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Say hello to K’Sante. He’s a brand new addition to the League of Legends roster and according to his stats, he’s terrifying to face off against. K’Sante hails from an independent southern city-state within the greater Shurima region. Even though this city-state, Nazumah, has managed to remain independent from the Shurima and Ixtal, it’s surrounded by monsters. This is apparently not a bad thing, however, and seems to serve as part of K’Sante’s abilities as a Warden. 

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K’Sante and his fellow Nazumah-ites don’t seem to scare easily and end up using the hides of the terrifying monsters to craft armor, and their bones to make weapons. Riot recently gave us a cinematic look at the tanky new LoL legend, and we’ve also now got a full list of his abilities. 

As mentioned above, K’Sante is a Warden. Warden basically tells you that he’s part of League’s protective crew. He carries twin weapons crafted from monster hide and bones, and if he uses his Ultimate, he morphs into a Skirmisher. At this point, he can dive and hunt his enemy down with animalistic precision. 

Here are K’Sante’s abilities:

Ultimate: All Out – K’Sante will shatter his weapons and knock his enemy back while dealing damage. If his enemies hit a wall, they’ll take even more damage and be briefly stunned. K’Sante will also dash after his target and, for an extended duration, he will go All Out, as the name of the ability implies. 

Dauntless Instinct – This is his passive ability. This ability lets K’Sante mark his enemies. If he then attacks marked enemies, he will deal more damage. He’ll deal even more damage with this ability when he’s All Out. 

Ntofo Strikes – With this ability, K’Sante will slam his weapon down, creating a small area around him within which targets will take damage. He can also fire a shockwave that pulls enemies towards himself. 

Pathmaker – This is K’Sante’s defensive stance. With this ability, he will become both an unstoppable force and an immovable object. He’ll deal max health damage if he rams enemies with this ability, and he’ll knock them back and stun them as he passes through them. 

Footwork – With this ability, K’Sante will gain a shield while dashing. An ally can gain protection from the shield too, if K’Sante dashes toward them. This personifies his role as a protective force. 

We’re excited to try K’Sante and his abilities out from the 3rd of November. 
In other LoL news, Riot is launching a new free-to-play experience currently known as League of Legends Project L.

This isn’t Riot’s first adventure with free-to-play games, as fans of League of Legends and Valorant will know. The upcoming 2D fighting game from the LoL universe, Project L, will also cost you nothing unless, of course, you buy in-game items. As an exciting update, the champion Illaoi will be one of the selectable characters.

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The news follows an update by the developer and publisher, Riot Games. The plan was always to keep the game free while allowing players to buy extra items if they wish. Tom Cannon, the executive producer for Project L, says that they’ll be considerate when asking for your money. They want to ensure that the main focus is on the game and not profits. 

As for the champion Illaoi, a recent blog post shows the lengthy process when deciding on and developing a character for Project L. Once the team has decided which character to work on next from the roster of fighters, there’s a lot to be done. Team meetings are abundant, tasks are handed out in quick succession, and there’s loads of project management happening between various disciplines. 

It’s impressive to see how much thinking goes into a champion like Illaoi for the Project L fighting game. Some of the factors include themes, archetypes, fight fantasy, race, personality, and more. That means we’re bound to receive more lore and origin stories for the characters than we currently see in League of Legends.

It’s almost as exciting as when League of Legends: Wild Rift introduced new champions and content last month. If the development blog is anything to go by, Project L is bound to be one fantastic 2D fantasy fighting game.

Riot Games has officially announced all of the new content coming to League of Legends in the Wild Rift update. Besides numerous new skins, the upcoming update 3.3 will also feature new events, a new game mode, wild pass, champions, items, and much more. 

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The new Wild Rift update to League of Legends will change a good deal about the game. As of the update, Elemental Rift will become the official default map for all Summoner’s Rift game modes. Upon the start of each game, the terrain map will also change to one of the elements. This way, the Elemental Rift update will satisfy player agency and the team goals associated therewith. 

The update also introduces active item swapping which will increase player flexibility as far as enchantments are concerned. Players don’t need to sell their boots to change to a different active through the shop, although this will initiate a short cooldown for your active and cost you some gold.

You’ll also be able to play around with the new Repulsor Enchant which will knock enemies back within a small area around you. It’ll also knock you back if you’re anywhere near the blast. 

Here is a list of all the new skins that will be added alongside Season 6:

• Star Guardian Ahri
• Star Guardian Miss Fortune
• Redeemed Star Guardian Rakan
• Star Guardian Orianna
• Star Guardian Rakan
• Redeemed Star Guardian Xayah
• Star Guardian Senna
• Star Guardian Seraphine
• Glorious Crimson Fiora
• Star Guardian Xayah
• Stargazer Karma
• God Fist Lee Sin
• Dragon Trainer Tristana
• Beekeeper Singed
• Harbinger Kassadin
• Pool Party Caitlyn
• Pool Party Graves
• Warmonger Sion
• Pool Party Dr. Mundo
• Pool Party Ziggs
• Warring Kingdoms Katarina
• PsyOps Kayle
• PsyOps Master Yi
• Warring Kingdoms Jarvan IV
• PsyOps Samira
• PsyOps Zed
• Warring Kingdoms Katarina
• Lunar Goddess Diana

We’ll also get a new Wild Pass with the update, which will allow you to obtain level 50. As seen above, Star Guardian also joins the Wild Rift update and you will now be able to collect Star Candies and other unique loot during event participation.

You’ll be able to track your mission completion and token collection during event participation with the Redeemed Star Guardian event pass and you’ll be able to pick up extra tokens at the store.

That’s all we have for you on the new Wild Rift update. The update is available on mobile devices now and you can download it directly from our website. In other Riot news, the developer is looking to slow down the League of Legends combat pace.

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League of Legends is known as being a really fast-paced battle experience, and while many enjoy that the average duration for a team fight these days is around 14 seconds, Riot recently alluded to the fact that the uptick in gameplay speed may have been an overcorrection. The studio has also announced that they intend to ‘slow the pace of combat’ in the coming changes. 

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We’re 13 years into League of Legends’ lifespan now, and, understandably, this isn’t your older brother’s LoL anymore. Gone are the days where team fights could keep you busy for as long as a full minute, and the entire game seems to have undergone a massive shift toward much shorter durations of combat. A recent Reddit thread acknowledges this change that has occurred within the game over the years and even saw the leading gameplay designer at Riot, Bryan Salvatore, known on Reddit as Riot Axes, address possible changes in the game’s future surrounding its fast-paced nature. When posed a question about time-to-kill in League of Legends matches, Ryan had the following to say:

‘We believe League of Legends is best when it is on average be[ing] fast-paced and exciting. But yeah I think it would be fair to say it has overcorrected towards damage, which is hitting away at clarity (‘I can tell what just killed me’ / ‘I can tell what I should have done differently’) and skill expression (‘That assassin/mage hit their whole kit, so they earned the kill’).’

Salvatore also pointed out that Riot’s primary focus at this stage has nothing to do with mage supports. He went further to say that even though the mages’ damage output could be construed as outsized, it’s not a new concept within the context of the game and is ‘not the cause for any recent damage creep.’ 

In another statement, Salvatore said: ‘Allowing players to pick damage-oriented supports and get enough gold to really scale with them was a major part of the changes that ultimately solved support autofill problems and we’d be hesitant to go back on those. We’d prefer to tune durability around the reality that many teams swap a defensive character (support or tank) for a damage dealing one and balance the two approaches against each other.’ 

As of yet, we have no established timeline for when the intended changes could hit the game. But one thing Salvatore was clear on is that the studio would reveal more information ‘within the next few weeks.’

While you wait for Riot to release more on the changes they intend to make to LoL gameplay, why not delve headfirst into our tips and tricks for League of Legends?

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