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Season 6 was, hands down, the best season for champions

Rude Name··8 votes·660 views

In terms of their character, hence why this is in "Story, Art and Sound". This ain't about balance child.

But seriously, Season 7 hasn't even had anything close to Season 6 yet imo (except Kayn. Maybe Kayn). Including the preseason champions, Season 6 was definitely the highlight, with strong, unique characters being unleashed who, in my personal opinion, should never be reworked lore-wise. In the past, there's been the occasional bright spark, like Kindred, Bard and TahmKench.

SEASON 6

  • Illaoi Illaoi
  • Jhin Jhin
  • AurelionSol Aurelion Sol
  • Taliyah Taliyah
  • Kled Kled
  • Ivern Ivern

SEASON 7

  • Camille Camille
  • Rakan Rakan
  • Xayah Xayah
  • Kayn Kayn

It could just be the fact that a lot of these are mystical creatures, but I don't think so.

Illaoi is such a strong woman, almost Amazon-like, but not an Amazon, or even from Targon. She's from Bilgewater. Who, may I remind you, has only produced burly men and seductive women in the past. A fantastic blast, making Bilgewater seem like a legitimate, diverse place again.

Jhin did the exact same to Ionia, in my humble opinion. Ionia was a righteous place, with everyone doing what they did for [single character motivation]. Syndra wants power. Karma wants peace. Shen wants balance. Ahri wants men. But then Jhin comes out of nowhere, and wants death, love, romance, tragedy, whatever it takes to get a standing ovation. Jhin was a 3D character, a genuine psychopath who players love to side with.

Aurelion Sol made Targon whole. It was his release event which gave order to the mountain, and in doing so, fixing up all the affiliated champions.

Taliyah brought Shurima down to earth. Before her, Shurima was all gods and war in the desert. But Taliyah actually showed us the real people. Someone humble, and close to our hearts. Someone we could relate to. She made Shurima real.

Kled didn't actually fix Noxus. No he's just a genuinely lovable character. Like Jhin's hyperactive little brother, we love him to death because he's nuts. He didn't have to fix anything, he's just a fantastic character because of his attitude to everything

Finally, Ivern. Again, he didn't really show us a brand new side to a region by being a brilliant character. Instead, he gave us League's equivalent of Mother Nature. A fantastic perspective from which we haven't seen covered by League's other wildlings. Not even close. Before, the forest was a place to hunt. Now, Ivern makes it feel like home.

I guess what I'm trying to say is; #Do you agree? What season gave birth to the best champions? Why?

19 Comments

Jeddy0173 votes

I think it might be a little early to write off season 7. I think there's plenty of time for at best 2 more champs to come out this year, possibly even 3 (but I doubt that).

Sukishoo4 votes

There's room for at least one more, at most 2. The current release schedule tentatively after Urgot coming in the Wedensday patch: New Champion (soon hopefully august) , Eve (late september/early october), New Champion, Swain. And of course with Xin and Aatrox somewhere between the first new champion and the second. Swain is more or less by January 2018. So there's at least room for 2 but more likely 1 as we did only have 5 champions back in 2015.

GreenLore2 votes

Actually it is likely that there'll be 2 champions between Eve and Swain.(not sure if both will make it this year though)

Because currently it looks like there are roughly 6 months between every project of a champion/VGU-team -Urgot comes out in july(6 months after WW),so like you said,it is likely that the next project of this team will come out in january 2018(though swain has multiple models,so he might take a bit more time)

-They had 2 teams that worked on Rakan and Xayah and I think they once said that one team went to their next project in febuary already(6 months after Kled),while the other finished the 2,meaning the next project of the first team is likely the freljord champ who is probably coming out in august.

-The other team from Xayah and Rakan finished the 2 in april(6 months after Ivern),so they'll likely release something in october

-The last one made Kayn&Rhaast,who were finished 6 and a half months after Camille(he likely took a bit longer because he has multiple models),so it would make sense that their next project would either come out this december or next years january.

So there's at least room for 2 but more likely 1 as we did only have 5 champions back in 2015.

Uhm by that logic we should rather expect 6 champions,because in 2016 we've got 6 champions.

Sukishoo3 votes

Uhm by that logic we should rather expect 6 champions,because in 2016 we've got 6 champions.

That makes no sense. Just because we had 6 one year doesn't mean we will get the same amount the next year. They have only released 4 this year so far and Xayah/Rakan were confirmed to have been delayed afterall.

GreenLore1 votes

Thats why I said "by that logic". Because your logic is "we got 5 in 2015,so it'd make sense to get 5 this year"

Also they said that their teams aim to make 2 releases(either champ or VGU) every year. And so far only one of the VGU teams did that(the one who made Urgot and Warwick),meaning the 3 champion teams and the Galio VGU-team are aiming to release something else this year.

Sukishoo1 votes

I was just saying it was a possibility, as there's not that much time left in the year..there's 5 months.

GreenLore1 votes

But 5 months is pretty much perfect.

Since 2016 we pretty much got one big release(champion,VGU or season update) per month(sometimes there are months without any of those,but that just means we'll get a month with 2 of them at once). And so far we've got 3 champs,3 VGUs and one season update in the first 7 months of the year(and last year we had 6 champs,4 VGUs and 2 season updates) Going by this we'll likely get a champ in august(the freljord champ),the eve rework in september,the preseason update in november and 2 other champs in october and december respectively.

And overall it makes more sense to compare 2017 to 2016,because the way riot does reworks has changed quite drastically at the end of 2015/beginning of 2016.

Krabohod1 votes

BTW I really hope that Swain will be in December. That would be a cool Christmas gift :)

GreenLore2 votes

You say how there were a few cool champs from time to time and then list 3 champions who were all released in season 5.

Overall though I agree that season 6 had some great champions and its also my personal favorite season in terms of characters(the only one that I don't like that much was Taliyah)

In general if I'd list the seasons 3-7 by how much I like their champs it'd be: 1.Season 6(as explained above) 2.Season 5(I do like Tahm Kench,Kindred and Rek'sai) 3.Season 4(had the least champions,but almost all of them were pretty good) 4.Season 3(had some pretty cool champs,but also a few that were rather meh in my opinion) 5.Season 7(I'm not really a fan of any of these champs,though its not like I dislike them either)

Though its kinda hard to compare these seasons with the seasons 1 and 2,because those 2 seasons just had so many champions,that its rather hard to compare.

Rude Name1 votes

Yeah, when I was looking through the seasons, I realised Season 5 was actually just as good, although with fewer champs. Tahm, Bard, Kindred, Ekko, all could be considered on a level similar to Season 6. I agree with this summary completely, good job sir!

some degenerate2 votes

Season 7 has been a complete bust when it comes to new champions, IMO. It's such a disappointment coming off from the plethora of unique champions we received during season 6.

On the other hand - the VGUs this season have been stellar so far.

Rude Name1 votes

Definitely. The VGUs - and skins - have been stellar this season. You can see how Riot is shifting their focus, which I'm undecided on yet.

Krabohod2 votes

THe thing is that it would be cool for Riot to come back to making spiritual mystical characters. TahmKench and Bard andKindred and even AurelionSol are all spiritual character that were really awesome. And we need more of that. The thing is that RIot is particulary good in creating characters that based on religion or believes. Like Illaoi. All characters that have been named are pretty cool and I very want more like that.

Also, i think that Xayah and Rakan are pretty cool characters. Teenage racist edgy girl paired with ADHD boy and they are both fully-magical creatures. That's pretty dope. And Camille with her "I'm better than you" attitude is pretty legit.

Rude Name1 votes

Yeah, Riot reallu nails the fantastical side of champions. Perhaps I have been a bit harsh on this season's champions, and yeah, Xayah and Rakan were pretty cool, and I can't stress how much I loved that duo release, and Camille's superiority is quite characteristically imposing, I just feel it hasn't been on the same level of characteristically groundbreaking champions.

Azureee1 votes

Lmao WHAT ? Camille is the best release in ages. I love everything about that champs design and gameplay, she is unique and brings alot to toplane. I used to main support and got bored of it and here is Rakan a super fun mobile support. Xayah is also a great adc that I enjoy aswell. Kayn looks boring af to me but the rest were fine. S6 Kled, Jhin, Taliyah were amazing. Ivern, Illaoi and Sol are just boring and weird to play.

Rude Name1 votes

I must repeat, this isn't about gameplay. This is about lore, and while yes, Camille is certainly a cool champion gameplay-wise, she just seems like Caitlyn lore-wise. A posh, crime-hunting, strict police lady from Piltover.

Azureee1 votes

She is not that lmao, look at her lore, especially her origins story, if you wanna move goalposts. She has one of the best stories, which has 3 parts that are amazing. Her lore is much more than that nonsense you just wrote.

Rude Name1 votes

I'm not saying it's bad, I'm saying it's not as original as the Season 6 champions. It seemed, to me at least, Riot decided to tell us a fantastic, thrilling suspenseful tale, and it was marvellous to read. It just didn't break any boundaries that haven't been broken before.

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