I dont think anybody else has noticed this, but...

warpenguin555·Nov 10, 2015·115 votes·14,585 views

If Illoai is the last champion released this year, we will have not had a single knockup on a new champion this season. People last year would have never believed it

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WaffletimewarpNov 10, 201583 votes

Champion Release December 29, 2015

Shory, the Uppercut King

Q- Knockup W- Knockup E- Minor slow R- Knockup, Deals 150% Damage on Knocked up enemies.

Singing LarkNov 10, 201553 votes

You forgot the true damage and the 3 hit ability.

Kuroi86Nov 10, 201540 votes

Passive.

A LiberalNov 10, 201516 votes

%HP Dmg + Heal

MyTeamIsAwsomeNov 11, 201510 votes

And the nerf of 3 ad after is release

Hello I am BirdNov 11, 20155 votes

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And the nerf of 3 5 ad after is release

Insert Reddit Thread saying that Shory is shit now

IcyPepperNov 10, 201518 votes

R can only activate after landing Q and W.

Triple knockup, deals true damage.

Hidden Passive: Child support.

procrastinasianNov 11, 201517 votes

CertainlyT: WHERE ARE THE PASSIVES? THE 3-HIT MECHLONIC? WHERE IS THE %MAX HEALTH TRUE DAMAGE BASED ON THE NUMBER OF WORDS PER MINUTE YOU CAN TYPE?? THE MI N I G A EM ES ????!?

Masterofchaos999Nov 11, 20154 votes

No no no, they wouldn't use words per minute, since they are encouraging ward placement, if you have 4 wards placed it does 100% of their max health as bonus true damage and can critical strike.

Auz the RipperNov 11, 20154 votes

No, that's unfair and lacks counterplay

It'll only be 96.8% of their max health as true damage

Antsy ArmadilloNov 11, 20154 votes

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Champion Release December 29, 2015

Shory, the Uppercut King

Q- Knockup W- Knockup E- Minor slow R- Knockup, Deals 150% Damage on Knocked up enemies.

Don't you mean at least 70% slow.

RiotMeddlerNov 11, 201528 votes

Tempting...

Seriously though, Illaoi will be the last new champion of the year. If all goes according to plan Illaoi will come out in 5.23 and the final patch of the year will be either 5.23 or 5.24, depending on how patch testing goes.

Noctius28Nov 11, 20152 votes

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Tempting...

Seriously though, Illaoi will be the last new champion of the year. If all goes according to plan Illaoi will come out in 5.23 and the final patch of the year will be either 5.23 or 5.24, depending on how patch testing goes.

wait WHAT ABOUT POPPY?!?

Wasn't she coming out this year?

What have you done with the little ball of hate?!

Silents429Nov 11, 20158 votes

He said new champion.

Noctius28Nov 11, 20152 votes

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He said new champion.

He also said she will come live on the last patch of the year If she's on testing now but Poppy is not then that means she will come out later

After Last patch of the year is when?

Blue Moon WolfNov 13, 20151 votes

she's our Christmas present this year, complete with new Christmas skin coming out with her rework :p

RoakOriginalNov 11, 20152 votes

why slow? give it gapclose and knocback...

Slamurai JackNov 10, 201527 votes

Considering that we got TahmKench instead, I'm actually starting to miss knockups.

SquidblimpNov 11, 201512 votes

Tahm isn't so bad, he just does too much damage right now. Nothing they can't fix with numbers.

Remlap1223Nov 10, 201518 votes

And then Poppy gets relaunched with a knockup passive on her AAs.

A LiberalNov 10, 20155 votes

honestly if poppy doesn't have a knockup ima be sad

TurquoiseYoshiNov 11, 20158 votes

She's keeping her E, if that counts.

BenParadoxNov 11, 20152 votes

I think the Poppy rework is going to come out in December. She doesn't really seem like she would have a knock up, based on her design.

Blue Moon WolfNov 11, 20157 votes

knock ups are last years thing, this year it's multiple passives and true damage :p

The SoulforgedNov 11, 20157 votes

what the hell happened to ao shin

warpenguin555Nov 11, 20153 votes

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what the hell happened to ao shin

I think he drowned in a ocean. heh heh heh. yeah ill leave now

TotalJerkNov 11, 20154 votes

Displacements count as knockups for Yasuo's ult, so Tahm spitting out an enemy is technically one.

YorukinNov 11, 20153 votes

Wait, seriously? Crap, we're behind quota! Break out the emergency overload injection kit! We need .50 cc of knockup on Illaoi's ultimate, stat!

MaikalNov 11, 20153 votes

Wow didn't realize Kalista/Rek'sai/Azir/Gnar all came out in 2014. Time flies

StoryDuckNov 10, 20152 votes

Wow, your right. Out of the 6 from last seasons all of them had a knock up except Gnar (he had enough CC already) Only 4 this year not one had Knock up

RegulasNov 10, 201513 votes

Gnar's ult includes a knock-up effect.

StoryDuckNov 10, 20155 votes

I knew someone was going to say that. Thank you for upholding the imperative impulse of posters need to correct everyone. It counts as a displacement plus stun/slow. Just like Alistars Headbutt yes it's technically a knockup for yasuo but I wouldn't call it a knock "UP" in any world.

YambrinZNov 10, 201510 votes

What? So it is a knockup, but you decided its not. Im confused now.

Shroom JunkieNov 11, 20152 votes

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What? So it is a knockup, but you decided its not. Im confused now.

Its a knockback but any knockback includes a knockup effect. Yasuo's ult says it only accepts knockups but lies and takes knockbacks as well. So no, its not a knockup.

Zair UmbrasNov 11, 20152 votes

Yas's ult doesn't say knock up, it says 'Airborne'. :3

Photos of GhostsNov 12, 20151 votes

When you're sliding on the ground you're not airborne.

Zair UmbrasNov 12, 20151 votes

That depends. Usually it knocks you off your feet and then you go sliding like in the animes, which is airborne enough for Yasuo.

Photos of GhostsNov 12, 20151 votes

It appears all of a sudden LoL is much more animesque than we would initially have thought.

Zair UmbrasNov 12, 20151 votes

Just wait. Before you know it, we'll have a swordsman who uses a black sword, then as his ult, he gets a white sword in his left hand and his AS is doubled for the duration.

Photos of GhostsNov 12, 20151 votes

And then we'll get a melee feminine dude with 700 range that upon ulting loses the ability to autoatack and becomes an angel with an uneven number of wings.

Daedalus871Nov 10, 201517 votes

There's a lot of ways to define "knock up", but there is a practical (and thus natural) definition for knock up: Shit Yasuo can ult off of.

StoryDuckNov 10, 20153 votes

Knock-up is when a champion is sent skyward but not in any other direction.
Knock-back is when a champion is pushed awayfrom the activating champion.
Pulls happen when a champion is forced towards the activating champion.
Displacement is when a champion is shunted to the side of their original position without getting further away or closer to the activating champion.

Daedalus871Nov 10, 20155 votes

But the similarities far outweigh the differences:

They are not effected by tenacity. I'm including QSS, cleanse, etc in this.
They all interrupt channels.
They stop the target from controlling movement.
Yasou can ult off of them.

Really the only one worth distinguishing from the others is pull, because those are used primarily to move the target over reasonably long distances instead plain cc.

StoryDuckNov 11, 20151 votes

Go ahead and call them all knockups then. I will call them what they are.

Daedalus871Nov 11, 20155 votes

Yes, there are some very small differences between Knock Ups/Asides/Backs, but they are small.

For all practical purposes, Gnar ult is a knock-up.

Edit:

If you're going to get all snobby about the definitions, you might want to use the official Riot ones:

Knockback The target is made airborne in a direction directly away from the point of cast.

Knock Aside The target is made airborne in a direction perpendicular from the source.

Knockup The target is made airborne on the spot.

Pull The target is made airborne in a direction toward the point of cast, and in some cases over the point of cast.

You will notice that you lack a definition for Knock Aside, there is no cc called "displacement", and you lack a definition for things like Victor W and Ori ult.

Spizzle9000Nov 11, 201512 votes

Sorry but I think you lost the argument.

StoryDuckNov 11, 20152 votes

Yep, I sure did. I see now the error of my ways. Everything is a knock up! Oh how wrong I was. Maokai knocks up not back! Draven knocks champions up too not aside! Man, someone should really tell riot to rewrite the descriptions on a lot of abilities! There are so many that don't say knock up when they should.

AckelopeNov 11, 20153 votes

Knock backs, displacements, etc. are just subdivisions of knockups. if you really wanna be that specific, it's okay and i dont think you should necessarily be antagonized for it, but saying that knockbacks arent also knockups is just wrong, things can fall under more than one category, ya know.

Ayame IsakiNov 11, 20154 votes

Actually, semantically speaking, a knock up is a form of displacement (like a square is a type of rectangle, or a Jack Russell is a type of dog). Displacement is the parent category. If I push you and you move backwards (a knock back), you were not knocked up (insert innuendo here). You, were, however displaced (as in moved from your current place in space and time).

Riot has an open relationship with vocabulary and semantic consistency, so from a game perspective who the hell knows.

I saw someone say that a knock up should be defined, from a game perspective, as "shit that Yasuo can R off of" and that is about as good a definition as any (even if technically, the displacement effect is a knock back and not a knock up).