Antonio Burney asked 2 weeks ago
league of Legends spin-off has a lot of mages, but very few of them are used in professional play. Orianna is one of the exceptions though, and this is because she can throw her ball at her allies to shield them from damage. Her ultimate is also very useful because it can pull the entire enemy team together-thus leaving them open for att
Rod gave Kassadin some much needed sustain and a big power spike, but with it now gone, he has to wait until late game to do anything worthwhile. There are no Mythic Items that compliment him, and if he faces a snowballing AD assassin with lethality, he will be countered for the rest of the g
Unfortunately the item changes have only made her worse, as she can be one-shotted by quite a few champions thanks to her squishy nature and low health. What really sets her back, especially in the early game, is the fact that her abilities come with high mana costs, which would be fine if there wasn’t a lack of mana it
Thanks to her ice powers, Lissandra can take on literal Gods , but it also helps that she is technically one of the strongest mages in the lore. Lissandra’s Q shoots out ice shards, and her E shoots an icy hand that she can teleport to, and she encases herself in ice with her ultimate. Her passive also creates ice clones of her slain enem
For the time being Mundo is a very easy champion that even beginners can use without too much difficulty, but he has been completely neutered as a tank. It is true that Sunfire Aegis pairs well with Mundo, but it doesn’t offer him much health, so if he jungles, he will have very low health compared to other champi
As a Yordle, Veigar is adorably small, but he is actually a master of dark sorcery, and his magic power continuously increases as long as he lands a spell on an enemy. Veigar’s entire kit revolves around the cage that he creates by twisting space, because it is the best way for him to hit people with his spe
Morde pulls enemies towards him with a massive spectral hand and when he ults an opponent, he fights them one-on-one in a pocket dimension. Morde would look great in a Mecha or Mecha Kingdoms skin, but the best option would be to give him a Battlecast skin so he could look like a cybernetic de
** TheGamer: ** A friend of mine struggled with Valorant’s pace initially. He tried playing Phoenix for a while, but things didn’t click. Then he gave Killjoy a shot, and her more defensive nature turned out to be much easier for him to grasp. What kind of player were you trying to appeal to with Kill
Conversely, there’s some mental math involved with the more challenging characters to understand if you’ve succeeded. If you’re playing Breach, and you shoot a flash through a wall, and you swing around the corner, and nobody is there, you’re like, “well, did it work? I don’t know!” Then as you play the game more, you realize; actually, that’s a huge success; there’s nobody there. “I got this ground, they’re not here now” — there’s a bunch of those mental gymnastics you need to go through to understand how successful you’re be
Low division players love spamming highly mechanical AD champions such as Zed and Yasuo (they are picked in about 16% of all ranked games throughout those divisions). Who better to exploit this than Rammus, the bulwark of an armadillo that hard counters attack damage champions through armor empowering abilities? Rammus possesses the ability to roll into lanes at devastating speed, oftentimes resulting in summoner spells and ki
Thanks to the changes in crit damage, Aphelios cannot dish out massive damage until late game. Aphelios now struggles against all of the game’s newfound engage and burst, and he does practically nothing to tanks until he builds Kraken Slayer and Runaan’s Hurricane-which would be fine if they didn’t cost over 3,000 gold e
** Max Grossman: ** For the initial characters that we’ve launched, most started with just their toolkits and different abilities. However, there was at least a “theme” in mind. Phoenix is a good example. He was always going to be fiery in some capacity—he throws a molotov and is reborn from the ashes, that kind of thing. Viper was the same. She started as this toxic, gas wielding character. But discovering that she was a scientist came later in the development process. Killjoy is a fascinating example since she started as a literal robot. So that component was very different at one point in time, but even then, she still had two of her four abilities that shipped with the final version of the character. Some of the characters change a lot, others not so m
Each Gangplank skin gives him barrels a different look, and a Legendary skin could give them interesting animations; for example, a Dragon Trainer skin could turn the barrels into a little dragon. When he ultimates, Gangplank calls down an aerial assault, which could have great effects if it’s ice or cosmic the
This might sound harsh, but it’s practically the only option that doesn’t feel gross here. The lack of empathy it would take to read Stephanie’s account, then try and sweep it under the rug through plausible deniability would be downright inhumane. On top of that, Riot can’t just continue to ignore the mounting criticisms that Seraphine’s Diet Rite brand of mental illness is exploitative on multiple levels, nor can they truly wash away the proverbial stank from her original l
Rod gave Kassadin some much needed sustain and a big power spike, but with it now gone, he has to wait until late game to do anything worthwhile. There are no Mythic Items that compliment him, and if he faces a snowballing AD assassin with lethality, he will be countered for the rest of the g
Unfortunately the item changes have only made her worse, as she can be one-shotted by quite a few champions thanks to her squishy nature and low health. What really sets her back, especially in the early game, is the fact that her abilities come with high mana costs, which would be fine if there wasn’t a lack of mana it Thanks to her ice powers, Lissandra can take on literal Gods , but it also helps that she is technically one of the strongest mages in the lore. Lissandra’s Q shoots out ice shards, and her E shoots an icy hand that she can teleport to, and she encases herself in ice with her ultimate. Her passive also creates ice clones of her slain enem
For the time being Mundo is a very easy champion that even beginners can use without too much difficulty, but he has been completely neutered as a tank. It is true that Sunfire Aegis pairs well with Mundo, but it doesn’t offer him much health, so if he jungles, he will have very low health compared to other champi
As a Yordle, Veigar is adorably small, but he is actually a master of dark sorcery, and his magic power continuously increases as long as he lands a spell on an enemy. Veigar’s entire kit revolves around the cage that he creates by twisting space, because it is the best way for him to hit people with his spe
Morde pulls enemies towards him with a massive spectral hand and when he ults an opponent, he fights them one-on-one in a pocket dimension. Morde would look great in a Mecha or Mecha Kingdoms skin, but the best option would be to give him a Battlecast skin so he could look like a cybernetic de
** TheGamer: ** A friend of mine struggled with Valorant’s pace initially. He tried playing Phoenix for a while, but things didn’t click. Then he gave Killjoy a shot, and her more defensive nature turned out to be much easier for him to grasp. What kind of player were you trying to appeal to with Kill
Conversely, there’s some mental math involved with the more challenging characters to understand if you’ve succeeded. If you’re playing Breach, and you shoot a flash through a wall, and you swing around the corner, and nobody is there, you’re like, “well, did it work? I don’t know!” Then as you play the game more, you realize; actually, that’s a huge success; there’s nobody there. “I got this ground, they’re not here now” — there’s a bunch of those mental gymnastics you need to go through to understand how successful you’re be
Low division players love spamming highly mechanical AD champions such as Zed and Yasuo (they are picked in about 16% of all ranked games throughout those divisions). Who better to exploit this than Rammus, the bulwark of an armadillo that hard counters attack damage champions through armor empowering abilities? Rammus possesses the ability to roll into lanes at devastating speed, oftentimes resulting in summoner spells and ki
Thanks to the changes in crit damage, Aphelios cannot dish out massive damage until late game. Aphelios now struggles against all of the game’s newfound engage and burst, and he does practically nothing to tanks until he builds Kraken Slayer and Runaan’s Hurricane-which would be fine if they didn’t cost over 3,000 gold e
** Max Grossman: ** For the initial characters that we’ve launched, most started with just their toolkits and different abilities. However, there was at least a “theme” in mind. Phoenix is a good example. He was always going to be fiery in some capacity—he throws a molotov and is reborn from the ashes, that kind of thing. Viper was the same. She started as this toxic, gas wielding character. But discovering that she was a scientist came later in the development process. Killjoy is a fascinating example since she started as a literal robot. So that component was very different at one point in time, but even then, she still had two of her four abilities that shipped with the final version of the character. Some of the characters change a lot, others not so m
Each Gangplank skin gives him barrels a different look, and a Legendary skin could give them interesting animations; for example, a Dragon Trainer skin could turn the barrels into a little dragon. When he ultimates, Gangplank calls down an aerial assault, which could have great effects if it’s ice or cosmic the
This might sound harsh, but it’s practically the only option that doesn’t feel gross here. The lack of empathy it would take to read Stephanie’s account, then try and sweep it under the rug through plausible deniability would be downright inhumane. On top of that, Riot can’t just continue to ignore the mounting criticisms that Seraphine’s Diet Rite brand of mental illness is exploitative on multiple levels, nor can they truly wash away the proverbial stank from her original l