Ultimate Skin Idea For 2020

Next year we are slated for a new ultimate skin, and with Riot taking suggestions for it, I thought I could give a couple ideas. Since all the champions that have received an ultimate skin are not from the top lane, I believe 2020 should be a top laner. I decided to base my ideas upon a singular champion: Cho'Gath, the Terror of the Void.

Now before I get into the ideas hear my decision out while I defend it against the main reasons against Cho'Gath being a candidate, and then my reasoning why he should get an ultimate skin. Feel free to skip down to the numbered section if you just want to read about the ideas.

Argument 1: Cho'Gath already has 2 Legendary skins.

While it is true that Cho'Gath already has 2 Legendary skins, these are quite old. Gentlemen Cho'Gath could even be moved down to the 1350 price range (like Creator Viktor) since he doesn't even have unique effects, just a changed look and voice over. Battlecast Cho'Gath, does have unique effects, however, his E uses the same purple glow as his classic skin.

Argument 2: Cho'Gath is not a popular champion.

While Cho'Gath isn't very popular, neither was Udyr, Sona, or Miss Fortune when their ultimate skins came out. champions are also popular depending on the meta. Udyr and Master Yi were pick or ban when Feral Flare was the meta, and even Cho'Gath was a pick or ban in the LCS during his Gargoyle's Stoneplate days. Champion popularity changes with the meta, look at how they massacred my boy, Galio.

Reason why Cho'Gath should get the next ultimate skin:

Cho'Gath was one of the original champions released for League of Legends. Reav3 said he does need a VGU, however, it is not urgent. Udyr mains received their own VGU through Spirit Guard Udyr, and Cho'Gath receiving an ultimate skin would likely give the same result as Udyr's. Ultimate skins also "evolve" throughout the game, which fits into Cho'Gath perfectly, because of his ultimate. When Cho'Gath kills something with his ultimate "feast" he gains a stack of feast which gives health and makes him slightly larger. 10 stacks is the current maximum for his model to grow and he also gains a slight size increase every time he levels his ultimate while having stacks. This gives a unique opportunity to Cho'Gath as he can quite literary change his appearance as he gains stacks, or in the case of the ultimate skin; change his appearance based upon what he eats. Think of combination of Elementalist Lux's elemental progression bar, and Zoe's W balloon, but with more NOMing on and killing delicious enemies. Which leads me into the ideas (finally).

Here are the 3 ideas for the Cho'Gath Ultimate skin: Everything is open to suggestions. Feel free to comment yours.

1: Destroyer of Worlds Cho'Gath: "Now it has become Death. The Destroyer of Worlds." Cho'Gath's base form is the same as his classic skin. Except there's a catch; he doesn't have any arms (if that is too extreme then he can still have his base arms at the start). The gimmick with this skin is that you, the summoner, get to choose and customize his appearance, which includes his overall look, color, skin type (spiky or smooth, flesh, scales, or chitin, etc.), and yes, you can customize his arms, feet, head, and tail as well. This mechanic will be called "evolutions". This will be done through killing/feasting different things that are marked with a system similar to the Zoe's balloons. Leveling up will also grant evolution choices. The evolutions picked up or earned from leveling up will go into a pool, like Elementalist Lux's element choice pool, and can be selected or discarded from there. The 4 arms can vary, the summoner can choose either to have no arms, 2 middle arms only, or 2 top arms only. His arms can be all sorts of claws, spikes, wings, etc.

His Q should have more spikes the more levels you put into it. His W should change in pitch as he grows larger, his E already grows in size with him, and if Cho'Gath feasts upon an enemy and kills them. They should disappear from the map.

Which brings me to the TL;DR: Cho'Gath is like a Bionicle, you can customize his evolutions to give him all sorts of different looks.

2: Cho'Gathosaurus: "Life found a way." Another Cho'Gath dinosaur skin? You might be thinking, but this time, Cho'Gath isn't just called a dinosaur. He literary grows into different dinosaurs gasp.

Now here's where it gets interesting. If Riot can approach Universal and use dinosaur designs and sound effects from the Jurassic Park series for this skin. I am certain this skin would sell really well, and hype up Jurassic World 3 for 2021. Now that's a big if, but I had to include it because this whole post is a long shot anyways. Just in case Universal allows the use of the Jurassic Park dinosaurs I will have 2 types of dinosaurs listed for Cho'Gath's base form. JP for Jurassic Park IRL for in real life.

Back to the skin, Cho'Gath's W (feral scream) will have different roars depending on which dinosaur he is. However, I will only link the sound for Jurassic Park dinosaurs, since Riot will have to make their own sounds if Universal refuses. Cho'Gath's R (feast) will have different animations as well. Fast raptor claw takedowns for the raptors, ravenous bites for the medium sized carnivores, and a giant chomp for the apex carnivores. If the R (feast) kills the target while Cho'Gath is one of the apexes, their body should vanish, since, well, Cho'Gath ate them up. Unfortunately, I don't have any idea how to make the Q and E effects for the larger dinosaurs unique with this skin, because dinosaurs did not summon spikes from the ground or their body. So please, if you have an idea share it!

Now, at the start of the game Cho'Gath will be a type of raptor until he reaches a certain feast stack amount (4 maybe). He then unlocks the ability to choose a medium sized carnivore, however, the summoner does not need to change, and can play as whatever dinosaur they have unlocked (this is so people don't play around staying small as Cho'Gath to only be raptors). At 7 or 8 stacks Cho'Gath will unlock the apex predators.

The raptors will be: JP: Velociraptor IRL: Deinonychus

For the raptors Cho'Gath's name in game (like Gnar, and Mega-Gnar) could be Cho'Raptor or just the actual name of the dinosaur.

Q: They do multiple fast stomps on the ground.

W: Their respective scream.

E: Velociraptor's spikes are scaly and Deinonychus' spikes are magical feathers cough Xayah cough. Both are colored accordingly to each's chosen skin color or feather color, because you can't rule out the addition of chromas.

R: The raptors pounce on their target with incredible speed using their raptor claws. If the summoner stays as a raptor all the way to 10 stacks, I'm fairly certain the raptor R animation should change with the growth, so less stab stabby and more NOM NOMy.

4 stacks to unlock: Medium sized carnivores will be mostly the same for JP and IRL: Ceratosaurus, Allosaurus, Carnotaurus, Suchomimus. If Universal allows Jurassic Park to be used, a 5th rare option that could be unlocked could be Indoraptor.

Cho'Gath's dinosaur dependent name here would be: Cho'Gathosaurus for the first 3 mentioned, Cho'Gathmimus, for Suchomimus, and Incho'Gathraptor for Indoraptor.

Q: The dinosaurs do a small jump with both feet landing at the same time for the stomp animation.

W: Their respective roars: Ceratosaurus, Allosaurus, Carnotaurus, Suchomimus, and Indoraptor.

E: Spikes are colored to to match the color of the dinosaur (chromas)!

R: The 4 dinosaurs take rapid bites out of their victim. While the Indoraptor has a biting pounce where it stabs its victim with its both raptor claws and takes a bite out of them.

7-8 stacks to unlock: Apex carnivores will be the legendary Carcharodontosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Spinosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus Rex. If Universal allows Jurassic Park to be used, the 5th rare option would be the Indominus Rex.

Cho'Gath unique names here: Carcho'Gathodontosaurus, Gigacho/Gigacho'Gathosaurus, Spinocho/Spinocho'Gathosaurus, Cho'Gathosarus Rex, and Indomcho'Gathus Rex.

It can also be simplified to Cho'Raptor for stacks 1-4, Cho'Gathosaurus for stack 4-7 or 8, and Cho'Gathosaurus Rex for 7-8 and above. (This option is probably the best)

Q: The Apexes only need to stomp with one foot because they're dummy thicc.

W: Their respective roars: Carcharodontosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Spinosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus Rex, and Indominus Rex.

E: Spikes are colored to the color of the dinosaur (chromas).

R: All dinosaurs take a large bite out of the targeted enemy. If that enemy is within execution range, they are swallowed up whole. Maybe put a unique animation of them being swallowed.

TL;DR: Cho'Gath can choose from a selection of dinosaurs to play as (depending on how many stacks he has). If Riot teams up with Universal we could have Jurassic Park dinosaurs and their sound effects. If not, we still get dinosaurs.

3: Cho'Zilla: "Created by a test of the Piltoverian-Zaunite device in Bilgewater waters. The king of the monsters now rises up from the depths to lay waste to us all." Cho'Gath is Godzilla. King Kong vs Godzilla comes out in 2020 rematch of the century. Riot teams up with Legendary and Toho. Riot gives Volibear a legendary King Kong skin (Voli Kong) with Cho'Zilla, and we're set for an epic VS event for next year, tied in with the movie. The Godzilla ultimate skin could have different Godzillas from all the eras, and their respective atomic breath colors. Cho'Gath W could be a atomic breath in a cone, and his ultimate could be this, but very short, or a short atomic blast.

Final note: This took me over 6 hours to think about write, link, etc. and the Godzilla part was so self-explanatory I don't think I need to elaborate on it. Thank you for reading all of this. You finally made it! If you want leave your comments and ideas below.

If you want to know where the links are, follow the link to the Reddit post. I highlighted them there.