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Hi everyone and welcome to Patch 14.11! Overall, the patch has landed reasonably balance wise for things that changed. Lane Swaps - They've been a hot topic of conversation over the course of MSI - While we think some of this was teams adapting to player matchup diffs over time, in some cases, it's more optimal than we'd like (eg. double ranged bot lanes) - While a few lane swaps every now and then is favorable for the viewer experience, every game is too far - We'll be adjusting the fortification and first turret gold values as a result K'Sante - K'Sante has also been a hot topic from MSI - While there have been some favorable matchups into him, he was generally not exploitable enough - In the short term, we're making some targeted changes to reduce just how much damage he can soak with W. We also intend to take a larger stab at some of his kit shape to give him sharper strengths and weaknesses, but that will take some time - Given that he has optionality between tanking and fighting, he probably also shouldn't be so generally durable Marksmen Generally - Marksmen after the changes to snowballing, experience are now at similar levels of durability to the durability patch - They also seem very strong, but we're waiting on more information before acting in a significant way - We intend to tune around this rough level of durability and nerf other things like damage, etc. if they are too strong Marksman First Items - Overall, Marksmen first items seems close - Kraken/Collector/ER/IE are all viable options of varying strength - We believe Collector and IE are a bit on the strong side and ER a little on the weak side - Shiv has struggled to find an audience, we're looking to move it further into the on-hit space and it is also pretty underpowered Post Hotfix - Our hotfix has overall put Blackfire Torch and Ashes in a reasonable spot - It is intended that Ashes is a strong item for AP junglers, hence why it was generically nerfed, rather than nerfing the jungle specifically - Draven was slightly overnerfed, but we expect him to recoup some of this power once players fully swap over to Bloodthirster Smolder - Smolder has landed in a bit of a weird spot; Tri Force overall is offering a bit of a better package than Essence Reaver overall - We would like Sheen items to be viable on him, and also to have some Crit builds and some non Crit builds Arena - Post 14.10 changes, we're mainly focused on taking larger swings at nerfing healing, buffing weak champions, nerfing fighters further - We're also taking a further swing at outlier legendary and prismatic items - Buffs targeted at Ekko, Fizz, LB, Corki [he had a bunch of Arena specific nerfs that no longer make sense], Viktor, Ziggs, Akshan - Nerfs targeted at Darius, Vi, Rhaast, Gragas, Garen, Trundle, Vlad, Aatrox, Briar ARAM - Main strategy is to remove buff/nerf modifiers that no longer make sense and followups to the 14.10 changes landing - Buffs to Corki, Ezreal, Yasuo, Yone, MF - Nerfs to Shen, Veigar, Akshan, Morgana, Nautrilus, Hwei, Skarner