Analyzing the animation of "The Call" 

waited for this one! so glad to have you back

is it part 1?

Got it too. Thanks a lot for this!

Also just purely practical standpoint... is not good for you socially and tactically...

I never even noticed that.. Sej is just soo pretty..

"Magical bear God lightning" is incredibly funny out of context

"Hey! I saved your life!" "You didn't save my life, you ruined my death!" >:(

After all, you can't get scars if you bleed out in the snow.

Headcanon!

yea i'll integrate that into my belief system HAHA

​@@itayschool4544not even, Ancient Greek warriors were all about manscaping and grooming. Check out the tomb of the Gryffin warrior, had a bunch of mirrors and hair combs found.

Diana seems like a cat lady to me, yeah, a religious nut family and their pets :)

@@rheacortes5233 I feel like Diana would be super lovey toward animals but only if she was absolutely certain nobody was watching. I also feel like on their own, Leona and Diana have pets that remind them of each other. Why does Diana have a big dumb golden lab? “No reason.” Why does Leona have a grouchy white cat? “No reason.”

And Zoe is their adopted child.

@@rheacortes5233 Leona would be the one to get a dog. Diana would get a cat. Equinox would be the dog, eclipse would be the cat.

agreed. and that is oddly the issue of the aspects. its clear that moon and sun are supposed to be in unity but they are seperated and broken partially by ideology, and partially by the powers they wield. the aspects nature might even have been twisted by something beyond their control. consider the situation with kayle and morgana, both daughters of an aspect of a sort(likely justice) but both at odds due to their disagreement on how justice should be handled. i wonder if the aspects are in someways being divided and warped from their intended purposes and roles by themselves and the societies that formed around them. at some point i imagine leona and diana will have to stop and realise that something fundimentally is wrong with what is going on. that the solari faith is extremely flawed and is likely causing them to stray from their true path. as we see in the most recent pantheon story, the solari are getting WORSE. their desperation to cling onto power and their accusing of others is likely something leona is not quite aware of due to her blinkered narrow view. she is not a leader of the solari i believe. she is their divine attack dog. their weapon to smite the heretics and the non-believers with impunity. if there is a celestial of the eclipse, or some similar aspect or entity coming, i have a strong feeling that leona and diana might be likely play a part in that and more than likely will need to recognise that something very clearly is deeply wrong within the solari. no doubt some evil high inquisitor or solari Mega Zealot who might be intent on ensuring that leona stays loyal to their cause, and might even be in a dark mirror to leona, and a counterpoint to aphelious. filled with hate, calling for destruction of their enemies, and likely NOT being a support but an adc or seperate lane champ. the sun and moon are meant to be on the same team, which is likely why leona and diana (since you know. they were lovers) were chosen to be the bearers of their respective aspects. however my guess is the intense zealotry and the oppressive dogma of the solari faith is actively sabotaging things and has forced the 2 into conflict. i know that likely riot will do something different, but looking at how the story seems to be going in my mind is leona will post call be trying to figure out what the heck is going on, and the solari will be very unhelpful, so leona will try to go looking for information, and might either stumble on the truth, or the atrocities the solari don't want her to know about. maybe when going to protect a village, some people actively run or sheild themselves from her or flee, confusing leona as to why, but the answer gets explained that the solari have been purging villages of people. leona thinks that must be incorrect, but when she returns to the leaders of her group, they merely thank her for informing them of the village and that they will handle it. cut to later when leona returns to the village only to find it razed to the ground, its people, mostly innocent i might add, incinerated by solari fire or cut down with solari blades. the shock forcing leona to try and find the information for herself, while the architect of the attrocity is hinted at(to set the stage for a future champion). because i don't see anything less than that getting through leona's naivety and making her realise that maybe the solari are not just or rightious or pure, but maybe they are using her as a figurehead, a convenient tool to seek out those who are their enemies and destroying them. it might be a bit of a tropey thing, but league uses a lot of tropes in its world.

Not so unbreakable now huh?

@@abrarnoorani8385 i mean makes him so interesting and understandable. Hes the unbroken spear. Someone whos isnt suppose to break but he does after the ruination and now he has a crisis of faith whether his mission is a lost cause or not. Which makes the call so much more better

His body won’t break but after what he’s been through it’s his Will that broke. But luckily he rebuilt himself in this Cinematic

He found the courage to ascend targon again.

It depends, if he dies freezing who would come? the Lamb or the Wolf?

@@PixelAspen it's basically suicide since he willingly dressed like that so the lamb

I think Olaf being shirtless is partially for himself because of his prophecy. He wants to expose himself as much as possible to try and die (though he wants to die a heroic death).

I just like the idea of Olaf being confronted with non-honorable, fatal scenarios and being like, “nope,” and just not dying lol

@@PixelAspen Lamb will claim him despite his protests

I think they went too far with sejuani she is meant to be the same age as Ashe (early 20's)

@@craftworded true, but in sejuani's case, she likely has been forged by their environment in a big way. sejuani has been in so many battles and fighting so much that in a way it has metaphorically aged her up.

@@Shythalia The plasticity of Lux's face in that cinematic is what i was thinking of when i was writing this comment lol

@@Shythalia in the warrior cinematic they run out of time, money or both before they finished Lux face you cant me convince otherwise.

I honestly genuinely don't like this artstyle. I can see that it is objectively very impressive, and I admire how well it is made, but something about it feels uncanny. The hair of the characters looks a bit too plastic like, so does their entire body actually. Imo it all looks a bit too fake to be real but also too real to be fake in this uncomfortable every time I look at it kind of way

@@nonamesorry7135 the hair just looks like a really high-qual wig lol

I've seen quite a few reactions to that trailer and several people actually thought some of the Pantheon shots are live action lol

@@mira.r It reminds me of early final fantasy movies, hair is the only thing bugging me the entire animation.

Yea! And I think it's possible to implement that on her face mark too, to balance the Ridiculous Smooth Skin.

yeah, the design does a good job of implying "hey, if you took the void suit off... how much human would there still be underneath?"

But one Rioter already denied it. It wasnt Aurelion

@Risky Well that's less interesting. Oh well.

It could also be Zoe doing a little trolling, her Q also throws a star

@@risky2166 They've lied to cover long term future stories or very soon to come stories before. Just look at the "Jinx and Vi are sisters" leak.

Maybe the stars were falling because void shenanigans?

Mountain tried to CC Olaf, that's why it didn't work

It's weird but it actually makes perfect sense

His power set is literally plot armour

The problem with Olaf is that he's just a regular human being. Yes, he's effectively immortal on a battlefield because of his prophecy but that doesn't mean he should be able to survive such a chunk of ice falling on his back, that doesn't make sense with his human condition. The fact the ice breaks on him is plot armor, but it's bad plot armor, good plot armor in this case would have been that somehow Olaf doesn't take it or only on a small part of his body like an arm or something, and his berserker rage would allow him to go on regardless.

@@markopusic8258 I just accept that even normal humans in Runeterra are superhumans in our world.

I noticed that as well and I thought it was a very nice change. She looks... unhealthy, very pale, skin isn't in the best shape with visible wrinkles, while there is some "make-up" its dark on pale skin and along with the dark color of the void-mass on her kind of adds to the impression that all the color is being drained out of her.

Finally, they mad her look voidly, not just sexy !

My thoughts exactly. Especially after reading Pantheon's updated lore makes me love him more as a champion.

That and Pantheon is meant to look like a Greek warrior (specifically Leonidas) so he has the eye liner.

Eyeliner was also originally invented in Egypt to prevent burns on the face. It could also be taken as exaustion greying around the eyes, but limited by technology.

He wouldn't want anything protecting him incase an enemy got a solid blow after all

The Ursine in the cinematic are also designed after the Stormclaw Ursine of Legends of Runeterra.

fairly sure she’s deliberately not using it

Deliberately? If that's the case then she should either drop the shield so it isn't weighing down her shoulder (and thus causing fatigue) or mount the shield on her back so she has protection there. Either way would free up her other hand and thus she'd be able to start two-handing her sword for (arguably) better control and give her opponent fewer openings to attack. Not that I recommend dropping your shield when your opponent is using a spear, which has more range than a sword, but still. If she's not actually planning to use her shield, then why would she bother showing up to combat with it?

Thank you Skyen 😁

Yep, the city is Xolan, and the “Faceless God” is Xolaani, an ascended who may have invented the Darkin’s blood magic. She’s probably gonna be a champion later this year.

Actually no. Tenebrix had a chat about with some people of riot and they confirmed that it was NOT Aurelion Sol. Unfortunatly they did not reveal who it was instead...

My best guess would be Zoe.

@@zaclittlejohn2701 Ehhh I don't think so. It doesn't make much sense that it would be Zoe, I think. She's a prankster, why would she be actively trying to be THAT destructive? That attack would have killed a lesser man. I don't think she would ACCIDENTALLY cause a giant meteor shower on Targon.

I love that Kai'sa doesn't look perfect in this. She looks paler than normal, her suit while not being much different has pretty deep cuts that look like a purple infection and if you look closely the suit gets a darker and sleeker tone to decrease air resistance at the end like it knows if Rek'sai catches them it's 100% death.

@@zaclittlejohn2701 yeah, headcannon for me is that she is more pale because the void parasite of her suit is feeding off of her.

I think it's Zoe, but A-sol makes sense. Zoe seems to be the one who would be a carry shooting from the top of the mountain while Leona distracts Pantheon.

But she’s probably gonna be a champion at some point this year.

@@cartoonishidealism582 I'm pretty sure she's long gone since the next champ should be from piltover then the void champ should be a monster