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

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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
When we're wrong, we're wrong.

Thanks for keeping us honest and in touch =)

 
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Pog Master 2000 ?? Senior Member
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07-21-2012

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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
Oh the things I would do to Leona. I too would like to see a new skin of Leona

 
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IronStylus IronStylus's Avatar ?? Sr. Concept Artist
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oh the things i would do to leona
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Timeo ?? Senior Member
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07-21-2012

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Skins are great to be jokes, not characters.
I'm glad you brought up skins. Not sure if this has been brought up by other posters,sorry if this is the case.

The reason why I'm mentioning skins is because people sometimes miss the fact that skins are often representatives of some of the Archetypes you guys are all talking about.

Pulsefire ez representing the hi-tech part archetype. You get what I'm saying.

A champion archetype I'd like represented though is something Water-based from a visual standpoint and a damage-over-time based from a gameplay standpoint. (Swain and Malzahar seem to be the only DoT champions in the game) , to some extent champions like Mummy (cry) and Draven (passive) but the game-play of a certain champion revolving around multiple damage-over-time effects is extremely appealing to me. To give an example - Affliction Warlocks in World of Warcraft, Spiritmasters and Clerics in Aion, etc. The simple fact that you see an absurd amount of numbers on your screen is super fun. The same way a Witch Doctor or a Whilwind barb in Diablo 3 works. The amount of numbers,while being lower then other, is extremely satisfying.

Anyway, I dragged on. Remember that some skins represent certain Archetypes people are talking about. Riot seems to gauge how will a certain archetype work better, as a skin for an existing champion or an entirely new champion.

Diruo, EU West

 
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aahdin ?? Senior Member
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07-21-2012

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Kog is medium, and he's 10+ Urgots.
I wanted to say something about this, it seems like you're attributing Urgot's small "Fan base" entirely to his physical design when I really don't think that's the case.


I was going to buy urgot maybe a month ago, but I tried him out on the PBE first and realized that he's simply got a playstyle I'm really opposed to. He's an ad carry (or at least fills the role) But he's all about zoning in lane which is kind of boring, and doesn't get you any of those awesome triple-penta kills that other ad carries get late game once they've got IE PD because he builds tanky instead of with a lot of dmg. He also doesn't set up any of those awesome plays in lane like you'll see from something like graves + taric, or vayne + ali.

Tanky champions like nautilus and stuff can be fun, but with those sort of champs you're going to be in the middle of a fight, with urgot it feels like after I ult it's pretty much me doing nothing but trying to hit my skill shot and spamming q for meh dmg.

But more than that he's got a very, very specific playstyle, meaning if you're good at ad carries you're not necessarily going to be good at urgot. If you can play graves well, chances are you'll be able to pick up someone like ashe without much of a problem, but with urgot you're going to need to play a lot of games to get to get decent with him, something most people aren't willing to put in (I didn't really think it was worth it).

So I ended up getting graves instead, so I wouldn't need to completely relearn how to play an adc for a playstyle I don't have much fun with anyways.


edit: Also wanted to add, Streamers don't use him in solo queue, if you look at a lot of the really well played champs it's because hotshot, aphro, and oddone are playing them in solo queue.

 
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He's probably going to buy her a new set of armor. Otherwise...you know full force of the IsC will go after him and abandon the war with RiotPenguin.

Also, you get a hug! /hug

 
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StrictLand ?? Junior Member
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07-21-2012

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Ironstylus more champions from the Shadow Isles pls.

 
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Thanks to you, I see that face every time I close my eyes. Every time I dream, I wake up, I eat, I drink, I breathe, it is always there staring into my soul. I can't turn around, look at stuff, I can't read properly cause it distracts me. It is eating me, consuming my existence.
Cure me of the curse that is ಠ_ಠ, or I will surely perish.

 
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DemoGuide ?? Senior Member
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07-21-2012

answer one thing please.
For me galio was a kind
guardian of demacia. But at new
art he looks like an evil killer. So
you removed archetype i like the
most. Are you going to bring it
back?

 
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CrimsonCzar ?? Senior Member
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07-21-2012

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Vayne is almost 100 Urgots.
"Vegeta look, that must be the Radditz of their group."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXeOl...ailpage#t=101s