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Karthus Visual Ability Update (Lich Style)

Desecrate Church·5/23/2014, 1:55:02 PM·1 votes·755 views

Hey guys, who else feels mindfucked by how everyone is loving or hating Karthus animations colours? HE IS A LICH FOR GODS SAKE, LICHS ARE NECROMANCERS. So here you go, this is how his abilities are supposed to look without even changing them ->

Q - A portal to the afterlife is ripped open in the groud and a swarm of souls escape it / A tombstone rises from the ground and soon after a skeleton emerges slashing or biting as it rises. Then both skeleton and tombstone crumble into pieces (instead of a friking explosion, like wtf?!)

W: A bunch of skeleton-upper bodies reaching out of the ground and grabbing/slashing at enemies passing through (instead of some spirit building I mean hello? Incorporal summoning is cool and all, but . . . a wall? that is painful? o.ô i dont get de joke . . .

E: This one actually is quite okay, although the whole thing would look a lot more awesome with spectral bodies (ghosts) or maybe even skeletons (i prefer the ghosts) swarminng around karthus (instead of coloring the ground around him, srsly, doesnt make him appear dangerus at all. . .)

R: The only ability I find awesome-looking now. Just. . . how about making the beam erupt from his eyes and mouth, rising into the sky? I would like that extra. . . . |_ The only way to really make this anymore awesome, is by having karthus errupt ghosts/ souls shaped like himself which will travel over the map (in great speed) and crash into enemy champions.

When I read Karthus update I thought FINALLY, Karthus is finally acknowledged as undead sorcerer and gets away from his gay ass squishy noob mage role . . . well I was proven wrong.

4 Comments

AbiwonKenabi5/23/2014, 3:55:28 PM1 votes

One of the goals of the rework was to not have any exposed bones due to cultural taboos on exposed bones in some Asian countries. From the Karthus VU announcement:

"Karthus looks a little different – we’ve made him less bare-bones – because we now have the tech and expertise needed to display the level of detail that a withered necromancer visually demands. In addition, the change means players around the world can enjoy the same awesome Karthus without us having to switch things up for various cultural sensibilities."

Also, what is wrong with being a mage? That's his role--a mage--and neither his lore nor his status as a lich implies he is a necromancer. The proper definition of a Lich is that they bound their soul to an object in order to live into the afterlife. Sure that might mean they are a necromancer, but it is not a direct indication. From wikipedia:

"Often such a creature is the result of a transformation, as a powerful magician or king striving for eternal life uses spells or rituals to bind his intellect to his animated corpse and thereby achieve a form of immortality....liches can be distinguished from other undead by their phylactery, an item of the Lich's choosing into which they imbue their soul, giving them immortality until the phylactery is destroyed"

Irelia is arguably a Lich since it is implied in her lore that her soul was bound to her sword and she certainly isn't a necromancer.

I understand you just want an awesome undead mage who preaches death as only the next big thing to look the part. But Karthus' new particle effects are faithful to the original design while still making huge improvements. I agree that at least he needs a more varied color-palette for his abilities, but I still wouldn't describe him as a "gay ass squishy noob mage" as you put it.

Desecrate Church5/23/2014, 7:53:19 PM1 votes

asian cultures have the most brutal and horriefic games. If they seriously get upset over a few skeletons now they should just get some kinda censor aka. make the skeletons have flesh or smth.

Also what is wrong with being a mage ? ? ? First of all, irelia is not a lich, she still posseses her own, mortal body, second, if you are an undead, death preaching Lich. The last thing is to resort to the weak arcane masteries weak human creatures pursue. If riot knows 1% of jack about Liches they know they are necromancers. No exception. And yes. . . I am really reaaly reaaaaaally fuking serious about liches O.O

and about his particles. . .if they dare to change the color of his spells, without and not adding at least some ghost shaped particles into his abilities (if you reread my stuff i gave second options avoiding skeletons for everything but wall of pain) i will find them, and kick their asses. Only reason i stoped playing karthus after i picked him up was cus i couldnt rest seeing a lich using arcane magic which wasn't even of the evil kind. . . EVIL MAGIC IS NOT COLORFUL!!!! ITS EITHER, PURPLE DARKISH OR GHOSTLY!!!

Erberor5/23/2014, 9:38:47 PM1 votes

Liches are not by definition focused necromancers. They're basically a specific type of undead that is capable of powerful arcane magic. They sure as hell KNOW necromancy, but it would be far from the only thing one would know.

Desecrate Church5/24/2014, 5:06:01 AM1 votes

Liches are necromancers, NO EXCEPTION. You gotta have necromantic knowledge to even be able to take the step to unlive and as Higher Undead they automatically have control over Undead, why not use that and instead use an art that is harder to handle and not as easily usable to them as necromanty is.

Arcane magic is for friking arcane mages. . . not the undead. It destroys their entire purpose of them being undead . . . and it makes me sad T-T. GIVE ME A PROPER NECROMANCER ALREADY (not yorick . . . he sucks)