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Originally posted by darkacesp

One common thing I’m seeing now just browsing Reddit was how much text is in his passive and his W.

How do you guys go about making passives? Like his three hit burst makes sense if he’s supposed to be a rouge assassin, so does the MS speed thing if it’s to help him get away after the kill, but couldn’t you have just made it those 2 things Instead of also letting him have a shield and second auto, what determines if someone has a Zed passive vs. someone like Akshan? They are both assassins (I realize Akshan is burst marksmen though)

Originally posted by RiotRayYonggi

The grappling hook does not work if the target gapcloses onto you, unlike other marksmen's escape tools.

Originally posted by AzureVermonter

How does giving him a resetting grappling hook and a ms steroid mitigate high safety?

Originally posted by mithi9

I do like them balancing his W against his lack of cc. However, it seems that if all his dmg is in the form of quick burst and no much sustained DPS, he's going to end up a feast or famine champ.

Originally posted by bz6

Hey just in terms of design pillars the team is still referencing the: https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/dev-balancing-new-champions/ benchmarks your outlined a whole back right?

I really like how the team has outlined specifications and levers that give us a behind the scenes look into the choices you make. Nice bit of transparency and keeps the team accountable.

Originally posted by JarzaScarlet

Riot: Lucian is too toxic of a solo laner

Also Riot: Allow ourselves to introduce, Akshan!

Originally posted by Kyvant

Assuming 600 AP / Level 18, she'll heal for 212HP over 3 seconds, per champion hit, and 130HP against monsters.

Maximum healing would be 1190HP over 3 seconds, or 397HP/second.

Hard to really gage its strength with the other changes and Lillia's nature as an extremly squishy champion.

Originally posted by nikolateslafanboy

So is he from somewhere not on the map like Viego? Because I don't think we've seen a South Asia inspired place in all of Shurima and Valoran.

Originally posted by bz6

/u/Reav3

Boss I am not sure if this question is out of place or not but from the outside looking in, it is something that is worth asking.

• When creating a new champion does the gameplay come first or the type of representation it is going to fulfill?

A follow up actually, what is the unique gameplay Akshan introduces to League? He doesn't have anything like Grit which is completely new for example.

Originally posted by ToTheNintieth

Small detail, but he's noted to be inspired by South Asian aesthetics and Bollywood in particular while being originally from Shurima. I always say Shurima as an Egypt or Middle East analogue mostly. Is it just an aesthetic thing for Akshan?

Originally posted by Bad_human_being

So he is basically a counter to Viego's team wipes

Originally posted by steve_pays_me

wait...they literally named this guy action?

ugh.

double ugh that i just figured it out now.

Originally posted by freekymayonaise

Indian, specifically, unless I miss my guess?

Originally posted by FruitfulRogue

The Indian flag is... subtle 😂

Also may I ask, with the new SoL skins being "canon" does that mean we should assume the designs to be their new "canon" ones?

Because no offence to skins team but I really, really do not want that to be the case. A lot of them would be major downgrades from their current classic designs.

Originally posted by Spideraxe30

Can i bother you for a his B/D again, now that the initial hype has gone down

Originally posted by throawayjhu5251

Hey so I know this might be trivial, but as a South Asian man, I'm actually very happy for the representation. It might seem very stupid to think about this in a video game, but it really means a lot.

Originally posted by Grroarrr

That's the goal, they don't want you to dodge cause you don't like the teamcomp. I also dislike the mage/senna support against heavy dive enemy comp.

Originally posted by Djinn_in_Tonic

Probably because those Summoners are identified by names and by numbers. The internal Summoner ID number is how the system identifies an individual (as you could change your account's name). If you pull the Summoner ID number with an API (which you can), you know who it is. You'd have to find a way to obscure that, which is a larger rewrite of what's going on in champion select.

Originally posted by Kabkip

Not pressuring you at all, but I'm interested in learning why this is intensely expensive?

I assume the lobby keeps track of all 10 summoner IDs, and the 5 enemies are already hidden away via "Summoner 1, Summoner 2, etc.". Can we not re-use whatever abstracts the summoner name/ID into a generic name and re-name the enemy, "Enemy summoner 1"?

Also, just wondering if it's the case that you guys see the problem as 2 parts.
1. People are OPGG checking their teammates and dodging undesirable winrates.

1. People are dodging off of team comps alone, if it looks unwinnable, they leave.
   

Obfuscating the name solves issue 1. . . But the case that the 2nd issue is the main reason people dodge? Then I can see the value gained vs effort to develop this change isn't worth it.

Then the real issue is people don't think games are winnable, and how to change/balance the game to give them confidence. Hence, not worth the dev time for ...

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