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

It appears fifty-ish heroes will be the goal for the release.

While it can be hard to hear that two-thirds of the heroes won't be making the jump from League of Legends to Wild Rift, it's really for the best. Certain characters would be overpowered due to smaller maps and weaker towers. Others would be almost useless with the new contr

The plates for turrets no longer exist.

The outer protection for turrets in the lane and the base has been stripped away, making it far easier to push quickly and end the game. Between this change and the map size, games are reduced in length somewhat substantia

Azir attacks by summoning sand soldiers, and when he ultimates, he creates a wall of soldiers who can knock enemy champions backward. The soldiers always have impressive sand effects, and they would look majestic in a Pulsfire or even a Dragon Slayer s

Annie is one of the most straightforward, easy-to-pilot champions in League of Legends, due to an entirely point-and-click kit and absurd burst damage. This allows lower tiered players to focus on the macro aspect of the game, as their reliance on tight mechanical play is diminished almost entirely. Annie provides great pick potential and easily exploits any lackluster positioning of squishy targ

Recall that Riot Games did not want to do a mobile version at all unless it could be true to their vision of what League of Legends is all about. They left money on the table so as not to water down their product. While there are some changes that have to be made when playing on devices that are so wildly different from PCs, you should take some comfort in knowing that the intentions behind these alterations appear to have been for the b

Wards are important, which is why they've been given to everyone, but making them the responsibility of one or two support players significantly decreases the fun in playing with those champions with the expectation that they focus solely on map vis

Warwick is one of LoL 's original champions, and he is more than capable of defeating tough opponents . He started out as an ordinary human, but thanks to a variety of experiments, he is now a werewolf who terrifies the citizens of Z

The fast-moving, bullet-bouncing, sniper-esque virtuoso boasts a win rate of 53% and is banned in about 19% of low division ranked games. Jhin is the poster boy of playing patiently, utilizing his kit to chain crowd control with his support before following up with an onslaught of ranged abilities and attacks. Jhin is a relatively safe pick and does not require mechanical expertise to pilot w

Players will likely want to pick up Ignite and Flash as Malphite's spells. Ignite is a good damage-dealing spell to use after using Unstoppable Force. Flash will allow Malphite more mobility as well as boosted offense and defense opti

You're looking at about 15 to 20 minutes per game in Wild Rift thanks to this adjustment. Pushing without an effective enemy champion to oppose you can potentially end the game even before reaching double-digit minu

Nexus has no inhibitor or turrets around it.

While the turrets on the outskirts remain in place for each of the three lanes, that is the last line of defense before getting to the Nexus . The Nexus itself does have a small targeted attack, but there no longer needs to be a concerted effort to take down any inhibitor or turrets after breaking through a l

Low division players love spamming highly mechanical AD champions such as Zed and Yasuo (they are picked in about 16% of all ranked games throughout those divisions). Who better to exploit this than Rammus, the bulwark of an armadillo that hard counters attack damage champions through armor empowering abilities? Rammus possesses the ability to roll into lanes at devastating speed, oftentimes resulting in summoner spells and ki

** TheGamer: ** How hard is it to gather meaningful feedback? In Reyna and Killjoy's case, so many people shout that [this or that] in their toolkits were overpowered. Is it tough navigating the sea of comments like this to gather meaningful feedb

** TheGamer: ** Some thought Killjoy's bright yellow jacket might make her stand out on the map more so than other Agents, painting a big target on her. How important is color real-Time strategy hybrid palette in terms of combat readability when you're designing Age

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

Shaco is League's Demon Jester, and he can be incredibly annoying to deal with because of his throwing knife, invisibility, and traps. The traps go invisible too, but once an enemy walks up to one, it fears and shoots them. When Shaco pops his ultimate, he creates a clone of himself that bursts into traps when it runs out of hea

If you're worried about how well League of Legends: Wild Rift will remain true to its PC predecessor, that's perfectly understandable. There is a history of great games turning into microtransaction nightmares with core features of the game being removed when such a transition occurs. But gamers have many reasons to give this particular port an opportunity to succ