addition to the game. She probably goes very well together with Yone as she give crit and is also a sibling to another champion.

[Alin-]

Being honored by an opponent gives you a much better feeling than being honored by someone from your team. It was the best feeling in the game. I don't understand why it took so many years for you to realize that you lost the most valuable system in the game.

[CrusaderZav]

it's SOOOO much better when riot listens and are honest about mis-steps or mistakes. 10/10 update

[jalcome]

WDYM no big changes: opponent honor is back thats HUGGGGEEE

[onebrickyboi]

Would be cool to see Doom Bots return one day

[xSwiftx]

This is my absolute favorite way to see a dev blog. No fancy cringe stuff to appease a younger audience, just straight to the point, simple, efective explainations, addresses us as adults and informative, but a hint of sarcasm and humor.

Bravo, Riot. Keep doing this!

[AngelinaHickman-ph]

I do really support the idea of Vanguard NOT having to run in kernel. I would very much like that, especially when 2XKO comes out and a whole new wave of players have to put it on their machines

[Nemao]

i swear to god, i'm so happy we will be able to honnor multiple teammate

[Aypifox]

Amazing new Mastery Emotes! Thats all we want, we just want them to be "renewed", make them feel modern without changing them entirely

[JanJakRusso]

The new mastery icons look much better

[EthelJung-jw]

I would really love to see swarm stick around, it brought new people to the game and has a lot of potential for growth

[shadowthecat]

I love how "Lawyer Azir" is essentially a legal eagle ;)

[bloodknyte]

Can we please get custom announcers?! Every other moba just about has them, it'd be really great to do for League as well.

[herflik]

As someone who play exclusively ARAM, I would love to see some updates for it, for example new maps with different features (bring back Butcher's Bridge!) or some kind of a power-up system or maybe even some objectives for mid/lategame.

[VenatrixOoriana]

Always love seeing these Dev Updates! Keeps the community in the loop, allows you guys to get some feedback, and gives us things to look forward to! Also loved the Toomi bit xD

Mastery icons are looking much better. I guess the one thing I could say is that it would be nice to have a special Mastery icon for people that have Mastery 100. Have it look shiny and sparkly or something, idk, but that would be awesome.

[Litost-jjno]

Hi, thanks for the updates!
I have a couple of questions:

- Was TrueSkill 2 a myth?
- Matching premade players from two significantly different ranks, such as Emerald 1 with Platinum 4 or Platinum 1 with Gold 4, is commonly exploited for smurfing and boosting duos with external accounts.
- There is no option to report accounts for ELO boosting or smurfing. It’s often easy to identify in some cases because, in ARAM/Flex, they use Flash on D, and then in SoloQ, they stomp all games with Flash on F, or vice versa. However, when reporting, there is no specific option for this, only "cheating."

[Dacnomaniak]

Finally Azir and I can go toe to toe in bird low

[tommybury]

For the Autofill question: Will we ever get a queue system where we can intentionally opt-in to potentially longer queue times in order to get our primary guaranteed?