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Introduction

As a big fan of the Ruined King, I thought I could lie down some voice lines I think they would make a fine addition to Viego's quote library. Latest champions, including Viego, aren't given much love.

We used to get 30mins of work for voice acting (see Kayn and Aatrox), all the way down to 12mins for Viego, 8mins for Gwen and the new Mundo, and now 6mins for Akshan.

Riot, do you want to standardize champion voice lines to Rammus's? We all gonna have a Rift full of champions running around and just saying "okay" to eachothers all the time?

The Ruined King deserves so much more expressed depth and complexity, and I think there's no better way than voice lines to deliver them! Let me know what you think with some feedback, please.

NOTE : I will most likely update this post the more I can think of new quotes!

Movement

Moving in River:

  • "The gentle touch of pure water reminds me of hers."
  • "Waters like tears of endless sadness."

Moving in Jungle:

  • "No matter the imperviousness, the Black Mist suffers no obstacles."
  • "My love.. remember our walks in the woods?"

First Encounter

First Encounter with Evelynn:

  • "Love transcends carnal desire, succubus."
  • "My heart and body belong to Isolde and Isolde only. "
  • "Demon.. you think a harlot could ever hope to seduce a king?"

First Encounter with Mordekaiser:

  • "You.. feel familiar."
  • "What.. are you?"

First Encounter with Nocturne:

  • "Essence of nightmare.. are you here to torment me yet again?"
  • "My love for her will extinguish your grim tendrils from my mind, amalgamation of terror."
  • "No.. NO! ISOLDE!"

First Encounter with Swain:

  • "Demon of Secrets.. tell me, where can I find my queen?"

First Encounter with Tahm Kench:

  • "I don't trust you nor your words, demon."
  • "A bargain.. to find her? ..I already have given everything for her."

First Encounter with Elise:

  • "Ah, the Spider God's puppet."
  • "You and your pitiful God are no concern of mine, Spider Queen."

First Encounter with Gwen:

  • "Oh, Isolde.. so joyful.. so lighthearted.."
  • "Your joy gave motif to my existence, my love.."

First Encounter with Azir:

  • "King sounds way better than Emperor."

First Encounter with Zilean:

  • "Can the hands of your clock go back a thousand years ago, Chronokeeper?"
  • "Such power.. you can take me back! Do it, I command you! I will save her. No matter what."
  • "The poisonous blade was meant for me; take me back, chronomancer. I will undo it all."
  • "Can but a shadow of a man furrow the seas of time, Chronokeeper?"

Attack

Attacking the Rift Scuttler:

  • "I have no time to waste.."
  • "Insignificant creature."

Attacking the Rift Herald:

  • "Grant me your Eye, monster!"
  • "Succumb, beast, and help me wage destruction upon my enemies!"
  • "Become the vessel of my anguish, abomination!"

Attacking the Dragon:

  • "A hatchling compared to Camavor's true dragons."
  • "Surrender your power to your king, and serve me in death, beast."

Attacking the Baron Nashor:

  • "What is a Baron to a King?"
  • "Such immense power.."
  • "Join my eternal darkness, Nashor!"

Kills and Objective

Killing Evelynn:

  • "True love always prevail, temptress"

Killing Mordekaiser:

  • "I am not like you."

Killing Nocturne:

  • "Less whispers to cloud my mind."

Killing Tahm Kench:

  • "Here's my bargain, demon: you die, I find her."

Killing Gwen:

  • "We will be happy, my love. Soon, together."

Killing Elise:

  • "Nothing but an insect."

Scoring a Killing Spree:

  • "Where. Is. SHE?!"
  • "Yes! MORE! Feed my army!"
  • "All will be consumed by the Black Mist!"

Destroying a Turret:

  • "No fortress will keep me from taking what's mine!"
  • "Press forward, thralls! Now!"
  • "Everything that stands between me and my love will fall!"
  • "Breach their defenses! Show no mercy!"

Shopping

Buying an Item:

  • "No matter the cost, I will find her."
  • "I will use all the golds in the world, if I have to!"

Buying Blade of the Ruined King:

  • "Together. Forever."
  • " And thus, your destiny became mine, brother."
  • "For love.. and Ruination."
  • "Behold.. the BLADE OF THE RUINED KING!"

Buying Long Sword:

  • "The blade of a peasant."
  • "Plebeian weapons.."

Buying Vampiric Scepter:

  • "Their life is mine."
  • "The Scepter of a King."

Buying Pickaxe:

  • "Do commoners truly fight with those?!"
  • "I refuse to wield such filth."

Buying Ruby Crystal:

  • "Red the color of her jowls."
  • "Red the color my heart once was.."

Buying Kraken Slayer:

  • "Men, beasts, Gods: I shall slay them all."
  • "A true king is never concerned with the magnitude of his enemies."

Buying Immortal Shieldbow:

  • "Love shall not be defeated so easily!"
  • "They will never take down the Mist.."

Buying Divine Sunderer:

  • "Divine Love."
  • "Love is my deity and my strength."

Buying Last Whisper:

  • "Hear the whisper of my anguish".
  • "My torment is the last thing they shall hear."

Other Gameplay

Placing a ward:

  • "My love! Where are you?!"
  • "I will find you.."

Destroying a ward:

  • "Only darkness."
  • "I am the darkness that will swallow the shadow whole."
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almost 3 years ago - /u/RiotBrightmoon - Direct link

These are excellent! I think you captured his voice really well. You’re right we do have fewer minutes of voice than some of the champs we did in 2015-2018. It’s not because we care less (or have shifted resources to something else) it’s because we found there were diminishing returns on adding more lines that most players never hear and made the character less clear in game. For every one additional line of dialogue we have to script out the interaction and record it in multiple languages. And we got a lot of feedback that champions were talking too much in game and had too many variation lines that would push out hearing the more impactful / character defining ones. Now I can’t claim we’ve hit the sweet spot of how many lines yet, so it’s something we will talk more about.