Exclusive: League Of Legends New Champions

05 Oct 2009 at 16:03:31 by Bill Vaughan

Riot games has given us the latest news on two new champions that will feature in the upcoming League of Legends, Heimerdinger and Shaco. Get the lowdown on these characters below:

Shaco, the Demon Jester

• Deceive – Shaco stealths himself instantly and teleports to target location.
• Jack In The Box– Shaco creates an animated Jack-in-the-Box at target location, which will wait, stealthed, to Fear nearby units and attack them when some come nearby.
• Two-Shiv Poison– Shaco's Shivs passive poison targets on hit, giving them a miss chance and slowing them.  He can throw his Shivs to deal damage and poison them.
• Hallucinate [U] – Shaco creates an illusion of himself near him, which can attack nearby enemies.  Upon death, it explodes, dealing damage to nearby enemies.
• Backstab [P] – Shaco deals 30% bonus damage when striking from behind.

Heimerdinger, the Revered Inventor

• H-28G Evolution Turret – Heimerdinger lays down a machine gun turret.  This turret gains experience from attacking units and can level-up, gaining boosted damage and armor.
• Hextech Micro-Rockets – Heimerdinger fires a number of Champion seeking missiles, hitting random champions within it's super long range.
• CH-1 Concussion Grenade– Heimerdinger lobs a grenade at a location, dealing damage to enemy units / turrets as well as stunning anyone directly hit and blinding surrounding units.
• UPGRADE!!! [U] – Passively increases Cooldown Reduction; in addition increases Heimerdingers and his Evolution Turret's Attack Speeds.  Activate to heal and upgrade one of your Evolution Turrets to lvl 2 to gain Ur'Anium Rounds, or lvl 3 to gain Explosive Cartridges.
• TechmaturgicalRepairBots [P] - Heimerdinger has increased Health Regen.

See in-game images of these new champions below. You can also check out the walkthrough trailer to find out more about League of Legends, which is based on the massively popular DOTA, and can best be described as a strategy RPG focusing on online gameplay.

Riot Games is made up of industry veterans who have worked on Warcraft III and it also includes team members who worked on the successful DOTA-Allstars mod for Warcraft III.

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