** Max Grossman: ** It's a constraint for sure. Not a hindrance per-say, but it's something that we're always conscious of. Looking at League Of Legends, every hero has their primary ways of interacting with the world, like creating the "Q" ability or the "W" ability — these are the way you're attacking or nexus Blitz 2025 dealing damage. You can have a wide array of ways to interact in that game. In Valorant, the primary way you interact is by shooting, which has a massive overlap between charact

Thanks to the mouse, _ Summoner’s Rift _ can give players access to radically different approaches to long-range skirmishes. After all, a mouse has scroll controls that can help players view multiple instances of the battlefield with a quick gesture. Since the touchscreen doesn’t have this freedom, _ Wild Rift _ adjusted these mechanics for players as w

Kratos can certainly beat villains from other games , but Lissandra is definitely not one of them. Lissandra is considered to be the strongest mage in Runeterra, and she wants to use her ice powers to plunge the world into a never ending ice

While the Ruined King's rampage may ultimately not touch every single lore character mentioned in the past, this plotline that unfolds during Season 11 will set the standard for many years to come. With years of foreshadowing finally coming to a head, Viego's story is truly the greatest undertaking that Riot Games has done for League of Legends

** Max Grossman: ** There were a couple of different player types we wanted to appeal to with Killjoy. Most of our characters end up in that same place where there's a couple of competing character motivations and playstyles that we want to go after. Usually, there are two primary components: one is the fantasy of the character. With Killjoy, it's about building turrets, placing traps, and using her whole arsenal. The perfect Killjoy play is like, "oh, [the enemy team] push into the bomb site. They set off her turret, then a trap goes off, I (Killjoy player) swing and shoot in response." Killjoy is for players that feel they out-think and out-plan their oppone

For a thousand years, Viego's goal has been to resurrect Isolde no matter the cost. Unfortunately, Senna stated doing so "will destroy this world" as the Black Mist and Shadow Isles previously demonstrated. Because of this, Viego's past actions and current motives have painted him as the current big bad in League of Legends . But while there have been multiple world-ending threats throughout Runeterra's history, the Ruined King himself may succeed in uniting the various regions towards a common goal once m

** Max Grossman: ** For the initial characters that we've launched, most started with just their toolkits and different abilities. However, there was at least a "theme" in mind. Phoenix is a good example. He was always going to be fiery in some capacity—he throws a molotov and is reborn from the ashes, that kind of thing. Viper was the same. She started as this toxic, gas wielding character. But discovering that she was a scientist came later in the development process. Killjoy is a fascinating example since she started as a literal robot. So that component was very different at one point in time, but even then, she still had two of her four abilities that shipped with the final version of the character. Some of the characters change a lot, others not so m

The AP fighter was described as "tailor-made for top-lane" and will have a small easter egg in the Ruined King game. Viego's wife and queen, Isolde was previously noted as a seamstress and it would make sense for her to be reanimated quickly after her soul was ripped out of Senna in the Season 2011 cinematic by Viego. The mage was specified as a yordle who dislikes Bandle City and the most likely candidate is Yuumi's unseen master Norra, especially since the golden effects in the teaser look almost identical to those in Yuumi's splash art. Finally, there's very little information on the new marksman, but they were noted as "a new sentinel of light". Since the Sentinels of Light are an order which Lucian and Senna also belong to, it could possible be Daowan, a still living member previously mentioned in Senna's st

Pro gamers know that beefing up their clicks per second is indicative of having control over their avatars. But if that same concept were applied to a mobile game, observers might think you were playing an idle tap

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Regarding how you're spending time, in League Of Legends, 80% of the time you're using different abilities that are all unique to your hero. In Valorant, 80% of your time is with your gun out, which is not unique to your character. So there's a much smaller portion of time that you're using the distinct Agent abilities. From that perspective, I think it gives us constraints, but not too m