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Garen's size?, feedback on the storytelling approach (not WOW, more Witcher and GoT)

Illuwian·3/25/2017, 8:54:34 AM·9 votes·1,376 views

Hey,

Garen's size: Garen is portrayed as unrealistcally big ingame and in his splash art, looks like it's inspired by WOW artwork, don't like it. What's his height and weight? and any picture where we can compare his real size to others?

Feedback: I appreciate how REALISTIC the story has become, scrapping summoners and Fields of Justice was the best thing done to the lore. It's one of its kind, a fantasy world where magic isn't the driving force of the story, but real characters, relations, social pressures, tragic pasts, deaths etc... the approach seems closer to Game of Thrones and the Witcher than to World of Warcraft. I was very well surprised by how Garen's lore and short story was written for example, he seems to have gained his high ranking position through respect and wits like true generals not only through his fighting skills like in most other fantasy stories. Unlike Jarvan who got his leader position through privelege and because of that is more prone to make bad decisions, Garen is better leader cause he earned his position. I think all of us back in season 2 thought Garen would be meathead, who is high ranking because of his courage and battle skills and Jarvan is the better leader, but it is not.

Realistic details like this makes the difference between great stories and bad ones. That's is why Game of Thrones is the most popular tv show right now, the Witcher most popular and praised game.

I wrote all this cause the storywriting team really touched me with how well thought some of the characters are. They are headed in the right direction i'm sure, even though there was backlash when you deleted Field of Justice, i'm confident people sometimes don't know what they would or will like (also depends on age).

14 Comments

Fasmodey3/25/2017, 9:18:02 AM4 votes

Probably 1.90-1.95 meter and 110-120 kg cuz of muh muscles.

You would be right If there wasn't any magic and tons of creatures that don't exist in our world. But in Runeterra, they do. So, nothing to complain about?

It is a fantasy world, until something is too absurd, It doesn't matter.

Garen size people exist in our world though.

Ultîma3/25/2017, 6:10:17 PM3 votes

Tbh I hope Garen gets a full VGU down the line. Riot's proven with Warwick how you can take a classic binary kit and modernize them to not be so one-dimensional. They could also give him a modern look more in-line with how he looked in one of the CGI trailers released a few years ago instead of what he is now.

Crimson Anam3/25/2017, 3:18:31 PM2 votes

Garen isn't really that big among real life people who specifically build muscles to become physically strong. His lifetime job is to be a big warrior.

Placentas3/25/2017, 3:31:42 PM1 votes

Well I mean, the first 3.5 seasons of GoT were almost directly taken from the books in terms of writing and story minus a few important plots/details. But yes, George RR Martin's writing is fabulous and feels real, the characters feel real, the world feels real. And I agree, the writers of the new lore aren't up to par with Martin (but who really is??) but they are definitely going for a more real style like his.

Garen is pretty much the knight champion of the game, so gameplay wise it only makes sense to make him bigger than the average man. He's supposed to feel powerful to walk across the rift and slice up foes.

Der Lindwurm3/25/2017, 8:24:58 PM1 votes

Blizzard's tiny head and huge beefy shoulders and everything else scaled to the shoulders so your fists are bigger than your own head look really began with the barbarian in Diablo 2, though you can see the beginnings of it in the tiny heads in the art for Diablo 1.

Hige3/25/2017, 8:48:37 PM1 votes

Garen's size is fine, if you compare him to the rest of the ambience you'll find that his scale is somewhat accurate, now of course if you compare him to the new Galio and find that he's a lot bigger than the humongous statue that Galio is supposed to be then yes... he's too big

but what happens with Galio is that his wings are taken in consideration for his hitbox and upper perspective which is odd but accurate

Azteryz3/25/2017, 10:50:47 PM1 votes

to be honest if you look between his shoulder plates and forearm guards his arms are quite average even a bit thin(er) than one would expect