But the fact remains that one of these days they will have to make someone with a parasol.
If she creates tears in space to teleport and hit enemies with trains, then all the better.

This is my main issue. Elise is not a spider queen, she's a human who happens to be wearing a spider-themed skirt.


A Drider would have been SO COOL! I'll give Elise a chance, but I am disappoint.

Raptor Champ 2013.

The kit and theme overall are things I've worked on - I can talk about why Dryder had much less space overall, gameplay-wise.

Spiders have expectations - webs, spiderlings, poison, biting, etc. A dryder, however, can't actually meet many of those expectations effectively - a dark elf can't really bite you and use giant fangs to eat you like, say, Shellob can. This severely limits the design space because you have to use only magic spells to get the "feel" of a spider - a creature that's terrifying by all rights.

I did know people would expect what they've seen. And while we'd all decided that we weren't going to do a Dryder, we wanted to visit the concept of Spider Queen from scratch because there is some cool **** in there!

I still stand by this because I think the kit does deliver on this fantasy - and I can't wait to be able to share some of it with you.

Additional issues raised here:

"She's a hot chick with the same body type." This is something that I will have to have the artists talk about. I don't know much about art generally, and this is something that they think about much more!

"But she's a human." There's more going on - be a bit patient

"Why is she not Victorian" Frankly, why should she be? If you wanted to make wacky spider queen, you could maybe do that (and even then...) but I think it's just all over the place. Spidery stuff has plenty going on - a Victorian character should be more about being super posh, maybe even aloof and disconnected.

i absolutely love how the designers actually come on these boards and talk to the players.

I think you guys should come back to the barn idea and possibly make it work. Here's the original thread.
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/...89075#27889075

It's much better than the spider queen idea in my opinion

I'd be pretty happy if Elise has a toggle transformation, similar to Jayce, where she can go from human form (AD ranged caster maybe?) to spider form (AD melee bruiser with buffed defensive/offensive stats, move speed, and aggression for chasing down weakened targets with spider babies).

Essentially, poke until weak, then go full Spider Queen and unleash the horde.

For me, that would basically be an insta-buy.

Cool, so we can expect another character with the default poison so Cass can proc her E on it? or it will be a new type of "poison" - damage over time like Darius pasive?

I'm hoping it'll be more like a fatality-style move where she turns into a giant spider to wreck your ****, then immediately turns back.

Morello already pretty much confirmed it.