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League of Legends is adding four new cybernetic skins to help players reacclimate to their normal lives once the World Championship is over. New teasers for Pratorian Fiddlesticks and Graves, along with Program Leblanc and Nami have started to appear across Riot Games' social accounts. The Praetorian line transforms everyone's least favorite scarecrow and outlaw into mindless mechs ready to take down the opposition.
Praetorian Fiddlesticks summons angry drones in his ultimate and eats birds when he recalls, a huge departure from the spindly scarecrow that works in the jungle or support. Praetorian Graves is a robotic grunt without a head or soul. His recall sees his robotic body flattened by a capsule from space, where another Graves pops out. This might be the first champion recall that actually terminates your champion model. Sure, there are other skins that have you reincarnate, vanish or transform, but seeing your body get squished in real time is a new feeling. These are first Praetorian skins for the theme, but what really makes them different than other robotic skins like Project or Mecha?
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A follow-up tweet by the LoLEU account said questions about the Praetorian skin will be answered "soon, but who actually knows when. If they are part of some sort of promotion or event, we won't find out until the World Championship is over in early November.
Program Nami and Leblanc join Soraka, Camille and Lissandra in the fight against viruses in your computer. The theme is built around the sleekness of modern tech, with Apple products and distant-future sci-fi being the easiest comparisons. Program Leblanc is a bright-green hue that has my favorite recall of the bunch. Her head transforms into silhouettes of her other skins, from Mistletoe to Elderwood. For longtime League of Legends fans, these Easter eggs are always a happy surprise.
Program Nami is the fish woman pulled straight out of the data stream. She's semi translucent and her abilities take on a more triangular approach than her traditional base skin. If you're a support main who can't get enough of her bubbles, this skin might be a perfect fit for you.
The Program and Praetorian skins are not up on the PBE yet. Newsweek will update this story when we know prices and release dates.
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