Players can still anticipate for the release of the 2 upcoming champions to be available in 2023
Riot announced the League of Legends season 13 roadmap earlier this year. Riot unveiled some of the game’s forthcoming additions in the roadmap. They announced that four new champions are in the works and would be launched in the near future. An Ixtali enchanter, a Darkin assassin, a Vampire Jungler, and an Ink Mage.
The first of the four champions, the Ixtali enchanter Milio, The Gentle Flame, was previously debuted in Patch 13.6. Naafiri, the next champion, is presently in the PBE servers and will be released in Patch 13.14 shortly.
The release date for the Vampire Jungler Briar and the Ink Mage, on the other hand, has yet to be announced. However, the release date for these champions remains in 2023. However, polishing and releasing a new champion takes a significant amount of time, and players are anxious about Riot’s ability to make them on time.
Ryan ‘Reav3′ Mireles, League of Legends’ Lead Gameplay Producer, addressed some of the worries regarding the incoming champions in a recent Reddit post.
He claims that the forthcoming champion ‘Briar’ will be released on time, as will the Jax ASU. As a result, we may expect them in a few months. He revealed that the Ionian Ink Mage is set to be launched by the end of 2023. However, there is a potential that it will be postponed until early 2024.
Briar is probably definitely a sort of Noxian vampire. She is a Diver/Skirmisher champion, according to Riot Games. And, given how much Riot has teased the concept of frenzy, we can probably expect her kit to centre around stacking her hunger into some kind of frenzy. A semi-feral vampire hiding around Noxus seems extremely possible.
The Ink Mage, while it is new, the champion concept, however, is not new, and Riot is bringing back some old concepts. They intended to develop a champion that could physically sketch their skills a few years back.
The most important aspect of their kit would have been their ultimate, which allowed players to physically create terrain on the map. This would result in a slew of issues, but perhaps Riot has found out how to implement it years later.