Shortly after Udiri and Aurelion Sol, another League of Legends champion will be getting a complete overhaul. This is Scarner, the crystal guard.
Recall that the champion update was in the public vote earlier this year. Players had a choice of 5 champions: Trindammer, Shivana, Nocturne, Kogmau, and Skarner – and the latter won. The champion has been on Summoner’s Rift in August 2011 for over 10 years.. As such, the studio will benefit from the high end of its redesign: MVG, visual and gameplay improvements (or MGU in English, which aims to change everything in the champion to make it almost new).
Even though the studio hasn’t started working yet, they wanted to share new concepts created by the community member.
Early fan concepts
The developers will explore and review a few ways to find the best solution for our old crystal protector. The concepts featured above were suggested by a Scarner Larry fan. brave Ray and is described as follows:
- first two rows This is an attempt to make Scarner almost identical at the same time, adding a few nice things to set him apart from the classic Scorpion version, making him a bit more unique to the League of Legends roster.
- third row He discusses ways to completely reinvent box cutters. They imagine them as guardians of the ancient Shuriman civilization before it was lost in the sand. Thus, the Broker would become a collection of crystals containing the souls of thousands of elite warriors.
- last line Examine Scarner’s version which reveals his current history. We haven’t developed it yet, but in this model Piltover has been conquered and experimented with to create a controlled Hextech Guardian. Still regaining his memories, he fled Piltover and fled with a burning desire to destroy the city for what he had done to his countrymen and himself. There is now a nice Hextech optimizer to help it. Piltover will soon receive its own currency and most likely the tax will be very high.
Suffice to say that the third version proposed seems very attractive on paper. Not only does the design show a tougher champion, but the references around it are also very interesting. This will give a lot of depth to the champion and allow him to better immerse himself in the history of Runeterra.
It is not possible to say that Riot Games will be inspired by these concepts, which must be admitted to be rather successful – but the studio would like to point out that nothing has been decided yet.. When Riot officially goes live on Skarner, it will share a much bigger/developer blog with a lot more information about game design and storytelling.
Complete repairs take too long, We may have to wait until early 2023 to finally see Crystal Guardian 2.0.
Source : Millenium
