Hand-animated deaths.
HotS uses rag-doll deaths, and they just don't have any character.
Jinx hair-heart J4 hanging onto his spear Leona disappearing in a flash of light Zac melting Lulu popping and her hat fluttering to the ground
There's a lot of character in many of the various death animations, and I like that feature.
Has a really sick death animation.
You forgot dragon trainer tristana's hidden death passive. Hits the feels so hard you can't see.
I agree with you though it's a level of care and polish that really helps thinges roll and oddly enough helps characterization.
Totally agree! Oh Jinx's SG skin her hair turns into a star shape on her death animation!
Ooh and 
death animation is awesome as well as 
I agree. and different skins get different ones too- ie Azir dies and he turns into sand and falls apart. but when protoss azir (whatever its called) dies, he kinda phases out of existence. that stuff is really cool.
Best part of being Silver is that I get to appreciate these animations very often. :')
HotS is pretty much a Blizzard fanboy's wet dream, so it doesn't have to have character IMO. Just some Blizzard characters duking it out sums that game up.
They have other games to build up that character, something Riot Games lacks.
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