League Of Legends Champion Designer Discusses Ornn's Mixed Ratios

Ornn is the next League of Legends champion that's scheduled to be released with the next patch, and the Vanguard's designer recently explained some of the decisions behind Ornn's varying ratios.

Over on Twitter, Riot Games' Blake Smith who is responsible for Ornn's creation answered several questions from users about Ornn. All the questions stemmed from Ornn's scalings throughout the game that Smith confirmed will be present and diverse.

When the question about his scalings was asked, Ornn had no scaling on his ultimate, but that has since been fixed with other details accompanying the news.

I actually just fixed his ult not having scalings today :P. But we did very specifically tailor his ratios, levelups and base values.

— Blake Smith (@Squad5lol) August 16, 2017

Further expanding on the specifics, Smith said that the champ's ratios will help reinforce his identity as a tank while still being able to deal worthwhile damage throughout the game. Like other tanks, Ornn is planned to have damaging abilities occasionally scale from his health as well.

Below are several in-depth tweets from Smith in succession that provide further clarity on Ornn's ratios:

Mostly we wanted to give him a consistent damage profile throughout the game that let him build the items to do his job as a tank. So you notice that his early tools Q, and W are lacking in terms of damage ratio scaling so that we can have the base values be higher. This is similar to other tanks and bruiser types. However, his primary defensive button (W shield) scales on his health. After that, we put resist scaling damage on his E to allow us to lower the bases there and encourage more tank itemization. Side effect here is that one pointing E still feels good throughout the mid game when you start getting more resists.

Smith also confirmed that both hits of Ornn's ultimate, Call of the Forge God, will ship with a 0.2 AP ratio instead of an AD or health-based scaling.

For more details on each of Ornn's unique abilities that allow him to CC enemies while also building special items for his allies, you can see each of the moves explained here.

Ornn is currently testing on the PBE and is expected to ship with the next patch.