New Champion Chamille

The Space Cowboy··51 votes·5,638 views

So the new champion just got teased. It's a girl with sword feet and attack on titan grapple hook things. She stands on her hands so she can kick you. Four thoughts: 1) wouldn't be easier to have sword hands? 2) Won't she sink in the silt of the river with no surface area to stand on? 3) will boots lower her damage output? 4) more parkour?

Edit: Sorry rito I cant spell your champions names. e.g. Illoiao Udry

102 Comments

Ralanr32 votes

I mean, you can't hold stuff with sword hands.

The Space Cowboy34 votes

Mind blown*[zombie-brand-mindblown]* Genius design. American soldiers are to be outfitted with gun legs to increase their combat effectiveness. Trump decrees it.

A Superb Villain11 votes

"An arm cannon sounds great until you need to button your shirt."

The Space Cowboy1 votes

Is that evil dead?

A Superb Villain1 votes

Atomic Robo!

The Space Cowboy2 votes

I guess I have something new to watch.

Teridax6811 votes

I guess now we know who C is from Caitlyn's lore. Also, Camille is the game's first literal blade runner.

As for how she turns out, I hope she's an assassin. Her whole comic is literally all about her assassinating a high-profile Zaunite baron. As much as I absolutely love Riot's recent additions and overhaul to the lore, there have been instances where a champion's presentation made them look completely different to how they play: Ekko, for example, is more of a light fighter in the lore, as he uses his Z-drive to try again and again, and his video depicts him dueling a vigilnaut, i.e. a tanky dude, but in practice he's an assassin whose long-cooldown ult is often used to kill.

The Space Cowboy4 votes

Also, Camille is the game's first literal blade runner.

I just pissed myself

The Space Cowboy5 votes

And I hope it is C, so Jinx can ship with her.

Zerenza2 votes

From the looks of it Camille wouldn't get along with Jinx as well as Vi or ekko would. She seems to be obsessed with the concept of Order so jinx being the opposite of that wouldn't let them ship so not sailing today bud XD

RocketRelm7 votes

in practice he's an assassin whose long-cooldown ult is often used to kill.

And in reality, he's a full-tank.

TucuReborn10 votes

"C" is a burglar/thief. Camille is more in line as an assassin or secret police type. Not sure why everyone is jumping to say it's her even thought it doesn't line up.

Auroramancer3 votes

As stated in Caitlyn's lore, "C" performed some high-end heists. I'd say breaking into an aristocrats home and murdering someone would count as a heist.

Plus, when it comes down to the crime report, do you honestly expect that the news outlets to receive information per "Zaunite crime lord murdered during engagement with native aristocrat!"

Naw, they'd probably get "Newly engaged man murdered during home break-in" or something. Cait may know more, but I doubt she'd let on the full truth the public, for the stability of Piltover's "machine".

Glory ln Death2 votes

Heists are robberies. Assassinations are not heists.

SpecterVonBaren2 votes

But Ekko in practice IS a light fighter.

Teridax685 votes

I agree, he usually ends up playing much more like a fighter than an assassin, whether or not he builds for damage. He has a lot of the hallmarks of a light fighter, too: lots of situational defenses, persistent mobility, good DPS, a focus on autoattacks, etc. However, he was designed to be an assassin, which is also why he was given a high cooldown and a nuke on his ultimate.

Perhaps this is something for another thread, but I feel Ekko would likely be better off if his kit received further changes to shift him into light fighter space, and among those changes I'd really like for his ult to have a much shorter cooldown, at a cost to its nuke and perhaps to his power elsewhere. We already have Zed for assassins who go all in for the kill and escape by pressing a button for a 1000+ range blink; I think it would be much more interesting if Ekko were closer to how he was in the video, i.e. a relatively weak, scrappy fighter who'd rewind time to give himself another chance.

SpecterVonBaren4 votes

I actually rather like the sound of that, though it would require more changes than just what you suggested, having his ult be used more often for less pay off might be interesting.

Oglaf7 votes

Looks like Elise minus the Spider form to be totally honest.

The Space Cowboy13 votes

My girlfriend asked me if it was a new Orianna skin

PermabannedGaren5 votes

Looks like either an assassin or a melee carry/skirmisher. The shield suggests the latter, since built-in defensive mechanics isn't as much of an assassin thing as it is a melee carry thing.

The Space Cowboy2 votes

I missed the shield in the comic. Interesting. Also, she predicts enemy movement based on the twitches on their face. Maybe a Jax dodge will be in the kit.

Xienwolf5 votes

Not a physical shield. The giant blue energy grid as she dive on the Baron for the kill shot the first time. Looks a lot like Morgana's Black Shield in retrospect, and since it was used to block magic energy beams, maybe in practice too.

Erockandroll3 votes

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Looks like either an assassin or a melee carry/skirmisher. The shield suggests the latter, since built-in defensive mechanics isn't as much of an assassin thing as it is a melee carry thing.

I disagree, I think she will be an Assassin.

Partially because the the comic depicts her as an Assassin by profession. But also because we haven't had an Assassin in a while, not since Ekko, but we did recently get a skirmisher.

Divewing5 votes

Now I didn't look very hard, but at first glance it looks like Lee and Orianna got kinky

The DrBonjigollo5 votes

You sir forgot the important questions. Is she running for Thigh Queen of League this year? How many people are willing to die between those legs? Who do we ship her with (ViktorOriannaEkkoViJinx)? And the most important, What. Are. Those?

SpecterVonBaren6 votes

We ship her with Talon .

10Tickler5 votes

Cam: Your cloak...it is made of knives...

Talon: Your calves...are knives.

Cam+Talon: Wanna fugg?

The Space Cowboy2 votes

10/10 I always wondered what kind of asshole would wear knives out. Now he has a perfect companion. Still waiting on an answer on how she keeps the tips of her sword feet sharp while dulling them on the ground. As well as how she balances/sneaks up on people. Clank Clank Clank

Nymzo4 votes

Oh boy, I can't wait to get killed by another assasin with an overloaded kit

Mistress Madoka4 votes

http://ephemeraldreamer.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/emi-06.jpg I know at least one person who'd like to have sword legs

Blàdedancer3 votes

She actually looks cool.

The Space Cowboy5 votes

True enough, I hope she does a backflip/knockup. Still though, she walks on swords. How do they stay sharp with her standing on them? Do the elites in Piltover have her stand outside so she doesn't ruin the marble floors? Does she have crap balance? Does she eat? If she eats does she use her feet to carve dinner? Also, how does she sneak up on people with her blade feet clinking about?

Blàdedancer15 votes

In a game where lee sin gets blinded I don't think any of this is relevant xd

EcchiOtakuTM3 votes

Sword hands aren't sexy!

The Space Cowboy2 votes

poor Khazix

EcchiOtakuTM1 votes

Mantis hands may be sword-like but more "Cool" than "Sexy".

So I standby my view lol.

KoKoboto3 votes

Kinda looks like Fiora except with white hair and more robot and sword bootsMasterYi

Hahahahyena3 votes

sword hands? isnt that Khazix 's department

PixTron3 votes

I don't mind the scissor feet being completely unoriginal... she just looks so plain in design.

What is she? A woman with a tight-suit... yet with scissor legs... that's it.

Imagine if she wore a super fancy styled dress, a cool-looking top-hat (or bowler cap) and then have these cool scissor legs? It totally spices things up!

But NOPE. Riot goes for the plainest possible design (the scissor feet are unoriginal but pretty cool TBH, just so much potential wasted). I just hope her 1350 skin will look a lot better.

The Ecdysiast2 votes

Thought process on her design:

  1. Someone on the boards suggested a Vi - like character with mechanical boots instead of gauntlets, complete with a kit similar to what it seems Camille is going to have anyway.

  2. As with Kindred, Riot took a perfectly reasonable design and figured they didn't want to be accused of stealing this idea, so they changed it too much.

  3. Apparently the much less reasonable sword-legs design was their writers', designers', and gameplay developers' best idea to replace boots. It also appears that one does not need to be necessarily good at spotting reasonable ideas, or coming up with similar but still reasonable ideas in order to work at Riot Games.

Chembaron Yamada1 votes

That is just your opinion, though. I think Kindred is better designed than the original fan idea by far. All comes to tastes. And mechanical boots.... Well, you can't please everyone. If she had mechanical boots like in fan concept, many people would yell it is completely unoriginal because of Vi.

The Ecdysiast2 votes

I didn't say Kindred was bad, just changed too much from an idea. The amount that original design---which didn't have abilities, mind you-- was changed was everything besides the color scheme.

Sword legs isn't just unoriginal-- it's stupid.

And it's perfectly fine to be "unoriginal" when the basis is one of their own characters, with a strong connection to the technology available in the lore. But in a city known for its technological and scientific advances being well above the rest of the world, sword replacements for legs are about as unfit as you can possibly get.

Hell, just stumps with no addition would make more sense than this.

And how is this "just my opinion"? This is very clearly based on the design given a few years back for a like champion, even down to the grappling hooks just replacing the animation of a leap suggested by the creator.

The Space Cowboy1 votes

While a little more negative than others, your post is really well argued. Piltover scientist: don't worry Camille, we have the technology to put you right back to the way you were Camille: Nah bro, i want sword feet yolo Piltover scientist: but Camille, you won't be able to walk on them Camille: Fuk that %%%%%, ima spin on my hands and spiderman around town. Piltover Scientist: ugh.....do you have cash?

The Ecdysiast2 votes

Proceeds to charge her an insanely high price for the installation of less metal than metal calves would have used.

Auroramancer2 votes

I'd imagine she has blade legs because her actual legs were lost/amputated, due to an incident or injury.

The Space Cowboy7 votes

Yes, but does she where sheaths in bed? Can any champion survive footsy with her?

Auroramancer4 votes

Probably does wear sheaths.

I'd imagine Galio , Malphite and Mordekaiser could survive footsy with her

Jinzo Torrance1 votes

More QQ too?

The Space Cowboy4 votes

If more parkour, then certainly there will be many QQ threads

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