I'd absolutely love it to pieces if Riot incorporated Zeri as a Champion.

Strawberrycocoa··11 votes·2,536 views
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Zeri was one of my favorite characters in the (now closed and gone forever) MOBA Dawngate. She was a support-ish utility mage, moderate-high damage with strong team buffs. She was also, as you can tell from the linked concept art, very vividly stylized, full of vibrance color energy personality and FUN. I'd love to see a version of her incorporated onto the Rift, maybe as an Ionian or Demacian.

She was an artist, a too-curious-for-her-own-good kid with an exceptional talent for artistry and painting. She also snuck out in disguise at night to vandalize her city with graffiti tags. In combat she threw brightly colored globs of paint to attack and weaken her enemies and buff her allies. She was spunky, sometimes rude and disrespectful, but with a good heart and a passion for all things beautiful and wonderous.

Just throwing this out there, trying to keep one of my favorite characters alive.

(Edited to remove the bloated kit descriptions. I don't care so much about preserving the character's in-game kit as I do her style, feel, and spirit.)

32 Comments

Puri Puri Taric5 votes

just thank ea for sucking balls

Sirsir1 votes

The moment I saw EA and Moba in the same sentence I knew it wouldn't last. EA doesn't have the balls for a long term commitment like a moba...

Puri Puri Taric1 votes

yes not anymore they got puts on shades sucked dry YEEEaAAh

Strawberrycocoa3 votes

Hey hey HEY. Sucking balls can be fun and convey pleasure and joy upon another. Don't drag ball sucking into EA's bullshit.

Snow Taradien2 votes

But then, like ball sucking the pleasure is only temporary and it rarely goes the whole way. Much like EA, who is chronically incapable of seeing anything through to the end.

Strawberrycocoa1 votes

Oh my god... you're right, it IS the perfect analogy.

Sirsir2 votes

I would prefer her personality in the game rather than a painter-themed champ. The most defining part of Zeris kit was her stat sharing, and that would be really easy to theme into a lot of things.

Strawberrycocoa2 votes

Hey yeah, good point. You could make a lot of fun ideas from a baseline of, "Energetic and fun-spirited young kid who bestows her own power upon allies".

Sirsir1 votes

I've been whipping up an idea about a support. 10 year old Demacian (only good magic I think...) kid (not a Crownguard) who is a magical prodigy, plan was to have an ability to grant a spell shield and say something along the lines of 'NOONE CAN TELL YOU WHAT TO DO!' That could work instead tho :)

Centuros2 votes

Zeri? No, what we need is RENZO and his glorious mustache! (and his nipples that can cut glass. Beware, Renzo's chest comes for you!)

I guess his apprentice can come too.

Strawberrycocoa1 votes

Renzo is almost as amazing as he is beautiful!

Snow Taradien1 votes

Impossible we'd have to nobly sacrifice far too many shirts to even contain his might

Snow Taradien2 votes

Finally some Dawngate love. I jumped on the wagon too early I guess lol

Anywho! Yes, and Moya too please!

Leetri2 votes

I actually never got to see her in game, everyone just picked the same ~12 shapers every single game. I hated that Thresh/Trynda spawn (Volluc or whatever), he did a metric ass-ton of damage and had so much life steal you couldn't damage him. My favourite was Desecrator, I love playing tanks and for some reason he also did surprisingly much damage. I still have no idea why EA shut the game down, I thought it was pretty successful.

Strawberrycocoa1 votes

It was successful in terms of making a really good game, but I don't think it was financially successful. I heard a lot of people after the shutdown who said they were interested in the game but either didn't want to do another currency grind, or wanted to wait and see how it looked on full release before they got invested. The beta status pushed a lot of people away.

I actually hated Voluc for the same reasons you just stated, at first. But when I played him for myself he really grew on me. It wasn't his powerhouse damage that I fell for though, it was his personality character and backstory. Voluc's audio lore was my hands-down favorite of the bunch. I still listen to it sometimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6EVkLoT5iY (I wish they had used his vanilla skin, though. I loved his black-and-green style.)

Neamean1 votes

Quick question, do you want an exact copy or do you want an artist/painter theme champion?

Strawberrycocoa2 votes

I like the character concept personality look and "fun factor" more than her combat kit, so my answer is B.

Windup Orianna2 votes

That is a super cute champion theme.

Snow Taradien1 votes

I suggest you check out http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/skin-champion-concepts/nm245ouh-su-the-wandering-calligrapher Who is along the same theme and is super cool all her own.

Strawberrycocoa2 votes

Damn, yeah that is a cool concept. I like the passive. "No mana left... SCREW IT! Blood Magic!"

Snow Taradien1 votes

I know right?

Noo You1 votes

lets see.....maybe Q is a colorful red paint globs with a mix of yellow to orange highlights....that a targeted ability that buff allies and aggro enemies...Her W is a skill shot that throws a blue/light blue/purple highlights that splats all over in aoe area like graves ult or bards passive no slow thats her E... her E is a green/purple/yellow highlights that like braums ult but smaller its a paint tar field that last 2 seconds remember 2 sec is a long time in a fight....Her R need to make what she is a sunny bright support that tags so here my idea on her R it like teemo's mushroom is a graffiti tags.... they are spell circles that explode like teemo's mushrooms on smaller scale they do a little aoe with a stun like 1.5 sec level 2 R 2 sec level 3 is 3 seconds cooldown is like 42 seconds with a decrees at levels 11 an 16 is 42 sec a tag level 2 35 sec level 3 27 sec a tag...you can hold 5 tags because people will know later not to step on them... do they turn invisible may be not because they are color paint in shapes that look funny so hide them good or make them a way not to follow u .... on to her keep her a her in my opinion....y a cute 14 yr old showing tanks whose boss is hilarious 2nd her paintbrush must be a wand that throw colors at enemies in a slashing form

Strawberrycocoa1 votes

Maybe she could leave paint tags on walls that have an effect on the battlefield. Maybe being nearby one buffs allies and other abilities that require walls like Poppy Vayne and Bard become stronger when they pin to Zeri's tags?

Noo You1 votes

like i said use it as an escape/ base/buff defense in the jungle also it hard to walk around tags all over the field so i need to think of the cooldown / charges 4 how they would effect the game...also i forgot her passive maybe like u said her tag can boost status near tag like a gang and there crest like more movement/small health regen/ or small attack speed boost.... but everything needs to be in reason...... on top of the passive range would have to be small a round the tag too and they dissapear when monster/ minion walk on it so u need keep them away for buffs....also 4 every move missed it put a tag on a wall or the ground sou have your passive BUT ITS DIFFERENT FROM YOUR ULT note that so no early ult sorry but gives off the buff so u could run around the may buffing it also in has a timer on the tags like 1.30 min tag life

Jte Cogne Dessus1 votes

I don't think riot can copy a champion from a other game (a least without getting spam by everyone who would find it out)

Sirsir1 votes

No but an cheerful, energetic, sarcastic, slightly arrogant kid with the ability to share his/her power with others is fine ^^

Strawberrycocoa1 votes

Yeah I know a direct 1:1 translation is impossible to ask, but I'd love to just see the spirit of the character envisioned as a Champion.

I miss my splashes of color. :\

Sachi San1 votes

OMG YESSSSSSS ZERI AND MINA WERE MY TWO FAVORITES!!! THEY SHOULD MAKE A DEAL WITH EA AND TRANFER ZERI!!! SHE IS AWSOMEEEEE!!!! (crosses fingers for Mina too"sorry mina was bae") LMAO I WOULD LITERALLY CRY IF THIS BECAME REAL! OMG

Strawberrycocoa3 votes

You and I must be basically the same person, Zeri and Mina were two of my favorite Shapers. :D

I'd love to have Mina back just for her snark and acrid demeaning dialogue while she possesses her allies and laughs at their humiliation.

Sachi San1 votes

LMAO! I KNOW RIGHT!? she was so funny and amazing as a character, and possesing her allies was literally the funnest thing, GOD i loved her voice too! and Zeri was just amazing and wonderful and just perfect as a Shaper!

Strawberrycocoa2 votes

I downloaded the shaper dialogue audio from a link on the subreddit. Mina's "Curse it!" clip is my text tone for a guy I know who does a lot of really rapid nonstop "oh my god just condense this into one post" texts. Every time he gets an idea in his head my phone is all, "Curse it!" "Curse it!" "Curse it!" "Curse it!" "Curse it!" "Curse it!" "Curse it!"

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