League of Designs

Also he wasn't transformed by the Void.

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(The Void is not an upgrade...)

Any half-decent yordle would just imagine himself some new fingers...

I think that would be awesome!

In their original Ascended bodies, they absolutely could reshape flesh and bone into whatever they wanted. Once they were trapped as weapons, they lost a lot of the specific powers they had once had. :-)

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Darkin corrupt their hosts over time. He will likely get more darkin-y as his story progresses in future.

(Aatrox has been active for a while, Kayn's transformation in game is not typical of the process)

Looking at a possible buff to his Q damage, agree his early game especially's lacking at present. Might hit PBE today, possible it's something we look at next patch instead though, can't recall off top of the head.

Combination of those health stacking fighters generally being in solid spots at present and a decent range of other damage options for them, with Titanic especially overlapping. Not a committed decision yet, but that's where we're trending.

Potentially, It's on our list of items that aren't in great states, as with Rageblade/Edge of Night it's something we're planning to look at, but wouldn't want to make any promises beyond that yet.

As a side note this version of Essence Reaver was designed to be good for fighters as well as marksmen. Even on fighters like the ones you list though we're not really seeing it perform all that strongly. It's a reasonable choice at times, and will feel very strong when it really pops off, but doesn't seem to be out of line with other items they could be choosing instead on average.

Personally, I think fantasy and superhero genres work best when they externalize emotions and use symbolism. So whenever possible we try to build those layers into our characters and worldbuilding.

In this case the “void” can be seen as a metaphor for how an endless, brutal war transformed the men who fought it— and Aatrox in particular.

Thus this is a situation where the answer does not, and should not be viewed one or the other (it is not binary). Aatrox was not changed by the void OR ptsd.

Instead both sides can be viewed as simultaneously true and possible— because of that metaphoric connection.

We'll be testing some stuff out, nothing concrete enough I'd want to make any promises about changes in preseason or particular directions though.

Yeah still looking at Pyke, believe conclusion was that while we liked the goal of that last set of changes the delivery wasn't hitting the mark, at least not yet. We're about to lock changes for the next patch, so generally anything not in it will be gone from PBE today.

Nothing immediately planned. For smaller balance assessments we're also at the point where anything that might be just lighter numbers tweaking will often wait until after preseason, given that'll shift balance around anyway so better to just assess once that's landed, splitting choice of stats from Rune trees especially.

They're being discussed a bit at the moment. Current thinking is Spear of Shojin probably still makes sense but needs some tuning. Atma's Reckoning's less clearly needed. More thoughts to come though once we've done a more thorough analysis.

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