It's like they went down a checklist:
Dark and mysterious: ✓ SHADOWS: ✓ DEMONS: ✓ Anime/Ionian: ✓ SCYTHE WIELDER: ✓ Wild, colored hair: ✓ Fighting inner demon trope: ✓ Duality: ✓ Corruption/body transformation trope: ✓ Edgy ass name; ✓
And I love it
MM, I see by your summoner icon you have become a fan of the 1000 degree knife experiment videos.
He either transforms into edge or edge, there is no other option.
Well. we finally get to see one of Zed's top dogs.
-1 for lack of silver hair to become the ultimate edge lord
Someone once wrote that the film 300 had dialogue written by an 8 year olds...ya know.
Anyway, I feel like that same author created this character. And all I can think is - I hope they made a character that really speaks to the "30-something, over worked, under paid, and stupidly attending grad school part time" player.
You know, like a zombie that just looks perennially tired:
Passive - Skillless. Due to an alarming lack of skills, your passive gold generation takes an extra second. Should have gone to Business School.
Q - Caffine Bomb: Gives you a +15% Armor bonus, and a +10% MS bonus for 4 seconds. For when you were on site at 7 a.m., and class begins at 7:00 p.m.
W - FOMO: You're poor and never have cash. Channeling this FOMO, you planes shift and are untargetable for 2 seconds.
E - Crushed Dreams: unleashing a scathing blog post on nearby enemies about how you're never going to climb the corporate ladder, all nearby enemy units and champions suffer a 75% decrease in MS. Because you should have gone to Business School.
R - Maybe I'll just quit and become a bartender: Give up on life, become a gypsy, and get a sleeve tattoo. You hurl a cocktail at a predefined location. Enemy units hit my your cocktail are charmed for 2 seconds, and give you an additional 15 gold.
So, question, do people like this stuff? I'm not really all up to date on internet lingo and whatnot, but I've only ever heard "edgelord" used derogatorily.
Nipple: ✓
Well he is second on the edgelord list of LOL, but first he needs to scream about mushroom juice, tacos and how he plays wihts guns and works with an axe!
"KAYN, GET OF MY PROPERTYS YOU DANG NABBIT TRASSPASSER!!!!!!" -- 
2k17
Shieda Kayn's cool.
Rhaast is the fucking beast I wanna play him all day!
I wonder how straight they'll play it. Overwatch has found massive fan success in Reaper, for example, but pretty much only because nobody takes him seriously.
And I love it
FTFY
Also, his name is pronounced like Cain, the first murderer in the Bible.
Remember to add the Soul Eater/Wakfu elements in there.
Stupid question here: What is so significant about an edgelord?
Bishounen; ✓
I'm looking foreward to seeing the TVTropes page for Kayn xD
He's got something of all the edgiest champs: Yasuo (visuals, ionia,...) Zed (shadow magic, is part of his order) Varus (bare chest, long hair, evil weapon, bishonen) Jhin (name, ionia, psychotic killer) Talon (jumps over walls, assassin) Aatrox (darkin)
Am I forgetting anyone?
edit: added elements of each champ
When I first saw his name I thought it said kaiyu https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4Pw8ddrZZLQ/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEXCPYBEIoBSFryq4qpAwkIARUAAIhCGAE=&rs=AOn4CLAPOlJOzJuVBh5XYj8CD7ppYox2sQ Help don't know how to do pictures
