That's right.
It was me, Unfettered Joy, Samira's Alternate Form, the one known as Realm Samira—Shuimila!
With their final two picks, V5 directly locked in Nilah and Braum.
And Nilah's stats in this patch could be summed up in one sentence: after Top Laner Tang San (Mortal) and jungle Xiao Yan (Udyr), another god had arrived—AD Lin Dong, please enlighten us!
Holiday Dragon—Nila
"Nilah!?"
"How does AK's Champion Pool still have something like this? This seemed to be his first time playing her, didn't it?"
The moment the new Hero Nilah appeared, the three casters at the Commentary Desk immediately fell into a daze. Gala had only managed to bring out Nilah after cramming Buddhism with Buddha at the last minute, yet AK could play her too... When had he prepared something this outrageous?
"But Nilah really was a natural counter against short-range ADCs like Samira and Lucian."
"And the scariest part is that other ADCs would have to think about how to run from EG's composition. But for Nilah, it was EG who had to consider how to avoid her burst."
What did Nilah mean in this patch?
She was a pure Stat Monster.
Everyone remembered when Samira had first come out, right? Forget ordinary Ranked Matches—even when she first appeared in professional play, she slaughtered everyone. But Nilah was even more absurd. Her numbers after release were more outrageous than Samira's. To put it bluntly, if you couldn't Rank Up while playing her when she first came out, it only meant you were bad, because climbing with her didn't require a brain at all.
With that, both sides' compositions were confirmed:
V5: Top Laner Kennen, jungle Sejuani, mid Nocturne, bot Nilah + Braum. (The previous chapter mistakenly said Braum; it has been corrected.)
EG: Top Lane Jax, jungle