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@Ironstylus About monster females in LoL

Felvyne·2/26/2014, 4:42:31 PM·5 votes·951 views

Quoting from Surrender 20

"For Elise, Zyra, Cass, I think we could've gone further. We were in a phase where everything, for some reason, took on a base humanoid build, and we just sort stuck stuff on it to change silhouette. That time is certainly over and we're pushing outside of what creature/human hybrids can look like, or just what grotesque humans might look like in general."

So, I was wondering, could Riot someday decide "Ey, since those champs can be further developed, let's make them more monstruous"?

This change would make a radical different champion, a visual change maybe further than Trundle's and Karma's VU were, and probably would be a lot of complains about. And due to Cass being (imo) visually in a bad shape, her VU could be that day. Would be a change that would sadden me somehow (I was a Zyra player long ago, and I'm a bit attached to her) but it also makes me curious about how would yo do this.

PD: Srry about my english, isn't my native language.

11 Comments

ModCaptainMårvelous2/26/2014, 7:46:09 PM5 votes

While I doubt there will be a change of that sort in the future, I can probably guess that Riot will likely leave these champions mostly unchanged when it comes to appearance. When talking about it, I think that the general team meant that they're going to be focusing on new champions being monsters who happen to be female as opposed to the anime trope of "Grr monster girl who is just wearing a costume but is actually hot"

As for Cassiopeia, I think she's pretty well off as she is now. Cass represents just the right mix of appealing to look at (Woman top half) but easily monstrous (Oh right, the snake). She fits the medusa/gorgon-style look very well and I feel like making her more or less monstrous would only serve to take away from her look as opposed to enhancing it.

Oh, and don't worry about english not being your foremost language. You presented with pretty much no errors. :)

burdluver902/26/2014, 7:50:46 PM2 votes

Just imagine if Urgot was female.

Or Malphite, I mean, it's a rock. How do you know it's not a girl?

I'd love to see a totally genderless monster character like Malph, Maokai, Fizz, Nasus, Renekton, etc actually be female. All it needs is a voice over (A skin???) The idea is not to make them look feminine, as that inevitably leeds to them being humanoid in shape. No need to add boobs (rocks and trees don't have boobs). No need to add long flowing hair (except maybe on the female Nasus.

Just some bad-ass female monsters.

AbiwonKenabi2/26/2014, 8:38:34 PM2 votes

I like to look at these from a lore stand-point sometimes; Zyra is a plant that took over a human body, so it makes sense she would mostly retain her human look. Cass was horribly transformed for breaking her oath, and is meant to be very uncanny in appearance; I'm pretty sure "oh yeah, she's part snake" would be really unnerving simply because she's not quite human, something is off. And Elise is the whole "monster on the inside" deal--she lures people in with this pleasant facade, then feeds them to an awful creature, so she looks sorta pleasant half the time...and then half the time she's an awful creature.

I doubt they'll change any of these champs, but they probably will move towards making the next monstrous female more...monstrous. These guys already have an established niche and fanbase that's unlikely to change.

I wouldn't mind a Voidborn female though. I mean I know they technically don't have a gender, but one that has a female voice would be really twisted. Maybe something Praying Mantis style (eats her mate), where she wants to overpopulate the world with twisted Voidlings...ew. That would be cool.

Pyrrasu2/26/2014, 8:58:38 PM2 votes

As much as I dislike those champions' designs, I don't think they should be changed. They have fans now that would be upset if they were radically redesigned. I DO think they need to make a new, more monstrous female monster. I'm really looking forward to that as a future champion.

One way they could return to Zyra, Elise, Cass could be through a legendary/ultimate skin emphasizing the monster aspect. "Full Serpent Cassiopeia" or something.

Trollonasan2/27/2014, 7:31:31 AM2 votes

I personally think we need a girl with Gragas thickness. Or maybe a thick octopus woman similar to ursula. All the women currently are sexy and attractive but thin, It's not a bad thing mind you, just overused in a repressed society. We need more women out there with other body types. Sivir is good because she is a bit more muscular then other girls. (Hell an androgynous character would be cool!!) We need more diversity! (I'm not say they should do it right now but it would be cool to think).

I think they could make Cass very frightening if they worked on it. I understand they might want her to look sexy but I think frightening is the way to go.

MXXIV2/26/2014, 6:05:17 PM1 votes

I want more monsters. Even Morgana is not as scary as she once used to be.

Linna Excel2/26/2014, 10:22:29 PM1 votes

I think cass's big problem is her rigging. But that said, I think there are a few things that could be tweaked in her looks.