@IronStylus, @VU Team. What 's your thoughts on Amumu? What would his VU try to do?

Solideus·8/4/2015, 9:09:17 AM·11 votes·1,421 views

Thinking about what his VU might be like, it seems to me like he'd be a hard nut to crack.

He probably pretty far down the list, considering he's both fairly cartoony and iconic, so the cost of letting him be for a while isn't huge. But entertaining the thought of updating him, what'd you even do with him? It seems to me all the issues with his visuals are really hard problems.

  • He is supposed to be a child, not a yordle, but could changing his proportions and shrinking his huge head ruin his silhouette and readability? Would Annie-proportions make his face hard to read? Would he look too dainty, even more so without the big head? He is always represented very cartoonily and exaggerated; is there even a way to translate his visuals to a style that works next to other champions in the game? It's hard to buy that he is human putting him next to Annie, given his hugely distorted proportions.
  • He's a tank, but he doesn't really look like one. How do you make a wrapped-up dainty child clearly read as a tank character? Does he block attacks with a "bandage-shield", or a VFX barrier, or what? What's there to make it obvious to an uninformed party that he is a tank?
  • There's very little to work with visually; he's just a green blob. Could one add clothing, "accessories" or new materials? New shapes? Are his visuals too iconic for drastic changes like that?

Have you given this any though, how would you solve these problems? Do you have any internal concepts or ideas for him at all?

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Shénzhì8/4/2015, 10:44:34 AM2 votes

AMUMU QUESTIONS Further analysis in LoL timeline. Identifying Amumu's distinctions or similarities. Making connections and finding consistency.

  • Does Amumu reflect a modern fantasy of ancient Egypt's underworld tombs/crypts? What exactly is Amumu? Is he unique?
  • for consistency, how does any character become Undead in LoL? Reanimated? (Shadow Isle curse?)
  • for consistency, what are Ascendants when returned from death? Reincarnated / Resurrected? (Different from Shadow Isle?)
  • for inconsistency, why may Amumu be different?
  • Is he a Human or Yordle? (maybe this can be kept a mystery)
  • What's his link with the Ascendants of Shurima?

a CONNECTION WITH ASCENSION RITUAL:

  • How did ancient Shurima discover Ascension?
  • Are Ascendants bound to the Sun Disc? (like Shadow Isle Undead are bound by a curse/hex)
  • Was ancient Shurima before Mordekaiser made the Shadow Isles?
  • Could there be a connection of shared knowledge?
  • Was ancient Shurima same time as The Watchers of ancient Freljord?
  • Could Shurima have been inspired by the Freljord's Iceborn? (Lissandra)
  • Could Amumu be Xerath's first attempt at discovering Ascension? (Zilean's knowledge (godhood), Shadow Isle's curse (immortality), Freljord's Iceborn (ritual))
  • was Amumu his experiment? (Combining world magics with Zilean's discovery)
  • was Amumu a failed experiment? ("seems like only adults can Ascend"; teenage Azir couldn't Ascend yet)

a CONNECTION WITH THE SUN and/or SUN DISC:

  • What are his powers?
  • Could they be the magical effect of the Sun Disc's shadow?
  • the Sun's or Sun Disc's shadow be a partition of the magic's full effect?
  • the Sun's or Sun Disc's shadow be weaker?
  • the Sun's or Sun Disc's shadow be imbued on anyone? (the unworthy?)
  • may this shadow be the same Shadow magic that Zed uses?
  • Could they be a similar curse as the Shadow Isle? (Xerath's old experiments in discovering Ascension)

[Egypt & Shurima]: a video

HazelVicious8/4/2015, 5:12:26 PM2 votes

Interesting....

The Soulforged8/4/2015, 11:47:28 PM1 votes

I'd say that making his head slightly more normal sized, but adding the bulk of the bandages could keep most of his bulk without hurting him too much, and could also add some more mass on the rest of his body which could lead to him possibly being noticed as a tank.