Shyvana Portrait Suggestion

Major Nuker·5/29/2014, 7:22:18 PM·17 votes·854 views

I realized that when Quinn uses Tag Team (R) to turn into Valor, her portrait and minimap image changes to reflect that.

Shyvana 's ultimate, too, changes her appearance for a limited amount of time. Would it be possible to also reflect this through her portrait and the minimap? Shyvana DOES have a picture of her dragon form in the splash art.

Now, I'm uncertain if the fact that Quinn 's lasts for a set amount of time and Shyvana can extend hers affects the technical ability to actually make this change, but I imagine if there's a reason it can't be done, that's why. Even so, when Quinn dies while in tag Team, the portrait stays, so i doubt that's a problem.

Anyway, just thought it would be pretty cool. Would be very useful too if you glance at the minimap and see Shyvana 's dragon form, and you know she has more effective HP etc, although honestly, it has a very minimal effect on gameplay unlike the movespeed that Quinn gains (and the portrait informs you to be careful when you see her).

I think the biggest reason I would like to see it is for consistency, and also the quick at-a-glance on the minimap to know your ally or the enemy has changed form when you're busy in a teamfight or skirmish elsewhere.

7 Comments

SoccerKid FTD5/29/2014, 8:27:35 PM4 votes

Good idea. I would love to see this for Shyvana

DoverianDragoon5/30/2014, 7:21:54 PM2 votes

By this logic (the consistency of it, at least), it would also be a good idea to give Nidalee a cougar portrait and Elise a spider portrait.

I do not disagree. I'd love to see form-change icons for all of these champions - though the easy with which Nidalee and Elise switch makes the minimap impact less of an issue.

Khorne5/30/2014, 5:20:06 PM1 votes

For Eggnivia, as well.

zchanz5/31/2014, 12:11:22 AM1 votes

Now, I'm uncertain if the fact that Quinn 's lasts for a set amount of time and Shyvana can extend hers affects the technical ability to actually make this change, but I imagine if there's a reason it can't be done, that's why.

Quinn can also re-activate her ult to end early.

Archainis5/31/2014, 3:00:55 PM1 votes

I'm not really a fan of the "argument from consistency": if everything were totally consistent, they wouldn't feel as different!

I do think this would be a nice change though, especially for the team communication aspects you mentioned. It might be a little awkward for Riot's developers to find the right time to do this though. Small changes like this can be easy to forget to do, and you don't want to interrupt the big project your working on when you remember stuff like this in the middle of them.