Built from the same tech powering DJ Sona’s controllable jams, Kai’Sa’s helmet-automatically activated when she uses her dash-can also be toggled on and off at will. Nowhere is that choice more obvious than with Kai’Sa’s helmet.
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“We wanted to make it her choice to tap into the full power of the suit, or let that part of herself recede.” SOUNDS LIKE PURPLE “If she had the Void suit and mask as a permanent feature, it would have felt like she had lost her sense of self,” says Riot Tokkelossie. Even as she embodied a monster, she maintained her humanity. She turned her struggle into the source of her power, converting dangerous creatures into protective armor and finding balance by accepting all parts of herself. Kai’Sa started as a victim, nearly broken by the Void, but by refusing to relinquish all of her humanity, she managed to resist and adapt. “It can make you a shell of who you were-but those who came through didn’t let it take everything from them.
“I did a lot of research on survivor mentality and coping with extreme trauma,” says CoolRadius. The Void kept coming up as a way to explain that animal instinct.” “But everything about this champ felt very predatory, so tying in to something that was an actual predator made sense. “We were exploring a Zaunite life-essence-drainer for a while,” says Willem “Riot Tokkelossie” van der Schyf. While it was always known that the next marksman would be geared towards all-in offense, it was never a given that the character would be from the Void. In the end, that’s what removed much of the dread from the phrase “ADC assassin.” Kai’Sa is forced to outmaneuver and outwit opponents through agility and forethought, rather than taking them down with brute force and better burst.
“She’s just there to do damage.” Not to mention that while she’s got a few ways into a fight, she has exactly zero ways to get out. “She’s the first champ in… I think five years? With absolutely no crowd control of her own,” says Riot Jag. But there’s a price to pay for that kind of mobility. Your Maokai just made a Twisted Advance into their backline? Kai’Sa can follow up instantly, diving deep with a buddy and blowing up any enemy unlucky enough to catch the crowd control. With her ult, Kai’Sa can be literally anywhere in a team fight, making plays other ADCs couldn’t dream of. But Kai’Sa has ways to demonstrate that you’re more than just a kiting bot who keeps out of the thick of it. Normally, marksmen do this from a safe distance, sniping targets and attacking from afar.
“The hallmark of a good ADC is intelligent target selection,” says Riot Jag. Kai’Sa needed a kit that gave her not just options, but choices. The twist would be their ability to force engagements and pick fights when it suited them-a “high agency” champion, in gameplay design lingo.
The goal was to make an aggressive marksman, someone who fought in-your-face, up-close and personal. I was just waiting for someone to tell me, ‘Please stop.’” “I never thought this would work,” says Jeevun “Riot Jag” Sidhu. As both a character and a champion, Kai’Sa occupies a unique role: a vulnerable target that’s also a lethal predator. While still hunted by endless horrors, she’s learned by observation and has evolved her own highly effective feeding habits. The Daughter of the Void has a symbiotic second skin, a parasite-turned-bio-armor that would probably eat her if she didn’t feed it so well. But no matter how many nightmarish creatures she outlasts, she’s encumbered by a constant struggle for life. Despite years spent on the edge of the Void, she remains uncorrupted and unconsumed by the uninhabitable purple doom. When her world was reduced to predator versus prey, Kai’Sa became a survivor.