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
Melledoneus39 votesMM, I see by your summoner icon you have become a fan of the 1000 degree knife experiment videos.
Malicious Metal20 votesNo, it's in preparation to being a Rhaast main.
mr Boombastic7874 votesOh, is it Urgot after Kayn/Rhaast? Maybe then the next champ ore Evelynn VGU xD Typical MM
Who am I trying to fool, I always "main" every new champ and VGU ;)
Arakadia2 votesThere is an unfortunate amount of truth to this.
mr Boombastic7873 votesYup, but I don't regret anything!
Arakadia16 votesHe either transforms into edge or edge, there is no other option.
Arsenic Sulfur11 votesSo what kind of edge to you want? You want the silver-haired assassin kind of edge? Or straight up demon that gets better based on the suffering of others kind of edge?
GULAG 4 U2 votesGonna go for the darkin every game. I main aatrox after all.
inuitmailman2 votesToo bad aatrox doesn't play like a darkin :p
DragonShea15 votesWell. we finally get to see one of Zed's top dogs.
Beyond Legends11 votes-1 for lack of silver hair to become the ultimate edge lord
patmax175 votesThey got you covered, don't worry
RookPusher10 votesSomeone 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.
Stalinium3 votesidk why this is downvoted, it's kinda sad/funny
RookPusher2 votesThanks, man. Feel free to see my more fleshed out concept (after I wrote this one): https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/skin-champion-concepts/faJO5FxE-greg-the-underpaid-graduate-student?comment=0000
Warlord Dienekes8 votesSo, 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.
Variks the Loyal2 votes"Edgelord" is a derogatory term for this sort of character. It's used to refer to the 'emo, dark, all-about-me-and-my-sorrow' characters. Illidan Stormrage from WoW is a prominent example of a typical 'edgelord.'
It's getting to the point where the term is becoming more endearing/embraced by fans who like edgelords, and a word of parody than actual negativity, though.
The Whamboozler10 votesWhat torment? Dude seems like an unapologetic killer that doesn't suffer in the least. He's not edgy, he's just a psycho with a scythe and a crippling fear of shirts.
Variks the Loyal5 votesAnd this represents a large portion of why Kayn and Raast are getting a largely positive reception so far, at least thematically. Visually, he's so stereotypically edgy that you can't help but like the parody (Kayn's visuals turn the edge meter up to 11), while his personality isn't entirely cringeworthy (See - Yasuo or Illidan).
LunSeiSleidee5 votesKids like this stuff.
Poop Jelly8 votesNipple: ✓
mr Boombastic7877 votesWell 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!!!!!!" -- 
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zaire903 votes[{quoted}](name=mr Boombastic787,realm=EUW,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=G0gNyoAo,comment-id=000c,timestamp=2017-06-27T20:33:49.525+0000)
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
TRASSPASSERweeaboo!!!!!!" --
mr Boombastic7873 votesThis is much better!
also Scarl is the only weeaboo alowed by Kled!
Krabohod1 votesSkaarl
FTFY
mr Boombastic7872 votesFTFY? Don't yah mean TGIF, Thank God its Friday?
Chembaron Yamada2 votesBut it's Wednesday. .__.
mr Boombastic7872 votesI know, that is the plot twist
Chembaron Yamada16 votesIt's spelled Skaarl!
Wait a moment.... Skaarl..... Aatrox..... Rhaast.... OMG, SKAARL IS A DARKIN!!!!
ScarletSurgeon2 votesI'm waiting for the moment they change Varus to Vaarus.
mr Boombastic7872 votesWHAT IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW. Aatrox, Rhaast, Vaarus, Jaax and Skaarl, the five darkins!
Holy shittt how did I forget my old main's mount's name??!!
Sharjo6 votesShieda Kayn's cool.
Rhaast is the fucking beast I wanna play him all day!
LordHippoman5 votesI 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.
The Whamboozler3 votesI fail to see how anyone could take this guy seriously either. But then... they're playing him seriously, so clearly Riot didn't get that memo that Reaper is only funny because they're self-aware of how much of an obnoxious edgelord he is.
TheMoralSupport2 votesAh, Reapers character is so fkin funny
Dataless2 votesReaper shrug is best emote.
Skelenth4 votesAnd I love it
FTFY
Leptonium4 votesAlso, his name is pronounced like Cain, the first murderer in the Bible.
Oblivious Denial2 votesOr Kane, leader of the Brotherhood of Nod.
SolarisCorvus7 votesOr cane, A stick for walking.
PureSilvrr4 votesRemember to add the Soul Eater/Wakfu elements in there.
Prime Beholder3 votesStupid question here: What is so significant about an edgelord?
The Whamboozler9 votesIt's an insulting term for the kind of "badass" character you might find in a 13 year old boy's fanfic. Some scowling badass that can kick everyone's ass and usually has some sort of generic or poorly-defined "inner torment" to angst over sorta. Kinda like how a more macho Mary-Sue.
Most badasses come pretty close to edgelord status in the hands of bad writers and the 90's was all edgelords all the freakin' time.
Prime Beholder2 votesThank you for taking the time to tell that.
patmax173 votesBishounen; ✓
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
inuitmailman2 votesWhen 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
