#Blitzcrank

[anothertina]

Lovebirds 💕 (aka my favorite TFT augment)

[aurelion-solar]

Zaun - Champion Illustration Summoner Icons

[n3l-01]

Viktor doodles 💞💕💓💗💘

[cannibal-nightmares]

viktor and his enormous child, blitzcrank <3

[ohnoitstbskyen]

Ok this is a very specific question, but I don't play league and really have no intention of (as most I've watched arcane and won't go farther than that) but are there any characters or skins the invoke a gundam-esc aesthetic?

Oh yes, quite a few actually.

There's the Mecha skin line for the obvious pick, albeit that is more explicitly based on Pacific Rim than Gundam. It's all about the champions being rendered as giant robots battling Kaiju in a near-modern sci-fi setting:

And then there's the Lancer skin line, which is now discontinued, which drew from Gundam aesthetics among other things, mixing it in with a nominally medieval tech-level setting where the mechs are seen as protector gods or destroyers of the world:

And finally there's Mecha Kingdoms, which sort of tried to combine the two previous skin lines. Like Mecha, it's centered around heroes using giant robots to fight horrible kaiju monsters and protect the world, and like Lancer it's set in a medieval fantasy setting, except this time it's a Wuxia-based world rather than European medieval:

[alstanfordart]

Baby Viktor made a little friend.

Today is actually Viktor's birthday.🎂 Finished this just in time.

[phalanxus]

He will learn, one day

[dastardlydumb]

the aftermath of blitzcrank's poro roundup.png

[me-and-my-hyperfixations]

Team Zaun

City of Iron and Glass

[ryunumber]

Blitzcrank from League of Legends

Blitzcrank has a Ryu Number of 3.

[littlebeesart]

1920s au thus far!

on twitter I asked if people would be more interested in the 1920s (somewhat Speakeasy)AU or the 1940s (Noire)AU

And 1920s took the win! I am going to be working with my partner as they are the creator of this story and I'll be sharing loads more!

Totally hit me up with any questions you have!💛

[cmykristyart]

Fan Sprites of Jayce, Viktor, and Blitzcrank in The Mageseeker. Father-Bot research outing featuring a guy trying to avoid an international incident.

They don’t follow the game’s character sprite translation guide and are a little over-rendered, but it was fun to make!

[aurelion-solar]

Bee'Koz, Beezcrank & King Beegar Splash Art 🐝

[vikjaycecodex]

빅토르

옷주인에게.

via  @morazizg  

[bringthekaos]

I just relized something that I don't think enough people talk about. We keep thinking the heartbreak of Jayce and Viktor that will happen. Viktor becoming the Machine Herald. We are not ready for that. But also-

WE WON’T BE READY FOR VIKTOR AND BLITZCRANK'S HEARTBREAK

This is gonna be as emotional as the fucking iron giant, AND WE ALL WILL CRY

Viktor building, bonding with Blitz. Learning about Blitz having a mind of it's own. Trying to keep his baby safe from the council.

I'm not gonna be ready for that 😭

Honestly the whole Viktor/Blitzcrank bond speaks volumes to me. Like… Viktor created this living being that developed emotions of its own, and like… he doesn’t consider that a flaw in the golem. He never considers “removing” the emotion from Blitzcrank (to my knowledge?? Correct me if I’m wrong Leaguies). He considered it a flaw in himself, removed them from himself (Thor “did he though” meme) but when Blitz exhibits signs of consciousness and emotion, he just… lets it be. Like… for a guy who preaches rising above emotion, that’s just a huge sign that Viktor does view a certain degree of emotion as essential to being alive, he just… struggles with them himself.

Also… I personally think things are gunna play out differently in Arcane. I think the council attack is the beginning of the end for Viktor’s time in Piltover, and that his exile will follow shortly after. I don’t think he’s even gunna be able to create Blitz before he’s exiled. So maybe he’ll create Blitz while he’s also undergoing his transformation into MH? And the two of them are born/reborn together?? Then the whole “council trying to take Blitz away/deprogram them” will either come much later, once Viktor is already the Herald, or it won’t happen at all/it’ll be reworked. Cuz once the cities officially split, the Piltover Council really won’t have any say in what a Citizen of Zaun does (granted Blitz is created using a Hextech gemstone, so maybe that’s where the Council’s objection comes in?) Or perhaps it’s switched around, and it’s the Chem Barons who are trying to seize Blitz for themselves? That could work, it is very valuable and groundbreaking technology.

Either way, you’re absolutely right, we’re not gunna be ready. Viktor will have lost so much at that point; his family, his home, his work, his… Jayce. And to finally have this incredible thing he created, to give it life and “raise” it like his own child, teach it about the world… only to be threatened with having that ripped from his grasp too?? Like goddamn, can he have one fucking thing for himself?!

[ohnoitstbskyen]

I know Riot would never do it, but do you feel like there's any champion in League that could benefit being split from their kit? Meaning the kit is perfectly fine, doesn't merit a rework, it just doesn't fit the Champion and their lore the best. If I were to give an example I'd say Morg.

When her Blackthorn skin came out I felt like it was such a perfect match for the kit and made a great case for why the kit deserves to be on a swamp warlock/witch. With its grasping vines and poisonous ground. This would give Morg the chance to get a new kit to better support her lore as a protector of the people and rivalry with Kayle.

I mean, yeah, Morgana is a great example of that kind of thing - her character's whole vibe is resistance against unjust exercise of power, forgiveness and redemption, but her KIT is nothing but chains and pains.

Her abilities are like Q: imprison a person, W: make them walk on flaming coals, E: a shield, and E: imprison even more people.

Of those, only her shield, which protects from crowd control, really works thematically with the idea of her as a liberator or a guardian against undue imprisonment and punishment. If anything, her kit seems like a much more natural fit for Kayle as a character.

Blitzcrank is another character whose kit isn't that great a fit for his character - in his story he's a heroic service-robot who spends his time helping the deprived of Zaun, cleaning up toxic waste and averting disasters. Like, his Q should at LEAST be useable for dragging allies out of danger as well as hooking enemies, but basically none of his kit supports that character fantasy AT ALL, and his ult straight up sucks for what he's supposed to be.

Kennen has the problem that his powers... it's not that they're a BAD fit for his story role, it's more that they're NO fit for it. They don't detract, but they also don't support it at all. He's supposed to be the agent of balance between the Eye of Twilight (Shen) and the Fist of Shadow (formerly Akali), a diplomatic mediator spurring the Eye to action and the Fist to calm, and that's just... NOT at all related to his lightning powers. Like, at ALL. They seem like utterly separate things.

Which is the same problem Skarner has - no real connection between his abilities and his story, although I guess maybe the rework is about to do something about that. Theoretically. If it ever comes out.