LOL: What do analysts paid by Riot do? This is an employee's response about his work

Riot Games analysts make one of the most difficult and ungrateful jobs of League of Legends . They are just recognized by the community and do not receive too many praise when things go well. If a player remembers them is to discredit them because they have passed with the nerfs to their favorite champion or the new character is too broken. However, most is not even clear what they do. To try to solve this situation, an employee of the company in this position has tried to clarify what the work of it consists of.

What does it mean to be an analyst at League of Legends?

In a quick summary, we can define the work of the analysis team as a support for the main developers of any new content related to the gameplay. The team should try to predict all the ways in which a novelty can affect the rest of League of Legends and try to make them fit into the game. In a very interesting metaphor, Riot GalaxySmash said they are like a kind of yuumi climb to the shoulders of the designers. A basic pillar of play performance without the one that could barely exist.

As for more concrete issues, we must know that Most of the work of this team happens before the novelties launched . It is true that there are times when they participate in equilibrium adjustments or influence them. However, according to the workers of this department there are other more important functions. The goal is to travel all the way from the main designers. They help create a prototype on paper by giving instructions on how it should work in relation to the rest of the elements of the game.

A very interesting example is the crown of Quebrada Queen . In the case of this object, they collaborated with indications such as that "it should be adjusted to a large number of champions" to avoid problems. However, perhaps it was highlighted its role when it comes to finished defining it. In this case, following with the example, they had the responsibility to help developers add nuances to prevent the object from replacing eternal frost as a header object. The need to reach that nuance so that the two items do not overlap is a demonstration of a good job of the analysis team.

In addition to this clarification in which they make it clear that they work in a complementary way to the rest of the developers, they have also wanted to end a couple of myths of the community. The work does not consist only of playing and it is not such an enviable position as it seems. Of course it is fun and spend many hours in the loyalty crack, but they dedicate almost so much time to a much less fun video game: Excel . They must make tables accumulating all types of data and combining the numerical (quantitative) analysis with that of the context (qualitative).

How much damage should Qiyana do to be a good murderer? o What percentage she should lose from her in relation to Zed when she has the unique ability to have improper effect areas of her champions category? They are some of the questions they must respond. From its good performance in this area it will depend that the champions come out so balanced (at least in statistics) as the last releases or that we return to be similar to Senna, Apalelios and Sett.

Finally, they wanted to emphasize that having a great level of play is not a requirement for work. Although currently the Riot Games analysis team has a large number of employees at MMR level Master or higher, the truth is that it is something quite casual. After all, it is a job that asks to have put League of Legends for many hours before starting and that does not allow you to abandon it. However, they are not precisely an elitist body and any player could take the curriculum for the next vacancy. Of course, sometimes there are rank requirements for some jobs.