Riot, please make plans to give us the ability to choose our announcers

darkdill··39 votes·1,191 views

Heroes of the Storm, Smite, and DotA2 all have custom announcers that players can pick for themselves, so there is no reason not to have the same in LoL. I'm already missing the SG Ahri one, and your Gangplank one back a couple of years ago was awesome too. But the default old lady is getting tiresome, and I'd like to pick-and-choose new ones.

Imagine Draven or Kled orating. That'd be side-splittingly hilarious. Or say you had Braum giving you a nice verbal pat on the back. Great for players who are all about good sportsmanship.

Simply make these announcers cost RP and you'll be able to afford it. Don't give us that whole "too expensive" or "tech's not there" excuse. The tech is there; you just showed it to us during the SG event. And with how much money you're making from tournaments and skins, you cannot say it's too pricey without looking like a Scrooge.

So get to work!

23 Comments

HonestJohnTheCon6 votes

This needs to exist. I want a Kayn announcer where he alternates from approving of your kills to Rhaast sarcastically pointing out how much you suck.

darkdill2 votes

I think Kayn's approval would be kinda like Illidan's. Sort of the "I could've done that better" jerkassery.

But yes, Rhaast would straight up tell you "that play sucked".

MagikarpIsBoss2 votes

Rhaast toxic as fuck

Karn Bishop4 votes

They can't, spent all their budget on new ward skins, icons and stickers.

[sg-ahri-1] [sg-janna] [sg-soraka]

darkdill1 votes

I doubt that very much.

Karn Bishop2 votes

True they had to give the rest of the budget to faker and a new set of arm strengthening weights for tryndamere.

MF is my Waifu2 votes

MissFortune

Please

PLEASE

darkdill2 votes

The innuendos would be awesome.

Warwick Main2 votes

Warwick NEEDS MORE BEAST

Lux Is Mai Waifu2 votes

Gangplank announcer coming soon to a client near you for 995 RP

Jet Sett2 votes

I'm just gonna put this here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VnVgtYzKjM

Announcers can make a good bit of money, not as much as DOTA because of the lack of things getting announced, but still more than enough to warrant the effort.

darkdill1 votes

My top 10 picks for Champion announcers:

Kled Draven Braum Lux Leona Veigar Bard Rammus Xayah Jinx

MagikarpIsBoss2 votes

How would bard even work?

Bottom Laner3 votes

MasterYi has slain Rakan

Bard "Bloop."

MasterYi has slain Draven

Bard "Bloop?"

MasterYi has slain Ahri

Bard "Bloop!"

MasterYi has slain LeeSin

Bard "BLOOP!!!"

MasterYi has slain Darius

Bard faints and a meep replaces him to toot "PENTAKILL!"

LunSeiSleidee1 votes

I'd love to but then again, knowing Riot, they'd be superexpensive.

darkdill1 votes

Well, they could be available either for RP or available in loot chests (albeit they'd be VERY rare in loot).

Jerry SeinfeId1 votes

Jinx Leona Singed Teemo Twitch pls

Somebody Love Me1 votes

They'd have to get in contact with a billion voice actors to do that xD considering that some are uncredited, it might be more difficult than it looks.

Like remember when Ele. Lux came out? When recording her lines, they kept the VA there to rerecord Classic Lux's dialogue at the same time.

When SG Ahri came out, they had her do the Rift announcements on top of recording the skin's lines.

Maybe we could start with a few, like the ones already done (GP, Ahri, Thresh, etc.) and as more Legendary skins and champs come out, they'd have those voice actors record Rift lines and give us more and more voice packs :D

darkdill2 votes

Exactly. No need for EVERY Champion to get announcer time. Just some popular choices.

That said, they have to do Kled and Draven. It'd be a crime for them NOT to do it.

Somebody Love Me1 votes

But what if someone wants a RekSai announcer

darkdill1 votes

That'd be easy. She doesn't have a VA, per se, but her sounds are artificially made (AFAIK).

Somebody Love Me1 votes

Music to my ears tbh

ltmetal1 votes

There's no excuse at this point. They can even include it in champion release bundles with the release skin. The number of voice lines per new release wouldn't even go up noticeably.

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