Kalista's soul bound should see her differently

General Esdeath ··165 votes·4,019 views

In Kalista's lore I noticed this line.

"Through their bond, the sword-wife saw her differently, glimpsing the noble warrior she had been in life: tall and proud, her armor gleaming. Her posture was confident, yet without arrogance; a born leader, a born soldier."

I think it would be a fun little thing for Kalista's soul bound teammate to see her how she was before she became the spear of vengeance.

23 Comments

Xienwolf29 votes

That would be kinda cool. And would ensure that you REALLY know you were bound (like the spectral chain wasn't clue enough...).

Main down side would be added time to develop any new skins. And for relatively marginal benefit. And should Kalista see herself this way as well?

General Esdeath 2 votes

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That would be kinda cool. And would ensure that you REALLY know you were bound (like the spectral chain wasn't clue enough...).

Main down side would be added time to develop any new skins. And for relatively marginal benefit. And should Kalista see herself this way as well?

I would say make them all the same since it's her old form. And no, she should see herself the way she is now.

Wolfeur18 votes

Idea for a ultimate skin, here!

PePsiLemoNN4 votes

Skin ? The skin that only your support can see ?

IcyPepper11 votes

Kalista's soul bound should see her differently

Only if she bought me a drink first >.>

Knalxz1 votes

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Kalista: Only because it's 12 times more expensive.

Shac Norris3 votes

Cool idea, but riot will never do it because it wont give them any money and besides, don'T talk about adding lore to the game, they dont give a shit

Tridem4 votes

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Cool idea, but riot will never do it because it wont give them any money and besides, don'T talk about adding lore to the game, they dont give a shit

Hate when people say that, they do give 2 sh*ts about the game, thats how they made champion Cho Gath. Riot Katey Kathios(IDK her name) responds here and riot has shown to listen to our ideas more know as an orginization.

OH you wanted better lore? OK heres the Bilgewater event that changed the lore of TF and Graves - didnt read the whole lore but i thought it was cool the parts i did read- and they reworked GP while giving him a cool intesting way of presenting him putting him in a lore adn even DISABLING him on purpose to actually get a feel of him being dead!!! And from a money/buisness standpoint, they didnt gain alot, sure they got out 3 new skins( Cutthroat Graves, Cutthroat TF, and Captain MF) but TBH in my games i only saw 1 person with any of the skins and that was Cutthroat Graves.

And dont you think that riot has been communicating with the community more? If you look at the boards you will see ALOT more red tags then you probraly seen about 1 year ago. Plus they made teh riot PLS post explaining alot to the community of why they wont/cant make Sandbox mode or replays.

I think riot should not be getting the crap they're are getting after all there improvements- ESPECIALLY the same crap people were saying around a year ago- In fact i think they should be getting advice on how to get even better as a game creator.

I think Riot deserves some respect guys don't you think so?

ninjaIRL 1 votes

Add on top that that they were giving out the Captain Gangplank skin for free if you played Gangplank during the event. Riot cares, a lot, they are very generous.

Shac Norris1 votes

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Hate when people say that, they do give 2 sh*ts about the game, thats how they made champion Cho Gath. Riot Katey Kathios(IDK her name) responds here and riot has shown to listen to our ideas more know as an orginization.

OH you wanted better lore? OK heres the Bilgewater event that changed the lore of TF and Graves - didnt read the whole lore but i thought it was cool the parts i did read- and they reworked GP while giving him a cool intesting way of presenting him putting him in a lore adn even DISABLING him on purpose to actually get a feel of him being dead!!! And from a money/buisness standpoint, they didnt gain alot, sure they got out 3 new skins( Cutthroat Graves, Cutthroat TF, and Captain MF) but TBH in my games i only saw 1 person with any of the skins and that was Cutthroat Graves.

And dont you think that riot has been communicating with the community more? If you look at the boards you will see ALOT more red tags then you probraly seen about 1 year ago. Plus they made teh riot PLS post explaining alot to the community of why they wont/cant make Sandbox mode or replays.

I think riot should not be getting the crap they're are getting after all there improvements- ESPECIALLY the same crap people were saying around a year ago- In fact i think they should be getting advice on how to get even better as a game creator.

I think Riot deserves some respect guys don't you think so?

They never reply to any post where people complain, especially not on juggernauts. They delete lore, make a new ''super lore event'' yet they don't update any of the old lore, which have 1-2 sentences (BEST EXAMPLE AMUMU, which had 1 sentence before they added 1 more sentence due to community backslash), they just leave it there. So many people have complained about the current lore, yet riot doesn't answer any posts concerning it, not even the posts that actually have awesome ideas.

They don't give a shit.

Jungle Lux God2 votes

From a gameplay standpoint, I'm pretty sure that Kalista's soulbound already sees Kalista in a different light.

FluxBound1 votes

Kalista isn't one person. "She" is a collective of the souls who sought vengeance.

General Esdeath 10 votes

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Kalista isn't one person. "She" is a collective of the souls who sought vengeance.

Actually, Kalista is her name, but she's slowly forgetting herself because of all the souls. She says "Our name was Kalista" meaning her former name before becoming the Spear of Vengeance.

I GANK LANES1 votes

awesome idea.

Morgan Slaveman1 votes

Interesting idea but unfortunately wouldn't happen simply because Riot wouldn't make any money off of this.

EvilMerodach1 votes

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Interesting idea but unfortunately wouldn't happen simply because Riot wouldn't make any money off of this.

Yeah, cause they made a ton of money off of changing Yi's dance to scale off movement speed, right before they came out with a legendary skin for him...that doesn't use the scale off move speed thing, (because it's a different dance).

Riot does a lot of stuff that doesn't directly make them money, just makes the game more awesome, so more people play it, which makes them money.

T RexHasTinyArms1 votes

It would be awesome (although unlikely because of the time needed to make a second version of the skin for each skin).

I wonder what you think about a middle of the road solution in terms of difficulty of making it and still being awesome. How cool would it be if they did a different icon in game for kalista's soul bound, and even better, maybe different splash art for loading screens that people who are friends and qued w/ the kalista will see when the game loads in.

Dreamspitter1 votes

all they would have to do is recolor it

T RexHasTinyArms1 votes

Doesn't she have posture/texture differences for being dead? You're probably right, I only see her when other people play her seeing as I don't adc

General Esdeath 1 votes

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It would be awesome (although unlikely because of the time needed to make a second version of the skin for each skin).

I wonder what you think about a middle of the road solution in terms of difficulty of making it and still being awesome. How cool would it be if they did a different icon in game for kalista's soul bound, and even better, maybe different splash art for loading screens that people who are friends and qued w/ the kalista will see when the game loads in.

It's not different for each skin, it's the same for all of them but only the soul bound can see it.

T RexHasTinyArms1 votes

I could see that working. I was thinking that she had different texture/effects or whatever that show her being dead and that the alternate version would be the same skin but more full and restored, so they'd have to do minor changes to each skin in order to have the alt version for soul bound.

ninjaIRL 1 votes

This idea is similar to Justicar Aatrox. The clan he saved saw him as a hero; like Justicar Aatrox. But to everyone else he was a monster.

Kalista needs a Justicar skin.

Patches Tagoo1 votes

I love this idea and believe it should be incorporated into several champs. Anyone playing as Jhin should see things as beautiful and artistic, while others see the reality of his sadistic carnage. There are a ton of ways Riot could implement this "independent perspective" without hindering game-play at all... not that they care much for visuals hindering gameplay (ever have to play against a headhunter nidalee with your graphics settings at low? her spears are nearly invisible!)

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