Display your jungle dominance with Gromp

Riot·May 19, 2015·5 votes·32,833 views

Okay, good news and bad news. We’ll start with the good news: we heard that a lot of you wanted more ways to customize your League experience with Summoner’s Rift icons, so we’re launching a few new designs to see if you dig them (maybe you saw the Baron icon already).

Now for the bad news: it turns out pizza is still delicious but really bad for you.

There’s a lot of imagery from Summoner’s Rift that could make for great icons, but with our latest, we went with one of SR’s newer jungle camps: it’s cranky, loves mushrooms, and often eats small insects (and junglers). That’s right: Gromp.

From tiny toad transformed to toxic toad, Gromp represents a lot of the things that make SR’s jungle a strange and dangerous place. With the new icon, we focused on what makes Gromp Gromp and, at the same time, a unique representative of the jungle and a fierce enemy to those brave enough to traverse it.

Gromp, unlike your typical toad, sports a triangular, pointed snout, giving the monster a more aggressive look to match the aggro attitude (you’d be mad, too if you were mutated by mushrooms). Gromp’s round, puffed out throat, on the other hand, emphasizes the fact that the monster is a tanky protector. This mixture of aggressive defensiveness is something that makes Gromp a unique creature in an equally unique atmosphere.

Another aspect that made Gromp a solid fit in our mind for this icon was sense of mystery surrounding the toad. Not much is known about Gromp, except for his transformation story: a little toad (perhaps tired of being a little toad) hops onto a magic mushroom and *WHOOSH BANG* becomes Gromp, toxic jungle creature and friend to none. Gromp’s strange origin, much like the magic coursing through SR, is a staple of the jungle and everything stalking its arcane terrain.

Sure, Gromp’s not the king of the jungle, but the toxic toad holds down his mushroomed patch of SR with pride and extreme prejudice. We hope you like your new icon, Gromp… seriously, please don’t eat us.

Grab the Gromp icon for 250 RP in the League of Legends store now and declare to the world that you can’t spell “jungle” without Gromp… wait, uh...nevermind.

197 Comments

FatedTitanMay 25, 2015221 votes

"RP icons won't become the norm, we promise." "We understand that longtime players need some IP sinks and we're going to give you those options."

VelkozAndEffectMay 25, 201511 votes

Literally 1 ago for URF there were 2 icons available, one for just playing the game and one for IP

lewd caprisunMay 25, 201536 votes

1 what ago?

StrawberrycocoaMay 26, 201553 votes

I have 20,000 IP right now just from nothing to spend it on. Makes me miss the old Every Two Weeks champion release schedule.

UnknownMartianMay 26, 201518 votes

115,000~ IP... Tell me about it

Rew711May 26, 20155 votes

Now we have Chromas. Too bad they're RP. They would had cost around 4000 IP each.

NaleagueaccountMay 26, 20153 votes

67,000 ip here

StickyStallionMay 26, 20155 votes

if u guys never used rp to buy champs u would still probably have stuff to spend the ip on, iv been playing since season 1 and refuse to buy something that i can just buy with ip. I still dont have every champ i only need like 4 left and i have like 265 days worth of play time atleast

EilistraeeMay 26, 20155 votes

I've also been playing since S1, and though I only purchased 2 or 3 champs with RP, I own all of them and am running out of things to buy with IP. Everyone's experience is going to be different. If you play a lot (like I do) you are going to run out of stuff to buy with IP pretty quickly.

WuhyunMay 27, 20152 votes

RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Yóu and MéMay 26, 20154 votes

Can you link the statement? I know that they probably said something along the lines of that claim at some point.

Deep Terror NamiMay 25, 2015159 votes

Champion icons for Mastery please and thank you. Nami

The HuntardMay 25, 201527 votes

I approve this message.

Iron IV ShacoMay 25, 201526 votes

i approve this appovation of this message

Jte Cogne DessusMay 25, 201511 votes

I approve this approvation of a approvation of this message.

CabruhMay 25, 201510 votes

I am Obama and I approve the approvations of these messages.

5bigtoesMay 26, 20156 votes

I'm not Phreak and I approve your approvals approving the approvals of the approval.

VinhBladeMay 26, 20152 votes

I broke the chain, git rekt.

CenturosMay 25, 201545 votes

Bad news: You still have to pay RP for these things.

CabruhMay 25, 20158 votes

Good news: Rito gets the money to pay their employees to make new champs and pay for the maintenance of the servers you play on! Everyone is happy!

Warrior of IoniaMay 26, 201515 votes

Bad news: the servers are cursed

WolfmanMay 26, 20151 votes

The good news is that it comes with a free Frogut!

Warrior of IoniaMay 26, 20152 votes

The frogurt is also cursed

Best Lolicon NAMay 25, 201530 votes

Grab the Gromp icon for 250 RP

Nope, I'd rather use some of my useless IP but noooooo.

MalvodiusMay 25, 201522 votes

Really, home come there are no IP icons to spend your spare points on? If you want to get lazy just use preexisting images for them, sell them for both IP and RP if you wish, like certain other game does.

250 for one "exclusive" regular icon is not what I'd call worth getting.

ÊnoshimaMay 25, 201519 votes

ALL HAIL GROMP

5000000000000000May 25, 201520 votes

ALL HAIL HYPNO-GROMP

Silly TonberryMay 27, 20152 votes

That's stup-ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOGROMP

ZastieMay 25, 201518 votes

I love how Riot _acts _like they listen by saying one side of things but not the other.

Rakans Side GirlMay 25, 201517 votes

"We understand players need IP sinks." "So...We can get this with IP?" "...:)"

ZastieMay 25, 20159 votes

{quoted}

"...:)"

Sona works for Riot? I knew it.

Died to GrompMay 25, 201513 votes

Yes! Now I'll have the perfect summoner name and icon.

Oatmeal CookiesMay 25, 20155 votes

Are you sure.

Died to GrompMay 25, 20154 votes

Obviously, everyone can relate to my name.

Raj AthenMay 25, 201512 votes

Yea no..... I was excited at first then when I saw how much it costs. I'd rather spend my RP on better things then a icon.

Turtleman42May 25, 201510 votes

We are GROMP

BowMaster930May 25, 201510 votes

"Sure, Gromp's not the king of the jungle" - Rito pls. Gromp-kamisama is GOD of the jungle. Live and die by the gromp. Gromp is love, Gromp is life.

NyaboronMay 26, 201510 votes

Now with this icon, you can be toxic in the loading screen too!

TerraRisingMay 25, 20159 votes

Can we have an alternate Gromp icon that faces to the right? That way, some clever people can reenact the "Game Gromps" properly.

BzkMyvag0ZMay 25, 20158 votes

I give props to the guy that wrote this. Having to come up with that entire post is amazing with just having gromp as the subject.

Oatmeal CookiesMay 25, 20158 votes

Whats a Gromp?

Ironclad DragonMay 25, 201558 votes

Hello, sir. Do you have the time to hear of our new-found lord, savior and executioner, Gromp?

VirbratoMay 25, 201522 votes

Gromp is actually a demigod from another realm come to take the league of legends food chart! Ancient scrolls also cripticly hint towards eternal life for those brave enough to defend gromp should anyone seek to cause him harm - Keyori :D

LanayurianMay 25, 20158 votes

Uberdanger is pleased about this.

sodamnhungryMay 25, 20157 votes

gromp mini pet please summoner 31

TamarizzMay 26, 20156 votes

oh come on riot... instead of adding new unlockable content, like "you've to kill thousand times for nashor icon" and "500 times gromp"... nah just let's put it on store on RP price, they give us their money anyway.

meohmichaelMay 26, 20156 votes

These beautiful icons are a waste of your artists' talents. The very bottom line is that they should cost influence points rather than real-world money, and that's simply that.