Talk:Neeko/@comment-32617634-20190405143124/@comment-31982182-20190510160159

I think with how many champions there are, there's definitely an argument that it's only worth releasing a new champion when they bring something new to the game like those that you mention above. And in that sense Neeko is basically a design idea the team thought would be fun to make, but maybe shouldn't have been made.

Personally, I really enjoy her, and her play feels unique enough for my tastes, but I don't think they needed to give her a complicated minigame or anything to make her a more interesting version of herself.

But they definitely could have given her something more unique. I mean for one, why is it that Neeko looks like other people but Sylas is the one that actually gets to steal abilities? Maybe they could have been combined. Or in general they should have spent more time to give her a more impactful passive or ult. Being able to look like another champion is cool and all but it doesn't... ever trick people? It's never as impactful or crazy as her champ trailer framed it to be. Maybe if it had a timed duration where she could use that teammates abilities too, so you really couldn't tell who it was. That would have been much more interesting to play against, and more interesting to play because you'd have to think about looking like a teammate more, and decide if the payoff is worth locking out your own abilies from yourself until the time is up or you take damage.