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

darkdill·9/22/2017, 4:49:37 AM·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

HonestJohnTheCon9/22/2017, 10:43:51 AM6 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.

Karn Bishop9/22/2017, 5:08:02 AM4 votes

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

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

Warwick Main9/22/2017, 6:46:33 AM2 votes

Warwick NEEDS MORE BEAST

Lux Is Mai Waifu9/22/2017, 5:41:42 PM2 votes

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

MF is my Waifu9/22/2017, 5:19:35 AM2 votes

MissFortune

Please

PLEASE

Jet Sett9/22/2017, 7:54:45 PM2 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.

ltmetal9/23/2017, 7:09:59 AM1 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.

LunSeiSleidee9/22/2017, 9:08:26 PM1 votes

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

Jerry SeinfeId9/22/2017, 9:23:27 PM1 votes

Jinx Leona Singed Teemo Twitch pls

Somebody Love Me9/22/2017, 11:24:48 PM1 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

darkdill9/22/2017, 5:02:06 PM1 votes

My top 10 picks for Champion announcers:

Kled Draven Braum Lux Leona Veigar Bard Rammus Xayah Jinx