LOL: The new champion impossible that came to the game thanks to a miracle of Riot

Create new champions for League of Legends is one of the most complex processes that Riot Games can face. However, not all characters are equally difficult to design. There are some who use mechanics already existing in the game and do not give greater problems. For example, almost all skill shots have been scheduled thanks to the mystical shot of Ezreal. However, there are heroes that pose a great challenge for developers and that in some cases they should see their most interesting functions modified or eliminated before the launch.

The champion that Riot workers considered impossible

One of the emblematic cases in which all Riot Game developers thought that this would happen, it was Sylas . Now, the character is more than seated. However, he could have been one of the few canceled heroes of the most modern version of League of Legends. The reason is that creating its unique mechanics of definitive theft forced to review the functioning of almost all members of the campus. In fact, an interview with Riot August revealed that it took about two years to prepare it for the launch **.

The mechanics of skill theft is not much less an original idea of Riot Games and it is easy not to understand how it was so complicated to work. It is a basic of the genre of League of Legends that comes inherited from older titles. However, it is no secret that the code of this game is quite special and does not lend themselves to too many philigraes. As Riot Games reveals, they had to update up to 97 of the 141 champions in the game by then to adapt them to a new standard.

However, this problem was not the only 1. In addition to the time consumed in updating everything old, they should make sure that the existence of Sylas was not a burden for the characters that came out of then. In this sense, the hardest part of creating the new character was not getting a good skill kit or deciding what your design would be, if you do not change the game code to be able to do things that Pokémon (for example) could do In 1996. The difference was that Riot had not designed any skill with the idea that another character could use it .

Like all the skills difficult to program, he only went ahead of having the approval of Riot Games as it is a sufficiently interesting mechanics. Basically, determined that it was worth investing so much money . However, if we tilted the champion impossible is not only for the opinions of the workers of the company before its development. Also because there are other characters who had similar problems in League of Legends and had to get rid of some very original ideas. It is the case of VEX, which was going to interact dramatically with all the projectiles of the game in the eliminated spell from it.

Fortunately, Sylas went ahead as planned . There are many players who think that the definitive thing was scheduled for Neeko, but it is an urban legend. This theory is based on Chamberlane if inherited a skill of a demacial prisoner and how it seems to fit into it the idea of transforming into other champions. However, nothing further from reality. Steal definitive is something that always corresponded to this character that helped change the story of League of Legends.