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Rito, fix your Yordles

Sozan5·10/13/2015, 2:08:28 AM·5 votes·1,145 views

By that I mean - Fix the amount of their fingers:

4 fingers: Teemo (Omega Squad), Tristana, Ziggs, Heimerdinger, Gnar, Veigar, Amumu (is he even a Yordle anymore?) 5 fingers: Kennen, Lulu, Poppy, Teemo (Panda and Super), Corki Unspecified: Rumble

Why the hell do they have different amount of fingers? And without any rule to it either. It started to bother me once I realized Lulu has 5 fingers and now I cannot unsee it (as I always just assumed that Yordles have 4 fingers).

I posted it here because it's not really a bug - it's a lore inconsistency (somewhat).

Also, as a side note... Is Gnar-type of a Yordle a common ancestor for them and Rengar? I mean, the regular Yordles are they ones that "ditched" their rage-gene and instead evolved mostly their brains... Could Rengar be a descendant to yordles with more rage-gene (as in, they would create two seperate species)? There are certainly some similarities between Rengar and Mega Gnar (especially visible on Mega Gentleman Gnar) like having a tail, somewhat close body proportions and more predatory nature.

And he's called a missing link. I wonder.

9 Comments

Varalessia10/13/2015, 3:44:55 AM5 votes

It seems like Riot is lacking a . . . Rule of thumb.

Dreamspitter10/13/2015, 2:21:49 AM1 votes

{quoted}

By that I mean - Fix the amount of their fingers:

4 fingers: Teemo (Omega Squad), Tristana, Ziggs, Heimerdinger, Gnar, Veigar, Amumu (is he even a Yordle anymore?) 5 fingers: Kennen, Lulu, Poppy, Teemo (Panda and Super), Corki Unspecified: Rumble

Why the hell do they have different amount of fingers? And without any rule to it either. It started to bother me once I realized Lulu has 5 fingers and now I cannot unsee it (as I always just assumed that Yordles have 4 fingers).

I posted it here because it's not really a bug - it's a lore inconsistency (somewhat).

Also, as a side note... Is Gnar-type of a Yordle a common ancestor for them and Rengar? I mean, the regular Yordles are they ones that "ditched" their rage-gene and instead evolved mostly their brains... Could Rengar be a descendant to yordles with more rage-gene (as in, they would create two seperate species)? There are certainly some similarities between Rengar and Mega Gnar (especially visible on Mega Gentleman Gnar) like having a tail, somewhat close body proportions and more predatory nature.

And he's called a missing link. I wonder.

Wait for the VUs

TurquoiseYoshi10/13/2015, 2:43:34 AM1 votes

Maybe it's a genetic thing, like having earlobes or not for humans.

Jeddy01710/13/2015, 8:01:14 AM1 votes

Before,Riot was all over the place in terms of Yordle design.Now they're in the process of unifying the Yordle anatomy (not just fingers,but body structures as well).All of the Yordles you listed with 5 fingers are out of date & need to updated to be brought in line with the current Yordle standard. That's what happened to Heimerdinger & Tristana & is going to happen to Poppy.Omega Squad Teemo gave us an idea of how Teemo may look when he will be visually updated.

GreenLore10/13/2015, 8:30:43 AM1 votes

Considering that Tristana and heimerdinger were the last yordles to get a major update I'd say that Yordles are going to have 4 fingers.

The others are just a relic of the past.

Angelofchaos16x10/13/2015, 11:11:45 PM1 votes

Notice this: Of the 5 that have 5 fingers, 4 are in need of a VU (Lulu is ok, but could use one 2, I just do not think that she is a priority). Pretty much what Jeddy said on the other comment, Riot is starting to give Yordles a similar look, and not just a bunch of everything everywhere. Also loved you theory on Rengar being yordle decent. That was really really awesome and something I never noticed before. I really hope that Rito decides to work on it.