Spawn Animations

GLBuck·Jun 29, 2016·2 votes·594 views

Every once and a wile Riot will add to the rift and make it feel a little bit more fresh, this might do the same. Right now when we enter the game, our champions appear one at a time in a flash of light. In my opinion this very loosely depicts us summoning them to the battlefield. My idea is that instead of this, 5 "doors" made of "light" appear and our champions walk through them with an animation unique to each champion. The doors then vanish. This could convey that they were summoned to the battlefield a bit better.

Let me also state that I know this is a metric crap ton of work with the amount of champions currently available and it may not be feasible.

Let me know what you think!

4 Comments

CobaltTheMadMageJun 29, 20161 votes

I would say ditch the doors thing and just give different champs different spawn animations akin to how they have different Recall animations. (pretty sure some already have this anyway).

And/or update champs without unique Recalls to give them new ones, though from what I can tell most Champ updates tend to do that.

GLBuckJun 29, 20161 votes

I get what you are saying but with the idea that the player is a summoner and the champions are being summoned, i don't think just a spawn animation would get that point across. I.E. if RekSai just dug out of the ground at the beginning of the game: why is she there? why is she being controlled by a summoner? It just doesn't feel like a summoning.

ps; sorry for saying summon so much :)

CobaltTheMadMageJun 29, 20161 votes

Problem is though that Riot is kinda in the process of phasing the concept of Summoners out of the lore. Granted, they may settle on a metaplot that incorporates all the champs' individual lore and still leaves room for something like the League, but at the moment it's sorta in limbo what exactly the metaplot is.

GLBuckJul 3, 20161 votes

dang, i was unaware of the lore changing. Well that's unfortunate, I kinda liked that idea...