I think Riot is getting too carried away with their train of thought.
They are way over thinking some aspect while overlooking others.

I think the theory behind "personable characters" in this case is deeply flawed, you can give personality to a stick if you wanted to, all it take is some artistic flair.
Personality can be given to almost any kind of aesthetic design, not just to "Big boob girl X" or "Mans with sword Y".

We are asking for a wider range of visual champ design, I am sure your artists can make them and your champ devs can flesh them out to be as appealing and personable as you want without seeming out of place.

If you look at all the coolest, most unique champions in the game - the vast majority come from the original 40. After they started getting sale data they discovered that most of their playerbase wants generic muscle/boob humans rather than quirky and unique champions. Annie, Amumu, Anivia, Dr. Mundo, Nunu, Rammus, Soroka, Twitch, or Zilean would never have been made under the current direction of champion concepts. Which makes me incredibly sad because the quirky champions with stylized art is what made me choose LoL over HoN and ever since then they have been moving away from the style that attracted me to be more realistic, generic fantasy buff/sexy humans.

I would love to play as the ancient golem

As an aside, the reason he's pulled back into Crime is because his respirator breaks and he has to go to one of his old partners to get it fixed, who he then owes his life to.

Having worked on Fizz and Lulu and seeing Ziggs released this year - What do you find less quirky about those characters compared to Annie/Amumu/Nunu? What misses the mark on those characters that were present in the original?

Malphite?

Personally these types of characters are what drew me into lol in the first place when I saw Urgot Cho and Morde I wanted to play them when I looked at all the generic human characters I had to actually read their lore to have any interest in them and for the most part unless I really like their kit I rarely play them

I would play the F out of a Giant Spider or the Ancient Golem..

Hell Broodmother in DOTA is awesome and she's literally a giant spider.

Riot should really not be making excuses for limiting its champion design and instead trying to think outside of the box and make things other than humanoids.

i understand grotesque champs are SOOOOO important riot, i love how you got ur focus in the right areas!

just forget us who cant play because of a effed up patch!

Many of us have been having many many bug errors since the last patch... bugsplat errors. We all seem to get bugsplat on loading or soon into games and keep getting them when we reconnect so we can't play at all. This has only occured for us since the last patch.

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/....php?t=2080365

While true, you have to remember, if they made a Giant Spider, they would literally get yelled at AGAIN by people claiming it's just a rip off of DotA.

They need to do something other than the Broodmother, despite my love for the Spider Queen Concept.