Nah, maybe IF he will get a legendary at some point. They designed him before that meme was trending, teaser means that he's ready and soon will be on PBE
Nothing against the design, looks sick as hell. BUT PLEASE HIS EYES MAKE ME REMEMBER THE SONIC DESIGN THAT GOT REBOOTED FOR THE LIVE ACTION MOVIE. Please do something about it xoxo
Feeling like it's another "sonic movie" moment. The concept and the lines are pretty cute but I think that pushing the design further into cartoonish and getting rid of the humanoid face would work wonders for this little fella
Seconded, where he stands now feels like there were two sides to his design and what we got was a halfway compromise. A little too human looking to appeal as a dragon, and a little too dragon to be anything close to human.
Usually that’s the case. The decision-making is abysmal. Is it a game THEY want or we, the consumers, want? Really out of touch with how egdelords we are.
@@Zaim4evait’s not even just that we are all edge lords. The theme of the game is strongest champions of in game world vs each other. Like it or not battle is a core theme of league. Yet riot keeps turning it into a daycare with more and more children and overly cute characters. It’s one things to introduce characters like that slowly over time. But riot just keeps pumping them out. Now we get milio with wings.
@@harryharper5358 I mean Brier is absolutely given the cute gothy young monster girl vibe. The darken dog I feel like is a terrible design but that’s subjective and it hardly counts as a big win because the community basically had to beg riot way in advance not to overly sexualize their future female darken that had been hinted at very early into her planning.
I hope his voice lines are more tolerable than milio's. If I have to listen to another child talk about how much they love and appreciate the world and their family and how everything is awesome I'm going to neck.
This is just "Raya" all over again with the dragon with Frozen Elsa's face but even worse somehow, it looks horrible riot managed to create one of the most hideous dragon designs in existence with the new champ
Perfect english is totally normal. They are also different languages in Runeterra but still everyone speaks english for obvious reasons. Dragon will also have there Own language, cause theyre intelligent, so it makes sense to let them speak english for same reason. But i agree with the face part. I understand why they did it, cause its harder to fit a personality into a character that has no human traits and if they can they are mostly just scary (Reksai, Khazix) but yeah. Still think hes cute though.
Everyone is collectively holding their breath hoping that either the model gets changed before release or there is a secretly amazing reason for weird human-face. I was looking forward to this champ, tiny cute dragon feels like it should have been such an easy win.
a shyvana rework would've been a million times better than this new cringe champion taken from one of the devs 5 year old terrible drawings and imagination. Riot wants 5 year olds to play LoL now i guess
Facts on facts on facts on facts, I was really expecting him to be an evolving dragon, he's still cool tho but the more I read the comments the more I became bothered by his face, I hope Riot changes his face.
Unlike most commenters here i don't mind the original design, but i get the idea of making his face a bit more dragon-ish. It's fine. :) Overall a cute, adorable and awesome character. 💚 And yea, haters gonna hate. :P
I guess the questions that remains is... why is Smolder capable of human speech while their mom is not and why is Smolder's face very humanized, lacking an elongated snout/jaw, again, unlike their mother? Maybe their father is a different kind of dragon or maybe they are leaning into that Human/Dragon relationship they somewhat have done with Jarvan IV and Shyvana. Other than that, they really are trying to reel in the Spyro fans with this one.
He can speak because his father is human if you look at his first character announcement it says he is of royal decent so if you know who is of royal status in the league universe it's easy to narrow down who it might possibly be
I wonder if their art director and community manager have good communication at all, the player base in general is clearly unhappy about how this character looks, and yet I don't see Riot addressing this. *Edit* I have heard Riot is fixing Smolder's face, I'm very happy to know they DO LISTEN to their players and community, thank you Riot! 🥰
@@samumohacsi briar feels more like a child (mentally not physically) learning about the world since she just escaped and also insane because she was made to be a weapon
@@samumohacsiwhat the fuck do you mean she feels like vampire jinx, why do you people complain about literally everything that is actually alright just stay silent in your cave it's better that way
They could've gone for a something with a similar style to Spyro and it would've been amazing, but this is just Skylanders Spyro but way worse somehow. This new champ looks so bad.
They chose the most independent low budget animations studio main protagonist looking design and gave it a voice and personality to match. All that's missing is him being awed by everything and clumsy. Also dense as the bottom of the sea.
14 champions including reworks to zeri and ksante between the survey being completed and skarner actually coming out. dude it's just matter of reallocating resources on something that is right now a debt. hell, we still don't have 20 bans for 170 champions, and every single champion released after ornn has been permanently meta
Honestly since it seems like you are out of the loop the rework seems to almost be done as they have all the main abilities handled and the look completed we can probably expect it soon
@@falros7402 not even battlecast skarner is revealed. 14 champion releases just before this rework. It's not being out of the loop, it's being impressed at the incompetence of these people that don't care about any playerbase or game health.
Pretty sure they've announced that skarner is next after smolder. And VGUs take longer than new champions, it takes longer to find ways to do it while keeping their mains happy than making something from scratch. Not to mention updating all of their skins at the same time... skarner hasnt taken longer than the other VGUs
I can't really add to what has already been said. The little excitement I had for a new dragon champion is immediately dampened by the kid voice. And I also think that they should have leant more into the dragon aesthetic instead of uncanny valley with the human traits
Is Smolder a half-dragon.. or just confusingly human-faced? Normally I love dragons, especially the chance to play as one, but really not sure what to make of this. edit: the eyes are the strangest part, to me.. if it had eyes like other dragons in League then maybe the face wouldn't feel as odd. It's definitely the humanoid eyes that are making this go from strange-but-still-kinda-cute to creepy and uncanny. Would love to see the idea work, truly- but something's just 'off' as-is.
@@OnlyGetty That was Belveth they said that about. Naafiri was the monster champion in question. Disappointing though because there is nothing monstrous about her.
@@riven4121 wdym there is nothing monstrous about her, did you not look at the design for even a second? Why complain about the actually good things now
@@leviathan8282 What is monstrous about Naafiri? Naafiri is quite literally nothing more than a red dog with some spikes. She is less monstrous than Bel'Veth who wasn't even intended to look it. Bel's ult form puts Naafiri's entire design to shame without even trying
Imagine he grows up like cho gath or like kayle, I would buy all his skins, not this uncanny creepy looking dragon kid. I was so excited waiting for a real dragon monster champion. Not this creepy design
How did they fuck him up that badly? HOW!!! they got the baby dragon design right 9 years ago when they made it a gun for a Tristanna skin... why do they keep doing this, why can't an animal/monster champ just be an animal/monster why do they have to humanize it as much as possible and make it uncanny and awful. Edit: OMG I just noticed it has ears... wtf it's a Dragon, aka a reptile... and they stick stupid ass cat like ears on it... I can't 😭
If I had a nickel for everytime riot started the year with a fire themed childish champion I'd have two nickels... Which is not a lot but it's weird it happened twice
I think his color palatte and huge ears are nice but i would like his face and snout to be more dragoney. Controversial take but if yuumi can be a champion, he definitely can. Im not opposed to talking animal characters, but i would like to see his dragon features pushed more. Bigger eyes and longer snout and such
Comparing with Yuumi is a fair take, but lore wise, while Yuumi makes sense, a speaking dragon is not. There is a bunch of different pure dragons in LoR (even in lol there are 7), and none of them speak, they are literally monsters. Yuumi is from Bandle City, which is like a separate dimension, and it is like a fairy tale. These are all makes sense, a speaking baby dragon with human like face not. But we should wait for his lore, maybe they will explain it.
fr this people cry over everything, its not that hard to understand that he is HER SON,he dont need to be the same as her 😒or he don't need to look just like her and he is just a child
If he's in a twisted background like having a human father? Or a transmuted birth that makes him human-faced, because they want a highly intelligent dragon as a weapon, maybe I'll take it. But doing that design as an adventure kid like Milio, nahh. It's 1:2 ratio of cute and uncanny EDIT: i just saw his in game and splash model, and it looks much better than this. Much more dragon-like. MAYBE this is another cinematic issue
If they wanted him more antropomorphic he could be a kid dragon that turns into human or vice versa (a DK from Dota kind of thing), better than having this uncanny valley face. D&D dragons always had the ability to turn into humans and speak like humans, so is not like that would be new to Dragon lore.
Can you do anything different than disney or dark sasuke character ? 10 years and I still wait to play a real dragon in this game... Why he look like Atreus with annoying voice ? I'm not against a cute little dragon but.. make him cute ! This is just creepy and cringe !
Riot not only won't give that to us, they shut down at least 4 fan projects that were attempting to do just that, one of which was nearly finished and they stole and used code from it. Riot silenced and buried these projects by any means necessary. Posts and threads were forcibly deleted, accounts were banned, and more/worse. They didn't go about this in a legit manner either, they did some shady shit (and as mentioned stole and used original code among other deplorable methods). All of this and more, plus lack of Linux support, decreases in quality, bad "balancing", tampering with the meta, greed, laziness, spaghetti code, a bad client, and etc. are why I gave up on this game. Lots of games, companies, developers, communities, publishers, series, franchises, and etc. have gone downhill over the years but none quite like this one. I'd say Riot has had the most uniquely self-destructive and toxic downfall despite peak player counts, popularity, esports, revenue, potential, and their clear aspirations for a bigger picture if they intended to make an MMO (though their sabotaging any hopes they have for short-term gains).
@@Zladnyli still don't understand how people still play the game. The meta did not change in 4 years, there are a ton of champions but the only ayable ones are like 40 still. And all this new champions doesn't make any sense, they are all hit or miss. They even made the new 2v2 game mode, but it's probably the worst thing in the game yet, at least is something new, but at the same time, you can't do a 2v2 game mode on a 5v5 game. There are so many broken champions that you need an entire team to beat, while in 2v2 you just wait for your death, and yes I'm talking to everyone who picks swain in that game mode, really funny yeah.
This is, the most boring champion I’ve ever seen. Kit aside I can’t see why anyone would want to play a generic kid dragon that looks more human than shyvanna? First time I actually hope a champion straight up doesn’t release.
It's cute, I wanna like him, but we just got Milio and hes just so simmilar in charachter and voice, I was hoping for a young adult dragon or a fully mature one, I guess he would be simmilar to Asol then, but i don't think I would complain if he was, I love Asol just as much as Shyvana(in terms of character design). But still I'm glad theyre adding more non-human champs, and that he obviously isn't JV.
Exactly. I love dragons but Smoulder just reeks of corporate meddling. Like I can just imagine the team wanting to make a dragon champion only for the execs to turn around and say "fine you can have a monster champion but they gotta be appealing to a large audience" and since we already have sexy dragon lady Shyvana they went the other direction and made a cute Disney character
@@dragonicdoom3772all recent champs, especially monster champs, have been that way. lol riot says here’s the monster champs you wanted and every single one is cute or some fetish to sell skins.
3 guesses 1. Support like character so personally can accept him being little throughout, kind of like Yumi 2. Ult calls Mama Dragon and she takes over for a bit 3. As Smolder levels up he grows into a full grown dragon, which while I like the best, makes me wonder how they explain it in lore.
