@Riot: Kindred Singing? Possibly most adorable LoL Character trait yet!

KyriaTheMystic·Sep 20, 2015·14 votes·13,767 views

I was just messing about on PBE, when in the middle of a match I stopped for a few seconds to think about a build, and this happened... so I started a fresh custom to toy around with her idle singing. I found she has multiple singing lines, from humming, to little 'lalala's'. This is the cutest damn thing. I haven't seen anyone post about this, so, figured I would. (I imagine most people wouldn't even NOTICE this little bit of Kindred's VO as most people don't idle long enough for it to happen in the average game, and from what I've seen it doesn't endlessly loop.)

Seriously the amount of audio work that went into Kindred, from the duality of the two VO's, to this little bit, I sincerely appreciate the hard work Riot and all of the people they bring in do on the game. <3

9 Comments

RiotUtoraSep 23, 20156 votes

Nice! I can't believe you guys caught this already. Well ok - you guys catch everything, but super stoked that it resonated with you! The community reaction to Kindred's VO has thrown me into overdrive this last week going back and figuring out what I can do to make Kindred as special as I possibly can. I can't say for certain if this was the only determining factor that led to the addition of the humming or not, but I know for certain that the community alone put me into a "wolf frenzy" during a time when developers usually start ramping down on a champion.

The humming is attached to Kindred's looping idle animation - and it takes a awhile to get there - about 11 seconds or so. Once you're there Lamb will hum/sing a short tune and Wolf will do a series of Wolf-ism (sniff, snarl, howl, etc). It does not loop, but it will trigger 100% of the time when that animation triggers. So you can move then stand still, move again and stand still to hear all the different versions.

Your video actually made me go back and look at the volume again. I'm not sure if you know what your volume settings were at (were they default?) but it's definitely too quiet in the video so I raised the volume a bit :)

You'll most likely hear it sitting at the fountain contemplating a build, waiting at a tower for the impending enemy siege or my favorite - sitting in a bush and waiting for the perfect moment to gank.

jeremiahBIOSep 23, 20151 votes

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Nice! I can't believe you guys caught this already. Well ok - you guys catch everything, but super stoked that it resonated with you! The community reaction to Kindred's VO has thrown me into overdrive this last week going back and figuring out what I can do to make Kindred as special as I possibly can. I can't say for certain if this was the only determining factor that led to the addition of the humming or not, but I know for certain that the community alone put me into a "wolf frenzy" during a time when developers usually start ramping down on a champion.

The humming is attached to Kindred's looping idle animation - and it takes a awhile to get there - about 11 seconds or so. Once you're there Lamb will hum/sing a short tune and Wolf will do a series of Wolf-ism (sniff, snarl, howl, etc). It does not loop, but it will trigger 100% of the time when that animation triggers. So you can move then stand still, move again and stand still to hear all the different versions.

Your video actually made me go back and look at the volume again. I'm not sure if you know what your volume settings were at (were they default?) but it's definitely too quiet in the video so I raised the volume a bit :)

You'll most likely hear it sitting at the fountain contemplating a build, waiting at a tower for the impending enemy siege or my favorite - sitting in a bush and waiting for the perfect moment to gank.

i cant tell you how awesome they are turning out. first day get for me.

KyriaTheMysticSep 23, 20151 votes

As far as my volume goes, my settings on PBE were as such: Master - Max, all others - 75%, and I had it recorded at the highest volume the game produced my program could pick up. So all in all it 'is' a teeny bit quiet, but making the singing/humming too much louder might not be a bad idea if possible. Not necessary, but, would be nice.

But yes, this is one of the many little things that makes Kindred an amazing character. <3 Can't wait to get them mastered on live.

SauceyapplesSep 23, 20151 votes

Does that have any relevance to the "A Good Death" article/short story? 'Cus I saw this about 30min after I read that article. It made me wonder if that was some part of the performance that the actress was in; that was just my immediate thought. I mean there's no way to confirm this, I guess, because there is no real video or animation for it, but I think it would be really cool if it was.