Riot can you let us use our character's running animation more often?

Ben Sharpio··142 votes·3,682 views

Everytime i use ghost, or walk over the scuttle crab, or have boots of mobility, i think to myself: Wow it would be really cool to have Mecha Zero Sion's awesome jetpack animation thing rather than this edgy, awkward speedwalk... :/

Let us use the running animations more, they're actually really cool and are a "feelsgoodman" thing for gameplay.

45 Comments

FurriesAreHot35 votes

Lux Star Guardian Lux be like: LIKE A SHOOTING STAR IN THE MIDNIGHT SKY,WHERE EVER YOU ARE YOU'RE GONNA SEE ME FLYYYYYYYYY

XeroKimo6 votes

SHE IS THE ONE NAMED SAILOR MOON.....

oops wrong show

AHarmlessTaco1 votes

You right tho

Paroe1 votes

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SHE IS THE ONE NAMED SAILOR MOON.....

oops wrong show

Wrong theme too xD Star guardian is based on madoka magicka.

Coochie Cutie6 votes

Actually no, they are if anything a mixture of both shows.

If you look at SG Lux it is extremely similar to Chibi Moon, not Madoka. Their outfits also lean more onto the side of Sailor Moon. I can't vouch for Poppy and Lulu but Janna and Lux's is very similar in look to Sailor Scouts archetype. Lux's recall was also inspired heavily by older magical girl animes (Sailor Moon).

Jinx on the other hand is very Madoka Magica, more specifically Kyoko. Look her up and put SG Jinx side by side, they look really similar.

Romance2 votes

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Actually no, they are if anything a mixture of both shows.

If you look at SG Lux it is extremely similar to Chibi Moon, not Madoka. Their outfits also lean more onto the side of Sailor Moon. I can't vouch for Poppy and Lulu but Janna and Lux's is very similar in look to Sailor Scouts archetype. Lux's recall was also inspired heavily by older magical girl animes (Sailor Moon).

Jinx on the other hand is very Madoka Magica, more specifically Kyoko. Look her up and put SG Jinx side by side, they look really similar.

Have you ever considered breathing through your nose?

Paroe1 votes

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Actually no, they are if anything a mixture of both shows.

If you look at SG Lux it is extremely similar to Chibi Moon, not Madoka. Their outfits also lean more onto the side of Sailor Moon. I can't vouch for Poppy and Lulu but Janna and Lux's is very similar in look to Sailor Scouts archetype. Lux's recall was also inspired heavily by older magical girl animes (Sailor Moon).

Jinx on the other hand is very Madoka Magica, more specifically Kyoko. Look her up and put SG Jinx side by side, they look really similar.

Actually no because rioters confirmed that it was based on madoka magicka... yeesh.

Off Meta Evan4 votes

star guardian lux is so obviously sailor moon it hurts, like she even does the little Victory pose in her recall.... its sailor moon.

TotalJerk5 votes

"Magical girl" is a genre with a VERY extensive background comparable to mecha. If you had said some shit like this on an anime forum you would have been crucified.

Ralanr30 votes

Kindred mains be like, "wtf is this shit?"

Shadow Hazard1 votes

I was thinking the same thing.

BastionKross17 votes

You used to see it all the time back before swifties got nerfed to hell and boots still had enchantments.

But it's good they stopped that mobility creep. I mean, Talon being able to walljump his way across the entire Rift is just fine, but heaven forbid a Garen is actually able to run down the backline. /s

Ben Sharpio1 votes

Please tell me there is some type of cooldown on talon's E... I dont have a PBE account.

Bladeglory1 votes

150/125/100/75/50s cooldown on terrain. If you watch the demonstration videos on youtube, you can see large sections of terrain highlight red as he passes over.

RamboDash158 votes

The walls themselves seem to have a cooldown on them, much like Yasuo's E

CaptnJakSparrow1 votes

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The walls themselves seem to have a cooldown on them, much like Yasuo's E

Only parts of the wall. Still doesn't matter though lol.

Melledoneus4 votes

And the cooldowns are 55 seconds at the very least at max rank and max CDR.

Azteryz1 votes

its 2 second cd on the actual ability but if he jumps over a wall he cant use that wall for a long time

The Ecdysiast8 votes

There isn't. The cooldown is on pieces of terrain, so like Yasuo's dash he'll just be able to do it over and over on different targets.

Upside is: at the very least, you won't see him hopping back over a wall again to come back and kill you.

Nuparu10 votes

It's a 150 second cooldown per terrain on the skill he's going to max last.

It's nowhere near like Yasuo's dash. It requires him to be near terrain (which most of the time he won't be able to do things like hop over from outside raptors then into the little corner between raptors and t2 because the terrain cd is a large chunk of it.)

It'll be nice for evading wards but it's not like Yasuo where he can just meme around the entire map with cooldowns on each individual minion.

Zepper1 votes

The comparison of how Yasuo can't dash at the same target twice for a certain period of time was to clarify how Talon's vault works.

Bladerunner77775 votes

Yes because an unkillable frontliner needs to be able to blitz to the backline on a whim and delete the ADC while taking nonexistent damage

TotalJerk1 votes

Sure he's unkillable. Doesn't make him anymore fucking useless against non-villains. Thanks to

  • His loss of tenacity on W
  • The weaker Q
  • The item 3009 nerf
  • The increased overall tankiness of everyone thanks to the mage and ADC itemization passes
  • The item 3116 meta
  • The summoner 6 meta

He's in a situation where unless he has allies to hold his targets in place he the easiest juggernaut to survive and peel. I've had so many aggravating top lane matchups where the enemy just bought a little armor and then they basically didn't have to deal with me anymore.

ƒoes9 votes

wish it was toggleable too, I love being able to anime run to lane as Zed

Karakot1 votes

I knew I wasn't the only one

Oakleaf Ranger4 votes

When I'm about to assassinate someone as zed I want that sick ass anime run to be the first and last thing they see. And my laugh.

GULAG 4 U4 votes

What's that? Red galion skin?

Jet Sett2 votes

No that's a Galleon, you're thinking of the famous man often called the Father of Modern Physics.

Itsbeghdev2 votes

Pantheon I BELIEVE I CAN TOUCH THE SKY

Athenes Lulu5 votes

If they can fix Lulu's running animation first... it's been bugged since last patch because of SG Lulu.

No, not her self-cast W animation. The physically running one.

Ethan Allen4 votes

The incentive for cloud drakes

xxxDogmanxxx3 votes

Meanwhile, Zac and Malphite look like speed-walking retards when they use their gap closers...

Supreme Senpai692 votes

I'd take ghost if it meant being able to see that.

WoonStruck2 votes

I wish Vlad had a real running animation. :/

Exalomaniac2 votes

Jhin WAAAAALUGI!!

IxtaliKing2 votes

Would be nice if all champs had haste animations - Karma

P0IS0N IVY2 votes

What if the running animation was used to differentiate being in and out of combat?

DarkRitual1 votes

Perhaps have slme of those effects lower the speed threshold needed to swap to the run animation.

WinTheWarOnPants1 votes

NOOO this is a HUGE nerf to Kindred O.O

Yosuke Apperu1 votes

I asked for this awhile back as well, a lot of characters seem to only have the animation during home guards effect and not just a specific speed threshold. I.E. Homeguards brought me to this speed so through using ghost+everything else for movement speed I had hit the same speed.. alas no running animation. It really is a feel good moment.

A lot of times selling points for skins may include a new homeguard animation... which you only get to see after twenty minutes in summoner's rift. If the opposing team decides that they want to forfeit the game at twenty minutes you don't get to see it.

To be honest having the joy of seeing certain skins do things or have neat little animations keeps me in a good mood even if I am behind in lane.. it actually can help distract me from tilt and keep me focused on the game. I really hope that they look into this <3

Thank you so much for posting OP ! :)

MynadarxCZ1 votes

Buy mobility boots then.

Wyrmblade1 votes

I literally don't buy boots on Jhin because I like his base walk animation best.

It's surprisingly passable with the right build.

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