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Where da yordles at?

TheLordPuddinCup·10/18/2013, 7:15:02 PM·8 votes·1,236 views

(posting this here as i know not all the reds read the GD as actively anymore)

I remember reading a long time ago when i asked this that riot said their were yordles in line for release, that was a LONG time ago, since then we get da hook dude, a fast adc, a crazy adc, a blob dude, and so many others but still no love for da yordles?!?!

So i'd like to throw this out to all the reds, WHERE DA YORDLES AT????????????????

Seriously why have there been no new yordle releases for champs, i know their story was sorta out there and riot is all tied up in "strong lore champs", but we want the cute and cuddly too, and no the poro's on Howling don't count.

I'm still holding out for some new yordles, personally still hoping you make that cool one that was recommended by someone on reddit with the 2 yordle twins that swap out for different skillsets...

So Riot if you would please, let us know where ma yordles at?

(btw the yordle idea i was referring to was http://img602.imageshack.us/img602/7004/wabutakifullset.jpg )

9 Comments

BlueCannonMinion10/19/2013, 12:13:00 PM2 votes

i want a poro chmp

that said there are 2 main yordle themes i want.

a female yordle who uses a bastard sword( not a yordle sized bastard sword, i mean an all out cloud from final fasntasy sized bastard sword)

an Anti theme to teemo
a male yordle who isnt an annoying prick that has a hugh jackman like voice, and his personality would be that of Rambo fused witht hr punisher
lorwise he would have been kicked out of the scouts for being too excessive his AutoAttack weapon of choice would be throwing knives

But for real guys the male yordles are giving league a bad rep teemo kennen heimerdinger and ammumu are annoying pricks corki barely counts as a yordle, and rumble and ziggs are only cool enough to qualify as an apology for the first 4.

other than that we need more female yordles

Zielmann10/18/2013, 10:45:15 PM2 votes

First, those two are adorable. I love them already, and want them both. But the kit has some issues (I see what they were going for, but there are inherent issues when the two skills that interact between the forms are on the same key (and cooldown). That's not really the point of your post so...

Second, I agree that it's probably closing in on time for another yordle. Yes, I am a big yordle fan, so I'll always be excited for a new yordle to come out. But Lulu is the last Yordle they've released, and that was over 1.5 years ago. Given the current yordle:non-yordle ratio, and the number of champions released since Lulu, we're well overdue for another yordle.

And you know what? I wouldn't be surprised if they have one in the works already right now. I almost wonder if they haven't released another one yet is because they're trying to figure out how to handle yordles as a whole. There was a discussion in GD a few months ago now about the state of yordles, and the differentiation between the types (and mostly, addressing the fact that there's really no visible trait tying them all together, aside from them being short). It sounded to me like when some of the older yordles get a VU (Corki and Heimer, for example), they wanted to do something, even just something small, that would make it so new players would look at them and know that it's a yordle. As it is, a lot of newer players don't realize that Amumu and Corki are yordles. And just as telling, they don't realize that Fizz isn't.

Perhaps once they narrow this down and know what they're going to do to make each yordle recognizalby a yordle, we'll finally get a new one.

Cannibal10/19/2013, 2:56:44 AM2 votes

The double yordel champ screams Ice Climbers to me. I love Ice Climbers, make it happen Riot. :P

TheLordPuddinCup10/21/2013, 11:32:10 AM1 votes

thanks FON, that was ... a pretty useless comment

Fawlty10/22/2013, 1:30:18 AM1 votes

It would be really cool to have a red post on this. I'm not sure about that particular champ idea, but another Yordle is really needed. What's going on with the Yordles and where's a new one? Thanks :)

SqweeXV10/18/2013, 9:00:29 PM1 votes

That's a really cool idea. Much like Jayce or Nidalee, instead of an Ult, you'd have the switch. Maybe to simplify it, instead of having them run side by side or something, you could have one ride on the other one's shoulders. That would make it easier to kind of keep them 1 unit with 1 health bar. The swap could involve one jumping off and the other jumping up. Maybe do one ranged and one melee; or do one fire, one ice based.

Definitely a more complicated champ than some to set up, but could be really fun. IMO, that's what yordles bring to the game. They're the lighthearted, comic relief champs that make the game so much more fun.

DocSmoothJew10/24/2013, 9:49:04 AM1 votes

I'd love to see a chart on the site showing the various factions and the champs listed under each so we can better see which faction needs more. I mean, Demacia and Noxus seem pretty packed. To be fair though, Bandle city isn't that champion bare. To me, Zaun feels a bit lacking since they're also a very old faction as well.

Force0fNature10/20/2013, 7:03:50 PM1 votes

what is "yordel" ?

TheLordPuddinCup10/21/2013, 11:28:02 AM1 votes

thanks for the comments and upvotes, i probably shudn't have included wabu/taki but wanted to just show that there have been ideas out there by people for interesting ideas.

As for the unified trait that makes them similar while i'm kind of ok with that i honestly dont see the issue with 1 subset of characters in lol not being pigeon holed into a "spec" i don't mind the yordles being the tiny cute miscellaneous characters that have the traits that didn't fit on the human / bigger characters. i find it adorable.

Someone who said a poro champ, is it wrong that i immediately took that seriously, and saw him throwing boros at the enemy lol.

The issue with no yordles is also that well ... League also seems to be having a lot less "silly" characters lately, captain teemo on duty, nunu riding his yeti, there used to be humor in atleast some of the champs or things to make them adorable, now we get so many human architypes that there all so serious, sure jinx is "crazy" but shes still a human and honestly shes crazy about wanting to kill stuff :S not very cute :S