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

KyriaTheMystic·9/20/2015, 3:54:41 PM·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

RiotUtora9/23/2015, 5:18:39 AM6 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.

SpecterVonBaren9/23/2015, 6:02:20 AM3 votes

Well this certainly explains one of their jokes where Wolf says, "Words, words, la la la, pew twang pew!" Was wondering about that.

Angelbob429/20/2015, 8:54:55 PM2 votes

agreed, i'm SO looking forward to this champ!

Shroom Junkie9/23/2015, 2:59:51 PM1 votes

They should make Wolf do a grumbling humming every once in awhile... eheehe

ArkyaThorn10/17/2015, 12:14:46 AM1 votes

Can I have Kindred humming as a ringtone now? Especially when Wolf laughs at the end? Please? Now?