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Champion variety (beware: monsters within!)

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Ask the Monkey ?? Senior Member
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07-21-2012

Awesome would be a monster champion that can transform into...wait for it.....A BIGGER MONSTER.

 
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aahdin ?? Senior Member
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07-21-2012

Do you think that there might be a little bit too many of these beefy dudes?

We've got xin, taric, tryndamere, jax, gangplank, mundo, garen, morde, yi, shen, pantheon, sion, olaf, nasus, udyr, lee sin, jarvan, graves, yorick, jayce, draven, and darius.

A lot of these guys are really cool and interesting, but with so many champions with the same sort of theme they become forgettable.

 
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crzymdscntst ?? Senior Member
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07-21-2012

I think commonly people overlook a key aspect of character design.

There aren't any really interesting movies about boring people. (Albeit certain scripting occasionally leads to boring characters, something happens in said movie to make the story move and have a purpose.)

That being said, Bob, the guy who fixes the turrets after each match, never will be a champion, unless something extraordinary happens to him.

In the same vein of thought, we have war criminals and heroes, sheriffs and criminals. Morally opposed and similar views left and right. Nobody in the League should be there without something to set them apart.

 
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Descriptions ?? Member
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07-21-2012

I have a question, why is it that teemo has so many flippen skins. Seriously panda teemo? Now I do love yordles, teemo being no exception. But come on their are champs such as trundle, karma, udyr, yorick, and so on who lack the same amount of skins as say annie.(This has been said so many times.)

Show some love to the troll.

(Also i'm still holding on to the dream of sona getting an actually decent skin (Like Silent night) or Leona getting a holy armor based skin)-personal bias

 
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CnupT ?? Junior Member
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Originally Posted by IronStylus View Post
We've done this cool thing as of late in the company.. we've put out "calls" for submissions for "cute" or "monstrous" or .."whatever" which helps us compile a list of ideas/concepts/whatever to eventually spawn a champion from a place where we're particularly trying to spike development and burn hard. This has yielded some really cool results which I think you'll like when they come to fruition.
Sooo.. what about "cutie monster" Champion?

 
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StrictLand ?? Junior Member
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07-21-2012

Ironstylus any news if were getting champions from the Shadow Isles soon?

 
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GhostDieM ?? Senior Member
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Yup, and I remember apologizing and admitting that I got caught in my own crummy logic at the time. You don't need to showcase breasts/cleavage/etc to solidify a female read.

I actually took those comments I was given really to heart. Maybe at some point you'll find out how I reconciled and incorporated that feedback,
This is why I love you guys. No PR bull just straight up "I'm sorry, maybe you guys are on to something, we'll look at it and maybe change it in the future". For me stuff like this is what makes Riot stand out as a game developer. Thanks for answering all the questions and genuinly interacting with your audience Morello and IronStylus

 
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IronStylus IronStylus's Avatar ?? Sr. Concept Artist
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07-21-2012

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Originally Posted by aahdin View Post
Do you think that there might be a little bit too many of these beefy dudes?

We've got xin, taric, tryndamere, jax, gangplank, mundo, garen, morde, yi, shen, pantheon, sion, olaf, nasus, udyr, lee sin, jarvan, graves, yorick, jayce, draven, and darius.

A lot of these guys are really cool and interesting, but with so many champions with the same sort of theme they become forgettable.
I think we went through a BAD spell.. which means.. Bad Ass Dudes.. HAH! Got it?! First it sounded like I was saying BAD! ...but then! ..acronyms! ..ok then.

I think actually we haven't really overdone it, i think we just have to look at cadence. All those guys belong in our game, but we need a rhythm to release so that there isn't blending or saturation.

 
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GhostDieM ?? Senior Member
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Awesome would be a monster champion that can transform into...wait for it.....A BIGGER MONSTER.
So... Cho Gath?

 
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IronStylus IronStylus's Avatar ?? Sr. Concept Artist
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07-21-2012

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Originally Posted by crzymdscntst View Post
I think commonly people overlook a key aspect of character design.

There aren't any really interesting movies about boring people. (Albeit certain scripting occasionally leads to boring characters, something happens in said movie to make the story move and have a purpose.)

That being said, Bob, the guy who fixes the turrets after each match, never will be a champion, unless something extraordinary happens to him.

In the same vein of thought, we have war criminals and heroes, sheriffs and criminals. Morally opposed and similar views left and right. Nobody in the League should be there without something to set them apart.
I agree in the way that.. yes.. we want to tell the story of the X-men (figuratively) not the entire support and grounds keeping staff of the Xavier Academy. Bob is cool, but yeah, we're mostly dealing the the heroes.