Akshan

Akshan works from the shadows rather than the front line, evading notice until the moment he chooses to be seen. He treats stealth as a craft, one built around timing his reappearance rather than avoiding a fight altogether, and he moves through danger with a confidence that reads as charisma more than recklessness.

His sense of justice is personal and fairly literal: wrongdoers get answered for what they have done, and Going Rogue marks anyone who kills one of his allies as a target worth settling accounts with. If he manages to take down that marked enemy, his passive lets him bring the fallen ally back rather than simply avenging them, which is a rarer kind of justice than most vigilantes offer. Dirty Fighting layers bonus damage and a shield onto every third hit against a champion, and his basic attacks fire an extra shot on top of that, so a fight against him tends to snowball faster than the opening exchange suggests.

Avengerang and Heroic Swing are built for mobility around a fight rather than standing in one, letting him strike and reposition before anyone can pin him down; the grappling hook lets him swing wide around terrain and fire while he does, then drop off early or get knocked loose if he collides with something solid. Comeuppance turns a long lock-on into a single reckoning shot that scales with how much health the target is missing rather than how much armor they are carrying. He operates out of Shurima, a setting the record describes as a buried empire whose old god-warriors are beginning to stir, which gives his one-man crusade against scoundrels a much larger backdrop than it might otherwise have. Other figures tied to that same desert, including Azir, hint at just how much is waking up underneath the sand he walks.