Darkin Top (Aatrox), Darkin Jungle (Rhaast), Darkin Mid (Naafiri), "Darkin" ADC (Varus), now we just need that oh so sweet support role filled

"2nd dog after Warwick" Nasus: Am I a joke to you?

A better comparison for her passive instead of Kindred or Yorick would definitely be Elise. Both Champ's passives are very similar in a lot of ways, that it feels odd that she wasn't given a mention here.

the whole time when he mentioned her passive, especially when he said "She'll be the first character that spawns interactive live minions" i was screaming at my screen "ELISE!!! WHAT ABOUT ELISE!!!" My poor spider gal is forgotten

I believe recording these videos' voiceovers a lot of time before their release kind of hurts the quality sometimes. By now most people know she's a midlaner, by now a lot of people know her abilities and there is even footage you show of people playing her, so you end up making a lot of assumptions that don't make sense anymore. I absolutely love your content and want to se it get even better and more popular, and I believe that is a point of improvement

7:14 actually, when Kled locks onto an enemy with ult, it functions the same way.

That moment when the void spawn is not a monster, but the dog is

Broken or not, you can pet her so 1000/10 Design.

She's actually intended to he mid, Riot already said it

I love the reception Naafiri got, in my opinion the monster champions are the most original and interesting designs and I really hope Riot realized there is a lot of people interested in these designs too, I understand humans and humanoids are more appealing to the mayority (China), and I'm ok about getting more human champions in general, but please Riot don't leave us for this long without a proper monster champion, at least one per year??😭😭

I can confirm, her packmates can block pretty much anything a minion can, I would have to do some testing to see if they count as champs

When i play her she reminds me a LOT to talon Both have a neutral ability, can roam well, have an all in, is better as a assassin but can build a bit bruser, has a bleed that can prock for extra damage She si really fun and doesnt feel broken She is an assassin so people Will complain no matter what when she comes out but her design un general is simple, fun and fair

I'm just happy they took the best design elements of Omen, the old cancelled Void champ and turboblasted them with amazing modern design sense

5:47 I love how you use the 'tear of the goddess' as Yorick's tear hahaha!

i believe she is intended to be a mid laner at least thats what i thought i heard at some point recently

5:30 quick little thing, the champion spotlight tends to hint at what role the champ is supposed to be in! She is intended to be a midlaner, but i REALLY hope top and jungle will be options too

Naafiri is a very nice champ. Her abilities are easy to understand and easy to learn. Her entry skill level is very low, honestly the easiest assassin champ to get into, but her skill cap is much higher than expected due to her lower health and durability compared to all other darkin and even compared to other assassins. Her q will save her on occasion for sure, but if she fails to kill target with her combo, then her damage output drops drastically along with chance of her winning that fight. Ability haste and ad are her two favorite stats to get, as she needs her abilities back quick.

Really cool champ and I cannot wait to see the next Darkin, a support. Hope they can do something really cool with some sort of shield and give us something dreadful. 😁

Gonna be honest before Naafiri the last time I was excited for a new champion was Rek'Sai based on design alone. Can't wait to try her in the jungle.

It is beyond stupid that the dagger is not shown in Naafiri's model. How much more awesome would it be if Naafiri was holding the dagger in her mouth?

7:14 Technically azir's dash is a non-free targeted dash that can be body blocked. He has to dash to a soldier and when he collides with a champion he stops and generates a soldier for w.

8:02 killjoy :( (Nice video btw! Loved this one)

Oh i love that background music ❤❤ thank you

"I believe riot intends for her to be a jungler", nope riot has said she is supposed to be a midlane assasin

Naafiri reminds me of Sett. Very simple yet feels great to play and only has one unique gimmick to her.

I'm a warwick main so far, and now we get a second stat checking dog to be played in the jungle? How cool is that! I'll give her a try as soon as possible. Looks like I might become a dog main XD

Funny how both naafiri and warwick were also humans that got turned into wolves, Naafiri through her dagger being picked up by a wold, and warwick through singed's stuff.

I like how he keeps talking about how she is the first to passively spawn minions, but elise with her spiderlings exist that are very simailr to Naafiris wolves

I would really love to see you return to this champ now that we've seen her underperforming consistently for several patches. I have been maining her for a while and although I love her design and lore I feel like her abilities are fundamentally flawed because Riot keeps insisting that she's an Assassin but she has no escape tools other than just walking away, which makes her pretty useless in the mid to late game given how much burst damage we see at all tiers of play.

Amazing video, I think her innate scaling gives her a kind of mage play style or assassin in terms of taking tp and gathering storm to safely scale to late game and take over, or ign dom tunes for early game pressure so I think the worry abt snowball reliance is relatively handled in that sense

I believe that Varus wasn't entirely retconned to be a Darkin, it's just that they wanted to make more champs like him and so gave what he was a name retroactively

Bel veth is confirmed since pretty much here gameplay trailer as not a monster champ but as humanoid by reav3 ( lol champ lead designer) just happened to be pushed closer to monster

Damn great video! Just watched it TWICE! Heheh mad, are you?

Excited to watch this video while having lunch 🍽️

I would love to see them make Vladimir a darkin in the future, using the sustain base with the supposed orb darkin

Although prone to change this is what I’ve gathered when playing her on pbe - her ult only resets *once* and it’s on first kill, no infinite resets - Yes, her dogs can bodyblock skill shots, the amount of naut hooks and morg ball that should have hit me but didn’t is hysterical - She can perfectly build bruiser, although her damage drops off a cliff, it does help her sustain, so it’s a trade off depending on what you need - I don’t think vars mentioned it but hitting with your abilities (and auto I think) on champions reduces the spawn cd of your passive, you land more hits then you spawn more up to a max of 2 dogs and 3 when you’re lvl 9 and higher - her dogs are deceptively tanky, last I checked they can tank more than 1 auto and aoe abilities like morg w deals minimal dmg to them, most if not all single target skill shots one shot them tho like ez q - *IMPORTANT* to pet the good girl you need to combo it, first do ctrl + 1 twice, then same thing for ctrl + 2 (twice) when the headpats are done, then ctrl + 3 (twice) when she’s on her back and then you can keep spamming ctrl 3 to cycle the belly rubs.

Really enjoyed the kingdomhearts music here

good ol Organization 13 castle KH2 battle music. nice.

7:14 I do believe that Azir’s E counts as a targeted dash by using his sand soldiers as the target. Granted, he can make new ones on the spot and reposition them easily, but it’s still technically a targeted dash that can be blocked.

I'm still confused why Naafiri is not classified as a Diver, because she definitely plays like one

Okay you got me when you said you could pet her

Riot should definitely make more darken champs for the game but they should also make darken skins for existing champions. Personally I like the idea of a darken pantheon or sion

I feel like she was the first champion the community was excited for since ekko. I speak for myself there. I have been sooo eager to try her out and I haven’t felt that from a new champ in a while. Easily someone I’m gonna binge play

i love the dog pat

this champion is a visual clusterfuck, keeping track of what shes doing in a teamfight is probably gonna be real hard edit: I really hope she is gonna be a kiting melee, Ive missed that playstyle since the evelyn rework (ty for that riot)

Going by 'death by thousand cuts' playstyle, it gives me the vibe of win condition that Chun Li from SF has, many quick attacks n' neutrals, until she found an opening then go all in.

For jungle on the PBE, as a Shyv one trick. She feels like she should be a diver, she doesn't have that many tools to escape outside of a small leap

When i saw the trailer I was hoping it would be meepo from DotA 2 . But it's just Elise with better spiders

Only thing i think is 200 years is the w, specifically the lategame w, because with the heal and shield built into the kit, naafiri can sponge a lot more damage than most assassins, so that means that naafiri can engage from barely on screen and still probably kill an enemy squishy whether ahead or perfectly even. If the scaling range were lowered i think the champ is perfectly fine

I think you should make this type of video after testing the new champion

1:00 Third dog* can’t forget nasus :)

She seems fine honestly

Not the first targeted dash that can be body blocked it works like kled R once locked on which is the same.

I feel like a harp darkin would be really cool!

I think this was a missed opportunity from Riot to introduce unit microing. Would be cool to also go back and add full control over other summons.

Very good video despite the numerous times it felt like you forgot Elise exists

The kingdom hearts 2 battle music is exquisite

The hardest combo you need to master is the timing when pressing her keys to pet her. I am not kidding.

Hyello, just wanna ask if you'll be talking about Nami in anyway in the future. That's it. Love your content btw. ❤

New summoner finnaly i wanna test my yorick skills on her O_O

they got the LoR team on the cinematic so its great reception is because of the team

1 interaction I love is Aatrox ult will scare all her packs, the darkin commander showing his absolute status

I wonder if there will ever be a champ that has an ability that will expunge all debuffs from an enemy but the damage scales from debuffs removed.

darkin void crossover champion "Aas'chikz"

12:58 I love how the petting cursor is the Legacy one Riot wanted to remove. Maybe the new cursor isn't as good as Riot tought? :D

saying belveth is a sham monster and a dog is a wicked monster is unbelievable. and i think naafiri looks incredible

0:58 cries in Nasus.

This was reslly well designed i like how it's not too complicated

well, her feast or famine playstyle is kinda poetic

Ornn is also not a monster champ. The last one we got (not counting Yuumi) is Sol back in 2016.

I've played a ton of naafiri and the knife puppies can bodyblock

0:58 Nasus: "Am I a joke to you?"

Editor had one job and didn't put up corrections lol

My only fear is that naafiri suffers from the ''yorick conundrum'': where she can go from underpowered non-issue to 1v1 instawin powerhouse depending on how much summon she has available

good video but i think you forgot about milio. most recent simple champ (not vex)

We have every role but support for darkin, as much as i wish xolaani was added, i hope its Xolaanis final form, aimilaf to kayle scaling up. If you dont act xolaanis final form then she would be pwrfect support (look up Legends of Runeterra for final form and its EPICNESS!)

having played her i have no issue with her. maybe some adjustments on damage but her wolves die very quickly and if your passive is on cooldown you lose a lot of burst. additionally she is on par with xed in the sense of you have to deal with her or she picks you off.

The kingdom hearts boss music though

Now just make Petting a new feature that only works on Fuzzy Beast Champions such as Yuumi, Warwick, or Ornn/Volibear if you're insane.

They said naafiri should be an easy champion and I can see it why. No ability here seems hard to use which is nice

Fun fact, with Naafiri we have a mid darkin, aatrox top, rhaast jungle and varus adc, now we need a support darkhin and we can have a full team!

I rly think that her W is to easy of an gap closer. Even at low levels it has a big range, late game, it fells like it can treverse the entire enemy jungle. I would rly don't mind the distance of the skill, if it wasn't a point and click ability, I would rather have it as mini akali ult, you can go far, but you can miss

Havent seen much gameplay from Naafiri, do her packmates trigger on hit effects like rageblade or runes like conqueror

Naafiri's delay on her dash might be a stun buffer like Urgot's

0:57 (sad nasus noises😪)

1:32 but Darkin were also retconned into being Darkin weren't they? I thought they were aliens originally before actually getting lore

this man forgot about elese spiders

What is the song playing throughout this? I swear I recognize it

You seem to have missed a lot of info about her since Riot admitted like the day she was announced she's intended as a midlaner not a junglers

Naafiri is dog,dog is very good.

She's a monster champ with monster like gameplay

one thing ive noticed, is that people go electrocute and not conq on her. her packmates legitimately are broke with conq, since they help proc it, getting around 8 stacks off just one q

The weaker Vi ulti on W is a sore point for me. Seems like if you play adc the only way to outplay her is to depend on one of your solo queue teammates to block it for you. Then again, at least she won't have easy target access in team fights

5:30 She's made as a mid laner. Also, are we just forgetting about Elise spiders?

The Part I don’t like, is that she doesn’t really interact with her dagger, except for her q. Aatrox and Va(a)rus really are about her Weapons. To be fair, Kayn/ Rhaast also only really use it for the Q. But otherwise she’s perfect.

Talk about the new arena mode please

Excited to create Tank Naafiri.....unkillable Pitbull style

Riot actually designed her to be a midlaner and perhaps be flexed into jg

The dogs blocking single hit projectiles is incredibly frustrating.

It probably won't do anything but I wanna make some noise on this. Riot, add voice lines for aatrox for xerath and azir please