About the new leak

Kairoptra·5/25/2017, 2:42:48 PM·1 votes·1,171 views

EDIT: The leak has been confirmed to be fake by a Rioter, and a post was made about it by Tormentula (who coincidentally commented on this post) which can be found here: https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/E7mOieG3-that-leak-is-fake-confirmed-by-a-rioter The rest of this post doesn't really matter, I guess, so you might as well stop here :P As I'm sure most of you are aware, someone made a post on Reddit, claiming that the information contained within was a leak from Riot. He then went on to describe a new champion to be released in 7.12, under the name Nayuta, the Urgot and Evelynn reworks, and a series of new skins. The post was later removed for unknown reasons. Many have been led to believe that the leak is real, however I believe it is too early to believe or rule out anything. I personally have several doubts regarding this leak. First, the poster's name is "whyNayutawhy", which raises some red flags as the new champions name just so happens to be Nayuta. Another thing wrong with that champion is that he's Ionian, and I personally can't think of a single instance in which two big releases lived in the same region of Runeterra (Xayah and Rakan are an exception since they go they are cross-compatible) let alone three. The next is a more obvious one: We don't know the poster is lying. Sure, the last leak was real, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything for this one. It was also removed, which is a good sign for a lot of people, since it implies that Riot doesn't want anyone to see it. It could just as easily be someone who saw how much the last leak stirred the pot, and wanted to see if they could do it. They made it in a similar fashion to the first and even deleted it. This caused a lot of people to draw parallels and allowed the poster to gain their trust. I of course could be totally wrong, in fact I'd like to see a lot of these things come to fruition, but as I said before, it's just too early to judge.

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Tormentula5/25/2017, 6:02:17 PM1 votes

I mean. Illaoi came right after kindred, which was after TahmKench. Two bilgewater water champions were released in close proximity.

Darius and Draven were released back to back as noxians (to be fair they're brothers)

Leblanc and Swain were released (with lux inbetween them) both as black rose champions.

The rest are fair game since they were like the beginning roster of league.

Warwick was reworked the same time Camille was around, both zaun and piltover champions (basically the same since zaun is just under piltover) if we're counting reworks into this formula.

Regardless, there's always time for a first.

Arcyyy5/25/2017, 8:55:17 PM1 votes

Xayah and Rakan aren't from Ionia, they're fighting against Ionia. Their ""people"" were imprisoned by Ionains for the feathers.

Altonius Amakiir5/26/2017, 12:44:34 PM1 votes

On the part about the person's name, it is quite possible they made a new account to post it and decided to use the new champ name in it. In the past someone with a similar name format has also posted leaks on reddit apparently, so some think it could be that person using a different account for some reason.