He is a mixed for me, Vars. He skipped leg day. That will make him inefficient when running it down.

I think K’Sante’s weapons transforming should have been a passive. As you fight more, they break more and you go from less tanky to more damaging. Back off, and it regenerates into what it was, but you don’t control it. This places a lot of importance on how long you should engage in a fight as the longer you’re in, the stronger you get, but the more risk you take. A simple but unique mechanic.

We said tank Yasuo as a joke, but he actually is really similar: Q - Small attack which CCs at the third cast W - Defensive ability that negates many champions E - Dashes R - Teleports behind an enemy champion, CCs them and gets an attack boost for a short time

Vars : "We don't have a tank champ who alternates between attack and defense stance" Udyr : Am I a joke to you ?

They created a specialist. He's in OTP territory. He won't see much popularity in the longterm, but the mains are going to be nuts on him.

I thought K'sante was going to be a jungler because of he being a monster hunter lol. I even imagine he transforming his weapons and his skils depending of wich large monster he kill

Kassadin mains gonna have a field trip with K'Sante.

I remember hearing once that the "counter" to max health true damage is to stack vampirism

I think he had a lot of potential being a tank/ bruiser hybrid, but his kit is way too similar to other characters', looking more like a mishmash than a champion.

I really thought his tonfas broke the longer he was in a fight , it would be cool if his ult had a 0 to 100 meter of "broken tonfa" and only when he meets that quota he can ult

I think why q is so alike between so many characters is part of their "playability amd accessibilty". They are keeping consistent mechanics between characters allowing a slightly easier means of learning a new character.

You should check out Aegislash in Pokémon Unite, the Pokémon MOBA. You brought him up in competitive Pokémon but the way they translate his lore/mainline play style into the MOBA game is absolutely genius!

I wish his transformation would've been like Gnar or Kled. Where dealing and taking damage would get you closer and closer to shattering (especially since that's literally what happens in his lore). It would also be cool because then he would be tanker at beginning of a fight and at the end he gets a damage boost to finish them off.

i also expected him to be a shapeshifter tank that can turn into a dps for a quick combo than go back to tanking.

Technicly old Olaf ult when activated was dropping added by it resistances in favour of more offense. So there was a champion which worked like you say in 3:20 .

Considering that they said "the tonfas would break into blades and heal back" i expected a passive similar to gnar where after some attacks the weapon would break and release the blades for short time and then heal back

His transformation could go with his passive based on landing so many empowered hits breaking off the outer parts of the tonfas

9:58 All Vandrill viewers were waiting for R on this funny looking pillar We all know that's gonna happen next

I just realized that in this year, we've had 3 Skirmishers released one after another. Last year we had 2 of them with Viego and Gwen, and the year before that we had Yone and Lillia (correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't played back in 2020). So this year is just the year for skirmishers, huh?

This was really well edited!! GGWP mr editor man

Why can’t my boi braum become unstoppable in e 😭

The explanation of his abilities was really comprehensive and understandable. Thanks for the video!

The issue I have is that he will only ever be a tank in lane, as soon as a fight starts he will inevitibly change to his skirmisher side, so he is basically only tanky so you cannot win in neutral.

K'sante is definitely one of the champions of all time

I really feel the issue with the transformation is it should have been either The part of his kit that everything revolved around or it should have been out of his control. He just hits things and it breaks. Like if his abilities messed with how close his tonfas were to breaking that would be cool.

I tought that K'sante transformation would be based on how much damage he took based on how his weapons become sharp after being damaged, in a similar fashion on how Kled dismount from skaarl, but having its all out form tied to low HP would make them both too similar I guess

i jsut saw this video and i remember, i was whatching RotMG videos from you, i loved them

When I first heard that he was going to have a "Regenerative weapon" I thought he might have a HUGE club-like blunt weapon that has a separate bar like Jhin's bullets or maybe even like Seraphine's or Gwen's stacks, and as he is hitting champs or structures with it it would get sharper and sharper, trading Bonus armor and MR to Bonus AD and at 0 stacks it would reveal a sword for 15 seconds and he would have different abilities. The one we got however is very underwhelming

I had an idea to make his ult more interesting. What if it had a forced power up similar to Gnar, if he is lvl6 then when he drops below 60%-55% health he is able to activate his ult, however if he is below 30% in a 1v1 (for example) his is forced into to the higher dmg form. This would mean that he would be able to stay a tank in team fights but when he if fighting only one other enemy champion is forced to do higher dmg when low health as a flight or fight response. I feel as if there would need to be some adjustments to the ability however, I would like to hear other ways this concept could be adjusted.

ok, ideas for extras on the transformed abilities, for a more obvious change; Q: becomes stab rather than slam, third q becomes slash in a cone that does more damage to a single target. W: able to charge for longer, while charging, stores a percentage of damage mitigated, the dash then inflicts said damage to any champion hit. E: becomes a stab with the dash, dealing damage to enemy champions targeted. I think this would allow for a better use of the change of k'sante's weapon from a blunt weapon into blades, as these would illustrate a change in fighting style along with the change in weapon

For me better change of stance would be losing idk maybe half of hp or like getting bursted , that way he could be tank at high hp and damage at low hp. Even his ult could have been the same but at that second method to change stance.

I feel like an interesting transformation gimmick could’ve been having him transform every time he used a basic ability (but still putting that ability on cd as in if you form A q, form B still won’t have q). Not sure if something like this would work with K’sante but I think it would be an interesting concept for a combo character who has to decide what order to use his abilites based on the form change.

When I saw k'sante the first thing I thought was that it could have been "more lore like" if the all out mechanic was similar to kled's passive: if you have above x% of health you have your ntofos and the resistances, when the hp drops lower than that number the resistances go down the ntofos become knifes and you obtain the bonus stats, the ultimate would be a damaging ability that lets you stay in the offensive state if you are not already in it. Sorry for the bad grammar and the multiple misspelled words.

I feel like if his ult was a toggle, it would have been better. Not with the same numbers and stuff, but you know what I mean. Being able to switch mid fight depending on who you are fighting and getting a different set of abilities. Maybe with not as much power conversion though. Thanks for the video btw

Vars talking about aegislash genuinely gave me flashbacks

Honestly after watching his initially animation I thought his Ntofos would break over time causing him to lose defense and gain offense. Basically he would start out a fight a tank and over the course of it get more and more deadly. Definitely more interesting than “just press R”

I guess its 400 years of game design already Yone + Sett + Vayne + Riven mixed in one nice looking guy Sheesh

I sad that already under Skootch's video, but the more interesting way to handle this would be his weapons getting damaged when hitting enemy champions during combat, so they eventually break during prolonged combat, leading to the switch and they then reform out of combat. This would put more depth into how his kit functions ad how he has to chose his battles.

vars tryna look for the melee abilities to curve around in 30 different directions before splitting into 3 to converge on the enemy

based on the cinematic they should have had his transformation be based on him losing health, like when his tonfas break

i was thinking maybe he could have like a ntofo durability gauge that goes down as he deals damage with ntofo strike, or blocks damage with pathmaker and footwork shield once its all deplated he goes all out it could also make way to give him two ults based on if hes all out or base form. maybe he could also go all out when low hp? idk honestly just anything to make the gimmick more interesting and less "ult to block your health and empower abilities"

I liked that you used Aegislash’s Unite portrait. Ever play it?

100% agree his abilities are designed for all out form. Would like to see his q be different in tank form such as a wider hit box on the 3rd q maybe even a cone similar to Syndra push rather than a straight line. I also think K’sante losing 45% hp from his ult is so much especially if he doesn’t recover some of the health back if he ends all out early.

I thought the Shurmian tank we were gonna get was an armored warrior from Azir's armor or an ascended. Imagine the golden solider charging into battle and smashing the enemy with knockups or the ascended blasting the frontlines while being damn near unkillable. The Azir soliders model aren't the best but are still a good basis for making an armor warrior and you got tons of armored warrios for ascend to work off of (plus tons of Egyptian mythology to use to make a trio of Egyptian mythology inspired characters). But K'sante design wise is fine, just wise we got an armor warrior or something godly.

Champion Idea "Void Mother" **Passive**- Innate: Taking 0.2% Pre Mitigation Damage increases your Void Bar by 1% for 3 seconds Capping up to 100% The Duration refreshes when you Take Damage and Deal Damage. When the Duration Ends, the Void Bar will Decay by 10% every 1 seconds. Taking and Dealing Damage Refreshes the duration and the Decay Stops. Reaching 100% Void Bar Grants you 30% Tenacity. **Q**- A Single Target straight Skillshot that Scales with HP and AD as Physical Damage that inflicts the "Mark" debuff and is inflicted with 15% Reduced Armor for 4 seconds. **W**- A Dash that Deals Physical Damage to All enemies that you passed through that Scales with HP and AD and Stunning Enemies hit by 1 second. **E**- Summons a Single Large Ranged Void Creature, Taking Damage with Auto Attacks from Champions Reduces the Cooldown of All Abilities for 1 second and Grants you 1 Stack permanently until consumed and stacks up to 5 Times. 1 Stack summons 1 Mini Ranged Void Creature with each Stack. Mini Ranged Void Creatures has 50% Less Stats compared to The Large Ranged Void Creature. Nearby Ranged Void Creature will be attracted to the Marked Target and therefore will Attack it first. And Taking Damage with Auto Attacks for 30 times Passively Summons a Single Large Ranged Void Creature with every Minion Wave that also Acts like a Ranged Minion. **R**- You'll Transform into a Higher Void Monster, Knocking everyone back in a 350 radius around you, that deals Physical Damage that Scales with HP and Slowing enemies hit by 30% for 1 second. Becoming Ranged and Granting Self 25%-100% Bonus Crit Chance, 5%-30% Bonus Physical Lifesteal, and 50%-250% Bonus Attack Speed According to the Void Bar you Accumulated and Consumes it while Disabling your Innate Passive During the Higher Void Monster State. and Every 1 Armor and 1 Magic Resist Will be Converted into 1 / 1.2 / 1.5 AD for 8 Seconds That also extends it's own duration on Takedowns and Will be Forced to End after 1.5 Seconds by Pressing this Ability Again. (This is Just My Champion Idea since i was Disappointed with K'Sante's Ability Design)

3:26 wasn't Blood Thirst / Blood Price kinda like this?

K'sante abilities: Yasuo Q, Irelia W, Lee Sin E, a modified Sett R with ultimate form. That being said, he genuinely looks incredibly fun. Don't know if he takes over as my tank pic over Sion though...

It would be interesting to see Riot do something like King Arthur in SMITE. He has 8 abilities in total but he's not a traditional stance switcher. Whenever you use an ability, your stance changes to the other one involuntarily with each ability having it's own separate cooldown

random but related question, isnt the only thing that helps deal with max health/true damage is Anathema's ? correct me if im wrong though, but i feel like the game could benefit more from damage mitigation items like that for balancing

I think it would've been really cool if he was like King Arthur in Smite, he has 6 abilities, but he alternates between 2 sets of 3 every time he uses one, with each of them doing something similar to each other in each form while still being different enough to justify cycling through them. K'sante could have a dash that gives a shield in the base form, but the swapped form could give a speed boost or extra attack speed. The slam strikes could change the final strike between stances, like the base stance doing what it does here and in the blade form instead to a sweeping cone of damage.

I agree that he’s pretty solid and that there may be some room for more detail to his kit, but what I want to ask is how would you adjust him so that he is still K’Sante for who he is supposed to be and still is unique and different to other champions?

I really wish his gimmick was that his abilities transformed into their bruiser form as his hp dropped. So at like 80% hp he gets empowered Q 60% w and so on, until he hits 20% health and gets access to his ult which would at baseline be some sorta warden ability, but at low hp would be a burst/dueling ability. That's what I was expecting him to be like after watching his trailer.

You should look at Edith from MLBB. She is a tank, that transforms from tank with lot of cc to magic marskman nad convert bonus resist and armor to ap. But effectivity of marksman form depends on daamge recived while in tank form

I would have liked if after going all out his Q could apply a DoT effect as the opponent bleeds out

Honestly I'm pretty sure that if he had a wildly different playstyle in All-Out, everyone would have complained about him being too difficult too understand, or that you need to learn 2 kits against him. Probably why Riot decided not to go too hard.

When R3ave firstly said he would switch between blades and blunt weapons i thought it would be something like Gnar where after X ammounts of attacks his N'Tofos would break and reveal the blade inside for a limited time before the hide regenerates. The biggest flaw for me was the lack of creativity when it comes to his "Now i protecc" and "Now i attacc" forms.

I do very much like k'sante, I think he's flashy and cool. His laning phase is very fun as you constantly trade when possible and push enemies away from their tower and safety closer to your tower, or ult them under tower. Too many times someone will get ahead vs k'sante (me), and get a bit to cocky too closer to tower and I'll knock em under and I'll kill them and just completely reverse the lane. Because of how fun he is, a high skill ceiling, and very flashy plays, I do think he is a success and will be a fairly popular tank, but you are 100% right in this video.

Whats the music in the background?

I like him. He has clear weaknesses but it's possible to play around them. I find the best way to play him is with grasp and shield bash than dashing to a minion and q ing at the same time. And ice born gauntlet is a new trap. Sunderer gives him insane 1v1 and great burst

"for all intents and purposes the first Hybrid attack and defense Champion" **casually looks at Sett**

wish this champ was more like a traditional tank/warden ornn and rell were the latest two champs i enjoy playing and one of em was released in 2017 and its not that i dont play newer champs i try everything atleast 5 times before i shelf them

I feel like, to build on Skooch’s stuff, it would’ve been nice if K’Sante’s transformation had stages and maybe his tank stats would work similar to how Pyke handles health. A brief example of what I mean: K’Sante passive could be: At 66-100% hp KS’s health and resistances act 100% as you expect. At 33-66% there’s a conversion where some bonus health converts to AD. At 0-33% the health to AD stays in effect but now his resistances get partially converted to lethality. This shows that as his weapons get more broken, he gets more damaging and lighter and can penetrate armor better. At each threshold his basic abilities have altered variations Q: Tier 1-it’s like it is naturally. I don’t recall the specifics. Tier 2-he loses the slow but now applies brittle. Tier 3-lose brittle but break shields and the third strike becomes a targeted lunge. W: T1-stays the same. T2-instead if a knock can he flings like Singed. T3-lose hard cc but gain a high AD ratio on the dash and heal based upon the enemy’s missing hp. E: T1-same. T2-can now dash over walls, if dashing to allies. Also the shield that the ally gains is reduced if dashing through a wall. T3-dash through walls at will. No longer grant shields to allies. Briefly taunt enemies that you dash through. R: going all out will do the same wall thing and pushback, but will now move you down 1 transformation tier. T1->2->3. Meaning your transformation isn’t static and you have to decide if you ult now or wait until you naturally go down 1 tier. If in T3, going all out will grant movement speed that will decay over 8-10 seconds Idk I don’t have 200 years but this is just a rough idea of how I think transformation could be done in an interesting way. Give it stages and complexity. Granting him multiple completely new abilities would be a lot to learn, but multi-stage abilities haven’t been pushed pass 2 stages

Imo I think they should’ve made all out like gnar passive, after a certain damage threshold, his Tonfas break and he goes all out

I think a way better and more unique way they could've implemented his q is if it was a half circle clap in front of him, and at 2 stacks the clap knocks enemies into the center area where they take bonus damage and are stunned. Would've been a way better way to design an offensive ability for blunt weapons

8:54-9:51 there it is. 13:01 for this I agree on this too. Here's my version: P-The beast's Regerating blades: K'sante begins with a heavy defense, but breaks it down when he takes/applies damage. When out of combat the Nfotos will heal overtime. Upon reaching that reaching 0, his Nfotos become shattered, Gaining increased MS, and AD but Reduced Resistances and health, can choose to go all-out from here. the heal overtime for your health, defense resistences and Passive bar will go on cooldown instead, until he starts healing the Nfotos for 50% of their health. Dauntless Instinct: K’Sante’s damaging abilities mark enemies hit for a short duration. Reducing their physical/magical defense(20%), Attacking a marked enemy consumes the mark dealing damage plus max health physical damage. All Out: The Resistance Reduction becomes Armor reduction(15), Mark consumption deals additional Physical damage and grants AS(4% up to 30%), Every second AA deals additional Magic damage. Q-Ntofo Strikes: K’sante slams his weapon, dealing physical damage in a small area infront of him and briefly Slowing targets hit(40%). If an enemy is hit, K’Sante gains a stack for a short duration. changing his next strike, K'sante slams next to him to his left or right(depending on aim) dealing physical damage, then Pushing any enemy hit infront of forward, any he didn't are pushed aside. At 2 stacks, K’sante will fire a shockwave infront of him in 2 Lines, that deal physical damage and Pulls enemies toward him. at the end creates a shockwave in the middle that deals magic damage, Stuns enemies hit and heals K'sante for 3% of his max health for every enemy champion hit(0.5% for minions,1% from monsters, 2% from legendary) All Out: Second Strike: K'sante slashes at his sides, first his left then his Right, dealing Physical damage and healing him(10% of his missing health) on his left, magical and Slows(40%) on his Right, if an enemy is already slowed, cripple them instead. Third strike: K'sante Stabs both of his blades forward, dealing Physical damage and pulling the enemy hit toward K'sante, if the enemy was marked deal additional magical damage and heal(90+ 70% of his Resistances) K'sante. This ability’s cooldown is reduced and slow is lowered targets hit(20%). W: Path maker: Charge: K'sante shield himself infront, becoming unstoppable infront of himself and Gaining 50% tenacity while in it and gaining 40% damage reduction. Heavy Regerating blades takes less of a beating. Release: Depeding on how much damage he's gained he either dashes forward while carring any enemies infront forward or he smashes them together realesing a shockwave on the ground, Slowing, lowering resistences, dealing max health Magic damage and leaving Steady ground on the ground. Steady ground when affected by Nfoto Strikes it creates a quake on the ground knocking all targets hit in the area closest to K'sante and silences everywere else. Steady ground affected by the Dash are moved asside creating walls around K'sante he can break down with AAs, realsing projectiles upon breaking. Steady ground affected by Footwork enhance K'sante's shield and shields all allies around it with Rocks the reduce their damage taken, before exploding around them dealing magic damage and slowing all targets hit. All-Out: Refresed upon achieving it, Unstoppable is removed instead leaving 70% tenacity, deals additional Physical damage based on charge time, the cast Speed is increased for the dash and Shockwave. dash he moves forward passing targets instead and gaining MS depending on targets hit and AS(20%). the Shockwave damages around K'sante instead and deals magic damage, stuns targets nearby K'sante, slows everyone else. E: Footwork: K'sante Slowly dashes in a direction, applying affects to those he passes, Enemies are slown and crippled, allies are shielded and Removed from slows, can't go over walls. every hit from Nfoto strikes, Path maker and champion damage taken reduces the cooldown by 1.5 seconds. All-Out: Passive: realeses a protection wave around himself that applies and amplies(30%) any champion around himself every time he lands an ability on an enemy. Active: Dash speed is increased, he only grants a shield to himself and kicks any enemies he passes through, dealing Physical damage and crippling them if they have been slown recently. R: Built to go all-out. Passive: increase the damage from Dauntless instinct, additionally have it explode in an area, and healing back up your shield also heals you based on recently taken/dealt damage. Active: Upon your Nfotos breaking this unlocks, Launching an enemy champion/Monster back, upon hitting a wall they're launched over it. Using it on Legendary Monster has K'sante break his Nfotos and launch a heavy wave forward cutting the down the Beast, dealing 15% Missing health True damage and granting K'sante to deal additional magic damage for 5 seconds. All Out state: Reduces bonus armor, and bonus magic resistance. K’Sante gains attack damage, omnivamp, and transforms his abilities.

Yeah I wish it was like conquer where the longer you stayed in the fight you got stronger and at a certain point you would get extra bonuses like omnivamp. Obv he should still loose resistances while gaining dmg but it would be cooler as a passive than as an ult

He looks like Rob Liefeld's Captain America with that huge torso

Anybody remember time when Riot made champs WITHOUT DASHES?

Fun fact tank/assasin(skirmisher) was the last combination we didn't have in league

they shoulda made his transformation his passive in a way that similar to gnar by damaging enemies his tonfas break apart making him lose his bonus resistances but he gains a small amount of ad which increases with the how much his tonfas break until they full break into blades where by his Q become a dash instead of a knockup after the 3rd q and if he dashes them into a wall he impales them for a microstun and his E no longer gives a shield but becomes a short leap that dmgs enemy upon impact. His R can remain the same but can only be used in his transformed state

i was seriously hoping that they would do something creative, like instead make his passive that he changes into all out mode upon blocking or tanking X amount of damage, which could make it so his blades would come out as his blocking tools broke, forcing him into the offense while at advantage despite being damaged would be perfect for the lore, and also be a very unique design. giving his abilities complete changes like gnar’s transformation based abilities, and maybe keeping one or two of his basic abilities but changing their damage function to a % of the his missing health or something would be really unique. that would set him apart from any other champion with a transformation passive which is seriously what he’s missing

IMO K'Sante should go all out the first time he drop to a certain HP threshold

i thought that the way he would change is how much he has hit an enemy because the blades would break

i discovered that when you dash with his E he has a fairly significantly delay between the dash and him being able to auto. He may be able to use his other abilities during the cast but the fact tahat during and after there is a bad delay where you can't auto is possibly game ruining

First thing i thought of when i saw this guy was "desert aegislash"

after playing him for a little while I can say that he's definitely very fun as a champ, but yeah I totally agree with all of the comments saying that his ntofos should have a durability bar instead of just pressing r kinda like how samira needs her max style grade to use her ult, I feel like it would be a lot more interesting if you could only activate his ult once the ntofos reached 0 durability and they shatter, only leaving the weapons behind, and then they regenerate durability out of combat it wouldn't change too much about him already but it would definitely add a bit more spice to his ult and then I think he would shine a bit brighter, since I guess one of the fun things about his ult already is knowing when the best time to activate it for the best results, so putting him in a position where he can't ult whenever he chooses but rather when he's reached a state in which going all out becomes an option only when his weapons are exposed would generally fit his lore more and be more interesting it might look a little bit strange to have his weapons actually "exposed" while he retains his tanky ability forms and lower damage, so maybe activating his ult actually shows the ntofos breaking like he does in his trailer, but regardless I think he shouldn't be forced into skirmisher form when his ntofos reach 0 durability like some people are saying. him choosing to go all out would make sense logically to be a conscious choice-- he can choose to play defense until the very end, or he can choose to throw himself at the enemy with everything he's got in one last all-out burst of power

First time I saw his in game model I thought it was a new Draven skin at first.

If i dont get shut down, i have made a build with tsunderer and some other AD/Defensive items that has one shot tanks.

they should have made him have to hit a certain amount of abilities and AAs in a certain time and then his ntofos break to reveal blades, that would have been a perfect transformation requirement, cause thats the whole point of skirmishers, to constantly hit abilities and AAs

A point I'd like you to revisit is what you said at the beginning. What's the point of all these new champions? If they only get played for a bit and then are forgotten and thrown to the wayside after the first few weeks.

I thought up a few changes for K'sante that seem minor enough that Riot would be able to implement that still change his playstyle. Q: Base Form, K'sante's Q3 pushes people, instead of working as a pull. In All Out, Q works as it already does. E: Base Form is unchanged. All Out removes the ability to dash to allies, replacing it with the ability to dash to enemies. If cast on an enemy, it loses the shield, but empowers his next auto, giving it a 30% slow. The idea is that his Q in base form exists as a peeling tool. The E change on the other hand gives his skirmishing even more sticking power to enemies while removing the ability to either save a nearby ally or use them as a get-away tool.

4:35 In comes iceborn

I love this champ. I am definitely maining him (at least until that dark souls ultra greatsword champ comes out. ) He feels strong, but not overturned, I feel like I win fights with actual skill rather than with a gimmick or cheese strat.on the other hand, I would love to be able to have an in depth discussion with you, and share my thoughts on ksantes design. To much for me to say in a comment thread

I don't understand what you mean at 4m46. You dont do more damage if you auto more with sunfire it's only reset the 3s extra burn. And for you to know K'sante R dont make him loose base armor and magic resist but a % of bonus armor and magic resist but the calculation for his kite are made like he didn't loose them.

Just went against one while playing Yorick top and after getting my E, ghouls just zoned him off and he was screwed. Easiest lane I've had in a while.

For me it felt like the design team just forgot they were supposed to make him a part tank so they slapped on some armor/mr ratios and just made his abilities do more damage during all out and called it a day

That comment about how many straight line attacks we have made me realize another thing that makes Smite (the moba) interesting. The gods in that game have some pretty ridiculous AOE shapes. Baba Yaga has 4 different ways to fire her 1st ability, the Jade Emperor guy does a straight line ahead of him, but from both directions, Arthur has like 20 billion different AOE abilities, it's all pretty diverse.

I think it would have been cool if the more he is in combat the more tankiness he loses and he gains more damage and mobility, simbolizing how his ntofos are breaking and becoming sharper and lighter

When he was initially leaked we were told his weapons could shatter and reform again. I was really hoping he'd work like Elise/Jayce/Nidalee and be a new transforming champ or have some transforming gimmick similar to Gnar/Shyvana. I feel like having his all out stance be tied to his passive or some other gameplay mechanic rather than his ult would have been a far more interesting design maybe one where he has durability that gets reduced by hitting autos, Q's, and maybe even tanking hits with W and that causes his weapons to shatter and let him go all out, allowing him to use his ult and whatnot. Though that ult part could be different. Riot tried to play it safe with this champ and its disappointing.

There was a champion in Mobile Legends who also had this concept, a champion that is two totally different classes. Edith. (Released earlier than K'Sante) She is a tank/adc that is also a true transformation champion and she is quite balanced. The meta doesnt favor her though cause she *needs to take damage* to deal a lot of damage back in her adc form.

Pls read this i think it's a really good idea. Introducing Weapon Health which regenerates quickly and even quicker out of combat. Using certain abilities and AAing he is breaking the Ntofos (depleting his Weapon Health). Reaching thresholds from depleting or regenerating his Weapon Health, the Ntofos transform to heavy blunts, all-round swords or daggers. If he were to break his weapons completely he gains bonus move-speed but cannot use abilities and has to wait before he starts regenerating the weapons. Essentially like Rumble but has 3 stages, his abilities don't get stronger but different, his special bar regen isn't stalled when using an ability, and when depleting his special bar he has shorter non-function window but begins in stage 3. Passive - Weapon Health - lose resistances based on missing health, gain bonus AD based on the amount of lost resistances R - willingly break his weapons: deplete 1 stage worth of Weapon Health and increase Weapon Health regeneration for a short duration. No cooldown no cost. Blunts - Q has longer cooldown but has much wider area, both regular cast and 3rd - W deals no damage however blocks all damage and absorbs projectiles coming from a direction. Similar to Braum E. Blocking builds a lot of weapon damage - E gains a bit bigger shield and can choose to only shield himself or an ally Swords - his All out Daggers - Q is a short stab with much more damage, no slow and 3rd Q is with a dash but no knock-up (kinda like Yone without the wind sh*tting) - W dash has no wind-up but doesn't reduce damage - E stays the same as his All out however with a passive: when you gain a shield, absorb it to regen some damage your weapons took all abilities don't reset when changing forms retaining their current cooldown

Hmmm they could've added a gimmick where after taking a certain amount of damage, Ksante can cast his ult and then regenerate some of the hp lost.

I think it would've been better if K'sante's transformation worked like a combination between Gnar/Klad passive and Sett's W. It's even easier to flavor: the tonfas are coated in a hardened rocky layer (tank form), but that rock chips away as K'sante strikes enemies and absorbs attacks. When the rock is fully chipped away, only the blades are left, and K'sante is now "All Out." The rocky layer regenerates while out of combat. Easy.

5:10 just as there are other ways to deal damage, like in a curved line like Diana, or in a wave, or from behind, or a Half circle, or a cone so on, I feel it should change for the champion's personality to make them unique, but also add some skillfull play to feel like them. 5:17 Nilah should hit in wave to represent how Unsual she is in her Happy madness but still made up as a line for her Skill, also a bonus due to water. 5:19 The area for the knock up would be the sides of the line making it a weird incaration of a stun, while showing bel'veth acting like she's as caculating as a human, despite that having weird effectiency, the Hyprocity from belveth, if she uses it while dashing it turns into a circle knocking targets up in the edge, if they were hit by the dash they get flung into the center. Extra chaos, for void based monster, despite saying shes human, she's merely a imitator, not better than, no void ever was. 5:20 This one is fine, since viego believes himself as the protaginist, he acts like it with a straighline skillshot making special in someway, when everyoneelse has it, and it's generally the most generic way to apply damage. an addition would be he can hold it for an extra 0.7 sec. to attack again realesing mist in a cone, that collects mist and applys it. I also feel this may slow him down as a skirmisher way too much, Maybe just remove the reset on his ultimate and lower his passive healing to add this, for higher risk and reward. 5:21 This works aswell, though maybe a it to basic, Maybe she should be able to strike in forward, to the side thrust, leading her focused, but also damaged mind. she's rough around the edges. 5:22 All I want for him and Yasuo is just lowering their Q healing, as thats what makes them so powerfully imbalanced. for the way to apply, I'm not sure Maybe he swings to a side in a half circle changing which sword is used depending on position.(Physical on his left, Magical and physical on his right) I like this idea but the circle thing seems to easy, so I'll keep the thrust but the change in sword stays. 5:25 for everything else she has, this feels as it should stay as, maybe on hit effects change past just stats, like into effects: Earth: Bounces over the enemy landing behind them Slowing all the targets hit, and dealing Physical damage, knocks up targets in the center. Water: Splashes through the sides Slowing targets hit, dealing Physical damage and crippiling them for 1 second. Life(grass): sprouts sparkaling bushes up in the area tosward Qiyana, she can dash into these specific Bushes, if she hits an enemy that hasn't seen her she deals additional magic damage, and slows them.

I never realized you use to play rotmg wtf, thats awesome.

Riot can't make anything normal anymore. Has to make cool flashy characters

You know how cool it could have been if they had his weapons slowly break down in a fight, like the linger a fight goes on, the less armour and mr you would have, but more damage, and then they slowly repair themselves out of combat. In my opinion thay would have been sick

does NA have k'sante yet? because EU doesn't yet. it's the same with Valorant

Vandiril the other name for League's QA

I'm just wondering... how do you actually tank with him? How do I protect my team? Blasting a target away and killing them of course indirectly protects my team, but I wouldn't consider LeBlanc or Zed tanks either for doing the same. And just having a load of defensive stats also doesnt do too much for the time.