Hey folks! Riot Jag, Design Manager for the Summoner's Rift Team here guest-writing this week's Quick Gameplay Thoughts.

我是 riot jag ，召唤师下挂设计师经理，客串写写这周的游戏想法。

Patch 11.8, which shipped this week, included changes to help Darius, Diana, Mordekaiser, Zed, and Morgana jungle more viably. These are all champions who primarily see play in lanes, and we've seen questions around why we chose these champs versus others. We want to share a bit about our thought process here.

这周的11.8版本把诺手，皎月，铁男，劫和莫甘娜这些线上英雄改动到可以打野。很多人想知道为什么，下面我们来谈谈。

Why give laners jungle changes?

为什么给线上英雄野区增益？

Right now, the jungle is very intimidating to a lot of our players, especially in lower MMRs. We are currently considering systemic changes to help this, but in the meantime we saw an opportunity to ease in players to the jungle with champions they’re already familiar with playing. By doing this, an unfamiliar jungle player can just focus on learning the specifics of the role, without also having to learn a new champion at the same time.

现在打野这个位置体验很糟糕，尤其是低段位的玩家。所以我们考虑一个系统性的改动，于此同时，我们注意到可以将一些人们已经很熟悉的英雄送到野区。这样做的好处是，玩家专注于学习打野这个位置，而不是打野的英雄。

Additionally, we always look to increase diversity to the experience of the game, and having a new set of junglers helps a lot in that regard. That being said, we’re not trying to shift these champions’ primary role—just add to the possibilities available.

更进一步，我们寻求游戏体验的多样性，而引入奇怪的打野会有利于这一点。我们不会强制线上英雄去打野，而是赋予他们打野的可能性。

How we choose specific champs

我们怎么找到这些英雄的

We target champions that we feel have a good chance of being able to off-role as junglers without boosting the power of their lane roles. Additionally, we try to stay away from champions that have a lot of pro viability already, as adding flex potential tends to make them very high priority in the pick/ban phase. Finally, we want to make sure we pick champions that retain their weaknesses and counterplay even when coming out of the jungle.

我们寻找一些有潜力作为打野而不会加强他们的线上能力。我们没有从已经可以摇摆的英雄里去选择。最后一点，我们确保这些新的奇怪打野有一定的弱点去反制（counterplay）。

Why not bring back champions who were previously nerfed out of jungling instead?

为什么不回调哪些之前被赶出野区的打野？

If we nerfed a champion out of the jungle it was probably on purpose. Maybe they were overly dominant in pro (Sylas), or maybe they had an unhealthy pattern when in the jungle (Camille). Unless things have drastically changed (eg. updates to the kits/items/runes that were problematic), these picks are not likely to come back.

如果我们回调那些被赶出野区的打野，那么他们会制霸职业比赛（塞拉斯），或者有不健康的打野路径（卡密尔二级gank，绝食）。除非这些东西能被显著改善，否则这些英雄不会被请回野区。

What about primary junglers who are struggling?

那些体验很糟糕的打野英雄怎么办？

We try to keep total buffs and nerfs to the game relatively even to prevent patch-by-patch power creep, which means even if we weren't doing jungle changes for lane champs, we still wouldn't just straight up buff a ton of main junglers. Jungle accessibility changes actually don't factor as directly into buff/nerf calculations for jungle overall since the champs aren't currently seeing play there: Adding more champs to the role doesn't necessarily make it stronger or weaker relative to lanes.

我们尽量去做整体性的削弱与加强，而不是一个版本一个版本的量化增强。我们不会加强一堆打野。加强一些英雄的打野能力而不影响他们的对线能力。

That said, in cases where we are forced to choose between buffing exceptionally weak main junglers and making more lane champs jungle-viable—available dev time on the team, for example—we'll still prioritize buffing those main-role junglers. (No, 48% is not 'exceptionally' weak.) As recent examples, we buffed Zac, Rammus, Amumu, and Kindred in the past month.

我们会加强一些很弱的打野（48%的胜率不算很弱）和加强一些线上英雄的打野能力。最近的例子是加强扎克 龙龟 阿木木和千珏。

We're looking forward to seeing the results of our 11.8 changes. If they turn out well, we’ll look to add even more champions to the jungle. In the meantime, expect more systemic jungle changes in 11.10, aimed at raising the jungle floor, and not the ceiling.

Yetter jungle wins,

我们会观察11.8的改动，如果效果好的话，会考虑引入更多线上英雄去打野。于此同时，11.1版本会系统性的加强打野，目的在于提升打野的下限（地板），而不是上限（天花板）。

Jag