Riot Games has released a new trailer for its upcoming fighting game 2XKO, this time around, offering up an in-depth look at a new addition to the game’s roster—Illaoi, the Kraken Priestess. Check out the trailer below.
The 6-minute-long trailer gives us a great look at some of the moves and combos that will be available to Illaoi for the first 50 seconds, before switching to narration by game designer Caroline Montano, who goes in-depth in describing the character.
According to Montano, Illaoi is meant to be a heavy-hitting juggernaut of a character, who focuses on overwhelming her opponents by applying continuous pressure with high-damage moves and combos. On finding an opening, Illaoi can make use of her tentacle moves to lock her opponents down.
The character’s core mechanics revolve around summoning and activating spirit tentacles by using her S2 specials. S1 specials, on the other hand, trigger follow-up attacks by the tentacles. Montano does reiterate that, despite her use of tentacles, Illaoi is not meant to be a puppet character.
Illaoi will be one of the characters available to play in the early build of 2XKO that will be playable at Evo 2024, alongside Ekko, Ahri, Darius, and Yasuo. 2XKO is slated for release in 2025, and will be coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.