LOL: Riot reveals that K'Sante's mechanics was inspired by Naruto's character
K'Santa is the newest champion of League of Legends and will arrive at MOB in early November. On Tuesday (18), Riot Games revealed a series of information about the process of creating the character, ranging from its mechanics within the game inspired by the anime Naruto, to the influence of Ghana at the origin of K'Santa, and The fact that he is a champion who is part of the LGBTQIA+community. In the text below, read more about these and other topics about LOL's 162nd character.
- K'Santa and Rock Lee de Naruto
- a monster hunter
- Ghana: The main inspiration for the creation of K'Santa
- A love interrupted by pride
K'Santa and Rock Lee de Naruto
For Rioter Book Azure Ndefo-Dah, which is the game designer responsible for K'Santa, tanks are very strong characters, but this always comes with some disadvantage, such as facing duelists who make them suffer, especially under towers. In the case of K'Santa, Devs wanted to create a champion who could occasionally avoid these situations.
The Champion's Skills Kit does many things, offers shield, dash for allies and group control, as well as climbing with defensive statistics. A nice curiosity is that the champion's ultimate unique way was inspired by the Naruto anime when Rock Lee takes his legs out of his legs to fight.
While developing the ultimate K'Santa, I kept thinking about that Naruto scene where Rock Lee takes his weights off his legs and everyone wonders, 'Wait, he can do that?' When I presented the design From K'Santa, that's how I explained his ultimate, Azure jokes. The proposal was that he would be in the forefront of a team confrontation, used all the skills to protect the carries, prepare the ground for the team, and when everything was in time to recharge, say, 'Well, I spent everything. General slaughter! '.
a monster hunter
For Riot, it was also very important to explain why K'Santa has become a hunter of dangerous monsters and creatures. According to developers, during the Suriname conflict between Darwin and ascendants, unfortunately many people became refugees. Part of them founded the city of Nkrumah, which is close to an oasis. However, being one of the few sources of water in a desert giant, they had to learn early to defend themselves from emptiness raids, light sand, looters and other threats.
Everything worsened even more when Death forced the Suriname desert monsters to pass the ritual of ascension, which made them even more dangerous and lethal. In this way, the city has a number of monster hunters, all proud to protect themselves and their fellow men.
Nkrumah monster hunters are considered true idols by their people and even reach a certain celeity status. I like to compare them with Olympic athletes. K'as ante trained his entire life to reach his level.
Ghana: The main inspiration for the creation of K'Santa
For Azure, many of League of Legends's black characters are defined by a great tragedy, something Riot didn't want to repeat with K'Santa's story. There is no black champion like Garden, who faces problems but is not defined by them.
After defining the context of the story of the champion, it was time to think of its origins as well. From a Nigerian family, Azure thought of Africa and found in Ghana a way to K'Santa's journey. Finding references in designers, photographers and other Ganesh professionals, everything was defined.
We wanted to capture the viant prints and tissues of the country. West Africa is known for its tissues. Kent is one of the most famous faics in the world and comes from Ghana. The result is seen in the clothes that K'Santa wears in the game.
A love interrupted by pride
K'Infant is a black and gay man. According to Riot, his personality is the type that is very charging. And this charge is the result of the dream of being the greatest hunter of monsters of Nkrumah and the desire to prove his own value to his people and... well, himself. It is an extremely haughty Alumina: he fights the ascendants, and It is proud of how hard it struggled to become who it is today. However, blind pride and undoubtedly hurt the people we love most.
His ex-boyfriend, top, was calm and moderate, while K'Santa lives stressed. Together they balanced and could do anything together until they fell in love, although the exaggerated pride harmed the relationship.
One hour, they were unable to kill the Boccie lion snake that were hunting. That's when the quarrel began. K'Santa needed to kill the monster to meet the very expectations of being a heroic hunter and an idol for the Nanite people Top tried to convince him to put his foot on the ake and take a eak, but the two ended up fighting again, explains Michael Skiptomyluo Duo, senior narrative writer.
Romantic relationships often reveal several of our worst characteristics. But in general, I wanted everyone to identify with the story of K'Santa and Top, explained Skiptomyluo. We collaborate with Rainbow Rioters to create a common experience in relationships, one in which you and the other person cannot express their feelings and frustrations to each other. And their pair is not able to make clear the feelings and personal frustrations to the Which one is giving priority. Hence, after all, you have to follow different ways, whether in a romance, friendship or some other relationship. In the end, K'Santa and Top mature with experience and recognize that each one carries A portion of guilt for the eakup, but remain friends.
In terms of diversity and representativeness, we are facing a good story, but it is always possible to go beyond. For Azure, good representativeness does not come from the creation of something perfect, but from continuous creation. And he continues: I spent a lot of time talking to Skiptomyluo about K'Santa's sexuality, because, guess what: I'm gay. I have a lot of opinions about the story of the champion. She's not perfect-there's no way. So I put myself In place of the playing community and I thought about the question not as a LOL developer, but as a black man and gay. I wondered, 'How does someone who plays the game, it seems to me a good and serious attempt? ? '.
According to the developer, this is not a story, let alone a perfect representation. A male and gay character doesn't pay for all the LGBTQIA+ characters we stop doing. But deep down, I think the answer is 'yes'. Yes, I think it's worthy. It's a beginning. Now we just have to do it again. And again. And again.
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