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Originally posted by Ilyak1986

Hey Jag, lore question (not sure if you're the right guy for this, but...) on Karma/Akshan.

Karma: clearly Indian representative (and painfully so--the whole reincarnation aspect, being named Karma, the actual woman that the Spirit of Ionia inhabits named Darha, the concept of enlightenment, etc. etc.), and clearly Ionian. And she fits fairly well.

Akshan: also South Asian, but Shuriman in origin, as opposed to Ionian.

Lorewise, do more Indian-representative individuals hail from Ionia, or Shurima? That is, if Shurima is more representative of north Africa, the middle east, etc. (I.E. if Zaun was the northern point, and Ekko is clearly a smart black kid gadgeteer genius), where exactly is the equivalent of India on Runeterra? Is it part of Ionia? Maybe part of Ixtal?

AKA while representation is cool and all, as someone that's also a bit of a worldbuilding Vorthos, I feel like I'm compelled to pester someone on...

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Originally posted by letslurk

Can I ask from a design perspective why it seems like new champs have such overwhelmingly full kits in comparison to older ones?

Originally posted by ComradePruski

I'll preface this by saying I love his design, but the champ insights diary literally listed Bollywood as his main inspiration

Originally posted by BlackKaiserDrake

Lockdown whoever is carrying their team. If your team isn’t focusing the threat then it’s on them and there’s nothing you can do except make a suggestion to focus who you engage.

Originally posted by komoset

Would it be possible to find out how spells are chosen? With you saying that I assume it's not completely random.

Originally posted by pehchi

I started doing this because I love podcasts/audiobooks and thought it'd be great to have the league patch notes to throw on in the background and listen to instead of reading through it all. I didn't find anything as simple and straight forward online so I decided to make it myself! I hope this is helpful to some of you!

Originally posted by komoset

Sad that they didn't add 1 or 2 more spells to pick from in Ultimate Spellbook. Getting something like Bard, Zoe and Jarvan ult is not very fun when playing an ADC. It just becomes a normal game where everyone but you are having fun at that point.

Originally posted by Spinos123

If he runs marksman mythics how do you stop him dealing good dps, particularly considering his 3 hit passive seems to have no cool down. I assumed he would run lethality Are his base stats just that bad?

Originally posted by NuclearBurrit0

What's to stop him from just being an ADC?

Originally posted by Masalar

2 questions, if you don't mind.

Kit "fluff": It feels like it's not only common, but almost expected at this point that champions with this many small extras on their kit will inevitably lose some of them at some point. Akali, Azir, Irelia etc. While I don't imagine part of design is adding in bits and bobs so that some can be removed at a later date to help balance, losing parts of your champ's kit is arguably one of the most frustrating things to have happen.

So aren't you almost inevitably setting a champ like this up to lose mechanics and do you think that that's an acceptable way to design a champ?

Intended gameplay vs actual gameplay: Now, you guys clearly have more data here than I do, but I can't help but feel that his "ideal" gameplay pattern will be overshadowed by his "real" gameplay pattern.

And by that I mean the ideal is clearly: You start roaming bot as a fight breaks out. Your bot lane dies, takes the enemy support with them and the...

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Originally posted by darkacesp

So if the target dashes to where you will be you mean?

Just confused what you meant, like if the target gets in your face the hook doesn’t keep swinging or something?

Originally posted by Spideraxe30

Can you also share his max order, i assume its q->e->w

Originally posted by Spideraxe30

What do you personally take on Akshan in playtests, i imagine PTA and Kraken sound pretty sweet with his passive