League Of Legends Debuts New Trailer & Insights For Champion Renata Glasc

The newest League of Legends champion, Renata Glasc, is making her way onto the rift today along with patch 12.4. Past years have seen many new champions added to League of Legends; when the game was new, Riot was known to release as many as 24 champions in a single year. Although the speed of champion releases has decreased drastically since those days, the popular MOBA already features a massive cast of playable characters, and the list is still expanding.

Renata is League of Legends‘ 159th champion, and the second to be released in 2022. Her release follows that of Zeri, The Spark of Zaun, a mobile marksman who shares some stylistic aspects and a voice actress with the concurrently released Neon, from Riot’s tactical FPS game Valorant. Zeri’s character bio details her enmity with the chem barons of Zaun and that story sets up for the release of League of Legend‘s newest release.

Renata Glasc, The Chem Baroness is joining the ranks of playable champions in League of Legends as part of patch 12.4, which goes live today. Renata Glasc’s champion spotlight is viewable now on the League of Legends YouTube channel. Renata brings a new flavor of enchanter to the list of League of Legends support champions. She lends a more “sinister twist” to the normal ally-empowering mechanics of enchanter supports according to game designer Blake “Squad5” Smith in her Champion Insights article on the League of Legends website. Riot Cashmiir goes on, “Power for a price, manipulating your enemies, forcing allies to fight beyond death. These are the avenues Squad5 found for making an evil enchanter.”

Renata Glasc and her sinister League of Legends moveset embody an evil that everyone is uncomfortably familiar with from the real world, but which would usually be surprising to find in a fantasy game like League of Legends. There are many places in Runeterra where it would be impossible for a character such as Renata, or Ms. Glasc, as she demands to be called, to feel appropriate. However, the cities of Piltover and Zaun, recently explored in Riot’s hit Netflix show Arcane, are perfect for a menacing figure such as her. As Riot Cashmiir says, “Zaun and Piltover are unique in Runeterra. They’re cities of progress, technology, and rampant inequality.”

Renata’s kit features a number of highly unique abilities, including some mechanics that have never been seen before in League of Legends. Even her simpler abilities, like Handshake, which allows her to throw an enemy (including champions) around, have the feeling of an imperious chem baroness. Bailout gives an ally a ramping buff to their attack speed and movement speed towards enemy champions and will revive them if they die while it’s active, making it only the third spell in the game that can bring a champion back to life. Her ultimate is an AOE spell with a unique twist on taunt effects, that forces affected enemies to attack their allies.

Early in the process of creating Renata Glasc, the team explored using Silco, the crime-lord of Zaun from Arcane. However, in the process of trying to make Silco fit as a League of Legends champion, rather than as a character in the show, they found that he ceased to feel like the character he really was, and as such abandoned that direction. Every aspect of Renata’s design, from her chemtech mask, to her artistic-yet-deadly prosthetic arm is designed to complement her character, the world she occupies, and the other champions who occupy it with her. Renata Glasc comes to League of Legends today, with her dark chemtech enterprise in tow.

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