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For many, League of Legends' 100th character is a milestone of sorts. For many, this next champion is a landmark for the game, which released back in 2009 and has since become one of the most successful MOBA games on the market.
Unfortunately, not everyone was happy about Jayce, the Defender of Tomorrow. Many wanted something epic for the 100th release, but as Riot Games' lead champion designer Ryan 'Morello' Scott points out, "every champion needs to be a milestone of some kind".
Morello defended Jayce, while emphasizing Riot's stance of "if there was something more special we could have done here, why aren't we doing that for every champion?"
"While I maintain that Jayce's whole weapon-transforming thing is really fun, it's really not about some big mega-release milestone. It's a nice round number, sure, but I think it'd be kind of ****ty of us if we were holding something back for this that we'd had been capable of doing previously," Morello said in a post.
If we've learned anything from the release of Pulsefire Ezreal, it's that Riot will not release something unless they are 100% confident it's the best they can offer.
"I kind of see it as every champion needs to be a milestone of some kind - just trying to do something we hadn't done before in regards to gameplay, art, lore, or any mixture of them," he explained. "I'll talk more about a couple of the big issues (monsters, why 3 masculine-style males so close) in a future post, but for this I wanna focus on the specific "champ 100 thing." I feel if there was something more special we could have done here, why aren't we doing that for every champion?"
A new video that takes a look back at the first 100 champion in League of Legends champions will be released next week. It will show some of the processes they use and reveal "the man behind the curtain".
He didn't stop there though...He also revealed the 101st champion coming to League of Legends: Zyra - a rather sexy looking plant-like champion.
"I probably shouldn't do this, but what the Hell. I'm really stoked about champion 101 too because I got to work much much more directly on it than I usually do and it's an archetype I think we've needed. I'll..," Morello teased, "plant a little teaser for you."
"Hint, she's not made of flesh," he added. Morello didn't spoil any details about the new champion, but did tease she will have "something you've never seen before in MOBA."
Small boobs maybe? You're guess is as good as ours. Judging from his not-so-subtle hint and the image, she will be plant-like. A female Maokai maybe? On first glance at the image, she looks like an AP character which is kind of cool since we've had so many bruisers and AD carries released recently. I'm excited for Jayce, but I have to say, Zyra look amazing!
What do you think of the teaser for Zyra? What could her secret ability be!?
As much as I love Riot and League of Legends so far, there are times I question their creativity. In this case, the 101st champion being plant-like. I don't know about you guys, but a botanical humanoid sounds awfully familiar *cough cough* Guild Wars 2 race, the Sylvari.
Maybe she won't exactly look like a Sylvari, but you know I'm pretty sure their presence (especially of late as Guild Wars 2 is finally being released) has had some influence on it. Perhaps Morello has a secret love for them? Who knows. I am just now more curious to what she'll look like and where her skills will be rooted from.
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first of all this champ had been created a long time ago, but because there were some things that they needed to have a second thought about they released Moakai instead. So they had the idea a long time ago.
Second please check the name Sylvan (from hereo's of might and magic), and tell me again they stole the idea from Guild WarsII
Sylva(n) = Sylva(ri) also this name been used mutiple times before but ey people always tend to say it's stolen from a game which stole it from another game which stole it etc. Most idea's that are being used are no way near ''NEW''.
But i've been looking forward to this champion ever since they release moakai instead of the plant lord. Well let's hope she's well balance and has some (to LOL) new gameplay.
Edit: Link for Gavid the Plant King (canceled champion)
http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Plant_King
Hi Anon! First of all let me say that I'm as excited as you are with Zyra and thanks for the reference link.
Second of all, I was poking fun at Riot because Zyra's info release was relatively close to the announcement of the Sylvari and Asura being playable next BWE. And no where in my post I've said anyone stealing an idea from another. Games do that all the time. They have "influences" from other stories, etc.
Riot does that with their game, as they take "legends" from stories and fit them into their game lore. And with the case of the Sylvari, there are some influences from the Sylvan, but ArenaNet has made them its own thing. It's not a simple copy and paste, which I believe would be considered in the lines of "stealing."
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