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[PhillipCostigan]

Is this your work, Costy

no but it's pretty good

 

[Orochinagis]

Mah eyes, .....not really.

 

[Hydrophobic]

I look forward to the potential Darkstar Orianna skin. It sounds like it will look sick.

 

[Wolf Akela]

kit copy pasta pls :<


maybe spoilertag?

ppl have mentioned they don't like leaks being posted here

not saying don't discuss it but maybe spoilertag the leaks themselves

Ok, didn't know about that. Thought leaks have been fine for a long time. Already spoiler tagged.

 

[Stone Ocean]

kit copy pasta pls :<

Xayah:
Passive: Spell casts make her next 5 autos pierce targets and leave a feather at the end
Q: Throws 2 line skillshots, leaves 2 feathers at the floor
W: Steroid, gives her extra damage bolts, attack speed and on-champion hit MS buffs, if she uses it near Rakan he gets the same steroid
E: Rips all feathers from the floor, damaging people between her and them, anyone hit by 3+ feathers gets rooted.
R: She jumps on the air becoming untargetable while still being able to move around, then she throws a bunch of feathers in a cone, leaving 5 feathers on the ground

Rakan:
Passive: He gets a passive shield that can regenerate even in combat, CD reduced by autos
Q: Line skillshot, if it hits a champion Rakan heals in an area around him after some time or if he touches a champion
W: Dashes to an area and then AoE knockup, think of a Malph ult with a small delay
E: Dashes to an ally and gives them a shield, can dash again immediatly after, can even dash to the same ally again, range basically doubles if he targets Xayah
R: He starts running around like crazy and whoever touches him gets charmed

Both of them can join on the other's recall as well, so basically you can have a super fast recall if you catch the other in the middle of it.

 

[Newt]

New champs look so cool :3.

 

[Calvero]

Said leaks:

Spoiler

that zac sounds fucking broken

 

[23qwerty]

still can't believe they gave zac that global jump a while back

 

[Leezard]

Both Rakan and Xayah seem cool.

Does Rakan have ranged autos? His kit seems like a melee champion kit, but he seems to gain ranged autos from Xayah if he doesn't already have it.

 

[Stone Ocean]

Both Rakan and Xayah seem cool.

Does Rakan have ranged autos? His kit seems like a melee champion kit, but he seems to gain ranged autos from Xayah if he doesn't already have it.

He's melee and get the bolts from her W, but I doubt that he can shoot them from range

 

[Newt]

Both Rakan and Xayah seem cool.

Does Rakan have ranged autos? His kit seems like a melee champion kit, but he seems to gain ranged autos from Xayah if he doesn't already have it.

He has melee autos.

 

[zkylon]

Ok, didn't know about that. Thought leaks have been fine for a long time. Already spoiler tagged.

np, thanks for the bother!

Xayah:
Passive: Spell casts make her next 5 autos pierce targets and leave a feather at the end
Q: Throws 2 line skillshots, leaves 2 feathers at the floor
W: Steroid, gives her extra damage bolts, attack speed and on-champion hit MS buffs, if she uses it near Rakan he gets the same steroid
E: Rips all feathers from the floor, damaging people between her and them, anyone hit by 3+ feathers gets rooted.
R: She jumps on the air becoming untargetable while still being able to move around, then she throws a bunch of feathers in a cone, leaving 5 feathers on the ground

Rakan:
Passive: He gets a passive shield that can regenerate even in combat, CD reduced by autos
Q: Line skillshot, if it hits a champion Rakan heals in an area around him after some time or if he touches a champion
W: Dashes to an area and then AoE knockup, think of a Malph ult with a small delay
E: Dashes to an ally and gives them a shield, can dash again immediatly after, can even dash to the same ally again, range basically doubles if he targets Xayah
R: He starts running around like crazy and whoever touches him gets charmed

Both of them can join on the other's recall as well, so basically you can have a super fast recall if you catch the other in the middle of it.

thanks!

sounds interesting, nothing too insane in their kits but i'm a bit intrigued at the amount of mobility rakan has for a support

 

[Leezard]

He's melee and get the bolts from her W, but I doubt that he can shoot them from range

He has melee autos.

Watched the W video again and yeah, you're right. It's melee and he won't become ranged from Xayah W. He seems to have quite long range for a melee champion though.

 

[Stone Ocean]

sounds interesting, nothing too insane in their kits but i'm a bit intrigued at the amount of mobility rakan has for a support

He can basically Insec people if there's an ally around lol

 

[Orochinagis]

Holy Cow, their VAs are amazing, you gotta love their chemistry

 

[Newt]

Updating PBE right now if anyone wants to play tonight (they're out on PBE right?).

 

[Stone Ocean]

Updating PBE right now if anyone wants to play tonight (they're out on PBE right?).

Yeah, they're already out on PBE.

 

[Calvero]

Updating PBE right now if anyone wants to play tonight (they're out on PBE right?).

let's go

think my PBE handle is Calvero

 

[Leezard]

An interesting thing about Xayah is that we finally get an adc that can become untargetable.

That will do wonders for her survivability.

Edit: Rakan Q seems like a skillshot Nami W for the purposes of laning. Interesting.

 

[Stone Ocean]

An interesting thing about Xayah is that we finally get an adc that can become untargetable.

That will do wonders for her survivability.

The clip on her reveal page shows her flipping Zed the bird and completely ignoring his ult

Oh my god I'm always gonna call her ult flipping the bird now

FUCK YO COUCH

 

[Newt]

PBE handle is Newt.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Rakan is the only support worthy of being called a support

Now lets build him bruiser

 

[Stone Ocean]

Rakan is the only support worthy of being called a support

Now lets build him bruiser

His damage seems pretty mediocre to be a bruiser. Offensive spells have a .5 AP ratio, nothing too crazy on bases and reasonable cooldowns.

 

[PhillipCostigan]

Xayah and Rakan stream starting now

 

[Leezard]

Rakan seems really cool in general. His kit seems really fun and useful, windspeaker is probably good on him. Perhaps both windspeaker and courage of the colossus can be viable.

 

[Stone Ocean]

Xayah and Rakan stream starting now

I always forget RobertxLee works for Riot now

 

[Newt]

Ugh the PBE store won't load for me zzz.

 

[Stone Ocean]

So from the stream, Xayah's passive works like Sivir W, only the first auto applies lifesteal and on hits but the piercing shots will crit if the attack the created them crits. Runaan's doesn't apply feathers but they apply the extra hit from her W so she basically turns into a machinegun with that on. Also her E scales with crit so her damage is looking pretty good.

Oh and they both get the effects the other triggers when Xayah's W is on so if Rakan autos a champion with Xayah nearby with her W on both of them gets the MS buff and both of them shoots the bonus bolts, awesome.

 

[Calvero]

how do her piercing autos interact with botrk

 

[Stone Ocean]

how do her piercing autos interact with botrk

Only the initial target gets lifesteal and on hits. It's the same as Ricochet.

 

[Calvero]

Only the initial target gets lifesteal and on hits. It's the same as Ricochet.

ahhh ok ty <3

i didn't see your other post

 

[scy]

Incidentally, Rakan is "melee" in the same sense that Thresh is.

 

[Newt]

Incidentally, Rakan is "melee" in the same sense that Thresh is.

Thresh isn't melee though.

 

[TheFlow]

when is the tank update hitting again?

 

[PhillipCostigan]

I hope y'all are watching Rakan steal the show on this stream as usual

 

[BreezyLimbo]

I still don't get why Xayah has fucking marsupial ears

like you didn't have to give her ears rito. Unless she's supposed to be a horned owl.

 

[Stone Ocean]

I still don't get why Xayah has fucking marsupial ears

like you didn't have to give her ears rito. Unless she's supposed to be a horned owl.

Because she's a harpy and many representations of harpies have ears like that

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Because she's a harpy and many representations of harpies have ears like that

anime monster girls don't count

they definitely don't count.

And besides, most harpies I've seen have elongated ears like elves do, not furry ears like a cat girl.

 

[Stone Ocean]

Of course they count, League is anime

 

[BreezyLimbo]

anime is for jerks

 

[Calvero]

lol have you even watched seinfeld and cory in the house?

 

[FoxSpirit]

*don't play league for 2 years*
*come back to great bot lane duo announce*
Looks cool.

 

[Nekofrog]

Can I play either of them in top

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Rakan and Xayah have a bunch of lines together

they're pretty good VAs

 

[Envelope]

Can I play either of them in top

ofc

lucian is a top champ too, remember

 

[Orochinagis]

Rakan and Xayah have a bunch of lines together

they're pretty good VAs

Yup riot nailed it this time

 

[Stone Ocean]

ofc

lucian is a top champ too, remember

If you don't have a read on the meta anything is viable top

 

[BreezyLimbo]

I took swain top before anyone else did

I predicted that meta

but nooo breezy, swain can never go top despite him having all the tools to CC and zone the enemy top lane

those were the days, when I actively played for my corvid friend.

 

[SenorArdilla]

Oh. They added MIA lines.

 

[scy]

Thresh isn't melee though.

That would be my point, yes. They have the same range / same mechanics interactions.