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Aphelios can shapeshift from a champion to a headache.

Lee sin be like: Peasants need to shapeshift to have 6ability

I want to see riot make a support shapeshifter that has an enchanter form and a warden form. We already have champions that have a similar mix of healing and tank like Rakan and Taric, so i dont think it would be too hard to make happen

You forgot Garen. He can transform from vanilla easy to kite to Instant Killer of ADC chad pretty easily.

Quinn once was shapeshifter before season 6...

What about Yasuo? When he's my mid laner he's just Yasuo but when he's in the enemy team he shapeshifts into Faker.

It's basically balancing 2 champions at the same time, even if for the most part they just have 6 basic abilities instead of 4 basic abilities and an ultimate

My prediction : - The difficulty of balancing up to 7 Abilities - Their amount of ability making them to versatile and even more of a balance knightmare - Bug fixing the abilities' interactions with one another

Anivia is also a shapeshifter. Cryo bird, opressive burst, good crowd control and good wave clear. vs. Egg

I love these videos, it feels like nowhere near enough people talk about champion design philosophy like you do. Most people that discuss champion design talk about their aesthetics or "__ is broken" but you usually break a champion's kit down to the core aspects in a digestible method.

As a Jayce main, I can confidently say JAYCE is why true shapeshifters don't exist anymore. Super high skill ceiling but they gave him an absurd combo with his E+Q shock blast, it has damage and range that can compete with actual ults and his melee W has the highest base damage in the entire game as a non-ultimate ability. It does like 400 dmg before ratios. The only reason he isn't as popular anymore is that they basically spent nine months nerfing him during season 8 preseason into season 8 then gave everyone dashes so big effect ultimate became mandatory to compete with the other champions in mid and top. Playing against a good Jayce even when the meta isn't necessarily in a position for him to win the game is still absurd because you have to lane against one of the most stressful Poke/Burst/Rushdown champs in the game that has base stats that make him harder to kill than Darius without items. Jayce E+Q took a lot of his power budget but his mix-up of the dash+burst+AOE+Poke is still one of the worst feelings when you hit level 3 and suddenly have to pray till level 6 and you can try to even the odds. But hey as a Jayce main, I enjoy being a dick, I'm a good jayce which by default probably makes me a bad person after all. He isn't healthy but by god is he fun.

Vars I just want to mention a thing: Lillia was going to have two interchangeable forms in her original concept (a bruiser form and an assassin form). While we can't be sure if her abilities would change entirely like Nidalee or just power up like Kayn/Rhaast, we can assume Riot still wanted to do a kinda shapshifter in recent times. Only thing that prevented that, people hated it.

keep in mind: shape-shifters basically get two skins. so they're never gonna make another. or if they do its gonna have ridiculously overpriced skins. no more "bogo" deals.

I recall Lillia was supposed to be a shape shifter. She could shift between three forms but the shift was not under players control. Apparently the game testers said the gameplay way so toxic they had to scrap the entire concept mere weeks before release.

Is it just me or are most shapeshifting champs are highly contested in pro play like elise reksai nida and jayce but average in soloq. And why is that im guessing proplay is more earlygame focused so at lvl 3 your champ has 7 abilities while the enemy has only 3 abilities

They should take some cues from smite with shape shifters. Smite has a good amount of them and have varying play styles and class types as opposed to league where they are all early game champs.

How about a video about champions with "false" ultimates? By that, I mean spammable Rs that have a lower impact on their own but have synergy with the rest of the kit. It makes their champions have less big flashy moments but allows them to distribute their power budget along longer periods of time. Some examples could be Karma, Leblanc, Quinn, Elise, and Kassadin.

I think Shynava is a transformer not a shapeshifter. Like Aatrox, Nasus, Swain, Volibear, etc. Champions who can turn into something when press ultimate or fill passive bar or something, like Shyvana turn into drag, Naus bigger and Swain grow wings and glow red. When they transform, their role don't change just become better version of themselves. Like they get extra stats, temporarily upgrade abilities or both. Sorry for long passage and grammar😄

would have loved to see Rell as a true shapeshifter... and as a madman, why not give her three forms with only 2 abilities each and 1 ult per form : mounted, fast, light support with small shields and speed buffs ; armored, slow, big self-shield, self regen and cc ; and empowering an ally were the shield is given to the ally, stat buffs based on her AP for the ally, short ranged high damage and healing for one ally

They cant complain about shifters are hard to desing when aphelios exists

I loved stance switchers in SMITE and then I loved Jayce and Elise in League!

I think it is kind of a strech to classify Rek´Sai as a shapeshifter tho. Yes, she "Changes her form" and gains different abilities, but once you are in a fight you sorta have to unborrow since you can´t aa while borrowed. It´s not just that her main damage lies in unborrowed but rather that you can´t do any damage without unborrowing (except q). She seems more like a sub-Shapesifter IMO.

It would be cool to have a champion that in the beginning of the game, gets to choose from 1 of 5 consumables that then effects the direction their base scaling goes. The potions would be for 1. health 2. Resist 3.Move speed 4.Adaptive damage and 5. Ability haste. You only get to choose ONE, so this champ could technically go in any role depending on what potion they want to take. The champion would also change the moment they take the potion, matching in appearance to whichever he/she takes. A nightmare to balance no doubt but, would be so dope.

Love that you mentioned "Aphelios will be included in this video :D" as an aphelios enjoyer this made me happy to see :)

Imagine a support shapeshifter that can shift between enchanter and engage/tank. But not with an ability or an Ultimate, but with a passive. The tank form is like an armor that you can equipt/wear *just in base* (kinda like Corkis package that you pick it on base) and that armor gives you aditional health, resistances and damage reduction that scale with level. The aditional health that the armor gives you would be like Skaarls health (a "second" bar) that makes you shift form when is over but with a little twist, when that second bar is over the armor explodes knocking up/stunning every enemy that is near the armor, after the armor explodes and you are near the armor your movement speed gets reduced for idk 3 seconds (this for not making this champ an OP one), your aditional resisistances and damage reduction is gone. The tank kit focused on CC and tankyness but with an ability to send the support flying away (like Tristanas W) while leaving the armor behind and if you recast it you can explode the armor The enchanter kit focused on shields, buffs and heals A support like this would be interesting to see You can even make it so the support needs to roam to collect armor pieces to create the armor, instead of just picking it from base

I think if they ever make a true shapeshifter again, then it will be more like Gnar or Kled than Jayce or Nidalee in that they have very limited control over when they transform. Actually now that I think about it, I would bet that when Shyvana gets a VGU she'll get the shapeshifter treatment, rather than just stronger abilities.

As a Poppy main, I’d like to see a video on are Yordles an abomination? Teemo, lulu, Kled, etc.

Nah man, it's because in order to make shapeshifters they need to make two skins for every skin they make and that's just not in the budget

I hate premiers because now I have to wait :(

12:24 are u sure about that? I'm pretty sure champs nowadays already conflict with how League of Legends was designed from the start with 1 passive, 3 basic abilities and 1 ultimate. They have multiple passives in their passive, more than one basic ability in a single basic ability, passives in their basic abilities/ ultimate, their basic abilities having as much impact as an ultimate, their ultimate basically being a basic ability, etc, etc.

I really do hope they come back, i'm a Guild Wars 2 player and the entire game is designed for you to switch betwen your main and secondary weapons. It's just so much fun. I wish we had a champion that in one form is a control mage and a phisical melee assassin on the other.

Isn't Gnar the only exception to the rule that all shapeshifters are Early-Mid champs? Because I've always felt he does better as the game goes on (Mid-Late game).

5:46 "defense converting to offense is close to impossible" k'sante: hold my beer

Meanwhile in smite: *Tiamat has 11 abilities*

11:43 I would definitely disagree with that, since the abilities that make or break a champion are mostly not the ultimate. Maybe if you only look at a single usage of every ability but that should not be how you have to look at a power budget.

I really like the forced change shapeshifters. I play a lot of Kled and knowing when you’re gonna lose Skarrl or get him back is where you get to flex on your opponets. Same with playing around Gnar’s transformation. Seeing how much rage has been built and knowing when to go in or back off is a depth i like. It shows the champion and game mastery.

Vars: "Today we'll be talking about Shapeshifters." (Doesn't mention Neeko) Neeko: "And Neeko take that personally."

Rell had a huge shapeshifter potential, like he could became an charging knight, them shapeshift and became something like an bastion, but riot is to lazy to do something good.

damn bro, i’ve been watching you since the realm videos, and watching u grow, all i have to say is wow! You deserve all the credit you get because goddamn these videos are so well edited

Haven't watched a video from your for years and still recognized your voice immediately! Great video

All champs are designed to have flashy esports highlight reel ultimates now.

"The concept of turning offence to defense is impossible to pull off" is false. Sylas ult turns ult that is ad to ap, hence it is possible to turn offensive stats to defensive and vise versa but its just how much is the question.

As a fan of theorycrafting myself, I once made a Quinn rework where she became a shapeshifter, which I know, she used to be, but I went on a direction more similar to Rek'sai, albeit it still being her ultimate. She gets her ultimate from level 1 and its form gets new abilities. Her bird form's W is her current human form's W, her new human form's W is, roughly speaking, an instant consume of all units marked with her passive for some more wave clear. In addition, her bird form's Q is a quick burst of movement speed and her bird form's E is similar to ASol's or Kayn's E allowing her to cross over terrain for a short duration. That said, I kept her bird form abilities extremmely simple not to make her kit too overloaded. Q = movement speed, W = vision, E = ignore terrain while her human form's new W gives her quicker waveclear.

Knowing how they operate these days it's because they don't want to put extra effort on making skins for them :/

4:29 'designing and maintaining a shapeshifter is no easy task' In contrast of Irelia, Akali, Yone, Zoe, Akshan, AS, Azir, Ryze, Fiddlesticks, Urgot, Morkdekaiser, which were/are easy to balance

6:54 "one form being artillery, and one form being a diver" that is quite literally what jayce is -- insanely high damage on long range poke, while being able to dive your backline when 1 or 2 targets are below 60% hp

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Riot shapeshifted them into a dead archetype and frankly I'm glad we don't have anymore Jayces

I would love to see a support shape shifter as I personally love the mechanic. I think it would be really cool if they implemented the "ranged Udyr" idea they had, and made a Shaman that shapeshifted between a ranged enchanter built around 3 deployable totems with different simple area effects and interactions, and a melee engage form where he/she "becomes the totem", ie they provide similar buffs but centered around themselves, encouraging allies to get in there with them. I can imagine: P: Can switch between stances without cost, on a 10-5s cooldown. In ranged form abilities place a totem on the ground with 2-6 hits (like a ward or yorick wall). Switching to melee form will consume the two most recent active totems and give the champion altered effects. Melee form has bonus health, armor and AD. Ranged form has bonus ms, mana regen, Q: A font of life style mark on enemies in the area, with a 20% slow on first attack. Consuming the mark gives a 5-10s burst of adaptive force. Melee form: the shapeshifter's attack becomes a small dash (Illaoi W) and first attack stuns for 0.5 s instead W: Melee form a large zone that redirects damage from allies to the champion as damage over time, and their damage back to you as healing. Switch to ranged cleanses remaining DoT. E: Grant true sight in an area (finally an Akali counter), and when the champion and an ally is in range, drain the champions mana and give to allies (Soraka's old E). Melee form: Champion and allies gain bonus ms and become ghosted. R: switch shape I think there are a lot of cool directions the creative work could take, but the kit for sure would need some work, these were just some thoughts.

I used to be a gnar one trick, when I first got the game I scrolled through the champ list looking for the cutest champ to play and I chose gnar, so I began one tricking him, I have 153k on him now but I rarely touch him, I have now shifted over to jayce after accidentally locking him in a like 6 months ago when he was on rotation and falling in love with him (very hyped he was arcane he’s so hot, but people really suck ass at him) and I find that yes, a lot of people don’t know how to play against jayce, I personally enjoy him in the mid lane, and I roam a lot because a lot of mid lane match ups are hard, like akali, except I think akali is one of the most busted champs I’ve ever seen. Although he doesn’t fall of too hard late game since he can poke from so far away, I find him really fun and I hope riot doenst try to change him, because in his current state, he isn’t good in the meta. Gnar on the other hand is a beast tho, his early and late game are good. That’s my spiel that has no purpose other than to say I love Gnar and Jayce (he’s so hot)

Wow i like that you included a pokemon example.Brings back memories :)

The problem with Joyce is that a skilled player can land both empowered autos and basically have void staff and grudge applied to the enemy for a second which makes his next attack just hurt unless you have like 5k hp, the best option might be to change his passive from magic armor and armor shred to like stun, lowers the skill floor provides a still good passive and decreases his burst output but making his ability to catch or escape you higher

Can you count Sion as a shapeshifter? Primarily a tank cc-beast, but once he's killed his transformation triggers, and he turns into an all-in damage dealer for a few seconds. And some people focus specifically on the second form by building him as a glass-cannon assassin to capitalize on his second form's damage output.

In a Moba called Heroes of the Storm there are only 2 shape shifters that you can play, Greymane and Deathwing, I don't remember how greymane is doing but I can say that his gameplay is similar to Nidalee, Deathwing on the other hand I know what is going on with him now. Simply put he has a melee and ranged form, his trait was that his allies cannot heal him but he has 4 plates that give him passive armor against all damage and he can lose up to 3 plates with each being assigned to a specific 1/4th of his health and lastly he is permanently unstoppable. on release it was all about the melee form to the point that most players would never go into ranged form, you could see that Blizz tried to make both viable by making it that the melee has more damage and healing but lacks CC while the ranged has less damage and healing but is safer (ofc since it's ranged) to heal back up but by also being the form with the most CC, however that didn't matter as Deathwing was so tanky and melee form did so much damage and healing that you could just go in and 1v5 the whole enemy team and the only thing stopping you from doing so was if the enemy had percentage health damage, so Blizz nerfed his melee form and capability as a tank to the point that now in the recent games that I have been into I almost never leave the ranged form for the melee as in most situations it's just suicide especially if the enemy team have characters with percentage health damage

Kayn: "you guys can transform many times in a game?"

I just realized because of this vid, that I kinda wish swain had an empowered ability during ult. It's literally called demon form. Even if it's just like a simple passive cd reduction so u can pull more often

I miss Quinn & Valor. Being able to buy Hurricane & Hydra back when they were melee/ranged locked was super fun.

A big part of the problem is League's all-in character design. In DotA 2, there's Troll Warlord who can swap between Melee and Ranged stances, with only one ability changing between the two. Whirling Axes are a cone that slow in Ranged, while Melee is an area around Troll that give them a chance to miss. What Berserker's Rage (his shapeshift ability) does is it grants him a ton of Range in one form, while the Melee form gets bonus armor, bonus attack speed (kinda), Movespeed, and a chance to root the target on hit. League could easily make a Shapeshifter who can, at will, trade Range for bonus Armor and some Lethality, allowing them to be more of a bruiser or an ADC while having to build around swapping forms. Kinda like Jinx, except it's not AoE or increased fire rate. Even Lone Druid, who goes from a Druid to a Bear, still has most of the same abilities

rewatching old vids, but to think K'sante would be a headache, I mean shapeshifter in 2023

As far as I'm aware, when Anything Goes became a thing with the advent of Mega Rayquaza, Ubers was granted the status of being an actual tier (since that meant it had a ban list), although I wouldn't be surprised if people treated it as an actual tier (albeit unofficial) beforehand (for example, DPP Ubers has had Arceus legal and banned throughout the years). I might be mistaken, though, I'm not fully knowledgeable about the history of its status as a tier (or of Arceus' legality in DPP Ubers, for that matter), I haven't been an avid Ubers player myself.

I have always loved shapeshifters. A champ that I think would be really cool to see would be an enchanter shapeshifter. I really like darkin so I’d like to see another one and make it freely change between human and darkin stance (unlike kayn), where the human drains hp to shield and protect while the darkin more relies on damage to regain the lost health. I think it would also just be really cool to have a darkin dynamic that also cooperates with their host

Though a vastly different game, Dota;s Lone Druid I think you would find interesting Mr Vars. LD himself is a shapeshifted between a ranged and melee form once level 6 but also has a second gimmick in his kit that he is more well known for. His Q summons a bear thats a summon with a hefty cooldown but is summoned indefinitely or until it or LD dies. The Bear produces a dual playstyle where the bear has its own items so when reaching ultra late game, an LD can have 6 items both on the Hero and the Bear. A really good and efficient LD is a marvel to watch but his balance has not been the nightmare that some of League and Dota's similar characters faced. Also there has been a highly diverse build paths over the years, many opting for a bear focused build making the bear become a hypercarry and the Hero to support it with buffs and auras, but there have been times when people build the Hero as an attack speed / on hit carry and using the bear to tank and peel. Love your content, hope you could look into some design choices made in other similar games without the classic league player mentality of "LOL BETTER DOTA". All the best Sir x

That gameplay Sound 12:00 looks so good without the hud and health bars!

Half-expected to see Kayn here, but when you stated the reasons on why he is not, its understandable.

I was quite happy seeing my queen reksai get a video :D

One funny thing about aegislash is also that it SINGLEHANDEDLY got the steel type nerfed lol

Though, Aegislash was banished to Ubers because of his mix sweeping ability, I.E. you'd take an HP nature that sacks speed, go Shadow Ball/Shadow Sneak/Sacred Sword, Rock Slide or Iron Head/King's Shield. Max out Sp. Atk and Atk, swap in, win game. Though the reason he's still their is because its easy to get free stat boosts, like Sword Dance, or you can run a defensive stall-esq set and ware down any bulky pokemon or swap into sword stance and nuke a squishy pokemon. The issue with it wasn't because it could wall or pump out serious damage on a whim, but because it had too much coverage. Even as a wall, he can check both sp. attacker and regular attackers because if you build him sp. defence, and take kings shield, he's flexible enough to check to either attackers because King Shield would lower attack by two stages if he blocks an attack with it. Also his stats are nutters with 520 total stats, with atk/sp. atk, being able to be swapped by 100. So he'd have access to 320 in total stats plus 200 that can be swapped.

As one of the 3 people in the world who play Shyvana I would argue that she is a shapeshifter. Your human form only exist to build fury for dragon form. Dragon form is the only one you fight with past 6. If you’re going AP you sit in the back line and nuke people and if you’re going bruiser it’s more similar to human form. (But most people go AP)

About the Pokemon tiers there's technically another tier that's called "Anything Goes" which consists only of Mega-Rayquaza. It's so powerful that it's even banned from Uber. Or at least that was true before Sword and Shield, I'm not too up to date in that regard

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He mentioned that champions would be too overpowered if they had a different item set for each form, but that doesn't take into account one very important thing: Economy. If a champion had to build separate items for each form, it COULD become overpowered switching from tank to DPS on a dime, but the fact is that they would take a much longer time to fully come online than other champions. When other champs have full items, they'd only be halfway there.

I was waiting to hear you talking about Quin (the old one) :c

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Actually ubers was solidified as an official competitive format when Anything Goes was made during gen 6, which is now the ubers banlist. However pokemon can not rise to ubers based on popularity and must explicitly be too strong for OU. But it is a format which is played in tournaments while AG is a true banlist without real tournament play.

I think a short range mage who turns into a ap bruiser when he pops his ult (like for 10 secs) would be a nice twist on the idea

I love all the pokemon/smogon references. Didn’t know smogon was somewhat popular with other league fans

"most champions being balanced arround 1 passive 3 basic abilities and 1 ultimate" And then theres akshan with 17 passives 3 abilities that feel like entire champion kits each and an ultimate that sucks.

Hwei chillin with "3 forms" and 10 abilities

500+ comments Im sure someone said this already 4:55 and before Riot actually created a new Shapeshifter, but it was cut off in the development leaving us the lovely dreamguard deer :3 Her initial concept revolved around good dreams and nightmares As much as I like Lillia as a champion, the idea also sounds awesome, but if I remember correctly it wasn't really in the kit when to shift shape and more like bound on ingame time which isn't healthy in the first place You might be right with stating it's too complicated to develop new shapeshifter, but let's be honest, that won't stop riot from doing it O.o

Pre - k sante video, aegislash + Deoxys + Groudon combined = rito's prodigy new puppy

something you didn't mention but is a very good example: Gnar on release was an absolute nightmare from what I remember. He dominated top lane and there was very little you could do to stop him from taking over the game, simply because he did too much.

I mean the funny thing is that some of the newest champions don't actually have less stuff in their kit than a shape shifter who literally has 6 abilities. Thats just how overloaded some of them are.

They tend to fall off because they don’t have an actual ultimate that helps them get ahead. Look at Jayce for example. He has a pretty lackluster late game and sucks in team fights because while he has 6 abilities, that’s about it. No game changing, AOE one shot ultimate or a utility ult.

You could balance items for offense/defense by giving champ a passive that partially converts the bonus stats from items to another type (armor/attack, magic resist/AP) based on their current form. That way they can itomize based more on the Passives/Actives of the items, rather than their stats

however giving shapeshifters two item inventories would balance out because it also would DOUBLE the amount of gold for them. This would mean shape shifters would priorities one form over the other in terms of building items before moving to the second one. With how short League games are, a Shapeshifter would just allow the player to tailor their play and build to their team. Almost like how Kayne can tailor to being an off tank with Red giving CC for his team if they lack it, or going Blue to murder the other teams ADC and Mages if your team already has good CC/engage.

Riot did say that originally Aphelios was intended to be a mage, and I really really want an actual wizard with a spellbook who changes out which abilities he has without affecting his playstyle for example maybe his q is a blast spell, and his w is a wall spell, and his E cycles between which element of spell he is using fire maybe does some extra burn damage, ice maybe causes a slow, lightning maybe reduces auto attack speed or lowers magic resist or something, the walls might be sort of like passable wall but it blocks vision, so you can walk through it but you can't see through it, or idk, something, and the wall should persist for a few seconds, damaging everyone who lingers inside of it while temporarily slowing anyone who trys to move directly through it until they get through this way the wall is a get off me tool and zone control, and the blast is the primary source of damage, and then the ultimate is some sort of cover up for the weaknesses of the champion, maybe it's an empowers the next w or q that you cast, the ability that makes the wall solid, and larger, and it massively increases the aoe of the q or maybe it's just a really big area cone, following the same rules as the qw, and maybe it's lingering effect is simply more powerful or has a longer duration

I know that we are talking about Riot's champion design team, but I'd really wish to see the equivalent of an Aegislash champion, someone who could build AD who loses a chunk of the AD for resistances in defense stance but also build tank and lose a part of the resitances for damage in attack stance. It'd be such an interesting playstyle, but it could also lead to a second champ with a sword and shield.

Another reason for shapeshifters (the ones that change appearance, so including Shyvanna but not Jayce or Kled) disappearing is skins, because Riot is forced to sell two skins for the price of one, one for each form

I really like Rek'Sai, because she does have an ultimate but can still change form whenever she wants. I don't think that her burrowed form is weaker than the un-burrowed, because if used correctly it is basically 8 flashes on a 2 second cooldown, hard CC and free long range "vision" with Q and Tremor Sense. Sure, her playstyle is pretty linear as a diver/assassin, but the real skill expression isn't how good you can deal dmg with un-burrowed form, but rather how good you can use her amazing utility in her burrowed form. All the other shapeshifters have a more "damage"-focused approach in both of their forms, or at least "neutral game" functions in the ranged/secondary one. In Rek'Sai's case her burrowed form is almost purely utility (Prey Seeker is mainly a vision tool), which makes her stand out from the rest.

It's okay for shapeshifters to be an anomaly on the roster, that gives them more individuality. When they do another, it would be better if it is something that develops naturally rather than forcing it in an attempt to fill an imaginary quota.

I can only imagine the Terror of riot making a new shapeshipter, Nidalee style, except its every skill is as text filled as Akshan's abilities!

Gnar isn't necessarily build around the mega form. Usually the mega form only provides a short team fight engage, but his mini form can run down entire teams, when played correctly. He combines a tanky adc with a tank diver, if you build too much on one of them he gets useless pretty fast. So I would disagree that the mega form is 'stronger'.

To be fair, not only was the thought "Azir needs to be weak" - not many used him well and because like with launch at how weak he was even Faker commented on having to be perfect with him to utilize it if I recall?

I think the thing that redeems Gnar is that you have to manage your rage and make sure you don't screw up your engage. As soon as he goes back to mini form, he's super weak and as long as he doesn't have his E, it's pretty easy to capitalize on his weakness. His engage is also pretty predictable once you realize what he can and can't do. It's similar to nidalee's combo, but you aren't dead as soon as you get hit by one ability. I do see how he can be pretty annoying though, especially when the gnar knows what he's doing.

The equipment/stat congruence is the reason why Aegislash and Galarian Darmanitan - Zen Mode are miles better than Unovan Darmanitan's Zen mode. Their stats either stay relevant or follow accordingly as they transform. Also, I have to say I love all the Pokemon analogies. I kinda wanna see some Pokemon related content from Vars now. Lol

I love the examples from other games!

ima get yelled at but strait up. i kinda like the idea of an enchanter that can switch it to an assassin real quick, Talon ult+q someone, then just go back to doing soraka things

What if you made a shapeshifter that actually do swap stats around. Like let's say your main form is a ranged champion but then when you transform your amount of AD turns into an amount of bonus health. Then your attack speed and crit could turn into armor/mr or something. You'd obviously need to work out the percentages for all these swaps but I feel like that'd be a cool idea. That way you don't need to change items.

Now i really want riot to release another one. Especially considering i play every shapeshifter apart from nidalee