Dear Everyone, reconsider Ao Shin (@Bioluminescence, @Jaredan, @Sharjo, @AnyoneWhoWillListen)

Rude Name··4 votes·1,014 views

When Ao Shin was first announced, I was skeptical of the concept. A wind dragon? Oh boy, really stepping out there.

Then an gift from Zilean came. It was time. A whole lot of it, too.

Years past, and only a little information came though to let me know that Ao Shin was still happening. These small tatters of news, words, images, even those unspoken thoughts were all I had.

See, I love rumours. I really do. I'd occasionally think to myself, what's in the deep web today? Diving in, I woudl find out about things just a little further up the grapevine. I loved the new news. I'd soon find out about this old thing called Omen, Averdrian the blue man, Tabu the witch doctor, and my personal favourite: Gavid: the plant king. And I'd also find out about real things. "Tamm, the King River" turns out to be our favourite benched champ. The name "Vel'Koz" slipping through the void. Even Morello decided to "...plant a little teaser..." for Zyra.

I'm sidetracking. Where was I? Oh yes. Even to this day, I still think of what it would be like to see these characters again. The cancelled ones. The unlucky few. The longer time passes, the more epic ideas fly through my head, and I'm definitely sure I'm not the only one.

So I had this brilliant idea. See, the League can always use more fan artworks, right? So why not hold a contest! Whoever can come up with the best piece of work for their favourite cancelled champion can save that champion lore-wise!

Imagine someone writes an award-winning poem about Priscilla; a compelling ballad to glorious spider queen. That poem could then be dubbbed official, and Priscilla can now exist (just not as a champion in-game)

A fantastic children's book is written about CeeCee, and her bizarre inventions and tales inspire many kids in reality. That children's book could allow CeeCee to exist, instead of her living on through another muscular male!

And, of course, Ao Shin. I plan on writing some garbage tale, and who knows? If it's good enough, it may just work out for the wind guardian of Ionia to, once again, roam the lands freely.

So, if this post was too long, and you did not read, let me say this. Ao Shin, and his friends, should not be cancelled for good. I don't think anything should be cancelled for good, even the lousy, no good Yasuo who cost me my promos. Let's have a contest instead! Whoever makes the best piece of work, can have it be dubbed canon.

Thoughts? :D

13 Comments

Sharjo4 votes

Honestly I prefer Aurelion Sol. Dude's a fundamental part of the League universe and that appeals to me greatly.

A storm dragon-esque skin for Aurelion Sol I could dig, with lightning balls for his stars, being half thunder cloud and stuff, but nah I feel it's fine that Ao Shin's not with us. He sacrificed himself so we could have Aurelion Sol, and Aurelion Sol's awesome.

Rude Name2 votes

I prefer Sol too. He's my go-to mid laner. In fact, he's my go-to champions overall. But I feel he's a bit too ... above it all. I like to think there's the occasional person on the ground he talks to, but I know there's no chance that a god like him would do that.

I firmly believe that the Ao Shin skin is coming, and probably this year. It's almost guaranteed there's a WIP somewhere on a computer at Riot.

My hopes for Ao Shin were quite the opposite. A calm, humble wind entity who does what is needed of him, even defending villages. Someone who isn't all powerful, but is wise and open to learning. Someone who has developed close bonds with others who have been so bold to find his mountain lair.

I firmly believe Ao Shin would neatly fit into the League universe. I do plan on writing a tale on him, and seeing what that reception is. If it ain't any good, then yeah, his sacrifice would have been for the betterment of the world.

Xodiathe4bdn14 votes

It warms my heart to see there are still some who hope for the return of the storm dragon http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/5/57/AoShin_ConceptArt.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160307222951 http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/d/d5/AoShin_Concept.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130908110634 can never have enough dragons and they could even make their personalities completely different where sol is the proud, arrogant one and shin is the humble wise one( not to say sol isn't wise, i mean he has a universal knowledge of... well everything but that attitude squashes any image great benevolent teacher and more condescending god-which i suppose is well earned)

TequilaZombie2 votes

Just look at that sweet ass lightining tornado! How could you NOT hope for it's return?

Dabrick013 votes

Wait, what?

You want Ao Shin?

AurelionSol

Did you miss like half of season 6?

Also, these champs still exist and are concepts that can eventually become full champs.

Also, if you can't beat a Yasuo, you don't deserve the next rank.

Rude Name1 votes

Trust me, I play the hell out of Aurelion Sol. I suppose I'm being greedy, but what harm is there in asking for more? I wasn't too sure if they're cancelled for good, or they could come back, so thanks for clearing that up. The Yasuo thing was a joke, I was trying to fit in :(

GreenLore1 votes

Overall I think the idea of making cancelled champions NPCs in the lore is kinda neat,but it runs into the problem that Riot might want to recycle the champion later on. I mean CeeCee was Riots second attempt at making a female engineer,so it really sounds likely that they'd try again in the future.

Rude Name1 votes

You aren't wrong. Having a champ exist in the lore before the game is a bit of a weird way to do things, but I reckon it can be done. Besides, there's plenty of other characters in the lore who aren't champions. Rafen from Burning Tides, Sivir's teacher (forgot her name), etc. These people could easily be champions if Riot wanted to. And if Riot wants to recycle some of the champs, they can. Lore has been retconned before, nothing is stopping it from happening again.

You understand what I mean, so I appreciate that. Thanks bruv :)

GreenLore2 votes

Yeah,it puts some serious limitations on what the character can be later on,when they turn them into an actual champion.

I actually think that Riot ran into this problem when making Lissandra a champion,which is likely why the Lissandra that we knew from the lore turned out to be one big lie.

As far as retconning goes: I doubt that they want to make retcons within the new lore. If they start to retcon the new stuff,then that will likely cause a lot of people to loose interest in the lore,because it would show how unstable even the new canon is.

Tesla Effect1 votes

http://i.imgur.com/wBjEsAZ.jpg

They will never release Ao Shin, Aurelion Sol is the closest you will get to what the storm dragon was.

If any other future dragon got released, it will not be Ao Shin, it will be something farther for the types such as Shyvana and Sol (Shins final development model).

The best you can hope for is a storm skin for Aurelion Sol inspired by Ao Shin concept art.

Rude Name1 votes

I'm not asking for him to return as a champion just yet. I'm asking for him to exist in the lore.

Besides, there's more than enough room for two dragon people in this town.

GreenLore2 votes

{quoted}

Besides, there's more than enough room for two dragon people in this town.

Shyvana So we've only got room for another half-dragon?

Rude Name1 votes

LeeSin How about a Dragon Fist?

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