Love to Riot in regards to Xayah/Rakan
Dear Rioters,
I have been paying paticular attention to your Xayah and Rakan on the PBE, checking stats, getting the down low as a support sense I like to observe abilities and scalings to predict enemy's and my team and how to best work with my team-mates and know some of the many ways they will work in tandom beforehand. I am incredibly pleased with Rakan and Xayah with her E's scaling, the mechanics, her ability to survive on her own, and having a High Mechanic CCing Support with fast movement speed (GOTTA GO FAST) but having high risk engages. And you nailed that shit, gloves come off, hat tips to you.
I love you guys for this, but for these following reasons:
You broke a medium, instead of Adc's who can handle tanks alone but get destroyed by assassins with high movement speed, you made an Adc with the ability to block those Zed Ults, and etc for a small period of time but gets destroyed by CC and Stuns in a way that hasn't been done before (Xayah: I NEED PEELING!) you pulled something new to break everyone into a new mindset and make them adapt which helps them learn I LOVE that, they will always think the new one is OP until they choose to learn how to be prepared which will help them get ready for any similar champs with reverse counters for their position. (Incoming Jungle Galio/Naut! Incoming Taric stun! Ded Xayah)
Lets go onto the Support now, Rakan, i'm a Support main, when I heard of the next champ being a support I flipped out happily saying, "I hope we get another male!" but when you made it a High Risk, Mobility, Playmaker who NEEDS to be ready to land his ult perfectly and choose when to engage the best, I LOVE that, I love having to use my brain, High Mechanics, High Risk, High Rewards, dear god I love this, and now we can Charm people, i'm already seeing the mass Brand Ult and Fizz ult after a collective Rakan Ult <3 love it, love it love it! (I really hope the Ult doesn't cancel my Mobi Boots.. shiiiieeet.. one way to find out, GOTTA GO FAST!)
Now let me explain what makes me love this the most out of all your releases, you released a Adc, Support duo at the same time, emphasizing teamwork, a special Back for them to emphasize backing together, and made some release of tension between solo que botlaners due to the banter between Rakan and Xayah, you know the saying "The small things count"? Well you nailed it, because when I noticed if Rakan lands a knockup that Xayah THANKS him, and he tells her no problem?! it made me happy, made me feel good, my botlaner doesn't even need to thank me personally to make me feel good now, Xayah gets a kill? Rakan says Nice job, and she thanks him, I love these two characters so much! They just make me feel good, and confident and want to be there for my adc even more, like we rely on each other even though we don't need each other to be good. (Kinda like a good relationship, you don't need each other, you WANT to be with each other because it makes you happier and you do better!)
That emphasis on teamwork through the small dialogues, actions, duo botlane release, and tandom backing makes me just so happy, so so happy, I can't wait to experiment builds with Rakan and keep my team safe, and line up as many enemies as I can. Heck I am probably going to try out Xayah now that I don't have to worry about that one insta kill assassin ult that all high mobility assassins have, while hiding from Malz and Annie as much as possible.. and Liss.. and Cass, and Vlad.
Thank you Riot, thank you for this release, this is going to be a joy to play and even if I lose atleast I will feel good from the banter I get to have with Xayah and just doing my best!
[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]
P.S.
Uberdanger who has not been enjoying league for a while, and feels underappreciated by you guys even loved Xayah specifically so much, and had some extremely positive feedback on why he loves your character Xayah, when your Heaviest Critics love your creation and give's them a score they only have given Olaf in the past (A perfect score on personal enjoyment to play) and say they will no doubt be playing her a ton in the future, then you know you did a great job! Holy shit riot, good job. I'll leave the link to his criticism and feelings on the champ if you want to hear some cosntructive criticism that will only make you happy.