@Riot, what are your design perspective on passives?
I wonder what's Rito's view on this, after all passives have never been a very consistent game-element on League of legends.
Some passives provide very little and others are hell strong and define a champion.
Shyvana's passive is forgettable and could be part of her normal scaling
Tristana's strength and personality are defined by her changing range
Certain skills have properties that would have made sense as a passive and vice versa.
Kha's R modify the rest of his kit on weird ways, making it more of a general passive.
Karma's passive only modifies her R, so it could have been the passive part of her ultimate.
A common trend is that Passives tend to get more and more convoluted as champions go by. Multiple passives actually became a fairly common thing, no longer being a particular trait of the Twilight champion (Akali). Doesn't this go against clarity and readability?
With the upcoming champion Azir it's the first time we actually see an active passive.
- Some older passive had tricky attributes that required the player to move in particular ways to reap the benefit from the passives.
Zac has to collect blobs to heal.
Thresh requires you to collect souls to gain armor.
Yasuo has to move around the map to receive a shield. - Other older passives interacted with the rest of your kit.
Malzahar has to shot beams to manipulate his voidling
Annie has to collect stacks to stunt her enemies
Maokai heals on auto-attacks.
That's not how Azir second passive works though. His passive is not complimenting the rest of his kit, there is no interaction between them. It's an stand-alone active skill with inner-cooldown that does something on the map. Except for the requirements of ruins is not really that different from Heimmerdingers' old turrets.
DISCLAIMER
Just to make it clear, I am not here to complain. I just wonder what direction Riot plans to go and if they are planning to (eventually) rework older champions' passives to fit better their criteria. If you are not here to discuss, feel free to take your QQ somewhere else.
