Why are all the characters now nonfictional?

dalphy08··1 votes·2,049 views

Where are all the cool spizazzy factors to them? What is this "Illaoi", some overgrown bully from grade 5 who looks like a boy with "big bones" from too much milk but is fat and stupid otherwise, and gets a heart attack at age 16? Does that SERIOUSLY pass as a "Kraken" character? Krakens are not just some unsophisticated thing you can slap some elementary school kid mangirl into. Big boned female character? Seriously? I thought that was on its way out 15 years ago. Why is she called a priestess if she looks like that? It's not THAT hard to know a Priestess isn't that, just play World of Warcraft or Warcraft 3 for that matter. Pretty simple to get, I don't see what's so complicated LOL.

Why is this "Taliyah" some nonfiction weird librarian you'll see on Earth? Why not more medusas, werewolves, werecats, okamis, dragons, chimeras, for pity sake is it that difficult? Ekko is some weirdo kid that you wouldn't want your kids talking to, so why is he in the game? The characters all seem to play just like they look too, what gives -_-?

And now Taric is from Disney? He was a NORMAL guy under the armour being fictional outside of the armour.

You know we actually play these fictional games because we're interested in old things outside of whatever creepy places you people come from, not just to see some nonfiction humans running around on a screen with diaper like leg animations and face graphics that kids were doodling on windows 98 computers back in 2002.

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ModWulf Helhammer6 votes

What?

dalphy081 votes

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What?

What "What"?

ModThe Djinn5 votes

Um...let's look at the last, say, fifteen champions released.

Taliyah -- Normal human Aurelion Sol -- STAR DRAGON Jhin -- "Normal" human Illaoi -- Normal human Kindred -- AVATAR OF DEATH Tahm Kench -- ANCIENT GREED DEMO Ekko -- Normal human Bard -- CELESTIAL BEING Rek'Sai -- VOID MONSTER Kalista -- INCARNATION OF VENGEANCE Azir -- ARISEN BIRD GOD Gnar -- PRIMAL TRANSFORMING YORDLE Braum -- Normal human Vel'Koz -- VOID LASER SQUID Yasuo -- Normal human

That's 6 normal people out of 15 recent releases.

So I'm not sure what your point here is.

japan hate acc2 votes

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Um...let's look at the last, say, fifteen champions released.

Taliyah -- Normal human Someone WHO CAN MANIPULATE THE EARTH Aurelion Sol -- STAR DRAGON Jhin -- "Normal" human Illaoi -- Normal human A priestess that uses her god as a weapon Kindred -- AVATAR OF DEATH Tahm Kench -- ANCIENT GREED DEMO Ekko -- Normal human A 15 year old who invented a FREAKING TIME MACHINE Bard -- CELESTIAL BEING Rek'Sai -- VOID MONSTER Kalista -- INCARNATION OF VENGEANCE Azir -- ARISEN BIRD GOD Gnar -- PRIMAL TRANSFORMING YORDLE Braum -- Normal human Vel'Koz -- VOID LASER SQUID Yasuo -- Normal human One of the best swordsman in all of Valoran, the only known person to MASTER A TECHNIQUE THAT INVOLVES HARNESSING THE WIND

That's 6 normal people out of 15 recent releases.

So I'm not sure what your point here is.

FTFY

ModThe Djinn1 votes

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FTFY

Yeah, I know. I was giving the benefit of the doubt and assuming anything that is a human of any kind is a "normal human." Because Jhin is definitely an almost demonic monster (like the Joker in Batman mythology -- something crazy is going on there), and Braum is a mythological hero of Freljord who I'd call comparable to figures like Hercules or Achilles.

japan hate acc1 votes

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Yeah, I know. I was giving the benefit of the doubt and assuming anything that is a human of any kind is a "normal human." Because Jhin is definitely an almost demonic monster (like the Joker in Batman mythology -- something crazy is going on there), and Braum is a mythological hero of Freljord who I'd call comparable to figures like Hercules or Achilles.

Lol yeah.

dalphy081 votes

Jinn is some lame wannabe "gun slinger" and LoL was never about guns anyway. It had a light concept of it, so Jinn is not fantasy. And no, he is not demonic. Just, no. Braum is not mythological. And no, he is not Achilles, learn your stuff for gods sake. He's Quazi Moto if anything.

EndGamer111 votes

Who's Quazi Moto?

Tamur1 votes

Think Dalphy08 meant Quasimodo

DesolationKaizer1 votes

Quasimodo. LOOOOOL. That's literally the worst comparison I've ever heard.

dalphy081 votes

Correction on priestess*, if someone ever saw a Priestess that looked even half like Illaoi they'd go running away screaming. Or they'd just get bored and say "no" like I did. And Taliyah is a shameful ripoff of Malphite, MALPHITE IS COOL. But Taliyah is not a earth manipulator, she's some dweeb you'd see at the Kwik-E Mart.

Inventing a time machine is not fantasy, that's called Doc you idiot. And if he's so great to fantasize about, why does he look like a creepy street kid? And I'm pretty sure you're exaggerating on Yasuo, and if Yasuo IS that, he definetly isn't played that way. He's played like some cheap two year old doll to get lame "Victory!!!"s.

dalphy081 votes

You just proved yourself that those are all mundane nonfiction characters. All a bunch of humans running around. A squirrel is not fantasy. A fat Santa is not fantasy. A fat frog is not fantasy. Nor is some lame bug called "Rek'Sai", that's called copying Kha Zix & Nocturne, and poorly at that. Cho'Gath is fantasy, Malphite is fantasy. The old Master Yi is fantasy. None of these are, you lose. Kindred is a walking goat. If I want to read three billy goats' gruff I would just go do that. And Aurelion isn't a dragon. Azir is not a bird god, he's a black human that imitates & insults the people that make desert characters in other games and movies.

And yes, if that's 6 there's the problem because it used to be 0.

DesolationKaizer1 votes

You can stop trolling now.

Tamur2 votes

How is the old Master Yi fantasy and new Master Yi isn't?

How us Rek'Sai a copy of Nocturne and Kha'zix?

No a Fat frog is not fantasy but a talking fat frog with powers is.

Any Human who is a normal human with specialized powers is still fantasy.

dalphy081 votes

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How is the old Master Yi fantasy and new Master Yi isn't?

He is yellow and retarded looking now. He used to be a compact cool green chinese swordsman, now he's white and he sucks.

{quoted} How us Rek'Sai a copy of Nocturne and Kha'zix?

You're an idiot.

{quoted} No a Fat frog is not fantasy but a talking fat frog with powers is.

Not in this context, the way he was done no way. And even if, he doesn't have any powers.

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Any Human who is a normal human with specialized powers is still fantasy.

Wrong.

Tamur1 votes

Seeing you will never be happy, I'm going to walk away and feed the wolves.

Tamur1 votes

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Exactly, because you know I'm right and you're wrong. http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/b/ba/ChoGathSquare_old.png/revision/latest?cb=20141003113212

No because I better things to do in life than to sit here and argue fantasy with someone crying over a champion's cloths being turned white.

P.S. Rengar is a werecat

dalphy081 votes

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No because I better things to do in life than to sit here and argue fantasy with someone crying over a champion's cloths being turned white.

P.S. Rengar is a werecat

Since you say "cry", you are clearly putting in enough effort to argue, meaning you are the baby. Learn to type without trying to slip in remarks to "get back" at the other person through the screen because "thai howt yor feelyings". And lie too at that.

Tamur1 votes

I'm pretty sure we can carry this on for years and not get anywhere. So I'm going leave this thread alone after this post. Because you seem the type who likes to get in the last word. You'll remain unhappy while I will have peace.

Twiggles3 votes

What is this "Illaoi", some overgrown bully from grade 5 who looks like a boy with "big bones" from too much milk but is fat and stupid otherwise, and gets a heart attack at age 16? Does that SERIOUSLY pass as a "Kraken" character?

She's a Kraken Priestess. Not a Kraken. Her God is a Kraken. She is a human.

Big boned female character? Seriously? I thought that was on its way out 15 years ago. Why is she called a priestess if she looks like that? It's not THAT hard to know a Priestess isn't that, just play World of Warcraft or Warcraft 3 for that matter. Pretty simple to get, I don't see what's so complicated LOL.

Priests and priestesses aren't necessarily skinny either, and they don't need to look like Warcraft characters. It's pretty simple to get, I don't see what's so complicated. LOL.

Why is this "Taliyah" some nonfiction weird librarian you'll see on Earth?

She's not a librarian at all. She's a girl from a family of weavers and goat herders who can bend and weave the earth itself who left her tribe to protect them from herself while she learned to control her powers.

Why not more medusas, werewolves, werecats, okamis, dragons, chimeras, for pity sake is it that difficult?

Cassiopeia, Warwick, Nidalee (kind of), Okami is a specific being, not a class of mythical creature, Shyvana, Aurelion Sol. I admit there's no chimeras though, so why not design one yourself and post it in Concepts and Creations? I'd like to see a chimera champion.

Ekko is some weirdo kid that you wouldn't want your kids talking to, so why is he in the game?

Ekko is a young man who literally built a device that warps time. That sounds pretty fictional to me.

In fact, I'd like to take a moment to address your core question of "Why are all the characters now nonfictional?" I can say with certainty that you have never, and will never meet any of this game's characters in person. They do not exist in reality. Thus, they are fictional. If you mean why aren't they high fantasy characters anymore like Garen and Katarina and Ryze and such, then it's because Runeterra isn't a strictly high fantasy setting. There are fantasy-like locations such as Demacia and Bandle City, there are futuristic locations such as Zaun and Piltover, and there are more realistic settings such as Ionia and Bilgewater. It's a big world populated mostly by humans. It shouldn't be a surprise to see a lot of humans in the champion pool.

And now Taric is from Disney? He was a NORMAL guy under the armour being fictional outside of the armour.

I don't even know what you're trying to say here. Taric used to be an extradimensional being pulled randomly through a portal. Now he actually belongs in this world. His armor had nothing to do with how "fictional" he was.

You know we actually play these fictional games because we're interested in old things outside of whatever creepy places you people come from,

I don't play Final Fantasy because I'm interested in history. I play it because I'm interested in Final Fantasy. Same goes for League.

running around on a screen with diaper like leg animations and face graphics that kids were doodling on windows 98 computers back in 2002.

I'd like to see you do better.

DesolationKaizer1 votes

This guy is delusion.

dalphy081 votes

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She's a Kraken Priestess. Not a Kraken. Her God is a Kraken. She is a human.

I never said she was a Kraken you illiterate fool. A Kraken character. Meaning in a subset of characters that have TO DO with a Kraken. Jeez, didn't think that needed to be explained. You're being this way on purpose I'm sure.

{quoted} Priests and priestesses aren't necessarily skinny either, and they don't need to look like Warcraft characters. It's pretty simple to get, I don't see what's so complicated. LOL.

I din't say skinny. Learn to read, again. You just got powned.

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She's not a librarian at all. She's a girl from a family of weavers and goat herders who can bend and weave the earth itself who left her tribe to protect them from herself while she learned to control her powers.

That itself all sounds pretty lame to me, as nonfiction as it gets really. She's a goat herding librarian, I'll give you that much.

{quoted} Cassiopeia, Warwick, Nidalee (kind of), Okami is a specific being, not a class of mythical creature, Shyvana, Aurelion Sol. I admit there's no chimeras though, so why not design one yourself and post it in Concepts and Creations? I'd like to see a chimera champion.

Wrong, that's not what an Okami is. And a being is usually a creature. Why would I design one you moron, that's supposed to be lodged in the brains of the "Riot staff". They should know that already, and not be making angry kid squirrels in cribs as characters.

{quoted} Ekko is a young man who literally built a device that warps time. That sounds pretty fictional to me.

Then that is why, you do not know how to hear properly. And he's a twit, not a man. And even if that passes as fiction, it was poorly done and is just some human kid twit at the end of the day.

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In fact, I'd like to take a moment to address your core question of "Why are all the characters now nonfictional?" I can say with certainty that you have never, and will never meet any of this game's characters in person. They do not exist in reality. Thus, they are fictional.

That is NOT what fiction means. You need to read a book some time.

{quoted} because Runeterra isn't a strictly high fantasy

Wrong. You don't have any brain. Reported for insulting our video game.

Twiggles1 votes

Insults out of nowhere, straight-up lies, inability/unwillingness to understand basic concepts like the definition of the word "fiction". (To put things in perspective: Anne Frank and Tom Sawyer are works of fiction. Lord of the Rings and Star Wars are fiction as well, but they are also high fantasy and sci-fi respectively.)

You also claim that I'm insulting the game, meanwhile your original post and every one of your posts in the thread after it...

The fact I've gone on as long as I have in this post is already a mistake, since you will probably just laugh me off and continue living in your delusions. Learn what fiction actually means. I'm done with this obvious (in hindsight) troll thread.

dalphy081 votes

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Insults out of nowhere, straight-up lies, inability/unwillingness to understand basic concepts like the definition of the word "fiction". (To put things in perspective: Anne Frank and Tom Sawyer are works of fiction. Lord of the Rings and Star Wars are fiction as well, but they are also high fantasy and sci-fi respectively.)

You also claim that I'm insulting the game, meanwhile your original post and every one of your posts in the thread after it...

The fact I've gone on as long as I have in this post is already a mistake, since you will probably just laugh me off and continue living in your delusions. Learn what fiction actually means. I'm done with this obvious (in hindsight) troll thread.

If you say "straight-up", you already are a failure. So I win again.

ModEchoing3 votes

Amazing troll, 9.2/10. Take my downvote with pride.

sneezing slug1 votes

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Amazing troll, 9.2/10. Take my downvote with pride.

Word.

Colgate Gator3 votes

Wasn't a celestial dragon released a few months ago?

dalphy081 votes

It doesn't do anything.

Asriel Memester2 votes

It does so much damage Riot just won't stop nerfing it. It also talks. A lot.

Veraska2 votes

I think it's trying to say it doesn't agree with riots aesthetic and character design choices, but goes about it in the absolute worst way.

Remember leagues got a cree for character archtypes "it's gotta be a uniquely league of legends ____" meaning they're portrayal of a classic fantasy portrait will be different in some way

Illaoi is a priestess unique to league, they are ussually seen a spiritual healers and illaoi while spiritual, is no healer. She's a very hands on, teach people the hard way kinda person

dalphy081 votes

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I think it's trying to say it doesn't agree with riots aesthetic and character design choices, but goes about it in the absolute worst way.

Remember leagues got a cree for character archtypes "it's gotta be a uniquely league of legends ____" meaning they're portrayal of a classic fantasy portrait will be different in some way

Illaoi is a priestess unique to league, they are ussually seen a spiritual healers and illaoi while spiritual, is no healer. She's a very hands on, teach people the hard way kinda person

I think you should learn how to spell first.

And no, Illaoi is hands on maybe at the Kwik E Mart burger stalls in some hot dog eating buffet for mean kids, but she's not shit for anything else. A real character like Grim Reaper Karthus (that is before he gets turned into another teal character) can own her any day of the season.

DesolationKaizer2 votes

She's not fat though? She's muscular???

dalphy081 votes

She's a burger chowing mean "bigkid" grown up. Some baby.

IronwallJackson2 votes

What is wrong with you?

Tamur2 votes

Illaoi - was created for those wanting a female with a strong frame

Taliyah - not sure how you got that she's a librarian though it might make an interesting skin

Werecats Nidalee or Yordles

Chimera would be cool to see in Leagues 4 heads 4 Abilities besides passive

Akenero1 votes

Then make your own game.

dalphy081 votes

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Then make your own game.

You make your own game. I have mine called League of Legends that is 99% gone because of weirdos ruining it.

Eggplantosphere1 votes

Mediocre b8 6/10

Reaper Soraka1 votes

I disagree, I give it at least a 3/5

DesolationKaizer1 votes

Lol, this post is funny as hell.

dalphy081 votes

Maybe this post was a bit harsh, but I seriously think that the game needs to up the Fantasy.

Maybe I'm too Andy Gavin & Jason Ruben washed (the creators of the original Crash Bandicoot trilogy for PS1), but I feel if you're trying to make a game; why don't you aim to move people with it? Give us something to THINK ABOUT MAN! This art is dying out now.

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