I'm sure Lana can speak on that a little more. And part of it, too, is that a dragon's gigantic. That's the moment that she's at her most dangerous, she's going to be able to support her team even better than she does in her base form. So when she goes into that, you know you really have to respect her. That's when she's going to be healing, that's when she's going to be with her team, but we wanted to make the Dragonqueen an iconic moment. Martin: Matt Villers was the principal designer on Alexstrasza and I think the goal was that we wanted her in her human form the most. Shacknews: How did the team approach Alex's design? How did you settle on the idea of using her human form as the character and her dragon form as the trait? There are a bunch of Hanzo mains out there, so we're looking forward to bringing him to the Nexus. almost a cool double dragon simultaneous announcement. When we had Hanzo, we kinda thought it would be fun to do this double dragon. We were looking for support for the Alexstrasza role. When we were looking to follow up, we knew we wanted an assassin.
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So that's pretty much why we decided to go with her, she has a unique silhouette, she can turn into a dragon, she's pretty iconic.
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Alexstasza was kind of a hot ticket, because she's a fan-favorite and because she has the ability to transform into a dragon, which we were looking for something unique that this hero could do. So the leads will tend to get together and discuss potential heroes for that and land on what we're looking for. Jade Martin, Hero Designer: That's a complex question, but we look at our roster of heroes and see maybe who we would like to bring into Heroes and what roles we're looking to fill. Shacknews: How did the team decide on Alexstrasza and Hanzo for a simultaneous announcement?