Riot Lexical teases a new League of Legends Vastayan Solo Laner in the latest champion roadmap, set to release in 2024.
Riot Lexical‘s latest update on the League of Legends champion roadmap is loaded with tons of information. Along with Hwei, an egg of a cute creature, Skarner update, the Champion Roadmap teases another champion at the end of the blog.
Runeterra is a shelter for all kinds of races ranging from Human, Vastayan, and Yordles to Constructs, Minotauros, and Half-Races. The upcoming solo laner belongs to the Vastayan race. Vastayan is a term that means Chimera or Mixture of different species. In the League of Legends universe, Vastayans are mainly Human/Animal mixed race. For example, Xayah and Rakan are Half Bird and Half Humans.
Not much is known at this point. However, this won’t stop the dedicated fans from speculating and theory-crafting. So let’s take a look at what we know and how much we can infer about the champ from available information.
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Vastayan Solo Laner Tease in the Champion Roadmap
Riot Lexical, without providing any specific details, teased us with some hints instead. The first one is “Running around before breakfast is tough.” In a vacuum, it seems this creature might have swift or nimble characteristics. It could also be something that hunts food early in the morning or it could simply mean a nocturnal creature as well. So, something like a bird or monkey-like vastaya.
Another hint is that “She has a natural ability to see what others think is not there.” When they put it like that, Clairvoyance comes to mind first. It could also mean something like revealing invisible objects, such as wards or getting vision in the fog of war, similar to Ashe’s E.
However, all these are mere speculations. What is not a speculation is that this champion lives close to Freljord and she likes to travel and explore her surroundings. Other than these little bits, the roadmap doesn’t provide anything more, not even a glimpse of its concept art.
An Interesting Theory From Reddit
A Reddit user, u/Zarathielis, posted an interesting theory on the r/leagueoflegends subreddit. They noticed a detail that escaped the eyes of many. As mentioned earlier, the first hint was “Running around before breakfast is tough.” The OP noticed that if you put together the initials of each word from that sentence, you get ‘Rabbit‘. So, the Vastayan solo laner might as well be a rabbit/human mixed creature.

u/Zarathielis also noticed two plushies of bunnies behind Riot Lexical on the table as seen in the image above, further strengthening their theory.
While this theory has some strong grounds, the second hint kind of goes against it and points more towards a nocturnal creature such as an Owl. Well, we can only know so much from a tweet-sized tease.
So that’s all we have for the new LoL Vastayan Solo Laner which is set to release in 2024. No further specifications have been given from Riot. But we can hope to get more updates once the immediate champions are released on the rift.