Riot Games has already proven League of Legends gamers what the brand new champion Samira can do, however one among her most impressive abilities didn’t make it into the breakdown of her strikes. Her taunt permits her to not solely do injury to an enemy but additionally permits her to truly give one gold to the opposite participant as nicely. Riot Games builders who labored on Samira confirmed that is how Samira’s taunt will work and even confirmed off what the animation appears like when it’s used.
Riot Reav3 first mentioned the champion’s taunt in a publish on Reddit the place gamers have been discussing the brand new champion’s skills. The Lead Champion Designer mentioned Samira roots herself when taunting and flicks a coin at an enemy that offers one injury.
“One thing that’s unique to Samira but not shown here is here taunt,” Riot Reav3 mentioned. “Her taunt is actually a skill shot that cost one gold to use. She roots herself and flicks a coin that does 1 damage to anything it hits. It also counts as a unique source of damage for her style passive.”
Expanding on that capability, League of Legends Game Analyst Riot Blizz mentioned on Twitter the taunt was impressed by Luigi’s taunt from the Smash Bros. games. Riot Blizz continued to say that not solely does the flexibility deal injury, it additionally offers one piece of gold to an enemy it hits. It auto-locks onto champions’ useless our bodies, so after you’re taking down somebody with Samira’s flurry of skills, you’ll be able to toss a bit of gold to them for his or her troubles.
i forgot to say one of the best a part of this capability! not solely does it really GIVE one gold to your enemy while you land it, nevertheless it additionally AUTO AIMS onto useless our bodies and, whereas it cant do 1 injury, it does give them the 1 gold.
have enjoyable bm’ing, summoners!@moobeat @Spideraxe30 pic.twitter.com/IZnWVwk3CY
— Brad (@Blizz_lol) September 1, 2020
For those that seen that the Rift Scuttler had a defend within the clip, don’t get your hopes up about that characteristic being added. Riot Blizz clarified in a reply that the Scuttle defend has been in testing for a very long time now and was meant to equal the resistances a Scuttle begins with earlier than being CC’d and mentioned that the characteristic was unlikely to ship.
Even with out the distinctive taunt, Samira has a stacked package that’ll see her flying round battles and shelling out tons of injury in all instructions. We’ll see these skills and her gold-giving, damage-dealing taunt in motion in Patch 10.19 when Samira involves dwell servers.
