Can we talk about brutal death animations in league?

ChuShoe··2 votes·2,726 views

You know what I'm talking about, the ones where, when you see em' for the first time you kinda gasp and have a mini heart-attack, and say "holy crap that's brutal"

*disclaimer, not saying that I have a problem with the animations or that they should be changed or whatever, just looking for a discussion based around them. Come on people, I know how chatty the boards are, and I'd love to see some lively discussions around this.

EXHIBIT A: A normal death animation; https://youtu.be/pnwWOUJuTW4 Caitlyn's death animation is simple, short, and her death scream is kinda sad to be honest. Oh, yes, I forgot to mention, a death animation is always accompanied with a sound, so we'll be talking about death screams too.

Now, compare it to these. https://youtu.be/LqMW5DbVrWY Now, zed's death animation isn't exactly what you would consider "brutal", but when you consider that he's probably crawling into hell, it puts a whole new meaning onto his death. Death noise is brief, so his animation iss nothing too crazy, but one that definitely stands out more than others.

https://youtu.be/-mhmmcaloxk Cassiopeia's death animation is mildly brutal. Again, one that stands out more than others, similar to zed's. But let's be honest, the real thing that makes her death brutal, is the soul shattering scream she lets out before turning to stone and crumbling into dust.

Now moving on to death animations that are a little higher up on the brutal list https://youtu.be/y2teZ4KFfm4 Thresh's death animation is actually pretty scary. The thing he cherishes so much is about to become his downfall and his eternal torment. A soul going into thresh's lantern is probably worse than going to hell, so if the man inflicting all the pain to his inmates BECOMES an inmate, what do you think is going to happen to him. In his voice you can clearly hear him trying desperately to fight for his soul, but he is doomed to fail.

https://youtu.be/su39Z_M89yc Irelia's death animation is truly brutal. Her dying voice sounds convincing, but on top of that, can we also talk about how she's impaled by 4 seperate blades? Holy crap riot like, who honestly thought this was okay enough to release on a family friendly platform? Just kidding, but in all seriousness, this is pretty brutal. However, this doesn't claim the number 1 spot, because she dies relatively quickly.

No, the #1 spot belongs to: Tryndamere https://youtu.be/mqwYrfM4O3g Although he's only impaled by 1 giant sword, that's the thing, he's only impaled by 1 giant sword, straight through the abdomen. That doesn't KILL a person right away, or even quickly. You can see him struggle with this while he's dying, which is why it's incredibly brutal to see EVEN in game. You can't help but feel sorry for the barbarian king.

But I can't leave it on a kinda sad note, so I'll end this on a... lewd note I introduce to you, the KOREAN AHRI DEATH SCREAM https://youtu.be/eA8u1tkgRxU?t=279 Hopefully that makes up for it

12 Comments

Raxistaicho2 votes

Honestly, it looks to me like Zed's escaping in his death animation.

Ekko's is pretty clever, he does a time rewind.

DariusDemiurge1 votes

I never noticed Irelia's or paid attention to posts about her but, shit... Those blades are vengeful, you don't control us anymore bitch. Now I need to find out if there is any significant lore reason to her blades betraying her near death like that (or redeath if she still was resurrected by soraka or Ionia.)

ChuShoe1 votes

Me neither, I saw it the other day and it's actually somewhat what prompted me to make this post.

OurLestrade1 votes

There's actually a Ryona fetish channel on Youtube exclusively for LOL deaths. Don't ask how I know this, and yes it's weird.

ChuShoe1 votes

Wait what? Why?

Lol just when you think the world can't get stranger than it already is, humanity asks us to hold it's beer.

Demon King Maou1 votes

Malzahar battleboss dissolves on death

ChuShoe1 votes

There were a few I left out specifically because it felt like it belonged to the theme/were comedically over-the-top, e.g. Ziggs flies around and blows up on death, and rumble gets launched out of his booster-seat and catches fire.

Eternal Torment1 votes

Zed actually isn't crawling into hell, he is using his shadow techniques to port himself out of there >_> that was etablished when he was released....

and honestly...These aren't really brutal death's by far. sure, they are somewhat..less mild by describtion, but compared to what brutal actually covers Lol's worst death animation is as dreadful as licking a lollipop.

And not only that, the death animations are supposted to represent the ironic way every champion ends. a lot of times you will see the "their power turned against them" scenario, as shown with irelia, cass, trynda, galio etc and deaths that make the Person become part of their powers like lux, lulu and thresh.

death animations are as far as i see it meant to be symbolic. if they have to step out of the pg line to do so, then so be it.

PS: there's way more brutal Things in league outside of deaths

Ashe frozen alive into hypothermia And bleeding out. Corki Phosphor bombs in your face (Phosphor is really nasty stuff...) Kalista an anorexic bitch that rips out the spears she impales you with Darius This dude gives you hemorrages by cutting you open with an axe and splits you in two. Jhin Makes you physically deformed and irrecognizable for the sake of his twisted fetishes. KogMaw Acid shower

you get the Picture

Edit: would really like some answers instead of silence. otherwise i will just assume that the point came across and proved my say. death animations aren't brutal, hell there is barely any blood effect in this game, except for darius R animation and talon passive.

ChuShoe1 votes

Well, for one, you're reading way too into it when you bring in the

the death animations are supposted to represent the ironic way every champion ends. a lot of times you will see the "their power turned >against them" scenario, as shown with irelia, cass, trynda, galio etc and deaths that make the Person become part of their powers like lux, lulu and thresh.

We're just talking about how brutal they are in terms of the game and how they are alone. I think you got downvoted because of that, and on top of it, you kind of go off topic when you talk about things that happen in the game and describe them how they would most likely be portrayed in lore instead of talking about actual animations you can see in-game.

If that's what the post was about, I would've brought up urgot, since he pretty much takes the cake (and yasuo, zed, pretty much every champion in league of legends tbh if that's where we were gonna go with this), but the post was about the death animations for champions, not necessarily how deaths would be described if they were apart of a short story, or about the animations for attacking other champions.

Hovering Hentai1 votes

Lissandra fucking disintegrates

ChuShoe1 votes

I'm gonna be honest, there were some I left out/forgot about Some were left out to make the post shorter so it didn't feel like it was TOO long, just to get the point across, while others were just completely forgotten altogether.

vts1 votes

forget that, the feels death are more brutal

Just have a look at the death animation for both star guardian ahri and dragon trainer tristana :(

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