Zyra, Rise of the Thorns is Officially Revealed as League of Legends’ 101st Character << Gaming Irresponsibly

Last week, we posted the teaser of Zyra that Morello leaked to League fans. Just a few minutes ago, the official reveal hit the League of Legends front page. Here is that info, along with a little about what to expect with this interesting looking champ. She also has 4 ears… Weird… Morello is in italics.

Sometimes the most dangerous predators in the wild are the ones you’d never expect – even the vegetation in Valoran! Zyra, mysterious and alluring, is one powerful plant that is poised and ready to unleash nature’s fury on the League of Legends. As fierce as she is relentless, Zyra uses the deadly vines and wild overgrowth of the Plague Lands as her weapons, planting seeds on the battlefield that spring to life into powerful allies. Are you the type that takes great joy in laughing maniacally as the thorns rise up around your foes, shredding them to pieces with the power of nature itself? If so, you’ll go wild for Zyra, Rise of the Thorns.

Let’s throw another taste out there…
One of her abilities spawns a seed on the ground that, initially, does almost nothing.
And….go!

Originally Posted by Raithis

Would this be related to Sadida’s Shoe from Wakfu/Dofus? In Wakfu, they summon an immobile doll that doesn’t do anything. If you cast a spell on it, it comes to life depending on what the element of the spell was.

Wow, you actually did get the inspiration. It doesn’t play just like this (would have problems in LoL), but it sparked the idea.
Well done, sir.

Originally Posted by Inferno51

Morello, I created a champ that seems similar to your “Zyra” and you already have 48 Red posts on here and I will probably go through and read them eventually but for now I have some questions.1. Does she use a whip?
2. Is she a support?
3. If 2 is yes, is it universal / semi universal?
4. Will she have lore that ties her in with Lulu/Maokai?
5. If you do manage to answer these questions and the majoriy are yes, where did you hide the camera in my room?EDIT: So I went through and read the post and saw that she had an ability similar to my Q and she also had 2 cc and a slow, where the **** is the camera?

6. Can I just show up and give you guys champion ideas? (Some are unique, as in I haven’t seen them, while others are just for fun or lore.)

1) No
2) No
3 N/A
4) No
5) :P

The secret to design is that ideas aren’t that valuable or special on their own (that’s the easy part), but making it actually work, be fun to play as and against, be thematically cohesive, etc are the challenges. Pitching ideas can be fun for its own sake, but it’s not something we get a ton of value on (and can end up in ugly legal stuff if we’re not careful).

A mysterious, grainy, picture is our first clue about the League of Legends’ 101st Champion. This news comes before the release of League of Legends 100th Champ, Jayce. Lead Champion Designer, Morello, decided to let some info slip in a “red” post today in the League of Legends’ forums.

While I maintain that Jayce’s whole weapon-transforming thing is really fun, it’s really not about some big mega-release milestone. It’s a nice round number, sure, but I think it’d be kind of ****ty of us if we were holding something back for this that we’d had been capable of doing previously.

I kind of see it as every champion needs to be a milestone of some kind – just trying to do something we hadn’t done before in regards to gameplay, art, lore, or any mixture of them. I’ll talk more about a couple of the big issues (monsters, why 3 masculine-style males so close) in a future post, but for this I wanna focus on the specific “champ 100 thing.” I feel if there was something more special we could have done here, why aren’t we doing that for every champion?

I actually did a quick interview for a cool little video that takes a look back at our first 100 champions…it shows some of the process we use and a bit of revealing the man behind the curtain. I think that goes live next week.

So, I probably shouldn’t do this, but what the Hell. I’m really stoked about champion 101 too because I got to work much much more directly on it than I usually do and it’s an archetype I think we’ve needed. I’ll….plant a little teaser for you.

(Hint, she’s not made of flesh):

So… We know that this is that Plant Mage we have heard about. We also believe her name is Zyra, as hinted at in the forums but also the name of the picture as well. We’ll be sure to post any additional info that we can as soon as it surfaces. Are you looking forward to this champ or still awaiting Jayce?