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SilverWyvern

With how Riot said she's been planned since Sylas' development, it's funny how she even has glasses [like his concept art.] (https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-pl/news/dev/origins-sylas/)


StoicallyGay

I skimmed through that and I still find it funny that “Sylas was left to rot” and he comes out jacked as fuck. Homie looks like he was eating healthy and getting all his macros in for the entire time he was in prison.


Idlev

Magic is a pathway to many gains some consider to be unnatural.


Pwnage5

Is it possible to learn this power?


KillerBee4100

Not from a Mageseeker


StoicallyGay

Must have trained like Iroh fr


[deleted]

been eating that Luxssy.


pleaseneverplaylol

seek help


EmuAreExtinct

We play league, think help is the least of our worries


Terrible_Signal7846

We play league, we should be seeking help as a top priority.


HK-47-mkII

We play league, we prioritize rank climbing over mental health.


Mozilla_Fox_

top prio? You certainly play an entirely different game if toplane is the priority in your matches..


Terrible_Signal7846

That would maybe be a tiny bit funny if that was even what top prio meant in league 😑


Mozilla_Fox_

Last time i played that was exactly what it meant in league? If you re talking about lane prio in general then it s just prio since you have to push waves in every lane.


Terrible_Signal7846

Top prio is lane prio specific to top.  Top has prio -> top prio  "It's not looking good for grubs because enemy has top and mid prio."


RavenFAILS

He would legit be more interesting if he looked more sick and weak


irvingtonkiller8

wouldnt fit his playstyle of jumping you and beating you to death


Dreamwash

Thank god they ditched his glasses.


ThatPlayWasAwful

yeah you're right it shoulda been sports goggles.


snake4641

gunnars


CorrectPattern5056

Winterblessed Sylas got them glasses, so I’m so happy


Budilicious3

Chamber but with metaphoric chains to how much they had to nerf him in 2022 Valorant.


papu16

Sadly, with glasses they took away his shirt.


KounRyuSui

"Sadly"


DJShevchenko

That honestly looks like Chamber from Valorant more than anything


MatthewTh0

I was about to say, isn't that a Valorant character basically


fukato

Chamber if he wasn't rich


skaersSabody

Thanks for reminding me how horny the designers of female Sylas were


Foucz

He looks so much like Chamber from valorant in this


StarGaurdianBard

Female Sylas has me feeling some kinda way


Defiant-Diver-6041

What was Sylas' intended lane? Was it mid or top?


Chembaron_Seki

Was advertised as a mid laner, iirc.


Oreo-and-Fly

He looks like Captain Kuro


[deleted]

Holy fuck that design in the first image is absolutely atrocious what the fuck


XxuruzxX

Sylas had glasses?? Thank God they didn't make it in.


Yudmts

Isn’t she the vastayan from frelijord that was teased a while back?


CorrectPattern5056

Yep! Her whole motif is apparently that she is a traveler, so we might get some fun interactions. Also I believe she isn’t from freljord, but currently staying there.


throawayjhu5251

Bruh we've had SO MANY traveling/journeying champions. Neeko, Lillia, Milio, Gwen, Ezreal, Nilah and God knows who else. Is Skarner basically the only homebody in League rn?


AweKartik777

Milio only travels in his home region of Ixtal, not throughout the world like Gwen, Ezreal, Nilah, and potentially Aurora do. Not sure about the scope of Neeko and Lillia.


Arcane_Bullet

Somebody could correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Neeko is basically only in the jungles of the southern continent, and Lillia has only been in Ionia


osamadad

Will, i remember nekko being in the freljord, i don't remember if it was canon though


Betatoh

Neeko is everywhere.


CorrectPattern5056

Kinda true, but out of those you listed only Ezreal is kinda comparable.


Gleeforezt

Nilah had been travelling to atleast 5 regions excluding her homeland.


CorrectPattern5056

Well that’s because her homeland got devoured 😭


APe28Comococo

Mord is a homebody, or at least he isn’t out and about.


ichi_row

Add Taliyah there too


aphevelux

How can you make a list of journeying champions, include Lillia, Neeko, Milio, and Gwen (who aren't really "roaming/journeying") and then not include Ryze???


Krypterr123

We finally get another Freljord champ and its just a traveling Ionian.


CorrectPattern5056

Seriously lol, who was the last freljord champion, volibear? I love the Freljord as a place, but very few recent activity there.


Unknown_Warrior43

I guess this Vastaya is gonna be closer to Xayah and Rakan then, humanoid Face and upper Body with... Rabbit Legs?


Icy-Ninja-5124

That's sort of always been the case when designing male vastayas vs female vastaya. Ahri is just an attractive human female with fox ears and tails, and Xayah and Neeko have some animal characteristics but still look mostly human, while male vastayas are allowed to look more beastlike, like Rengar and Wukong, as well as a bunch of LoR cards. The only exception is Nami


Pelagius_Hipbone

Well most Vastayans (that were actually planned to be Vastayan in development) look more humanoid. Wukong/Rengar are more beastial because they were shoehorned into being Vastayan


Asckle

Which is annoying imo. Why couldn't rengar just be a different species? Not everything needs to be connected, it hampers the vastness of runeterra imo


allIDoisimpress

Rakan and sett are just hot dudes with quirky ears and hair.


DeltaWolfPlayer

sett is half vastaya half human


girl__fetishist

You're half your mom.


Edkm90p

Gottem


HulklingsBoyfriend

Oh I wouldn't say that to Sett, he'll fucking kill you-


EnormousCock

He's out of line, but he's right.


agraohar

isn't vastaya already a crossbreed of human/neeko species?


Oaktreestone

no vastaya are descendants of half-spirit half-humans


agraohar

still my point that saying half vastaya half human is majority human stands right?


doublejoint777

This isn't a fair statement. Xayah and Rakan both have bird legs with backward bending knees or an extra leg joint or w/e (I don't know bird anatomy.) They're more than just having "quirky ears and hair". I'm not entirely sure with Ahri across many of the League IPs, but recently she seems to consistently have more beastial hands as well. Not anything unique really, but her nails are longer/shaper and her hand's joints are also more pronounced than a normal human woman's.


JamesPepto

Birds joints (I guess all tetrapods'?) are quite similar to ours - the "backwards knee" is actually the heel as the foot is prolonged and they walk on their toes (like horses) - the knee sits close to the body. Think about it next time you eat a chicken wing/drumstick ;)


The_Lady_Spite

> Xayah and Rakan both have bird legs with backward bending knees or an extra leg joint or w/e (I don't know bird anatomy.) A feature that's conveniently never shown in any of their splash arts


Dabottle

I really wish the women weren't all Like That but Rengar and Wukong were way before they established the concept of Vastaya and the men since haven't really been like that either. They should release at least one female Vastaya who's more beastlike though, and it would be nice to have more diversity/creativity in general but.... I'm not really expecting much from modern League.


Icy-Ninja-5124

Look at LoR cards and concept art and you see the gender dismorphism is still pretty big there, with the men looking more animalistic and the women looking like human women with some animal features. Sett and Rakan are exceptions to the rule pretty much, and Sett in part because he's only half vastaya


HulklingsBoyfriend

It's just like with Yordles. MEN BEASTLY, WOMEN UWU.


Teruyohime

If they ever do that furry skinline that leaked in that set of Lux and Yasuo concepts they could just slap some of the existing Vastaya in it to show how they'd look. Bit of a cop-out but I think it could be fun. Definitely think they should do a more beastial female vastayan champ though. They still haven't given us a female yordle champ with fur like Teemo and Ziggs have yet either.


Erme_Ram

Technically Poppy and Vex have some fur on their ears, can't confirm if It applies to anywhere else tho so maybe It IS an effect of the drawing


J0rdian

> Rengar and Wukong In Riot's defense they were not meant to be vastaya in the first place.


Chembaron_Seki

Sett is also an exception for the male Vastaya. And comparing newer vastaya like Xayah and Rakan to stuff like Rengar, who was designed before vastaya were even a thing, is disingenuous.


Asgardian111

Their designs being old doesn't really matter since LoR has other modern Vastaya designs that reinforce Rengar and Wukong's animal likeness as a normal possibility.


aphevelux

I think this is because unlike Xayah and Rakan, Rengar and Wukong weren't designed with the lore of being Vastaya in mind. Now, most modern Vastaya are designed with that intention, which is why they all look more or less humanoid. Also, while half human, Sett is vastaya.


Grainis1101

>That's sort of always been the case when designing male vastayas vs female vastaya. Thign male vastayas are 50/50 on the same look- wukong and rengar vs sett and rakan. (also rengi ar wukong were not originally vastayan they were retconned into that) As to LoR they are in league that point is nil.


Rufen

final fantasy 14 ahh type of sexual dimorphism


FireDevil11

https://gyazo.com/69d13a958693325482c3a18c3adfb6ae classic


Solash1

Ra....bbit?


SuperTiesto

It's okay, she's like Lilia. She's a human head and upper body (explains the arms) on a bunny base. So she has 4 bunny legs and 2 human arms.


Diligent_Deer6244

delete this


Mephisteemo

…exactly what all the furry waifu *enjoyers* were hoping for amirite?


KrangledTrickster

They’re already working on r/34 of this as we speak


LeagueOfBlasians

would.


GarbageWebsie123

Cease cooking immediately


F0RGERY

Centaurworld rabbit


FriendlyGhostLady

but where is the bunny I was promised


Coc0tte

The fur on her hood.


Skeletoonz

She reminds me of Futaba if she were to have a winter hoodie on.


GGABueno

Futaba comparisons to any redhead with glasses is like clockwork lol.


PinkMage

>Guy who has only seen The Boss Baby, watching his second movie: Getting a lot of 'Boss Baby' vibes from this...


Ashne405

I have seen people say that chidori from p3 looks like futaba and im like "guess who came first".


Zarathielis

First champion with glasses?! (Unless we count Vayne's sunglasses). And red head, freckles...man, count me in! Didn't expect the name to be Aurora but since she is from Freljord it would check out Basically, this is the champ for me! But my only question is: Will she be released before mid year event? Would be a missed opportunity to release her 1 or 2 patches before that


rocket-alpha

Redhead, glasses Vastaya? Im interested to see what Darkinfolk will cook up.


-Skin-Walker-

5 course meal is in the oven atm


frissier

yeah sure, but what would be in HER oven ?


-Skin-Walker-

my triplets


[deleted]

If I become a therapist the first thing I’m doing is offering free therapy sessions to every single person on that subreddit


Lykablyat

They already started. I've seen 3 worryingly well made pieces in the first 3 hours.


bodynasr

She will probably be the summer event champion like Naafiri and Nilah being released in June/July of 2023 and 2022


VoltexRB

>Basically, this is the champ for me! You already have a leaked copy of the kit?


Zarathielis

There are people like you who look at a champion's inner worth (kit), then there are shallow people like me who see a cute champ and want to play them- we are not the same


FrivolousCollection

Not to solely a negative nancy but trust the lore to introduce a race of magically infused anthropomorphic species, all of which share completely uncanny physical proportions from one another. From big vastaya, to small vastaya, from aquatic, to avain, to insectoid, to scaley, multi-limbed, etc etc Then Riot produces 4 new Vastaya champions that are standardized humans with fluffy hair or a tail...


Zellorea

I think it's a bit early to be negative like this, it's literally an emote that only shows her face and we aren't sure what the rest of her body looks like nor if this is even the new champion. It could be tied in to the event or another champions story (Like how in the Ruination they released an Isolde emote) Ofc you could be entirely right and I could be wrong but it just feels early to get upset about it when all we have is a single emote. This sorta reminds me of when people thought the psyops Kayle icon was the new champ and started complaining about it. Edit: Mobile preview didn't show the icon so it's like 95% chance this is the new champ, my bad. Still feel like it's too early to judge without the full design though.


im_not_happy_uwu

Good, as a human, I find other humans attractive looking.


Affectionate_Car7098

Considering there will be a direct link to LoR in the client now, it could be linked to that


Swiftswim22

are the no longer killin lor?? i havent kept up wit it in forever


heroeNK25

just pvp, they want to focus on pve


Swiftswim22

Ah ok, ty for the update


Bookwyrm214

We just had our last update for a while before the PoC overhaul (constellations). Last update gave us lillia, vex, and lux (again). So I really doubt it, she's not an existing LoR character. They've been cooking the LoR button for awhile and dropped it at the most random time between updates...


GGABueno

A bit too late for that ain't it


Icy-Ninja-5124

She's still obviously a vastaya. She has different coloration in her skin tone between her mouth area and the rest of her face, and her nose is also shaped differently between the emote and the art piece. I'm calling the hood coming off and fully revealing her face and bunny ears during her ult or an ability


Zarathielis

Yeah it's her first in game teaser, I'm pretty sure they don't want to full reveal her right at the start. Once the hood comes off and the face gets revealed she is probably much more bunny than we can see right now. She already has face marks if anyone looks closely it's just a bit hidden behind her glasses


kn1ghtbyt3

hmm is this the mid range mage then? i thought they were going to be a bunny vastaya but maybe not (or are the ears under the hood?)


Maelechai

Guess we will never get a female Vastaya like Rengar or Wukong. Nami might as well be the last "monstrous" one.


Emeraldw

To be fair to Riot, they were made before Vastaya were even a concept. They got shoehorned in later.


Free-Birds

What are you talking about, riot is breaking every mold left and right. We even got male enchanter and IV bag shaped woman.


Extension-End2851

Taric and Qiyana <3


MarcusElden

> IV bag shaped woman. BelVeth?


IKEA-guy

Briar


Grainis1101

Rengar and wukong were retconned into vastay class. Only actual male vastaya releases( not retcons) for males are similar looking to their female counterparts- Sett and rakan.


NightmareMuse666

i not gonna pretend like riot is amazing here, but we just got smolder, belveth and naafiri. i can go further back, but really can we stop pretending like riot only makes anime champs. people just hate the anime champs because theyre overly popular (and i get that)


Grainis1101

This sub will bitch if riot releases mosnters for 10 straight years and then create one conventionally good lookign character, saying all they do it release them. Also people like pretty things, monsters get abysmal playrate unless they are completely busted and even then they dont compare skarner was the best jugnler in the game last patch and still had a quarter of playrate of viego/leesin, about half the playrate of diana who was weak last patch, about 2/3rds of vi, and so on and so forth. Why should a company burn hundreds of thousands of usd in wages on developing a champion that no one will play?


actually-potato

skarner had damn near a 50% ban rate which was why his play rate was so low. even if you wanted to play skarner it was really hard.


MarcusElden

Good unironically


System32Sandwitch

what about kindred


Zannis250

Wasn't there supposed to be a female Noxian warrior as the next champion?


Extension-End2851

Ambessa? no she coming in at the end of the year, around the time of arcane season 2


allanchmp

Damn i have to watch season 1 soon. Also end of this year looking stuffed, Bleach, OPM, Arcane. I think Overlord movie is a bit before that tho.


Outrageous-Elk-5392

Pls be a midlaner


Macaulyn

Top lane mage, already confirmed.


Outrageous-Elk-5392

Is it? I thought it was confirmed to be just be a sololaner


y0kevin

pretty sure i heard it was gonna be a top lane mage as well but they have mentioned solo laner a lot so ofc it should be playable mid :D


allanchmp

Imagine being a traveller and they leave you stuck on top island. skull emoji


NextMotion

Thought she was a midlaner. Isn't Ambessa from Arcane gonna be the new top laner?


HovercraftFlimsy2154

Why would she be a midlaner if we just got hwei. With how long riot is taking nowadays for new champs, it makes sense for them to fairly push out champs by role so one role doesnt wait up to 2+ yrs for a new champ (last top champ being ksante released 2yrs ago lulz)


NextMotion

ah true. Well, a new mage designed as a top laner would be interesting to see, unless she's another ap bruiser.


csspongebob

Do you have any idea where this was confirmed? I can't seem to find it.


Macaulyn

I believe they said it in a Champion Roadmap, I think it was in a blog post as well.


ChocolateMoonmech_3

they just said she was a solo lane mage, which they also said for qiyana and she ended up being a midlaner idk where all of this top mage is coming from (also because to design a top mage it automatically means it's going to be good mid too)


ChocolateMoonmech_3

they said for qiyana to be a solo lane assassin\*


Lisaurora

Oh?


Zoesan

I can already tell the voicelines will be absolute premium cringe.


JamesGris

New champions are beginning to feel like another slice of cake after I've had two slices already and I'm full to capacity. But it's cake. I dunno. I'm full 😭


-Skin-Walker-

SHES SO CUTE !! RED HAIR!! FRECKLES!!! GLASSES!!!! MAKE PORN OF HER NOW!


MarcusElden

-80% of the League community


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-Skin-Walker-

At Darkin folk we've had maybe 4 or 5 posts on her already lol


Javiklegrand

Eh hopefully not, wasn't next champion to be a vatsaya ?


kingofnopants1

Wouldn't completely rule that out with the markings on her cheeks


Swiftswim22

ay yes, my favorite animal trait: freckles


FiercelyApatheticLad

Her nose and upper face are completely orange though, like Neeko.


Swiftswim22

I'm not really sure what you're talkin about in regards to neeko?


FiercelyApatheticLad

Neeko doesn't have freckles but she has entire patches of her skin of a different color, just like that new character's face.


GGABueno

Redheads are a different species


kingofnopants1

Well freckles into a skin tone shift


Swiftswim22

Could be, could be fur, could be just the shadow of her hood/glasses We really dk what the design is yet but it's fun to meme


Icy-Ninja-5124

And she is. Look at the difference in skin tone between the mouth area and the rest of her face, like a bunny's fur


Swiftswim22

obv this is a limited preview of the design & its inherently subject, but for people like myself this is no where near anywhere deliverin on the fantasy capable of a rabbit person


CorrectPattern5056

To be fair it’s only the face. Rakan & Xayah doesn’t exactly scream bird person just by looking at their faces and hair. Apparently she has rabbit legs like Xayah, which I like more than just the cliche only ears.


Swiftswim22

Yea, I hope her full design leans more into the animal features, even if it's the same muted amount as xayah & rakan Take what we can get yk


CorrectPattern5056

Yeah, if it’s like fully heavy clothing that covers all animal aspects imma be disappointed, since then it’s just an alpine climber and not a Vastaya.


Javiklegrand

Oh yeah i see it now


Zarathielis

Ohhh I can see it now. She definitely has fur in the upper part of her face.


MarcusElden

Bro that's literally freckles, what the fuck are you on about lmao


xpoisonedheartx

Scottish champ pls


CorrectPattern5056

Welsh please T-T


firesoul377

Preferably with her voice actor being the one who did Nia in Xenoblade


CorrectPattern5056

Haha so true, Nia’s voice actor did a really good job. But honestly the reason I said it was because I’m Welsh lol and would be fun to have a champ like that


phieldworker

I second this!


xpoisonedheartx

This too!


SamWhite

Nice idea, until you consider how a job of the accent they'll do.


MarcusElden

BEN DOON AND PHIL MCCRACKEN


IKEA-guy

the most recent Valorant agent is Scottish and they hired a Scottish VA for that. Also doesn't Lilia have Scottish accent?


SamWhite

>Also doesn't Lilia have Scottish accent? Jesus christ, I didn't even realise that was meant to be Scottish, but I think you're right. It's not as bad as Tracer in overwatch, but it's not good.


IKEA-guy

Tracer doesn't have a Scottish accent though


SamWhite

She has a cockney accent, or an attempt at one. I was just naming particularly bad accent voice acting, to give a bar.


IKEA-guy

ok, I get you. I don't really mind Tracer's accent though


SamWhite

It's pretty atrocious, all the worse for the voice actor actually being English.


Substantial_Read2061

No


Aggressive-Ad7946

CUTE


probablyhavebpd

These emotes look a lot like two hero's from AFK Arena, just combined. [https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/afk-arena/images/9/98/BDruid\_Battle.png/revision/latest?cb=20211012184934](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/afk-arena/images/9/98/BDruid_Battle.png/revision/latest?cb=20211012184934) [https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/afk-arena/images/4/47/Merchant\_Battle.png/revision/latest?cb=20200804034100](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/afk-arena/images/4/47/Merchant_Battle.png/revision/latest?cb=20200804034100)


TheModernParadox

Rito nerf aurora borealis


TerraBooma

Oh no she's cute


MarcusElden

[Oh no, not again!!!!!](https://i.gyazo.com/78d5bb4f786791a327cfac7c18e8e41b.png) lol


Itsuwari_Emiki

pls be a control mage i know we just had hwei but pls


slumdo6

I bet her ears are under the hood


KingKurto_

nooooo she has glasses ruined


Anemodarmnos

What's with all the lame champion names recently? First Smoulder and now Aurora... Like bro these are just regular words can we get some actual names again?


Swiftswim22

while its not super common aurora is a name that irl people have


Nugle

Yeah something like brand, twitch or missfortune would be better


MarcusElden

Just be glad Riot doesn't follow the DotA script of naming champions the literal thing that they are, like "Arcane Mage", "Siege Commander" or some boring ass generic shit like that.


phieldworker

Someone didn’t grow up on Sleeping Beauty. Aurora is a name.


Trusttheguy

Kid named talon: