Thread:GreenMoriyama/@comment-27802145-20160726095948/@comment-3391671-20160909062232

My my my... so you've finally touched the blessed game. And do not worry about Stylish mode, since I started on that first myself (I moved on when I started playing Blazblue in the arcades).

If I haven't said this enough, Izo came from TK_Hann's Journal of Champions, and for sure Izo was brazenly close to Jin in many ways. In comparison, I went for the portrayal of Jin before I fully got into Blazblue: a much more calm warrior, much like how Izo's champion art portrays. At the initial release of Izo, I utilized the medium between the two personalities, which created a haughty duelist (never wished to add the psychotic aspect). But it seems like the Blizzard Prince ended up with the very personality I idealized for Jin. Once again, I love how Jin looks in the portrait by maotou for that reason.

When it came to the kit itself, I looked obviously looked at TK_Hann's kit and also looked back to Blazblue's skillset. But I also found out one thing, that Jin Kisaragi has also been in a MOBA: SEGA's Chaos Heroes. Interestingly enough, the Chaos Heroes' Jin has similar elements to Izo (I would likely have to play the game to know how he truly functions in the game, which I'm not willing to do =>=). I don't know if TK_Hann was aware that he was already in a MOBA before, but nonetheless, I went on to reforming his kit.

and are blatantly Jin's neutral-D and forward-D inputs; I used their in-game sprites to make their ability icons for Izo. These were also featured as abilties used by Chaos Heroes' Jin. On the other hand, and the   aspired from the  and down-D, but were changed from their original incarnation either through my own changes or by the critiques of others. TK_Hann didn't have a grounded ult for Izo, thus I used a combination of Jin's &  to create the initial ult. Chaos Heroes Jin and TK_Hann's iteration of the innate included ice arrows, but I purposely didn't want to include them to differentiate Izo from Jin. Plus, Chaos Heroes' version of the ult looks like a fusion of 's & '.

It's intriguing to see that you also favor my top 3: Jin, Hakumen, and Noel. I would love to work on making an LoL kit for them (actually, Noel is also in Chaos Heroes), but I'm trying to free up some time. I still welcome the gesture. I'm interested in doing onto them what I had with Izo (taking influence from the original than directly translating the character into the LoL-verse), but if you are more interested in making a crossover-like design, I won't mind that either. If there are any concerns on my end, it would be Noel with and their thematics, since both of them a light-weights using two guns.

I look forward to what Maria will look like after the update. Please also look forward to a bit more from Izo; it will not be big changes, such as a new story, but I will be making adjusts. Plus, he's at 99 comments, and I feel obligated not to be that.