Zeri and K’sante are the new too good pro play and terrible in soloq champs. Idk how they’ve done it again, and twice, but here we are. K’sante especially feels like a parody of a Riot champion release.

Renata Glasc is just a weird non champ to me. She’s kinda cool in proplay I guess, but if she disappeared tomorrow I wouldn’t notice. Her name is also just funny to me as it stands out if you’re reading over a list of the champion names. She’s like an impostor. Why is she not just called Renata?

Nilah is completely forgettable and goes into the Akshan pile of half baked champions with no cohesion in their kits. It’s like they pulled a bunch of ideas from scrapped champions and made a Frankenstein’s monster out of them.

Bel’veth feels kinda messy. Her amount of dashes is parody level and she looks goofy, but otherwise I guess she’s fine. At least her kit is cohesive and it’s like they actually had a unique idea for a champion and executed on it, and they weren’t just fulfilling a champion release quota.

Milio is my favorite champ release since Vex. Clean kit, not annoying to play against, unique design, and slots so well into the game that it feels like he’s been there for years.

Naafiri is a champion. I like how her kit is simple and that she’s not a humanoid but that’s the extent of my thoughts on her.

Briar. I really like her “IV bag” character design, and aspects of her kit, but right now (and I don’t know if it’s fixable) she’s too feast or famine. I’m excited to see her in proplay.

If I had to choose which champions stayed and got removed, I’d only keep Milio and Briar. That’s 0/5 from 2022 and 2/3 from 2023, so that tells you my feeling on which year is better. I want each champion release to feel like it came from a place of passion and a lot of work and fine tuning. Otherwise I’d rather get no champions.