@Riot, How Does Champion Design And Champion Iteration Currently Work At RIot?

Super Loller··2 votes·859 views

What are the current processes Riot goes through to create a Champion for League of Legends?

Where does a champion begin? When Is a Champion's story developed?

How much does gameplay restrictions limit/inform developing lore?

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Beyond Legends5 votes

You again....don't you ever get tired of your spamming? People ignore him and move on there is little point to talk to him. He just span the boards hoping for old lore back.

Super Loller1 votes

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You again....don't you ever get tired of your spamming? People ignore him and move on there is little point to talk to him. He just span the boards hoping for old lore back.

Who is "Him"? Me? I'm just asking a legitimate question about champion development. Cool your jets buddy, don't read into things that aren't there. If you're gonna comment on this thread, I'd appreciate it if you could keep things on topic.

Digielf5 votes

[{quoted}](name=Super Loller,realm=NA,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=isvo49AZ,comment-id=00000000,timestamp=2016-05-21T08:02:11.093+0000)

Who is "Him"? Me? I'm just asking a legitimate question about champion development. Cool your jets buddy, don't read into things that aren't there. If you're gonna comment on this thread, I'd appreciate it if you could keep things on topic.

You are Impetual the lore spammer

GreenLore5 votes

Champions start out as a general idea,sometimes a cool gamemechanic(tahm was created because they wanted a champ who can eat others),sometimes an archetype that they want in the game(yasuo was made because they wanted a more traditional samurai champ),sometimes as a sketch(like the jinx example of FeBeast) and sometimes because they want to make a certain role of champion(Taliyah was made because they wanted to make a new mage)

And overall I doubt that Lore is really limited by the gameplay. I mean take Ekko for example. In the game he can rewind time only for himself and he has a huge cooldown on this ability.

In the lore,he can rewind time over and over again and he rewinds everything.I mean in his comic,he travels ~100 times back in time to the same spot,that wouldn't be possible in the actual game. Likewise aurelion sol seems to be roughly the size of a mountain in the lore with the ability to destroy the whole planet if he wanted to do so,yet he can be killed Teemo in the game.

MavenSong2 votes

A champion starts as an idea like anything else would

I.e. Jinx started out as nothing but a sketch one of the artists did in their spare time.

It could be a cool game mechanic or just a personality concept or just apearance.

(Ima be honest, surprised this isnt retcon stuff impetual >.>)

GreenLore1 votes

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(Ima be honest, surprised this isnt retcon stuff impetual >.>)

Well his account is only level 6,so it wouldn't surprise me if he is impetual on a secondary account...

MavenSong2 votes

It is, if youve seen some of the other posts on this account and compare them to Impetual's, the format similarities are uncanny. (Usual message too)

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