Interview: A Chat With Valorant s Max Grossman On Killjoy And Riot s Design Philosophy For New Agents

Looking at something like Team Fortress 2, that game's turret is like a bunker. If you put it down and have enough supplies, the opposing team can't get past it unless you have like, 18 people throwing their bodies at it, and the turret is killing people left and right. It's a very different experience than the turret we shipped in Valorant. What we always found most exciting about the turret is this feeling of setting up a crossfire of your own. Sorta like, "OK, somebody is going to attack this chokepoint, my turret [is] on the right-hand side, and I'll hold the left-hand side." So when they try to push through, the turret shoots first, and I can shoot them while they're distracted. Distraction was the concept. Not a turret that instantly and autonomously takes enemies down to zero hea


Although the game has never been exactly known for its friendly player base, recent seasons have seen a drastic increase of League of Legends ' toxic behavior in-game that avoids chat detection. With even some famous streamers acting this way, many matches would end with someone AFKing or sabotaging their team and receiving no punishment. Because these actions became widespread to the frustration of many community members and figureheads, Riot vowed to heavily revamp its behavioral syst


League of Legends ' expansion was emphasized earlier this week with a new cinematic story trailer for Ruined King: A League of Legends Story . Alongside the other untitled projects that Riot Games announced last year, Ruined King will be a single-player RPG set in the League of Legends universe. Players will add several iconic characters from the base game (Miss Fortune, Ahri, Illaoi, Yasuo, Braum, and Pyke) into their party as they explore the Shadow Isles. Slated to release early next year, it's the first of several ambitious projects set in the League of Legends universe to expand the story of Riot Games' now-iconic M


Perhaps it'd be interesting to see how the Apex Legends community responds to the idea of spin-off titles, and whether it'd be a worthy venture for Respawn Entertainment and/or EA. At a glance, Apex Legends and Titanfall bring enough to the table lore-wise for this to be absolutely possible, but it's a matter of gauging whether the interest is there. Somehow mixing the whimsical nature of Apex Legends ' lore with the seriousness of Titanfall could be an interesting experim


A prophecy states that Aatrox will destroy all life by himself, and under normal circumstances he and Kratos would probably kill each other, but if he enters his demonic form, he will gain an advantage because he will receive extra damage, movement speed, and heal


Cho'Gath's in-game immobility makes him a prime candidate for a rework , but that doesn't mean that he isn't strong. This monster hails from the Void and has skin as hard as diamond, and his ultimate allows him to grow indefinitely and become more and more durable as long as he successfully eats someth


Who's to say League of Legends players are going to come out in droves for Ruined King ? Plenty of players have jumped on the Valorant train, but that's not exactly a direct correlation to League of Legends ' success. Apex Legends could certainly try it, but don't expect Respawn Entertainment to announce six different spin-off games like Riot Games


Unfortunately, Mega Gnar is roughly the size of Cerebus, the mythical three-headed dog who guards the Underworld, and Kratos was able to cut off every one of its fire breathing heads with his Blades of Chaos, and unlike Gnar, Cerberus had thick molten skin to protect its b


Cassiopeia started out as a beautiful woman, but after getting bit by something while raiding a tomb, she was transformed into a deadly creature who uses poison to kill her enemies. Just like the mythical Medusa, Cass' lower body is that of a snake's, and she can turn others to stone whenever she uses her ultim

Kratos can certainly beat villains from other games , but Lissandra is definitely not one of them. Lissandra is considered to be the strongest mage in Runeterra, and she wants to use her ice powers to plunge the world into a never ending ice


The God of War games have always been popular as well, and they follow a Demi-God named Kratos who kills almost every Olympian God, and he is now taking on Norse Gods like Thor. Kratos has done some pretty bad things , but he also happens to be one of PlayStation's best heroes , and if he were to ever find himself in Runeterra, he would be able to wipe out most of League's champions. But there are certain champions that he might not be able to b


Ruined King comes alongside several spin-offs and untitled projects currently in the works. The League of Legends fighting SLG game building Guide, called "Project L," is currently in development under Radiant Entertainment, a first party studio run by EVO founders Tom and Tony Cannon that Riot Games acquired way back in 2016. Riot Games' first-person shooter, codenamed "Project A," became the immensely popular Valorant multiplayer shooter . Legends of Runeterra , the official League of Legends card game, is now available to play on mobile devices and