Why the FGC is freaking out over Illaoi 

Considering her kit in League, this is by far the most impressive transition to a fighting game they have done so far.

The Lv3 super is basically her ripping out your soul, and sending it to her god for judgement. She's one of the rawest priest characters I've seen in a game.

"FOLKS" jumpscare gives me life

Still waiting for Sett hoping he makes it into the core roster.

The red aura means she's charging her heavy attack

Why the FGC is freaking out over Illaoi: "Death by Snu Snu."

Hitstop sometimes looks weird until you play and feel it. Then it feels right.

People complained about the hitstop thing when the trailers for SamSho came out, and the hitstop there was enormous compared to this. After a while the complaints went away. Everything stopping when you hit a heavy slash is still one of the best feelings in any fighting game

12:51 Im a little wonky on the lore. You are not going 'inside' though. The gist of it is that it is a kind of trial by that 'god' nagakeborous. Thats what her lore is pretty much all about. The soul of the character is seperated from the body, and then its potential is being tested. And the outcome of that 'bite' is just pretty much always you not 'passing'. In actuality this would be outside the hands of Illaoi. She can only put you in front of this trial. edit: to the hitstopt thing: Years ago I pretty much only played Soul Caliburs, Tekken 3, old MK's and smash as my fighters. Which meant i wasnt used to hitstop whatsoever. To the point where i was annoyed even looking at it. And i refused wanting to play those games for that reason. Then SF4 came out and i played it. It took.. maybe a week until i did not notice this at all anymore, be it while playing or watching. So i assume people saying this are coming from a similar background as i did back then, or even just LoL. If you arent used to it, its really weird.

The simplest way I can think of to explain it is that the tentacles are a "win more" mechanic. She's not a puppet character, you want to be in their face hitting them and if you do it right you get tentacles that help you win more.

“Kraken Priestess” that’s a awesome title

A fighting game where you can jump in and play characters you’ve loved for over a fucking decade is crazy.

Buff Moana is cracking some heads

I really like heavy hitstop in games. Makes the rhythm more intuitive to me and the hits feel more impactful

The hitstop doesn't seem egregious to me, but I'm a Strive player, so that probably doesn't mean too much. I'm used to getting a counterhit and waiting about a minute until the next frame comes out. Also, I love to see elements and characters in the background reacting to the fight! It's always so weird to me when people in a fighting game stage are just carrying on with their lives with literally earth-shattering moves landing just to their left

So I know a bit of league lore myself but not to much and basically the test of spirit isnt putting you inside the idle if im correct instead but its taking your soul directly to Nagakabouros for a trial to see if your soul is worthy or not. Basically strips the subject’s spirit from their body then forces them to stand against Nagakabouros to prove their worth to prove their annihilating them if they fail.

Definitely the most interesting character revealed so far. I'm hoping for a monster character or two, and a traditional grappler archtype for Illaoi to team up with.

I haven't touched league in god knows how long, but Illaoi's design still does things to me.

Im gonna always call it Project L. That name is much better than 2XKO.

kettlebell as a weapon is really cool

Not sure if anyone has talked about it anywhere, but those are yordles in the background. So if anyone was curious what their size will be in this game, there you go.

That stage is a gd masterpiece

I'm so impressed by this trailer. 10/10!

For an explanation of Illaoi's ult, she is a priestess of Nagakabouros, a god that promotes motion above all else. Her job is to run around and put anybody interesting's soul into her idol, forcing them to endure a test of spirit. Either you succeed and return stronger than ever and with a greater sense of purpose after a resting period, or your will is too weak and your soul becomes food for the God. One of the coolest things in league lore considering it's balanced enough in the story that she can pretty much confront anyone and give them this test of spirit. Here it seems like every character passes the test, but is severely weakened, exactly the way it works in the lore. Except for the fact that, yknow. Illaoi would never attack someone after they passed her test, because her god has deemed them worthy.

So every new fighting game will have a muscle mommy?

That "FOLKS" startled me! 😂

By the way, JM. I think the red flash relates to animation cancelling. Perhaps it's a tell for the enemies so they know when you can't cancel an animation and have to be committed to it, so they know it's a tentacle spawning move OR it's a window to cancel the move kind of like Sol's projectile, where you bait people into doimg something.

Worst Names in Gaming History: Xbox Series S/X, Wii U, 2XKO

No coincidence that they release the “tentacle” character for EVO Japan

God illaoi is so fucking hot, and her playstyle looks so fun. I can't WAIT to main her

I can answer what is happening in her ult (it's lore). Her idol can test the will of people by absconding their soul/spirit and putting it on trial. If her god (Nagakabouros) determines them unworthy, Nagakabouros will kill them. So the figure we see underwater in front of Nagakabouros is their soul, not the champion being teleported or something. So her ult is an artistic interpretation of the trial.

Hearing bro say glazing always cracks me up

for these longer trailers and reveals, it would be cool to have you watch it through, and react, then run it back and do your pauses and breakdown/discussion. feels like it flows better that way imo. but either way, loved the video! ive never even heard of this and it looks like it plays like DBFZ?? im super interested

so excited for this game it cant come soon ENOUGH

YES BIG HITSTOP. Modern games like SF6 MK1 and T8 look so rubbery. The hitstop makes the action easier to read, plus it fits the animation style perfectly. Thanks for the recap!

I would say the tentacles remind me of Cagliostro’s traps in Granblue VS.

Also honestly. As former league player for over a decade I legit never thought this game would come out

"tentacle splash zone"

2XKO is an absolutely horrible name. I honestly think that name will hold the game back and lower its sales figures.

as far as similar characters in different fighters go, alice from the touhou fighters comes to mind as someone who uses similar concepts for a different end. all her c attacks place dolls in different positions that shoot a barrage of aimed bullets after a delay, but then they just linger there if neither the doll nor alice get hit in that time frame. her 22 specials then allow her to utilize the placed dolls in various ways, from turning them into whirling multihit bladestorms to making them shoot screen-wide beams to using them as the path for a big programmable projectile she's a _lot_ more meticulous than illaoi looks to be and firmly falls into the zoner category ( in a game where _every character has a rich selection of projectiles_ ), but nonetheless has the same style of setting up traps and big ol' danger zones just by pressing the buttons she wants to press anyway. p. fun to see the concept pop up here as well, considering league has had its fair share of touhou references since pretty early on

This character alone is selling me the game honestly

don't apologize for the pauses! It's why we watch your videos instead of just going to watch the trailer on our own. Those complaining can just watch it separately 🤔

I don't get the complaint about hitstop. It looks smooth! Might be a misconception of the prolonged flash effects on hit. They last longer than the hitstop itself.

FGC complaining about Illoi sounds about right

One thing I don't like about this game is that there's so much particles and effects on screen sometimes idk what's happening

I really like the hit-stop. It's similar to cvs2 and it truly helps my weak old brain actually parse what's happening.

I'm going to evil Las Vegas. Are you doing a meet n greet? Also the glass I ordered from you came in undamaged and looks great 👍🏻

My dommy mommy one trick getting REPRESENTED! Love to see it, lol. Also, mad props for getting the name right. You might be asking yourself; Well how can anyone get it wrong when they say it clearly in the videos about her? Yeah...I wonder that too, lol...

We should just call this double K.O or Double Knockout. It’s the same amount of syllables but it just sounds leaps and bounds better than 2XKO

I only played Master Yi in LOL when I did play years ago hope he makes the cut

1 year 1 character done woo!

the ui changes are literally my favourite part of this update, theyre honestly such an improvement

The top UI is so much better. I hope they find something similiar good looking for the super bar. I also hope there is some way to view models + animations not just ingame to make some videos.

Petition to rename 2XKO to Lethal Tempo

IDK about the rest of the FGC, but I was freaking out when I first tried her in league. Now it's just consistence lmao

Really hope they bring kayn in

She is so cool definitely gives sf6 Marisa vibes with the charge attacks got to be armor well see looks very nice.

the matches didnt make it look like shes that good but that could just be due to how technical she is and of course its a fresh game to them

6 minute trailer before it even started it's a W

For a reason, she reminds me of Lord Beerus from dragon ball fighterZ. Like an interactive setup character, which is super cool, but the opponent can remove everything if he gets hit.

Whats going on during the Ultimate: It's Illaoi's E Ability in LoL. She will use the idol to send a soul tentacle and pull out the SOUL of the target. That's why the enemy is the same color as the tentacle during the animation. It's him, it's his soul. This Soul will then be "tested" by the God, and if they are not worthy, they die. If they are, the come out stronger. In the lore, strong people sometimes will seek Illoai to be put to this test.

Interface still looks like an old flash game. I doubt its their priority right now but I just hope its not permanent. I hate looking at it

wait, instead of push block there's a backdash??? in a tag game that makes the corner sound hellish

Omg a game in the league universe that I actually might play hell yeah

Its a lot more comparable to strive Johnny, where he sets up the cards and gets followups by hitting them. But i honestly feel this is better

Too chuh-koh, great name

I never slept so good except for as this game is being developed. I know hella league IP fans are happy but damn im sleepy and waiting for something interesting to swing by. If i see community is really creaming over "X char got announced" then I consider it a fast day.

Why didn’t they call it “Lucha League-bre” ??????

Probably a stretch, but the length of the lvl 3, and the cut when she finishes it makes me think that was like a dramatic finish.

Project L is a better name than 2xko.

I do like how the damage isn't insane. Makes the fights last longer/look more intense. Unlike mortal kombat or tekken 8 matches are over in seconds and I can't see how thats fun, you make one mistake and get combo'd into oblivion, not fun to me.

As if tentacle graping everyone in a MOBA wasn't enough, now here comes the re-tentacling.

She kinda reminds me of jacko but a more aggressive build

The red aura thing that flashes when they make a heavy attack might be an armor breaker indicator Edit: Using S1 or S2 spawns a tentacle

*League Of Legends Guest Character*

the name being hated gives off horseshoe theory, its so bad that it actually turns good bcs people cant stop mentioning 2xko

Having watched a few reactions to this reveal I think it’s you specifically that is freaking out over this character. I don’t think anyone else had even half the energy you did watching this

Really?Why are people going nuts?

I’m calling this game KOKO now since it’s KO 2 times.

Can’t wait for folks to cream their pants about this game then swiftly pack apart what they don’t like it and proceed to dump on the game and dissuade more people from wanting to play it. Like the last two big fighters that came out. You know it’s gonna happen….

I'm waiting fot a tank. Please no supports, I don't want to play grapplers.

@11:00 mins you said you couldnt think of a character that played like her. I submit exhibit A: Nappa from DBFZ. Put the saibaman down and watch him wreak havoc and steal turns for you lol

I didn’t even know this game existed.

im a grappler enthusiast so im excited to see who's gonna be the grapper of all +100 champions lol has

I hope they add Tristana, Teemo, Kennan or Veigar as a zoning character. Yordles need a strong rep.

I like the hit stops actually

Oh I was wrong then

Kinda doesn’t look like Illaoi has a weakness other than height. Good reach, lots of forward movement on some attacks, crazy normals, good defensive options, and a super that works as a lockdown, mix-up, or combo extender depending on the situation… she looks pretty awesome as well. I think my only problem with her is that she doesn’t have any problems… at a glance, or I’m missing something. Where does she struggle?

2XKO? No! Stupid? YES! heck, project L would've been a WAAAY better name

The hitstop makes the game sick and is not bad at all

I hope they‘ll bring lee sin into this

Glad they added names.

I wanna to see Katarina. I wonder how long we'll have to wait for her.

I love you JM crofts I hope they put you in 2XKO as a playable character so I can be you some day

They should have called this game "Runeterra Rumble"

that super was crazy no cap

Hey JM, if you’re down to do some dbfz rollback collab content Mister Acolyte told me that he’s open to the idea. I’ve been really hoping for rollback collaborations to breathe life into the game. Love the content and super exited for Project L (I still like that name).

I wanna play 2xko right now

At 6:20, she's charging i think. because when looking carefully, you'll see her tattos glowing

Are you co-streaming Evo Japan?