Our UI team really had some fun here designing effects that celebrate key moments in champ select. If you’ve been playing in the blind pick queue, you’ve already seen the flashy stuff that happens when you highlight and lock in a champ, but the ban phase is new to the alpha.
Little bits of extra visual flair have been added throughout the process to not only better highlight whose turn it is, but to make each stage of the champ select process (pick intent, banning, champ selection) feel meaningful and distinct.
Now, whenever you ban a champ, a beam of arcane banmagic rips through the OP champ’s portrait, splitting it in half and cracking the glass above the image. The banbeam then ricochets to the top corner of the screen, stuffing the shattered spirit of the banned champ into a cute little box, where it’s displayed for all to see.
As each player locks in their picks and bans, the hextech wheel in the center of the screen spins and morphs to highlight which player is currently banning or picking, and you’ll hear audible champion quotes depending on who gets banned.
These changes are purely aesthetic—not game design changes. If you were hoping for extra bans, the ability to buy skins in champ select, or any other much-requested champ select features, this might feel like a let-down, but hang with us. Remember, our big goal right now for the client update alpha is to rebuild and tune all the current client’s features. Once the alpha client is ready to actually replace the legacy client, our teams will be freed up to pursue new features and actual game design changes.
i just noticed that spirit guard udyr’s sandals are a japanese style sandals that clonks very loudly on pavement and stone. why doesn’t udyr clonk around the rift D:<
Spirit Guard: Udyr - League of Legends fan art by Alessandro Baldasseroni
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