AURORA - Abilites + Gameplay + Tooltips + My Testing!

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Chapters:
0:00 Aurora Preview, Role, Background etc.
0:50 Aurora Abilities explained + tooltips
6:30 Aurora Gameplay, Items, Runes etc.

[@Vandiril]

Clarification as to how Aurora's Passive heals - by RiotRayYonggi "When she uses passive on champions, she exorcises a spirit from them, which follows her and heals her for a short duration. The more spirits, the more healing and movement speed she gains."

[@janvareca]

so garen passive on top of all of that, giving these mages sustain is really bad since they can just abuse it during laning phase, everyone complains about every new champ having 100 dashes but they dont notice that every new champ has some sort of heal or shield

[@alexandrubucurica1709]

​@janvareca Can you even read? Garen gets passive regen out of combat. She needs to proc her passive (actively engage in combat) to get the healing. It is more like lillia passive healing.

[@deathmaker9835]

3:54 what is this max hp scaling on her E?

[@KyzerGHD]

@@alexandrubucurica1709 what stops her from getting mana sustain and then poke and outsustain you during laning phase ?

[@mcfarlane2701]

@@deathmaker9835increases her 3 hit passive damage?

[@merin1093]

Riot working on this champ for 7 years feels like them saying they have 200 years of collective game design lol

[@ReallyReallyTrying]

If I'm not mistaken they said Aurora came from a scraped concept that originated Sylas. So it's not exactly wrong to say she is 7+ years, just not exactly accurate. 😅

[@AuroraTheFirstLight]

200+7 years!

[@alvek230]

1400 years of collective game design

[@MangaGamified]

@@ReallyReallyTrying Man I wanna see these devs' game jam, and see what they can make in 1 hour. Also, there was c0vid years ago, and lay offs, who takes 7 years to make a champ and still work at riot?

[@hYperCubeHD]

@@MangaGamified Nobody. The original concept is just 7 years old. But she's not been in active dev for that long, I would assume for about 15 months considering when the designers last project released.

[@Alaska23]

riot try not to make a 3-hit passive challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

[@itchyballsl]

riot august moment

[@walkelftexasranger]

And pretty boring one as well. Yay we have 3rd champ who has 3-hit passive that deals damage and gives MS! Never seen that before!

[@BasileAstyorm]

​@@walkelftexasrangera 3rd ? Ekko gnar vayne akshan and im sure i forgot some !!!! 😂

[@Loshe_]

Braum and Kai'sa exist

[@edipedipbulmaz]

e q q procs it

[@SadToffee]

It's crazy that they added unstoppable to the cast of her R just in case somebody tried to counterplay by holding their CC to counter a key cooldown.

[@freshlymemed5680]

They saw Lilias kit and decided to just make a better version.

[@mr.rabbit5642]

​@@freshlymemed5680 *stronger

[@DANY-ts1nz]

Crazy how this comment could be a thing to all champions with unstoppable ... I really dont see a problem there.

[@thanhao5500]

Skarner moment

[@bcillus]

def getting removed after a week, maybe even a day

[@tannerweinheimer7839]

“Hard CC is going to be one of her worst enemies” “While dashing through her ultimate, she is unstoppable”

[@the_last_ballad]

And a very telegraphed end position Unstoppable champs still get hit by damage and cc, their dash just can't be canceled by the cc. Meaning that unless the cc is shorter than the dash duration, she'll still be cc'ed.

[@tannerweinheimer7839]

@@the_last_ballad you cancel stuns with unstoppable and negate it entirely.

[@thicc_ducc]

@@tannerweinheimer7839 Absolutely not true, its only for the duration of the spell, the cc still applies afterwards. For instance, ornn's w makes him unstoppable, meaning that if he gets hit with morgana q he will finish his fire breath and continue walking a short distance, but after the ability ends he will be rooted for the rest of the durration. This just means that Aurora can't be stunned middash and left in the middle of her ult, which seems reasonable as that could be jarring both for her and enemies predicting her landing spot

[@thicc_ducc]

I will add that unstoppable does have some very strong interactions with other abilities, such as by cancelling Mord R if used during its channel time, but its really not that overpowered in most cases (K'sante is a different story)

[@ignisvis8867]

You can wait her to dash and get her on the opposite side of the ult. The issue is there seems to be no CD on the dashes 😅

[@illfreak821]

whenever you hear that their biggest counter is getting ccd you know its gonna be some fuckin extra deluxe bullshit lmao

[@alexandreclergeaud4672]

yeah, cc is a counter to basicaly everyone

[@Vandiril]

It is what it is. I don't really fancy playing against her myself.

[@nikatala1985]

cc the untargetable champ yesss camille r but better nice

[@blackice8634]

What champ isn't hard countered when CCd? Such a dumb way of putting it. "This champs weakness is dying." No way 😮

[@CojonesMuchoGrande]

Well not against Olaf

[@mememan2987]

Just one more 3 hit passive bro trust me we need just one more 3 hit passive

[@opsroyal]

just one more bro that will be enough I just need one more 3 hit passive my 2 hit passive with hwei wasn't enough I need another 3 hit passive

[@JuandanielDelacruzsantos]

​@@opsroyal hwey was a 3 hit passive

[@opsroyal]

@@JuandanielDelacruzsantos Hwei Passive is proc on 2 ability hits, right?

[@kayrek]

she is just vayne lol

[@cafeconleche0343]

​@@kayrek but ap bro, ap

[@hanbyeollee2528]

"Why do they keep trying to hit 3 times?" - Jhin

[@kromtastic]

She ults in Morde ult and both shift into the Marvel Cinematic Universe

[@holysex1052]

😂

[@bartekgaw1]

Domain expansion fight

[@PrestigeCarImports]

Stealth, double dash, game changing ult, I'm sure this will be balanced, what could go wrong?

[@Vandiril]

Technically she has 3 dashes :D

[@tyros98]

HOLLY SHIT HER KIT IS SO BROKEN XD

[@Cyushii]

Don't forget the max hp damage on passive. I feel like Vayne should be removed as everyone get her W as passive now

[@PrestigeCarImports]

@@Vandiril I can already see the RIOT 200 years spam in twitch chat 😂

[@CheezeLord]

​@@Cyushiiit is magic damage, so just go mr item and you won't notice much of it😢

[@jaden2026]

This 3 hit passive was 7 years in the making

[@variamoglou100]

+wall jump

[@GhoulBandit]

🤓

[@yellow_flash813]

🤣🤣

[@silliestgoober69]

if she has 500 ap and mixes in autos she can do 22% max health + 1500 damage just from 1 rotation of q and e, not using ult

[@jonathankearney2793]

crazy that in one patch dota 2 not only added passives to all of their 127 characters (maybe 20 of those passives existed before this patch in their kits) but also introduced 2 additional new features (facets) for each character as choice during the picking phase that changes how you play that character fundamentally in many cases... and the league team spent 7 years to drop another 3 hit passive character.

[@chelovekzaz9878]

Yeah, but DotA didn't have a normal updates for almost a year for that. It was literally the same gameplay\meta. Also Riot releases new champ feels like every month or so and Ringmaster in DotA will be released somewhere in 2024.

[@the_last_ballad]

Why do so many people not understand development? "That meant the team had to make a tough decision: redo the kit or redo the character. They then created Sylas. But the work didn’t go to waste. The kit turned into Sylas, some aspects of her personality became Lillia, and the research the team did into the Spirit Realm helped shape Yone, Spirit Blossom, and even helped with Fiddlesticks’ demon lore. That said, the champion as we knew it was gone, destined to rest in a folder alongside Ao Shin and others. Until..." Sylas came out in January of 2019, and "Bunny Spirit Witch" was iceboxed until development on Aurora started, and everything that was already made for her went to other projects. That "one patch" meanwhile likely took multiple months to make, but was bundled together because that makes sense to do.

[@xofurs9805]

Meanwhile Dota has less changes in 7 years than league does in one preseason

[@Nayrkcaj]

too bad dota is a shit game

[@nordvirus6671]

​@@xofurs9805and even with all those changes league is still a toxic puddle of shit

[@BingChiller227]

Players: "so what all abilities is this new character gonna have?" Riot: "yes."

[@Bako9901]

0:24 when I see that kit I can definitely say, the gameplay part was developed in the last year. The other 6 had to be pure lore xD

[@sunless7413]

her kit has a lot of similaritires with kayn w, xayah e and shaco q and they were all released 7+ years ago

[@namegeneratorsystem5553]

Pretty sure cause she stemmed from sylas concept (the glasses, solo lane mage, etc.)

[@dinconium2570]

could be design as well, a mage with a witch hat and swings a wand seems like it could be designed in the early years

[@AuthorTheIdiot]

N-no? If you look at "cancelled champion", Riot planned a champion with an ult like his, all the way from, like, season 5 or so.

[@henriquepacheco7473]

​@@dinconium2570 7 years ago wasn't the early years, it was season 7.

[@manic_ferret]

7 years for a 3 hit passive champ is funnier than star citizen being in development for a decade edit: i know how game dev works, this is a joke

[@angulinhiduje6093]

7 year to cook up enough bugs to boost vandirills channel

[@staotheduck4853]

Store citizen

[@sylviahoward1065]

Star Citizen in development for a decade and all they've got is an overexpensive storefront

[@Leonardodeboni0406]

They made an AP vayne

[@KneeCaps]

That game ain’t ever coming out. The cope from the community is insane.

[@thezerrech]

domain expansion -mordekaiser: DEATH REALM! -aurora: SPIRIT REALM!

[@octocreeper8182]

Jungle might be viable since you can literally just dash over a wall while invisible and then just ult them, while avoiding ganking people with blinks

[@TheZplit]

So many old characters rolling in their graves because they have no mobility as they were meant to

[@1wntv]

Blitz even slow himself lmao

[@Lingxu-YT]

@@1wntv Fr though, if champs with high mobility like this get released , why can't blitz have a simple speed boost without slowing himself idk man

[@WorldKeepsSpinnin]

​@@Lingxu-YTcuz he is a cancer champion, plain and simple. Unless you want your 30% ban rate champion to go to 70% id suggest dealing with it.

[@luiguipc3863]

@@WorldKeepsSpinnin this new champ is 5x more broken than blitz, and will get buffed after they release it just to then nerf all of her disgusting kit

[@wata8780]

@@luiguipc3863 Do you understand how fucked up old bliz when he not get slow on w? he just w and w forever and with his Q is literally more cancer than any dash

[@matoupetou]

"Hello guys. So my R is like Camille's, you can't escape but it's way bigger, it has 80% ap ratio, slow you for 2 seconds, it makes me dash whenever i want AND it makes untargetable. Did I tell you about my Shaco's Q that reset on kill participation ?"

[@mesterfolego3526]

Bro it's Mordekaiser ult + vayne ult invis,3stack max HP damage,dash

[@sohtnax7809]

Riot Games try to make new champion without recycling old mechanics => challenge 99% impossible

[@GhoulBandit]

🤓

[@kostasgkaros744]

@@sohtnax7809 they can take ideas from dota and hon like they did with some good champions

[@rasukaru1594]

@@sohtnax7809 Yeah, right they have to come up with completlly new mechanics for every single Ability after 160+ champions.

[@dewaunwarren1]

Wait so she's a sorcerer, she uses cursed energy, and her ultimate creates a domain? Who at Riot is a JJK fan?

[@TobyBNook]

august

[@Flexy59]

imagine if they said "if two domains overlap, the one whose caster has higher AP cancels the other domain"

[@aoffydosy1530]

Also Aurora : Nah, I'd win (or somewhat)

[@aaabbb-zc7sx]

​@@Flexy59mordekaiser vs aurora is going to be top 10 anime battles

[@Flexy59]

@@aaabbb-zc7sx the strongest botlane mage in the past vs the strongest mage of today

[@RashdosEU]

Love the 28fps at 5:22 . Truly 200 years of game optimization right there

[@theogy576]

Looking at the new characters, it's hard to believe that Singed used biological weapons during the war.

[@averonisgaming9023]

No amount of elemental magic can protect you from a hydrogen bomb

[@18skeltor]

I don't get it

[@TheHortoman]

​@@18skeltor I think he meant its not hard to believe

[@marshallneff1631]

Well, he clearly did, or i dont have any idea what caused this cancer

[@mercoro]

Its clear they are making champs more zesty and dumb because that's what RIOT employees are in general

[@real-br3ei]

Viego buggs are about to go crazy

[@lesignstudio]

This one is for Sylas

[@aaabbb-zc7sx]

did someone say brazil bugs ?

[@Theodoros.8]

You hate to see it, when just the passive of the new champ is longer then amumu, cho'gath and kog'maw's stories combined. Feels bad man.

[@cloudynguyen6527]

It definitely isn't longer. Most likely that new champs have their abilities written with more clarity than older champs. I feel underwhelmed with Aurora tbh. Cause if you removed her rabbit part and turned her into human, the spells would still make sense

[@literallyalois2966]

​@@cloudynguyen6527 Soul Eater: Nasus gains 12 / 18 / 24% (based on level) life steal.

[@dewaunwarren1]

Hit them three times and get movement speed

[@cloudynguyen6527]

@@literallyalois2966 I understand your point but there are other older champions like Renekton or Rengar whose passive is definitely longer but simplified (in game) for the sake of clarity. Newer champions have longer passive for sure but for Aurora, this is pretty tame. They can cut a lot of explanation and put it as "When she hits 3 times with spell or attacks, she heals and runs faster" You can nitpick a lot of old passives that are one liner and I agree with you. It's just Riot is very inconsistent with how they want to write champion's abilities. The difference between in game description and wiki description is wild

[@angulinhiduje6093]

@@cloudynguyen6527 she needs to be a bunny so riot has an excuse to give her dozens of leaps and dashes

[@PamjyOG]

An expiriment with Lee R (and other knock backs) would be interesting!

[@cephalonbob15]

I am sure this champ wont be gigacancer and be either Thanos or beyond useless. She will release with 20% WR, gets mega buffed into 60% WR and then be gutted and relegated to a pro only champ just like K'sante.

[@mykolaspoznanskas9846]

no she is gona be broken but have low winrate like every champ on release

[@solalmightyy]

nah, not that broken tbh​@@mykolaspoznanskas9846

[@zezanje1]

this champ is akali but better, her q is more practical for waveclear and damage, her w is akali shroud but better, her e is akali e but more of a disengage and her r is akali r but done a little differently.

[@hinderburger3804]

broken on release and nerfed to oblivion in a month many such case

[@JuiceExMachina]

Eh isnt the ult her only hard cc? I thought pro play valued cc a lot 🤔

[@Mooncat25]

That Shaco kill at the end was personal.

[@yeen.7209]

wait finally, a character with a wand! i've been waiting for one for ages

[@pogryol6132]

As part of the Top Laner's Community we recuse this gift,We instead would be happy to send it to the Bot Lane's community

[@octagonalog5391]

The midlane community agrees with the toplane community send her to the botlane

[@jaroslavs2737]

As a part of the Bot Laners Community we also refuse this gift, because fuck this we dont wanna play againts this shit, maybe the Mid Lanes community would like to accept

[@TJunChuan]

bro, as a player who mostly play top from s3, bro this cancer looks just like Lilia cancer.

[@dinodudethefirst4124]

What do you mean? I love being kited to death with no chance of retaliation unless they misposition, which will be all the more exiting in her ult where she’ll just be transported 1000 units away from you once you blow any mobility you might have to get to her in the first place.

[@dinodudethefirst4124]

Sorry I forgot to mention being zoned off the wave mb

[@Hato1992]

Rito: We don't have idea for new champion passive. Also Rito: This means, good ol' three hit passive is it?

[@elvistran4595]

I love that the placeholder name for her is "Bunnymage"

[@ethanstyant9704]

More like bunny cosplay Genshin mage ffs, god forbid a character be slightly less than conventionally attractive

[@doraklive1595]

Hi, in the tooltip for the E spell, it shows that there is a scaling max HP damage, but it isn't explained in the text. Does upgrading E upgrades the passive dmg ? Or is it just a mistake ?

[@bird2112]

welcome back akali

[@kensei_anime]

Hahahahaaha

[@freshlymemed5680]

Im waiting for the tower dive montages.

[@spasmicwaves]

They remove half of akali's kit and put it in hers!

[@etuanno]

​@@spasmicwavesThe unstoppable part of her ult is a mayor issue. Not to mention the stealth... Here I was thinking at the start of the video that Poppy might be a decent counter, but no...

[@4007a]

what did akali do before remake?

[@pureheartx3576]

"Hard cc is going to be one of her worst enemies" like every other champ? It's always weird when that is the only designed counter.

[@goosewho2903]

build MR, position better to avoid getting hit by her q recall, and you can blink/flash out of her ult

[@goosewho2903]

Also she's like, super squishy. A point and click champion would eradicate her

[@yellybeam2869]

@@goosewho2903 "position better vs ghost, dash and camille ult". Should I just sit in fountain?

[@monadoboiz9778]

@@goosewho2903 It doesn't seem like there's any "dodging" the q recall. If you get hit by the first cast, the second cast is guaranteed damage.

[@someguy1ification]

​@@monadoboiz9778 I think dodging it is more referring to what is happening at 2:17 , where it is recalled from multiple minions at a time and the poor training dummy gets hit by all of them.

[@Pleboss-pp2sh]

What is its interaction with Morde’s ult? Does the ult disappear when she is transferred? Does the ult stay as long as she is within vicinity? Does it also exist in morde’s ult?

[@DatDot1337]

so can teammates leave the r radius or are they stuck too?

[@Squidmoto3]

3 dashes ✅clears waves in 2 seconds ✅ invis that resets on kill ✅ ult that's strictly better than current ults that have the same goal ✅ has a canonical mental illness ✅ yup, that's a 2024 champion. I also don't see why she couldn't be an AP bot laner too. Seems like it'd be better than top.

[@yorik1006]

3 hit passive!

[@stargazer3759]

makes me wonder if she can be played "support"

[@sctovadc]

@@stargazer3759 she sucks super short range and has 0 cc with one exception her ult but she sucks

[@poom323]

​@@stargazer3759kinda yes Mana cost of W and E might be a problem before getting tear.

[@stargazer3759]

@@poom323 my exact thought honestly. Gotta wait till I can get my hands on her and test stuff I suppose.

[@MerMes16]

Riot: recommends burst mage build My head: 3-hit passive with AA means APCARRY

[@SavvySavy2]

Nashors -> roa -> terminus. This is the way

[@shiny2421]

Yeah I'm already planning to take her botlane. Aurora/Hwei is gonna be a "fun" lane.

[@MiloThatch420]

100% building Nashors on her. It’s AP gnar all over again. And I’m not mad.

[@Eddy-vt7dr]

So exactly what happened to Neeko on release

[@SentientBratwurst]

Yep. Anyone else remember Neeko? Riot sure doesn’t.

[@Tobsinger]

HI there Vandiril, do you think we will be able to cleanse 2nd part of Aurora Q ?

[@EvilAvenger18]

Great champion, looks fun with it's kind of Enchanter / Illusionist skill design

[@FactsDawg]

With this kit you can play her in every role probably

[@bru9]

That's how you know she's broken

[@epicfanbattle]

Support Aurora gank and instakill you, if you try to fight back she dissapear and kill you when her teamate reach you, back 10 second and 6 dash later in her lane. Also do not care about xp since lvl 6 + zhonya will be enough to destroy any teamfight.

[@FactsDawg]

@@epicfanbattle lvl 6 indeed perma roam and gg

[@BrXvcc]

I think it needs more dashing abillities

[@wackantheduck6883]

WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN

[@Aurius.Strange]

it's a bunny after all

[@homyachock]

​@@Aurius.Strangeksante wasn't bunny, he is muscular guy. Still has a lot of dashes

[@Aurius.Strange]

@@homyachock he is jumping like a bunny on something else

[@lololololol3295]

And more camille ults and longer invis

[@Isaberry1602]

Are her jumps considered to be dashes or blinks? Will she be stopped by Poppe W for example?

[@quintessenceoflife7870]

Her ult reminds me of in development senna. I remember back then they said she created a zone and she could blink after every auto attack.

[@Himekocchi]

So let me TLDR this: 1. Has % Max HP damage . 2. Has % Missing HP damage. 3. Gains bonus MS. 3. Two abilities are dashes which can ignore terrains. 4. Has stealth with reset. 5. Ult is Camille ult but 2.0, can lock entire enemy team down, inside which she can also dash, ignoring terrain. If you ask me, and I can't fricking believe I am saying this, this makes K'sante look fair to some extent

[@anejtomazic5423]

It makes Camille ult look like a joke thats for sure

[@gremlin5735]

@@anejtomazic5423 you can't flash and blink out of camille ult tho

[@anejtomazic5423]

@@gremlin5735 ill take the potential 5 man "lite" Camille ult over 1 person lock-down. Keep in mind 5min flash CD and blink is definitely not very common ability

[@isi3456789]

They made an AP Duskblade champ

[@whiteforest62]

Where does she ha ellve percent missing health hp?

[@eryalmario5299]

Looks like a completely balanced champion with very fair counterplay

[@GroundationOnly]

​@@ragnaros7889bronze spotted

[@imirazuke3516]

​@@GroundationOnlySure challenger on "Comment Section Server" number #6.666.999.999

[@saninorochimaru2]

Ah yes, a ranged toplaner with regen and movement speed and 2 dashes. Totally won't make you want to die playing against her.

[@Lmafaooo]

@@GroundationOnly 5mil mastery hard stuck bronze 4 akali main spotted

[@breese2825]

⁠@@ragnaros7889lil bros flexing plat

[@huymai8139]

I always wonder if 1 target can be hit by the same skill multiple times in specific situation. If her Q recast run back to her and it hits all the enemy on the way. Then when she in her R, she recast her Q, the Q recast will try to run back to her, and then she immediately travel back and forth at the end of the area, will the Q recast move back and forth, hit the the same enemy multiple times?

[@_CRUMP_]

That R is gonna be crazy

[@SrNinjaKorodaiPoop]

Wow, her passive is so original and never seen before, they've gone an extra mile to give her such an original concept for her passive wow, I'm speechless, good one Riot :D

[@sensteran]

"hard cc will counter her" like every champ besides olaf

[@FactsDawg]

Gwenn, morgana e 🤯

[@immortalspear]

I fucking hate when people say "hArD cC wIlL cOuNtEr tHeM" WHILE IT LITERALLY DOES THE SAME THING TO EVERY OTHER CHAMP

[@Vandiril]

Well, in Aurora's case - she is really squishy, even for a mage. She doesn't really have a shield, or any dmg reduction. If you don't hard CC her - good luck catching her - that's why it's gonna be particularly important against her.

[@mikee3693]

​@@zezanje1yeah, we hate those broken dashes like graves ult...

[@philippmayenburg7282]

and dont forget she is untargetable during the dashes in her ult.. thats the part I understand the least..

[@nightnite6517]

I’m interested in an on hit type adc build around her passive. I bet that would be kinda funky

[@p00rstr94]

i already figured, that you couldnt get out of bounds with her ult but what about going into walls? say one end is inside the wall and you walk into the opposite end would you get pushe dback as if it was OoB or accross the wall to end ult duration early? or maybe opposite side but pushed inside the ult?

[@terriblyaverage3099]

announcing things like "oh this character is autistic" prior to release kinda just welcomes unwanted harassment, especially when the character is broken on release. i wish they learned with ksante

[@jaden2026]

I think I can guess what happened with Ksante, but I’ll ask anyway. What happened? Also, they’re absolutely painting a target on her back unnecessarily. “This character is autistic btw!” *has a 3 hit passive, max hp damage and self healing, dashes over large and small walls, invisibility with resets, unstoppable on ult cast, her ult jails and forces flash, etc*

[@RicardoMontania]

​@@jaden2026 ksante was broken on release and prior to it riot announced he had down syndrome

[@kauanjos3199]

Wtf it literally doesn't. She's not autistic she's just a representation of it, Lux is a trans/queer representation with the whole repressed light she has inside of her. "I have a light inside of me and I need to let it shine" she even sings it in the newer Runeterra expansion but that doesn't mean she's trans

[@chronos554]

​@@kauanjos3199 She quite literally is, if you just check the posts on Aurora you can see they literally say she is autistic. And yes it does put a target on her because the league community is toxic as hell and love to go after things such as autism or a characters sexuality. This paired with how annoying she is going to be to play against us just a recipe for people to despise her

[@lordnatu]

Whatre they supposed to do, not make somewhat diverse characters or hide it until release?

[@khalilli6613]

"Prerty squishy" while she has 3k health on screen is crazy

[@ntkn]

3k hp is one shot territory, which is even crazier

[@pvshka]

@@ntkn welcome to the league of powercreep

[@IceedPro]

She got deleted by a shaco 💀

[@dom1040]

like every champ in todays climate lol

[@MiloThatch420]

Every AP item has 300 hp on it 😂

[@Barryislarge]

I wonder how her realm abilities work within morde ult. Maybe you can break out of it?

[@AlexDreams0324]

Can Morg E allow someone to just walk out of the ult?

[@paeyver782]

So we have shaco stealth with a reset, Lilia Passiv movespeed and a Camille ultimate on crack. I dont see a problem with that...

[@zezanje1]

no its literally just akali but in an alternative universe lol, even her r has 2 charges, so that you can dash in and out.

[@GamerGypps]

It’s actually not quite as good as Camille Ult for locking people down. It’s much bigger so easier to get close to your team or kite away from her. You can flash or blink out of it, which you can’t do with camille Ult.

[@amethonys2798]

​@@GamerGypps except camille ult gets completely removed by say Alistar W or any other displacement effect. Also, the play area is still rather small ESPECIALLY if it's in the river or jungle and it gets cut in half by any form of terrain.

[@kingpikachuthethird]

I can already see the clips of people hitting insane Q2 stacks from minion waves in combo with the ult to get behind the enemy

[@sevaneken3461]

This might actually he one combo. You stack a wave q all of them ult then e to get pushed back to the edge and get behind then q to pull everything and oneshot

[@freshlymemed5680]

So in essence, shes a better Lilia?

[@laugerasmussen8949]

No cc. I more like thinking of her as a champion like akali, she just deals with groups of enemies better, whilst performing worse in a 1v1.

[@maes2r0]

wonder if you could cook with raptors

[@amethonys2798]

​​@@laugerasmussen8949 i mean she just doesn't fight you then.... She has a monstrous slow (that also provides distance) and stealth. If she doesn't win the fight she simply never gives you the fight. It's like saying Lillia is bad in 1v1s which is technically true, but someone like Graves or whatever is literally never killing her anyway since she just runs away.

[@josefharvey5614]

Great video but here is what I've gathered on what I'd do on this champ. Rod or ludens (tanky or burst like twisted fate builds) Nashors (core item) Shadow flame (ap crit and amplifies the execute on the Q) Rabaddon ( completing this item alone with the above items would almost give her an additional 2-3% extra max hp damage and almost 9% extra move speed if I understand the passive correctly) I guess you could go any kind of boots (since this is a max HP damage champion, there's no stress on sorcerer boots, you can go anything really) Rylais is also really good here (just run people down) but I would prefer a defensive item instead like zhonyas or banshees. Why go electrocute when you could go conquerer, all of that adaptive could top off any odd ap stats numbers and give more move speed and hp damage. That would definitely outperform electrocute. PTA would also be good, phase rush would be great vs counter picks like kassadin or cassiopea. I'd go conquerer on this champ 1- presence of mind 2- legend haste 3-cut down feels good here, coup degrace maybe overkill? I'm not sure Phase Rush build: 1- mana flow (really all of the first row are great here) if you go tear then forget manaflow and go with null for burst ap champs or nimbus if you're going ignite, ghost, or aggressive runes. 2- Transcendence is important imo, I would go for celerity on an MS build though, most OP stat in the game hands down. 3- Scorch all the way, screw gathering (takes way too long to see returns) and river walking is a very specific rune so screw that as well. The poke you get early can relieve pressure off you and your jungler or team. Man I read all of her abilities and she feels like she could be another god damn AD leblanc, neeko, twisted fate build. Go on hit and run PTA. I don't see anything that would make this viable but I have an uneasy feeling about her. Imagine an adc that locks you in her zone with a static shiv, Nashors, RC, BORK, Rage blade build, and can dash several times around that zone and unstoppable? I like this champ but there's a lot that can be abused here. The norm with new champions but 7 years to do the same crap seems like an overstatement to me XD By the way she could totally go support, run a Rylais build on bot with locket, black fire or liandries. None is ever moving again imo. Top sounds decent but I don't think you should give this champ that kind of lane. Too snowbally. My experience with max hp champs is that they need a long time to scale against top laners, even if they're fed. By third or fourth item you'll be able to destroy them. I think there's more value in mid (a very volatile lane) or bot (equally volatile) but there's more potential for damage. Long comment, excuse me but thank you for reading. Have a great day

[@putin2012]

3 questions: 1) If her ult is a "dash" she can't cast it while grounded? And poppy's wall will cancel it if it throws Aurora out? 2) How it will interact with something like Camille's ult? 3) I wonder if AS/Tank build will be viable with this passive... Like Rageblade + Runaans + Wit's + Merc's + Unending + Jak'Sho. In theory in teamfight you will go to 200 Armor/MR and healing like Mundo's ult, but infinitely. While doing %HP damage.

[@ThePizzabrothersGaming]

they're evolving. now every new champ gets a MEGA DASH to stand out

[@darkgenius5408]

wow necrit and vandiril released a video about aurora at the same time

[@riadbk8295]

Thats called an embargo lift. Its Riot that put the date & time for creators to release the reveal

[@Fabian-dn6hs]

sponsored

[@namtranhai8456]

Morderkaiser's interaction. Bunny gal tries to escape the daddy. I think there will a bunch of bug coming.

[@Fnino42069]

How many dashes do you want?

[@ethanstyant9704]

On a long range mage too

[@patigelstarberry4302]

Very poor silhouette, probably gonna be hard to distinguish her in a chaotic fight.

[@JuskyTheHusky]

Very poor character design overall, seems like a champ done by AI idk

[@leka2095]

i liked her better during the hearth home event...

[@literalspaceglider]

right? seems like a mixture of zeri with a hood and Diana

[@WE_ARE_KAIRD]

considering she is the only champ with a hat bunny ears and a tail you should be able to tell its not tristana or braum

[@CzarnyBonek]

"She's bringing diversity to league of legends though the representation of autism". I can hear your voice cracking at the end, such a great line that could be applied to so many things in this game.

[@not_simon6983]

I can hear your brain cracking

[@cringeginge7663]

The moment i heard that line ik this was gonna be a shit show

[@lowiqcsgo9366]

>vestayan bunny mage >diversity >autism im so glad i don't have this game anymore

[@dannypavlov223]

I can't wait to try Aurora out. Seems really fun to play!

[@AlphisBlade]

Hey @Vandiril, just a Quick question on the Ultimate: what happens, if an allied Poppy throws the enemy Team against The Wall with her R? Also can Ornn break the Wall with his E?

[@blekkithd5390]

Aurora Abilities? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the game? Localized entirely within this video?

[@JackTR21]

...Yes

[@jamie4692]

may i see it?

[@naturemage2]

No

[@noozle3884]

Inconceivable😱

[@demonetyzacja7327]

3 stack passive active on aa with %hp oh boy cant wait to see people going full attack speed

[@eris6919]

Neeko but on tren

[@talry1620]

kog maw W does this btw

[@demonetyzacja7327]

That a differnt thing hes on hit plus he gains as from his Q plus he is an adc so he is legally allowed to do this

[@thatwolfinyourbackyard6011]

The scaling on it is atrocious tho lmao

[@orangesoda2424]

6% max hp magic damage with no level scaling... not happening

[@vivago727]

I think you'll be able to play her ap on hit, since her passive is like vayne w. With the e ability she has some safety and also can use her w for invis

[@neantdistordu982]

Range champ , Dash, AND stealth WONDERFUL

[@LowKeyDead.]

Finally can call my teammates autistic without getting banned. /s

[@user-zj4tg3jf4e]

i just call them artistic, the way they get caught is very creative.

[@not_simon6983]

@@user-zj4tg3jf4e Thats the least creative thing, nearly every neurotypical uses that

[@ags8507]

acoustic teammates

[@TheIzester]

while you pretend "/s" isnt the most autistic expression?

[@mohamedfrahat363]

​@@not_simon6983 your comment sounded very artistic

[@FunBanan117]

0:28 Rito themselves was bringing this kind of diversity for many years

[@breakfingers]

Can you double hit with her q2 by blinking behind the enemies you already hit with q2, via her r, before it reaches you?

[@angeldust486]

Olaf can pass on her ult using his ult? And milio? And Yuumi W? Morgana shield can stop his ult to sand back? I need answers.

[@EmRTonk]

Sylas approves of this champion. Viego also approves of this champ. Also what would happen if sylas and Aurora cast ults ontop of each other or slightly off each other, then they try and pass through?

[@Dexter_1309]

you damn well know, it's going to be the best pasta you ever ate! Riot spaghetti freshly served

[@ViktorLoR_Mainu]

Boing. Boing. Boingoingoingoingoingoingoingoingoingoingoingoingoingoingoingoingoingoingoingoingoingoingoingoingoing

[@artchie4491]

We got a domain expansion as a skill in League of Legends.

[@ckgfan]

we already got that many years ago via Mord's Ult

[@xxadriandiaz69xx6]

Morde do have Brazil tho

[@arzodyeetus7221]

"Domain Expansion:Spirit Spectrum"

[@ascvb3]

And she doesn't seal her domain in a barrier like Morde, which means she's the Sukuna of Runeterra lmfao.

[@arzodyeetus7221]

@@ascvb3 especially the "Megukuna" one since she got the rabbit shikigami 🗿

[@shockmeu135]

can't believe they added Poloma from battlerite to the LoL. Time to wait for blossom :)

[@gatu_sad]

does Poppy E work inside the ult as a wall or no? also what if i hook someone outside of the ult while its still active,they get inside the ult or nah?

[@Darkdayzz]

Took them 7 years to figure out how make autism work in game? Have they seen the Windbrothers?

[@dawa3328]

Wow, another champ with thousand dashes and an overloaded kit. How original.

[@WE_ARE_KAIRD]

i swear yall never happy last 2 champ literaly have 0 dashes not to mantion renata and milio and zeri with 1 dash

[@htlchtlc]

​@@WE_ARE_KAIRD bro, they should just stop making champs with dashes. There's already enough.

[@Beahemoth]

Make it have 0 dashes, no true % damage bullshit and no infinite scaling and we good

[@ShadowOfTheKolkhoznik]

@@WE_ARE_KAIRD milio is ok. Renata have ultimate on a basic ability

[@WE_ARE_KAIRD]

@@Beahemoth we almost never get infinite scalling bro💀

[@Fetska1]

if the enemy is outside the ult can they enter?

[@monkeydhamad]

hey i have more question on Aurora 1) can she be a jungler since she has alot of movement speed and mobility 2) is she really reliable in team fights because of the high cooldowns and somewhat low damage 3) will there be tweaking of the ap ratios any time soon because they seem kinda low LOL

[@rojo3220]

She was actually done 6.5 years ago but they spent the rest of development time to work out all the bugs in her ult

[@celsonjunior9376]

so her and azir ultimate looks like is gonna be a fun combo to do

[@joik113]

Better Her ult trapping the whole enemy team while nunu channels his.

[@nuzkie]

Probably breaks the game tbh

[@amethonys2798]

Aurelion is probably the biggest winner tbh. Impossible to miss The Skies Descend is the world's easiest teamfight. Same for Galio tbh who already was insane with Camille just catching ONE person.

[@dejawukong]

How overloaded did they want to make her? Max hp% dmg, missing hp% dmg, move speed, heals, 2 leaps, 2 slows, lock in, multiple bard teleports and a self dmg buff

[@j-rizza0079]

it would be really funny to see an attack speed build

[@marcusjohns6671]

I don’t even play league anymore but I really enjoy vandrils videos. Always interesting and cool to watch

[@HarumiYu]

6 years of discussing with the team to understand what diversity is then 2 weeks of developing the skills, surely she will be fine.

[@walkelftexasranger]

What part took 6 years to make? That's what I want to know.

[@philippmayenburg7282]

@@walkelftexasranger definitely not the gameplay development

[@Wonback]

⁠@@philippmayenburg7282definitely haha

[@DevourerDragons]

@@philippmayenburg7282 given that champs like Xayah and Shaco which are similar gameplay wise, I would argue they have been working on that for a bit. Except for you know, being stuck in walls and out of map for the ult taking 3 years and a Skarner rework to fix (in case you didn't know, that rework took so long because important code was part of Skarner's code and deleting him made many champs, even new ones, not work properly)

[@Gencrossbones]

​@@DevourerDragonsjust more spaghetti on top of more spaghetti

[@lukecoru5444]

Her ult seems like it will create so many buggs... Can she flash out of it herself? What happens when she takes a hextech portal while in her ult? What about Thresh Lantern? Kalista Ult? What if Sylas and her ult at the same time so their ults overlapp? Can they use eachothers ult? Can Olaf walk through the Wall with R on? Does it diappear when she dies? If not, what happens when she dies and Viego takes her over directly after? Can he use the Portals? Can dashes that couldnt usually pass through walls pass through the ult? Like Belveth Q/Lillia W What about Skarner E? What about Sion R? I just thought of a few more: What about Talon E? What about morde Ult? Especially when she ults after him, can she Portal out of the death realm? What about Smolder E? What about Nunu W? What about Kench R? Can he eat someone who is trapped from the outside? Does the Wall act as a wall towards abilities that are stopped by one like Nauti hook? What about an allied Qiyana ult? Can Poppy stop her Dash from the Ult? If she stops the first part, does it still get cast? Can she still Portal to the otherside when grounded? Can enemies get pulled/pushed out of the ult with hooks and knockbacks? What happens when she herself is pushed/pulled out of her ult? Is kogmaw passive bound by the Ult? When Neeko is disguised as her, can she use the Portals? When enemy Neeko is disguised as a minion, can she walk through the wall? What if youre feared/charmed into the wall? What about mundo with passive ready? Does it proc? If so, does he still get pulled back? What about Malz passive? What about Xayah Ult? Does Rammus Q get canceled? Does it proc a slide parry from Fiora? What about spellshields? Does it get canceled by smth like Kassadin Q/Camille ult? What about a champ who is berserk focused on someone outside of it? What about Udyr double E? Can Gnar stun people on it? Is Gwen Immune to it in her W? How bout Blackshield?

[@lizkeres2593]

Looks cool

[@alejandrouribe8308]

“She is meant to be played top and mid” Players: *Proceed to lock her in botlane*

[@koki-1700]

I'm sure the spirit realm merge part in her ult is related to her lore (like her W) and her passive, but it would be funny if she could enter morde's death realm with it

[@fightingdreamer123]

can gwen W allow her to walk through Aurora ultimate if Aurora herself is not in Gwen's W area?

[@mrb1378]

Her passive gives increase healing.... Does it means more healing from base hp regen or it heals her base on ap?

[@adityabasu9489]

So her W is just a dash which grants invisibility and refreshes upon kills. Then what's the use of mentioning the spirit world? Just for lore?

[@averonisgaming9023]

Lore, she jumps into the spirit realm to activate her stealth

[@cloudy3018]

Basically yes, like every other ability It can be just "She blink then stealh, refresh after kill" but that doesn't sound uniqte. For example belveth and red kayn W can just be "Knock-up and deal damage infont in a rentangle" but it just isn't interestting isn't it

[@lachlanstory9929]

She enters Spirit Form after dashing, giving her increased healing and movement speed

[@TheXPsichoX]

@@cloudy3018 doesn't they say exactly that in their discription?

[@null3489]

Bruh mordekaiser and Aurora going to have a domain expansion battle

[@mrbauwan8571]

Does effect Unstoppable let you escape her ult? Im not talking about malphite ult but more likely Udyr enchanced E or Olaf R

[@user-zj9bv8nk6r]

the last couple of champs including this one have been pretty chill if you compare them to things like Yone, Belveth, Viego, and Kisante so I think riot is trying to slowly but surely dial back the '200 years game design" out of champs