League of Legends

Wait Rift buff lasts through death and 20 minutes?

That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

Taliyah and her big eyebrows is super cute and I won't let anyone tell me otherwise.

And I'm pretty happy about the statement RIOT gave about her sexuality. Finally they give an F U to the people who complain about 'She doesn't have big boobies QQ'

That sounds enticing. Where may I find this comment of theirs?

"So, Taliyah's video is out and we all had a look at her face (omg freckles). Most reactions have been extremely positive. "

"I want to take a moment to talk about some less-than-positive and downright awful reactions."

"League has a less than perfect record objectifying lady champions."

"There's nothing wrong with a champion putting her sexuality front and center if that's what they're about. MF and Ahri? Makes total sense. "

"The problem isn't that there were some objectified women, but that there was NOTHING ELSE (if not a child/yordle). "

"Restricting body types is limiting to us as creators. We can only make the one type? Screw this. "

"Our more recent ladies have been much more interesting. From Kalista's monstrous looks to Reksai being an actual monster..."

"From Illaoi's badass broken-bones-teach-better-lessons-than-sermons looks to Lamb's ethereal animal-like take on gentle death. "

"Those takes not your cup of tea? Cool! We already have 33 sexualized women in the game (I went and counted). "

"I'm certain we will make a sexy lady again in the future. She will own it, and it will make sense for her. "

"Taliyah is a young girl struggling with an elemental power unlike anything anyone's ever seen before. "

"She's a girl struggling with protecting her loved ones from an ancient power vs worrying that SHE will hurt them."

"She's a girl coming of age in a time of strife centered on her homeland, and her journey is one of mastery over her power. "

"Where in that does it say "and meanwhile I'm going to get sexy for my date at the Shurima social"? "

"Look at how cohesive all of Taliyah is. Who she is, what she does, what she looks like..."

"They make sense taken as a whole. Why does she look the way she looks? Because it MADE SENSE."

http://www.surrenderat20.net/2016/05/red-post-collection-2016-mid-season.html

Taliyah is totes a cutie and i'm buying her and feeding the enemy botlane on release.

WTF Rito, Yasuo is also a struggling elemental and he still finds the time to show a bit of skin.

Shame on you Rito.

Yet you didn't hesitate to stick Riven in the Bunny costume to please your fans

There's like, two years between those designs. People are allowed to learn, or change their minds.

And there's nothing inherently wrong exactly with a faservicy skin or two. Most of Riven's other skins are sets of armor and pretty well clothed so I don't think that's completely terrible.

It was actually pretty funny though with the logic that she basically hops like a bunny.

Obviously if they wanted solely that they would of went for an actual animal costume, but it's something beyond mindless fanservice at least.

edited 5th May '16 9:12:57 PM by VutherA

Bravo, Riot, Bravo.

Also, I like the look of Taliyah. Also Earthsurfing is just inherently awesome. She seems like she'll need practice to use and I'm not exactly that great at environment control but I wanna learn her, she's cool and I like her design.

I started with lukewarm feelings for her but listening to her VO turned me off.

She's way too obsessed with being a student.

I like that she has new, different lines for her alternative skin.

She could use more snark toward Yasuo, though.

Red post collection on Surrender at 20 is out.

TL;DR Version:

• Insights on Taliyah
• Sona changes
• New lore and short stories for Azir and Xerath, with more Shurima champions on the way

edited 6th May '16 10:52:32 AM by BlackSunNocturne

Man, they've doing a lot of Shurima stuff lately. I mean it was cool at first but, come on, We've got other champs from other regions we can be working with. What have the jungles where presumably Wukong, Nidalee, and Rengar come from been up to lately?

if riot is smart, then they'll eventually have a lore page for every region, theyre just going with shurima for now because taliyah

Yeah, I think they're just trying to get Shurima up to the point where Targon and Bilgewater Bay are right now.

I do agree though, I'd like to learn more about the Great Southern Jungle. Especially because, even in comparison to the other regions in the old lore it was distinctly lacking in anything more detailed than "It's messed up, yo".

i'd like to see more of bandle city

we havent had a champ from there since, like, ziggs

Nasus' and Renekton's expanded lores and short stories are out now.

And goddamn, are they tragic.

I officially need to be banned from playing as kindred holy moly.

They released Sivir, Skarner and Amumu's stories now.

Basically Sivir is gold crazed, Skarner is kind crazed and Amumu is friend crazed. Of course, Amumu's origin is dark and mysterious.

So everyone from Shurima is crazed. Sounds about right.

Nasus is the Only Sane Man from Shurima it seems

I think calling Nasus "sane" is a bit of a stretch, after reading the story part of his bio. He certainly gives the word sane quite a workout.

Possibly. But compared to the other Shuriman characters.... yeah.