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Since Westerners are not yet in the Spring Festival, League of Legends is still updated as usual this week, and will soon usher in the 12.3 version of the update, which means that the 12.4 version of the test suit is also going online. And in this version, 159 new heroes of League of Legends, "Alchemy Lady Renata", are about to join the game!
Renata is a female hero who assists in positioning, she is from the Zuan region, and she is an alchemy baron who is proficient in alchemy technology and runs the Grasque industry. Apparently, Renata is the villain of the Zuan area, after all, there are many positive theme heroes in this area, and zeli, who recently joined, is dedicated to fighting against the Alchemy Baron. Zeri's short story mentions a female alchemical baron, apparently referring to Renata.
"Progress comes at a price, but no one wants to."
On the evening of February 1st, the League of Legends costume officially released the original painting of Renata and the accompanying skin art map, and the face of the new hero officially appeared in front of our eyes. Renata's art drawings are typical of Zuan's style, with many people wearing masks and armor, while Renata herself has silver and black hair, she has a pair of purple pupils, and her face is obscured by a silver gas mask.
Renata's clothing design is somewhat similar to Finn in the animated series "The Battle of Two Cities", and it seems that the aesthetic of the Alchemy Baron is similar. The white tight suit, paired with this little black vest, makes Renata look exhausting. Her right hand appeared to be a prosthetic structure, and the bones and flesh of her fingers had been filled with purple objects. Renata's own industry has studied prosthetic and human body strengthening techniques, and it is not surprising that they have been applied to herself.
We can see that Renata has a purple prop next to her, that is, her weapon, Renata is a ranged hero, the ranged skill is fired by this weapon, and she has a pistol around her waist. This original painting is a reflection of the water, so Renata appears in this angle of death.
Each new hero is accompanied by skins, and Renata's companion skin is the theme of the admiral, who transforms into a sassy general and stands on the battleship and looks into the distance. Renata in the art picture here looks like a 40-year-old middle-aged mother, and she shows her face, and the associated skin retains the character of silver hair and purple pupils.
She stood on the battleship to direct the battle, with some long-range gun designs around her, and Renata's skill set was long-range ballistics. It has to be said that this companion skin of Renata is very interesting, and her basic original painting is that since the different styles, there should also be changes in weapons. However, renata's two art drawings are both boss figures, and her future skin may be this hardcore woman style.
Although we don't yet know renata's specific attributes and skill set values, her skill set effect has been released.
The attack of the passive skill Renata deals additional damage and gives enemies a purple marker, and the attack of a friendly army can detonate the mark to deal damage. If the skill didn't have a built-in cooldown, Then Calista would have laughed.
The Q skill is to fire a missile, and if you hit an enemy, you can manipulate the target enemy to move in the direction you choose and deal damage, or stun if the target is a hero. This is a ballistic + pull hard control skill, somewhat similar to Svein's puller, enemies can use displacement to dodge, but if they hit it, they will eat control.
The W skill has two effects, the first is that Renata or friendly troops move towards the enemy, giving attack speed and movement speed bonuses, which is a very practical team battle buff effect. When a friend gains a kill or assist, it refreshes the duration of the buff effect. The second is that allies affected by the W skill will be briefly revived for 3 seconds after death, and if the friendly army kills an enemy hero during the resurrection, it can be fully revived.
The designer really did it out of the blue, and made the resurrection effect into a small skill, and Akshan directly cried and fainted in the toilet. This resurrection effect is a combined version of Thayne and Akshan, and it is estimated that the cooldown time of the W skill is relatively long, otherwise if it is triggered multiple times in team battles, it can bring obvious more fights and less hits. A few years ago, Yorick's big move was a similar effect, but it was eventually removed by the designer, and the recent alchemical dragon soul has been temporarily removed from the canyon due to the difficult balance of the resurrection mechanism.
The E skill is to fire multiple missiles, provide shields when hitting friendly forces, and deal damage and slow down when hitting enemies. When the missile reaches its maximum range, it explodes to produce the same effect. This skill can shield herself, since Renata is a ranged hero, she is unlikely to be a tank assist, if it is a crispy assist, Renata can consider the incense burner, she has multiple skills to give teammates buff effect.
R skill is to fire a cloud of chemicals, and all enemies who are killed go berserk, they will increase their attack speed, but are forced to attack all targets in front of them. An enemy character in the Fog state, the priority of the attack is friendly, neutral unit, Renata's teammate, and herself. This big move skill makes all the enemy characters lose their minds, after all, Renata is firing clouds in front of her, and judging from the preview video, this range is too large.
This is the real "charm" effect, allowing enemies to attack teammates, League of Legends is time to come up with this new forced fight control method, but it should be able to be removed with a mercury band. Heroes who come with their own unlocking, such as Planck and Olaf, are not afraid of this skill. If the enemy sees Renata unleash a big move and quickly pull away, it will be able to avoid civil war to the greatest extent.
Overall, Renata's skill set has some novel mechanics, League of Legends ranged assists generally don't have strong team control, and Nami and Salefani's control is not so stable. Renata's Q and R skills are very powerful means of control, can force opponents to do things, and can play a good role in interfering. Passive, W and E skills give teammates a BUFF effect, which can produce some suitable equipment for soft auxiliary heroes.
The designers should not have given Renata's skill the ability to quickly clear the line, otherwise the hero would have been developed as a single hero. After all, Kieran only has one Q skill to clear the line, and all players take it out to hit a single position.
The resurrection effect is not something scary, Akshan also has a resurrection effect, but the cooldown time is not so strong in actual combat is not clear, kieran also has a resurrection effect, but the game is still very unpopular. Compared to resurrecting teammates, the opponent directly dropped Renata in seconds. Since we can't accurately judge her intensity at the moment, since the designers dare to retain this mechanism, there must be some balance.
For example, the W skill has a long cooldown and a buff duration is short. The W skill must be a teammate who is subject to the buff effect to get revived, and if the W skill lasts a short time, it will eat the player's judgment time very much. Moreover, Renata's resurrected corpse state must inflict a kill or assist within 3 seconds to complete the resurrection. If you can kill enemies in these 3 seconds, the impact of full resurrection on team battles is not large.
Judging from Renata's hero trailer, she is an enemy who pursues pure best interests and can be used by anyone as a weapon, and Renata enjoys the thrill of dominating everything. Regardless of whether the other party is a Zuan or a Picheng, Renata does not count, "Lady Glask" is the person of the domineering female president, after all, she was very poor when she was a child, and this empire was built by her own ability.
If nine people end up in a wave of team battles, it's Renata who ends up. Renata will soon be joining the test suit, and we'll soon be able to get an idea of the true strength of this Zuan female villain, see if she's the perfect partner to be an ADC hero, or a controlling queen who makes enemies incredibly uncomfortable!