Lutzburg's Random Champion and Ability Generator

RiotRiot Lutzburg··13 votes·5,994 views
Lutzburg's Design Corner

Hey everyone! This is something I've been wanting to do for a long time, and I finally got around to building it. Using an awesome tool on a website called Last Gasp, I've created a Random Champion and Ability Generator!

Why Did You Make this?: I think this is a great way to challenge ourselves as creators and designers, and it also gives us a very specific set of parameters in which to focus our ideas. It should also allow us to more freely and easily stumble upon novel, unique new mechanics, even if we only do so by accident.

How It Works: Clicking that link will take you to a hastily thrown together blog, which has a javascript link that loads up the Generator. Every time you click the link, it will randomly choose from a huge list of options from seven different categories. I've tried to account for as much stuff as possible, with an emphasis on mashing up various mechanics in the game. Some of the categories have "weights" to them in order to make some choices more common than others. For example, "Snare" should appear much more often than "Suppression."

Spread The Word!: Please share your random Champions in this thread and use this area to discuss new ideas and mechanics for League of Legends! Also feel free to use the Generator to create new moves for your existing Champions. Crediting/Linking to me here would be nice, but definitely not necessary!

My Work: If you want to see some of my work, please check out my Mega Thread, which contains over 80 unique Champion concepts!

The Categories:

Champion Role: Tank, Support, Marksman, Fighter, Bruiser, Assassin, Mage

Damage Type: Attack Damage, Ability Power, Mixed Damage

Ability Targeting: Allies- Area of Effect, Allies- Single Target, Enemies- Area of Effect, Enemies- Single Target, Passive

Ability Mechanic: Skillshot, Target Location, Targeted, On Next Hit

Ability Primary Component: Heal, Stat Buff, Shield, Speed Augmentation, Damage Nuke (Weak), Damage Nuke (Medium), Damage Nuke (Strong), Damage over Time, Utility, Gap Closer/Blink, Other (Wildcard)

Ability Crowd Control: None, None, None, Slow, Slow, Stun, Stun, Fear, Snare, Snare, Silence, Suppression, Knock-Up, Knock-Back, Displacement, Blind, Polymorph

Ability Special Properties: None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, Grievous Wounds, True Damage, Regeneration, Re-castable, % Damage/Health, Aura, Global, Summon/Pet, Stat Steroid, Dual form, Rebirth/Cheat Death, Stealth, Taunt, Reduces Cooldowns, Stacking Stat, Triggers On-Hit Effects, Untargetable, Tether, Execute, Scales with Stat, Decoy/Illusion, Non-Mana Resource, Crowd Control Immunity, No Unit Collision, Affects Towers, Eff. Against Monsters, Special Every X Casts

29 Comments

Junkο2 votes

LOVE IT

time to see what i can throw together from what i got

RiotRiot Lutzburg1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Rainbowe Dash,realm=EUNE,application-id=A8FQeEA8,discussion-id=moHXmbzB,comment-id=0001,timestamp=2015-01-04T14:45:41.520+0000)

LOVE IT

time to see what i can throw together from what i got

Nice, good luck! You can make it extra fun and challenging by ALWAYS trying to make a spell with what you get on your first roll. :)

TonyTonyMordecai1 votes

First time I pressed the button, this is what i got:

[Champion Gender Male

Champion Race Yordle

Champion Role Marksman

Damage Type Mixed Damage

Ability Targeting Allies- Single Target

Ability Mechanic On Next Hit

Ability Primary Component Damage over Time

Ability Crowd Control Polymorph

Ability Special Properties Crowd Control Immunity]

This is gonna be interesting :)

RiotRiot Lutzburg2 votes

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First time I pressed the button, this is what i got:

[Champion Gender Male

Champion Race Yordle

Champion Role Marksman

Damage Type Mixed Damage

Ability Targeting Allies- Single Target

Ability Mechanic On Next Hit

Ability Primary Component Damage over Time

Ability Crowd Control Polymorph

Ability Special Properties Crowd Control Immunity]

This is gonna be interesting :)

Nice, that sounds awesome and ridiculously challenging! You'll have to really think outside the box to make this work.

If I were tackling this, I would make it a self-cast ability that reset the yordle's auto attack timer. Perhaps the "polymorph" puts some sort of balloons on the target that weighs them down, and subsequent auto attacks pop the balloons to deal burst AoE magic damage. While the yordle is honing in on the marked target, he himself is immune to CC because he's in a state of focus? It would work somewhat similarly to Poppy or Olaf's Ultimate. Makes me think of a carnival or arcade theme, where the yordle is some sort of crack game player, with ski ball and bumper cars and all sorts of other fun stuff!

TonyTonyMordecai1 votes

Oh man... Thanks for getting my creative juices flowing LOL Also, did you get a chance to look at my one champion concept yet? I gave you the link to it in one of my other reply's. Thanks for the advice!

RiotRiot Lutzburg1 votes

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Oh man... Thanks for getting my creative juices flowing LOL Also, did you get a chance to look at my one champion concept yet? I gave you the link to it in one of my other reply's. Thanks for the advice!

I have the thread open right now and it was next on my list!

RiotRiot Lutzburg2 votes

animeboy2428 was nice enough to use my ability generator to inspire an AWESOME new concept, which you can find here-

Xeno, the Accursed

Xeno's W was the original ability inspiration, which required animeboy to create an ability that was targeted, did AoE damage AND included a knock-up. No small feat!

Electro5222 votes

Hello Again Lutz!

Not sure if you'll ever see this, but, I was able to get the mods to pin this for awhile to give it some more visibility.

It's only temporary, depending on how the traffic is for this thread, but hey, its still some visibility.

Lets hope it gets some good traffic!

RiotRiot Lutzburg1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Paleo Electro,realm=NA,application-id=A8FQeEA8,discussion-id=moHXmbzB,comment-id=0006,timestamp=2017-06-07T16:50:22.065+0000)

Hello Again Lutz!

Not sure if you'll ever see this, but, I was able to get the mods to pin this for awhile to give it some more visibility.

It's only temporary, depending on how the traffic is for this thread, but hey, its still some visibility.

Lets hope it gets some good traffic!

Wow, that's awesome! Thank you for thinking of this thread and figuring out a way to do that. To be honest, I'm shocked the generator even works after all these years. :)

Electro5221 votes

That it does.

Though, I think the "special properties" might be broken, cause after refreshing it several times, I have yet to get one. All I get is a"..." in its place.

RiotRiot Lutzburg1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Paleo Electro,realm=NA,application-id=A8FQeEA8,discussion-id=moHXmbzB,comment-id=000600000000,timestamp=2017-06-08T00:25:59.881+0000)

That it does.

Though, I think the "special properties" might be broken, cause after refreshing it several times, I have yet to get one. All I get is a"..." in its place.

Yep, looks like you're right. I just tried fiddling with it but I don't think I can fix it unless I tried remaking the whole thing.

Guess the special properties will become a "Choose Your Own Adventure" deal. :D

Electro5221 votes

Either way, it's still fun to use. I'm currently working on a concept with a Wildcard ability that alters the way his other abilities deal damage. Really liking how it's coming out.

Oh yeah, and congrats on getting a job at Blizzard!

RiotRiot Lutzburg1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Paleo Electro,realm=NA,application-id=A8FQeEA8,discussion-id=moHXmbzB,comment-id=00060000000000000000,timestamp=2017-06-08T00:38:38.617+0000)

Either way, it's still fun to use. I'm currently working on a concept with a Wildcard ability that alters the way his other abilities deal damage. Really liking how it's coming out.

Oh yeah, and congrats on getting a job at Blizzard!

Cool, ping me if you publish it on these forums! It sounds neat. :)

And thank you! Pretty big moment for my career.

RiotRiot Lutzburg1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Paleo Electro,realm=NA,application-id=A8FQeEA8,discussion-id=moHXmbzB,comment-id=00060000000000000000,timestamp=2017-06-08T00:38:38.617+0000)

Either way, it's still fun to use. I'm currently working on a concept with a Wildcard ability that alters the way his other abilities deal damage. Really liking how it's coming out.

Oh yeah, and congrats on getting a job at Blizzard!

I managed to fix it and also simplify the list in the process! I removed Gender and Race since creating random abilities is more of the focus compared to random Champions.

Electro5221 votes

Alright then. I guess that makes sense, since Riot could add more races into the lore of Runeterra (like the recently created Vastaya!), which would force you to update it whenever they did that.

RiotRiot Lutzburg1 votes

Reserved for future use.

Prime Beholder1 votes

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Reserved for future use.

Will you still use this as basis for your future concepts?

RiotRiot Lutzburg1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Prime Beholder,realm=NA,application-id=A8FQeEA8,discussion-id=moHXmbzB,comment-id=00000000,timestamp=2016-09-29T12:17:40.667+0000)

Will you still use this as basis for your future concepts?

Hi Prime, I haven't designed any Champion concepts in well over a year, so I doubt I'll be using the generator much anymore. Still, I hope others can get some use out of it!

RiotRiot Lutzburg1 votes

Welp, now that I've run out of old champions to upload, maybe it's time I blow the dust off of this guy and give it a whirl. :)

Rito Jericho1 votes

Bumping this for anyone who wants to use it and try their hand at creating a champion concept.

RiotRiot Lutzburg1 votes

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Bumping this for anyone who wants to use it and try their hand at creating a champion concept.

Thanks for the bump! I really wish the site hadn't taken my Google profile picture as the thumbnail, though. It's kinda weird seeing myself on the forums. 0_0

Rito Jericho1 votes

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Thanks for the bump! I really wish the site hadn't taken my Google profile picture as the thumbnail, though. It's kinda weird seeing myself on the forums. 0_0

lol. I'm sorry, but that just seems so funny to me.

Meep Man1 votes

Champion Gender Male

Champion Race Yordle

Champion Role Bruiser

Damage Type Attack Damage

Ability 1

Ability Targeting Allies- Area of Effect

Ability Mechanic Targeted

Ability Primary Component Utility

Ability Crowd Control Snare

Ability Special Properties Global

Ability 2

Ability Targeting Enemies- Single Target

Ability Mechanic Skillshot

Ability Primary Component Heal

Ability Crowd Control Knock-Up

Ability Special Properties Execute

Ability 3

Ability Targeting Enemies- Single Target

Ability Mechanic Targeted

Ability Primary Component Damage Nuke (Strong)

Ability Crowd Control Snare

Ability Special Properties Re-castable

Ultimate

Ability Targeting Allies- Area of Effect

Ability Mechanic Target Location

Ability Primary Component Damage Nuke (Strong)

Ability Crowd Control Displacement

Ability Special Properties Rebirth/Cheat Death

Interesting...

EDIT: I just did it again, and all four of the abilities affected towers. Incredible pushing machine.

RiotRiot Lutzburg1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Inept Maverick,realm=NA,application-id=A8FQeEA8,discussion-id=moHXmbzB,comment-id=0005,timestamp=2016-09-29T13:01:08.513+0000)

Champion Gender Male

Champion Race Yordle

Champion Role Bruiser

Damage Type Attack Damage

Ability 1

Ability Targeting Allies- Area of Effect

Ability Mechanic Targeted

Ability Primary Component Utility

Ability Crowd Control Snare

Ability Special Properties Global

Ability 2

Ability Targeting Enemies- Single Target

Ability Mechanic Skillshot

Ability Primary Component Heal

Ability Crowd Control Knock-Up

Ability Special Properties Execute

Ability 3

Ability Targeting Enemies- Single Target

Ability Mechanic Targeted

Ability Primary Component Damage Nuke (Strong)

Ability Crowd Control Snare

Ability Special Properties Re-castable

Ultimate

Ability Targeting Allies- Area of Effect

Ability Mechanic Target Location

Ability Primary Component Damage Nuke (Strong)

Ability Crowd Control Displacement

Ability Special Properties Rebirth/Cheat Death

Interesting...

EDIT: I just did it again, and all four of the abilities affected towers. Incredible pushing machine.

Cool combos! Now you've got to design some abilities that use those mechanics. :)

I'd love to see it when you're done!

Atinizer1 votes

So, this actually gave me a pretty broken but awesome idea if it could actually be balanced. It said On next hit suppress and it affects towers, this sounds like a pretty baller ultimate for a possible diver, it would also be great to buy item 3056 on them considering it's a forgotten item.

RiotRiot Lutzburg1 votes

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So, this actually gave me a pretty broken but awesome idea if it could actually be balanced. It said On next hit suppress and it affects towers, this sounds like a pretty baller ultimate for a possible diver, it would also be great to buy item 3056 on them considering it's a forgotten item.

Nice! I loved that item. T_T

FlameHalbrdOkido1 votes

Hey i used that item once or twice!

Any ways Lutzburg, GlaD to see you on the boards. So many of the greats have disappeared! Anyways do you update the options ever?

I feel like with the recent re-evaluation of sub-classes you could put the ones you don't have listed into the Roles

anyways I think u did a decent job accounting for pretty much everything league has to offer in terms of camp design.

I think u did a cool and gud job

FlameHalbrdOkido1 votes

U MADE IT. U DID IT. From the glory days of the concepts and creations page, u made it to the one role so many of us wanted to have. CONGRATS!!!!

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