It was shared by Riot August – Senna’s “father” – on his stream.
Recently, during his stream, Riot August shared about the early stages of development of many League of Legends champions, including Senna – The Redeemer. What makes fans amused is that this champion originally has 3 different passives which all have game-breaking effects.
Passive 1 – Weakened Soul: Senna’s attacks and abilities on enemy champions apply the Mist effect for 4 seconds. When she starts attacking the target, this duration will increase to 0.75 seconds. She collects the Mist effect and deals additional physical damage based on the target’s maximum health if she applies it twice to the same champion (1-16 percent ). For a few seconds, The Redeemer cannot gather Mist on the same champion. Lifesteal has a 100% effectiveness with this bonus damage.
When an opponent dies near her, the Black Mist imprisons their spirits. The Mist will only last 8 seconds. Her basic attacks and abilities including Q – Piercing Darkness and R – Dawning Shadow use on Souls will provide one Mist stack, while killing Baron, Dragons, will produce two Mist.
Passive 2 – Absolution: Each Mist stack gives 0.75 extra AD. Senna gains 20 attack range and 10% crit chance for every 20 stacks. If her crit rate exceeds 100%, 35% of the extra crit stat is converted to lifesteal.
Her basic attacks deal 20% more physical damage and steal opponent champions’ movement speed for 0.5 seconds with Passive 3 – Relic Cannon. With this extra damage, lifesteal is completely effective.
The main point of Riot August’s passive is that Senna may inflict damage depending on a percentage of the target’s maximum health. The Redeemer already has a powerful damage owing to the impact of the strike causing 20% more physical damage, therefore she doesn’t even require the Mist stacks. Senna may also steal the movement speed of opposing champions and transform into a character designed to fly an exceptionally strong kite.
Riot August may have felt that this passive had too much versatility and damage, thus it removed its numbers. Otherwise, Senna will become a very powerful champion, which will be exceedingly tough to balance when she makes her formal debut in League of Legends.