Display your jungle dominance with Gromp

Riot·5/19/2015, 12:09:55 AM·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

FatedTitan5/25/2015, 9:10:56 PM221 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."

Deep Terror Nami5/25/2015, 9:27:50 PM159 votes

Champion icons for Mastery please and thank you. Nami

Centuros5/25/2015, 9:21:35 PM45 votes

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

Best Lolicon NA5/25/2015, 9:19:54 PM30 votes

Grab the Gromp icon for 250 RP

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

Malvodius5/25/2015, 9:25:04 PM22 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.

Ênoshima5/25/2015, 9:04:35 PM19 votes

ALL HAIL GROMP

Zastie5/25/2015, 10:25:47 PM18 votes

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

Died to Gromp5/25/2015, 9:21:03 PM13 votes

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

Raj Athen5/25/2015, 9:44:35 PM12 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.

Turtleman425/25/2015, 9:12:41 PM10 votes

We are GROMP

Nyaboron5/26/2015, 2:45:21 AM10 votes

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

BowMaster9305/25/2015, 10:15:58 PM10 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.

TerraRising5/25/2015, 9:30:51 PM9 votes

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

Lanayurian5/25/2015, 9:30:16 PM8 votes

Uberdanger is pleased about this.

BzkMyvag0Z5/25/2015, 9:15:22 PM8 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 Cookies5/25/2015, 9:20:47 PM8 votes

Whats a Gromp?

sodamnhungry5/25/2015, 10:24:01 PM7 votes

gromp mini pet pleasesummoner 31

Tamarizz5/26/2015, 12:55:08 AM6 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.

meohmichael5/26/2015, 4:29:25 AM6 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.

Mr Fortunate5/25/2015, 10:37:27 PM3 votes

wow... another ugly icon.. can u guys step up your icon and ward game? its utterly terrible