Where are the rest of the Troll champions?

MaskedHeroman·11/14/2016, 6:26:10 PM·7 votes·1,413 views

So Trundle Trundle is troll king, KING! So why dont any of his subjects fight with him. We have so many yordels and infinite human characters, speckled with a few oddities here and there. Hell, even the void has multiple representative on the rift. But the Trolls are just seemingly nowhere to be seen, which I find odd since Trundle seemingly wants to expand his influence. When do you guys think we will get some more Troll race champions? Do you even want to see more trolls from his tribe/kingdom?

Edit: Here is an excerpt from his back ground showing he is looking to be a conqueror the rest of the troll tribes, and bring the trolls into a more prominent position within the world. I think it is safe to say he would have garnered a few champions for his kingdom by now.

When Trundle returned to the warband, his fellow trolls bowed to his conquest. Calling his weapon ''Boneshiver,'' he took a moment to enjoy the look of numb shock on his chieftain's face before he caved it in. Seizing command, Trundle announced that there would no longer be chieftains - only a Troll King before whom all of his kind would kneel. The trolls rallied behind their brash, new leader and prepared for the coming war. With Trundle leading the charge, the time of the trolls had finally come.

29 Comments

GreenLore11/14/2016, 6:49:55 PM3 votes

I think the problem lies within Trundles general champion desgin. Champions are designed with diversity in mind and thus pretty much every champion has a theme/archetype that is unique to him/her.

I mean Caitlyn is a sheriff,Braum is a shieldguard/strongman,Rumble is a mech-user,Heimerdinger is the ditzy genius,etc. The problem is that Trundle s most outstanding theme is "Troll",I mean sure he is a king as well,but he isn't very kingly and Tryndamere is also called the barbarian king,so that isn't even unique to trundle.

So when they introduce another troll into the game,it would run into the problem that trundle would be left without a unique theme,as the new champ is a troll just like him and we've got tryndamere as a playable king(not to mention that J4 might become king eventually and the ruined king could also become a champ).

Volibear and Alistar suffer from a similar problem as they are pretty much our "bear" and "minotaur" champion respectively and there is little else to them that would be unique.

Yordles and humans get away with having multiple champions because their species is pretty much irrelevant for their theme,it wouldn't matter if Caitlyn is a human or not,she would still be the only sheriff in the game.

The only way I could imagine how they could work around this is by making a troll-champ who really doesn't look like a troll anymore,like a troll champ who is so small and lanky that he actually resembles a goblin much more than a troll.

ModAcademy Kayn11/15/2016, 11:20:39 PM3 votes

Cause them other trolls are pussies.

Though a Shaman like champ would be interesting

The Soulforged11/15/2016, 1:33:06 AM2 votes

They ate her. And now they're going to eat me. Oh my goooooooooooooood!

CrazyBear198711/16/2016, 8:20:24 AM1 votes

I wouldn't mind another Troll race champion to be honest. Only because he a non-immortal type.

Like Alistar Anivia AurelionSol Azir etc are immortal types, gods or demi gods, or mythicals creatures. Can be left a unique.

Volibear, after reading his lore, he is the Champion of Ursine, just a champion though, technically there could be anohter prodigy that could enter the summoners rift too.

but end of the day the concept has to be so different and unique on it's own in order for Riot to consider putting them in Summoner rift.

Like we wouldn't have another Fizz, unless the Fizz race character was mounted or had a companion.