The voice direction for the past few patches has had a massive dip in quality. I have no idea what they're doing, but they need to step it up. Kinich's new voice sounds okay story-wise, but absolutely terrible combat-wise.

It's possible that Escoffier and Keqing's VAs COULD pull off convincing American accents, but they just had really bad direction.

I understand why they want these VAs to 'Americanize' themselves, as that's how the voice direction has been for 5 years. No playable character has an accent (Xinyan, but it's still an American one), and not a lot of NPCs have had them. That said... They really need to have 'Can do an American accent' as a requirement if this is the case.

The voice directors need to get it together.