If you don't mind me asking, where would half-human champions fall in this schedule? Stuff like Camille or Pyke or Brand or Evelynn or Xayah/Rakan, essentialy ones that are human-esque or used to be human but have non-human parts/features/themes.
We would classify all of those as human
Most Vastaya count as non-creature/monsters right? Slapping a tail on Neeko and some feathers on Xayah and Rakan to call them monsters would be a bit of a stretch.
I would call Neeko/Xayah/Rakan humans and Rengar a creature
Out of curiosity where you you put non human humanoids like darkins, robots, vastayans and the undead
Aatrox would be creature where-as Kayne and Varus would be human. Robots would generally be creature unless we are talking about like Camille, Vastayans like Rengar would be creature but Xayah/Rakan/Ahri/Sett would be human. Same for undead, depends on how human vs how monstrous
Read moreHey /u/Reav3,
I've had discussions with other rioters about niche champs before, and I'm just curious about your thoughts on this going forward: Will there be any changes to how the creature/monster champions will be marketed to create hype?
I ask this because, statistically speaking, the amount of hype building that's been done for the majority of new monster champions has paled in comparison to how the humanoid champions have been hyped and advertised.
Examples:
Ornn: Facebook short
Yuumi: Very short video telling story of Yuumi
Lillia: Small teaser, slightly tied to event, briefly reference in Yone's video
Senna: Massive video, part of music group
Kaisa: Part of music group
Yone: Event-related video
Aphelios: Pre-season video
It's a bit concerning to me because niche champions aren't really given an opportunity to exist in League's universe com...
I mean we did a CG for Fiddlesticks which neither Sett or Aphelios got. At the end of the day that is up to the publishing team not the champions team though
Can I ask where does Dr. Mundo as a Zaun mutated human fit to in your eyes?
Though Humanoid we would put Mundo in the creature/monster category, same as other humanoid monsters like Warwick, Voli, Renekton, Nasus
Is there any monster champion that is not niche? Like, isn't Rengar kinda popular? And Renekton gets a skin yearly for some reason.
Maybe instead of Rek'Sai, you can go in their direction.
We also haven't had a dark monster for a while, so I hope next monster isn't cute like Yuumi and Lillia.
Yeah like I said we didn't make a dark monster this year because we had Fiddle, and we know some players love them. We felt we had much less cute creatures then dark creatures on the roster as well when we started working on Yuumi
Do you guys have a similar philosophy when choosing which regions a champ should be from, since I noticed this year we had a large amount of Ionian releases so far
No, we generally explore arhetypes first that match gameplay designs and then we figure out which regions they fit best in later in the process
Question for you Reav3, where do yordles factor in to the creature vs human spectrum? I feel like they'd end up in the more creature end of it, but just wanted to ask about it
Yordle would be in the creature camp, and yes we know we need to make another Yordle soon
I also feel like champion remakes should also count to some degree.
Fiddlesticks and Volibear both went from 'comic' style to a more serious look. The goal with Fiddlesticks was literally to make him as scary as possible. They are both now basically as far away from 'hot generic girl' as imaginable, at least for me.
VGUs totally count when we look at our year roadmap. We still want to make monsters and creatures we just make less of them since they are more niche and when we look at the years roadmap we include VGUs. That being said we have made it a goal to have at least one non-human new champ a year, and we might do more then 1 in a year where we didnt also do VGUs on monster champs. Yuumi was the non-human for 2019 and Lillia is the non-human for 2020. For 2020 though we already knew we were going to ship both Volibear and Fiddle so there wasnt that much room for more monster/creature champs, though we still made Lillia. One of the reasons we chose to make Lillia a whimsical/cute creature was to contrast Voli and Fiddle since we were doing 3 creatures/monster champs in a row. If Shyvana had won the VGU poll, for example, we might have done a new monster champ this year. TL:DR we still want to make creature/monster champs but less since they are niche, and VGUs count towards the amount we m...
Read moreYeah Reece the dolphin will have to wait till next year...
Btw do u have room on ur friends list since I just came back from a long hiatus and I only have like 6 friends rn ;_;. Its 927666949
You can use my broken servants, like I said I okay waaay to much FGO
Yeah Reece the dolphin will have to wait till next year...
Btw do u have room on ur friends list since I just came back from a long hiatus and I only have like 6 friends rn ;_;. Its 927666949
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Lmao are you me? I dumped like 600 quartz for nero last year with no luck but this summer i got np2 dantes and bb early on but no jarcher after 400 sq ;_;
Yeah I should have gone for Dante after I got BB, but something but Jeannes over the top animation set was too good to pass up.
Nah, nothing I really want for a while honestly. I'm just throwing tickets here and there when my interest piques me. I'm saving for banners I do like, especially since Gilfest is right around the corner. I've just been chilling this event so far, farming the Saber/Zerker nodes since I can 3T those. I do need to get to grinding Imagination sooner than later, since all those nodes are rough for me to farm and take like 4-7 turns depending on card draws.
That said I'm not upset with my rolls so far, last banner I really went gung-ho on was Izo, didn't get him NP5 sadly. I threw a few at CasGil, but not terribly much since a 4* ticket is coming soon.
Yeah I'm at like 900/900/600 right now, need to at least get all the 4* fous to finish maxing out my lvl100 Musashi to 2000/2000, not sure if I will have it in me to get them too 1,000 after that since I have like 50 Crystalized lore anyway
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I play waaay to much FGO. Did you get what you wanted out of the summer event? I got BB, Jeanne, MedB and XX. I was satisfied this year, unlike last year where I spent 450 SQs on Nero and didn't get her, it was sad times. I didn't get Dante though, so looks like I will be sticking with my Merlin while my Skaldi just chills for now
Yeah of course. I can't seem to sauce it, but I think it's based on the Event CE "Gilgamesh in NY". Arrogant golden kings are the best!
Hell yeah, just unlocked the rich boy Gil skin from the Summer event over the weekend
Any reason why Yasuo voice over wasn't redone in similar vein to Lucian/Sona?
Its really a question of how many resources we have free at the time of the legendary record. Someone still has to write the script, get feedback on it and iterate on it, record the lines, edit the lines, implement the lines in the game and then loc it for every region. When we do legendaries we usually look if we have bandwidth to do all that, since these are done by people already working on a bunch of other projects. Sometimes the stars align and we can do them, other times people are slammed with other deadlines so we cant. This is also why the Yasuo lines came a patch later.
Why not do that for Ahri? :(
Its really a question of how many resources we have free at the time of the legendary record. Someone still has to write the script, get feedback on it and iterate on it, record the lines, edit the lines, implement the lines in the game and then loc it for every region. When we do legendaries we usually look if we have bandwidth to do all that, since these are done by people already working on a bunch of other projects. Sometimes the stars align and we can do them, other times people are slammed with other deadlines so we cant. At the time when we recorded Ahri the narrative team was slammed writing spirit bonds so we didn't really have the badnwidth to also do a full Ahri script. Loc was also slammed loc'ing 2 Champions, 2 Legendaries and all of Spirit Bonds.
couldn't that be done with soraka?
Its really a question of how many resources we have free at the time of the legendary record. Someone still has to write the script, get feedback on it and iterate on it, record the lines, edit the lines, implement the lines in the game and then loc it for every region. When we do legendaries we usually look if we have bandwidth to do all that, since these are done by people already working on a bunch of other projects. Sometimes the stars align and we can do them, other times people are slammed with other deadlines so we cant.
Would you also have context behind Sona’s update, was it just because her VA was recording stuff for the skin
Yes, we used the legendary skin record time to also update her base VO
Do you know what happened to this, since Yasuo's new lines never showed on PBE
They should be on PBE soon
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