On a scale of one to Yasuo, how anime is Kayn going to be?

Blood Magicks··42 votes·12,507 views

Don't fail me on this one, Riot. A little anime is great but making another Yasuo because the current one is permabanned is just unfair.

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RiotReav390 votes

We heard you like anime with your anime

Tormentula60 votes

Is this champion sponsored by crunchyroll?

The Whamboozler2 votes

More like catering to the chinese audience.

Velzard of Koz16 votes

More like catering to the darkin audience

Morgan le Fey28 votes

More like catering to the catering audience. TahmKench

Melledoneus5 votes

TahmKench I heard we Darkin were havin' a reunion. Now, I'm not exactly sure if I'm a Darkin or not, but I heard they will have a feast prepared. Rest assured, my attendance is a guarantee.

Linna Excel9 votes

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Is this champion sponsored by crunchyroll?

If there's a free 30 day trial of crunchyroll for everyone who gets kayn...

StarGuardianWeeb3 votes

more like loot anime, save 10% with discount code KAYN10

Bultz4 votes

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We heard you like anime with your anime

How much anime must I pay you for you to anime me a Goku anime Character, Sir Reav3? Anime.

Warlord Dienekes7 votes

Well they already have Wukong.

Bultz2 votes

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Well they already have Wukong.

I don't want a weapon wielder, I want a fighter. Like a skirmisher. Lee sin would fit, but his kit isn't what I want. I want a melee champion who can fly. I want someone who feels like a martial artist and not someone who slaps the ground. Like have you ever played tekeen or a capcom vs game or even the new Dragon ball figherz game? that is what I want mechanically from a martial artist champion.

Warlord Dienekes7 votes

I was mostly joking that the character of Goku is literally based off of Wukong, from Journey to the West (though they went far away from the story there)

But, I can see what you mean. Even if I really wouldn't be interested in that champion. I also have characters I would love to see in the game that just aren't.

The Whamboozler5 votes

I do not... and I am massively disappointed with this champ. I know NONE of you at Riot care, because the crowd that sucks down anime edgelord shit is huge and you're pandering your ass off to them.... but I'm not gonna play this guy. Instead of some cool gothic reaper or a Bloodborne/Darkest Dungeon style champion we got a leering anime pretty boy. Again. You could not have killed my desire to play this character more.

If you BOTHER to listen to anything I'm saying here... please move the FUCK away from Ionia for a bit, eh? It really seems like Ionia is becoming the default place to put champions... just for the weeb-cred. Please stop.

Micbran4 votes

It's not like it you play the new champion once you'll start uwu'ing and making anime faces everywhere. Relax. Maybe the VO will turn out to be less animeish than expected.

Skins Project2 votes

Soooo...

You admitted it yourself...

crowd that sucks down... is huge

So, what makes YOUR opinion more important then EVERYONE who "sucks down anime edgelord shit"

Warlord Dienekes3 votes

While I'm not justifying Repti's tone here. There is something to be said of watching something you love take steps further and further away from what you like about it, and instead pandering to the majority. It can be painful, and annoying. And people will lash out under those circumstances. Hell I know I do whenever the direction for the new Pantheon comes up.

TheDevice1 votes

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While I'm not justifying Repti's tone here. There is something to be said of watching something you love take steps further and further away from what you like about it, and instead pandering to the majority. It can be painful, and annoying. And people will lash out under those circumstances. Hell I know I do whenever the direction for the new Pantheon comes up.

HOW IS IT PANDERING TO THE MAJORITY>

Look at the majority of champions and tell me that Riot is pandering to the anime crowd. Name how many characters are some edgelord weebo tropes? Go ahead and list ALLLLLLL these champions lol

The real fanservice Riot does is to people like you. Thats a fact. One weebo champ gets released and you throw a fit lol

Warlord Dienekes1 votes

I'm not throwing a fit? I honestly don't really care if there are anime influences in the game or not. I mean, I don't particularly find them interesting. But then I don't find most of the champions interesting, that's why I play very few of them. You're the one who decided it was best to shout your opinions in all caps and exaggerations.

But, if you want Weeb influences champions, well, just going off of the recent releases you got the new guy, the current law/chaos skins, Yasuo in general, God Lee Sin, and the Star Guardian Line.

When was the last time they released a historical champion, or skin?

The Whamboozler1 votes

Don't bother Warlord... people like him are half the problem. Screaming you down if you don't care for the things they like. The anime aesthetic is everywhere in league... but this guy likes it, so he doesn't care if anyone else doesn't.

Lux is a magical girl. LITERALLY in one of her skins.

The entire academy skin line is anime as fuck.

Every single champ from Ionia.

Bard is straight out of a Studio Ghibli production.

Jhin is Ionian. Why? He's an artist and a serial killer... could have been from ANYWHERE. But they just had to make the mofo Ionian and have his rivals be the freakin' ninjas. Cause when I think mass-murderering psycho with a gun and a mask, I think of ninjas.

Ahri... and thanks to the new lore making the vastaya exist (In Ionia, of course) every single vastayan champ are now animal-spirit things straight out of asian mythology.

Syndra. Ionian. Her theme is "unlimited power corrupts" basically... but she had to be Ionian. Why?

Aurelion Sol? Definitely a chinese-style serpent dragon. His concept was originally MORE SO when he was named Ao Shin and he was a storm dragon.

Riven. Not actually from Ionia, but still super-weeb bait... heavily tied to Yasuo in her lore. Assaulted Ionia and is still emo about it.

Taliya. Fluffed as egyptian-inspired but she is LITERALLY a character out of Avatar: the last airbender... which is an anime (I don't care if it's not made it japan. It's a freaking anime.) and 110% about asian cultures too. I loved that show... but it doesn't mean Taliya is a historical or western-themed character.

Ezreal is basically the main character of an anime as well. Give him black hair and he's every light novel protagonist you've ever seen.

It goes on and on. And I'm not even saying asian or anime influences are BAD. I've liked a few animes. But I am god-damned entitled to dislike something too, and this fucking edgelord could have been a TON of other, better things if the need to spill anime all over everything wasn't a thing. Demacia is facist and super traditional (nevermind that several champions were accepted by Demacia despite their odd origins and they USED to be more tolerant... Xin, Sona, Alistar, etc)... we gotta make things more grey. Noxus is the obligatory evil nation. Bilgewater is brutal anarchy. but Ionia is a spiritual land of people who are better than you... with one or two bad eggs kinda half-mentioned. Ionia is also the leading exporter of obnoxious resourceless AD jackoffs that drive everyone insane with their mobility and overloaded kits.

Yasuo has gotten around what? Four new skins since release? Five? Zac? None. Illaoi. None. Tahm Kench? None. The bias is obvious and it's not even personal. They're printing what sells... and the weeb crowd is HUGE.

But god damn it, I am still allowed to be annoyed that they wasted the "badass fighter with a scythe" thing on some anime douchebag from freaking bleach... because they will NEVER make another badass fighter with a scythe! So now if I want to play that archetype, I gotta play the obnoxious fuckin' edgelord. And another cool idea is sucked into the void of generic anime garbage to appeal to the crowd.

Skins Project1 votes

Look I get that your pissed.

So I feel like your being a bit biased here,

Ionia is a spiritual land of people who are better than you...

Ionia as I see it is can be described as the wildlands, or basically a neutral area that is still un-developed (at least to the degree of tech as of the moment in lore e.g. Demacia)

this guy likes it, so he doesn't care if anyone else doesn't.

Legit turn it around

this guy doesn't like it, so he doesn't care if anyone else does.

I'm not sure if that's where you are? But that is the attitude I'm getting from you.

Beyond that where exactly did you want to have the badass fighter with a scythe? What would you recommend here? It feels very suiting considering the conditions.

Beyond that you know that asian and anime aren't the same thing right? Alot of this comes out as flat out rude, considering your classifying everything as "animeesk" when your only explanation is, "asian"

The Whamboozler1 votes

Dude... TELL me that Kayn doesn't have an edgelord anime thing going on. Go on. Tell me with a straight face.

And don't pull that "omg, he didn't like a thing from another culture... RACIST!". That's just a cheap tactic to shout down people's opinions by trying to accuse them of shit that's a hot button topic.

When I think of Scythes... do you know what I think of? The grim fucking reaper. Dark, gothic horror. Maybe a farm (y'know... where they actually USED scythes) or a scarecrow theme.

I could remake this dude in thirty different ways. Can you honestly not imagine how "fighter guy with a demonic scythe" can be anything except an anime-inspired bishonen? Really?

Ok... just off the top of my head. He's a nobleman from Noxus who is frustrated that Noxus has taken a stomping recently (they always get played as the token bad guys in league vids and thus, usually lose). They lost against Ionia (because of course Ionia was the poor victim dontchaknow) and they're struggling against Demacia... yadda yadda. So he does his research about shit and hears about an ancient artifact of immense power that lies in the Shadow Isles. You know... the kind of place a "death-themed weapon" might feel right? He ventures there secretly against his better judgement and loses his entire force along the way fighting off the various horrors of the shadow isles... slow and stubbornly attempting to make his way to the damned thing. Refusing to turn back and make it all a waste of time. Only his most loyal right hand man remains by his side... a loyal soldier and servant he's known for most of his life. The rest of his soldiers attempt to mutiny and desert him because they think he's mad. Only the warning and support of his loyal man saves him and they're forced to kill the rest of his soldiers to save themselves.

Injured, almost alone and half-mad... the two men stumble into a cave that is supposed to contain the great power he's sought and bled and murdered his own soldiers for.... only to find it empty. As he wails and slams his fists against the stone and his servant tries to calm him down, he hears a voice. It tells him that the power can be his if he offers it a price. A single life, sacrificed on the cave floor. He seems to calm down, and as his man is distracted trying to think of how they might be able to escape the place and make it back home, he lunges in and strangles the only man that stood by him to death with his bare hands. The servant doesn't even fight back as shocked as he is with the betrayal. The scythe appears and the voice in his head laughs wickedly, mocking him. "If you were truly a man of conviction, you would have offered your own life! Be rewarded as a coward deserves!" Then he is possessed by the force he fed the entire way here... death. The Scythe.

Bam! A more interesting character idea than the edgy freakin weeblord. Dark and doomed by his own stubbornness to push on at the cost of his people's lives. Hell, he could be from ANYWHERE and have that same backstory. A guy who disregards the lives of others in pursuit of power, then regrets it when it consumes him. He'd even still be pretty edgy, what with lines like "This isn't what I wanted!" or the demon's voice mocking him for his weakness. Gothic horror is still pretty dark and even edgy... kinda. It's about tormented characters and bleak shit... humanity failing or acting on horrible impulses and biases. People cursed for their own failings or awful acts. But it would be something more interesting than some shirtless pretty boy being an arrogant dick to everyone while showing off his mad anime skillz.

I don't really know how to explain it. New Sion was a good example of what I'm talking about tho. He was a horrible murderous brute and now he's an undead monster... but he has moments of "what am I?" where he dimly realizes he's basically a slave and a monster. He was rewarded for being a butcher and a juggernaut by... not being allowed to rest peacefully after his death. He's a liiiitle tragic.. even if he is an irredeemable monster. No one could argue he didn't deserve it a little, but being trapped in an eternal hell of undeath by others who only need a beast of war? THAT is gothic horror. That's the kind of shit I was hoping for when they finally made a champion with a scythe.

Instead I got some generic arrogant bishonen from bleach. Pardon me if I'm not thrilled over it.

TheDevice2 votes

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Dude... TELL me that Kayn doesn't have an edgelord anime thing going on. Go on. Tell me with a straight face.

And don't pull that "omg, he didn't like a thing from another culture... RACIST!". That's just a cheap tactic to shout down people's opinions by trying to accuse them of shit that's a hot button topic.

When I think of Scythes... do you know what I think of? The grim fucking reaper. Dark, gothic horror. Maybe a farm (y'know... where they actually USED scythes) or a scarecrow theme.

Wait.. a demon infused scythe trying to take over its wielder isn't dark, gothic, or horroir-ish? ..o-kay... And yeah.. a farmer would be super cool! Oh-wait! No it wouldnt! Scarecrow with a scythe..... why does that sound so familiar? Fiddlesticks Oh so there you have it! Your perfect scythe wielding guy! Was a champ all along.

I could remake this dude in thirty different ways. Can you honestly not imagine how "fighter guy with a demonic scythe" can be anything except an anime-inspired bishonen? Really?

Bishonen. You're upset because he's... pretty? Well fuck man how come we haven't been bitching about all the good looking chicks in the game!?! Lets me and you start a whole new thread about how the chicks in this game are too fucking goo looking.

Ok... just off the top of my head. He's a nobleman from Noxus who is frustrated that Noxus has taken a stomping recently (they always get played as the token bad guys in league vids and thus, usually lose). They lost against Ionia (because of course Ionia was the poor victim dontchaknow) and they're struggling against Demacia... yadda yadda. So he does his research about shit and hears about an ancient artifact of immense power that lies in the Shadow Isles. You know... the kind of place a "death-themed weapon" might feel right? He ventures there secretly against his better judgement and loses his entire force along the way fighting off the various horrors of the shadow isles... slow and stubbornly attempting to make his way to the damned thing. Refusing to turn back and make it all a waste of time. Only his most loyal right hand man remains by his side... a loyal soldier and servant he's known for most of his life. The rest of his soldiers attempt to mutiny and desert him because they think he's mad. Only the warning and support of his loyal man saves him and they're forced to kill the rest of his soldiers to save themselves.

Cool. So you're upset he's Inoian? lol. You're actually making me laugh a little. If Riot just told you he was not from Ionia but originally from Noxus, you'd feel better?

Also, this is a leak and a champ who's not had their lore fully released yet due to an early reveal.

Injured, almost alone and half-mad... the two men stumble into a cave that is supposed to contain the great power he's sought and bled and murdered his own soldiers for.... only to find it empty. As he wails and slams his fists against the stone and his servant tries to calm him down, he hears a voice. It tells him that the power can be his if he offers it a price. A single life, sacrificed on the cave floor. He seems to calm down, and as his man is distracted trying to think of how they might be able to escape the place and make it back home, he lunges in and strangles the only man that stood by him to death with his bare hands. The servant doesn't even fight back as shocked as he is with the betrayal. The scythe appears and the voice in his head laughs wickedly, mocking him. "If you were truly a man of conviction, you would have offered your own life! Be rewarded as a coward deserves!" Then he is possessed by the force he fed the entire way here... death. The Scythe.

Ohhhhh. Now I now. You just want him to be the Grim fucking reaper guy. Thats it. That's what alllllll this is about. Realllllllllyyyy superrr duper original. The GRIM REAPER. Wow.....

Bam! A more interesting character idea than the edgy freakin weeblord. Dark and doomed by his own stubbornness to push on at the cost of his people's lives. Hell, he could be from ANYWHERE and have that same backstory. A guy who disregards the lives of others in pursuit of power, then regrets it when it consumes him. He'd even still be pretty edgy, what with lines like "This isn't what I wanted!" or the demon's voice mocking him for his weakness. Gothic horror is still pretty dark and even edgy... kinda. It's about tormented characters and bleak shit... humanity failing or acting on horrible impulses and biases. People cursed for their own failings or awful acts. But it would be something more interesting than some shirtless pretty boy being an arrogant dick to everyone while showing off his mad anime skillz.

So instead of a shirtless (also seems to trigger you for some reason) pretty boy (super triggers) being an arrogant dick (what?) to everyone while showing off his mad anime skillz, he'd be an ugly, fully shrouded, beefy edgelord with scars and a sourpuss face who instead has the grim reaper in this weapon instead of a more original, Riot-themed demon inside it, while showing off his mad power ranger skillz. Or his mad, uh, mortal kombat skillz. I mean what exactly defines an "anime skill" anways lol. Do you even know?

I don't really know how to explain it. New Sion was a good example of what I'm talking about tho. He was a horrible murderous brute and now he's an undead monster... but he has moments of "what am I?" where he dimly realizes he's basically a slave and a monster. He was rewarded for being a butcher and a juggernaut by... not being allowed to rest peacefully after his death. He's a liiiitle tragic.. even if he is an irredeemable monster. No one could argue he didn't deserve it a little, but being trapped in an eternal hell of undeath by others who only need a beast of war? THAT is gothic horror. That's the kind of shit I was hoping for when they finally made a champion with a scythe.

You don't like his personality? What is his personality? Have we any footage of it? Do we even know? No. So its not his personality. You're lying. It must be... again... the shirtless cute(what?)-guy look. Well then my friend. As I've said, lets go make that new thread that trashes every single female in this fucking game right now

Instead I got some generic arrogant bishonen from bleach. Pardon me if I'm not thrilled over it.

Melledoneus22 votes

Make the weapon turn into a military chick and we break the anime barrier.

Mordepool13 votes

Scantily clad Military chick

FTFY

AwesomeGuyDj3 votes

But make sure she's sexy idiot with unrealistic boob physics. And kayn has unrealistic powers that he uses and breaks the rules off at the will of plot convenience

subhuman team XD4 votes

im glad you made hidan playable ingame , thanks :D

StarGuardianWeeb12 votes

Look at my username

Good, now just know i mean it when I say, thank you Riot I love him already.

When will he get a Star Guardian skin?

Sharjo31 votes

How anime SHOULD he be? Dude his gameplay fantasy is literally, and I quote "Edgelord Assassin".

He BLEEDS anime. He's more anime than Nightbringer Yasuo.

Lady Faceless6 votes

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How anime SHOULD he be? Dude his gameplay fantasy is literally, and I quote "Edgelord Assassin".

He BLEEDS anime. He's more anime than Nightbringer Yasuo.

I swear to god, I have the feeling I become too old for this fandom, the edgeness is killing me.

Sharjo9 votes

That's why when I get to play Kayn I'll only ever play as Rhaast, because seeing the edgelord Kayn fail and die as a result just fills me with glee!

Lady Faceless1 votes

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That's why when I get to play Kayn I'll only ever play as Rhaast, because seeing the edgelord Kayn fail and die as a result just fills me with glee!

Sounds like I thing I would also do. However, I just don't like playing assa at all.

Sharjo1 votes

If I recall Rhaast's a skirmisher, not an assassin. Could be wrong though.

Lady Faceless1 votes

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If I recall Rhaast's a skirmisher, not an assassin. Could be wrong though.

I still feel stupid since I really don't understand the whole subclass anyway. But tbh, I'm a support and classic mage main - so probably won't have any interest at learning him since he probably won't fit my playstyle at all. And I'm incredible picky about my champion, I mean I have only 17 champion with mastery points at all and 6 of them with at Mastery Level 7. So yeah, still probably won't play him.

Sharjo1 votes

Dude I have 3 champions with mastery level 7, all supports. One with level 6, a support. I feel you.

Lady Faceless2 votes

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Dude I have 3 champions with mastery level 7, all supports. One with level 6, a support. I feel you.

Support Mains ftw! Jep, pretty much the same. 6 of 5 are supporter (Nami, Janna, Leona, Braum & Rakan) and only one mage (my beloved Syndra). I don't see any reason to change it, however I actually thinking about expand my support pool (currently thinking about picking Thresh, Soraka & Sona up as well).

Krabohod1 votes

Every champ could be support if you are brave enough :)

Lady Faceless2 votes

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Every champ could be support if you are brave enough :)

Death is the best CC.

OurLestrade13 votes

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I swear to god, I have the feeling I become to old for this fandom, this edgeness is killing me.

I've been begging for a grizzled old man Noxian sergeant support for eons, latest support I got was an anime pretty boy. I'm still pretty irritated :P

Lady Faceless9 votes

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I've been begging for a grizzled old man Noxian sergeant support for eons, latest support I got was an anime pretty boy. I'm still pretty irritated :P

I fully agree, there is my goddamit void support?!

Rakan is fun to play, tho... his character however is so annoying, argh.

ProtestantCaesar7 votes

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grizzled old man Noxian sergeant support

Have you tried playing Kled support?

I haven't either, but do you really think Kled hasn't ever obtained the rank of drill sergeant?

MankeyMadness11 votes

Literally Ichigo

Werwar10 votes

He's way to edgy, I hope they stop this edgyness. This season has been nothing but "edgy" releases, and its pushing me away from the game itself. Wheres my yordle/void/shadowisles/monster champions? Or lore skins, or just regular themes that arent duskbringer or godfist.

also Hi Vladf*g

TheDevice2 votes

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He's way to edgy, I hope they stop this edgyness. This season has been nothing but "edgy" releases, and its pushing me away from the game itself. Wheres my yordle/void/shadowisles/monster champions? Or lore skins, or just regular themes that arent duskbringer or godfist.

also Hi Vladf*g

What edgy releases? Tell me the "edgy" releases? One champion, and you're having a hissy fit? They just released a yordle. They just released TWO champions that are fairy people who are constantly gushing lovey dovey awkwardness all over each other in a video game. One champion is edgy and its pushing you away lol. When I hear people make these kinds of statements they remind me of the crazy religious old woman who listens to nothing but church radio all day and has their livingroom furniture covered in plastic. Probably has some porcelain ducks and flowers on everything.

How is Godfist edgy?

Its funny because some people like edgy stuff lol.

Look at the latest champions.... 2 fairy people, a happy tree, a yordle who's pretty much Yosemite Sam, a rock chick straight out of the Last Airbender, and a floaty dragon who kinda reminds me of the genie in Aladdin. (all really cool champions btw :D good work riot) Not edgy aside from maybe Camille. Xayah Rakan Camille Ivern Kled Taliyah AurelionSol

AirKingNeo4 votes

Xayah is super edgy.

DemiMax1 votes

I don't think it's so much about the edgyness, even though it's a factor and over 9000 with this guy. I believe it's more about the fact that he gives a vybe of being quite generic and cliché in a way, and if you watch even a bit of anime you will notice these easily. He is way to much fanservice for my taste (pls don't bring up big titties champs as other fanservice examples( like Ahri and MissFortune ). Do i like boobs? Yes. Do I think its too much? Yes. Okay, you may not bring it up but someone will and i want it out of the way. Done). He appeals to a certain demographic too much as if Riot was pointing the finger saying " You, YES YOU , forget about your Rivens and Yasuos, this is your next main." It feels like he is the next moneymaker/precious champion for Riot the same way Yasuo Riven Ahri and a few others are/were.

This may come as overly agressive and I'm sorry but it's just the only way i find to say these things and reading it again i realize that some might interpret this as agressive, I just want to say that this is not my inent at all.

Ralanr2 votes

He looks like an edgy shounen anime protagonist in a shounen manga that's trying to look seinen.

Really the freaking scythe sells it the most. Scythes are terrible weapons with how they are shaped. To use them in battle, peasants would angle the blade upward for more of a cleaving cut.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Polish_scythemen_1863.PNG/250px-Polish_scythemen_1863.PNG

Like so.

r4ndomkill8 votes

i mean the dudes edgy as fuck but if your gonna start complaining about weapon choices now it might be a little late we have a character that shoots feathers, literal feathers.

TheDevice1 votes

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i mean the dudes edgy as fuck but if your gonna start complaining about weapon choices now it might be a little late we have a character that shoots feathers, literal feathers.

THANK GOD.

This guy gets it. The game is fantasy.

Ralanr3 votes

Eh, you can fluff magic feathers as throwing knives so it doesn't bother me.

Thilmer8 votes

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i mean the dudes edgy as fuck but if your gonna start complaining about weapon choices now it might be a little late we have a character that shoots feathers, literal feathers.

We already have a champion with a scythe, but for some reason he manages to use it as a FRIGGING RANGED WEAPON. Fiddlesticks

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