Writers on the champions

Spideraxe·2/15/2018, 9:37:08 PM·18 votes·6,716 views

Hi all, some of you may know me as the guy who created the massive post the listed who the designers are on the champions team and what they're currently working. Now this isn't the entire lore team at Riot, these are only the people who work side by side designers and artists on champs, there are plenty more writers on the Worldbuilding team and people can swap teams. Today I'd like to spend some time chatting about the writers on the champions team, they are in charge of the narrative direction of League's new champs and VGUs. But what exactly do they do? For starters they write the champion's biography and color story as well as their VOs, and essentially think of how a champion might behave and act, they can go pretty in depth. To my knowledge there are currently 5 writers on the champions team and some of their works:

John "JohnODyin" O'Bryan. He was the writer Galio, Yorick, Poppy, Evelynn, Ryze and is working on Irelia's lore. He also was a writer on Avatar the Last Airbender, Motorcity and Randy Cunningham 9th grade Ninja

Michael "CoolRadius" McCarthy. He has only written for Kayn and Rhaast so far. But he's had experience as a writer at EA on the Medal of Honor series

Matt "FauxSchizzle" Dunn. He's the writer Xayah, Ornn, Ivern, Kindred, Ekko, and Aurelion Sol.

Ariel "ThermalKittens" Lawrence. She's the writer on Camille, Taliyah, Lee Sin, and the Star Guardians and PROJECT skin stories

Odin "WAAAARGHbobo" Austin Shafer. Writer Illaoi, Tahm Kench, Jhin, Kled, Rakan and Zoe and currently writing some stuff for Aatrox.

And David "Interlocutioner" Slagle. Writer on Warwick, Swain, Urgot, and some scrapped Singed lore.

35 Comments

RiotReav32/15/2018, 11:42:08 PM17 votes

FYI - CoolRadius is also the writer on the upcoming Marksmen as well as the Akali VGU

RiotInterlocutioner2/16/2018, 5:24:06 AM9 votes

You're so close to completing this quest line Spideraxe. The good news is there's still XP out there for you to earn.

First, you have to recover Thermal Kitten's Verse... I'd suggest starting the search in Shurima.

Whyte Lyon2/15/2018, 10:18:58 PM6 votes

[World Building Lead] ANT IN OZ- Anthony Reynolds Lenne

[Senior Writers] DINOPAWZ- Grahm McNeill THERMAL KITTEN- Ariel Lawrence REVEREND ANTHONY- Anthony Burch

[Narrative] WAAARGHHBOBO- Odin Austin Shafer JELLBUG- Rayla Heide FAUXSCHIZZLE- Mathew Dunn INTERLOCUTIONER- David Slagle JOHN O'DYIN- John O'Bryan COOL RADIUS- Michael McCarthy

[A mysterious new duo] RED TRINITY- MCHAO-

Warlord Dienekes2/15/2018, 10:32:58 PM2 votes

Huh, some of those are surprising.

RiotFauxSchizzle2/19/2018, 3:43:43 AM2 votes

I am not the writer on Pantheon, Diana, or Leona.

Also, Odin wrote Rakan! Don't forget that!

ScaryWaffleMan2/17/2018, 3:23:45 PM1 votes

you guys cmon stop saying champs are broken just becuase u got smashed by them once

Kitty Pix2/20/2018, 1:18:09 AM1 votes

Faux, Thermal, and Waaaargh I think are my favorite's. They're academic without being too wordy and remaining relateable. The others are good in their own rights, just definitely not styles I find flow as easily in my mind. Super interesting to know who wrote what, thanks for this!

Jackom12/22/2018, 2:04:02 PM1 votes

Interlocutioner: writer on warwick, swain, urgot

I don't know about the others, but he's definitely crawling in my skin.

Jokes aside, I love those champs, their VGUs, and love their stories.

NineTailedMystic2/16/2018, 7:38:39 AM1 votes

Jellbug did the new stuff for Ahri back in the Vastaya Update.

AmazoX2/16/2018, 11:25:02 AM1 votes

They all are pretty impressive writers..

Lord Phazanor 2/16/2018, 12:42:46 PM1 votes

Isn't DyQuill a champion writer too?

Raxistaicho2/16/2018, 3:19:02 PM1 votes

John "JohnODyin" O'Bryan. He was the writer Galio, Yorick, Poppy, Evelynn, Ryze and is working on Irelia's lore. He also was a writer on Avatar the Last Airbender, Motorcity and Randy Cunningham 9th grade Ninja

Irelia's in good hands :D