Your champs are safe: Riot August is leaving the LoL balance team for a while

League of Legends players will sleep well in the coming months, with the announcement that lead designer Riot August is taking a sabbatical until next year.

Riot August is an infamous League balance developer who’s responsible for many of the game’s nerfs—but we might get a bit of a break for a while as, on Aug. 26, the dev announced on X that he is taking a sabbatical and won’t return to work until 2025.

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