Nasus has a brother, and he’s not a dog! Amazing stuff, no? Riot’s just released the Champion Sneak Peek for next week’s champion, Renekton, the Eater of Souls. Here’s the official blurb:
Lately, we’ve seen quite a few sibling duos enter the League of Legends. While Garen and Lux may have been the first to make membership in the League a familial affair, since then Cassiopeia and Katarina have been making a point of highlighting the importance of good genes. Of course, not all families get along, and if we’re going to broach the subject of sibling rivalry there’s probably no better place to start than with Nasus’ brother Renekton, the Eater of Souls. We’re personally not sure that we’ve ever seen a fraternal relationship with more animosity (no pun intended).
You want to know why Nasus and Renekton don’t get along? They have different dads, and Nasus knows it. I’ll be curious to see where Riot goes with this pairing. While Garen and Lux didn’t necessarily have similar skills, their skills worked well together and they had similar art design. I’m not sure what similarities exist between Katarina and Cassiopeia. Their ults do work well together, it’s just that Cassiopeia’s skill ceiling is somewhere in the stratosphere.
I’d love to see Renekton and Nasus share thematic similarities, but their fraternal bonds will probably only extend to the art design. Let’s face it, Nasus has one of the least cooperative playstyles in the game. He’s basically a solo farmer who, if he shows up for teammates, you can’t really remember what he did. He’s great at pushing, and his ult looks awesome, but I never walk away from a Nasus game thinking, wow, we could never have done that without a giant, bipedal dog on the team.
