In order for League of Legends champions to have an eye-catching appearance and create accents like today, did you know, Riot Games has created a lot of extremely weird originals of them?
Aatrox
In the process of remaking Aatrox, Riot Games tried many new skills for him. However, there are only 2 of dozens of skills that impress players strongly:
Aatrox’s ultimate has allowed him to create a War Zone, any allies or enemies that die in this area will have a significant respawn time reduction. => This caused too many other problems related to game balancing so that was removed.
Another version of Aatrox’s ultimate is to allow his allies to transform into … Darkin. Aatrox will throw his sword to an ally picked up, increase the stat and allow resurrection like Aatrox.
Ahri
Did you know, during development, Ahri did not have fox ears, and 9 tails were just an accessory attached to the skin. Ahri doesn’t have ears … it looks weird, so Riot Games has to come up with another idea, turning her into a genuine fox-like now.
The first version of her R is basically turning her into … Ezreal’s R, which means she will travel an infinite distance.
Akali
In order to get the extremely high balance skill currently, Akali was once allowed by Riot Games … to “ride” on the projectiles of his allies to rush towards enemies like Jinx in the video Get Jinxed! But, this seems unrealistic and difficult to implement => removed.
Akali’s Twilight Shroud was designed to detonate, creating a pillar of smoke in the shape of a dragon, however, because it needed to be clear and recognizable in the game, this idea was immediately discarded instant.
Aphelios
Initially, Aphelios was conceived as a magician with the ability to launch many different types of combo moves (this is Invoker …). However, in actual combat, he seemed to be no different from the current magicians, so this idea was abandoned.
In order to launch the current Aphelios, Riot Games revealed that the idea of an ADC changed first and the champion was thought of later. When they started work, they used to want Aphelios to be Braum’s brother, he carried a totem that connected every animal to the Freljord. However, like that, Aphelios looks like a … tanker.
And Phelios is currently the third manuscript that Riot Games feels is most appropriate and released. It was once planned that Aphelios had up to 25 different weapons and changed the power according to the moon phase in real life.
Aurelion Sol
Perhaps many people know, the precursor to the idea of Aurelion Sol is Ao Shin, the dragon that appeared in the story of Spirit Guard Udyr.
Ao Shin was a Storm Dragon, about 10 to 12 Teemo units long in length. He could curl around the enemy, but it was this lengthy length that made it impossible for him to hide in the grass. This makes the development team has a lot of technical difficulties when developing this champion.
And then whatever will come, Ao Shin is “killed” and replaced by Aurelion Sol, and he … still can’t hide.
Azir
Initially, Riot Games came up with the idea of a Sand Wizard during 2013-2014, and the first name was not Azir, but Seth. After countless remakes of the technical restriction at that time, Emperor Shurima was officially born.
Azir’s skill set has also changed a lot compared to Riot Games’ first plan, especially when his ult has been very strong rather than just summoning the Sand Soldier to knock away the current enemy.
The question is, what are the characteristics of sand? Hot as fire, or cold as ice? After that, the father of this idea almost “went crazy” because of the question and then … Press F for Seth.
Bard
Before being launched, Bard’s Meep spirits have no effect to … throw in the face of the enemy like at the present time!
The Meep spirit of Bard will have 3 different colours, each type of Meep will help Bard enhance other basic skills. Bard can choose the type of Meep colour after picking up the necessary number of Bells. And the job of these Meeps is just to … follow Bard like a snake, to help the enemy know that Bard has chosen to upgrade the skills.
