User blog comment:AcesRockz/Touhou Custom Champion Concepts/@comment-3391671-20160208082047/@comment-26424623-20160209231228

When designing these kits, my main focus was to give off the experience you get when playing these characters in the actual games, be they the shooting or fighting ones. While the fighting games were a great source of reference and inspiration for a lot of these abilities, I didn't want to limit my design from those games alone; I wanted key characters, such as Reimu and Marisa, to make you feel what you felt when you chose them as your "ship" in the shooting games.

When inspiration from actual gameplay experience and game moves weren't enough to create a unique ability or interaction, I went on to implementing their characteristics and traits that were only present in their existence in their world. A lot of these characters have traits that smoothly translated into unique League of Legends gameplay interactions. I went on to create abilities that, at first glance, doesn't make sense for the kit to have, but greatly allude to the traits.