Loa champion, voodoo lands

A Liberal·9/28/2015, 4:45:48 PM·4 votes·930 views

Can we seriously get more information and/or champions from or connect to the voodoo lands? There's such room for some awesome characters that's not being explored. I mean come on, you have to be BAD to get kicked out of noxus, right?

I think a good character would be a hatian loa type deity, much like that one champion that they scrapped. Either that or release one of annies parents as a champion, or maybe another member of the grey order (would be a great opportunity to have a male warlock type champion that leauge is missing)

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Pyrodinium9/28/2015, 11:50:14 PM5 votes

I think a "Voodoo Champion" is not something likely to be released, for a couple of reasons.

Cultural Concerns:

Voodoo is a real-world religion, so designing a champion around it is not something to be attempted carelessly, especially if you take into account that most of the concepts associated to Voodoo in popular culture are either comedic, inaccurate or downright racist.

Thematic Concerns:

What are the most recognizable aspects of Voodoo in popular culture?

  • Raising the dead as zombies.
  • Controlling or enslaving the souls of the dead.
  • Manipulation of other people's bodies via the use of 'voodoo dolls'.

A Voodoo champion would probably need to hit at least one of those in order to be appropriately recognized as such, yet there are already champions in LoL that occupy the first two spaces.

Mordekaiser's ultimate delivers on the fantasy of enslaving your opponent's soul very well, and the ability is such an iconic piece of his kit that I don't see Riot removing it from him (nor bestowing it on two champions at the same time).

Yorick's entire gimmick consists on raising the dead to do his bidding, making very unlikely for us to see a second zombiemancer anytime soon.

Gameplay Concerns:

The last thematic space that a potential Voodoo champion could use would then be controlling a living enemy's body, but I don't think that is a design space that will be executed upon in the near future.

The Soulforged9/28/2015, 11:34:46 PM1 votes

So you think the voodoo lands has stuff to do with voodoo? No, it really doesn't.