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Neeko
GameplayNeeko is a champion in League of Legends.[1]
Abilities[]
- Neeko can store up the Sho'Ma of multiple units at a time.
- Inherent Glamour's cooldown only prevents Neeko from activating disguises; she can still store and remove Sho'Ma while the passive is on cooldown.
- If Neeko attempts to activate a disguise while near and for the trap, ward, or jungle plant she stored Sho'Ma for, she will leap to that unit's exact position over 1 second and then become disguised. If she does so for a monster and is near its respective jungle camp, she will leap to that monster's usual position in the camp.
- She will fail to activate the disguise after the leap if she is affected by the same conditions that would break a disguise.
- Neeko will copy aesthetics as well as superficial mechanical statistics. She will fake a number of readings:
- Health bar (original's current amount becomes her apparent maximum)
- Secondary resource - e.g. mana, energy or none at all (original's current amount becomes her apparent maximum)
- Stats
- Buffs and debuffs with their respective icons and VFX/SFX (there are exceptions)
- Neeko sees the buffs that are actually applied to her, while enemies see the disguised champion's buffs.
- Kill feed icon
- A number of attributes she actually adopts are:
- Base movement speed
- The melee or ranged classification of the champion
- Base attack speed and attack ratio
- The projectile or non-projectile quality of their attack
- Attack range (adopt the new form attack range)
- Size (including size modifiers and base champion size)
- Default transformation toggle (non-innate)
- Voice lines
- Character interactions (jokes, taunts, dances, laughs, toggle effects), as well as their Recall animation
- Inherent Glamour's disguise is broken by the following spell casts:
- Casting Blooming Burst or Tangle-Barbs.
- Casting Pop Blossom will not break the disguise immediately, but after a delay.
- Casting
- Using Exhaust, Ignite, or Smite.
- Activating Hextech Rocketbelt, Stridebreaker, or Redemption.
- Casting
- The scoreboard's question mark of Neeko (which indicates an enemy is not currently visible to your team) will disappear, if the disguised Neeko is visible. Therefore, it can be used to determine, whether a unit is Neeko or not.
- When Neeko forces her clone to play an emote or Recall animation, she modifies its duration based on the animation played.
- Joke - 8 seconds.
- Dance - 8 seconds.
- Taunt - 4.25 seconds.
- Laugh - 3 seconds.
- Toggle - Plays the Joke emote but for the clone only.
- Recall - 8 seconds.
- Empowered Recall - 4 seconds.
- Both Neeko and the clone use the same running animation.
- The clone can still be targeted by allied auto-targeted effects (e.g. Heal, Celestial Blessing).
- The empowered attack will not trigger against wards and jungle plants.
- Using a basic attack breaks the stealth at the start of the attack windup.
Ability details:
- The wind up uses a special bar similar to cast bars to represent when Pop Blossom's cast time will start.
- The wind up has no special interactions.
- The highlighted area is fixed around Neeko.
- Neeko's most recent Shapesplitter clone disappears when Pop Blossom's cast time starts.
- This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the end of the cast time.
Interactions:
- On-cast effects are applied on activation.
- Pop Blossom can start its cast time during stasis.
| Type | Cast time | |
|---|---|---|
| Attacking | Disabled | |
| Abilities | Disabled | |
| Movement | Disabled | |
| Items | Usable | N/A |
| Disabled | All items are disabled | |
| Interrupted by | N/A | |
| Consumables | Disabled | |
| Spells | Usable |  Barrier  Clarity  Cleanse  Exhaust  Ghost  Heal  Ignite  Smite
|
| Disabled |  Flash  Teleport  Recall  Hexflash
| |
| Interrupted by | N/A | |
| Interrupted by |  Resurrection
| |
Champion skins[]
- This article section only contains champion skins. For all associated collection items, see Neeko (Collection).
Hailing from a long lost tribe of vastaya, Neeko can blend into any crowd by borrowing the appearances of others, even absorbing something of their emotional state to tell friend from foe in an instant. No one is ever sure where—or who—Neeko might be, but those who intend to do her harm will soon witness her true colors revealed, and feel the full power of her primordial spirit magic unleashed upon them.
Flora Paulita
Jennifer Wuestling
Loot eligible
Loot ineligible
Patch history[]
- For the expanded patch notes, see here.
- Inherent Glamour
- Undocumented / New Effect: Can now transform into a Voidmite.
- Undocumented / Bug Fix: Applying Touch of the Void against any structure no longer breaks her disguise if she is disguised as a non-champion.
- Undocumented / New Effect: Can now transform into a
- Inherent Glamour
- Bug Fix: Immolate aura VFX no longer shows when disguised as a non-champion.
- New Effect: Mountain Dragon Soul's shield now breaks when disguising as a non-champion.
- Inherent Glamour
- Undocumented / Bug Fix: Infernal Cinders VFX no longer shows while disguising as a non-champion.
- Stats
- Selection radius increased to 120 units from 90.
- Shapesplitter
- Bug Fix: Recasting no longer counts as unique cast instances for the purposes of activating Spellblade and triggering Kassadin's Force Pulse's passive.
- Bug Fix: Recasting no longer counts as unique cast instances for the purposes of activating Spellblade and triggering
- Shapesplitter
- Bug Fix: While duplicating an expression or Recall, Neeko can no longer redirect the clone after emoting by using Move Pet Click on a visible enemy unit.
- Undocumented / Bug Fix: Using an Emote during the cast animation of Blooming Burst or Tangle-Barbs no longer extends Shapesplitter duration while also granting Neeko full control of the clone during the extended duration.
- Bug Fix: While duplicating an expression or
- Shapesplitter
- Bug Fix: Ivern no longer sees disguised monsters as having an enemy (red by default) health bar instead of the intended friendly health bar (blue by default).
- Bug Fix:
- Shapesplitter
- Bug Fix: Recasting the ability no longer sometimes causes the clone to visually teleport to the targeted location.
- Shapesplitter
- Bug Fix: Now properly inherits Smolder's horn in the model due to tier 1 upgrade of Super Scorcher Breath.
- Bug Fix: Now properly inherits
- V14.2
- Neeko
- Inherent Glamour
- Bug Fix: Being disguised as a minion near turrets no longer causes them to lose their backdoor protection.
- Shapesplitter
- Bug Fix: No longer sometimes causes her to become stuck in her running animation.
- Winter Wonder Neeko, Bewitching Neeko, Street Demons Neeko
- Pop Blossom
- Bug Fix: Outer ring indicator no longer appears non-horizonal under certain circumstances from the enemy's POV.
- Inherent Glamour
- Bug Fix: Dark Harvest and Heartsteel no longer reveal her when she's disguised.
- Bug Fix:
- Shapesplitter
- Bug Fix: No longer scales with ultimate ability haste.
- Pop Blossom
- New Effect: Knockup no longer moves enemies outside of the stun range.
- V13.24 - December 12th Hotfix
- Inherent Glamour
- Bug Fix: No longer allows Neeko to attack and unintentionally gain attack damage and attack speed when transforming into a non-attacking unit.
- Inherent Glamour
- Bug Fix: No longer is allowed to inherit the attributes of more than one unit at a time, which sometimes lead her to have 2.5 attack speed.
- Stats
- Attack windup reduced to 20% from 21.48387%.
- Shapesplitter
- Bug Fix: Clone's Recall now properly displays the VFX for Honor 5 or Challenger recall.
- Bug Fix: Clone's
- Shapesplitter
- Undocumented: The empowered attack no longer triggers against wards and jungle plants.
- Undocumented: The empowered attack no longer triggers against
- Pop Blossom
- Bug Fix: VFX is no longer visible to enemies from the Fog of War.
- Inherent Glamour
- Bug Fix: KDA score no longer changes based on unit she is disguised as.
- Inherent Glamour
- Bug Fix: Can now attack when transformed into a Totem Ward, Farsight Ward, or Control Ward.
- Bug Fix: Can now attack when transformed into a
- Blooming Burst
- Cooldown increased to 9 / 8.5 / 8 / 7.5 / 7 seconds from 7 at all ranks.
- Shapesplitter
- Base damage changed to 40 / 75 / 110 / 145 / 180 from 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170.
- Pop Blossom
- New Effect: Now breaks Inherent Glamour after 0.5 seconds of casting.
- New Effect: Now breaks
- Inherent Glamour
- Bug Fix: Can no longer use basic attacks while disguised as a Zombie Ward.
- Bug Fix: Can no longer use basic attacks while disguised as a
- Inherent Glamour
- Bug Fix: Passive disguise no longer breaks from basic attacks if disguised as a monster that had died.
- Bug Fix: Players that ping her items while she is disguised will no longer reveal who she is disguised as.
- Bug Fix: In-game reporting system no longer reveals her disguise on the scoreboard.
- Bug Fix: Target champions only setting now properly takes the disguise into account.
- Bug Fix: No longer retains 2.5 attack speed after transforming into a minion or monster while standing next to a ward which the passive chargeup can start on.
- Bug Fix: Activating the disguise for an allied Ahri using the Spirit Blossom Ahri skin and having Spirit Rush active now properly causes the disguise to lose the empowered form of that skin after the buff times out.
- Blooming Burst
- Bonus monster damage increased to 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 / 95 from 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 / 70.
- Shapesplitter
- Bonus monster damage increased to 75 from 50.
- Pop Blossom
- AP ratio increased to 120% AP from 100% AP.
- V13.9 - Gameplay Update
- Inherent Glamour
- New Innate: While within 300 units of a non-epic monster, minion, trap, ward, pet, or plant, Neeko stores their Sho'Ma over 2 seconds. Only one of these units can be stored at a time and she can clear out the Sho'Ma of the current unit to change the disguise to a different one. Afterwards, she can transform into that unit by selecting them in the interface.
- Removed: Disguise no longer breaks upon taking damage.
- New Effect: Disguise now also breaks upon the form taking lethal damage or when Neeko becomes immobilized or deals damage to a structure while in the form of a non-champion.
- Removed: Disguise no longer modifies her attack speed or movement speed if the unit's values are higher than hers.
- Cooldown reduced to 6 seconds at all levels from 25 − 10 (based on level).
- Bug Fix: Jungle companion now properly becomes invisible while she is disguised as an allied champion.
- Blooming Burst
- Bloom base damage reduced to 35 / 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 from 40 / 65 / 90 / 115 / 140.
- Bloom AP ratio increased to 25% AP from 20% AP.
- Effect radius increased to 250 from 225.
- New Effect: Now deals 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 bonus damage against monsters per bloom.
- New Effect: Casting the ability beyond its maximum range will now cast the ability at maximum range instead of having her walk into position to throw it.
- Shapesplitter
- New Effect: Can now recast the ability in order to send her clone to the target location.
- New Effect: Clone now plays her Blooming Burst, Tangle-Barbs, dance, joke, taunt, laugh, and Recall animations and their respective sound effects.
- New Effect: On-hit now deals 50 bonus damage against monsters.
- Clone now spawns directly on top of her, instead of 100 units in front of her.
- Bug Fix: Now properly copies certain debuff effects.
- Tangle-Barbs
- Base damage reduced to 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210 from 80 / 115 / 150 / 185 / 220.
- AP ratio increased to 65% AP from 60% AP.
- Pop Blossom
- Cooldown increased to 120 / 105 / 90 seconds from 90 at all ranks.
- Base damage reduced to 150 / 350 / 550 from 200 / 425 / 650.
- Damage AP ratio reduced to 100% AP from 130% AP.
- New Effect: Now knocks up nearby enemies for 0.6 seconds after starting the windup.
- Stun duration reduced to 0.75 seconds from 1.25.
- Removed: No longer shields her for 75 / 100 / 125 (+ 75% AP) after starting the windup, increased by 40 / 60 / 80 (+ 40% AP) per champion, for 2 seconds.
Trivia[]
- In Neeko's trailer, the frog jumping off a cliff references George the Suicidal Frog.
- She was the last champion released in 2018.
- The icon for Shapesplitter was reused for the Teamfight Tactics item Neeko's Help, which references her.
- Neeko waves at jungle camps when she walks near them.
- Neeko was the first stated LGBTQIA+ representative in League of Legends, with Diana later retroactively confirmed.
See also[]
| Cancelled Champions | |
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