Can you please stop casting Karen Strassman Rito?

WinTheWarOnPants·Nov 21, 2016·5 votes·2,902 views

Don't get me wrong she not a bad voice actress, but she doesn't have any range; And, when she tries you end up with whatever the heck 's abomination of an accent is. Camille is her best attempt at sounding different, but it's almost completely do to the robotic auto tune(or w/e the process is called) and there are multiple times where she drops the accent in the VO. Including Camille she now voices 6 champs in league. In case you haven't heard their VO they are and now Camille. She also sounds exactly the same in her roles in other games like soulcalibur, starcraft/HOTS, etc, but that doesn't bother me. it's that when you have a very limited range VA like her voicing multiple character in the same game it's really freaking awkward when the characters she voices end up in the same game.

7 Comments

StellafreyjaNov 21, 20163 votes

In my opinion, only Zyra and Elise sound similar. Everyone else fine. I didn't even realize Camille was Karen Strassman until you said and I went back to listen.

(On the subject of Fiora's accent, Karen Strassman lived and studied in France. If anything, Riot might have wanted a more stereotypical French accent than a more authentic one.)

WinTheWarOnPantsNov 21, 20161 votes

It peeve's me to no end lol I don't play fiora unless i swap the Voice files to the french VO(it's very pleasant). Problem is that the files keep getting reset with certain patches, so i just gave up and stopped playing her lol

resumedNov 21, 20162 votes

bad post op

WinTheWarOnPantsNov 21, 20162 votes

GapyboNov 21, 20162 votes

I have to agree. Even though I like her voice and the champions she voiced, they all sound too similar. Camille might be the best deviation yet but it only took me seconds to recognize it's the same voice actress.

WinTheWarOnPantsNov 21, 20162 votes

i mean it is a nitpick and the end of the day because riots voice acting department does a phenomenal job with VO quality, script, and casting overall. I'm a bit of a VO snob so i really appreciate things things. games like HOTS, smite, etc can't even compare with league in this regard. With that said Karen Strassman's work is ALL over the place and she almost allays plays the same character(a fem-fatale usually a human monster/horde hybrid Elise Zyra Cassiopeia ). it's annoying how she has built such a stereotype around her voice, but the biggest thing is hearing multiple characters that are VERY VERY similar with identical VO's in the SAME GAME.