Ursine Champion

Wrathof300··7 votes·7,207 views

Haven't seen anyone mention it, or maybe I missed it but, with Ornn's lore, we now know that the Ursine and Volibear are 2 different things. Where Volibear is the deity worshiped by the Freljordian war tribe known as the Ursine.

Others, such as Volibear, refuse to allow their own legends to fade, and still stalk this world. He demands sacrifice and forces obedience, much like the Ursine…” > The sky darkened with ash. Columns of smoke rose to clash with the menacing thunderclouds, and bolts of lightning lanced through the haze. The world grew eerily still as the Thousand-Pierced Bear itself took to the battlefield. We could see its telltale shape: spears, swords, tusks, all were stuck in its hide. Lightning followed in its wake.

Volibear

Ornn saw the army—fierce aberrations, men twisted into other shapes by their efforts to please Volibear. They were simple, and fierce, and quick to anger. > We could only ever stand a chance against the Winter’s Claw. If the Ursine struck first, our defense would be terrifyingly short. That hideous legion of half-bear abominations would overwhelm us.

Ursine

So I think there is potential to see an Ursine champion in the distant future, unlike in the old lore where another Ursine would have just been a Volibear without powers, now the Ursine are completely different from him, and we can get an insight into how things operate around their religion/ beliefs, it also sounds as though they are now longer/ are not currently affiliated with the Winter's Claw, so there is that to factor into the new Feljord lore (possible that I read that sentence wrong). However, more than likely this will only be after the Volibear VGU or a Freljord update. I think that he will be a juggernaut seeing as the Ursine are half bear, but Riot might surprise us, maybe he'll be a skirmisher, maybe it'll be a she, what parts of them will be a bear and which parts will they keep human.

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GreenLore2 votes

I think an ursine champ would likely have little bits of bear all over them. From what the lore said it sounds like the ursine don't have a unified look anyway. I imagine that some have bear heads,others have one or 2 bear arms(or just a claw) and maybe some just have fur growingon their body.

Wrathof3001 votes

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I think an ursine champ would likely have little bits of bear all over them. From what the lore said it sounds like the ursine don't have a unified look anyway. I imagine that some have bear heads,others have one or 2 bear arms(or just a claw) and maybe some just have fur growingon their body.

The reason I asked, is because the type we get could depend on which bits are bear parts. For example for some reason if we get a bear-head Ursine I think they'll be male and a tank, whereas if we get one with bear-arms they could be something else, but the one would claws may not use any weapons other than they're claws, whereas the bear-head dude can have any weapon.

But something I was theory crafting and like you said the one we're likely to get, one with a little bit of bear everywhere. However I took Icysombrero's comment into consideration, what if they do have some form of transformation. What if you start the game as an Ursine with just one bear claw and a weapon in the next hand, and as you progress through the game (maybe leveling your ult or maybe its your passive) you become more and more bear-like, like becoming a more devoted Ursine, sacrificing more of your limbs for power.

Of course I need to stop there because that's already one foot into concept and creation territory, but this is why I brought it up, if we don't get the 'evolving Ursine' we could still get multiple Ursine champs because like you said again:

From what the lore said it sounds like the ursine don't have a unified look anyway. I imagine that some have bear heads,others have one or 2 bear arms(or just a claw) and maybe some just have fur growingon their body.

GreenLore1 votes

Overall I think the concept for an ursine needs something more than just being an ursine.

For example the ursine champ could be an old hag,a beast tamer or something else entirely.

So being an ursine shouldn't be the only unique thing about the champ,after all we have already lots of animal/human-hybrids and even 3 champs with a bear-theme to some extend(Volibear,Annie and Udyr). Sure the ursine could be a bit more monstrous,but with the baccai(ascended who were misformed by the ascension) being a thing I can't imagine that this theme would remain unique forever.

SolarisCorvus1 votes

I assume they will pull a gnar and mak the ursine change between a bear and a human.

Wrathof3001 votes

Idk, the emphasis on the Ursine smelling of the decay, the disgust other characters express of their form, makes the transformation sound permanent to me. Also having them shape shift would cause an overlap with characters that can shape shift due to very weak vastayan heritage, then again we had Frey from Vayne story transform into a wolf (I don't recall her being mentioned to be such a shape shifter) so you could be right.

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