Belveth's concept arts actually fits her character a lot more than what we ended up with. Her octopus designs especially would even make a lot more sense with her attack speed focus. I get the feeling they didn't take that route because of velkoz.
Believe me or not, we artists actually know what looks cool and intresting, but ull always have ppl from higher up or marketting complaining it's not "visually appealing" or "mainstream". Now we're stuck in an industrial level of rehash on pixar and anime looking chicks n doods
Dude I agree with this so much, I know that 2019 and above caused your game to be more "anime" but damn it the theme fits Bel'Veth so much that it sucks we lost a good design because of how mad people are
@@callumdoyle5475 I believe it man. Especially after seeing Sett's concept art. We could have had Asura, robot butler or Darkin Doomsday but ended up with anime catboy. I'm not an artist but I can imagine how much it must suck to have some suits throw away all your cool designs for some bland shit
Renata hands down has my favorite laugh animaation. The slap to her decanter, the way it fixes itself in almost a "again? ugh" kinda way, and the way she says "Oh, I love it!" like she can barely hold back the evil cackle fit and represent her character super well.
One of the bigger suprises for me is K’sante just having wholesome lore. Like, he has a former lover… that isn’t Dead? They’ve both looked back on their relationship fondly? They’re happy for each other?? In any other circumsizes I’d expect k’sante to be revenge driven to kill all halfscended monsters because riot didn’t want the gay man to have a partner and just chucked the man under a monster. I’m unsure about his gameplay, I’ve heard people say he’s bad, but I barely play league Nowadays and the one time I ran into him I proceeded to have a truly horrible time playing against.
tf x graves ended with "hes handsome but lets not go further" which isnt bad but also doesnt make them a thing The lovers in varus are resisting the complete corruption of the darkin in a shared body leona x diana is absolutely a tragedy lee sin and udyr are heavily hinted at which is fun but it doesnt go full canon like ksante its not as bleak as the first comment make it sound but its also straight up wholesome with no strings attached
The biggest problem with Bel'veth, she was released the same year as Xolaani was in Legends of Runeterra, and Xolaani is everything Bel'veth says she is but actually done right while being 10 times cooler. Edit: Honestly after thinking about it, most of my issues with Belveth can be traced to Legends of Runeterra executing a concept about her better in something else, because overtime Belveth's design just started to lose interest to me. Like good on Riot for making something more monsterious instead of less, but in Belveth's case I think they went the wrong direction because nothing about a giant string ray reads Empress of the Void for me, and the Hive Herald in LoR shows that they could have kept the humanoid design but made it monsterious and creey at the same time. Plus a design like the Herald could have had some cool gameplay that fit her lore. They could keep some of the stabbing by using the Herald's tails but also focus some void minions summoning from her ult (a part of the ult which is sadly useless in it current form despite being one of the few parts of the kit that matches her lore) in seperate abilities and possibly keep her ult but with a few changes.
Xolaani is just aatrox's ex claiming she's saving everyone but being absolutely obnoxious about it. Also she got powered up because kayle is an IMBECILE.
How is that hive herald herald twink more fit for the empress of the void than a Giant royal ray that uses her wings as a cape and her horns as shoulder pads while looking down at her prey, her gameplay maybe awkward but her design is on point
I hope the bad comunniy dont ruin your fun! Wich champions are your favourite and what role did you pick? Or how do you chose it? The beginning of league is the best
Not to dishearten you or anything, just my 2 cents : don't latch on to "outlearning" the game too much. Not in the sense that you want to learn new champions or mechanics, experience unique interactions whilst having fun but in a sense that you shouldn't take these aspects too far. You'll only go for so long playing a champion like Fiddlesticks and memeing "get stickbugged". If you try to take it even minimally seriously you'll fall flat into the "50/50 matches syndrome" of only having fun if you're satisfied with a win or with how you played in said match. With all that said I do hope you find your pefect role in the game and ignore any and all glaring issues the game or its community have! But, on a more serious note and all jokes aside, some really good advice : stay yourself and please don't follow the meta, no matter what anyone says (with no inting in mind haha 😅). So yeah, welcome and have fun!
Renata was the highlight because she's actually what your support wants to do but are only allowed to do until the "killed too many ADCs" achievement unlocks for that champion. This is also called "Tactical Nerf Incoming" or "DPS Handkerchief Patch". She's a revenge support - the thing that made Morde and, still on rare occasions, Sett so scary. She's the solo support's weapon where, it doesn't matter how well you best her ADC, you still need to beat _her._ And the thing people usually underestimate about said Solo Supports is that, like Solo Junglers, they learn how to turn a game while having to drag around a load because you can always bet one person on your team gave up 7 minutes in. Renata fulfills the fantasy of old Morde Support Mains marking the 1v9 ADC for death, and getting their phantom to take out their team and two towers - except she can go, "Be a dear, give me my Baron Buff and then destroy each other." And walk if off like this Watchmen and her plan was enacted the moment you chose to _let her live._ It satisfies the Old Overwatch, Mercy 5-Man Res after the enemy just shot their loads to delete your team - that special kind of Support F-U that comes from, "You let me live - you're going to see why that was a mistake when my team kicks in your teeth." Anyways, Renata supports a support power fantasy that Riot seemed adamant about avoiding so I'm glad she exists.
The way that the characters are introduced in this video are so hype Zeri: 3:45 Renata Glasc: 6:46 Bel'Veth: 8:42 Nilah: 11:04 Udyr: 14:09 K'sante: 18:30
Nilah is definitely one of my favorites since she also draws from Southern Indian culture which isn’t usually shown when people cover Indian characters. Considering the culture there, her character fits pretty well and its a shame Riot didn’t explore that more in their article on her.
Zeri and Renata are probably my favorite release of 2022. Zeri cause she was pretty much one of the few ADC’s I truly enjoy playing even when she was bad. Renata cause everything about her is fun for me gameplay, visuals, and lore.
The problem with Zeri is that the balance team does not know how to balance an adc caster champion. Imagine if ezreal had more power to his q than his autos and the q CD was 1,5 secs going lower with its current cooldown reduction. This would be a balance nightmare. Now imagine that in Zeri that has more mobility and can buff her autos. They clearly don't see that the problem is the free infinite stack mobility. If they really wanted to fix her they would switch places between her q and r and would heavily nerf the mobility in her new q
@@gkarak1996 switch her q and r in what way? And even then while yes the mobility was annoying (idk what they did but I don't feel it as much anymore) previously the problem was the insane range on q while still dealing damage. So they nerfed the damage, but that made her too bad. I like how they changed her now with the lower range but more damage trade off, since it will now be easier to balance her, and it will introduce a bigger gap between a good zeri and a bad one (that being the ability to kite and do it well)
(Edit because I’m not sure if other people knew what SEA meant, but it refers to South East Asia) I've said this before on a TB Skyen video, but I'll just say it again. They could've done so much more with the Filipino representation for Zeri. As charming as she is, something that really stands out to me (an a lot of the Filipino playerbase) is the choice to give her a Filipino accent despite being from Zaun (who are already coded to have British or American accents). It just doesn't make sense for someone who was born, raised, and lives in a place surrounded by British and American accents to have a Filipino accent (Viktor and Fiora don't really count since they were made and released before Runeterra was even properly written and they had to be put somewhere). To us, it's like if someone grew up in America, but has a Chinese accent, it doesn't make much sense. On that note, what they could have done (and what a lot of Filipino players would have wanted) would be to introduce another region based on south east asia and have Zeri be the representation of an OFW (basically Filipinos who work overseas and send back money and goods to provide for their families). It would have done so much more representation as opposed to just slapping an accent on her and calling it a day.
I'm pretty sure riot has said somewhere that they're ignoring storytelling logic for the sake of racial diversity, and I think they're doing a similar thing with accents. Like does it make sense for every region to be a racial melting pot? Probably not, but one can suspend their disbelief for the sake of representation. The same applies to accents. And while I agree that the best form of representation would probably be a unique region (that can hopefully be shown in great detail in LoR card arts) having Zeri be an immigrant who's sending money back to her family wouldn't make sense with the current story riot is trying to tell with her. It's not an easy swap, she'd have to be completely rewritten.
This is the same universe where Jax, who's supposed to come from an ancient Lost mesoamerican inspired region, has the thiccest USA accent possible. Idt that side of Runeterra is deemed as super important by writers and the like
I think I might be the only one that doesn't see the need or feel the need to be represented in any way in any fictional media, especially a made up fantasy world of monsters, mages and god knows whatever the hell yordles even are. Even tho "my people" are basically nonexistent in it.
I'm not gonna lie, Nilah is probably my new favorite champion in the whole game. I've been playing since 2014, and I've bounced around a lot on identity, started in mid, loved jungle for years, but now i cant stop queueing bot. nilah really tickles my brain just right. I love samira's gameplay too, but what I prefer about nilah is that your decision making isn't always so clean cut. Ulting as fast as possible is the correct choice on samira 99% of the time, but nilah can slow play, or be her own engage. On Nilah, microdecisions aren't just about getting your ult off. And to be honest, what first got me to give her an honest try was her lore. Her design on a surface level seemed uninspired, but I'm genuinely so charmed by this exuberant monster hunter who is unable to feel anything but joy. She laughs in the face of danger... and also everything else. It's another wonderfully unique interpretation for a runeterra demon that sets it apart from your stereotypical pseudo Christian concepts. I consider ashlesh to be up there with kench and fiddle aesthetically, I hope someday we'll get art of his true form. Runeterra is probably my only hope in that vein. I would also personally pay riot for a story where she and yone meet when hunting the same demon. The idea of the dark and somber azakana hunter being forced to cooperate with the embodiment of joy would be a very entertaining dynamic I think. Fingers crossed my girl gets herself a decent skin soon! Not a fan of the SG
well glad you enjoy playing her i just think that they made her seem very complicated with all of the bullshit scaling added to her and many people pointed fingers to her for the "new league champions are oxymorons" argument
Judging from the thumbnail someone else finally realised that zeri was a clone of neon from valorant but the only difference was that neon had story importance in valorant and zeri existed only because " Haha she s from same region as Vi and Jinx from arcane "
I know this is a champion rewind, and you did mention a bit on the Nilah review, but i wanted some more words on the Star Guardian event and how it didnt just botch the champion, it did an insane burnout on the SG skin line as a whole for many
Renata is my favorite champ by far gameplay wise (jhin is my 4th favorite out of respect) but I see her almost never outside of when I play her. I’m glad to see you enjoy her as much as I do.
Nicky has me cracking up with the K'Sante puns. "K'Santa, K'Sandals and Croi'ssante", not to mention all the Monster Hunter games he mentioned. Man, I'm dead. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Also the belveth disconnection is part of her thematic cause she lures you into thinking she would be a mage or something but no, she stabs you to death which
This Videos at the End of the year are just neccecary for me as a League Player they are perfectly edited and just Perfect all in all Thank you for this masterpiece❤
Bel'veth from a design point was my favorite. The lavender sea coming up the same time I was writing a DnD campaign gave me so much inspiration. The music was so compelling in her theme. The concept behind her being the empress of the void. The distortion of her teasers. Only made me sad she was an AA champion with an overly underwhelming kit.
If we ignore the ryze level of balance issues i absolutely love zeri. For me its like playing a caster adc. And since i already primarely played mages bot Lane she was made for me. Her ult is also my favorite ult in the game as i like having my kiting abilities rewarded with speed. (Lillia is one of my favorite champions). So for me gameplay alone she is my favorite.
Tbh I come for the opinions, weird facts, and funny cutaway edits, so when 18:51 happened. Holy shit I spit out my fucking drink. That was the hardest and loudest I’ve ever laughed at anything ngl.
I started playing this year and I'm having a lot of fun with a couple of friends, there are a lot of intresting carachters and the gameplay is fun, really hoping next season is as fun as this was for me!
As a Wr player, im very excited for Zeri’s release, just because she is what got me interested in League. It started with set 6.5 of Tft where my fav carry was her. Every game I tried to force debonair or sniper comps just to be able to play her and since I dont play games on pc, I decided to download Wr and fell in love with the game but felt like something was missing, and that was her. I wanted to have the same fun with her in that game too, so I waited for about 7 months which isnt that much compared to how much other people have waited or are still waiting for their fav characters but still a lot for me. I think the variety of adcs in Wr is very low so she will also add another unique type of adc people can enjoy. Other than that I enjoyed this vid very much and I would love to see Nilah and renata from the 2022 roster in Wr. Looking forward to more vids in the future!
My favorite champ from this year is def k'sante. I'm a very aggro player, but since I dislike playing tanks or bruisers I'd avoid playing toplane if possible. With K'sante, I have a fun and complex champion with massive outplay potential that combines the fun aspects of being a tank and dealing a lot of damage
Oh my gog, praise that Monster Hunter sequence. Can I get a Poogie Champ in the chat, let the horns resound in a glorious doot, the Desire Sensor granted us your masterpiece of a video. ❤
just thought of this: what if, instead of Star Guardian Nilah, we instead got Star Nemesis Bel'Veth? looking back at Bel'Veth's launch patch, I guess it wouldn't have made sense to give Nilah an Ocean Song skin, but just a what if scenario
I most liked Udyr rework this year. His staple appearance in the jungle meta has made me feel better about league as a game. Was hyped for belveth and then let down. Was hype for most of the champs this year... And then let down by most of them and a good portion of the skins too.
Dude I died on the K'Sante puns Ong, the onl champ of this season I played more than once was Zeri because I wanted to be fast but by that point she was too nerfed. And since I despise toplane K'Sante seems fun, just not the role. Love these compilations, keep them up.
New Udyr really grown on me. At first I was a little bit disappointed that stances were not felt as stances at all and Phoenix was a miles ahead over tiger. But after some huge balance tweaks and new items (literally all of them works good on him) you got a champs who can have bunch of different funny playstyles. When Trick - dude who played old Udyr for 13 years liked rework , you know that riot done well here.
Regarding Bel’Veth’s gameplay being off from her character, I initially agreed, but after looking into her character, I actually think it fits. She believes herself to be above all other voidborn and seems to view herself as a master manipulator and all that, but at the end of the day, even if she doesn’t accept it, she’s a void born monstrosity. She doesn’t attack you with psychic abilities or magic as her perception of herself would imply, she kills you with overwhelming, savage brute force in accordance to her true nature.
Okay, I need to say this about Bel'veth *somewhere*. Yes, her design is split between humanoid and monstrosity, but that's the point! She is a piece of the Void - monstrous, unfeeling, pure entropy - tainted by the humans she has devoured. Nicky's point about her pride being inherited from humanity hints at this. I've heard criticisms that, if she can mind control people, then why the humanoid disguise? Because she has inherited the notion of royalty and superiority from her prey, and thus moulded herself a body fit to ape the nobility of an *Empress* - she feels that she deserves it, she deserves to be something both adored and feared. The head should look disjointed and at odds with her monstrous body - on the Rift she's in full battle mode constantly, not trying to be imperious or sneaky, but a frothing feral beast, looking down on those she kills. The alien look of her human head on that body shows us the delusion that she is under, she pretends to be an queen but cannot see the insanity of the lies she tells herself. It's entirely possible I'm giving her design too much credit, but this has always been what I saw in her, a mad beast believing itself an Empress of entropy, a devourer draped in the sensibilities of human royalty. The whole JoJo stingray thing is maybe a bit much though.
Belveth's concept arts actually fits her character a lot more than what we ended up with. Her octopus designs especially would even make a lot more sense with her attack speed focus. I get the feeling they didn't take that route because of velkoz.
Believe me or not, we artists actually know what looks cool and intresting, but ull always have ppl from higher up or marketting complaining it's not "visually appealing" or "mainstream". Now we're stuck in an industrial level of rehash on pixar and anime looking chicks n doods
Dude I agree with this so much, I know that 2019 and above caused your game to be more "anime" but damn it the theme fits Bel'Veth so much that it sucks we lost a good design because of how mad people are
I wish she had more octopus like arms and every attack she would cycle between each arm i bet it would look cool
@@callumdoyle5475 I believe it man. Especially after seeing Sett's concept art. We could have had Asura, robot butler or Darkin Doomsday but ended up with anime catboy. I'm not an artist but I can imagine how much it must suck to have some suits throw away all your cool designs for some bland shit
I really like her lore, but game play wise I agree 100%.
Renata hands down has my favorite laugh animaation. The slap to her decanter, the way it fixes itself in almost a "again? ugh" kinda way, and the way she says "Oh, I love it!" like she can barely hold back the evil cackle fit and represent her character super well.
The decanter be like:
"Bro again? They don't pay me enough to deal with this bitch"
18:50 you have now made it physically impossible for K'sante to go a year without a skin
Nickyboi you have made us lose skins for the last time
He litterally made me pause the video cause I couldn’t stop laughing and I’ve watched this scene like ten times
You say that, but Candy Kayn is still not a thing.
you may have jinxed it, my dude
Yeah...
One of the bigger suprises for me is K’sante just having wholesome lore.
Like, he has a former lover… that isn’t Dead? They’ve both looked back on their relationship fondly? They’re happy for each other??
In any other circumsizes I’d expect k’sante to be revenge driven to kill all halfscended monsters because riot didn’t want the gay man to have a partner and just chucked the man under a monster.
I’m unsure about his gameplay, I’ve heard people say he’s bad, but I barely play league Nowadays and the one time I ran into him I proceeded to have a truly horrible time playing against.
what circumstances do you mean?
TF x graves, varus x his lover, udyr x lee and leona x diana are a thing lol
tf x graves ended with "hes handsome but lets not go further" which isnt bad but also doesnt make them a thing
The lovers in varus are resisting the complete corruption of the darkin in a shared body
leona x diana is absolutely a tragedy
lee sin and udyr are heavily hinted at which is fun but it doesnt go full canon like ksante
its not as bleak as the first comment make it sound but its also straight up wholesome with no strings attached
@@adexab Yeah maybe I was a lil pessimistic on that area
What i like about k sante is that its a male champ with a shirt.
I thought males with shirt in runeterra were going extinct, ngl.
@@AlexanderMartinez-kd7cz arent leona and diana mortal enemies now or smthn
The biggest problem with Bel'veth, she was released the same year as Xolaani was in Legends of Runeterra, and Xolaani is everything Bel'veth says she is but actually done right while being 10 times cooler.
Edit: Honestly after thinking about it, most of my issues with Belveth can be traced to Legends of Runeterra executing a concept about her better in something else, because overtime Belveth's design just started to lose interest to me. Like good on Riot for making something more monsterious instead of less, but in Belveth's case I think they went the wrong direction because nothing about a giant string ray reads Empress of the Void for me, and the Hive Herald in LoR shows that they could have kept the humanoid design but made it monsterious and creey at the same time. Plus a design like the Herald could have had some cool gameplay that fit her lore. They could keep some of the stabbing by using the Herald's tails but also focus some void minions summoning from her ult (a part of the ult which is sadly useless in it current form despite being one of the few parts of the kit that matches her lore) in seperate abilities and possibly keep her ult but with a few changes.
Xolaani is just aatrox's ex claiming she's saving everyone but being absolutely obnoxious about it.
Also she got powered up because kayle is an IMBECILE.
You're entirely right, but you missed out one thing:
That she could've been (but somehow) a perfect Star Guardian Villain too
@@Mortal-Knite I KNOW RIGHT
How is that hive herald herald twink more fit for the empress of the void than a Giant royal ray that uses her wings as a cape and her horns as shoulder pads while looking down at her prey, her gameplay maybe awkward but her design is on point
UDYR and lee gay, bear stance makes alot more sense now 🫥
Season 12 was my first season. Gotta say the game is incredibly fun. Learning all the champions and choosing my role was a great experience.
I hope the bad comunniy dont ruin your fun! Wich champions are your favourite and what role did you pick? Or how do you chose it? The beginning of league is the best
Get out while you can….I’ve been here 10 years…
welcome also good luck not losing your mental
Not to dishearten you or anything, just my 2 cents : don't latch on to "outlearning" the game too much.
Not in the sense that you want to learn new champions or mechanics, experience unique interactions whilst having fun but in a sense that you shouldn't take these aspects too far. You'll only go for so long playing a champion like Fiddlesticks and memeing "get stickbugged". If you try to take it even minimally seriously you'll fall flat into the "50/50 matches syndrome" of only having fun if you're satisfied with a win or with how you played in said match.
With all that said I do hope you find your pefect role in the game and ignore any and all glaring issues the game or its community have!
But, on a more serious note and all jokes aside, some really good advice : stay yourself and please don't follow the meta, no matter what anyone says (with no inting in mind haha 😅). So yeah, welcome and have fun!
leave while you can bro and DONT PLAY RANKED PLS
Renata was the highlight because she's actually what your support wants to do but are only allowed to do until the "killed too many ADCs" achievement unlocks for that champion. This is also called "Tactical Nerf Incoming" or "DPS Handkerchief Patch".
She's a revenge support - the thing that made Morde and, still on rare occasions, Sett so scary. She's the solo support's weapon where, it doesn't matter how well you best her ADC, you still need to beat _her._ And the thing people usually underestimate about said Solo Supports is that, like Solo Junglers, they learn how to turn a game while having to drag around a load because you can always bet one person on your team gave up 7 minutes in.
Renata fulfills the fantasy of old Morde Support Mains marking the 1v9 ADC for death, and getting their phantom to take out their team and two towers - except she can go, "Be a dear, give me my Baron Buff and then destroy each other." And walk if off like this Watchmen and her plan was enacted the moment you chose to _let her live._
It satisfies the Old Overwatch, Mercy 5-Man Res after the enemy just shot their loads to delete your team - that special kind of Support F-U that comes from, "You let me live - you're going to see why that was a mistake when my team kicks in your teeth."
Anyways, Renata supports a support power fantasy that Riot seemed adamant about avoiding so I'm glad she exists.
The way that the characters are introduced in this video are so hype
Zeri: 3:45
Renata Glasc: 6:46
Bel'Veth: 8:42
Nilah: 11:04
Udyr: 14:09
K'sante: 18:30
Nilah is definitely one of my favorites since she also draws from Southern Indian culture which isn’t usually shown when people cover Indian characters. Considering the culture there, her character fits pretty well and its a shame Riot didn’t explore that more in their article on her.
Zeri and Renata are probably my favorite release of 2022. Zeri cause she was pretty much one of the few ADC’s I truly enjoy playing even when she was bad. Renata cause everything about her is fun for me gameplay, visuals, and lore.
The problem with Zeri is that the balance team does not know how to balance an adc caster champion. Imagine if ezreal had more power to his q than his autos and the q CD was 1,5 secs going lower with its current cooldown reduction. This would be a balance nightmare. Now imagine that in Zeri that has more mobility and can buff her autos. They clearly don't see that the problem is the free infinite stack mobility.
If they really wanted to fix her they would switch places between her q and r and would heavily nerf the mobility in her new q
@@gkarak1996 switch her q and r in what way?
And even then while yes the mobility was annoying (idk what they did but I don't feel it as much anymore) previously the problem was the insane range on q while still dealing damage.
So they nerfed the damage, but that made her too bad.
I like how they changed her now with the lower range but more damage trade off, since it will now be easier to balance her, and it will introduce a bigger gap between a good zeri and a bad one (that being the ability to kite and do it well)
IM SO HAPPY HE USED THAT SPECIFIC PART OF RENATAS THEME, she's awesome, single handily brought me back into the game
single-handedly my friend
(Edit because I’m not sure if other people knew what SEA meant, but it refers to South East Asia)
I've said this before on a TB Skyen video, but I'll just say it again. They could've done so much more with the Filipino representation for Zeri. As charming as she is, something that really stands out to me (an a lot of the Filipino playerbase) is the choice to give her a Filipino accent despite being from Zaun (who are already coded to have British or American accents). It just doesn't make sense for someone who was born, raised, and lives in a place surrounded by British and American accents to have a Filipino accent (Viktor and Fiora don't really count since they were made and released before Runeterra was even properly written and they had to be put somewhere). To us, it's like if someone grew up in America, but has a Chinese accent, it doesn't make much sense. On that note, what they could have done (and what a lot of Filipino players would have wanted) would be to introduce another region based on south east asia and have Zeri be the representation of an OFW (basically Filipinos who work overseas and send back money and goods to provide for their families). It would have done so much more representation as opposed to just slapping an accent on her and calling it a day.
Yea especially there's really nothing much to the representation when she has what, 5 min of voicelines?
I'm pretty sure riot has said somewhere that they're ignoring storytelling logic for the sake of racial diversity, and I think they're doing a similar thing with accents. Like does it make sense for every region to be a racial melting pot? Probably not, but one can suspend their disbelief for the sake of representation. The same applies to accents. And while I agree that the best form of representation would probably be a unique region (that can hopefully be shown in great detail in LoR card arts) having Zeri be an immigrant who's sending money back to her family wouldn't make sense with the current story riot is trying to tell with her. It's not an easy swap, she'd have to be completely rewritten.
they could, but honestly who cares.
This is the same universe where Jax, who's supposed to come from an ancient Lost mesoamerican inspired region, has the thiccest USA accent possible. Idt that side of Runeterra is deemed as super important by writers and the like
I think I might be the only one that doesn't see the need or feel the need to be represented in any way in any fictional media, especially a made up fantasy world of monsters, mages and god knows whatever the hell yordles even are. Even tho "my people" are basically nonexistent in it.
Ok but, why is nobody talking about how K'sante's and Nilah's themes are on Pantheon's levels of quality.
Because they arent
Honestly every champion from season 11 and onward has had incredible fucking musical themes
except vex, idk about that one
Because they aren't
Pantheon meatriders coping & seething
2:08 Lmao that clip of Necrit is pure gold
I really enjoyed playing zeri! Even when she wasn’t good it was so much fun.
I'm not gonna lie, Nilah is probably my new favorite champion in the whole game. I've been playing since 2014, and I've bounced around a lot on identity, started in mid, loved jungle for years, but now i cant stop queueing bot. nilah really tickles my brain just right. I love samira's gameplay too, but what I prefer about nilah is that your decision making isn't always so clean cut. Ulting as fast as possible is the correct choice on samira 99% of the time, but nilah can slow play, or be her own engage. On Nilah, microdecisions aren't just about getting your ult off.
And to be honest, what first got me to give her an honest try was her lore. Her design on a surface level seemed uninspired, but I'm genuinely so charmed by this exuberant monster hunter who is unable to feel anything but joy. She laughs in the face of danger... and also everything else. It's another wonderfully unique interpretation for a runeterra demon that sets it apart from your stereotypical pseudo Christian concepts. I consider ashlesh to be up there with kench and fiddle aesthetically, I hope someday we'll get art of his true form. Runeterra is probably my only hope in that vein.
I would also personally pay riot for a story where she and yone meet when hunting the same demon. The idea of the dark and somber azakana hunter being forced to cooperate with the embodiment of joy would be a very entertaining dynamic I think.
Fingers crossed my girl gets herself a decent skin soon! Not a fan of the SG
well glad you enjoy playing her
i just think that they made her seem very complicated with all of the bullshit scaling added to her
and many people pointed fingers to her for the "new league champions are oxymorons" argument
This video was crazy good, I am happy you gave yourself another day to polish it bc it was worth
You can't hide it from me Nicky! I noticed that dark water cove theme from Skylanders during Nilah's segment! Love that btw it fits great!
Zeri and nilah: who?
Renata and bel veth : cool design
Udyr :Nudyr
Ksante :yasuo but tank
Wow I just realized this is my favorite year when it comes to champion releases, every single one hit
Judging from the thumbnail someone else finally realised that zeri was a clone of neon from valorant but the only difference was that neon had story importance in valorant and zeri existed only because " Haha she s from same region as Vi and Jinx from arcane "
People realized long ago
Zeri's gonna be more like support for ekko in lore
Just discovered you and I wish I would have sooner. I love the type of humor you put into your videos. Keep it up!
I know this is a champion rewind, and you did mention a bit on the Nilah review, but i wanted some more words on the Star Guardian event and how it didnt just botch the champion, it did an insane burnout on the SG skin line as a whole for many
2:00 Damn Nicky, you hit the nail on the head
Riot brightmoon came out and talked to us about this year
This is literally the greatest league of legends video of the year. What a BANGER
I'd say the best thing about K'sante is his awesome theme.
Its just so full of energy and hype!
Renata is my favorite champ by far gameplay wise (jhin is my 4th favorite out of respect) but I see her almost never outside of when I play her. I’m glad to see you enjoy her as much as I do.
Ngl Lethality Udyr was the best thing to ever happen , it's Udyr mains revenge for bullying them for a decade
And y’all called Seraphine Sona 2.0, Nilah is literally Samira, but with a whip
Both are 2.0s of previous champions
Samira is just yasuo with a gun
@@loganbown5942 oh yeah well Yasuo is just.... Cringe
Even now I swear on everything that's holy she's only been in 2 or 3 of my games (mine and enemy team)
Samira is Dante and Nilah is Vergil
Dude your channel is so good, I was l litterally excited for this video to come out, why so little views you are very fun
Thank you for a year of amazing videos Nicky.
Ah yes my favourite League addition *N e o n*
7:51 "You spineless wastes of oxigen" Nicky taught me a new insult for the game
Nicky has me cracking up with the K'Sante puns. "K'Santa, K'Sandals and Croi'ssante", not to mention all the Monster Hunter games he mentioned. Man, I'm dead. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This was a amazing video! It was worth the wait!
This was a pretty good video Nicky , thank you for uploading!
Already excited to see if the pattern of the last 2 years continues
Giving you full credit here, the monster hunter titles part, 10/10 now im subbed
Happy New Year Nicky!
Also the belveth disconnection is part of her thematic cause she lures you into thinking she would be a mage or something but no, she stabs you to death which
Just found your channel. I know what I'm going to binge tonight
This Videos at the End of the year are just neccecary for me as a League Player they are perfectly edited and just Perfect all in all
Thank you for this masterpiece❤
Great Video Nicky, i loved the Zeri Balance Change Bit.
Nicky, your background music picks are so good!! Mad respect!!
I loved all the champions this year, my favorite has to be Renata Glasc ❤
In urf I got wrecked by a lethality udyr and just had to try it.
Dear god, I painted the world with their blood.
Bel'veth from a design point was my favorite. The lavender sea coming up the same time I was writing a DnD campaign gave me so much inspiration. The music was so compelling in her theme. The concept behind her being the empress of the void. The distortion of her teasers. Only made me sad she was an AA champion with an overly underwhelming kit.
now i can die in peace knowing NickyBoi is a hardcore MH Fan
If we ignore the ryze level of balance issues i absolutely love zeri. For me its like playing a caster adc. And since i already primarely played mages bot Lane she was made for me.
Her ult is also my favorite ult in the game as i like having my kiting abilities rewarded with speed. (Lillia is one of my favorite champions). So for me gameplay alone she is my favorite.
The k'sans megolovania transition was such perfect editing
15:56-16:00
that Udyr edit is just 😂
We got told we had to wait a day extra. I would of waited another month for this. GJ Nicky and happy newyear buddy
19:26
"Portable 3rd" 😂😂😂
I love this champions rewinds. great job
12:17 "all she ends up being is just Samira but wet"
My favorite quote from the whole video.
Nice Easter egg at 5:12, good to know Nicky is a true MONEY LORD
Just when I think we're wrapping up, I get gut punched by "Terastalized Samira". Well played sir XD.
As a Reneta Glasc Main, nothing makes your mouth water like seeing an enemy team FULL of collector, and a ready ult. Chef Kiss
Gotta say Nilah and K'sante's theme songs are top tier.
Here waiting for the 2023 rewind, heard the skarner line, i feel so bad mr boi
Tbh I come for the opinions, weird facts, and funny cutaway edits, so when 18:51 happened. Holy shit I spit out my fucking drink. That was the hardest and loudest I’ve ever laughed at anything ngl.
I started playing this year and I'm having a lot of fun with a couple of friends, there are a lot of intresting carachters and the gameplay is fun, really hoping next season is as fun as this was for me!
I feel like the more he posts the more we have to pause or rewind to get a better view of some content, now that is quality
God K’Santes theme is such a banger
I wait the whole year for this, and the video is complete banger
i just wanna say I FUCKING LOVE THE WAY YOU EDIT THESE VIDEOS OMG 😭💜
My god this video was good, just had to comment to give a boost to this video.
Ah yes, back then we thought skarners rework would release october 2023...
Kill me
Two Monster Hunters™, a Valorant agent, a mafia boss, an angry man and a manta Ray enter a bar.
There is no counter.
Idk if you made this up or stole it but it's fuckign great
PLZ AHAHAHAHAHAHA
The "Big Pharma executive." Perhaps one of the funniest things I've seen in your vids. Wonderful job 🤣
3:55 hahhaha i was literally wondering this and you answered it straight away XD
Meme edits are on point my dude
Nicky i love these types of vids
Hope You Have 3x More Subs Next Year
Ngl I love all the champs of 2022. K'sante has become one of my favorites of all time
my favorite k'sante line is "hello colonizer how do you wish to die today?" when he sees swain
As a Wr player, im very excited for Zeri’s release, just because she is what got me interested in League. It started with set 6.5 of Tft where my fav carry was her. Every game I tried to force debonair or sniper comps just to be able to play her and since I dont play games on pc, I decided to download Wr and fell in love with the game but felt like something was missing, and that was her. I wanted to have the same fun with her in that game too, so I waited for about 7 months which isnt that much compared to how much other people have waited or are still waiting for their fav characters but still a lot for me. I think the variety of adcs in Wr is very low so she will also add another unique type of adc people can enjoy. Other than that I enjoyed this vid very much and I would love to see Nilah and renata from the 2022 roster in Wr. Looking forward to more vids in the future!
This editing is top tier
My favorite champ from this year is def k'sante. I'm a very aggro player, but since I dislike playing tanks or bruisers I'd avoid playing toplane if possible. With K'sante, I have a fun and complex champion with massive outplay potential that combines the fun aspects of being a tank and dealing a lot of damage
K'Sante jokes just kills me. I cry, and I die🤣
19:06 bruh, as someone who grew up playing Monster Hunter games, I CAME.
The more I watch your videos the more I understand that the gameplays you enjoy are the unhealthy ones.
Oh my gog, praise that Monster Hunter sequence.
Can I get a Poogie Champ in the chat, let the horns resound in a glorious doot, the Desire Sensor granted us your masterpiece of a video.
❤
As a Monster Hunter fan the K'sante part was absolutely beautiful
Belveth is best champ released this season because we got my boi Cho mentioned in her dialogue
7:27 couldn't have said it better, this accurately represents why I prefer renata glasc over any enchanter
just thought of this: what if, instead of Star Guardian Nilah, we instead got Star Nemesis Bel'Veth? looking back at Bel'Veth's launch patch, I guess it wouldn't have made sense to give Nilah an Ocean Song skin, but just a what if scenario
God your editors are incredible
Happy New year nick, 2023 is gonna be the year of the love
Skarner releasing october 2023? Damn that's optimistic
Amazing how every single champion released this year had something to do with league of legends
truly a
Can't wait for the 2023 rewind
I most liked Udyr rework this year. His staple appearance in the jungle meta has made me feel better about league as a game. Was hyped for belveth and then let down. Was hype for most of the champs this year... And then let down by most of them and a good portion of the skins too.
Dude I died on the K'Sante puns
Ong, the onl champ of this season I played more than once was Zeri because I wanted to be fast but by that point she was too nerfed.
And since I despise toplane K'Sante seems fun, just not the role.
Love these compilations, keep them up.
New Udyr really grown on me. At first I was a little bit disappointed that stances were not felt as stances at all and Phoenix was a miles ahead over tiger. But after some huge balance tweaks and new items (literally all of them works good on him) you got a champs who can have bunch of different funny playstyles. When Trick - dude who played old Udyr for 13 years liked rework , you know that riot done well here.
Regarding Bel’Veth’s gameplay being off from her character, I initially agreed, but after looking into her character, I actually think it fits. She believes herself to be above all other voidborn and seems to view herself as a master manipulator and all that, but at the end of the day, even if she doesn’t accept it, she’s a void born monstrosity. She doesn’t attack you with psychic abilities or magic as her perception of herself would imply, she kills you with overwhelming, savage brute force in accordance to her true nature.
I was like “WOAH Zeri’s theme is so good!”
And then found out that that isn’t Zeri’s theme.
Billionare company cant afford enough workers to have more than 1 rework a year
I cant even think of a joke cause that statement is a joke in itself
Okay, I need to say this about Bel'veth *somewhere*. Yes, her design is split between humanoid and monstrosity, but that's the point!
She is a piece of the Void - monstrous, unfeeling, pure entropy - tainted by the humans she has devoured. Nicky's point about her pride being inherited from humanity hints at this. I've heard criticisms that, if she can mind control people, then why the humanoid disguise? Because she has inherited the notion of royalty and superiority from her prey, and thus moulded herself a body fit to ape the nobility of an *Empress* - she feels that she deserves it, she deserves to be something both adored and feared.
The head should look disjointed and at odds with her monstrous body - on the Rift she's in full battle mode constantly, not trying to be imperious or sneaky, but a frothing feral beast, looking down on those she kills. The alien look of her human head on that body shows us the delusion that she is under, she pretends to be an queen but cannot see the insanity of the lies she tells herself.
It's entirely possible I'm giving her design too much credit, but this has always been what I saw in her, a mad beast believing itself an Empress of entropy, a devourer draped in the sensibilities of human royalty.
The whole JoJo stingray thing is maybe a bit much though.
The K'sante skinline joke had me laughing so hard I forgot I'm depressed for going back to work
18:52 Café Cuties: K’Santea