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Greg Street

Topic of consistency in knowledge: To me, it seems like there's a 'failure' from the design team if you can't be consistent. If you guys feel like a champion needs to be gated by a lack of knowledge, it seems like there's something inherently wrong with their kit that they a clarity based gate.

I think that's true if it feels like a barrier to entry, like a "you must be this high to play this champion." But there is a ton of nuance to really master a champion. You learn what to do in very specific situations that may not occur that often. Any way you slice it, there is a ton of information you have to remember and manage. Some of that information seems so basic that we should just offer. For example, we show you your own cooldowns. We could not show those and just ask players to try and remember when the time has elapsed, but that seems dumb. Tracking other information starts to cross that line. We could sparkle minions when your next attack would definitely be a last hit, but that feels like dumbing the game down. It's a very subjective line though, which is why I like to calibrate our opinions with that of players all the time.

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The way you tag answers with so many different categories on tumblr is so cute.

I know they are wildly inconsistent and that sometimes it's #leagueoflegends and sometimes it's #league of legends. Maybe I should just give up. Clearly I don't know what I'm doing. But I have this dream that at some point the site has 10,000 answers and people might only want to read the ones about squids, or high-level D&D or maya pyramids.

You going to be on radio silence until Jan? Xmas and all that

I have been answering more questions on http://askghostcrawler.tumblr.com/
I move some of these questions over to there. For this particular answer, I'll probably post some over the break since I'll have plenty of free time for once. It won't be as easy to ask other Rioters when I don't know an answer, which will reduce my ability to address those topics.

Just because someone is "playing to win" when they want to duo mid or roaming Singed counterjungle support shouldn't put *any* burden of proof/flexibility on the rest of the team. If the rest of the team doesn't think it is acceptable most games, the community has spoken.

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