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Riot, What Happened to Champion Insights?

6FlagsFunnelCake·2/7/2019, 6:05:04 AM·25 votes·14,573 views

The Champion Insight articles were extremely interesting and gave a lot of depth to not only the Champion as a whole, but also the development process on making a Champion.

Personally, it was these articles that made me the most excited for a new release as I absolutely love hearing the stories on how Champions are developed as well as deeper looks into the goals in making them. For instance, Urgot's is a personal favorite of mine because of how it details Riot knowing that Urgot had to keep his 'grotesque' feeling but with a more horrifying tone to it, as well as explaining why Urgot has a meat grinder, more legs and of course Shotgun Knees. Kai'Sa's was nice because it detailed more on sound design, as Kai'Sa has very unique sounds in her kit to pass off a sci-fi Void Hunter. And lastly, Galio's is incredibly interesting by how it details Riot's definition of 'gargoyles' and the inspirations in Demacian culture that translated into Galio's design.

Meanwhile, all Neeko got was a small bit of "Ask Riot" that included a bit of concept art. Speaking of which, Sylas's concept art is no where to be found either. So what gives? Why not bring these articles back?

6 Comments

Camille Ferrøs2/7/2019, 10:17:54 AM4 votes

I personally really enjoyed them. They told us interesting in depth stuff showed us art and concepts. Everything that I like.

Whyte Lyon2/7/2019, 7:14:28 AM2 votes

Eh, I dont mind Champion Insights but I greatly prefer AMA's. Simply that Champion Insights is kinda a small article that's heavily moderated, whereas Reddit AMA's are open to a hell of a lot of community suggestions/questions. And I want to try my luck by asking the deeper questions directly to the writer/s and see if I receive any interesting response. But those topics that I might bring forth are by no means guaranteed to be brought up in a Champion Insights article.

But I think Champion Insights are only produced when the devs can't all be present for the AMA or something. So it's just simpler to spit out a small blog every now and again.

Meanwhile, all Neeko got was a small bit of "Ask Riot"

Yeah I hated that too.

Warlord Rhinark2/7/2019, 11:28:15 AM1 votes

Gotta churn out those champions ASAP.

Don't got time for insights, need to make that dough.