Can you create a champion based on one of our ideas? Riot comments appreciated.

Filled With NaCl·7/30/2017, 11:52:25 AM·1 votes·454 views

So, i've been reading stuff on boards for a while now, and i've seen a lot of good champion concepts. Does Riot ever plan to take an idea from one of the players and make a champion out of it, or is that never going to happen? I know it takes 9 months for a champ to be created, but it still doesn't stop them from creating that champion. Also, does Riot not want unoriginal ideas(when i say unoriginal, i mean not made by Riot)?

11 Comments

ModThe Djinn7/30/2017, 8:13:29 PM4 votes

Riot hires designers to do design, and they have a pretty good creative team. There's not really a need to outsource ideas, especially since the idea going in is rarely the same as the idea coming out -- see Aurelion Sol, for example.

So no, Riot doesn't really use non-Riot ideas, nor would I expect them ever to make a community-suggested champion.

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOO7/30/2017, 12:46:29 PM3 votes

Most (if not all) the champ concepts on the boards are shitty and poorly thought out. Even the few that are actually good will never be used by Riot for copyright reasons.

zrWQMdGHtY7/30/2017, 2:21:31 PM1 votes

xayah's personality is pretty similar to one of mine so I far as i can tell they do listen some times...

Terozu7/30/2017, 6:17:57 PM1 votes

I had an annie rework on here where she could mount tibbers getting his health as a shield, as well as dash through targets and dash again if it's a champ, and that was over a year before kled came out.

Killed Inaction7/31/2017, 9:00:56 PM1 votes

It'd be nice if they did take ideas or portions of ideas, especially considering the people posting have effectively given them permission to do so. I don't think they'd ever just take a champion concept from the boards and turn it into a champion, and I honestly doubt anyone from their champion design teams even comes onto the Concepts & Creations board, or at least not with any regularity.

So, basically, I don't think it'll ever happen. It's a fun way for the community to "interact" with Riot and with each other, but the ideas posted will almost invariably not be put to use by Riot.