Talk:Irelia/@comment-108.85.84.234-20120504012028/@comment-4499980-20120504103801

Note that champion/skin development is run independently from live balance.

It's easy to say that releases are made in order to maximize income, you see it differently when you actually consider how the development cycle works. At the end of the day, Riot wants players to want to pay for things, it needs some form of income. But this doesn't mean that they release things coincidentally with live balancing for this sole purpose, that's just idiotic.