[2021] Vex, the Gloomist | Ability Reveal

Grounded would need some major clarity concerns addressed before I'd be happy to push it any further.

Champions refund 25%, minions refund 10% (obviously these are both tuning values so could change)

It's the latter, but you do need to get a hit in between each dash.

Excited to see all the reactions to Vex (teh Yordle of d0oM)!

Hopefully you guys all enjoy how fed up she is with dashes when she hits PBE tomorrow. We spent a lot of time trying to find the sweetspot for her anti-dash gameplay. Compared to other standard mages, she should feel more empowered in-lane against dashy champs, but doesn't automatically smash the matchup. She's a bit disfavored in range v range, but still has the tools to compete and apply Gloom with E.

It does apply on blinks, actually. Sorry for that confusion.

You heard it here first.

and probably last.

3 reset passive?

It definitely is a bit odd. There's a few things going on:

• From a gameplay perspective, we had to make Vex comfortable playing at shorter ranges for the anti-mobility stuff, so closing to short range is less of a cost than for most Mages, which made this a unique opportunity to do this gameplay on a mage.
• From a thematic perspective, Shadow is something like Vex's id - the part that cares passionately about stuff (i.e. making people miserable), that Vex never wants to let show because caring is lame. R is basically mega Lee Sin Q - and like Lee Sin Q, once you hit the first missile, psychological pressure builds to recast it, it's hard not to recast, which dovetails nicely as an experience with Shadow egging Vex on. It's a little bit off her first read personality, but still fits within the broader character.
• It's a super fun spell, so we were pretty excited to ship it all along, even if it's a somewhat off class moment. That said, we spent significant effort gating it so that it can be a big moment, rather than the thing that defines her gameplay - for example, it has an unusually long cooldown to buy power budget for her base kit while preserving R as a powerful moment when its up.

Initial Gio player converted to complaining Millia main here.

My character sucks etc (but doing loops is too fun so here I am)

This seems like a reasonable bounty...

Yeah I love pressing way too many buttons to do anything in any game so was super hard to get away from Millia once I tried her!

QCF DASH QCF DASH DASH DASH DASH BAP BAP BAP BAP MORE BUTTONS DASH DASH QCF

Enemy means every unit, so it includes minions/monsters/champions.

Vex going in with R usually entails (a very predictable) AoE fear and a large shield. So it's much closer to the Neeko side. She usually has the damage to blow up one person if she chooses, but she definitely doesn't have the "one shot 5 people instantly" like Fiddle.

The same thing that doubled the range of allied projectiles also used to half the speed of enemy projectiles, it was wild

All of it was on a basic ability which made it very difficult to tune around.