August Browning in 2020
August 'August' Browning is a Lead Designer on 
League of Legends at Riot Games Inc.
About[]
August Browning in 2012
Browning is from Alaska, and joined Riot late in 2012 immediately after graduating from university. He had spent many an hour playing DotA and League of Legends in his spare time and even used it as the basis for some of his educational works.[1]
Browning initially joined as a Champion Designer before temporarily switching to the development of the Untitled adventure game from August 2016 to December 2017.
Browning previously called himself 'gypsylord' after Gypsy, his first dog. After gaining global perspective, he realized the term gypsy was racially charged in Europe. He changed his name to 'groovylord' then to 'jinxylord' and settled on 'Riot August'.
Jhin[]
This week, we sit down with Champion Designer August 'gypsylord' Browning - join us as we chat with him about his board game habit, champ design at Riot, and developing Jhin (see 8:50).
Contributions[]
- Champion Design
- Vi, the Piltover Enforcer
- Jinx, the Loose Cannon
- Gnar, the Missing Link (Partly with Andrei 'Meddler' van Roon)[2]
- Ekko, the Boy Who Shattered Time
- Jhin, the Virtuoso
- Senna, the Redeemer[3]
- Viego, the Ruined King
- Zeri, the Spark of Zaun
- Bel'Veth, the Empress of the Void (Partly with Jonathan 'EndlessPillows' Fuller)
- Briar, the Restrained Hunger (Partly with Glenn 'Twin Enso' Anderson)
- Champion Rework
- Rengar[4]
- Kayle, the Righteous[5]
- Morgana, the Fallen[6]
- Wukong (Partly with Nathan 'Lutzburg' Lutz and Andrei 'Meddler' van Roon)[7]
- Janna[8]
- Taliyah[9]
- Jax (Partly with Daniel 'Maxw3ll' Emmons)
- Systems Design
- Keystone Masteries (Partly with Blake 'Squad5' Smith and Stash 'Stashu' Chelluck)
- Game Modes
- Nexus Blitz (Partly with Jordan 'Wrekz' Anton, Stephen 'Mortdog' Mortimer, Daniel 'ZenonTheStoic' Klein, and Jo 'Fearless' Graylock)[10]
- Swarm
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