Elixir of Iron & Champion size - Nautilus, Malphite, Maokai, etc

TheHobbits·11/26/2014, 11:21:16 AM·7 votes·4,273 views

After playing around with the new Elixir of Iron on some of my favorite champions I've come to feel a little heart broken after the effect wears off. The plus 25% size increase make all the difference.

Nautilus - In the New Dawn cinematic, Riot portrayed Naut as a towering leviathan standing at least 2 or 3 times taller than Graves. In-game however, Naut is only maybe a head taller. It makes me sad to see Naut so small in-game. He just doesn't feel heavy.

Maokai - Maokai is meant to be a spirit that possessed a giant oak tree. In-game however he is nothing more than a simple tree. The 25% size boost brings him up to an appropriate size.

Malphite - Just take a look at Malphites splash art. Now look at him in-game. He is barely taller than Ryze. Not really a rock giant.

I'm sure that others like Galio and Alistar would also feel the same way with the increase size, but I don't own them yet to test. Now I will not be going into the whole Mord size issue in this because we have all heard it before and he is in the works for a VU anyway.

I'll put up some pictures as I play them over the next few weeks so stay tuned.

9 Comments

Lumus Avatar11/26/2014, 12:04:42 PM7 votes

Nautilus is one of my top 3 favorite champs, but I have to be honest: New Dawn's portrayal of him confused me (I enjoyed it thoroughly) because, according to his lore, he's just a sailor from Bilgewater in a dive suit...Unless the divesuit is supposed to be like a gundam and he pilots from the chest, why would he be SO MUCH BIGGER than another human? The in game model always seemed right to me. It's a big, bulky suit, but he's still just a human inside....Or, at least, he was.

Omnipherious11/26/2014, 11:37:04 AM4 votes

Pretty sure one of the animators said they are looking into adjusting model sizes since the Sion rework. Probably just wait a bit and we'll get a Model Size Rebalance just like the Texture Rebalance.

The Soulforged11/28/2014, 9:29:02 PM1 votes

I think the diving suit should be hulking as nauts armor seems to be like 2 or 3 inches thick meaning it prolly is huge.