With all the new Arcade/Battle Boss skins, how about a Battle/Final Boss Ornn?

RNJudas·6/29/2019, 9:12:02 AM·2 votes·1,169 views

So, why a Battle Boss Ornn?

With the recent release of the new Arcade/Battle Boss skins, plus a few people (in the Ornn community at least) crying out for a new Ornn skin or at least wondering why Ornn still only has 1 skin in almost 2 years while Kai'sa already has 5(?!), it made me wonder about how a Battle/Final Boss Ornn skin could be perfect.

With a kit that feels powerful as it should for a demigod, I feel that it is also appropriate for a 'boss' character. Being a lane bully early on with level 1 W, difficult to wear down with how tanky he is, as well as pretty scary abilities/combos that you have to dodge if you don't want to lose HP fast (W, a literal flamethrower, E/Q+E combo that takes time to set up but requires the enemy to have good reaction times and positioning, and his R that feels very boss-like with a slow-ish but powerful ability that again forces the enemy to have good positioning and reaction time/timing, it's a giant fiery ram that charges at you and knocks you up, how is that not a boss ability?).

I feel like since there's a fair amount of counter play against Ornn, being able to outplay him by dodging his abilities, wearing him down and taking him out, beating an Ornn in a 1v1 or even just dodging his abilities and combos in a team fight feels satisfying because I feel like he's dangerous in lane but not overly oppressive and there's a decent amount of skill required to play as or against Ornn.

Also, as a couple of sidenotes, assuming the skin wasn't a Final Boss legendary skin, I feel like Ornn's existing voice lines are reasonably appropriate for a kind of boss/antagonist, not necessarily being pure evil but more of a reclusive character with a slight comical aspect, and while the blacksmith imagery/association takes away from this a bit I feel like a reinterpretation/re-imagery could help change this a bit (Star Guardian Syndra's voice lines still seem weird to me even with Riot making her the 'dark magic' Star Guardian), although obviously new voice lines are rarely a bad thing if it was a legendary skin.

My only concern about a Battle Boss Ornn is how they would make him look like a 'Battle Boss' while still being Ornn, and whether it would be better to take a more organic approach (Battle Boss Yasuo/Qiyana/Brand) or a more digital appearance (Battle Boss Ziggs/Veigar/Malazhar).

Anyways thanks for stopping by to read my post, any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

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1 Comments

Sekkaru6/29/2019, 11:35:52 AM1 votes

I'm in love with this! I actually just myself posted about some possible Ornn skin ideas, and what I imagined some abilities and others would be for them! My only issue with this is I have a hard time imagining how his abilities would work, my only guess is it'd have to be a more animated kind of battle boss skin, like Malzahar.

If that's the case, my guess is they'd retexture and recolor the abilities, while making them 8-bit as much as possible? Like example making the pillar from Q something like a hologram?

I feel like it COULD and WOULD work! The only issues is animating the abilities..