League of Legends’ first ever themed season, Welcome to Noxus, is about to wrap up and Riot has introduced Season 2: Spirit Blossom Beyond. The following season will carry adjustments to the Summoner’s Rift map and normal gameplay, a brand new champion, new Spirit Blossom skins, and a brand-new recreation mode titled Brawl.
Spirit Blossom is already a well-liked pores and skin line and recurring theme in LoL, primarily based round Ionian myths and folklore tied to the area’s Spirit Blossom festivals. Riot introduced the seasonal theme with a brand new cinematic titled Right here, Tomorrow–an anime-style animation created in partnership with The Line–set to an unique monitor by singer-songwriter Lilas Ikuta and composer Kevin Penkin.
The music video crosses between the “actual” world of Ionia and its spirit-world counterpart, that includes plenty of well-liked champions together with Ashe, Nidalee, Lux, Shen, Irelia, and Morgana. The video focuses on Xin Zhao, who’s proven returning to Ionia, and appears to disclose the season’s new champion, Yunara. Xin Zhao’s story will likely be explored all through the season with the primary of two movement comics arriving on Could 14, and Riot has additionally stated to count on an in-client metagame primarily based on the season’s story.
As soon as Season 2 launches on April 30, Spirit Blossom Beyond will take over Summoner’s Rift with not simply aesthetic adjustments, but in addition gameplay adjustments that can have an effect on the sport’s meta. Within the new season, Atakhan will solely have a single type known as Thornbound Atakhan, slightly than swapping between two varieties. Void Grubs will now spawn later and solely as soon as per match, whereas the Rift Herald will now spawn at quarter-hour and will likely be simpler to take down.
From the beginning of Season 2, solely junglers can have entry to the Smite summoner spell, which will likely be mechanically assigned to gamers in that position. Various different tweaks and tuning adjustments are coming in with the brand new season, which the devs have detailed in a latest dev blog.
The brand new season may even embrace a brand new 5v5 recreation mode known as Brawl, which Riot describes as a “faster-paced, lower-stakes recreation mode” that places the emphasis on fight. Brawl will function a brand-new map primarily based on Bandle Metropolis, and with no towers or different targets to concentrate on, gamers should go head-to-head with one another to push their minions into the enemy base.
Unsurprisingly, the Spirit Blossom-themed season may even embrace a brand new handful of Spirit Blossom skins, a well-liked pores and skin line that already options over 20 totally different champions. The champions in line for Spirit Blossom skins this time embrace Ashe, Irelia, Bard, Varus, Zyra, and Ivern. Status Spirit Blossom Lux and Spirit Blossom Ivern will likely be out there to be earned on the paid battle move. Riot has additionally revealed that Morgana has an Exalted pores and skin on the best way.
Spirit Blossom Beyond launches on April 30, taking the highlight from the present Noxian-themed season. Nevertheless the LoL universe will likely be returning to Noxus ultimately, with the following Arcane spin-off present more likely to revolve round that area. Arcane co-creator Christian Linke additionally stated that the present could be exploring Ionia and Demacia with future collection.