Legends Of Runeterra: What Are Equipment?
Legends of Runeterra’s Awakening expansion saw the release of five new champions and, more interestingly, a few new concepts and keywords. Most of the new champions are closely tied to said new keywords, so once you make sense of the latter, the former will become much clearer and easier to understand.
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One of the most important new concepts in the Awakening expansion is Equipment, as it is directly tied to a majority of the new keywords, such as Auto-Equip, Improvise, and Forge. So without further introduction, let’s dive right into what Equipment is and what its related keywords are all about.
When you Equip a unit with Equipment, said unit is granted the Equipment’s stats and keywords. When the Equipped unit dies or leaves play, the Equipment is Recalled as well. In a lot of ways, you can think of Equipment like an existing champion Yuumi, who attaches herself to a unit, granting them her stats and keywords, and is Recalled whenever the unit she is attached to leaves play.
Each piece of Equipment is unique, as some cost one to two mana to play, while others cost four to five mana to play. Some Equipment even have the option to become a fully-fledged unit if enough mana is used to play it, and these are the Darkin Equipment, such as The Darkin Lodestone. You can either spend two mana to Equip a unit with this, or eight mana to summon Horazi (a seven attack, seven health unit with SpellShield). Which one you go with really just depends on the state of the game.
Auto-Equip is a keyword that certain privileged units have, namely Jax and Kayn. All this really means is that you don’t have to spend the mana to Equip these champions with their respective weapons.
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