Evelynn teaser (Ability speculation)

mzicio··5 votes·1,131 views

Passive?: Her stealth. The beginning of the trailer shows that Eve moves fairly quickly while she's not being looked at. She's very likely to get boosts while being in the fog of war. She becomes black while in stealth, this is confirmed by a rioter, but it may not be her passive. She may also leave some kind of LB W when becoming visible, but that may just be part of her third ability.

Ability 1: Hate spike seems to be quite different. She throws a dagger-like projectile at her target, marking it. When the mark is completed, she charms the enemy and her old hate spike replaces autoattacks, basically, as you can see when she attacks Yasuo. If she attacks before the mark is completed, she creates a small patch of spikes and consumes the mark, this can be seen in the Lucian clip.

Ability 2: Eve thrusts forward with her tentacles. Can be seen in the Lucian clip. It may be a part of the first ability though, when she attacks an enemy that's not fully marked. May be a skillshot or autoattack enhance.

Ability 3: Evelynn hits enemies in a wide area in front of her.

Ability 4: At 0:30 you can see Evelynn landing from a fall. Could easily be a taunt, but mobility creep makes me question that. Maybe it's some kind of jump.

16 Comments

SwiftKitten8810 votes

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Ability 2: Eve thrusts forward

tentacles.

kinky

Apocalypsic6 votes

Somehow I think that's the point.

[sg-ahri-2]

SuperCosmicHobo9 votes

That large aoe hit is most likely the ult

mzicio1 votes

Yeah, I forgot that pre-rework Evelynn has no AoE to clear camps other than hate spikes, so they may have kept that.

ChiTenshi3 votes

The AoE ability looks to be 2 trigger.

First cast: AoE Damage in front of Evelynn Second cast: Blink backwards a distance (maybe into the closest fog-of-war?)

mzicio2 votes

I don't think it blinks to the closest fog of war, too random. Also, imagine what an enemy Ivern could do. Triangle of bushes and boom, caught the Evelynn. I think it's related to her stealth. You can clearly see that the small "portal" generates right when she becomes visible, if you slow down the video.

ChiTenshi1 votes

It generates when she uses the AoE ability, then she's able to travel backwards. Unsure of the distance it moves backwards. I made the assumption of fog-of-war because it feels fitting for her theme (she strikes then returns to the darkness).

Zkaiser1 votes

It actually generates the EXACT millisecond she uses flash.

Edit: Actually you are COMPLETELY correct. It spawns when she ults Lucian too. It allows her to travel back to it. It's purely a disengage tool. Nice.

mzicio2 votes

Nah, it doesn't generate when she ults. You can see that it generates BEFORE she even starts the animation of her ult. It's more likely to appear when she exits stealth and her ultimate is not on cooldown, and it's possible to teleport to it only after ulting.

Karn Bishop1 votes

eh pretty sure that is entirely wrong, i think that its a forced reversion blink, i.e you blink in a direction can cast a slightly changed spell then you are forced back to your initial location you blinked from hence why it leaves a sigil mark on the ground.

ChiTenshi1 votes

Watch the section of clip where she kills Lucian. There is no mark behind her until she casts the AoE ability.

Zkaiser1 votes

When the gameplay action starts we see her throw something at Rengar, killing him. Later we see her throw something a Lucian, marking him with a heart and slowing him. It is the only instance where we see the heart applied. The Heart mark is seen on Yasuo, breaking upon getting filled, triggering an armor shred and charm. It's safe to say this is an initiator skill for it's likely her new Q. A skillshot or targeted ability that marks and slows and after a delay, charms and shreds. HOWEVER during the Lucian fight she consumes the mark before it pops to perform a stabbing move. I think that is a second part to the skill making it overloaded as fuck. So in total:

Heartbreaker (Q) - Deals damage, marks and slows. When the mark is full it charms the target and shreds their MR. You can recast Heartbreaker to instantly deal bonus damage to the target.

mzicio1 votes

Oooh, yes, I didn't notice the shred. I do think, however, that "Heartbreaker" is connected in some way to hate spike, and not to the stabbing move. But I may be completely wrong!

Zkaiser1 votes

I think I'm wrong. Since in the Lucian part he has the mark BEFORE the spell hits. but AFTER it hits he has 3 orbs around him which get consumed by autos, probably proccing the Hate Spikes.

That said, I think the Stab move is linked to the heart mark because it disappears after she stabs instead of filling up and charming.

mzicio1 votes

Dang, I missed a lot of stuff. Good job on finding all those small details! So, ability 1 marks the target with 3 spheres, huh? Interesting... that means the mark is probably her passive...? I know that I made this post and therefore I should try to dig deeper, but all of this is so complex, hahaha

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