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Future Champion Thematic's

JennaZennPi·5/11/2018, 8:29:07 PM·2 votes·1,506 views

###Bored during study hall, and waiting for friends to get onto league after school, i decided to write a list of champion ideas I would like to see in the game. The thematic's of some of the champions aren't new but hopefully this will spark some gears in the creative minds of the boards community. Enjoy :)

#The Witch

While we do have a “witches” in league, they aren’t the “witches” we think of. Old, pointy hat, fashionably ugly, carrying a crooked staff covered in moss, and a pack with do-dabs, bobbles, and potions hanging from the side. These are images I see when hearing the word “witch”, surely in a magic-influenced world such as Runeterra, there should be a witch practicing magic and boiling potions right? Now, why old? Because usually, and I'm not saying this is a bad thing, we see young perfect looking girls with the exception of Ilaoiaioil and Rek’sai. Now just because the witch is old, doesn’t mean her heart is crooked like her staff. She could be on a redemption story trying to correct the wrongdoings she did in her youth, or she could be involved with the secret magic council in Demacia. Or she could even be a yordle in a forest, guarding whatever lies dormant.

#The Puppet Master

The idea of having a puppet master in the game would be a weird and challenging dynamic to develop. The basis of a puppet master is a person or a group covertly controlling another person or group. Perhaps this person uses magic to control others in the game? An idea that I think would be really cool and the mains of this champion would love, in my opinion, would be reworking Shaco into a puppet master. Shaco could have been a puppet himself (similar to his current lore) being controlled by someone. Something happens, and Shaco is now free, filled with magic he himself is now the puppet master. Something interesting like this would bring back the “love” of Shaco, as I feel only those who main him play him.

#The Summoner/Shaman

Having a dedicated summoner/shaman as a champion isn’t something new to concepts. And if I remember correctly, and do tell me if I wrong, there was an episode of Beyond the Rift by QT and Scarra interviewing Riot Reav3 talking somewhat about having a “summoner” type champion. One who fights using the things that they summon, kinda like Azir and Annie. However, instead of having the one summoned creature which acts like a “one hit wonder” (such as Tibbers), they can summon more than one creature on a somewhat short cooldown. It would be awesome if Riot recycled the Summoner’s from the original lore, just changing it up a bit for a single person instead of a whole organization. What would this champion be able to spawn? How did they spawn? Can it be a combination of what the champion has fought and mixes them together? Or is it a fixed thing, having upgrades kinda like Kha’Zix and Kai’sa. Tell me what you think!

#The Painter

Creating a champion that works with paint would introduce a different style of gameplay to league. I know for a fact that this was mentioned in Beyond the Rift when Scarra and QT were interviewing Riot Reav3 -- Reav3 mentioned that they were working on a champion that would draw symbols on the ground to cast abilities. This idea, however, was put on hold. I would really love to see what Riot can do with a champion that draws their abilities on the ground. What if your basic abilities, Q W E, would change the type of ink you have and each ink type has their own 3 basic abilities that can be drawn out. I don’t know what the ultimate for this champion would be, but either way, I really hope this becomes a thing in the near future!

#The Miner

A Freljordian works 8 hours a day in a coal mine, it's tough work but at least it's out of the cold weather. Every day is the same thing, set the charges, clear out the rubble, collect the minerals, rinse and repeat. However, on this particular-ordinary day something happened, the charges went off yet no sound of rock came crumbling down. Cautious at first, the miner peaked over a wooden beam to see what had denied him of his free meal tonight. A slow blue light hummed the cave to life, curiosity struck his heart and step by step the miner edged closer… I would love to see a miner champion, perhaps the champion could have found a world rune, a portal to the void, or perhaps its something else that we don’t know yet! I personally like the world rune idea, so what if the champion infused his pick-ax, or whatever he had on him, with the world rune! What would he do with his pick-ax? Does he know what a world rune is? Does Ryze know about this? Was this rune sealed here in the mountain on purpose? Tell me what you think!

#The Cook

I honestly don’t even know how this would work, but it would be very INTeresting to see how this theme would FEED our imagination. Perhaps the person is a well-respected cook in Piltover, combining hextech and biochemical tools to whip up a Five-star meal on the go. Or the champion could be a Noxian serving the black rose, attuning himself with fine dining, delicately crafting delectable food so good that it will literally kill you! Again, I honestly don’t know how this would work, and probably would never happen, but I would love to see what others can think of for a Cook champion. :)

#The Slave

I don’t think we’ve had a true slave champion in league before, yes we technically do with Xerath however, the only reason we know he once was a slave was that of his updated lore. The interactions, the champions abilities, and how the champion became a slave -- this would be a very interesting dynamic to see in game and good story to convey to an audience. Maybe it could be a new Ascended champ. from old Shurima, or it could be a scrapper working for a baron in Zaun? Slavery is indeed nothing to be made light of, it should just be made aware of how horrible it is. With this in mind, I would like to see Riot expand on this premise other than the “small” cameo we see from the stories of Xerath and Azir

I had a few more thematic concepts but I just didn't know how to convey it. Plus their really weird topics: A guild master, a botanist, and a musician. Thank you for reading, have a nice day :)

2 Comments

FloRaider425/11/2018, 9:57:50 PM1 votes

Shameless bump for my own thread of similiar nature

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The problem with a straight up witch character is that Riot usually doesn't play tropes straight (werewolf is actually a chimera, mummy is (maybe) a muse or spirit, the Hulk is actually a baby neanderthal etc.), so it seems unlikely it will be played straight. It would seem weird for one witch to look old and crooked while all other witches remain young (LeBlanc, Lissandra, Elise) so maybe the concept would be split into a hex, curses and alchemy champion and the old lady champion.

Somewhat similiar to puppet masters are Orianna and Azir as they rely on other beings to perform their tasks. Honestly I am still waiting for the Toy Emporer Azir skin. Abilities that control enemy or allied champions don't sound very fun for the recieving party and not very likely to be developed.

I feel like they could bring back the idea of the Black Market Brawler minions for the dedicated summoner in that they can summon four different units with different focus that they can summon. Depending on their thematic they would customize them trough biomass dropped from enemies, gold or plain experience.

I feel like the miner idea could be combined with the concept of a champion using gold as a resource. That said Rek'Sai is already digging so maybe he does create gold mines or messes with terrain instead.

I feel like the cook could be a champion that collects ingredients around the rift to create different meals. So he would create healthy soup to heal allies, spicy chili to burn enemies and bewitching deserts that charm anyone getting nearby, depending on what he can get his hands on. Continously scrounging the jungle to find more flavor (maybe some plant interaction even?).

The problem of a slave champion is that champion inherently are powerfull enough to be considered legends, so by the point we can play as them they should be capable of freeing themselves. Another problem is that apart from the support role there isn't much that can make a champion feel like a slave. It honestly would be easier to create a slavemaster champion.

Honestly no idea what a guild master champion would be doing...

The botanist could be tied to either the cook or the witch and use rifts plants and cultivation (think bard W) to create important resoruces. That said such a champion would clash with Zyra to some extent.

Since Sona is the main musician of LoL it seems important to make the distinction between them. Abilities that require to keep a certain tempo and play around soundwaves (reflection) come to mind regarding this idea.