Originally Posted by Contagioned

If it's commonly liked, we can expect things to change. It's still not a common thing to like women with muscles. It's also not common to like men that you would describe as "body-builder" or "burly." There's a certain amount of muscle that is accepted by society, which is what is represented in the game's characters. The amount of people that play League of Legends is large enough to assume that their opinions are decently reflected by society's opinions. We can't expect this many people to all of a sudden start to enjoy muscular women out of nowhere. Even slightly muscular women isn't a universally "attractive" female body type.

Originally Posted by Robotasaurusgeth

This is a fair point. I think the main problem, at least in my opinion, is that a lot of times the female characters are often made sexy regardless of who or what they are, while male characters often fit their appearances much more, not always, but more.

For instance, take Morgana. Is there any reason she runs around in a bra all the time? Sure she's evil and a fallen angel, but there's nothing about her or her backstory that also says she's a loose woman or needs to wear something like that in combat.

Or Shyvana. She's not terrible when it comes to weird armor, but she sports a whole lot of midriff and doesn't seem to like wearing real pants. Yet she's a warrior, and a Demacian at that (notorious for being goodie-goodies), and any practical warrior on the battlefield would probably want some form of real armor. I mean, you don't see the U.S. Marine ladies running around in battlebras do you?

And lastly, I don't know much about this new lady, but look at the rest of her. She's got a heavy weapon, a heavy shield, and she rides around on a badass mount. Clearly a warrior, clearly a battle hardened veteran, clearly someone who isn't afraid to take a defensive or offensive posture depending on the circumstances. So why is she in a bikini? It doesn't really fit with the rest of her.

A lot of the female characters in LoL seem to end up forced to be sexy for no particular good reason. There's no basis for it in their backgrounds or characters. In other words, the only reason it's done is because Riot thinks that it'll make people buy the champs.

Originally Posted by ViashinoWizard

Well for one thing their arms and legs are also quite muscular. Now explain away She Hulk, Power Girl et al.

Originally Posted by Korica Riftaxe

Thank you for making a good post about this sort of thing.

I've mostly just been raging, because Riot has never expressed giving a ****, and most of the community are ignorant adolescent-minded horndogs.

Originally Posted by Captain Jaguar

Nidalees Sexy and shes an amazon, which in her profile to be sexy, cause all amazons are sexy :3

Originally Posted by Sypher76

Seriously, this.

She doesn't need to be a bodybuilder. She doesn't need to be un-sexy. But if ever there was a female champ who *NEEDS* some abs and guns, this is the one.. That mace looks like a featured event on a weight-lifting competition. The fact that she is so ridiculously non-muscular is pathetic.

And I don't care about the in-game model. The splash art, at least, should be *slightly* credible.