“When Gwen started to take form, we wanted to keep this particular spell because it fit with her personality. “I’d actually been working on Gwen’s zone control spell before the rest of the team started-before peppy skirmisher was even an idea, actually,” recalls champion designer Dan “Riot Maxw3ll” Emmons. And when the team started working on Gwen, they already had one in mind. One of the ways we can give skirmishers an edge in their endless fight for the perfect 1v9 is by giving them a zone of power where they excel. So it helps if they can isolate their prey or pick fights on their own terms. What they don’t want is to jump their target and then get dogpiled by the rest of the team. They want to scrap with high-value targets and then get out to keep doing whatever it was they were doing (like stealing their jungler’s raptors). Skirmishers are League’s “1v1 me bro” mentality incarnate. But there was one particular concept that stuck out to everyone: the doll. Gwen’s original concept artist, Paul “Zeronis” Kwon, used this idea to create a spread of characters who might understand the unbridled joy of life. Things we normally ignore because, to us, they’re so mundane.” One of the perspectives we haven’t explored is someone who’s amazed by everything-even the little things like the feeling of grass or the smell of the ocean. “So we needed to make sure we found a new approach. “We have a few champions who fall on the ‘joyful optimism’ spectrum already, like Lux and Seraphine,” explains narrative writer Michael “SkiptoMyLuo” Luo. Gwen’s story started, as many champions do, with a goal: create a “peppy skirmisher.” Following Viego with a champion of similar seriousness and gloom would’ve left League feeling xX2edgy4meXx, so the team looked towards the opposite end of the edgelord scale, to joy. And then the three would live happily ever after.Įxcept that’s not how the story ended. Doll and maker would travel across the sea, experience royal life, and maybe, just maybe, marry the prince. Everything about her made by a girl who dreamed of one day going to the castle herself.Īnd maybe one day they’d get that chance. The doll’s dress lovingly crafted to match the intricate designs on the Camavoran warships in the harbor.
Gwen, she’d have been called-a name that sounded so perfectly royal to her young maker. Who’s to say a Camavoran peasant girl never ran through a field of wheat with her selfmade princess doll in tow? They would’ve stayed in that golden field until day turned to night. So what’s stopping a Runeterran from having one? No matter where you’re from, no matter the circumstances of your childhood, no matter your race or identity or background. These toys, and the memories they awaken, are universal. The first cast will fire one needle, the second will fire three, and the final cast will fire five, for a total of nine needles and nine applications of Thousand Cuts to enemies hit.Do you remember your favorite childhood toy? Was it a white teddy bear? Or a beefy action figure? Or perhaps a princess who reigned over Stuffed Animal Kingdom by day and fought crime by night?.Each cast fires needles in a line that deal magic damage, slow enemies, and apply Gwen’s Thousand Cuts bonus magic damage.
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