A Thick Female Champion. How Would You Make Her the Most Awesome?

Solideus·11/15/2014, 9:33:41 AM·14 votes·15,295 views

I don't think there is any inherent value in designing champions to appease political correctness, but a heavier female champion *would *make a good contrast next to some of the svelte females. Not saying obese though; somewhere between Gragas and Jinx there is an appealing, attractive body shape.

If the goal was to make a heavy and curvy female champion, what traits, archetypes, attributes, fantasies and design-decisions would go the best with that? Role, Faction, Visuals, Clothing, Personality, Etc. What are your favorite examples of heavy female characters?

61 Comments

PokladnicaZla11/15/2014, 11:35:47 AM25 votes

This?

Object11/15/2014, 9:38:08 AM11 votes

Put her on a boar... :)

A Superb Villain11/15/2014, 3:14:33 PM9 votes

Someone who towers over her enemies. Someone who could go in one-to-one combat with any of the League's strongest male champions, matching them in strength and endurance. Someone who would scream bloody murder about turning your entrails into a necklace, but happy to crack jokes once her rage is settled; a pleasant medium between Olaf and Braum . Essentially, a character who loves to fight but not to the point of obsession.

As for body type, the best I can imagine is: http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080813052235/diablo/images/c/cd/Fem_barbarian.jpg

Nothing overtly sexualized (butt, breasts, and the like are at least reasonable), granted she is still wearing little more than a bikini, which is a bit silly.

As you can imagine, I do not think a character of this type would fit anywhere besides Freljord or Noxus. Maybe Bilgewater. Demacia is too polished, and they already have Shyvana, who has an absurd hip/waist ratio. I mean, holy shit, who thought that was a good idea? Ionia could be a reasonable fit, but I have difficulty seeing a fierce warrior who focuses on brute strength to originate from there. Shurima just would not be capable of supporting someone of that size, even with Azir uplifting it to a more livable country.

Also, off-topic, but I would like a male champion who is thin and effeminate, but not gay. A character that indulges in life's finer pleasures like Taric , but sensual and utterly cruel like Zyra .

DudbearHaggler11/15/2014, 10:00:45 AM7 votes

I do not see why a heavy female champion would HAVE to be a specific big-lady archetype. There is no reason why Malzahar should have those well-muscled arms, yet, he does. There is no reason why Vi could not be a lot bigger than what she is, especially around the waste, yet she was designed that way.

I want more varied female bodies in Leauge of Legends. I would not see anything wrong with a fat female champion. She could be anything. A warlock, an engineer, a witchdoctor, a bruiser, a shapeshifter, a markswoman, a healer and so on and so on.

I think we can all agree that Riot champion designers does not entirely base their champs bodies of their respective professions/life-styles. Sometimes yes but not always.

Knalxz11/15/2014, 10:09:14 AM6 votes

You want to know how to make a badass fat chick...by making a badasss chick then making her fat.

Its not like its some sort of special process or anything, hell just look at Ellie.

http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/Borderlands-2-s-Ellie-Bucks-Video-Game-Female-Character-Trends-2.jpg

I sure as hell wouldn't fuck with her after what I saw her do to that bandit.

Alternate skin over here

http://th08.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2013/356/a/1/_borderlands_2__dlc_fantasy_ellie_xna_xps_by_lezisell-d6yxac4.png

If you want to set her aside giving her a good identity like many of the other champions then you'll probably want to make her sort of a Road Hog.

OMG HOW BADASS WOULD THAT BE IF WE HAD A CHAMPION THAT RODE A MOTORCYCLE!

Also like another character from the Borderlands series

http://oyster.ignimgs.com/mediawiki/apis.ign.com/borderlands-2/thumb/7/7c/MotorMomma2.jpg/468px-MotorMomma2.jpg

LordHippoman11/15/2014, 1:24:33 PM6 votes

A bottle of syrup. That way League can get that sweet Aunt Jemima sponsorship money and rake in the profits.

In all seriousness I just wouldn't focus on her being big. Just a champion who happens to be that way. Like Lucian. He was the first black champ (Karma, I know, but she's kinda ambiguous), and it's not like he really calls a bunch of attention to it. The community will be immature about it, sure (How many times have you seen the "high-larious" photoshop of Lucian with the KFC bucket posted on League's FB page?), but they do that with everything.

Narog11/15/2014, 4:49:19 PM5 votes

I think at least the Tanky girls like Shyvana should look strong like this : http://i.imgur.com/uYoGQCj.jpg http://i.imgur.com/JENUYLk.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ICzJG0a.jpg

Kolinichu11/15/2014, 9:16:42 PM4 votes

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Athenes Lulu11/15/2014, 9:44:33 AM2 votes

She would make a fine tank and/or bruiser.

Sejuani is a good one. Does Leona count?

Also, thick =/= fat. Thick really means, just more toned.

Dreamspitter11/16/2014, 5:20:05 PM2 votes

I don't think there is any inherent value in designing champions to appease political correctness, but a heavier female champion *would *make a good contrast next to some of the svelte females. Not saying obese though; somewhere between Gragas and Jinx there is an appealing, attractive body shape.

If the goal was to make a heavy and curvy female champion, what traits, archetypes, attributes, fantasies and design-decisions would go the best with that? Role, Faction, Visuals, Clothing, Personality, Etc. What are your favorite examples of heavy female characters?

#Want.

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/172/f/0/miss_fortune_cosplay_by_rsvpixie-d54d1uj.jpg

GreenLore11/16/2014, 12:22:34 AM2 votes

I think there are several ways they could do this: 1.Making her still cute and adorable,I think this would still make her quite divisive,so it is a bit risky(because cute itself is divisive),but it would definetly get her some fans.

2.Making her motherly,I am not saying she needs to be a mom,but she simply get a motherlike personality,I think that would actually work very well on a more chubby character,probably better than on a skinny girl,could be combined with the "big-fun"-personality by making her quite cheery as well.

3.Simply making her extremely badass or crazy or both.This is more or less like the ellie-example from borderlands someone else posted here.If the character is crazy awesome enough then no one will care about her being chubby or even fat.

Xulsigae11/16/2014, 2:05:59 AM2 votes

I don't think that larger female champion necessarily needs to fall into the usual tropes of being motherly, jolly etc. She should be what she is first- a champion. No need for her to conform to tropes and stereotypes automatically simply based on her gender or weight.

I'd like her to be a grappler of sorts. Not a sumo wrestler, but more agile and such. Someone excelling in melee combat and controlling the placement of the enemy.

Rainbowgasm11/19/2014, 9:45:53 PM1 votes

Gragas's wife.

TenshouSNK12/6/2014, 7:04:46 PM1 votes

Braum's daughter sounds fitting with the lore. She could be fat, not obese, just over-weight and heavy. But honestly, I would prefer a black fat shemale champion lol.

Saggytits Sally11/15/2014, 3:26:18 PM1 votes

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BloodKnight Something like this? Fighting because fighting is fun?

Dreamspitter12/7/2014, 2:38:31 AM1 votes

I don't think there is any inherent value in designing champions to appease political correctness, but a heavier female champion *would *make a good contrast next to some of the svelte females. Not saying obese though; somewhere between Gragas and Jinx there is an appealing, attractive body shape.

If the goal was to make a heavy and curvy female champion, what traits, archetypes, attributes, fantasies and design-decisions would go the best with that? Role, Faction, Visuals, Clothing, Personality, Etc. What are your favorite examples of heavy female characters?

#She's a BRICK house

so she would be TANK.

Brenticus1211/15/2014, 3:30:12 PM1 votes

Leona looks pretty bulky...or maybe that's just the armour..

NA111/15/2014, 4:40:46 PM1 votes

http://www.boredpanda.com/athlete-body-types-comparison-howard-schatz/

How about Kathy Collins, the boxer? Thick build (for a woman. Genetically speaking, women do not vary as much as men do in terms of muscle mass once they've reached homeostasis), and still sexy.

Reisuke Naoki11/15/2014, 6:25:14 PM1 votes

what kind of "Thick lady" are you talking about anyways?

The 50-50 fat muscle type? the Muscled but fat layered type? or the 36-20-26?

then we can build up to that

God is AFK11/16/2014, 5:00:28 AM1 votes

An ample busom, thick doesn't mean you have to look bad either. Strong like amazon from Dragon's crown.