Nilah in League of Legends is designed to build like a traditional marksman despite being a melee botlaner
After prolonged speculation and rumors, Nilah, "The Joy Unbound", has finally been released in League of Legends.
The popular MOBA's 161st Champion was meant to be a melee bot laner from the very beginning of development. This provided Riot developers with a fantastic opportunity to apply many of the lessons that previous melee bot laners have passed along to them over the years.
Before any champion is officially released, Riot initially prepares by considering the various builds that players will test out with that champion. Interestingly, Nilah was created with a build similar to that of a conventional marksman, and the champion development team even applied crit scaling to her skills as a lever to encourage this.
According to Riot, players have a history of coming up with some pretty bizarre builds, which are all well and good as long as it doesn't ruin the game for their teammates and opponents.
Thus, the developers wanted Nilah to be the high-dps 'squishy' champion that people anticipate from that role because they are committed to optimizing her as a bot lane skirmisher and not a tank. To ensure that players feel rewarded for itemizing crits on Nilah, Riot will be paying extra close attention to how the champion is built in the coming days.
On the Champion Insights' blog, Riot cited the example of Yasuo, who even after being an off-meta, happens to be the closest thing League of Legends has to a melee bot laner today.
Yasuo certainly possesses many great bot lane carry qualities such as scaling, being squishy, and strong synergies. However, his primary, and most popular, role has always been mid, which meant that his balance adjustments have always prioritized his health in that role.
This insight helped Riot identify an
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