Character Concept Shard: Nasty Granny

YHWH Adonai·11/13/2017, 10:35:52 AM·6 votes·2,659 views

Riot never stops to amaze us with their characters. We have not only legendary warriors and robots, fluffy yordles and dark mages, personifications of elements but also cosmic dragon, always hungry catelpilar-thingy with toxic droll, ancient half-animal gods, wonderful couple. We have mature characters, young one and even children one. One thing is missing in this crazy mix is elder character. Well, we have Zilean, but he is a sage. Ancient time keeper. How about heart warming picture of an old nasty granny?

Inspirations: https://orig00.deviantart.net/1b82/f/2012/164/8/0/granny__visualarium_assignment_2_by_pointpusher-d53bq8h.jpg

This is only a shard of character concept to think about it. I just wanted to know if people like it.

Idea The idea for granny character is to be funny, crazy ridiculous and maybe a little tiny bit scary. ;) She could be looking like a good, nice granny who always invite you for a mug a hot chocolate and knit a warm sweater for you, but like in children stories it would be misleading picture. She would be very mean and nasty granny. She would be smiley but also she would like very nasty jokes. Her role in game could be assasin, as she love to kill and she is very good at it.

Inspirations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7en_MWDDjc

She would be very old indeed (as she escaped death several times). She would need a walking frame or a crane to move, but she would be very fast. She could have power to exhaust other characters just by one of her skills. Probably she could even - like in fairytales - eat her enemies. She could problably deal a great damage by smashing enemies bones with her walking frame or use some weird magic. It should be something funny and a bit scary on the same time.

Recall animation: During recall she could be rocking on a rocking chair and knitting something or flying in the cauldron with evil laugh.

Death animation: She could change into a ghost and fly away leaving only walking frame laying on the ground.

Skills animations: During casting some of her skills you could hear her bursting with evil laugh.

Inspirations: http://i.imgur.com/gTVeI4W.png https://img00.deviantart.net/6ef2/i/2012/357/e/4/angry_yubaba_by_rufusmisser-d5owxrw.png http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/spiritedaway/images/0/0b/Yubaba%27sBird.png/revision/latest?cb=20120724102258 https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/wp-content/uploads/granny-chic.jpg

Synergies: She could have synergies with several characters like:

  • Wawrick (who could she call "kitty" or "little girl" due her poor eyesight). There could be even contest in game who kills who first.
  • children characters who she obviously wants to eat (Annie, Zoe, Amumu, etc.)
  • Zilean - he seems to be very handsome fella
  • Karthus - he is the death itself, granny obviously don't want him to take her yet

Skins:

Inspirations: https://pre00.deviantart.net/367d/th/pre/f/2013/246/4/a/baba_yaga_by_katemaxpaint-d6kvfni.jpg https://img00.deviantart.net/583d/i/2014/136/6/3/witch__hex_healer_by_operion-d7ijgys.jpg https://orig00.deviantart.net/cacf/f/2013/116/d/3/granny_nan_by_vetrova-d633gwv.jpg

What do you think about this idea? It's only a bit messy sketch, but is it worth to think about? Maybe do you have some ideas how to improve this character concept? What do you think?

5 Comments

Death by Glamour11/13/2017, 10:44:11 AM3 votes

Would love to have an old crone type character as a support/mage

ThePikol11/13/2017, 10:56:14 AM2 votes

An old lady champ is requested from time to time on Boards. In my last list of thing we miss in LoL I also included her

ConcreteLamp11/13/2017, 7:51:33 PM2 votes

80% of why I want a character like that is for the interactions