@Riot can someone comment on the "leaked" Evelynn rework?
So for those who don't know, there was a "leak" that contained a number of skins, the current urgot rework, maokai rework, zac rework and most importantly the Evelynn rework. I have "leak" in quotes, because we obviously can't confirm any of it until it's released. With that being said according to these leaks Evelynn is now
"nearly naked, moving shadows for clothes, 2 tentacles on her back, and new stealth visual"
First "nearly naked"- I have no problem with this inherently because it makes thematic sense that clothes would get in the way of her bodies natural ability to stealth. I'm a little bit worried that it will be used instead as an out of character way to objectify her(dear god i'm not a feminist, I am in fact anti feminism so ffs don't comment saying "autistic screaming* WarOnPants is just a feminist trying to ruin video games again_ glorp_" just... don't...)
Second "Moving shadows for clothes"- i just really don't understand how this works... It might be cool, but shadow control was not Eves thing.
and
already do this so i really don't think Eve needs to copy other champs themes when her "natural stealth and spikes" is plenty unique.
Third "2 tentacles on her back"= This could either be purely aesthetic or play into a new kit. If it's the former then i have no problem and could be really cool(was kinda hoping for a tail, but good enough i guess). If it's the latter then I'm very disappointed, since this tell me that riot is doing a way with her spike theme which(can't know until it's released) is just dumb change for the sake of change. There is so much thematic potential with spikes on an assassin like Eve that would be amazing. If "agonies embrace" was changed to where she "embraces" her target and grows spikes on her whole body that impales her target. There are so many options since "spikes" is such an underutilized power in comic and other media.
Forth "new stealth visual"- sounds pretty straight forward as being a purely aesthetic thing and i hope it is. For the love of god don't change her passive, and PLEASE! don't give her a damn mini game!
Hope i can get some clarification on this, but probably unlikely.
One last thing I would like to say is please(to any rioter reading this) don't remove Eve from the game. She is the only reason I have kept coming back and playing this game all this time. I've had so much fun with her and i love the little bit of character she present in her very small VO. VGU's have consistently removed characters from the game and replaced them with someone entirely different (see-
for reference) I know that riot can keep a character if they want(god knows they have enough money) cause we have
(they left his VO intact and updated everything else)
voice update, and probably more that i'm not aware of. I have had a ton of fun with this game, even with the mess that started with the Juggernaut rework until now, but I can not play a league without
. I always felt really bad when a champ got reworked. Because, i not only felt bad for the people that lost the character they loved, but i knew that(most likely) one day it would be my turn to lose the champ i loved as well.
Edit: I completely forgot about tris somehow and wanted to make a few points points in praise of
's rework. IMO her rework was the best that riot ever did for a number of reasons.
Her kit- was almost competely untouched with the exception of her E. not all kits can remain i know, but I've played alot of the reworked champs old kits and Tris was the smoothest transition of all of them except maybe cass and that means allot. Her gameplay was updated and changed, but she still felt like "tristana the yordle gunner" when i played her post rework.
Her visual design- This was a little bigger of a change, but was still a really good job over all. They only qualms i had was that she went from full armor to very little for no real reason.
Her character/VO- This is the crowning achievement of the Tristana rework! her VO went from 47 seconds to 5 min 27 seconds of pure character enhancing voice lines. This was probably due in part to the voice actress, but she didn't lose a single bit of her character and was in fact fleshed out so well compared to her old VO.
Why this quality of character updating began and ended with tristana's rework i will never know, but i think everyone can agree that this is what we want. We don't want reworks to "remove" the original and "replace" them with a new champion that has nothing more in common with the champ we loved than they have same name. Some times a kit cannot be saved, but there is no reason that the character can't be. So riot please respect these characters and people who play them.
's rework Just came out, does that mean that