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Singed's VO is what really sold me on this game

Eyesack·11/30/2016, 6:11:25 PM·26 votes·1,683 views

I remember playing this game about 6 years ago for the first time. I listened to all the lines of every champ i played. At the time it never occurred to me to change any of the sound settings of the game, not even the in game music.

I liked the game, i had some friends who played it but they were all better than me and often didnt have room in their party to play with me, so i found myself playing alone very often. I remember blitzcrank was the first champion i played because having played warcraft 3 i knew how powerful a pull ability could be. But eventually i played soraka, karthus, and whatever else was on rotation.

One day i was playing 3v3 and was getting absolutely stomped by a singed. I had never seen him before but it seemed like there was just no stopping this guy. He ran up to me at light speed and flung me behind him into poison, and he did ot RIGHT in front of my tower. I was shocked by this.

So i bought singed, and i played him. It was the coolest thing playing this guy for the first time. It's still a unique kit. A slippery dude who's flinging goo and people everywhere and spreading chem trails around. Always saying odd things like 'It's time.' And my favorite 'mix mix swirl mix'. And his evil laugh. Can never forget that laugh. A hearty 'Nyahaha' after ever fling.

The champion and his VO lines were one. A perfect combination that made the gameplay that much better. It was after playing singed that i realised the potential this game had to bring awesome characters to life. This game has legends in it. Riot is continuing to make awesome champs. Look at ivern. Look at kled. Ok thats cool but now listen to them. Thats true art right there. VO's are a part of what makes league of legends awesome.

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DemoGuide11/30/2016, 10:25:27 PM7 votes

I approve this so much. I always loved league for voces of champions like Annie Galio Nunu Singed Sion

You made me think about manually changing settings of my client to hear english voiceover again. Russian server doesn't support english language, and some voiceovers for older champions are complete garbage. Russian Lulu makes me want to cut my ears off. But if anything, Russian Ivern and Taric are super cool.

P.S. As an old player you probably heard this, but i want to share this anyway. This song i aaaaaawesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGKN1Adzckk

HalfTangible12/1/2016, 3:18:40 AM3 votes

What sold me on the lore of League initially was the League itself.

I realize it's not canon anymore, but when I first joined in, there was this sense that the entire playerbase was a part of the League's lore. Obviously not all of the millions of players could be canon summoners, given how rare and powerful they supposedly were, but I wasn't going to meet all of the millions of players, so that was fine. I don't remember who it was but when I bought my first champ with Influence Points, I remember constructing this mini-scene in my head of meeting with the champion personally and brokering a deal with them on what kind of matches I could and couldn't summon them in. At the time I was more into Dota because the characters in that game spoke more during the match and after kills, which gave you a better sense of who they are. (the more recent champions do this now, but when I was first playing the rift felt almost eerily silent) In my mind, Dota had the more active characters but League's major selling point in its lore was the sense that you, the player, were involved in shaping Runeterra as a summoner. (Remember when Noxus vs Ionia was solved via RL game results?) Hell, Sona talks directly to her summoner.

Sure, there was s#@$ like 'Lollipoppy' that Riot clearly wasn't taking seriously, but w/e, seriousness and maturity are overrated anyway; it's a game.

To be clear, I get why the League was cut. As cool as it was, it was also extremely limiting for the lore. Shurima's champions as they exist now would not be possible in the old lore. However, it was still sad to see the game's very namesake just... no longer exist, and it threw the lore into chaos. At the time I was more of a Lore guy than a gameplay guy when it came to League so I just kinda... drifted off, for a long while. I came in and out, different champions got released or revamped...

What sold me on the new lore was (as you might have guessed) the rework to Shurima's lore; specifically Xerath's story. Driven by his friend by what he saw as betrayal, only to then realize 'hey he wasn't', and then betray him anyway because he'd sacrificed too much to abandon his plans now. It was great, and tied the Shuriman champions together in a way that I thought was amazing. Then the Harrowing happened.

A lot of stories and universes promise that "nothing will ever be the same" after a particular event, but for fighting games, comics and MOBAs I've noticed that the status quo is usually god, at least to some extent. Nothing sticks. Before the Harrowing I figured that Nasus and Renekton would never actually fight, because then one of them would die and be removed from the Rift. Then Gangplank got blown up and had his entire kit reworked.

Yeah, sure, Gangplank didn't DIE, but he was definitely changed by his encounter with MF, right?

The moment I was sold on this game and started following it more than casually was the same moment I realized League's lore is ONGOING; Characters develop, grow and change, and in ways that actually matter. When Taliyah came along and we saw Yasuo not only did it help them both grow (in Yasuo's case in a way I didn't expect at all) it looked almost like Yas was being introduced to new readers, which was a great plan! Camille's dropping hints at Viktor showing up in her lore, and is implied to have made Vi an orphan in her voice lines. That opens up a lot of possibilities, and now I'm sure they'll actually be expanded upon rather than just introduced and left in the air. (coughRivenProbablyIsWhoKilledYasuo'sElderButIsAlsoProbablyNotTheKindaPersonHe'sExpectingcough)

Valeckserai12/1/2016, 2:43:31 AM2 votes

So many champions have amazing voices and dialogues, it is awesome. Personal favorites are Karthus Vi TahmKench Orianna. I'd be willing to pay tons of rp just to get some of their dialogue expanded for further champion interactions, especially for new Kench taunts against champions released after him.

Kitty Pix12/1/2016, 2:31:15 AM1 votes

I couldn't agree with the point of this even more!!! I love listening to all of the new champion VO's, there's so much interaction and LORE (especially in the case of Camille!), but I also love the personality that's in the VO's of my other champions!

like Lulu (Tastes like purple!), Vi (Punch first, ask questions while punching.), Jinx (I'm craaaazy!-- got a doctors note.), Poppy (What do you mean my hammer's too big?), Braum (The heart is the strongest muscle!), gosh I could go on. VO's are one of my favorite parts of the game I think, besides skins.

Rundus112/1/2016, 8:48:50 AM1 votes

The thing that sold me on League was a misconception about Syndra and Hextech Gunblade. It was early s4 and my friends had told me to get the game, but neglected to add me when I did, so I was left in the hands of a 3 year vet player who had never gone higher than Bronze 4 before. He taught me 3 things:

1: On Morgana top, build Morellos, because it was her item and made for her. Multiple Morellos was also a solid build.

2: Syndra was the most difficult mage in the game to use.

3: Sustain in any form was broken, and coupled with any offensive stat it was even more so, so item 3146 was the strongest item in game.

From there I learned the lores of Syndra and Morg and fell in love with the ideas there. Gunblade became my staple first item on both of them and Syndra was my first main (the B4 had bought her for me lv 1). So I get to lv 7 before any friends remember I'm alive and add me. My plat friend took me in game and was delighted at hearing I already knew a lot of the basics. That delight turned to confusion when he saw my Syndra mid rush Gunblade and WoTA. After a lot of deconditioning, I got the hang of things, but Gunblade stuck with me. Between Syndra as a whole and the idea that champs varied in playstyles so extremely that some were basically undying monsters who actually built gunblade, I immediately began to read the lore and kit of every champ in the game. I wound up on Leona next and spent awhile in support bc I needed to for my friends, but I found my way into every roll over time with dozens of champs. Even now, building Gunblade makes me happy just because I still love the ability to feel like a sustaining monster.