Lutzburg's Champion Concepts Mega Thread
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MAJOR UPDATE After years of contributing on these forums, my hard work finally paid off and I'm now a Champion Designer on the League team! Since our players are a curious bunch, many of you have already stumbled upon my fan work already. Please note that while I'm able to reference my old creations in my day-to-day work, few if any of these ideas will ever actually be implemented into the game. If nothing else, I encourage you to view this body of work as a testament to the power of hard work and dedication. If there's something you want out of life, go and get it!
Introduction Hello, my name is Lutzburg! I'm a professional game designer and enjoy designing champions in my free time. Over the last three years or so, I have come up with over 70 unique concepts in varying degrees of polish and completeness. As a professional in the game industry, I kept these designs private given the very slim chance that they might actually see some real world use someday. However, enough time has passed since I first created them and they've just been gathering dust on a 200+ page Google Doc. I think it's finally time I shared these ideas with the League of Legends community in the hopes that the community can both find inspiration in my work and also help me improve and continue honing my craft. Thanks for reading!
New Releases Ronin, the Shadow Soldier Rabadon, the Death Mage Melicent, Conduit of the Swarm
Lutz's Top Picks Seeing a + next to a Champion on the list below indicates that it is one of my personal favorite concepts.
Champion Index
Note: Some of the concepts you may read can be over three years old. The game has changed a lot in that amount of time, so some concepts may no longer be as relevant or novel as they once were, and some concepts have since been explored by official champions introduced into the game.
Marksmen Alcarus, Shard of the Void Otto, the Hextech Merchant Leo, the Star of Piltover Rafa, Guardian of the Flame + A.I.S.E., the Steam Soldier Penrose, the Pride of Bilgewater + Axel and Pinwheel, the Bandle City Bandits
Supports Demura, Reflection of Demacia Oliver, the Imaginative Youth Navia, the Unheeded Prophet Lydia, the Ethereal Seamstress Sprocket, the Conniving Contraptionist Mitsukai, Emissary from the Clouds + Havel, the War Hero Agatha, the Encroacher + Escher, the Architect Yura, Winter's Herald + Fritz, the Hextech Medic Ophelia, Daughter of the Monolith +
Mages Varian, the Frostfire Golem + Richter, the Crystalline Miner Pastel, the Wandering Artist Annabelle, the Forsaken Bride Percy, the Devious Opportunist Dahlia, the Withering Maiden Verica, Revenant from the Stars + Letha, the Remorseful Conduit Imena, the Dreamwalker Damek, the Earthcaller Sharra, the Shadow Priestess Galahad, the Storm Knight Magnus, the Observer Ariem, the Shadow's Spirit Verrix, Master of Glass Cornelius, the Gold Miner Moira, the Stargazer Rabadon, the Death Mage +
Fighters Kuro, Guardian of the Shrines "Doubletime", Demacia's Courier + Flint, the Bombardier Ze'ki, the Sly Frolov, Commander of the Skies Ronin, the Shadow Soldier
Bruisers Atlas, the Thundering Templar + Nicholai, the Curator of Energy Thalius, the Arcane Blacksmith Doran, the Master Forger + Constantine, the Spectral Rider + Locke, Death's Command Ambrose, the Harvester
Tanks Dredgeback, the Legend of Bilgewater + Oberis, the Decrepit Knight Rothar, Emissary of the Trolls Barnaby, the Hextech Driller Gemini, the War-Torn Descendent + Solomon, the Resplendent Arbitrator Klaus, the Jovial Chameleon Melicent, Conduit of the Swarm
Assassins Cathartes, Scavenger of the Rift Penumbra, the Noxian Spymaster Echo, the Maven of Silence Kajarhi, Father of the Blades Cabar, the Dimensional Phantom
After over three years of designing, iterating and balancing, and having spent the last three months formatting, researching and publishing, I have AT LONG LAST completed all of my existing champion concepts. From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone who upvoted, downvoted, praised me and criticized me throughout this process. I owe a lot to each of you.
Over the next week or two, I hope to do one final pass on every concept by adding a "resource" section and moving my mega thread link to the top of the page, as well. I'll also be spending a lot of time responding to specific feedback that I haven't had time to get to yet, most notably the infamous Echo concept.
After that I might relax for a bit, do some reviews of my own and see what happens. That said, I don't intend to stop designing champion concepts any time soon. I still have a lot more ideas and now that I'm all caught up, adding them one at a time should be a breeze. ;)
Thank you again to everyone who has supported me through this project!
Good night for now,
-Lutzburg
