What exactly do the Shadow Arts DO?

HudnofskiBleh·7/1/2018, 4:51:45 PM·3 votes·4,718 views

So, I'm making a DnD campaign based on League Lore. Atm, It's taking place in Ionia, and I have Zed as the main antagonist. That makes me curious as to how Shadow Arts actually work... Do you require the life energy of others to power them? And there seem to be different ways that Shadow Arts actually work in practice. Zed's Clones, Death Mark, Kayn going through walls, turning into shadow, etc. What exactly qualifies as Shadow Art? Is it mostly just anything that revolves around using other's life energy? Nothing has been explained specifically, unless I'm just missing something. Anybody know anything on this subject?

3 Comments

GreenLore7/1/2018, 8:14:31 PM2 votes

From what we know I think it is pretty likely that the shadow arts increase in strenght the more you kill. There is a guy in the color story in Xayah&Rakan that mentions having fed his blade multiple souls and Zed also got the ability to gain strength based on his victims(Kayn also gather energy by dealing damage).

As far as abilities go I'd say that making shadow clones and transforming oneself into a shadow are pretty notable as both Zed and Kayn have such abilities(Zed and Kayn essentially use the same move for their ults).

Overall I think you might get some clearer answers about this when the Akali VGU comes out(which will likely be released in july),as that one will probably focus around the kinkou order and the order of the shadows.

Camille Ferrøs7/1/2018, 6:28:24 PM1 votes

We know almost nothing about the shadow magic but we might get some info with Akali's rework

Chembaron Yamada7/2/2018, 9:45:58 PM1 votes

https://img6.androidappsapk.co/300/d/f/2/com.joobarr.shadowplay.png

While this might be the scariest application, at least for me it seems that Shadow Arts allow you to travel in space, most likely using mentioned shadows. Zed is creating clones of himself with his shadow and is able to switch with them and Kayns ability to move through walls I would canonically interpret as he can fuse with the shadow on a wall and travel that way.

Probably same principle for his ult. He fuses with your shadow, then emerges and strikes you at the same time.