Ao Shin, remember him?

Awkward Couch·Oct 13, 2015·2 votes·678 views

For those of you who may not remember, Ao Shin was to be one of the new champions to be released. This was over a year ago now. Today I remembered him and I was wondering if Riot had any progress on the champion. I have been looking around and the closest thing I've seen is on Reddit talking about how this champion is delayed. However the most recent talk about Ao Shin is almost a year old and the sneak peak of Ao Shin is almost 2 years old. Just wondering what you guys did with him and can we get an update?

11 Comments

GreenLoreOct 13, 20154 votes

Sometimes champion concepts get put on ice only to be revisited in the future. Pretty much the same happened to Azir whose first concept was leaked during the time of jayces release(which was in 2012),or Ekko whose concept was also rather old already(I think they talked about this in 2012 already as well).

They'll probably start working on him again eventually,but I doubt that they tell us when they do it.

Awkward CouchOct 14, 20151 votes

Wow I actually didn't know that. Thanks for the piece of trivia. XD

Wind WhistlerOct 19, 20151 votes

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Sometimes champion concepts get put on ice only to be revisited in the future. Pretty much the same happened to whose first concept was leaked during the time of jayces release(which was in 2012),or whose concept was also rather old already(I think they talked about this in 2012 already as well).

They'll probably start working on him again eventually,but I doubt that they tell us when they do it.

Ao Shin is probably going to take longer than all of them. It's already been over two years, I think around two years and two months when they gave the sneak peek. And by what has been said about him I expect him to come out January-March 2016.

GreenLoreOct 19, 20151 votes

Well we don't know when they originally started working on these guys. Just because Azirs concept was leaked around the time of jayces release doesn't mean they had only started the work on him.

Also there is the case of Elise The first concepts for a spider queen champ were leaked in 2009(the release date of the game),yet elise was released in 2012,so yeah she took ~3 years(maybe 2 and a half,I don't know the exact date of the leak)

PeriditionOct 13, 20151 votes

Last update was April 2015. They basically said, don't expect him this year or anytime soon. He will be released when they feel they have the concept and mechanics right.

Awkward CouchOct 14, 20151 votes

Yeah. I just wish we had some info on him. He seems like a cool champ. I was kinda hoping I would get a response from Riot but I knew it'd be a long shot.

CaythelesOct 14, 20151 votes

hehe.... the title kinda rhymed

AxxukaOct 14, 20151 votes

Unlike champions like Omen, they want to get him out just like Azir (AKA : Sand mage when it was a concept), but it will take time.

Azir got Iceboxed TWICE before ZenonTheStoic worked on him for his current kit... so he basically got 2 completely differents kits and personallity concept before becoming the emperor with his 3rd current kit. He still kept the same basic character model of the leak.

Let's be patient, they know what they have done, they MUST release him and since we didn't hear of him for quite a while it might mean we may see him in 2016 or he's getting worked on.

Remember Elise, there's ben a long sudden silence about the old spider-queen concept then they teased her as early as July (As a upcoming polymorph champ without anymore detail) then september of her year of release.

Ahri too got a early reveal ahead of time but it worked out back then since she didn't get shelved.

Just be patient, it will happen, he's not canceled unlike omen (An ADC that was meant to get out before Riven and canceled last minute)

Wind WhistlerOct 19, 20151 votes

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Just be patient, it will happen, he's not canceled unlike omen (An ADC that was meant to get out before Riven and canceled last minute)

How do you know Omen was going to be an ADC? I haven't found anything on that.

AxxukaOct 20, 20151 votes

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How do you know Omen was going to be an ADC? I haven't found anything on that.

It's a very old quote from Riven' designer, Xypherous.

The main reason they canceled Omen : You couldn't tell by looking at him that he would be an ADC and everybody expected a jungler/tank/bruiser. It's very important for Riot to be able to expect the role of a champion just by looking at him. (Between Two turret Q&A with the chief Researcher in psychology for Riot also pointed out it was an important part in a champion's making)