League of Legends Season 2022 kicks off: The premiere of League of Legends Season 2022 just ended and the team at Riot Games provided us with an almost complete roadmap of this year. From upcoming champions, new skins, extra in-game features, and esports, this Livestream touched almost every topic within League of Legends. Here is an overview of everything that was announced to us.
Andrei Van Roon the Game Director of League of Legends, addressed everyone first. He gave an overview of the premiere and then passed the baton to Jeremy Lee, from the gameplay team. After giving us a quick recap of Preseason 12, he talked about the new changes that will be available within the game.
Challenges feature has been introduced in-game
Riot Games has introduced Challenges that can be shown in the game lobbies and loading screens of the Player profile. There will be five categories of challenges available – Veterancy, Expertise, Teamwork & Strategy, Collection, and Imagination. Each category comprises specific types of tasks. Every individual challenge can be leveled up from Iron to Challenger. Time-Limited Legacy challenges will also be available. Players will also get titles for completing hard challenges.
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League of Legends Season 2022 kicks off: Latest details that you should know
Champion and Skin rework along with new Skins
Jonathan Belliss, the Product Lead for Personal Relations and Events, joined to talk about other in-game details that will be available this year. Players will get a new Event Pass that will make it easier to follow their progress and rewards. The Mythic event will also get changed as players will be able to receive new Mythic essence which never expires.
He also told that from now on, there will be Seasonal Mythic Skins with a new thematic each year. For 2022, it will be Ashen Knights. In the new Mythic shop, past Prestige skins can also be unlocked by the players. Each month, random Prestige skins will be featured here.
Ahri will see a rework this year, and the new update will also be to change all her skins. Gangplank, Fiddlesticks, Rek’sai, Trundle, Rell, Orianna, and Heimerdinger will get new skins after a long wait. High Noon, Bees, and Sky Guardian skin series will also have new additions to them. It looks like League has listened to all the anime fans out there as they will be releasing a new Battle Bunny skin series. Fans can vote to modernize one thematics from Arclight, Gothic, and Infernal. To celebrate this new year, the Porcelain and Firecracker skins will also be made available in a few weeks.
New upcoming Champions expected in 2022
For this section, Ryan Mireles, who is the Lead of the Champions team at Riot Games, took over. He told that there will be lesser Champion releases this year so that the ones that come out are more fleshed out and suitable for gameplay. Still, the middle lane will see more champions for it.
The first champion for this year is Zeri from Zaum. She is a hyperactive neon-colored ADC for the bottom lane. She is a unique champion as her Q ability will be similar to the auto-attack of other marksmen, while her auto-attack will be considered as a skill in-game.
“I stood up for my community. I can stand up for others too.” 💚
Run fast, charge up, shoot the bad guys. Zeri, the Spark of Zaun, surges onto the Rift in patch 12.2! ⚡️
Check out her abilities in the thread below! 👇 pic.twitter.com/lVWvoSrIqX
— League of Legends // UK, IE & Nordics (@LoLUKN) January 7, 2022
The second champion that will be released in 2022 will be enchanter support. Contrary to the cute-looking and happy enchanter supports in the game, this one will have a more dark and sinister kit. We can guess that it will be a female champion as Ryan announced told “my Empress” during a bit of mimicking.
Fans can also expect a new jungler who will be “ramping up to swarm the Rift.” Udyr will get a VGU update as fans had voted for it in last years. There was also a teaser for a new mysterious non-traditional bottom lane champion who will also come out later this year.
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