I love how Nicky says "I wonder if they're gonna give Shyvana a stacking mechanic like Smolder and Asol" when her passive already has infinite stacking
I mean, theoreticaly you're right. But if you manage to hit as little as 6 stack of her "Infinite" scaling, there something wrong, or very weird, with your game...
@@Darkprosper neeko and lillia are NOT trying to be disney characters, nor do they start to lean into that aesthetic. They are cute but not at all disney, which was his whole point.
@@BacchusGames I suppose that's subjective, but Lillia is very much the cute, quirky girl with protagonist energy that Disney has been in love with since Rapunzel (see also Anna from Frozen and Asha from Wish). Her design and especially animations are also very cartoony. Neeko maybe less, but her tone and design do lean into Disney designs in my opinion. Maybe they aren't trying to be, but they very much fit, I would say. I could very easily imagine Lillia in a Fantasia short, or a Pixar fairy-based movie. And Neeko would work perfectly as a funny sidekick in a main Disney movie.
This is exactly what me and my friend were talking about. He’s just a fire cat/bat. Even cat-based dragons in media (like toothless) still look like dragons. Smolder just does not read “dragon” to me at all. Like, even his concept art screams “weird magical cat”
Milio is someone I'd consider in the 'cute Disney character' kind of archetype. A lot of the champions you mentioned in that aesthetic have a trope of "finding yourself", and Milio has that in spades. Not to mention he has Nu-Disney kind of logically fantastical background in how his fuemigos are. They're the cute mascot character you always have alongside the main character. Not in a Disney way in particular, but very Studio Ghibli.
I always hated that the term "Disney" is basically a buzzword in the League community for any champ that is mildly positive or cute. Disney didn't invent cute and happy and bubbly things but that term got thrown around with Zoe's reveal and it's unfortunately just stuck and is always so reductive and frustrating to see because it makes no sense outside of being a stupid buzzword. BUT Milio is the one time it makes sense and has actual grounds, because they openly admitted to being heavily inspired by Encanto, which you can really see.
To me it really just comes down to the eyes. I think if they changed his sclera to yellow or green or something it could convey the dragon vibe a bit stronger. Hell, maybe even just give him glossy dark eyes to make it more puppy-like since they already are using a dog noise in his recall
Nah, I tried that in Photoshop. It doesn't do anything. His mouth needs to be way wider and he needs to have an actual snout. Making his head a bit flatter also helps.
The other reason he looks uncanny is because his eyes are sunken into his face, and they’re both completely front-facing in parallel. Even the baby dinosaurs in Land Before Time don’t look so anthropomorphic.
The other reason he looks uncanny is because his eyes are sunken into his face, and they’re both completely front-facing in parallel. Even the baby dinosaurs in Land Before Time don’t look so anthropomorphic.
The thing is that in almost all the concept art they showed in the insights, the humanish face actually kind of works… because he’s not smiling. He’s either looks imperious or like he’s about to pounce, both of which work because A.) he doesn’t obviously have or use cheek muscles in those expressions, making the face seem less puffy, and B.) his eyes are narrowed. It looks much more snakelike than the weird monkey-ish face and expressions they ended up using, especially the round inset eyes. He definitely still needs a longer snout though.
If he carried himself (and held his face) like he does in the concepts he would look much better. I love that pompous and obnoxious look he has, where he looks like he owns the place. That would be a really appealing champion while still allowing him to be cute.
Smolder is a real word, that rhymes with boulder. It's not meant to be a play on "smol". Smolder is a verb which means to burn slowly without flame. So shining sunlight through a magnifying glass would cause something to smolder (because it burns despite there being no open flame).
@@Darkprosper True, but my comment is more to do with the fact that Nicky was pronouncing it "Small-der" and not "Smolder". I find it irritating when people mispronounce words, and I figured he was saying it wrong because he's a league player (ignorant) so I explained the word.
It's so funny that Kog'maw, a void monstrosity released in 2010 that pukes acid on people before violently exploding, still manages to be a cuter and more endearing version of what Smolder is trying to be
its kinda cool and funny how smolder, like Asol, has a stacking mechanic I love that they're leaning on the Fury keyword in Legends of Runeterra for the dragon champs hopefully, Shyvanna and possible future dragon champs also have stacking mechanic (I only remember Shyvana having a stacking mechanic in Wild rift, never played her on normal league)
Important Note: As stated by the rioter that did the face fix, the changes are still not in the pbe and will most likely by applied until next patch... still looks quite terribly human tho but the problem lies in modeling and rigging and that's just so time consuming.
the texture changes are nice for sure especially considering how fast they did it. i think changing the color of his skin to be not as human like could pretty much fix it for me. not doing any suggestions tho i'm not good at color theory
this video was so fun to watch, in particular because of all the jump scares and Nicky noises associated with those moments 😂😂😂 This is the ADC experience in league lol
Honestly after the quick fix with the face, smolder isn't as uncanny as it was on reveal. I mean the snout is still too small but it's a baby dragon. I guess what they could do is change the color of the belly and face so it's not like human skin? cuz other than that he looks good
Btw the Ruined Camavoran dragons are still based of of western dragons, just the actual medieval depictions of such where they are a bit more serpentine.
As someone from the funny neck extension franchise said regarding the score at the end of every video in this series "Those don't matter, what does matter is what you think about it"
If I had a nickel for every time a child dragon’s design has caused uproar for being too chibified and pug-like I would have two nickels blah blah. Kind of insane how much he resembles Skylanders Spyro, makes him more appealing to me. I definitely think changing his eyes would be a great fix, but with the tweaks they made im honestly pretty satisfied. I see the bat aspects but he almost gives me a hammerhead shark vibe that I kind of enjoy. (Also I am in the process of finishing up my skylanders collection I love you so much more now)
already loved you so much before but the skylanders collection just made you my absolute favorite youtuber. Also i think it's the main reason i love smolder so much.. just the nostalgia of playing spyro in skylanders back in the day is making him so cool to me
The face was weird at first but with the retexturing from Riot and seeing him in action, I love the little guy Also, Nicky my boi I know his face is weird but I think it’s a bit of an overreaction to it
It's a questionable design decision in a very long line of champs with some questionable design decisions, theres a reason most people cite 2014-2016 as the golden age of champion design because after that, it stared to become slowly apparent that many of the characters were made as focus tested products first and intersting designs second.
following the dragon fauna as seen in Legends of Runeterra some things can be taken - Demacia has the highest range of dragons, with normal 6-limbed dragons, 4-limbed wyverns and a mix of both, as wings that protrude from the arms (mountain drake and broodmother for example). They also have the most variety of elemental dragons, with mountain, cloud and infernal drakes all coming from the region. - Ionia has aquatic dragons, with both the Empyrean and the Ocean drake being from there, and being the only physical dragons of the region atm, both have fins and gills. Reinforcing this concept the dragoling token created by some of the cards of Ionia is made out of water. -Targon is entirely inhabited by wingless, 4-limbed drakes, with the exeption of the fused firebrand, the seraphic wyvern and the gentle gem dragon, of which I don't think any of them are naturally generated. - Noxus and Freljord have less dragons and those dragons are most likely overflowing from Demacia, their neighbouring country - Shurima and the Blessed Isles don't have any dragons native to it - The only dragon in bilgewater might aswell just be another of the rare sea beasts the live in the ocean and most relevant: - Camavor dragons are all snake-like, and most likely all of them have more than one tail. Smoulder is a demacian dragon
so.. In wild rift, shyvana have stacking passive(her old/PC version passive was so unreliable) , she get 8 draconic stacks whenever she kill jungle monsters, 10 if she kill champion or epic monsters, every 100 stacks she upgrade her Q, W, E, And R in the same order , so yeah, if smolder come to wildrift, every dragon have stacking passive
17:05 personally I would've loved they lean in him being a baby dragon that developed overtime, like grew up the more stacks he gained, evutually changing his abilities to more lean into that AD caster as his strength grew. making you feel like a litte dragon growing and maturing into a an dragon leader. making him a unique champion with a likeness to kayle but actually cool this time.
I never had an issue with smoulder. It’s different, but I can see a number of reasons he’s sculpted that way (mainly expression / animation familiarity) and I mainly think the rest of his design overshadows that for me. He looks fun, I might learn him someday. Also 10:05 holy based, I still have the entire first game’s line barring dark Spyro and we have boxes and boxes of skylanders from when me and my little brother were kids. I wanna go back and play the first game sometime, that game was the goat honestly
I'm at the minute 6:41 and it just came this idea out of nowhere: Camavor = Camelot Yeah, Camelot is a fortress, but with something about Smolder being a breed of Royal dragons and how the visuals for Viego and Isolde on cinematics and stuff look like designs from fairytales or classic fantasy, that are really distinct compared to Demacia's clothes and general fashion, maybe all we see from "New Camavor" or whatever kingdom or nation that took place after all those years are going to be inspired on more of our irl medieval times, or at least being more grounded when compared to Demacia
I wish the face wasn't so flat. It should have been more angular/draconic. Then fill out the form with softer features. DT Tristana's dragon has a better dragon design. Another benefit to the angular dragon face, it better conveys the direction of fire from him (it's awkward how his whole body rotates to auto attack, Aurelion Sol isn't this stiff).
Glad to see you’re also a Skylanders enjoyer, Nicky. I’ve loved the franchise since it debuted. I honestly really only play the first two games on my Wii tho, since I don’t like the art style change they did with Swap Force onward
Agreed. I still have mine. Its not even the visuals what got me was that swap force had a clear drop in quality that was just unplayable for me when the first two games were a big part of my childhood.
What if as A Sol gains stacks he gets stars rotating around him, they are just visual and probably not as distinct as his old hoola-hoop but it is like he is collecting the stardust to make lil stars and gives you an idea how stacked he is
So what I’m hearing is…he’s just very solid as far as being a champion is concerned. Neat. I don’t play adcs but I might pick this little guy up because that stacking mechanic on his q seems fun
Okay. Something I don't think it's not talked about enough. In the runeterra universe people's thoughts and people's beliefs are a powerful thing. You know that's how various deaths exist that's how some spirits work. And that's how THE PORO KING came to be? (Idk that's how I think it happened in LoR) So the fact that a naive kid believed so much he could teach a new born dragon English that Farfetch? I personally don't believe so. I think it's cute that smolder got "corrupted" by a kid's innocence that he learned English... And his face became messed up (sorry I had to squeeze that joke at the end)
Technically shyv stack too . For me the face is fine cause we have cat eye and I remember in my head the fixed close up shot with the snout and scales ( funny I made corrupted nasus fan skin for ruination and hadded a mist stone that gain different dark mist stages based on how many stack he have )
Didn’t Shyvanna get found by some wizard and thats why she looks human? I think thats what they tried to do again with smolder they just made his face to human
The other reason he looks uncanny is because his eyes are sunken into his face, and they’re both completely front-facing in parallel. Even the baby dinosaurs in Land Before Time don’t look so anthropomorphic.
On the "hes supposed to be cute" argument about his face Another counter point to that. *gestures to reignited Spyro* we LITERALLY have a blueprint for how you can do a cute baby dragon face and they just...didnt. Theres no excuse for this uncanny creepy human baby face
Idk if this counts but in wild rift shyvana has stacks. She gets stacks when she kills enemy champs and epic monsters. Every hundred stacks upgrade her Q,W,E,R exactly in that order
Dragons talking is definitely an inconsistent thing. Some we've already seen can talk and are intelligent, like Aurelion Sol or Inviolus Vox. Most others just roar and growl, seemingly beasts driven by instinct.
15:09 Nasus: canon: he'd have his Bag of books start to glow as his knowlegde grows higher. League Nasus his staff gets more violet. Veigar his Metal glove gains a purple hew Thresh his latern gets slitghly bigger and glows further Sion's stomach furance gains increase feums Senna's cape starts to have arms growing out of it with her eyes glowing in return Arelioun soul's Crown Leash glows with celestial energy
I'm sure someone is going to make a custom skin in like a week whilst riot complains and says its to much work and delays actually fixing it indefinitely =) also I have a shelf of skylanders above my desk
i think what they will do with dragons is having max health execute(with aurelion E and 225 stack smolder q, and mayybe shyv E on vgu) similar how almost all void champions have true damage.
16:25 me: * waiting for nicky to press q for stacks from the beginning of the game- 😭 * nicky: * after almost 20 mins to the game* ".....wait" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 i love you man
13:22 Shyvana has already has stacking power she gain more armor and magic res the more dragons your team kills, but yeah i get what you mean like stacking power when you kill minions
I love how Nicky says "I wonder if they're gonna give Shyvana a stacking mechanic like Smolder and Asol" when her passive already has infinite stacking
No one knows what shyvana is and what she does in game
@@afiqmustafayev well i know what she does
Her dragon kill stacking doesn’t stack very high though
I mean, theoreticaly you're right. But if you manage to hit as little as 6 stack of her "Infinite" scaling, there something wrong, or very weird, with your game...
Wait Hes an ADC?
I like how Milo is so forgettable that you didn’t remember him for the Disney comparaison.
Also Neeko, Lillia... it's hard to believe that he was speaking in good faith there.
Dont forget Gwen, the criticism isnt as unfounded as he's making it out to be.@@Darkprosper
@@Darkprosper neeko and lillia are NOT trying to be disney characters, nor do they start to lean into that aesthetic. They are cute but not at all disney, which was his whole point.
@@BacchusGames I suppose that's subjective, but Lillia is very much the cute, quirky girl with protagonist energy that Disney has been in love with since Rapunzel (see also Anna from Frozen and Asha from Wish). Her design and especially animations are also very cartoony.
Neeko maybe less, but her tone and design do lean into Disney designs in my opinion.
Maybe they aren't trying to be, but they very much fit, I would say. I could very easily imagine Lillia in a Fantasia short, or a Pixar fairy-based movie. And Neeko would work perfectly as a funny sidekick in a main Disney movie.
@@Darkprosper Neeko could never be a disney character because she is outwardly gay.
Disney would never, the cowards
I think the problem is more so they made him too cat-like instead of reptile. His release skin is even a lion with wings essentially.
Manticore?
That seems... perfectly fine to me ? I enjoy cat-like dragons, they usually are animated with sleek movement and predatory attitudes, it's awesome.
I have nicknamed him Yuumi dragon
This is exactly what me and my friend were talking about. He’s just a fire cat/bat. Even cat-based dragons in media (like toothless) still look like dragons. Smolder just does not read “dragon” to me at all. Like, even his concept art screams “weird magical cat”
In game he's alright. Just the original release trailer was really painful.
Milio is someone I'd consider in the 'cute Disney character' kind of archetype. A lot of the champions you mentioned in that aesthetic have a trope of "finding yourself", and Milio has that in spades. Not to mention he has Nu-Disney kind of logically fantastical background in how his fuemigos are. They're the cute mascot character you always have alongside the main character. Not in a Disney way in particular, but very Studio Ghibli.
I always hated that the term "Disney" is basically a buzzword in the League community for any champ that is mildly positive or cute. Disney didn't invent cute and happy and bubbly things but that term got thrown around with Zoe's reveal and it's unfortunately just stuck and is always so reductive and frustrating to see because it makes no sense outside of being a stupid buzzword. BUT Milio is the one time it makes sense and has actual grounds, because they openly admitted to being heavily inspired by Encanto, which you can really see.
To me it really just comes down to the eyes. I think if they changed his sclera to yellow or green or something it could convey the dragon vibe a bit stronger. Hell, maybe even just give him glossy dark eyes to make it more puppy-like since they already are using a dog noise in his recall
Nah, I tried that in Photoshop. It doesn't do anything. His mouth needs to be way wider and he needs to have an actual snout. Making his head a bit flatter also helps.
They literally made him more dragonlike already lol
@@FrogVoid1 And he needs way more.
The other reason he looks uncanny is because his eyes are sunken into his face, and they’re both completely front-facing in parallel. Even the baby dinosaurs in Land Before Time don’t look so anthropomorphic.
The other reason he looks uncanny is because his eyes are sunken into his face, and they’re both completely front-facing in parallel. Even the baby dinosaurs in Land Before Time don’t look so anthropomorphic.
The thing is that in almost all the concept art they showed in the insights, the humanish face actually kind of works… because he’s not smiling. He’s either looks imperious or like he’s about to pounce, both of which work because A.) he doesn’t obviously have or use cheek muscles in those expressions, making the face seem less puffy, and B.) his eyes are narrowed. It looks much more snakelike than the weird monkey-ish face and expressions they ended up using, especially the round inset eyes. He definitely still needs a longer snout though.
If he carried himself (and held his face) like he does in the concepts he would look much better. I love that pompous and obnoxious look he has, where he looks like he owns the place. That would be a really appealing champion while still allowing him to be cute.
Smolder is a real word, that rhymes with boulder. It's not meant to be a play on "smol". Smolder is a verb which means to burn slowly without flame. So shining sunlight through a magnifying glass would cause something to smolder (because it burns despite there being no open flame).
While all you said is true, it doesn't mean that it's not also a play on "smol".
i think he was just making a pun, not trying to figure out the name etymology
@@Darkprosper True, but my comment is more to do with the fact that Nicky was pronouncing it "Small-der" and not "Smolder". I find it irritating when people mispronounce words, and I figured he was saying it wrong because he's a league player (ignorant) so I explained the word.
Could also be Nickyboi making a dig at then using the US spelling of Smoulder
He said it right the first time, it’s definitely a pun
Even though the whole face thing, I’m glad we got another non-human adc and the first reptile momma’s boy since Lewis
I’m just glad there’s a new ADC to begin with. There are so few actual bot lane champs compared to every other role
Who is lewis
@@NOBODY-jy6hv the gator
@@krok2112 Renekton?
@@krok2112 Renekton ?
14:29 To add to that, I think ASol's crown should shatter more and more the more stacks he has
cant wait for a legendary skin where he just say "mother, if you may?" when he ults
Also Camavor is/was pretty much medieval Spain in Runeterra, if Viego's name and Smolder's real name weren't obvious enough.
plus the way anyone from there says camavor with a clear spanish pronunciation
Camavor isnt India ? because Nilah is from there and she literally has an Elephant vastaya like Ganesha
@@Morfe02 Nilah is from Kathkan
It's so funny that Kog'maw, a void monstrosity released in 2010 that pukes acid on people before violently exploding, still manages to be a cuter and more endearing version of what Smolder is trying to be
its kinda cool and funny how smolder, like Asol, has a stacking mechanic
I love that they're leaning on the Fury keyword in Legends of Runeterra for the dragon champs
hopefully, Shyvanna and possible future dragon champs also have stacking mechanic
(I only remember Shyvana having a stacking mechanic in Wild rift, never played her on normal league)
Shyvana has a stacking passive.. it's just not worth it and at most you'll get like 4-5 stacks in a game.
Important Note: As stated by the rioter that did the face fix, the changes are still not in the pbe and will most likely by applied until next patch... still looks quite terribly human tho but the problem lies in modeling and rigging and that's just so time consuming.
the texture changes are nice for sure especially considering how fast they did it. i think changing the color of his skin to be not as human like could pretty much fix it for me. not doing any suggestions tho i'm not good at color theory
Mona Lisa’s smoulder, some people find him ugly others find Him cute. Also I can’t look at him without hearing “the design is very human”.
this video was so fun to watch, in particular because of all the jump scares and Nicky noises associated with those moments 😂😂😂 This is the ADC experience in league lol
Honestly after the quick fix with the face, smolder isn't as uncanny as it was on reveal. I mean the snout is still too small but it's a baby dragon. I guess what they could do is change the color of the belly and face so it's not like human skin? cuz other than that he looks good
Btw the Ruined Camavoran dragons are still based of of western dragons, just the actual medieval depictions of such where they are a bit more serpentine.
As someone from the funny neck extension franchise said regarding the score at the end of every video in this series
"Those don't matter, what does matter is what you think about it"
12:57 holy shit, the rare voiceline
If I had a nickel for every time a child dragon’s design has caused uproar for being too chibified and pug-like I would have two nickels blah blah. Kind of insane how much he resembles Skylanders Spyro, makes him more appealing to me. I definitely think changing his eyes would be a great fix, but with the tweaks they made im honestly pretty satisfied. I see the bat aspects but he almost gives me a hammerhead shark vibe that I kind of enjoy. (Also I am in the process of finishing up my skylanders collection I love you so much more now)
As a Nasus player, I keep dying inside while NickyBoi refuses to last-hit minions with q
already loved you so much before but the skylanders collection just made you my absolute favorite youtuber. Also i think it's the main reason i love smolder so much.. just the nostalgia of playing spyro in skylanders back in the day is making him so cool to me
"points made up and scores don't matter" *whistle* I caught that reference Dood
The face was weird at first but with the retexturing from Riot and seeing him in action, I love the little guy
Also, Nicky my boi I know his face is weird but I think it’s a bit of an overreaction to it
everyone has their own opinion right?
@@truv_ yeah but not are all entitled to their opinion
It's a questionable design decision in a very long line of champs with some questionable design decisions, theres a reason most people cite 2014-2016 as the golden age of champion design because after that, it stared to become slowly apparent that many of the characters were made as focus tested products first and intersting designs second.
@@lesterantenor1026 who are you to say that💀
@@truv_ oh sorry did i offend you?🥴
Hated him at the teaser but with every day I love this goober more and more
same lol i thought he was so gross looking and now i’m getting really excited for him he’s cuter now
following the dragon fauna as seen in Legends of Runeterra some things can be taken
- Demacia has the highest range of dragons, with normal 6-limbed dragons, 4-limbed wyverns and a mix of both, as wings that protrude from the arms (mountain drake and broodmother for example). They also have the most variety of elemental dragons, with mountain, cloud and infernal drakes all coming from the region.
- Ionia has aquatic dragons, with both the Empyrean and the Ocean drake being from there, and being the only physical dragons of the region atm, both have fins and gills. Reinforcing this concept the dragoling token created by some of the cards of Ionia is made out of water.
-Targon is entirely inhabited by wingless, 4-limbed drakes, with the exeption of the fused firebrand, the seraphic wyvern and the gentle gem dragon, of which I don't think any of them are naturally generated.
- Noxus and Freljord have less dragons and those dragons are most likely overflowing from Demacia, their neighbouring country
- Shurima and the Blessed Isles don't have any dragons native to it
- The only dragon in bilgewater might aswell just be another of the rare sea beasts the live in the ocean
and most relevant: - Camavor dragons are all snake-like, and most likely all of them have more than one tail. Smoulder is a demacian dragon
so.. In wild rift, shyvana have stacking passive(her old/PC version passive was so unreliable) , she get 8 draconic stacks whenever she kill jungle monsters, 10 if she kill champion or epic monsters, every 100 stacks she upgrade her Q, W, E, And R in the same order , so yeah, if smolder come to wildrift, every dragon have stacking passive
17:05 personally I would've loved they lean in him being a baby dragon that developed overtime, like grew up the more stacks he gained, evutually changing his abilities to more lean into that AD caster as his strength grew.
making you feel like a litte dragon growing and maturing into a an dragon leader.
making him a unique champion with a likeness to kayle but actually cool this time.
The face has been worth it to hear Skyen’s fight or flight panic-rants whenever he looked at it.
The fact nicky has a skylanders collection makes me so happy that i am not the only one.
Still can't unsee and hear Nickyboi calling Smolder a Skylander 🤣🤣🤣
He may be cursed but i love playing him
Knowing Nicky's got that skylander collection more than being "sad" is just confirming he's living my dream life
Hello! I’m the person who did the Skylanders fanart! I’m honored to have a little mention about it! :)
I love smolder. Personally I love how cute it is and cape wings are SUCH GENIUS IDEA
I never had an issue with smoulder. It’s different, but I can see a number of reasons he’s sculpted that way (mainly expression / animation familiarity) and I mainly think the rest of his design overshadows that for me.
He looks fun, I might learn him someday.
Also 10:05 holy based, I still have the entire first game’s line barring dark Spyro and we have boxes and boxes of skylanders from when me and my little brother were kids. I wanna go back and play the first game sometime, that game was the goat honestly
I'm at the minute 6:41 and it just came this idea out of nowhere:
Camavor = Camelot
Yeah, Camelot is a fortress, but with something about Smolder being a breed of Royal dragons and how the visuals for Viego and Isolde on cinematics and stuff look like designs from fairytales or classic fantasy, that are really distinct compared to Demacia's clothes and general fashion, maybe all we see from "New Camavor" or whatever kingdom or nation that took place after all those years are going to be inspired on more of our irl medieval times, or at least being more grounded when compared to Demacia
This is the best series to watch drunk when trying to fall asleep prove me wrong
11:23 Bard taking his monster babies on a magical tower taking journey.
we have seen NickyBoi's Skylander collection. I feel complete. I needed this and didn't know
I wish the face wasn't so flat. It should have been more angular/draconic. Then fill out the form with softer features. DT Tristana's dragon has a better dragon design. Another benefit to the angular dragon face, it better conveys the direction of fire from him (it's awkward how his whole body rotates to auto attack, Aurelion Sol isn't this stiff).
I do wish smolder looked like a wurm. I think it’d be pretty cool to have more dragon body types.
Glad to see you’re also a Skylanders enjoyer, Nicky. I’ve loved the franchise since it debuted. I honestly really only play the first two games on my Wii tho, since I don’t like the art style change they did with Swap Force onward
Agreed. I still have mine. Its not even the visuals what got me was that swap force had a clear drop in quality that was just unplayable for me when the first two games were a big part of my childhood.
Tbh smolder looks like they took a cartoon teletubbies face and flattened it with a frying pan and mixed with some draconic features
if I were that Cho’Gath, I’d hate myself, Nicky dodged pretty much all of those Qs 😭
Nicky, there is nothing sad about having a collection of things you like, regardless of their source. Do not be ashamed for liking things.
That weird statue in the base that lee sin had is an effect of the item Hubris.
I'm sorry I need that uncanny mandela catalog smolder please post that image somewhere. With the signature in tact of couse.
RepiDino making smolder a skylander in their art was exactly what I imagined when i first saw him in game.
Lmao ''I live these'' famous words before dusaster
Bro just casually mentions a skylander collection to rival the gods of olympus
Ah yes, Riot was very creative with the lore again, something bad happened = "Noxus did it"
nicky never apologies for being a skylander enjoying gigachad
you are now my favorite youtuber, league player and has a massive skylanders collection... Please do a play through
Seeing Nicki NOT farm stacks with Q infuriated me waaaay more than Smolder's head look
YES. Seeing him Q a minion to get it low so he can auto attack it for the kill was… special
It was sooo satisfying seeing him realizing how he should've done that all game.
I know someone will ask for the timecode, it's at 16:20
What if as A Sol gains stacks he gets stars rotating around him, they are just visual and probably not as distinct as his old hoola-hoop but it is like he is collecting the stardust to make lil stars and gives you an idea how stacked he is
So what I’m hearing is…he’s just very solid as far as being a champion is concerned. Neat. I don’t play adcs but I might pick this little guy up because that stacking mechanic on his q seems fun
my god you learning so late gow to stack him properly is funny xD
lot like asol, but with q insted of e exacuting minions
The fact that nicky likes smolder's gameplay is the only reason he needs to achieve level 999 masttery
3:44 ok but that cut is too funny chogat: 😱😱💀💀
your skylanders collection is so important to me
Smolder talking make sense to me. Parrots in the wild dont copy human language til you have them as pets.
shyvana does have a stacking mechanic though she stack armor and mr whenever she kill a dragon
All dragons have SCALING!
Tristana’s dragon should be the staple imo
Okay.
Something I don't think it's not talked about enough.
In the runeterra universe people's thoughts and people's beliefs are a powerful thing.
You know that's how various deaths exist that's how some spirits work. And that's how THE PORO KING came to be? (Idk that's how I think it happened in LoR)
So the fact that a naive kid believed so much he could teach a new born dragon English that Farfetch? I personally don't believe so. I think it's cute that smolder got "corrupted" by a kid's innocence that he learned English... And his face became messed up (sorry I had to squeeze that joke at the end)
OH MY THAT COLLECTION IS SO NICE
Asol has a nemesis quest with smolder where you bank stacks with asol and if you kill either (as smolder or asol) you get the stacks
Technically shyv stack too . For me the face is fine cause we have cat eye and I remember in my head the fixed close up shot with the snout and scales ( funny I made corrupted nasus fan skin for ruination and hadded a mist stone that gain different dark mist stages based on how many stack he have )
oh my god the Spyro Skylanders fan art is perfect
petition for Smoulder to get a spyro skin asap
It took me soo long to realise his (no stacks) q isnt out of mana all the time and its just the q icon
Didn’t Shyvanna get found by some wizard and thats why she looks human? I think thats what they tried to do again with smolder they just made his face to human
"you can't patreon your way out of that one xeno"
I will say it's funny that evidently every dragon in Runeterra is entirely capable of speaking in Human, but they're too arrogant to bother
The smolder on the portal of power is great
Recently I’ve been moving from support to adc and I agree, I will call my mum on you
He reminds me of the uncanny hideous 3D animated sonic from the movie before they fixed him.
All I can say is that Spyro has entered the rift
The other reason he looks uncanny is because his eyes are sunken into his face, and they’re both completely front-facing in parallel. Even the baby dinosaurs in Land Before Time don’t look so anthropomorphic.
"score's made up and the points don't matter" Max, is that you?
Nickyboi be like “I like this dragon child’s body” lol
In ARAM shyv gives the team stacking MR and armor per champ kill and towers
On the "hes supposed to be cute" argument about his face
Another counter point to that. *gestures to reignited Spyro* we LITERALLY have a blueprint for how you can do a cute baby dragon face and they just...didnt. Theres no excuse for this uncanny creepy human baby face
NICKY! SMOLDER SCALES WITH CRIT CHANCE! NICKY!
Oh it's Friday! Damn my brain is on some heavy lag
Idk if this counts but in wild rift shyvana has stacks. She gets stacks when she kills enemy champs and epic monsters. Every hundred stacks upgrade her Q,W,E,R exactly in that order
Dragons talking is definitely an inconsistent thing. Some we've already seen can talk and are intelligent, like Aurelion Sol or Inviolus Vox. Most others just roar and growl, seemingly beasts driven by instinct.
15:09
Nasus: canon: he'd have his Bag of books start to glow as his knowlegde grows higher.
League Nasus his staff gets more violet.
Veigar his Metal glove gains a purple hew
Thresh his latern gets slitghly bigger and glows further
Sion's stomach furance gains increase feums
Senna's cape starts to have arms growing out of it with her eyes glowing in return
Arelioun soul's Crown Leash glows with celestial energy
It physically hurts to see nicky not using q on minions to stack
He realized this at 16:20
@@gofrisuto still painful, it was like Briar W all over again
What an epic Skylander collection
Riot still didn't released Smolder Champion spotlight, it say how Riot is confident about him
I'm sure someone is going to make a custom skin in like a week whilst riot complains and says its to much work and delays actually fixing it indefinitely =)
also I have a shelf of skylanders above my desk
Yeah no they already announced a texture update
Except that ain't happening since Riot is killing custom skins with Vanguard
i think what they will do with dragons is having max health execute(with aurelion E and 225 stack smolder q, and mayybe shyv E on vgu) similar how almost all void champions have true damage.
16:25 me: * waiting for nicky to press q for stacks from the beginning of the game- 😭 *
nicky: * after almost 20 mins to the game* ".....wait"
🤣🤣🤣🤣 i love you man
he’s cute and they just updated his face and it looks way more dragon like, and even the old face i think people were being overdramatic too lol.
In camavor : THEY ALL HAVE 3 TAILS!!!
aint no way you got the whole skylanders imaginators trio, im jealous :(
13:22 Shyvana has already has stacking power she gain more armor and magic res the more dragons your team kills, but yeah i get what you mean like stacking power when you kill minions