^ This.

I've always been curious especially since Averdrian was canceled. I've had pretty good ideas for a mid ranged psifighter style champion.

I love this thematic for a champion, but the difficulty is art - visual effects that show "brain magic" is really hard to do well. Mesmer in GW1 was doable because many skills were hard to read and players were expected to watch debuff timers, etc.

While I like the League IP quite a bit, could you comment on the rash of Vengeance Quests these days?

Why are there no more proactive quests, and characters with visible goals for the future or simply lives outside a particular defining moment in their past?

Ashe has political maneuvers, Gragas drinks a lot, Singed comes up with new deadly brews, Malzhar has a fun cult.

Where is the mechanic of a Champion fighting in the League to change something and make a difference?

What about a baseline of a character whos wife was killed by say Noxus. He deeply loved his wife and the two of them were both kind innocent people. Now after the death of his wife he desperately seeks to aid others and stop Noxus, so that the same tragedy that befell his wife can never happen again.

He is not fighting for revenge. He is fighting for everyone else.

I can't think of any characters in the League whos lore involves them joining the League because of the death of a loved one. (If there is one please tell me, I have read all the lore's but I forget some from time to time).

If it helps any, I might suggest taking a look at psi influences from (for instance) comic books. Of course you guys do all kinds of your own research and there's no shortage of creativity at Riot, but something like Psylocke's butterfly tell is a pretty unique and interesting one.

Thank you again for taking time to answer!

We have touched on Revenge in a short period a bit too much, but this is part of the growing pains. I'm not in charge (Kitae is working on some of this stuff) of IP, but I'm excited about some of the mid- and long-term results here, especially in how we make the lore actually cool and relevant outside text.

I feel pretty dumb asking, but what does IP stand for? I'm drawing a blank on everything but Implementation Phase but I know thats not it.

Intellectual property.

Ahhh okay it makes sense now, thanks.

When do you think we will get a new map... I see there are many areas in this world map... only TT, SR, and Dom are available. I'm just curious, I'd rather a new play type than a new champ tbh... but why no Spider Queen.. have we not got enough people to show we want it in that forum D: