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Hero shooter Valorant recently got a nice little update that brought in its newest playable Agent, Neon. The lightning-fast difficult hitter has been well received by players, fifty-fifty later on being accidentally unlocked automatically on release, only some who accept dabbled in Riot's other games accept pointed out the similarities between Neon and Zeri, i of League of Legends' newest Champions. That, it turns out, is no coincidence.

According to a post from Erika Haas on Valorant's official website, the two characters aren't the same person or even related to each other; however, they were adult in tandem by the two games' teams, spearheaded past Valorant'southward John Goscicki and League's Ryan Mireles. That might sound like a fun, if unimpressive, bit of trivia, but every bit the post goes on to detail the catchy procedure, information technology soon becomes apparent that this was more than a elementary palette swap.

To start with, the 2 games play radically different from each other — a simple copy-paste of assets wouldn't cut it. To work around that, the teams built the characters up from the thought of a shared power source: speed and electricity. From in that location, ideas like the characters' Filipina origins, and even their personalities — narrative author Michael Luo describes Neon as "the negative charge" and Zeri every bit "the positive" — grew out organically as the duo gradually took shape.

The teams struggled to overcome various other issues during development, not least of which was designing interesting gameplay elements that wouldn't break their corresponding games. But the results speak for themselves, and Neon and Zeri take ended up every bit a tribute of sorts to the respect and collaboration between two quite different games.