New Kayle's Abilities (Theorycrafting)
I've watched the teaser a few times and it seems, if I were to try put together the 'general idea' of her 4 new abilities as well as passive, here would be my go.
Passive - Something to do with that transformation, not entirely sure since it could be anything. Perhaps by level? Perhaps by dealing enough damage to champions? Perhaps by stacking enough AP or Attack Speed?
Ability 1 - It's obviously a certain self-buff at first, as she raises her sword she seems to gain movement speed for a short time, and at the end of it or perhaps if you want to do so early, you can "detonate" the buff, dealing damage and slowing all hit in that sharp hitbox. So this is like her current Divine Blessing, minus the healing and adding a tad more damage.
Ability 2 - She shoots out a homing projectile, dealing AoE damage and slowing all targets hit by the AoE (she does it to Leona and Diana). This would probably be her Reckoning but just straight buffed by being AoE.
Ability 3 - Her autoattacks, instead of being ranged and circular now kinda works in AoE waves, similar to Titanic Hydra or Graves' autoattacks. My theory would be that the wave-travel animation can be dodged, since if you look at her duel with Lucian, one of the waves were sent out before he moved, and when he moved the wave still travelled towards the direction he was in before he moved and the autoattack was casted. So in a sense the AoE is "dodgeable" (or at least it would seem).
Ultimate - Now again, this is just a theory, but something tells me that it works similar to Riven's ultimate, when you use it first, you gain a second sword which kinda suggests double attack speed for a certain duration of time. While this double sword thing is active, she's able to use what I shall, not confidently at all, name "An Eye For An Eye". Way back in Alpha she had an ability (perhaps ultimate) named that, that would redirect damage done to her for a short time onto others in an AoE. What she does to Lucian's Culling does kinda look like that. That'd be a realistic idea for "justice" by literally storing the damage dealt to her and dealing it back. Not sure whether it grants damage immunity though.
I specifically named them "Ability 1, 2 and 3" since again, any of those basic abilities could be interchangeable in terms of key bindings. I'd assume her AoE autoattacks would be on her E since that's where her current AoE autoattacks are but again, we won't know for sure until their gameplay reveal is released. This is just a theory from watching the teasers so no promises on anything at all; I just finished a massive exam today and thought I'd wind down by using my brain for something I actually like: a.k.a League of Legends.
What do you guys think?
[sg-ahri-2]