Scary LOOKING champions
#We don't have is even a single character with scary VISUALS.
That isn't to say that every character who's scary in the lore needs to look scary. Jhin is a human, so of course it's fine that he looks human. Evelynn lures her victims with sex appeal, so of course she looks sexy. That's not what I'm talking about.
We're lacking a character for which the visuals alone give a sense of fear, without the need for the voice or knowledge of their background. Urgot used to be scary before his VU, but now he looks more cool than scary. Cho'gath could be scary if his model and animations weren't so stilted.
As it stands, there are no champions who actually look scary.
I want to stress that I'm referring to the kind of scary that could scare you with its presence without the need to simply be large and imposing. A huge guy with an axe and an unpleasant look on his face is scary by default, but only because of the harm you know he can do with that axe due to his size. There are plenty of large, imposing champions in the game that don't give off a sense of fear. I'm also not referring to the idea behind visuals, but the actual visuals involved. Sure, the idea of being ground to mincemeat is terrifying. But the visual of your model simply being pulled to Urgot's and disappearing is not. Likewise, I'm not referring to the fear involved in being helpless during the game. When Urgot's ult suppresses you, you're afraid because you know you're going to die and can't do anything about it. Not because you're given a gory visual that makes you feel the pain.
I can think of over a dozen small changes that could be made to champions to change them from cool or goofy to truly horrifying.
is nightmare fuel..
"Afraid of the dark?"
- fed doggo is scary
- getting ganked by this fucking cat is scary as shit