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Neeko needs her story changed, now!!1

MuffledGarbage·11/26/2018, 1:49:48 AM·5 votes·5,750 views

If you haven't heard, Riot is releasing a new champion named Neeko. Neeko is a lizard/gecko lady who transforms into other people

Neeko's story is that her tribe is gonna be wiped out and her elders happen to pick her as the last living member to REPRODUCE and make sure the tribe lives on

Neeko makes it out of her Tribe's home area safely and is now on a journey to find a suitable mating partner to HAVE CHILDREN AND HAVE HER TRIBE BACK

Now Riot made sure that we understood how Neeko's Tribe's society worked pretty much. There were no secrets between anyone within Neeko's Tribe because they all spoke by sharing energy with eachother. So if Neeko got the hots for some random chick on the street then that chick would feel it and probably look at Neeko and respond with whatever she'd respond with

Neeko's Tribe elders would have KNOWN she was lesbian. Now tell me, what sense does it make to have a LESBIAN be the last member of your Tribe so she can REPRODUCE and make sure the Tribe lives on?

If you answered "IT MAKES NO SENSE" you are correct and deserve praise

If you answered anything besides "It makes no sense" you are an NPC, I wish you luck in attempting to wake up from your computer-controlled masters

Even though we only have tidbits of what Neeko's tribe can do and was like, Riot made it clear(and shoved it down our face) that Neeko is such a poorly written character(super generic) that the ONLY way they can make her popular was to make her lesbian

Now if Neeko actually IS lesbian then that means her lore is in cognitive dissonance. Neeko can't be on a journey/mission to reproduce but also be on a journey/mission to be with another women because those obviously conflict with each-other

Neeko's actuall character traits are so bland that Riot had to give them a lense in order to make them interesting. Take this line for example: "Nidalee! Weird seeing you here. Neeko misses you." There is no other meaning than Neeko met Nidalee and grew close with her. This makes Nidalee and Neeko very close friends(or lovers, which considering Nid needs a lore update Riot is going to probably take this path)

If This line runs true lore-wise then this means one of two things for Nidalee and Neeko

Either Neeko's tribe didn't actually get wiped out and can teleport through space/time like Bandle city for Yordles(because the Tribe elders wouldn't have sent a non-reproducing member of the tribe out to reproduce) OR Neeko's lore is written so awefully that even Riot couldn't figure out what to do and just made her lesbian to cover up her lackluster character.

Take a look at this next line:

"Do I smell as bad as I look? (Sniffs) Yes." This is a generic line that comes up every time Neeko transforms into a guy champ

It has one obvious meaning and that's to joke about guys looking ugly and smelling awful. Neeko is a lesbian so it would make sense she doesn't find guys attractive but what sense does it make that she finds Braum to smell bad? If Neeko met Braum in-lore then they would both be in the Freljord, A COLD AREA WHERE SMELL ISN'T GOING TO SPREAD, which obviously doesn't make sense.

Even outside the Freljord it doesn't make sense that Neeko would find all males ugly. Lesbians can ALL find dudes that they can call definitively handsome. Not one male in the entire cast gets a "hey you look pretty cool" besides Ezreal whose quote goes as follows: "Pretty! For a boy. Too pretty..." So Neeko clearly isn't made a capable character whose goals are realized

Neeko's tribe is wiped out and her reaction is "Oh... hey I know we are both chicks and I need to reproduce for my tribe since that's what my elders picked me for but you still wanna grab a lunch and date?"

If your family, friends, and previous way of life was wiped out... wouldn't you REACT and fufil a dying wish of your parents as simple as "make sure we have grandkids"

TL;DR Neeko is a character who falls flat on her face when you take away any small aspect of her. Her entire character is "lesbian who transforms but is a lizard-lady". Neeko has no depth and has no WAY to introduce depth into her character without HUGE rewrites

42 Comments

ModThe Djinn11/26/2018, 1:55:50 AM19 votes

Neeko's story is that her tribe is gonna be wiped out and her elders happen to pick her as the last living member to REPRODUCE and make sure the tribe lives on

...what? The only line relating to that at all is "thanks to the quick thinking and self-sacrifice of the Oovi-Kat elders, Neeko escaped the death of her homeland." Nothing about reproduction or carrying on the tribe -- just a line about the elders trying to save anyone they could.

In fact, she's specifically not trying to recreate her old tribe, but rather form a new one:

Her old life among the Oovi-Kat may be lost forever, but Neeko envisions a magical future—a larger tribe of like-hearted vastaya, yordles, humans, and whatever other creatures might share her dream. As far as she is concerned, everyone has the potential to find a place in her new tribe. She has pledged to seek these souls out, to befriend them, and defend their sho’ma with her life.

I think you're heavily misinterpreting her character if you think her sole goal is sexual reproduction to restore a tribe.

iGaveUpAtLast11/26/2018, 2:04:27 AM9 votes

Read the last paragraph of her Bio again, that’s how she wants to revive her tribe/ make her own.

Dynikus11/26/2018, 2:05:30 AM6 votes

Neeko's story is that her tribe is gonna be wiped out and her elders happen to pick her as the last living member to REPRODUCE and make sure the tribe lives on Neeko makes it out of her Tribe's home area safely and is now on a journey to find a suitable mating partner to HAVE CHILDREN AND HAVE HER TRIBE BACK

Did you read some kind of weird fanfic or something? That's not anywhere in her lore.

Modi11/26/2018, 2:03:14 AM5 votes

How about this response: WHO THE FUCK CARES?

PrinceBedazzled11/27/2018, 1:06:14 AM5 votes

Straight people back at it again bein wild.

Silly Neeko11/26/2018, 2:07:45 AM5 votes

There is a flaw in your logic.

Who says that only a male and a female are the way to reproduce for Neeko?

Neeko could get impregnated by the Sho'ma of Nidalee and then end up popping out shapeshifting lizard cat human babies.

You are thinking of it like they ARE HUMANS inwhich there are cases that a male is not needed, and the female impregnates herself after one of her eggs starts forming into an embryo, which would make a female human very very similar to the mother in AT LEAST looks (generally).

So while i may not be able to make sense of it thinking of her as a human, neither can i make sense of her randomly splitting into two people and one of them being a clone and her literally changing forms into someone else near perfectly and tossing out magic stuff.

If you use human logic alone, you will not understand anything at all in near any game.

Ebonmaw Dragon11/26/2018, 1:56:58 AM5 votes

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If you haven't heard, Riot is releasing a new champion named Neeko. Neeko is a lizard/gecko lady **who transforms into other people **

She can transform into a male.

SSmotzer11/26/2018, 6:28:49 AM4 votes

"Neeko is a lizard/gecko lady who transforms into other people"

Lizards can change their sex to accommodate any relationship. She complains how the bodies she becomes smell, that is a little more than just an illusion. When she turns into Rakan, she doesn't just look like Rakan, she biologically becomes Rakan. Neeko can be a lesbian and still reproduce.

Galiö11/27/2018, 2:07:05 AM3 votes

I guess you know know about the New Mexico Whiptail lizard, which is a female only species.

Also its possible she can have both genitalia, you never know with her shapeshifting.

Only Male chameleons are colorful and she is colorful so its possible, however she is confirmed a lesbian...

Either way she can prob reproduce asexually.

GreenLore11/26/2018, 12:21:53 PM2 votes

Where does it say that Neeko was sent out to reproduce her tribe?

It says that the elders helped her to escape,it doesn't say that the elders would have wanted Neeko to revive the tribe via baby making.

Not that it would have mattered eitherway,as Neeko couldn't reproduce the tribe without other Oovi-kat. If she mates with a human,then the offspring would likely end up human,but with shapeshifting abilities. If she mates with another vastaya,then the offspring would likely be a new kind of vastaya,not an Oovi-kat.

In either case she is going to be the last Oovi-Kat,there is no way for her to revive her tribe through biological means.

DonCavallo11/27/2018, 7:42:21 PM2 votes

This champ is literally garbage, lorewise XD

ModAttysu The Poro12/8/2018, 8:14:17 PM1 votes

The odd thing is...

"Neeko's Tribe elders would have KNOWN she was lesbian. Now tell me, what sense does it make to have a LESBIAN be the last member of your Tribe so she can REPRODUCE and make sure the Tribe lives on?

If you answered "IT MAKES NO SENSE" you are correct and deserve praise"

There's a difference between poorly written and not spelled out for everyone.

You can 100% be a lesbian, but still have stronger genes to pass down than others. In this case the tribe decided that for the better of their species for Neeko to be the one to reproduce, whether she wanted to or not. Just because she is lesbian doesn't mean her genetics just don't work anymore. Its also completely possible they picked Neeko because she's a strong member of the tribe, which means she can survive long enough to find a partner to mate with. Nowhere do they say she has to "fall in love and marry" this person, literally just reproduce.

Is it a bit fucked up they're forcing her to do this and that she has to to save her species? Yeah. But is that the point? Definitely.