Demon Vi: We need more skins with vocal effects like this

Zana Lyrander·10/23/2015, 4:29:49 PM·31 votes·2,477 views

I recently purchased Demon Vi, and I absolutely love the skin. Visually it looks terrific, but what I want to talk about is the small detail of the echo in her voice, making her sound more unearthly and demonic. While relatively minor, it's a very, very nice touch, and makes an already great skin awesome. To those who haven't heard it yet, they didn't actually change any of her dialogue or add any new lines, they just put all her vocal audio through some manner of filter, making it sound echo-y and a bit more menacing.

It got me thinking, there are a number of existing skins that would benefit greatly from something similar: again, nothing fancy, no need to rerecord any of the lines or add any new ones, just minor audio alterations like this one to give them a slightly different feel. I mention this because some skins, such as Bloodstone Taric, Nightmare Tryndamere, and numerous others have a more menacing feel to them that is significantly diminished by the base audio of the champion in question. Bloodstone Taric for example, if you look at the splash art, is meant to look intimidating and aggressive yet that feeling can't really be accomplished as long as Taric's voice remain's unchanged. Don't get me wrong, I freaking love Taric's melodious, soothing voice, but I certainly wouldn't call it intimidating.

Just something you might want to consider Riot, I can't imagine that that kind of minor vocal alteration is all that difficult in this day and age, and it has a surprisingly large impact on the overall feel of a champion, and is really great for making a skin feel unique and distinct from the base skin of the champion. Something you might want to keep in mind when you finally rework/update Taric's model and all his skins for example. [BitterTaricMain]Which by my calculations should be shortly before or after hell freezes over.[/BitterTaricMain]

All kidding aside, great job with Demon Vi, keep up the awesome work!

16 Comments

GenoXx10/23/2015, 5:25:56 PM2 votes

watch them downvote you for absolutely no reason

LeafyGreen10/23/2015, 10:17:56 PM1 votes

They use it sorta in the PROJECT skins where they have the same lines but their voices are processed.

Azteryz10/23/2015, 10:23:25 PM1 votes

Forsaken jayce has a really nice one as well ^__^

Ryvaku10/23/2015, 11:50:57 PM1 votes

I would love some more Demon skins. Especially if they keep the wings and tail without having to charge a Q or R like they did on Vi.

Auryiel10/24/2015, 1:55:05 AM1 votes

Yeah, you'd think passing the VO through a filter is easy, but apparently it's suuuuuuuper hard and complicated. They have to put gasps in horror every line through the filter individually! And apparently that's suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper hard and complicated.

Why, you ask? No one will ever know.

Rigbum10/24/2015, 3:44:13 AM1 votes

Void Fizz has the same vocal effect

Doctor Dividends10/24/2015, 6:37:50 AM1 votes

Soul reaver draven has something quite similar but i do agree that a few audio changes on some skins could make them a lot better

FastAsHeck10/24/2015, 8:12:24 AM1 votes

I have mecha Khazix which has the same thing, robotic filter on his voice and they just added one new line, replacing his joke beep boop. the project skins also do this. It really changes the feel of the champion.

Hoodwink10/24/2015, 5:21:24 PM1 votes

Reaper Soraka has a spooky echo-y effect on her voice, too, really nice.