Is Udyr too limited by his abilities?

Omnipherious·3/5/2015, 5:16:21 AM·2 votes·1,372 views

I am not referring to gameplay.

I am referring to the fact that his abilities all have specific animal names, which in turn have direct implications on the animations and sounds of everything from base model to ultimate skin. Should he be allowed to have visuals that do not match the names of his abilities?

For example:

Desert Udyr Coyote/Fox for Tiger, Porcupine for Turtle, Scorpion for Bear, Bearded Dragon for Phoenix

Elemental Udyr Wind Blades for Tiger, Earth Armour for Turtle, Crashing Waves for Bear, Fire for Phoenix

Weaponmaster Udyr ~~Katars for Tiger, Bucklers for Turtle, Gauntlets for Bear, Fire Poi Wicks for Pheonix~~ *EDIT - Thanks 2000Boxes.

Would you be okay with these visuals even though they don't match the ability names?

10 Comments

Destínum3/5/2015, 9:13:57 AM5 votes

For the elemental one, I feel bear should be earth and turtle should be water instead for several reasons:

It creates the perfect order of his abilities (Air, Water, Earth, Fire).
Turtles are usually related to water, while bears are very powerful (much like the earth).
The stun from bear feels much more like an earth thing than a water thing.
Healing is usually a water-thing (turtle stance has life steal) and the shield could be a bubble.

2000boxes3/5/2015, 5:25:42 AM4 votes

Udyr : Weapons, are for the weak.

GreenLore3/6/2015, 1:39:39 PM2 votes

I think that names usually aren't a problem I mean look at Trundle,his E is called Pillar of ice,yet he creates something different depending on the skin.

The biggest problem is probably readability. When creating a skin,they always have to try to make the champs abilities still recognizable,so that his enemies still can identify his skills based on their looks.This is the reason why for example ahris orb always has some sort of blue as its standard color and green for the passive,so that the enemy doesn't have to recognize every shade of color for every ahri skin.

And I think this is the real limiting thing for Udyr,because the style of his stances isn't identified by some clear forme,but by the animal they represent,so to leave them recognizeable,he'd need to remain something resembling the animals for his forms(I think it'd be ok if he has similar animals,they don't have to be exactly the same)

Also we all know that the best udyr skin is this one(not my art) : http://he-st.deviantart.com/art/Mimic-Udyr-358966755

Robert Smith3/5/2015, 5:22:52 AM1 votes

Or be very loose with the names like Bear: Kola or Panda Turtle: Sea turtle, tortoise, Tiger:... Okay got nothing