Reign of Gaming

In the upcoming patch we’ve added some new features to the HUD and item shop, all wrapped up in a slick new look for the League of Legends user interface. While it might take a little getting used to, we think you’ll find that these UI updates help you quickly absorb in-game information, and purchase even faster when you head back to buy. This is particularly helpful in light of all the new items we’re adding this preseason. Here’s a rundown of what you’ll see when the new items come out.

Item Shop Updates

In addition to a sleeker-looking interface, the shop now offers more options for quickly and efficiently locating items. This includes search functionality, better sorting options, multiple layouts and more.

Here are the major store updates:

1. Item categories are all now accessible with just one click. You can also select more than one filter to help locate those highly-specialized buys.
2. Selecting an item will display its components, their costs, and every higher-tier item it can build into.
3. There’s now a search function to help you quickly locate and buy a particular item. It even recognizes popular slang terms such as “BT” for The Bloodthirster and “triforce” for Trinity Force.
4. There are options to view items in both grid and list layouts. You can now view items as icons so you can browse more items at the same time.
5. There are new recommended items for every champion that incorporate all the preseason additions to the arsenal. Recommended items have also been expanded to offer additional, categorized suggestions (starting items, durability items, offensive items, etc.) to help you tailor your build to your current situation.

HUD Updates

Along with its new aesthetic, the game HUD also has a few upgrades to increase your field of view and make relevant information readily visible. Here’s what you can expect:

1. The current level of each of your active abilities is now displayed below the icon, and the hotkey assigned to each is now displayed on the button.
2. Item slots are now marked by a clear hotkey indicator for to easily see which items are usable and what key activates them.
3. The scoreboard in the upper right has been streamlined and sharpened to maintain clarity.

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I made sure of it.

The new item shop has important functionality for the new items, we're currently looking to keep them hand in hand.

You can definitely click on the header categories as well to filter by Attack, Defense, Consumables, etc.

Thanks! We're all really excited to finally be able to show off what we've been working on.

The team portraits have new art so you shouldn't see that issue anymore.

We likely will not have such a category for quick filtering, but adding those as searchable terms is definitely not out of the equation.
That's something we're exploring.

It's a Yonkey!

Although I would be a fan of regular expressions in the search, in my experiences with all the various search tools I've built... they don't tend to go over very well for most people.

The search does not search out full descriptions. This is intentional, it limits the chance of "false hits"; seeing items that seem to show up arbitrarily under nonobvious search conditions.

Instead, I'll be likely tagging keywords to hit. Things like penetration, stacks, or potentially "on-hit" and similar are all possibilities.

This isn't a definite, we're still iterating quite a bit to make sure each feature feels right.

Not initially and that's a feature that's still under investigation. Our priority was first getting a more manageable and faster to use interface.

I did make sure to setup an API similar to the current item shop's recommended item override API, for the sake of our power users out there.