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Request : About New Champion

Slice n Dice em·5/10/2018, 4:12:30 AM·6 votes·4,220 views

I urge Riot to take their time with the new champion. They have a great Arts/Music team hope the same could be said about balance team. Recent releases (Kaisa, zoe) felt lackluster but that may be just me.

But I still remember the excitement around Jhin's release. Perfection really, I don't even play that champion(because I don't want to be adc/botlaner) but I still love that champion. His voice, lines, laugh, everything truly beautiful. They did good with Irelia music but the Swain teaser made me wanting for more. A 2 to 3 minutes video's would be great when releasing the new things or doing reworks.

For those who forgot about Jhin:

Jhin Promotional Teasers

Jhin Champion Teaser

Following are some of community creations about Jhin that I liked .

Play till 2:46 sorry but the rest, doesn't work for me.

Play till 2:00, sorry but the rest after 2nd minute, doesn't work for me it lacks class/different emotions.

7 Comments

GreenLore5/10/2018, 12:26:34 PM5 votes

Honestly I think Jhins teaser wasn't as good as some people make it out to be.

The teaser was drawn out for far too long(with him getting teased at the end of 2015 and then only getting released in febuary 2016) and it caused a lot of misunderstandings(there were a lot of people who thought that Jhin really killed Sona,Vi,etc.).

And when Jhin was finally completely revealed,there were actually a decent number of people that saw his design as underwhelming,because the white poncho covered most of his character model.

Sure over time these complaints faded and Jhin is nowadays one of the most popular League-characters,but his teasers were not as perfect as some people think of them.

That being said,I agree that the latest teasers were a bit lackluster(most champs just get a small picture in the roadmap and maybe an ingame teaser?),but I am fine with that,as long as they put the resources to good use elsewhere(like making lore related videos).

Whyte Lyon5/10/2018, 6:47:57 AM2 votes

Well golly gosh, what happens if it doesn't meet your expectations. Write a long and pretentious thread about it?

Or like who really cares if you dont like a new champion, they're not meant to be a crowd-pleaser.

4 Step Cadence5/10/2018, 11:55:47 AM2 votes

A lot of people put Jhin as their standard for champion teasers. I however, think Jhin's teaser is what makes him stand out from the rest of the cast. New champions should be better hyped, though. I've yet to be truly excited for a new champion release. I was here for all of 2017's releases, Kai'Sa, and this new support, but I was never really excited for any of them. I hope they step up in the teasers department, at least a little. Every champion should have a memorable release, and that starts with the teasers.

The Iceborn5/10/2018, 4:08:34 PM1 votes

I partially agree with you... I think that riot should take their time but they are pushing it at this point tho . Its been nearly 6 months and we have 1 new champion of 2018 which is ridiculous :/// They just literally froze ever since the irelia rework! I know that they said that there will be less new champion but cmon 1 champion in 6 months??? Will we have like 3 champions in 2018? [zombie-brand-facepalm] I also know about the msi work but still barely even a teaser for the new champion... its been 3 weeks since irelia was put on the live servers!