The official League of Legends Weibo page published an early LoL dev update video today, highlighting important information regarding the improvements coming to the game this summer and in the future.
The LoL Dev update video, which featured Andrei “Meddler” van Roon and Jeremy “Brightmoon” Lee, revealed intriguing news regarding the impending Essence Emporium, additional Wild Rift skins coming to League, the future of LoL Arena, and other news.
LoL Essence Emporium
According to Meddler and Brightmoon, the next Essence Emporium will be accessible in Patch 13.17, and the event will be available twice a year in the future.
The developers have also done significant under players’ nose with improvements, and when the Emporium goes live, we’ll receive a secret tiny button that will mass-disenchant champion shards.
The future of Arena
Meddler and Brightmoon also revealed some information regarding LoL game mode Arena. They confessed that they can’t guarantee the game mode will return, and that if it does, it would be in a new form. Keep in mind that the video was shot on July 18, just before Arena went live.
“This version of Arena is intended specifically for Soul Fighter, and we wanted to take some time to hear feedback before we make any future decisions. Assuming Arena does return in the future, there are definitely some features we didn’t get to in this version.”
When it comes to specifics, Brightmoon mentioned custom lobbies and queuing with friends as features the devs would want to see in the future. This is something that players have been requesting since the mode’s release.
LoL Quick Play
The developers also mentioned Quick Play.
Quick Play, a game mode in which you may choose your position and champion as you queue, skipping champion choose, was meant to be released before the mid-year patch but has been delayed owing to the programmers’ focus on Arena. The new game mode that will replace Blind Pick will be released later this year.
New Skins
Aside from that, the developers confirmed that new Wild Rift Star Guardian skins, including Redeemed Star Guardian Xayah and Rakan, will be added to LoL PC later this year. Unfortunately, they did not provide precise release dates for these skins.
The developers also announced that Graves, Janna, Jarvan IV, Nami, Orianna, and Varus’ ability icons will be updated in August.
Additional updates will be provided in the upcoming dev update video, including additional information on preseason tweaks, new champions, and champion updates.