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League of Legends is about to kick off its first themed season as a part of its brand-new seasonal model, with Noxus leading the charge, bringing major gameplay updates, a new champion, themed cosmetics, and plenty more to the venerable old classic.
How to get Mel Medarda in LoL
To celebrate Mel’s arrival in League of Legends Riot Games is giving everybody the chance to get her completely free by just completing one of the new seasonal missions.
Mel arrives with a new, Noxian-inspired appearance, reflecting her embrace of her Noxian roots and heritage at the end of the final season of Arcane. She brings a new type of gameplay to the roster: projectile reflection. Her Rebuttal ability enables her to reflect targeted abilities back at their original caster and non-targeted abilities back in the enemy’s direction.
If you want to learn more about Mel’s backstory, a new novel – Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf, is releasing in February.
When does the new LoL season begin?
The new League of Legends season – Welcome to Noxus – begins on the 9th of January where the influence of Noxus will invade Summoner’s Rift, bringing new art, music, structures, and a new in-game objective: Atakhan, Bringer of Ruin.
Atakhan will spawn at the 20-minute mark on either the top or bottom side of the map in one of two distinct forms, bringing permanent terrain changes to the map and granting a permanent buff to the team that slays him.
As the season progresses, Riot is promising “more in-game thematic narrative expressions, like the Reckoning Pits of Noxus”.
The season will also bring with plenty of new skins (of course it will) focused on Noxus with the first set being the Masque of the Black Rose skins: Masque of the Black Rose Samira, Masque of the Black Rose Renata Glasc, Masque of the Black Rose Ezreal, Masque of the Black Rose Vladimir, Masque of the Black Rose Elise, and Prestige Masque of the Black Rose Katarina.
Beyond skins tied to Season One, fan-favorite skin thematics, such as Cafe Cuties, will return and completely new thematics for skins will make their debut.
So check out the new LoL as soon as tomorrow. It’s going to be an interesting one.
