League of Legends followers have been left baffled after a current datamine of upcoming PBE modifications uncovered a stunning identify change for one in all Gragas’s talents. The Rabble Rouser’s W, which sees the character drink from his beer barrel to turn into stronger, has had its identify modified from “Drunken Rage” to “Raucous Rage” as an alternative.
The tooltip for the flexibility has additionally been up to date. Whereas segments of it beforehand learn: “Gragas guzzles down brew from his cask… after ending his drink, turns into drunkenly empowered,” it now reads a bit classier, stating: “Gragas samples his brew… after ending, turns into boisterous and belligerent.”
Put your pitchforks down and Sean Dyche memes away. Whereas this would possibly sound like “utter woke nonsense” and one other model of the Graves cigar incident, it’s really a really comprehensible case of Riot Video games adhering to age score pointers.
Head of League Studio and Riot Video games Senior Vice President, Riot Meddler took to BlueSky to elucidate: “For anybody questioning – We’ve made some updates to Gragas’ means names to take away “Drunken” with a purpose to keep compliant with age rankings throughout varied areas. Be at liberty to pour one out for him, however don’t fear, he nonetheless enjoys his brews even when he’s being very barely extra discreet about it.”
Meddler then went onto Reddit to present further context: “We’re not seeking to change something about Gragas as a personality (who he’s, how he acts, what he does and so on). The usage of the phrase “drunken” particularly has been flagged although. This can be a European compliance factor, so impacts loads of languages which makes issues extra sophisticated. We’re additionally precisely what does and doesn’t want to vary in additional element and whether or not modifications on PBE may be greater than crucial.”
LoL’s age score has all the time been necessary to Riot Video games, it’s why the intercourse scene between Vi and Caitlyn in Arcane Season 2 was controversially minimize down which led to over 46,000 followers signing a petition begging for the prolonged minimize to be launched.
In different information from the small PBE replace, Ignite is getting buffed by scaling higher from degree 6 onwards although it’ll now even be weaker for the primary few ranges to steadiness issues out.
In my seven years of esports writing, I’ve introuduced esports protection to newspapers, interviewed among the greatest names within the business, and pushed viewers mad with the puns in my YouTube scripts. I’m most happy with the latter.
