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"what the point in giving so many resets?" Well the 1v9 pentakill highlight gets really boring if you have to wait 4s between every kill

Akshan: can be stealthed indefinitely Aurelion Sol: cant hide in bushes

Riot: Mobility Creep is a problem Also Riot: Lets give literally every new champion a mobility gimmick. Maybe a MS Boost, or a dash, or a resetting dash, or multiple dashes. Also lets start giving every new champ invisibility or untargetability...or both!

In my opinion, Riot should completely stop producing new champs for a couple of years and completely devote these ressources to producing 6 complete VGUs a year instead. That way, they can close the gap between old champions and new ones more effectively and we can stop having champions with Nintendo 64 graphics like Corki in the same game as Samira

To quote Skooch when talking about the design team when designing Sett: AAAAY LES MAKE A DOOD THAT PUNCH HARD, AND WHEN YA HIT HIM, HE PUNCH MORE HARD

Anyone who is new to league main Veigo and Sylas you will own the whole roaster with two champs.

I feel like Riot thinks that every aspect of every ability of every champ should be useful for every situation. Like they probably added the AS buff to Viego's E just because you wouldn't normally use it while farming otherwise. It really isn't necessary for a champ's kit to provide everything for themselves though, it kind of defeats the purpose of the 5v5 format.

Nasus' passive: i have lifesteal Akshan's passive: i have a wall of text

I'm starting to think they just want to reach a point where people STOP saying: "champs were even crazier back in the beta with global TF Ults every couple of seconds and infinite dodge Jax"

Yeah Riot needs to tone them down. Make them unique but not overloaded and/or without counter play

It's funny to think how Lillia is one of the "newer" releases, and yet, compared to all the bs the new mfs get up to you could tell me she was designed 5 years ago and I would believe you

Vars is the calmest sounding tilted person ever

I've noticed a disturbing pattern with the design of new champions: -Take slightly different versions of mechanics from already-existing champions -Mash in a ridiculous feature that probably doesn't belong in League -Double the amount of words in their kit with unnecessary shenanigans -Make them pretty/sexy (even if it doesn't make sense) and give them an expensive skin -Let them loose to terrorize the Rift I'm concerned how far this will go before they realize it's a mistake-or maybe they already know, and just want to squeeze as much money out of League as possible before leaving it to rot.

Its been recently discovered that Akshan can avoid tower aggro by swinging just by the outer circle. So yeah, balance.

I agree with all of this and i hate that this being a fantasy world it's filled with just humans, no more void creatures or monsters or demons like Fiddlesticks, just humans, even someone like the "ruined kin" who one could imagine would be very terrifying or menacing looking is just another hot dude with an edge.

As a support main, these new releases and the tuning have single-handedly pushed me away from the game. Can't peel for the carry or for myself, can't kite, can't outrun, can't fight back, can't heal through their damage. Like what is the purpose of the role anymore when new champions have self-peel, stealth, invulnerability, crazy damage, shields, and can self-heal with 1 or 2 items better than a Soraka can heal them.

Knowing how broken new champs are, I wouldnt be surprised if they made a tank assassin

I like playing Akshan but I can FEEL the enemy carries screaming at their monitors when I pop out of stealth, dash in with E, auto, Q, auto, Galeforce, allow Collector to take the kill, dash out with E, then press stealth again*, all within maybe 4 seconds, followed by the game announcing "AkShAn hAs ReVIvEd aN AlLY", who that enemy carry worked very hard to kill, expending their flash, ultimate, and movement abilities to engage, outplay, and defeat. *At level 18, Akshan's stealth is a 2 second cooldown. Evelynn approves.

Most of my frustration comes from balancing. How come some flashy, popular champs are allowed to be OP for months on end, but when offbeat, low play rate champs have a strong moment they are nerfed almost immediately.

"When you break the rules that *you* set for *your own game*..." Hey, anyone else remember when they changed how stealth works to make champions more diverse or whatever, and then *the very next patch* they announced Akali, who proceeded to break all the rules they had *just* established and had her own special kind of stealth that ignores turrets? Good times, good times.

People say "The new champs are what sell though" How do they test that? do they compare yone or sett or kai'sa to champs like trundle? Make a new champ that is more like old ones with new style. Ornn fit the bill perfectly (yes I know he isn't new but is a great showcase for what could be even though he is strong with new stuff he is still cool and interesting without ruining 90% of games)

Tldr: we need more unique champs like ivern, and not a hypertuned 1v9 imortal champs with 7 dashes

"these new champions are fun" While showing a viego pounding the entire enemy team Fun for whom? I don't think those guys were having fun at all

Rell is the only even slightly normal champ they’ve released in years

Looking at Akshan’s kit it’s the epitome of “but wait, there’s more”. I think that his revival mechanic is unique and his E looks pretty fun. Akshan can be a fun and unique champion with just that. But no that’s not enough, Riot design team want every aspect of this champion to be fun and interesting. And for some weird reason, adding more words into his abilities’ description is their definition of fun and interesting.

Riot Doubles down on yones Design this while year was all full of 200 years of Game development

Im fine with assassins or skirmishers hold kill pressure, do more dmg but while having that, they are just out shine mages and tanks in teamfights....they do more AOE, more burst, more sustain, better cc, they do everything better

"You cant put Garen in the same game as Akshan" Also Garen: 70% winrate aganist Akshan mid

My problem with new champs is that instead of having one or two gimmicks they have 15 Does akshan REALLY need a stealth, double auto attacks, 3 hit passive, whole team revive, long range execute, grappling hook with resets and more?? Can't yone be playable without having milion dashes, crit, life steal, shield, no mana, mixed damage, aoe stuns etc? The characters don't feel coherent they just have everything slapped onto them and riot prays it works and people will buy skins Edit: Oh hey you basically said i the vid what I said here lol

Riot: Hahaha 5 distinctive passive champions go brrrrrr

I've played League since it's release, and DotA before that, and from what I've gathered... As league has gotten bigger, so has it's conflictions, and it's expenses, hence the increasing merchandise, including champions. League could spend the rest of it's existence reworking the mistakes they've made (Yasuo & everyone after) on a monthly basis instead of coming out with new champs, which they honestly should be at this rate, but that wouldn't make them enough money to pay their expenses. The game is more corporate than ever, and becoming more professional and less new user friendly which compromised their main market and why they're branching out with new products such as Wild Rift & Runeterra, TFT, etc. It's far from the game any of us veterans fell in love with, and the majority of us play just for the satisfaction of overcoming the increasingly unfair odds against us. Yasuo's windwall really f*cked the game up, and compromised every other champions design after him... It's a melting pot of mayhem.

I unironically wait till they gut akshan things like removing his shield, mana regen on w, giving stealth cooldown, giving revive somehow cooldown and so on. I really like his character and his e is one of most fun alibilites in the game and i love using it

Am I the only one that's a lot more excited for the tiny goth yordle than I'm for bargain bin Aladin with a grappling hook? I don't know if that says more about the new champs' designs or me...

Nobody: Vars: HAVE YOU GUYS SEEN PANTHEON'S THIGHS???I CAN'T BE THE ONLY ONE NOTICING PANTHEON COULD CRUSH A BOULDER BETWEEN HIS LEGS CMON

I absolutely hate everything about akshan, ability design, visual design, voice acting, and even the lore ability of resurrection. It's not even like a mad scientist's "resurrection" or some literal fucking God of healing. Like that would feel cohesive. Not a single ability follows from any other. If you had just the teaser that's just the picture of a grappling hook you wouldn't even be able to guess a quarter of the kit. It's actually such a dissonant champion that I don't care what his numbers are. I absolutely despise it.

Aphelios started all this but everyone seems to forget to mention this. The response to Aphelios was that he actually got a lot of attention for having a kit so overloaded no one knew how to play as or against him. Riot likely saw this and thought, "Hey, if a champion is completely overloaded they get a lot of attention!"

Honestly, most of the champs that i used to main were just "I like their designs, their lore and they are played in the lanes i like to play. When did people start only wanting 1vs9 machines instead of the classic trinity of: * I'm not killing or engaging but i'm helping others from behind * I'm killing the enemies by cleaver tactics , teamwork and positioning * I'm distracting the enemies from the others by splitpushing or peeling. Feels sad man

I'm a sup main and my biggest issue with the new champs is that they all dive with impunity due to all the dashes/untargetability/lifesteal, my first game against akshan he could use his hookshot to just double kill us under tower whenever he wanted before he even hit lvl6 and now I permaban him even though he's a midlaner

In League, you havin fun means others are miserable, fun champs means countering them is a nightmare

Riot is also kind of hurting themselves when they overload these characters. Don't give a character three new interactions or gameplay mechanics. Give three characters three unique interactions with kits that focus on them. It would also make them less same-y. A lot of the newer champs are pretty similar to me. If you give two champions 50 different aspects, they look similar in their complexity.

Yone, Viego, Gwen, and especially Akshan could've been great champions. Then Riot gave them shields, % max health damage, etc for NO REASON. It just stupid. If all these champions were not so over loaded they would be awesome, but they are. I could go on about Akshan specifically. Don't do this to your game Riot.

If you had gone back in time and told me that sett’s kit was simple and balanced compared to future champions I would be shocked. I remember how broken his health regen was and now we have passives that are more extensive than some champions

Another problem with this trend is that it could lead to cookie cutter design where everything has the same sort of general "slayer" feel to it bc they they think they have "perfected an engaging design" instead of exploring

My favorite champion is twitch. I’ve really considered taking a break from this game, because there is really no point to playing my champ anymore. Unless you get ridiculously fed in the lane phase (which is where he is weakest) you are just useless the whole game. What is the point of playing and ADC when a bruiser or Tank can do just as much damage, but with 5x your health pool?

darius counterplay: deny him his passive and he wont be able to do much viego counterplay: dont have anyone on your team die and he will still whoop your ass but atleast he wont 1vs5 you

Sad thing is,it feels like riot forces a billion mechanics into a champion to make them fun. Why cant we have simple champions like annie, garen, malphite or warwick. It's very obvious riot is running out of ideas to make a UNIQUE champion and not copy and paste multiple abilities into one. Another thing is if they want a hard champion,they need to be extremely overloaded. Look at aurelion sol,his kit looks really easy and simple to play,but he is actually extremely hard and difficult to play. Same thing with anivia.

Rell beats Mordekaiser exactly once then Mord just adds more souls to his magic metal body and wins by making Rell's metal manipulation useless.

I think we forget that some of the most insane champs are the older ones, like katarina, with resets on kills, with exceptions of the nightmares that riot calls reworks like akali and irelia. For me personally, playing against a viego, gwen or yone has never really felt worse than playing against a yasuo or some of the other older shitshows

I hope vex is broken, I have definitely lived long enough to become the villan

NGL I think Gwen is pretty tame compared to other new champions

I replayed this video 7 times already just because hearing you rant about new champs is like music to ears. It's super soothing ahhhhhh....

I feel like Riot instead of releasing exciting new ways to enjoy the game (like those crazy Dota or Hots champions), they are just releasing high mobile and sustained monsters that don't feel like they bring up anything new to the table at this point... It feels like Viego and Ashkan's new mechanics are kinda wasted on them since they are about everything else except those novelties...

Adding counterplay to counterplay to counterplay ... now who also said something like this ? Something "super", something "top" ... Aatrox main maybe as well :p

With every champion release the collective years in game design experience go up.

It just feels like there are so many small changes you could make to new champions that would make them so much less oppressive and complicated but still viable. Like look at Viego: P - It's his unique mechanic so it's difficult to compare to others. Q is a double attack and lifesteal - Shyvana has double attack but not lifesteal, Yi has healing but can't attack during, jungle items give tonnes of drain anyway. W is a (short) ranged stun - Udyr has a stun but often has to burn flash to get it off. E is a large camouflage field - Senna also has a visible camouflage field but its range is much much smaller. R is an execute with resets and many mobility uses, key to his most impactful ability, his passive - Akali R is an execute but is time limited due to the first cast and is not free-targeted, Samira E is mobility with resets and is key to her most impactful ability, R, but is not free-targeted and only resets on kills, not assists. It's just interesting how many of the references I've used here are champions that people hate a lot but they still have elements of balance to similar abilities where Viego does not.

You know you have a design flaw when every new champ has a form of sustain that makes every pre-2018 champ seems like a joke.

Thank you! These are the videos that need to be made. You made the exact point I’ve been making since they started with these busted overloaded champions. I think I said it in one of your previous videos, but I’ll say it again. Akshan doesn’t need 10 passives to be cool and unique, they did a great job through his design and his E that actually makes him unique. His E doesn’t even need the reset to be unique either that’s just added fluff. He is the only champion that can swing around on a grapple hook, he doesn’t need gnar+shen+Lucian+sivir passive, executing ultimate, or infinite stealth+Warwick+mana regen+gold+revive W to be unique. His kit could literally just be: Double shot passive with MS on cancel Q- Boomerang that extends its range on hit. W- 5 second stealth with revive passive (no bonus gold) E- swinging grapple hook that shoots nearby enemies. R- moving snipe with bonus damage for charging (still blocked by minions and towers) Look how simple that is compared to what he currently has, and he still has an almost completely unique kit, without all the extra fluff. All that extra stuff just makes him a balance nightmare because he had 30 different numbers that need to be tuned. Instead he can have like 6 numbers that can be tuned and he will still feel about the same.

"they suck in team fights" *laughs in Jax gaming*

This channel kept showing up in my recommended for months so I finally subscribed... surprised to see the community is less than 100k subs. Love your analyses & vids!

I'm reeeeally hoping Vex will be a simpler champion when she's finally announced. The theme of a mage who controls her shadow to attack seems like a really good idea and she just doesn't seem like the kind of champion to have anime protag syndrome from what I've seen in the sentinel event. Fingers crossed

Lets not forget Viego's ult has a disgusting amount of healing on it with no diminishing returns

Bring the guy that made thresh and Darius back we need him

8:33 This whole video could be summarized by this single picture, love it

What bothers me is the complete disregard of items. The whole appeal of specialized classes is the opportunity to build game-specific item combinations to make up for what your champion can’t do in order to better fight the enemy’s team composition. Most of the newer champions can do so many different things that items serve as basic stat buffs rather than creative game adaptations, and it’s honestly so disappointing.

You know Riot has favourites when slayers, the class with 10 champions, have a dedicated itemisation while every AP champion has to be crammed in a single page.

I've been saying it since his release. Akshans revive makes no sense in his kit. They made a decent still overloaded champion and then said we need more. What else can we add to make 3 champions into one? There response to this was that they try to add new and unique things to the game so they decided to give him a revive. Apparently his passive, grappling hook, and scoundrel mechanic isn't new and exciting enough

Remember when GP had a mana refund on his Q and then they removed it saying it was too strong

i enjoy the sexiness of new male champs. It’s only fair since most of female champs are super sexy. But i don’t like how overloaded new champs are. They either need to be toned down or old champ need to get new features in their kit. The grappling hook of Akshan is super interesting and fun skill but the revive isn’t and doesn’t make sense in his kit. That revive should have been a support skill/ultimate. Like a paladin/priest type of character

As a player who has always been drawn to newer champions, I wish they'd stop making them so I could move on from this game.

Honestly, because of the crazy overloaded nature of the new champs, I've been playing the game a lot less. It feels like my favorite champs, which are older, are useless comparatively. It puts me off of the game. On the bright side I have a lot more time for other things, so I guess thanks Riot?

The worst thing is: you CAN make super unique character unlike any other AND have them have super simple skillset. Singed.

I'm actually excited for Vex tho I love her design and she's pretty much the nostalgia to my teenage emo years. Ability wise she'll probably be nuts and all the assassin players will cry about her for 2 patches till she's unplayable.

Off topic but: Are Rell and Lillia overloaded?

9:49 I mean to be fair in Qiyana's case, her Q resetting upon W usage is pretty necessary for her combos and it's still necessary for her to buy ability haste for stealth uptime. Whereas with most other newer champs with resets you could probably remove them and they'd still be functional champions.

when you play an old champion vs a new champ most of the time you just find that your enemy has so many tools to fight you with, but your older champ barely has any tricks up its sleeve, making it very 1dimensional if ur opponent knows what he/she is doing

Akali's passive when I first read it I thought you will have to hit them and then dash out and then dash back in and it made sense why her kit had so much mobility But instead of that she has just a ton of mov speed a slow on Q(she can max range Q immidetly procing it) and extended range and a stealth allowing her to just Q walk back and walk back in and proc it as much as she wants

“Does anyone even want to play Garen anymore” shots fired

It's kind of neat that League can have micro-focused champions in the same game as macro-focused ones. In general, skillshots, resets, and generally overloaded kits tend to favor micro-gameplay, while stat-checkers with point-and-click abilities require a macro-focus. A lot of newer champs are more micro-focused, but the neat thing is that macro-focused champions force the game to be more macro-focused even if their opponents are micro-focused. It doesn't matter how skilled you are at dodging skillshots, you still need to pay attention to the location of a champion who doesn't need to aim.

Literally the best video on youtube, someone speaking the truth ! I am already done with the game / quitting this season. You cant ban 6 new champs every single champ select, and then it feels terrible to play against them as they counterplay all the counterplay they are supposed to have ... xD

The thing with alot of the old champions is, that they gain absurd stats in return. Grasp Teemo can burst you down, since he needs that damage to actually poke others down. Garen has very good damage, since he cant follow a lot of champions unless he just straight up oneshots them. This philosophy doesnt just hurt the old champs, but the new ones too.

Make champs more simple. Make interesting game modes. I'd kill for even a rerun of Odyssey. Even current event, fighting wraiths and possessed champions would be fitting as hell, but no. Make every new champ an aphelios passive.

knowing most of the 'new champ extras' just get removed has always been a reason for me to hold off on buying them \_o_/

Setts been my favorite release in years largely because his kit has little complexity, and he doesn't bring 30 things to a fight with just his abilities. Like Skooch said; he hits you and when you hit him, he hits you harder.

Someone's a Persona fan, and a fan of Pantheon's quads and Sett's abs. Welcome!

Quick yone fix that would make him less aggregious to fight against: half the healing on his AA and q

Love the Persona 5 night theme in the background. I started that game a week ago and it's nice to be able to hear and recognize that game's phenomenal soundtrack in unlikely places.

Honestly at this point I'm almost certain the reason Riot didn't make Rell full on 200 years is because she isn't old enough to safely sell skins based on sex appeal.

I feel as though 1. Riot intends to take the game in a direction that is more similar to urf, and 2. Creating champions to potentially counter a previous counter they had created is good design philosophy as long as more counters are constantly made, or they are countered by champions already currently in game. For yuumi, I would argue Miss fortune being a good counter due to e slow and w grievous wounds

Talking about AOE assasins and not talking about Katarina makes me sad.

This thing with riot giving counterplay to counterplay started with aatrox in season 8 when they gave him two instances of his dash and when you hit the w you could land the first 2 Qs with your e and then when the enemy gets pulled back by the w you could apply your whole kit on one champ

Something funny, about the whole advanced kit attributes was old Mordekaiser. Before he got Aatrox'd, Mordekaiser's abilites were: - Gaining a shield up to 25% of his max health through abilities. - Three auto attacks dealing upwards of ( 200 - 360% AD ) ( 240% AP ) - An auto-attack reset attached to forementioned. - An ally-targeted AoE over time, which damaged upwards of ( 90% AP ) over time and ( 30% AP ) on recast, healing up to ( 60% AP )- not even mentioning the pretty huge base damage on said ability. - The aforementioned ability also has a passive that refunds half of the experience lost from you laning with an ally laner. - A mixed scaling AoE that at full rank instantly fills up your passive. - Ultimate passive which if you gain a takedown ( damaged an enemy within 10 seconds to be precise ) you can enslave them as your own ally and use their auto attacks as if you were controlling Tibbers / Daisy. ( Enslaved units gained 15% of Mordekaiser's health and 100% of his AD, while Mordekaiser gains 25% of the enslaved unit's health and 30% of their AP. ) - A %health magic damage over time lasting over 10 seconds, applying spell effects and reapplying the aforementioned passive each tick. ( So dying within 20 seconds of Mordekaiser ulting you enslaves you. ) - You can enslave the dragon... Yes, that means gaining and sharing dragon stats. Doesn't sound too far off of one of the new champions, huh? XD I'm not saying this to prove any point, I'm just saying he was quite wild for the other champions of his age.

9:20 I wouldn't call Akshan W a Viego or Kha's stealth. It's more Evelynn's lvl 6 passive with a dash of Warwick W. So to me Akshan is ranged AD Evelynn.

Wait wait wait Vars i like your videos, i really do, and i do think that there's a bit of and overloaded kits problem in League rn, but you are clearly playing favourites at around 12:11 when talking about Sett, let me be the objective counterpoint Strong HP regen scaling with missing health (Garen's whole passive on crack) Right ppunch auto attack that comes out at 8 TIMES left punch's speed Increased range and massive damage on his right punch Increased range and damage on the next 2 autos with Q Bonus movespeed on Q Autoattack (and passive) reset on Q Ginormous shield on W, like really fucking MASSIVE Gigantic burst of TRUE damage on W W getting stronger shield and damage based on damage taken, stop hitting yourself duh! Instant AOE pull on E with added slow Instant AoE Pull and Stun on E (easy to get 5 man stuns with it) Unsoppable in R Huge displacement into massive slow on R Huge damage scaling with primary target's missing HP on a big area (Slam that 5000 HP Sion on an ADC ;) ) Everything scaling super highly with AD and HP Meanwhile Gwen Weak ass on hit on passive Cone damage on Q that needs time to build up and is only decent when hitting with the tiny center of it A few tank stats on her W, invulnerabilty to the ranged enemies she cant reach ever Baby dash on E with mediocre steroids Unbelivably slow projectiles with R (slow to the point the ability might as well be melee before teamfights) Clunky to use R, slow to get to the big one, just fucking slow It's easy to phrase something to make it sound underwhelming or overwhelming, is it not? :3 Anyways i'll give my short take on the 3 new champs as a comparison to the video. Viego: his kit is really weak overall, yes his Q has 2 passive, on hit healing % damage, but i'd gladly take 30 free AD at lv 1 over that whole bullshit (numbers do matter when talking about damage modifiers), his W is weak enough to be balanced when you consider he's manaless and both E and R are useful but overall underwhelming. The champ really needs a strong passive to be decent, and he has one. Let's remember you can easily remove half of the text in his spells, give him massive number boosts and the champ would end up stronger. The only thing being out of line with the champ is him getting a full power R reset on each possession; mabye make the R deal half damage when he is possessing someone...? Gwen (i play her a lot): overall strong but hard to play, rewarding and quite balanced. Cut the bullshit and just wait for her W to be over, her E is pisspoor range and her ult is so slow you most be playing on 200 ping if it hits you at a legit range. Also the bulk of her power (center of Q and R) do AoE and dont have damage mitigation and heal her, so just DONT bunch one on top of the other while fighting and it's really hard to pull off one of those 1v3 clutch plays; it's like tanking a 3 man Darius Q with full stacks and then crying about the champ being broken. I'd lower her W duration since, even with the big limitations it currently has it's quite op (not as OP as, like, Fiora's W or even Jax's E, but everyone likes to cry about stuff they dont understand :D) and after that i'd buff either the base stats or her R (higher speed or bigger hitbox). Akshan: the definition of overloaded and undertuned. While Viego and Gwen have a coherent design (autoattacker with weak ass spells and the ability to posses and reset AND mobile AP autoattacker with short range area damage and immunity against super long range attacks) Akshan is legit a mishmash of stuff vaguely put together into an Assassin's creed character with high mobility, perma stealth and for some reasons range. Legit the guy just lacks CC, he has PERMANENT stealth, 2 different MS boosts, resetting high damage mobility, ranged auto, perma Lucian and Gnar's passive, mana regen hunting scoundrells, long range missing HP damage, strong ranged harass and waveclear, legit he has it ALL and it's balanced around having terrible numbers. On one hand when a champ has everything and is just balanced via numbers it's easier to balance him, just fine tune his numbers duh, but on the other hand he's legit the most overloaded champ i've ever seen, worse than Yone. Oh, and he gets bonus shutdown on top of shutdowns AND he revives people, adding a super random mechanic to his kit that feels useless for 5 games in a row and then solo wins you the next one. Legit the worst design in the game. Sry for text wall ;)

I enjoy your videos a bunch~ And your voice is smooth :)

I play teemo because when started playing league I saw champs like ophelios and got an internal concution. So teemos point and click e q and r helps me learn other things

Striat up it feels like every new character is some insane coked up miss-match of every previous champ, in viego's case literally

I think that new champions are overloaded in an attempt to make them more self-sustaining, which is more likely to interest players to play in solo queue instead of not playing at all without friends. As for newer champions looking like anime characters - sex sells. They aren't making monster characters (or old ones for that matter) because no one wants to fuck 'em. It's why even the visual rework of Mundo, who I'm pretty sure is a zombie, was made to look more handsome. It's also why this current Sentinels of Light event is adding a new Thresh skin to make him look fuckable, since apparently his default skin just wasn't thematic enough?

As a gwen main, i can confirm. She hits a lot. Maybe too much. But gwens biggest issue is her vulnerability displacment and stun effects. A single malphite with ult can body her, and she has no team fight potential. I know this probably sounds like a bias take, but as someone who plays gwen more than any other champion, ive noticed her biggest weaknesses, and unlike someone like akshan, she actually does have hard counters

I think that the response of the community has been a big part in this, every champ they make gets received with a lot of hate, even the well designed ones like Lillia, Sett, and somewhat seraphine (that gameplay wise it's a fun and a different champion than Sona) are flamed or being compared to other champs so I think that the community feedback they used to rely on its gone so they just don't listen

I'm surprised you didn't compare Akshan's W to Evelynn's Demon Shade. It kind of achieves the same purpose, when you think about it.