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Yes! Milio's passive also applies to himself. Milio's attack damage is very low to balance this out.

We'll get into that in some upcoming articles!

Basically, if it's flat then short-mid range ADCs get way more power overall. Using % based range is both more fun to find crazy combinations (Kog'Maw W + Milio W) and makes Milio have preferred friends. We had concerns about him being too good with everyone.

Knowing you have to deal with longer range from long range ADCs is annoying, but they have kits built for long range champs. Turning short range champs into long range champs is terrifying because their kits are powerful and range is a normal limiter.

Using % increases allow that dynamic to stay in an intuitive way without losing those exciting combos and extreme situations that are countered in the same ways as before (dive the backline).

Two parts to his passive.

On hit, it deals a burst of magic damage.

After the burst of magic damage, it applies the burn which does not stack but does refresh and replace.

Hopefully that makes sense! There will be more details coming out in the coming weeks.

Very cool!

For Prowler's, it's more about finding a good replacement. I wouldn't rule out some version of a dash staying, but I don't think it's super likely.

But again, this is stuff that's quite a ways out, almost speculative to talk about.

That's hard for me to say, but I'd definitely put him on the low end for complexity.

We wanted to make him easy to do good things with by casting simple spells but hard to get the most out of him by using good positioning, timing, and target choices. He's meant for all skill levels!

Since it's a knockback getting a direct hit will knock them out of their dashes, correct. However, in the case of Amumu Q he still stuns his target as soon as the bandage hits.

His passive does not stack on allies or enemies. There's a split of damage between extra burst and a lingering burn. Whoever applied the burn last replaces and refreshes the burn and gets its damage assigned to them.

So if Milio hits someone and applies burn, then Caitlyn hits the same target and applies burn and the burn kills then Caitlyn gets the kill credit as the last applicator.

Haha sorry, I think that poses some risks unfortunately so I don't think I can disclose those things :)

Just passive procs!

Any champion it touches gives a Passive proc once per cast (so just walking inside gives a proc).

After a couple seconds it pulses, applying a second proc to allies in the area. At the end of the cast it pulses one more time applying a final proc.

It can definitely knock Leona out of her E, though she still applies the root :)

Nautilus Q gets interrupted by his movement but the knock up from hitting the hook and the pull on his target still happens.

Haiku format next pls

Hey, thanks!

It depends; if you have questions you should ask!

It's a bruiser pattern, though. It's an item that is about heads-up duels. Papering that over with a pure Assassin stat profile doesn't make the game better. Bit of a misfire on the holistic design, though it's doing good things for some other spaces, and assassins don't hate it.

We're looking at redesigning both Duskblade and Prowler's Claw (or replacing Prowler's), potentially to ship after MSI if everything goes well. Also a chance that those changes hit some unforeseen problems and it takes longer, though. Definitely agree we can't leave Assassins stranded forever, and Prowler's Claw is doing some deeply uncomfortable things to the game right now.

I think the Fighter mythics suffer from not doing anything particularly essential for Fighters - they're statistically good and fill nice holes in build paths, but if we didn't tell you that you had to build one by making them that gold-efficient, a lot of champs probably wouldn't. I've actually had pretty similar thoughts about them as Mythics - Steraks/Hullbreaker/Deaths Dance would make a neat trio, maybe Goredrinker for a different version of front lining or something. With all that said, they're not the squeaky wheel right now.

We're considering a fairly different model of Mythic item content design (i.e. what items exist in the system), but it's pretty early stage exploration right now, would be post-MSI for a pilot project at earliest and pretty likely not to go anywhere.

Maybe shred guitar instead?

So, I'm not sanguine that Galeforce is ok in the long run, but it generates pretty different outcomes from Stridebreaker.

The actual problem with Stridebreaker as a dash was - a primary point of satisfaction for juggernaut-type champions stems from how powerful they feel once they're in melee range. Giving them a readily purchasable dash meant they reliably closed to melee range, and if they're reliably closing to melee range, they can't just win fights once they get there. So we were going to have to start balancing all the juggernauts to not be juggernauts anymore, and lose some of their core satisfaction.

When Galeforce is the best, it escalates how much self-defense ADCs have, which necessitates some pretty scary diver and assassin patterns to cope with it, with either very high burst or some pretty crazy (think Death's Dance) defenses. But it isn't transformational in quite the same way for ADCs. If it ever catches on as the default item for skirmisher...

Still figuring out the best format for these, seems like this one went pretty well though.

he can't cast it if CC'd himself, it does work on suppression though when used on ally