Upcoming Champion: Leona, the Radiant Dawn
Riot has a small force at E3 this year, mostly there to show off Yorick and tease a few new champions leading up to Dreamhack. Among the champion teasers is Leona, the Radiant Dawn. Leona is a direct response to the community requests for a female champion. She sports a traditional sword and shield, though it sounds like she’ll harness the power of the sun to control her enemies.
Riot hasn’t said much about her skillset, other than a potential ultimate idea, which is that she would summon a beam of light on an area that sort of detonates after a couple seconds, stunning anyone still in the beam. If I heard correctly on the video from Gamespot, someone likened the skill to the Hammer of Dawn in Gears of War. Sounds like it will look really good, and probably function a bit like Amumu’s ult, which is one of the strongest in the game.
On the whole, Leona looks like a pretty cool champion. I like seeing more traditional tanks added to the game. It means good things for balance, or so we can hope.
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The Hammer of Dawn was a fun weapon. I’m curious as to if it includes channeling, movement restriction, and mouse-over targetting.
I’m waiting for the day when a League of Legends toon has an ult that triggers an audio response in EVERY player’s client that screams, “NUCLEAR LAUNCH DETECED.”
If this is that toon, then it’d be totally appropriate: Yorick would be summoning a (SC) ghost to follow him.
I’m hoping the ult looks something like this:
http://www.gamer-source.com/image/member/screenshot/474.jpg
@withate, you’re right – does look like the Dark Avenger (tank class)… can’t remember the armor either 🙁