Cassiopeia started out as a beautiful woman, but after getting bit by something while raiding a tomb, she was transformed into a deadly creature who uses poison to kill her enemies. Just like the mythical Medusa, Cass’ lower body is that of a snake’s, and she can turn others to stone whenever she uses her ultim

This pales, of course, in comparison to these new allegations. The amount of detail that has gone into this meticulous recreation of Stephanie’s photos, faces, hair, hobbies, and personality is frankly sick. It’s the kind of behavior movies like Chasing Amy show as an irrevocably creepy and bad thing to do to somebody, only with millions of more dollars at stake. What Riot has essentially done here is been complicit in the strange, obsessive behavior of a woman’s ex so they could profit directly from

However, no canned corporate apology can take the place of common sense, and I’d hazard to guess most rational people can see through Riot’s denial. The writing is on the wall, and in the court of public opinion, it spells out a pretty grim message. It’s hard to read through Stephanie’s account and walk away with anything other than disgust at how stressful and dehumanizing this experience has been for her. A real flesh and blood person has been distilled down into a hollow facsimile, then sold for more profit than most of us will ever seen in our lives. It’s nauseating on every possible le

Of course, this is far from the only problem with Seraphine. The character came under fire last month, when her lore made her an active beneficiary of in-world genocide . That was only a small part of the outrage, however, as the real focus was on Seraphine’s disturbing Twitter account . The branded account tweeted like it had feelings, trying to play up the character’s interpersonal struggles and lack of self-confidence like a cutesy marketing point. It was pretty gross, to say the very least, and hit a sour note during a time when everyone is suffering through a global pande

I say this because not only did Riot put the character in the game, but they’ve since brushed off Stephanie’s claims as mere coincidence. They’ve denied that Seraphine is based on anyone , in fact, in a statement given to PC Ga

If these warriors were to ever meet, they would probably have a lot of respect for one another, but if they were to fight Kratos would demolish him because aside from the axe, Darius is nothing more than an ordinary human, which means that Kratos can end him with a single pu

** Max Grossman: ** It was very much a gameplay-first situation, and the fantasy of Killjoy being this young, bot lane Synergy hotshot German engineer came after the fact. Many of our characters went that same way. We tend to start with gameplay mechanics first, especially since the game was in development for a very long time. Killjoy is one of the oldest characters in the whole roster, and she went through quite a few different iterations before we got to the final one. We test a toolkit first and experiment with varying ideas of gameplay. Or at least what we think is going to work. Then, during that initial prototyping, we try to figure out what «theme» appeals to that gameplay fant

Sol is a massive celestial dragon who has suns circling his body, so it is highly unlikely that he will be hurt by any of Kratos’ God weapons. Kratos may be a God, but even he can’t survive a blast of pure starfire which is roughly 100,000 degr

Second, this isn’t the first time Seraphine has been allegedly inspired by a real person. Jeevun Sidhu, a senior designer at Riot, tweeted out that the character is actually based on his partner – something that Stephanie has acknowledged . When that story went around, though, Riot didn’t issue some weak tea statement about the character not being based on anybody. It was only when they were called out by very compelling evidence that they said literally anything about it, likely in fear over another Edgar Davids situati

Her heavy-hitters come from her other skills. Her Double Up (S1) damages an enemy in front of her and crits a target behind them. Meanwhile, Make It Rain (S3) deals AOE damage and slows enemies. Lastly, Bullet Time (Ult) unleashes an AOE in a cone that deals a ton of dam

He may look innocent, but Teemo is actually one of the most annoying and despised champions in the game, and like Cass his weapon of choice is poison. Teemo can fill the battlefield with invisible poisonous mushrooms that explode on cont

This claim is curious for two reasons. First, the idea that an employee who left over a year ago couldn’t have had input on a character released in 2020 is absurd. Game development is a protracted process by its very nature, and many developers do work on games that they don’t stay the full course for. It’s plausible that a bunch of the design work for Seraphine was in the can last year, and she just now got put into the g

Over the course of a decade, League of Legends has become one of the most played games in the world, and it now has more than 150 champions, all of whom have their own designated role, as well as their own set of abilities. Every single one of these champions is powerful, but there are some who simply tower over the r