To those who are irritated with the new look at yordles

Zyorhist··24 votes·1,725 views

I'm going to take a scientific look as to what explains the look that riot is taking when it comes to the yordles. I have seen a lot of posts complaining that they are all too hyper, too ditsy, and that its becoming bland across the board. There is a scientific explanation for this actually.

From a physiological standpoint the smaller a creature is the faster their body works. For example a standard house mouse has a heart rate somewhere between 300 and 800 beats per minute. Compare that to the average 70 to 100 beats per minute of a human. Their breathing rate is also extremely amplified in comparison as well where they take 80 to 200 breaths per minute, again compared to the average human of 20 breaths per minute. Granted that these are average values and are resting values to boot you can see a prety huge difference here.

Yordles wouldn't be as huge a difference as a mouse would but there would be some definite differences between the human and yordle behaviorism. They would have more energy more of the time. They would always be hyper and always be wanting to move. They would burn energy like a firecracker in comparison to the humans that they are around. Granted that there would also be exceptions to this rule, this would be the norm. Yordles would also wear out faster than humans, which means they would probably sleep for 2-4 hours at a time but would sleep 2-3 times a day. This means that they would likely be up in the morning long before their friends, and fall asleep after breakfast and be good to go until around dinner time and then good to go again until around midnight and fall asleep again. The way their society would have been constructed around this activity pattern would mean that bandle city would have been an all day all night city and that productivity would have been high around the clock. They would either have great eyesight to compensate for the fact that they spent long hours of the night awake, which is why they have big eyes.

The question is raised about most animals on the planet, regardless of size, sleeping once per day. This is true of every animal that has a natural predator. Yordles wouldn't necessarily have had a natural predator and so they would have been able to rest when they were tired not while hiding from a predator.

Going back to the evaluation, Yordles, because of their lifestyle, would be excellent at switching tasks at a moments notice as they would have to do that a lot in their society. Their attention span may suffer as a result of this fact as they wouldn't be accustomed to spending more than a couple intense hours on a large project, and menial tasks would merit much less attention.

In the case of Poppy, where she is spending much of her time in Demacia, she would be seen as a very active person, and she would think that the humans around her were sluggish and slow. While she may be accustomed to this, it wouldn't change the fact that she operates with much more energy than them.

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Kanzaki Ranko17 votes

I actually like the new look of them, can't wait for some soon-to-be bandle city event

Zyorhist2 votes

I'm not specifically talking about the appearance, I'm talking more about the problem people have been having with their personalities...and I also am looking forward to the event.

SpecterVonBaren9 votes

I also like how with Poppy's new art and her comic, I realized that female yordles are not blue or purple skinned, they actually have fur, it's just very short fur compared to male yordles.

junglerboy162 votes

I'm just excited to see how Kennen Lulu Teemo Veigar look post update.

Most of them already fit the hyperactive identity of the modern Yordle, and Veigar may just come off as even more comically sinister for an update like that.

Maximum Morde4 votes

The only thing I don't like is how fuzzy/furry they are.

Zyorhist2 votes

the physical appearance is more a factor of riot than science...sorry I cannot justify their looks.

doombotMECHA3 votes

they have to look different than goblins, gnomes, asura...

AntiSkillshot1 votes

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The only thing I don't like is how fuzzy/furry they are.

They've always been covered with fur, to be honest... Riot's just making the fur more noticeable.

Gunslinger7442 votes

The sweet smell of SCIENCE! Heimerdinger

Daszkal2 votes

{quoted}

I'm going to take a scientific look as to what explains the look that riot is taking when it comes to the yordles. I have seen a lot of posts complaining that they are all too hyper, too ditsy, and that its becoming bland across the board. There is a scientific explanation for this actually.

From a physiological standpoint the smaller a creature is the faster their body works. For example a standard house mouse has a heart rate somewhere between 300 and 800 beats per minute. Compare that to the average 70 to 100 beats per minute of a human. Their breathing rate is also extremely amplified in comparison as well where they take 80 to 200 breaths per minute, again compared to the average human of 20 breaths per minute. Granted that these are average values and are resting values to boot you can see a prety huge difference here.

Yordles wouldn't be as huge a difference as a mouse would but there would be some definite differences between the human and yordle behaviorism. They would have more energy more of the time. They would always be hyper and always be wanting to move. They would burn energy like a firecracker in comparison to the humans that they are around. Granted that there would also be exceptions to this rule, this would be the norm. Yordles would also wear out faster than humans, which means they would probably sleep for 2-4 hours at a time but would sleep 2-3 times a day. This means that they would likely be up in the morning long before their friends, and fall asleep after breakfast and be good to go until around dinner time and then good to go again until around midnight and fall asleep again. The way their society would have been constructed around this activity pattern would mean that bandle city would have been an all day all night city and that productivity would have been high around the clock. They would either have great eyesight to compensate for the fact that they spent long hours of the night awake, which is why they have big eyes.

The question is raised about most animals on the planet, regardless of size, sleeping once per day. This is true of every animal that has a natural predator. Yordles wouldn't necessarily have had a natural predator and so they would have been able to rest when they were tired not while hiding from a predator.

Going back to the evaluation, Yordles, because of their lifestyle, would be excellent at switching tasks at a moments notice as they would have to do that a lot in their society. Their attention span may suffer as a result of this fact as they wouldn't be accustomed to spending more than a couple intense hours on a large project, and menial tasks would merit much less attention.

In the case of Poppy, where she is spending much of her time in Demacia, she would be seen as a very active person, and she would think that the humans around her were sluggish and slow. While she may be accustomed to this, it wouldn't change the fact that she operates with much more energy than them.

So to simplify, Yordle personalities are similar to Human children.

Zyorhist1 votes

personalities...no.....behaviorisms...yes.

Daszkal2 votes

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personalities...no.....behaviorisms...yes.

The same for Gnar and Lulu, who are Yordle children?

Zyorhist1 votes

They still have remnants from before riot took a headstrong decision to go one direction with yordles though.

junglerboy162 votes

Not Gnar, actually, he came right in between Heimerdinger (the first full on YUP project) and Tristana (the second). They new what they wanted from them by then.

Lulu though is kind of a potato still.

Zyorhist1 votes

gnar was the newest I agree, but they didn't know for sure the direction until after him. Most yordles now will have more fur like him but he kinda set the stage as to what they wanted the yordles to have evolved from.

Whiteeye Avelyn1 votes

I like how since gnar was frozen in black ice he is still just a little kid and his character reflects it well its just so cute

Pikmints7 votes

Funny how the "yordle children" are canonically the oldest of the yordle champs.

Only Play Darius2 votes

Yordles do have a natural predator

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yogozin1 votes

Pro documentation creator status achieved.

CasterGilgamesh1 votes

i love the new looking female yordles i hope riot keeps the furry theme for the male yordles i love Veigar and want to see what they will do for him when the visually up date him

Bijorn1 votes

Megling Genocide.

Never forget.

Zyorhist1 votes

I love how I'm getting random downvotes through here...

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