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More ways to animate Champions

Desiderium·11/14/2013, 1:59:22 AM·1 votes·98 views

As we are going forward, we are getting more animations in our characters. The most noticeable one is the recall animation, spearheaded by Darius.

What if Riot added even more? Perhaps an animation for reviving from Guardian Angel would be awesome to see. Instead of the Champion just playing their normal death animation in slow motion, they have a special revive animation. Imagine if Aatrox's passive animation worked with Guardian Angel. That would be cool wouldn't it?

Leona dies with GA, but instead of dissipating into light, she gets struck by a solar flare and is revived, instead of just dropping her weapons and then having them again.

Ever thought it was silly how Champions are always silent to pain until they die? Even the most boisterous of characters like Ziggs and Teemo never yelp or budge whenever they get hit. An attack could do 99% of Ziggs' health and he'd still just be standing there saying absolutely nothing unless he dies.

What if we had a voice line that plays depending on how hard your character was struck? 3% of current health in damage taken would maybe be just an "ahh" while 50% health would be more like "ARGH". Or in Teemo's case, "I NEED MORE SHROOMS."

Maybe an animation could play on getting hit as well. A Champion could flinch or maybe even flip upon getting knocked up or knocked back instead of just standing there.

What other animations or voice lines do you think Riot could add to new Champions?

2 Comments

eKatSS11/14/2013, 2:28:29 AM3 votes

I'm all up for the death animations, what a nice idea!

But I find that making the Champion cry out in pain or grunt after each hit would make the teamfights sound even more chaotic. Imagine all the "AHHH" "OHH" "grunts BAM" on top of skills being cast and all. Wouldn't be so nice to the ear.

Virgil11/14/2013, 2:44:29 AM2 votes

I think a lot of this depends. I like the idea of the new animation on guardian angel revival, but at the same time when my guardian angel procs I'm usually deep in a fight so I'm not paying attention to the animation before I revive.

On the other hand, I don't like the idea of my champion making sounds whenever they're hurt. When I'm playing I want to be able to focus, and I feel like my champion shouting in pain after every time they get poked (oh man, the Nidalee spears) would be distracting.

While I'm always a big fan of more responsive champions, I do feel, as well that a lot of additional animations for little events such as taking damage that happen so often in League would just end up taking extra processing power and not necessarily enhance my experience.

On the other hand, I'd love to see some old champions get recall animations. They're probably one of my favorite new additions to the game, and I'm always wondering how the older characters would act if they were to receive one. This has been happening through VUs lately, though, so I'm pretty satisfied. :)