// I was... severely underwhelmed with Illaoi. (Or Illinois, as I tend to call her because my fingers can never remember how her name is spelled.) When she was teased in Burning Tides, I was super excited, partly because she reminded me very intensely of Calypso from PotC, and I loved Calypso a lot. Sinister priests/priestesses are among my favorite character tropes! But the more info Riot put out, the less interested I was.Part of this is because her theology is really confusing to me, part of it is oh my god Riot shut up about Garen/Kat already we get it you have your little Romeo & Juliet OTP but this is getting kind of ridiculous. I appreciate what she is, as a MASSIVE MUSCULAR WOC in a game full of samefaced copy-paste waif ladies, but... I dunno. Her character isn’t all that compelling to me.
I also just feel like they’re cranking out champions way too fast, when they should be focusing on... I dunno, actually tweaking the champs who were drastically affected by the retcon of the Institute? (Jax especially, but also a lot of the Void champs.) It’d also give the playerbase (and the balance team, lol) a little time to breathe in between, and allow hype to gradually build up when they do release a new character.