@Riot - Is Heimerdinger in his final state or is he still up for a visual update?

Zarkkast·2/18/2016, 6:45:56 PM·2 votes·673 views

Cause I was wondering about the sexual dimorphism between male and female yordles.

If Heimerdinger is in his finished state and all other male yordles will be updated to look more like him then we can assume:

Male yordles are hairier (we've always known that, but still worth listing);
Female yordles have larger ears;
Female yordles are taller and skinnier;
Female yordles have a broader face, though this could be due to not having fur which makes them less fluffy;
During the course of evolution, male yordle ears got smaller (Heimerdinger vs. Gnar).

I hope a Rioter can address this question.

3 Comments

GreenLore2/18/2016, 8:56:32 PM2 votes

I guess he is in his final state,considering that his model is actually the newest model of any male yordle.

However I wouldn't jump to conclusions here. We don't know if Heimerdinger actually looks like a normal male yordle,I mean lets look at your points: 1)Him being hairier could be more because of his old age.I mean male yordles can seemingly grow beards,so who knows if the rest of their face-hair doesn't grow rather long with old age as well 2)We can't be sure if Heimer is the norm here,earsize might vary from yordle to yordle and heimer simply happens to be one with smaller ears 3)Again this could be related to his old age,as old people are generally depicted as smaller(and Heimerdinger is pretty skinny himself,just look at the arms and legs of his model) 4)This could be more because Heimers head is probably a bit deformed.His old lore mentioned how he mutated his own brain,causing his head to become larger,its still possible that this part of his lore is still canon,as nothing new defies it and his head does look a bit deformed,even for a yordle. 5)Well it also looks like the original yordles had tails...

iChoseBulbasaur2/18/2016, 7:19:16 PM1 votes

I love how heimer looks on his base model and on my fav one snowmerdinger