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Better Female Champions. NOW.

Velivolo·11/19/2018, 7:05:50 PM·6 votes·2,362 views

League's pool of female champions is lacking SORELY in diversity. There are disgustingly basic needs in the roster (Like: a female black champion, an actual crone, or more females who are truly monsters). To my horror, we're getting Neeko instead.

What happened to champions like Rek'Sai, Kalista, and Illaoi? Those were amazing, diverse champs that I was wholeheartedly excited for. When I saw Neeko in a Youtube thumbnail, I thought she was some Xayah fanart. She's that fucking boring. She has the same eyes, albeit 20x too big. She's just another cute girl character when we literally didn't need one, all but a handful of League's girls are oozing sex appeal.

Riot, you're letting your female playerbase down in unforgivable ways. I've been following your scandals regarding the treatment of female employees, and I, personally, am tremendously let down. To me, Neeko is simple proof that you aren't giving diverse voices the chance to shine, and are listening to the same good ol' boys over and over.

If you value your female playerbase, you will take Neeko back to the drawing board right now. If not.... Well, we've heard what you have to say. Guess I won't be seeing you on the rift.

59 Comments

Moody P11/19/2018, 7:28:16 PM15 votes

muh diversity

RJay12311/19/2018, 7:53:33 PM13 votes

When people want to force their ideas down other people’s throats... you get this. Let them make whoever they want. It’s their stories, their characters. If you have a problem with it, play a different game, make your own game, or work for Riot so that you can have your characters in there too. Stop complaining just because you don’t like what writers are writing or what designers are designing. They’re never going to make everyone happy so they’ll just create what makes them happy and proud of their work, and if you have a problem with that, then that’s not their problem. They’re not gonna do what you want them to do just because you said so. Stop lording over creators like you own their ideas and their creations and characters

boricCentaur111/19/2018, 7:20:00 PM11 votes

Diversity is boring limits creativity of the creator if you force it and that leads to unimaginative characters who the creator probably does not want to make. Riot does not force the champion designers to make champions the designers come up with it on there own and when writers and designers are forced to create disversity it leads to bad characters that nobody likes that is not my opinion that is a fact.

zoliking11/19/2018, 8:03:33 PM9 votes

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League's pool of female champions is lacking SORELY in diversity. There are disgustingly basic needs in the roster (Like: a female black champion, an actual crone, or more females who are truly monsters).

How is that a need? How are any of these characteristics even relevant to LoL champions, who are defined mostly based on what they can do?

To my horror, we're getting Neeko instead.

Oh, the horror. I can't believe you manage to bear it with such grace and bravery. You truly are a hero.

What happened to champions like Rek'Sai, Kalista, and Illaoi?

They are still there.

Those were amazing, diverse champs that I was wholeheartedly excited for.

A champion cannot be diverse. Diversity is an attribute a group may or may not have, not that of an individual. Congrats on your understanding of basic English.

When I saw Neeko in a Youtube thumbnail, I thought she was some Xayah fanart. She's that fucking boring. She has the same eyes, albeit 20x too big. She's just another cute girl character when we literally didn't need one, all but a handful of League's girls are oozing sex appeal.

She's a lizard person, buddy, and the art team executed well on that concept.

Riot, you're letting your female playerbase down in unforgivable ways.

You may not forgive Riot, but I would wager players who actually play the game, male and female, are interested in her gameplay first, the art and lore second and this nonsense you're babbling about... well, probably not at all.

I've been following your scandals regarding the treatment of female employees, and I, personally, am tremendously let down. To me, Neeko is simple proof that you aren't giving diverse voices the chance to shine, and are listening to the same good ol' boys over and over.

Solid proof. Take it to court.

If you value your female playerbase, you will take Neeko back to the drawing board right now. If not.... Well, we've heard what you have to say. Guess I won't be seeing you on the rift.

Bye. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

mrmeddyman11/19/2018, 7:43:48 PM7 votes

The sort of diversity you speak of has no place in the creative process because it gimps creativity with the need to satisfy a quota. The game doesn't need any of the things you suggest it needs to have artists that can pursue whatever design they want to make. It's disingenuous to make this the core of the artistic process. Another little underrated game I love champions this idea of diversity, you may have heard of it it's called Overwatch. While I like the way the game plays most of the characters are just paper thin stereotypes that are good on a surface level but don't really have any depth, which is fine because Overwatch doesn't really care about telling stories. League however does so the writers and artists must have complete control over the output.

I do like that you only mention female champs can be diverse in your post (Rek'Sai, Kalista, and Illaoi a female black champion, an actual crone, or more females who are truly monsters). Can male champions not be more diverse then the warrior archetypes we've been getting?

Weiss Guertena11/20/2018, 12:13:11 AM6 votes

-enter game as Neeko -use your passive on allied Rek'Sai, Kalista or Illaoi

There you go. Now let the rest of us enjoy a well made new character.

Commodore Cog11/19/2018, 9:24:23 PM5 votes

Better Female Champions. NOW.

Listen to your own entitlement. It's as if you feel that if you demand loud enough or feel insulted enough, then Riot will bend over backwards to cater specifically to you.

News flash: Your opinions are a drop in a bucket. The vast majority of the playerbase enjoys good looking, well designed champions. If you don't like this specific champion design you can feel free not to play her and continue to play Rek'Sai, Kalista, and Illaoi. They haven't gone anywhere.

Jennifer42011/19/2018, 7:47:40 PM5 votes

i hate humans.

Zyranium11/19/2018, 7:14:02 PM4 votes

I was seriously expecting Ighilya from Ahri's story, I wanted an old elegant mother nature.

When I see that both Zyra and Nidalee are listed as shurimans now, and got no Lore update concerning the Kumungu Jungles, I think that's the most disappointing character reveal I've seen in a while (Since Kai'sa actually).

She's cute, I like her design, but next time I shouldn't be over-hyped like this.

Kelg11/19/2018, 7:29:37 PM3 votes

bye hopefully wont see you again

TzQGRUST3911/19/2018, 11:31:17 PM2 votes

Checks OP.GG Nami, Sona, Soraka

Every. Time. Looks like you are the market they are after famalam.

Hethalean11/19/2018, 7:19:39 PM2 votes

ho boy

SSmotzer11/20/2018, 9:01:11 AM2 votes

The marketing data shows that champions who are designed to be cute and small are played more than champions who are... unappealing to look at. And those skins for the small cute champions sell more than skins for... other champions.

Battle Bunny Riven sells more than all of Gragas's skins combined. Any Poppy skin will always sell better than a Rek'Sai skin.

Would it be nice for more diversity in LoL? Sure, but the market isn't suited for a crone or a monster girl... who isn't cute.

Stars Shaper11/20/2018, 9:56:23 AM1 votes

I mean... we had a single old-man character and turned out to be a "spank-me-daddy!" ruler who looks better than I will ever be (and I'm not even that ugly, mind you).