Creative Collaboration: Making League of Legends Champions 

I need an hour long documentary on this.

Rakan: "I love you" Xayah: "I know" Rakan: "I LOVE YOU" Xayah: "I KNOW"

2:47 bless this guy for making one of the most unique champion designs and still i think Kindred was his best creation yet

Riot in 2017: Okay guys, we need a 100 person team working for over a year on a regimented design process to build a unique, thematic character who fits into the world and lore while serving a purpose in-game and identifying with a player base while also adding their own flair and gameplay mechanics to an already incredibly diverse experience. Riot in 2009: What about an annoying little mushroom panda thing?

“we tend to really draw from our personal lives“ soooo... who was the creater of amumu? :P

"we dont have true lovers in league of legends" rip all ships ever

Videos like this make me wanna be a concept artist.

Rioters are so passionate about the game, I love seeing what happens behind the scenes ❤

I legit was sad when it ended. Need more of such documentaries

"I love you" + "I know" I'm so proud of you Riot.

Wow I'm actually really impressed by the way this is so professional. This needs to be a full documentary about the design process. It would be awesome too cuz I know a lot of players that have been so impressed and fascinated by the character designs and art direction.

"We all then to draw from our lives and our experiences" Have you ever walked on the street and just saw the aspect of beauty walking on the street ? The story of Urgot~

The Void. *cough*

Who said: Bard, Ekko, Kindred, Aurelion Sol, Ivern ? Most innovative (mechanics) champs in game!

"A lot of inspiration from our own lives" *looks over at the Shadow Isles crew* Boy, these guys have some interesting lives

We need a champion, that gets stronger when an enemy kills an ally near by.

*casually floats by*

Vampiric Scepter 10% Lifesteal Blade of the ruined King 15% Lifesteal League of Legends 200% Lifesteal

Everyone is shouting about abilities of some champions. Yet here i am still in love with LoL's lore and every backstory of a champion. Am i alone at this?

@3:07 "what you don't wanna end up with is generic characters that don't feel real..." - Seraphine is exactly that

please more behind the Scenes footage

>She's wearing a Kindred hoodie >I want that kindred hoodie pls

Kayn looks amazing, I think it's the first champion I'll save IP to buy the first day he comes out on the live servers. Good Job Riot with the transform, I like how you can go tank or assasin, which can help if your team needs an extra tank who can burst other tanks. Amazing Champion, Thank You.

I wanna be like this guys since i am a kid i am making characters with skills and stories. Hope someday ill able to do this things

7:26 "..almost to the point of desaster." *shows picture of Teemo* wp Rito

4:53 has a character literally called "Rito" this is why we love riot

I find Xayah and Rakan the best champions of 2017 by far!

?I'm just wondering where is the guy who made Yasuo

whoever said they did mundo, thresh, nocturne, and fiddle has been there for a long ass time! ahaha

Thanks for bringing Rakan to life!

This is why I love league of legends so much, it became my passion to keep on playing and just enjoy the champions. Love documentaries/behind the scenes; so much effort being put and time being used to create wonderful champions with awesome background stories and skills and everything.

Xayah and Rakan are actually the reason I got into playing League of Legends. I saw thier trailer and just got mesmerized. Now I'm planning on cosplaying Xayah

This is amazing, please everytime you make a new champion make these backscenes.

Absolutely amazing to see some of the insides of development. You have no idea how much this drives me to go and become part of a team like this. Riot, you can expect an from me application in 3-4 years.

I'm totally amazed at how the work process is to create the character for a video game, everything from the concept art to its implementation in the game. Excellent video. Hope to see more videos like this.

What a hard work And what a great results League is special for this reason They put a lot of heart in it

I really thought it was like one of the producers said where someone has an idea for a champ and suddenly its just done, the amount of indepth work, research, and time that's put into these champions is insane, and this amount of love can be hard to find in a lot of competitive gaming companies that tend to churn stuff out for profit. this is truly wonderful~ i love leaggguee

It's actually amazing - what goes on behind the scenes!

I just watched this now and I'm really inspired cause I took multimedia arts track even though I'm only in high school right now I wanna grow up like these guys, they have passion for what they do

"my character become angry because someone killed them, not because they die" that's pyke isn't it?

i looove this Video! really impresses my how passionate these people work on lol. I play Lol since two years and enjoy it almost everyday. it also inspires me a lot to draw and create stuff. I love seeing concepts and the development of a new champion. My biggest dream would be to work at riot as an Illustrator or concept artist. however i know i'm not very good at drawing yet but i constantly work on it. So thanks for inspiring me and make such a great gaming experience possible!

Bless you rito ♥ Thanks for putting my drawing on this video. The whole video is amazing, inspiring and just brilliant!

I love this video so much, it just inspires and motivates me even more to become a concept artist, the dream job i really hope with all my heart i will get later. Literally thinking about designing a character makes me so exited and lets my creativity come out already, let's just hope i'll actually get that far in life later.

I really enjoy this. It's so cool to see the process that these talented people to go through to get the final product. I would really like to see this process compared to itself across multiple champions, what does it look like when you don't immediately agree on the idea of them being lovers, etc. I'm sure there's no real fighting but I'd like to see how the group comes to those decisions. In the best possible way, thanks Riot!

this looks so fun to do,

Give a round of applause for the creator of this game for giving us the surprises that they giving us for years

8:23 "They do different things with them" Pretty sure these guys have seen tons of LoL hentai

"3:10 What you don't want to end up with is generic characters that don't feel real and don't feel like they live and breath somewhere. " that sentence really didn't age well.

While these videos are awesome, they just make me envious of working at a company like that... womp womp.

This feels like a Kickstarter commercial

This is, by far, the best part about the champions. I certainly wouldn't mind a series of start to finish creation for all of them

LOVE the background music on this, the moldau is such a touching piece of music and paired perfectly with the "journey" of the champion designs

Thank you very much for making a behind the scenes on the process of making champions. Keep up the great work on creating believable and stunning characters Riot!

Please do more behind the scenes or making of videos! Ive recently graduated as a game artist so I love seeing these!

I'm so glad that made characters like these. The synergy is awesome!

So beautiful! Thanks for showing us your daily work, it's really nice. And thanks for all your efforts creating new champs and evolving the universe of this wonderful game, League of Legends.

MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS! So great and immersive! Love!

THIS IS WHY I LOVE RIOT!!!! FOR THE WORK THEY DOING FOR US

“Are the players gonna fall in love with it” just give every character a all out kda skin and make them hot that will happen

To Riot and it's personnel: You guys and gals did an amazing, truly amazing game and universe. And how you visualize them and bring them to life is a accomplishment I think you all must relish for all of your life. You inspired people to make their own stories (one of them being me), you made a world in which ours can relate, and how you people create such a well written fictional universe/storyline/setting was outstanding! Words may not be enough to express how much of a great job you people did to make something like this. This comes from a player who gives his appreciation and respects to your wonderful works. Keep growing Riot!

The concept of Yasuo must have come out from used toilet paper...

The most important thing is making sure that every champion has a 3 hit passive

This is actually so cool watching. I need 50 of these videos.

My dream is to be an artist for a game

So beautiful I teared up

You want to know what lve is?? Love is like throwing your support on 5 enemies so that the adc can escape. (lot of sacrifice)

That's why I love league of legends... I even cry while seeing this. Thank You!

I love the person who chose the music for this video. Simply beautiful.

yeah we love xayah and rakan especially when they are on the enemy team and. we get oneshot.

Music: "Die Moldau" (If you want to know..)

this is why working on riot and develop cheracter is my dream, because i rly love the way you work and i imagine myself working in ther with a lot of designers and concept artists and cheracting designers, you all put so much love in all the ideas and chempions you guys create, i realy want to be a part of this family... thas why im working realy hard to leran design to learn cheracting desgin and concept art... i still have a lot to lern and practice!!!!

I really like the champions you produced before 2017, Kled, Jhin, illaoi....they changed how I play the game completely, cause they are unique, they can do things no one else can do, and their personalities are also really creative.

this makes me wanna work at riot

One very serious question: 05:35 05:35 look at the model on the left side.... THAT. Why is the graphic not at that level in-game?! He looks one million times more beautiful as that level of graphic, if this could be done to all the champs it would be insane. I'm not saying the current graphics in-game looks ugly, but looking at that model at 03:35 just really made me say "wow, that looks amazing"

I love art, is my passion in life, seeing this process and just a little and minimum part of the BIG WORK all this people had to do for these champions, is amazing, so many hands putting all their skills and effort for a goal...wow...Im really captivated, impressed, I just fell in love with these champions since the beggining I saw them, their story, their appearance, personalities, the way they fight together, they really feel like a expression of Love, can't thank enough to the people who made them come to life.

Wonderful. The piano at the end was beautiful as well.

scribbles on a napkin....thats how zoe was made kappa im jk i love riot >w

I think the concept of teemo came out when one of them step on a shit.

Seeing the development of champions is just one of the coolest things ever, I swear

honestly, that piano at the end..... Riot has such an amazing music team. If you think about it, almost all league players like metal or pop or EDM and they are able to bring classic music to the game and everyone loves it

2:58 Secret Reveal Jhin is actually an alien.

I truly enjoy seeing people work on champions like this. I dream of doing this one day, and it's great to see at least a portion of what you guys do in the background. Thanks for your art and your game rito

This is fantastic, praise to the designer gods!!!! These guys do exactly what they beside and have designed factions and character that resonate with "MY" Personality and soul. Awesome feed me MORE!!!

Fantastic video. Love the artworks. Love watching and understanding the process for the creation of a character, absolutely amazing. Wish I could be better in character design and be part of a team who create characters. Great job guys.

Thank you, Riot. Every time i see videos like this, I can tell that is really are what I wanna do with my life, i wanna create characters that received life by your players, I think that is the best feeling in the world for a character design, for a concept artist, and this is what i wanna do. Thank you for the inspiration and the amazing game!

"we dont have true lovers in league of legends" ugh... whatabout Rek'sai and Kha'zix? Rammus and Scuttle crab?

Every second of this video is so amazingly made and just so goddamn good. Good job rito.

this is a love letter to all the artists at league so beautiful im actually crying

Jhins old design is sick, they should make it a skin

You know what league lacks? A champion who loves and appreciates everything around him /her and does everything to preserve it. He/She would love dancing, fighting with allies, a majestic sunset above summoner's rift, the monstrosity that is Baron Nashor, music, love, he or she would feel empathy, would remember every fight as a precious lesson even if it's a loss. You know. That champion would appreciate and love everything and in the lore he or she would like to make every nation being friends with each other. It all sounds so fake but this is a fantasy game after all. I just love every aspect of this game and i would like to play a champion that feels the same way i feel. I love every champion for a different reason, i love the lore behind league, every item seems to have such a deep story behind it, summoner's rift is full of life and i like every game i play no matter the result. I continue to play this game for 6 years now and i do it not because i wanna be the best but because i am in love with it.

you NEED to make a 40+ min documentary on this! Its so interesting seeing how you guys work

This is heavily needed, its so helpful for my road to becoming a concept artist

SUPER triggered at the guy wearing the Razer Krakens BACKWARDS at 2:53 lol

i don't think they realize how brokenly op xayah is

I dont know why but for some reason this made me feel quite melancholic... There's something magicall about seeig a character come to life as if the artits and evelopers are giving a brand new toy to the comunity :)

I honestly felt so connected on how they described Xayah. That was was amazing.

Now do one on the riot balance team.

like .. it would be my dream job !

I love these two champs and how beautiful they are together! AND LOVE Rakan supp, he is nothing like the previous ones.

I really want to dedicate to create characters for games, this video really motivates me to keep going, it's just fantastic