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Interview: A Chat With Valorant's Max Grossman On Killjoy, And Riot's Design Philosophy For New Agents

Interview: A Chat With Valorant's Max Grossman On Killjoy, And Riot's Design Philosophy For New Agents

The turret went through many iterations. One didn't even do Hybrid Damage build at all; instead, it created debuff fields. But what shipped had the healthiest gameplay patterns combined with a good cohesion with the rest of her

stormtrooper-lego-stretcher-litter.jpgRod gave Kassadin some much needed sustain and a big power spike, but with it now gone, he has to wait until late game to do anything worthwhile. There are no Mythic Items that compliment him, and if he faces a snowballing AD assassin with lethality, he will be countered for the rest of the g

The stats the Serpent's Fang gives aren't exactly fantastic, especially compared to the other, better lethality items. The main thing the Serpent's Fang provides is the ability to deal bonus damage to shields. Against enchanters and tanks that thrive on shields, it can be a nice item. However, building an item for one character just feels awful, especially when the efficiency of the item is so

Unfortunately the item changes have only made her worse, as she can be one-shotted by quite a few champions thanks to her squishy nature and low health. What really sets her back, especially in the early game, is the fact that her abilities come with high mana costs, which would be fine if there wasn't a lack of mana it

If Shaco received a Dragon Trainer Legendary, the traps can be baby dragons who spit fire at enemies who spring them. Alternatively, Riot could also go the Robot route and give Shaco a PROJECT or PsyOps skin, and both of which offer military aesthet

Mages are very strong right now, especially those who can dish out burst damage like Viktor-who can augment his abilities through his passive. Viktor's E fires a beam in a single direction, and if it gets augmented it will cause an explosion along the same p

Ahri should take Sudden Impact as her first rune. Sorcery is also useful, as it synergizes with her core abilities by giving more magic penetration. Take Transcendence and Gathering Storm in this tree as the second and third runes. Both of these runes focus on providing crucial extra damage as the game goes

All of these abilities look good with all of Lissandra's current skins, but they would look even better with a Legendary skin, especially if it's part of a skin line with a history of great particle effects like the Star Guardian

Galeforce's active makes characters as mobile as Wild Rift . The damage the item does isn't anything to underestimate either. More importantly, as a Mythic item, it gives bonus stats for each completed Legendary item. Galeforce makes that stat more movement speed, a rarity that's a godsend on any marksman. Unless the champion synergizes well with the other two marksman mythics, Galeforce is just a solid select

Night Harvester's passive deals a sizeable amount of damage to each individual champion, along with providing movement speed to the user. Assassins like Akali can go absolutely crazy in short skirmishes. Alternatively, Riftmaker boosts damage based on duration in combat, along with providing some excellent Omnivamp healing. Assassins and bruisers alike can use Riftmaker to dominate fights and get out without a scra

Taliyah was designed to be able to shove lanes and roam, which is why she was such an effective Mid Laner and Jungler last season. Her ultimate is what truly makes her unique because she creates and rides a wall that can separate and trap members of the enemy t

All feedback is meaningful, though. We rarely look at someone's critique and go, "that's not useful at all" — all opinions and feelings people have about Valorant are important. Whether or not we act upon those concerns is a complicated process, though. When Raze came out, for example, we tested her for so long with this power budgets and thought, "she's strong, but nothing crazy" — then the community got a hold of her and it turned out we were wr

The bombastic yeti Nunu and his mischievous partner Willump run around Summoners Rift consuming every objective on the map, before flying into lanes at mach speed delivering heat-seeking snowballs and crowd control galore. Nunu & Willump can be an extremely difficult champion to deal with, due to their ability to contest neutral objectives. Nunu & Willump also take advantage of badly positioned laners due to an obscene amount of crowd cont

Thanks to Mythic Items like Night Harvestor and Hextech Rocketbelt, Corki can no longer deal with snowball champions, and he can easily get one-shotted by assassins even if he gets fed and earns a substantial gold l

Rylai's Crystal Scepter allows Ahri to apply a slow with every damaging ability and spell in her toolkit. Because of this effect, each damaging ability and spell now becomes a trigger for Imperial Mandate's passive. While these items go hand-in-hand, the Void Staff is another item that fits into this Ahri build because of its increase to ability power and enormous increase in magic penetration. Do not forget to round off the build with Sorcerer's Shoes and a Zhonya's Hourgl

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