I think for the next Void Champion (after Rek'Sai), we need a Broodmother

darkdill·Nov 25, 2014·4 votes·2,075 views

What do I mean by Broodmother? I mean a Void monster whose purpose is to breed legions of little underlings to overrun the hapless denizens of Runeterra. Now, I don't just mean one or two little Voidlings; I mean hundreds, even thousands of Broodlings, like the Zerg.

Any thoughts?

EDIT: For context, you would not micro these Broodlings. They would behave like minions and attack any enemies they can find without you needing to command them.

20 Comments

XulsigaeNov 25, 20143 votes

Why not a broodfather? Sorta like the sea horse.

Duke AnaxNov 25, 20141 votes

I would support that if it weren't for the general lack of female voidling in the first place.

XulsigaeNov 25, 20141 votes

I would support that if it weren't for the general lack of female voidling in the first place.

Well I think we can have champions that don't conform to tropes so readily. We can have a monster father without taking away from monster females.

DreamspitterNov 25, 20141 votes

I would support that if it weren't for the general lack of female voidling in the first place.

Except......Rek'sai is female.

Baron Von BanginNov 27, 20141 votes

Besides Riot saying "Oh yea. It's totally a chick." What indication do we have that Rek'Sai is a female?

CenturosNov 27, 20142 votes

What indication do we have that Kog'Maw ISN'T?

DreamspitterNov 27, 20141 votes

What indication do we have that Kog'Maw ISN'T?

Basically this.

Baron Von BanginNov 27, 20141 votes

His voice.

1st HanarSpectreNov 25, 20141 votes

Will never happen. League's engine does not support micro worth a shit. Therefore we will never get a real pet champion or micro units until they redo the whole game, so basically never.

darkdillNov 25, 20141 votes

Who said you need to micro the Broodlings? Do you see players micro the Locusts spawned by Swarm Hosts?

Duke AnaxNov 25, 20142 votes

Right now they are working on an item that spawns an entire minion wave. There is no control whatsoever needed they just run downlane like any other minion.

I don't see why they couldn't make a champion with that.

DreamspitterNov 25, 20141 votes

Will never happen. League's engine does not support micro worth a shit. Therefore we will never get a real pet champion or micro units until they redo the whole game, so basically never.

Micro like what?

Meepo?

SharjoNov 25, 20141 votes

The UI work that'd need to be done for that one champion would be IMMENSE. We'd be waiting for a long sodding time.

LordHippomanNov 25, 20141 votes

Could be neat. The babies would have to work like you mentioned or as projectiles or something, though.

DOTA has a Broodmother, named...Broodmother. She's pretty fun.

darkdillNov 25, 20141 votes

Elise functions like the DotA Broodmother. I'm thinking more like a Swarm Host on steroids.

DiahaneNov 25, 20141 votes

I don't know, I don't like when the need for champions comes from trying to get known and already existing archetypes into the game, I always feel like they're not original enough. I think Riot should focus more on defining a line of characters which makes sense only in their own world, we should be in the position to say "she feels really Demacian" instead of "she feels really like magical girl stereotype #43 from manga/anime #53343343". Then, of course, tropes are bound to be and anything they could think of will be subject to the possibility of reducing it into a combination of known characters and theme, but the more they work to make this harder the better the result will be, imho. So I don't like the idea of LoL having a Broodmother, too clichéd.

And, after all, we already have one, it's Malzahar. He truly spams those voidlings...

GreenLoreNov 25, 20141 votes

thing is they are seemingly going for both. On the one hand the character needs to be a unique character,but he/she should also have a unique archetype that no one else has.

MansanaNov 25, 20141 votes

I agree. Something similar to a wasp/bee queen like creature in terms of design or a moth. I would like a spider but we already have Elise which then it would be kinda redundant. The only reference I have is probably of the Dark Chykka from Metroid Prime 2: Dark Echoes. You can worker bees and/or warrior bees; with hives. I'm not sure what other cool mechanics could be introduced. Problem is Riot is already implementing Zz'rot's Portal item as a similar type of thing for taking towers. It would have been cool if it was unique to a champion; summoning a mass army from the void.