Kled: The Cantankerous Cavalier Revealed!

Sharjo·Jul 25, 2016·42 votes·8,838 views

Champion Reveal: Kled, The Cantankerous Cavalier

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Here he is folks, Kled!

EDIT: Oh by the way his release skin is Sir Kled

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68 Comments

WheatloafJul 25, 201617 votes

He has adventure music for himself. What more could you possibly want in a champion? Jhin's got nothing on this.

A Superb VillainJul 25, 201611 votes

HOLY S@#% WHERE ARE WE?!

Barely a minute into his lines and Lord Major Centurion Rear-Forward Brigadier Admiral Lieutenant Sergeant Commodore Kled is already a strong contestant for best Yordle.

Ebonmaw DragonJul 25, 20166 votes

[{quoted}](name=A Superb Villain,realm=NA,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=QOBzGudV,comment-id=0018,timestamp=2016-07-25T21:18:08.625+0000)

HOLY S@#% WHERE ARE WE?!

Barely a minute into his lines and Kled is already a strong contestant for best Yordle.

http://i.imgur.com/YkKB42Y.jpg

A Superb VillainJul 25, 20162 votes

You are fast.

However, I said contestant. Gotta give the other candidates some hope.

GrReaper96Jul 25, 20162 votes

I can respect crazy, but kind of fool reloads in a middle of a fight? item 3070 Graves Jhin

Blue Moon WolfJul 25, 20164 votes

I love how he not only is the first champ to have strong language in his VO, but it's censored for extra lols :p

TempistJul 25, 201610 votes

This has become so typical of Riot lately.

Make a champion who will obviously be built as a tank. Give him huge amounts of mobility, and (now multiple!) percent max health abilities. It's like they don't understand how problematic and difficult to balance that is. And how powerful it makes a champ, when their damage is always relevant, no matter how behind. And that they can build full tank and still threaten every other champion on the map.

One would have thought that after Tahm, Ekko, and Gnar they'd have learned a thing or two about the perils of combining extreme mobility with tankiness, utility, and percent health shred.

At this point I _know _ better than to be disappointed... yet somehow I still expected better.

GrReaper96Jul 25, 20161 votes

Well Gnar wasn't really a problem unlike the other two...

Skins ProjectJul 25, 20164 votes

COUGH COUGH He doesn't have 6-7k hp and a 1k dmg w nope. Not at all. He doesn't have a displace and a slow... He doesn't get a static shiv on every single damned aa (When he ults) HE DOESN'T HEAL 33.33333...% OF HIS HP AFTER GOING BELOW 33.33333...% OF HIS HP.

SociopathFriendJul 26, 20161 votes

Doesn't have a scaling HP shield and a dash that goes over walls. Doesn't do percent health damage every 3 times she hits you. Doesn't have an ult that tracks you almost no matter what you do. Doesn't have an armor shred to make her do even more damage.

Ey this is fun.

Also, a Red pointed out why they like %health. It's because that way you hurt everyone equally but can't burst squishies as well. Either you do flat damage, and burst ADCs who build no defense. Or you do percent damage, so you hurt everyone but don't delete anyone.

PT WaluigiJul 25, 20168 votes

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CoO2acJUIAET5Nn.jpg:large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CoO2bLqVYAALjrJ.jpg:large

Images taken Before and after being told she was beautiful

CoffeeDaveJul 25, 20165 votes

I hope they give him a Teddy Roosevelt skin. It would just fit.

EggplantosphereJul 25, 201617 votes

{quoted}

I hope they give him a Teddy Roosevelt skin. It would just fit.

Inb4 Kleddy Rosevelt

SociopathFriendJul 26, 20161 votes

RIOT- THIS MUST BE DONE

RookPusherJul 25, 20162 votes

Ha, and you thought Skin development time was bad on Zac!

NightmareAmazoXJul 25, 20162 votes

Mark my words, They'll nerf him at least 2 times in the next 3 patches after he gets released. [slayer-pantheon-popcorn]

Reck3rDragonJul 25, 20162 votes

Correct me if i'm wrong, but if I would go a item 3748 item 3065 item 3111 item 3083 item 3742 item 3053 Build, wich gives 2650 HP + some more from runes/masteries and base health by the champion himself, and his pet would have the same or even higher base health/scaling, doesn't this mean he would have over 10,000HP with a full build? Sounds pretty unreachable with a regular full tank build on other champions, especially around 40 minutes.

Warlord DienekesJul 25, 20161 votes

I'm gonna guess that there will be something like how Kallista or Graves have with AD scaling, where only a percentage of the health is going to Kled and a percentage is going to Skaarl.

Auz the RipperJul 25, 20161 votes

The way it's worded on the website it looks like the health will be passed on fully, however it doesn't say armor or magic resist is passed on so I think they might try and balance it around that. Alternatively (and probably more likely) they may make his bases low enough and scaling high enough that building tank just isn't an viable option, seeing as his utility is rather weak.

GhostOfShrimpmasJul 26, 20161 votes

Looks like all his bonus health goes to Skaarl, and none to himself.

CubíxJul 25, 20162 votes

I like the kit except for one thing, I feel like he has the potential to jungle if he could get skaarl by fighting large monsters, or atleast red and blue. But with it only being tower champs and epic monsters (drag, baron, vilemaw) he doesn't have nearly as much potential as a jungler, which is kind of a shame.

SkyBlade79Jul 25, 20161 votes

Yeah, perhaps at about half the rate of normal epic monsters, towers, or champions? I feel like that'd be balanced.

DrugothJul 25, 20162 votes

I think the problem is if Skaarl came back from fighting jungle monsters Kled would have almost TOO much sustain in the jungle.

ZarvanisJul 25, 20162 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsCTnM9m5eM

His dialog reminds me of all the crazy things the Psychos' in the Borderlands games say. Especially Kreig. Screaming about killing is very Kreig.

Obungo Jul 25, 20162 votes

Of all the possibilities for amazing skins on this champion......this shit? Turn a lizard into a chicken and paint the yordle's hair?

Come on Riot.

SkyBlade79Jul 25, 20161 votes

I personally think it's pretty cool.

GhostOfShrimpmasJul 26, 20161 votes

He's a Chocobo Knight you ignorant swine

PhoenixSlayer13Jul 26, 20162 votes

Wait... is Sir Kled riding a chocobo knock-off?

DEAR GOD YES

Epic MurphJul 25, 20161 votes

I like him, but his kit is so weird. It's like a jumbled mix match of other champs. I see a mixture of thresh, sivir, xin, and sion.

EDIT: forgot about renekton and graves too

DrugothJul 25, 20161 votes

And Galio.

Warlord DienekesJul 25, 20161 votes

So if you knock him to half health he loses all his abilities (except his W passive) and gains Graves auto/mini-ult thing.

That doesn't particularly sound fun to me, but I'm sure someone will love him.

CheekynorthJul 25, 20161 votes

And he gets a seperate Q when dismounted

Warlord DienekesJul 25, 20161 votes

That would be the Graves auto/mini-ult thing I mentioned. Since the new Q seems (to me) to be a mix of a Graves auto-attack with the push-back of his ult.

CheekynorthJul 26, 20161 votes

Ah right

Meep ManJul 25, 20161 votes

I wonder how % health damage will work against him. Does his passive count as a shield or is it actually a whole nother health bar.

Arsenic SulfurJul 26, 20161 votes

It's basically a recolored health bar.

EggplantosphereJul 25, 20161 votes

Can Nunu cast his Q on the raptor and get a buff?

Icestar1186Jul 25, 20162 votes

I do not think Skarrl can be targeted separately from Kled.

SpecterVonBarenJul 25, 20161 votes

I want Rumble to get a skin where he's riding a mechanical dragon as the rival to this skin.

The Exiled KingJul 25, 20161 votes

Dear Rito games. Whilst browsing the Forums, i noticed this "new" Champion as you like to call it, but upon looking at it's skill set I realized something. The only thing "Unique" or "diverse" about him.... is the ####ING CREATURE BELOW HIM. Every other ability he has it just a knock-off of other champions! His Mounted Q is Leblanc 's without the stun. His Non Mounted Q is ####ING Graves AUTO ATTACK!! His W is just another X-hit auto bonus, his E is a worse Renekton E and HIS ULTY IS Sion WITH A ####ING Galio W ON HIM. AND HIS LOOK! HE IS Rengar .... BUT FUN SIZED. GG2EZ to make champions, Kappa 123 item 3070

VoidreyJul 26, 20162 votes

I prefer to look at more of it is his kit is pretty simple, not a copy and paste. also calling the ult basically the a combination of Galio and Sion is bit of stretch. I like to look at it as how you can use these abilties together for an interesting playstyle. but I can see what you mean anyway, and I do wish the kit desighners branch out a bit more

The Exiled KingJul 26, 20161 votes

This was more of a joke post then anything but with all joking aside, Rito, in my opinion, is just running out of ideas at this point, On the PBE he just wasn't entertaining for me to play. Everything just seemed bland and CopyPasta. They could have made it better, just seems rushed item 3070

SkyBlade79Jul 25, 20161 votes

So D.Va in League?

Eternal ZenJul 26, 20161 votes

Any other Final Fantasy veterans out there see sir Kled riding a chocobo?

XulsigaeJul 26, 20161 votes

So Noxus is not xenophobic anymore?

Ebonmaw DragonJul 26, 20161 votes

{quoted}

So Noxus is not xenophobic anymore?

Having a yorlde champion from noxus do not contradict the old lore... so, yeah they are xenophobic unless you have strenght

http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/The_Journal_of_Justice:_Volume_1,_Issue_02

"Noxus has always treated every contributing member as fairly as they deserve. Really, would any Noxian official even leak such an absurd story to the news, or expect to live if he did? Instead of repeating obvious Demacian lies, any yordles afraid their people are being mistreated in Noxus should sign up for our northern barbarian-pacification campaign to remind us how clever those little hands are in aiming a weapon."