BEST CHAMPION SELECT AND LOADING SCREEN IDEA EVER

Carter1525·Jun 8, 2015·78 votes·6,314 views

THIS NEEDS TO BE PUT IN THE GAME RN THANKYOU

72 Comments

ElJanitorFrankJun 8, 201533 votes

Most of it is just a waste, though. This doesn't help me at all, it actually makes some of the more useful information smaller so we can see the champions better.

And they'd have to cut out spaces for each and every champion in the game to fit the spaces for them. Because the champions are also videos instead of just still images, you'd have to go back and do the other 80+ champions who never had a video in the first place.

This looks really cool and everything, but in my opinion, there are better ways to stylize the champion select screen and give more information doing it, and with less work needed.

timtimxJun 8, 20156 votes

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Most of it is just a waste, though. This doesn't help me at all, it actually makes some of the more useful information smaller so we can see the champions better.

And they'd have to cut out spaces for each and every champion in the game to fit the spaces for them. Because the champions are also videos instead of just still images, you'd have to go back and do the other 80+ champions who never had a video in the first place.

This looks really cool and everything, but in my opinion, there are better ways to stylize the champion select screen and give more information doing it, and with less work needed.

LOL this guy; "well a lot of people like this, better stand out from the crowd" dude srsly, this is awesome looking, there is no reason why it cant look exactly like this and still include every feature that the normal loading screen does, dont hate just accept that this is awesome and if riot implemented it that would be great

TheSlappySlapJun 8, 201519 votes

There are no videos for 90% of the champs. What happens when they change an older character's splash screen? They have to re-do the video again.

How do I go back after I selected a champion?

Seems to me like a complete waste of resources and unintuitive. The launcher client is made in Adobe Air and would not be capable of half of this without changing the system entirely.

Occams RaiserJun 9, 20152 votes

nit pick.

B1naryB0tJun 9, 20152 votes

There's a difference between nitpicking and it being physically impossible without recoding the entire client.

Occams RaiserJun 9, 20151 votes

I don't need video for every character especially on the loading screen. But the ones that have videos is a nice touch. And they could make video sections just for the width of the window over time for the others. I think there should be a chat window on load. I wouldn't call it a complete waste even though parts are a bit over blown. The way it looks even if it was static is still awesome.

B1naryB0tJun 9, 20151 votes

I like the way it looks, yes. But it's not worth the resources put into it when we already have a working model. Recoding, artwork, facing criticism, clarity, toxicity in a loading screen chat, we don't need that shit. I would much rather have Riot put in efforts towards more and better champions and more game design than this.

B1naryB0tJun 9, 20151 votes

Even now looking at it, it's poorly designed.

Occams RaiserJun 9, 20151 votes

facing criticism, clarity, toxicity

This will always be thing when it comes to change. I want them to put the effort into the Tribunal, or create feed busters and troll busters. But these are just judgments we each consider important.

JambulijaJun 9, 20151 votes

Adobe Air and would not be capable of half of this without changing the system entirely.

Well that is just not true...

But I agree this is so unnecessary! All this does is helping my laptop reaching pick heat before the loading screen... Not even digging in to how much i dislike the bad combo of circles vs diagonal lines ....

CindikleJun 8, 201514 votes

There are reasons why this wouldn't be a great idea.

All the rounded edges don't fit the box League is played in. It feels off for the most part.
As stated, most champions do not have an animation image to be used.
This gets even worse at the loading screen when skins are involved.
This is asking a lot more load. Remember those player who take 5 minutes to load on their toaster? Riot does care to keep them around.
Biggest hurdle is the coding. It's a mess and it's old. Look at what it took for them to fix so many skill shot problems. They had to redo the whole thing because making small changes would cause big problems. Reworking it will require a lot of testing and coding. Especially to this degree.

Things to take from this:

League's champ select and loading screen are in fact ugly in this age. Although the loading screen has gotten better since it has a background now.
League's loading screen gives no way to show you are frozen on it's own. You have to load a web page and see if your ping drops.

Arch Mage MagnusJun 9, 20154 votes

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There are reasons why this wouldn't be a great idea.

All the rounded edges don't fit the box League is played in. It feels off for the most part.

As stated, most champions do not have an animation image to be used.

This gets even worse at the loading screen when skins are involved.

This is asking a lot more load. Remember those player who take 5 minutes to load on their toaster? Riot does care to keep them around.

Biggest hurdle is the coding. It's a mess and it's old. Look at what it took for them to fix so many skill shot problems. They had to redo the whole thing because making small changes would cause big problems. Reworking it will require a lot of testing and coding. Especially to this degree.

Things to take from this:

League's champ select and loading screen are in fact ugly in this age. Although the loading screen has gotten better since it has a background now.

League's loading screen gives no way to show you are frozen on it's own. You have to load a web page and see if your ping drops.

I think the sad part is that having a background during the loading screen took this long. 5 years, and they just decided to copy and paste an image in the netcode lol.

DurzakaJun 9, 20153 votes

Exactly.

We dont need champion select to look more pretty. it looks FINE right now.

What we need is more information.

Occams RaiserJun 9, 20151 votes

"fine"

SolaxoJun 9, 20153 votes

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"fine"

This is a freakin interface

Occams RaiserJun 9, 20151 votes

I know. I could use some polish every now and then.

WarchfGingerJun 9, 20151 votes

Well, then just cancel the video, and otherwise there isn't really a problem.

It would be cool if the portraits where the video is supposed to be showed the selected skin

Planet Zoo GamerJun 9, 20152 votes

Actually, more champs have animated splashes than you think. Look at the beginning of a lot of spotlight videos for champions that you thought didn't, like Master Yi, Garen, or Lulu- and there's a short clip when the champ splash is shown of an animated image. Plus I bet with a bit of tinkering you could make a lot of them animated. Like, with Jarvan's you can just make his arms trembling and have him breathing. Ezreal have a sliding animation like he's sliding down the mountain that his splash is on. ETC. ETC. Either way, I personally find this a very good idea, as well as the design being beautiful.

JambulijaJun 9, 20151 votes

I agree.

First they should find a way to show teammates considered bans by their captain, with something like click:select for banning. And maybe indicating desired lane positions for blind pick with a single click from a list.... Than we discus unnecessary styling with golden circles and... other golden shit.

Insomnia1234o00oJun 9, 201510 votes

Looks over designed and terrible to be honest....

Arcade AndrewJun 9, 20159 votes

You know why this would never happen aside from the obvious?

"kda and winrate check is available now" riot would never do that hell they removed the option of showing players ping just because they didnt want people toxic over it, you think theyll be ok with kdas? I wouldnt even be ok, id rather go in with blind faith in my team than see their shitty kda and think "great hes gunna feed" all game

YossarianSenseiJun 9, 20152 votes

Either way the information is easily available from third party websites; I don't see why Riot refuses to make it less annoying on the players

DownfallJun 9, 20153 votes

Not everyone cares enough to look up stats every game is why, some people are lazy. if it was available so easily almost everyone would.

Sona PingJun 9, 20154 votes

Because KDA is F^&*ing meaningless. It's bad enough there are third party sites collecting such useless data, we certainly don't need to encourage more idiots throwing BS like that around.

iainB85Jun 9, 20152 votes

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You know why this would never happen aside from the obvious?

"kda and winrate check is available now" riot would never do that hell they removed the option of showing players ping just because they didnt want people toxic over it, you think theyll be ok with kdas? I wouldnt even be ok, id rather go in with blind faith in my team than see their shitty kda and think "great hes gunna feed" all game

Yea, when Riot doesn't even trust it's community to not rage over other people's ping, they aren't going to go throwing people's average KDA into the mix for sure.

SaiannaJun 9, 20159 votes

Pros: +Looks

Cons:

Old PCs would explode

BasicFortuneJun 8, 20158 votes

we all know riot isn't going to do this, deep down within our hearts. item 3070 item 3073

Insomnia1234o00oJun 9, 20159 votes

Thank god.

SolaxoJun 9, 20154 votes

I agree, this champ select is garbage. Poor design

John BerserkJun 9, 20156 votes

So much wasted space though.

It's pleasant to look at at first, but it's hard not to notice all of the unnecessary open and unused space beneath the champion portraits on the sides, and between those and the champion selection window.

What we need is a clean, sleeker, more practical champion select with no wasted space and more information available.

Hyrum GraffJun 9, 20151 votes

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So much wasted space though.

It's pleasant to look at at first, but it's hard not to notice all of the unnecessary open and unused space beneath the champion portraits on the sides, and between those and the champion selection window.

What we need is a clean, sleeker, more practical champion select with no wasted space and more information available.

No comment on this particular design, but blank space is not necessarily wasted space. It helps you focus on what is there.

John BerserkJun 9, 20151 votes

This is very true, though in this particular case I think what is there can be expanded or modified to fill in the empty space.

DarkDeamonDragonJun 9, 20152 votes

The vid looks like it was done in blind pick mode. The empty spaces at the bottom would be for bans in draft.

What it looks like it's lacking are the spells at the bottom of the screen when hovered over a champ. That could fill some of the empty space.

I do like how the chat box is the color of the side you're on.

2000boxesJun 8, 20153 votes

omg that is epic!

baetoevnJun 10, 20151 votes

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omg that is epic!

OMG I WANT EVERYTHING HERE!! Except maybe the chat could be renovated. And maybe remove the "Blue Team" in chat, it's alittle distracting.

warpenguin555Jun 9, 20152 votes

good looking but holy hell would i lag hard XD

TwoDJun 9, 20152 votes

WHY IS THIS NOT A THING>?!?!!!!?!?!1111!

SolaxoJun 9, 20151 votes

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WHY IS THIS NOT A THING>?!?!!!!?!?!1111!

because it's a poorly designed and inefficient garbage

Knight SoIaire Jun 9, 20152 votes

cool thing but you would need to drop the animated stuff most of champions has no way of getting the animated stuff so riot would need to make it from scratch. skinns have no amimated stuff at all

next thing is the lack of tabs aboive the champ select

if riot would be to implement some parts of this i think they should chose only the shape of champion portrait and summoner spell's chat is kinda ugly many things are lacking and animation is unabtainable

besides that it would be nice

UberPbatJun 9, 20152 votes

That wont ever be put in the game.

RandomoniumJun 9, 20151 votes

I love the new style and animated portraits.

I completely disagree with making people's rank and KDA available in the load screen. As stated by other people, Riot removed pings from loading screens because people were being so toxic. I can't imagine the toxicity if people could easily see someone's rank and KDA ("gg bronzie only has a 1.1 KDA. Surrender 20.")

Frankley KarlesJun 9, 20151 votes

Loving this design; it really fits the new visual design of the UI and works pretty smoothly alongside the upcoming HUD.

If anything, I'd suggest excluding the splash art animations when loading, so that the extra processing doesn't hinder load times.

Perfect otherwise. Hope someone over at Riot's seen this.

CoolKnightSTJun 9, 20151 votes

I would like see a small change for how to select your runes & masteries but everything else is cool.

FourHandsJun 9, 20151 votes

looks good! Overall the UI needs to improve... become a little more trendy I guess

kolpy99Jun 9, 20151 votes

this is awesome, but honestly, their champ select page now is pretty poorly optimized, i dont think that they could pull this off

ManaricelleJun 9, 20151 votes

This is aesthetically pleasing and a very wonderful design. However, considering that Riot is on the course of making League as inclusive as possible and also considering the performance limitations of Adobe Air, the Champ Select and Loading Screen would actually make the performance requirements higher for the game.

It's also been said a few times in this thread, but a ton of the champions do not have a motion graphic, so that wouldn't be all that good looking. The information isn't needed for me.

Love, Aura<3

ChromeFluxxJun 9, 20151 votes

I think it's way too unnecessarily flashy and most of the aspects of it are just plain stupid. I know it's illogical but i just dont like it. And above all it's fake, there's no way to put a realistic remaining time counter just as much as there is to put a time counter on downloading programs.

MacDthreeJun 9, 20151 votes

there is another trending post on this, that the actual artist/ creator of this posted.

You all should check that out.

NicosareaJun 9, 20151 votes

I'm confused. Are other LoL fans working on the same loading theme? I keep seeing it everywhere.

Here's an example: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/summoners-rift/uwqsFKUY-fan-made-champion-select-interface-hope-you-like-it?comment=006d

^This is the first post I saw to upload a really nice champ. select concept art

PengodJun 9, 20151 votes

The concept is a really great idea. I would love a new champ select and loading screen so it's really dynamic. That would make it so much more appealing. Sure there are some flaws about the actual design that you have provided. But the concept, amazing.