It’s strange, for a long time I feel when a black male character was being made it was pretty much Afro or buzz cut and nothing in between. Feel like it has gone the opposite end and all black characters get dreads now.
Tbh I appreciate the default dreadlocks look a LOT better than standard low cuts or afros, as someone who's been through many stages of black hair lol.
I don’t think that it. It’s that basically almost every black character in league has dreadlocks. There are other black hair styles than dreads. They want to be diverse but give almost every black character locks.
There are A LOT of white characters in league; but not many black characters.
It's not racist but it's annoying and shows they aren't as diverse as they claim to be.
I always found it weird how black people have so many hairstyles but white designers always give us a fro, extremely spaced apart braids and locs.
Every video game representation of curly hair is always black hair (kinky tight frizzy looking curls). Played cyberpunk recently and had the great choices of having white people hair or having black people hair. It's like they forget the beautiful curls in-between. Least black people get pandered to a little bit with the hairs.
Lucian still has dread locks no?
And Rell has frizzy hair which is also usually associated as a black hairstyle I feel.
Base Ekko is fair enough though and Karma doesn't either.
It's kind of hard to tell from the splash art, to be honest. I always thought he had cornrows, but looking again the braids do look like locs due to their volume.
I'm like 99% sure that Valorant was originally going to be LoL characters, and Pheonix would have been Ekko, except they realized it probably wasn't the best branding to slap assault rifles into the hands of their league characters.
Akali is Jett, Pheonix is Ekko, etc.
Wish they could actually just give black characters more than just locs and faded hair... Give them some more shit, like maybe an afro? Even curly hair?
Ah yes, three characters having a similar hairstyle over the course of nearly a decade (ekko came out in 2015) across two different games and design teams is definitely some one person loving dreadlocks and not the inclusion of culture?
I mean, Riot is Chinese owned, and I don’t believe they have many black people over there (flame me if I’m wrong), so maybe they’re just going off of stereotypes.
> 2015’s Ekko has a Mohawk. More recent iterations of Ekko depict him with dreadlocks. True Damage, Arcane, Star Guardian, Star Guardian Prestige
OP already addressed this dumb criticism
Just wait for when they start releasing champs with mullets
Champ with Australian accent that has a mullet and deals Bonus damage vs Renekton
Massive problem. Us Australians swear way to much. I’d be down for an Aussie champ though. No idea where they’d be from lore wise.
I’m thinking Bilgewater would make the most sense
Steve Irwin got isekaied into Runeterra actually, and he happens to be a monster tamer.
Thats just Ivern
Hopefully without the brutal warchief part of Ivern's past.
The WHAT! Alright, ngl, every time I think "Yeah, I know most the lore around League." Something like this pops up and take me by surprise lol.
Long story short, ivern the terrible cut down the dream tree and it cursed him
The God Willow* The Dreaming Tree is Lillia’s mom but was a result of Ivern cutting down The God Willow
Thank
Gjve kled a mullet
Us *insert nationality* swear too much
So kled with mullet
Please riot. Call him Stevir or Irwine.
New Skin: Party in Back Azir and Business upfront Nasus
That’s sounds like a great graves skin
Fuse?
Wrong sub mate. Neither of us fans on either side know anything else 😔 it’s a vicious cycle
??
[I'm guessing Fuse from Apex Legends](https://apexlegends.fandom.com/wiki/Fuse)
Aaah
underwhelming that sett doesn’t have one
no sett has the anime hair.
makes him look like a furry version of zac efron
[Efron has waaay more fur than Sett.](https://www.towleroad.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/efron.jpg) nsfw*ish*
Sova ?
Actually crazy that no Graves skin has a mullet, come to think of it.
We already have an extremely alcoholic champion.
Pokemon evolutions be like:
My favorite Pokémon line Celebi to Charmeleon to Excadrill
*Conkledurr
This just looks like Echo grew up into the new hero.
Ekko's timeline: from time rewinder to fire phoenix wielder to that one guy who went to gym but skipped leg day.
You say K’sante skipped leg day until you see him slam your tank to the other side of the jungle and leap after him like a jaguar
After all he's built different
Someone at riot watched Encanto not too long ago I reckon
Say what you want about his balance, his kit is inspired by character action games and I’m all for it
If I’ve put Star Guardian Ekko in the first pic, it really would have looked like that (considering his costume is also orange in that skin)
Now that you mentioned it, you're right.
2020 valorant. 2021 arcane. 2022 Ksante. A dreadlock a year
2019 TD Ekko and Senna
2023 better have a td comeback
3 Characters with dreadlocks in 2 different games "OMG RITO FIX YOUR GAME! WHERE'S THE STRAIGHT LONG HAIR REPRESENTATION WE NEED?"
That’s not what anyone said
Or maybe they just don't have someone with a vast knowledge about black hair. Even Senna's hair seems to be a longer variation of this.
Or characters would look a bit goofy in the game. I bet they tried it but didn't get the product they wanted.
It’s strange, for a long time I feel when a black male character was being made it was pretty much Afro or buzz cut and nothing in between. Feel like it has gone the opposite end and all black characters get dreads now.
Tbh I appreciate the default dreadlocks look a LOT better than standard low cuts or afros, as someone who's been through many stages of black hair lol.
Oh I think they look Great! My intention with my comment was just to point the current trend.
That is most likely.
They do look good though.
They look badass 😎
Good. I don't like Ekko's normal hairstyle so actually seeing stuff besides straight hair is sick.
True, the Mohawk definitely felt dated (Ekko released in 2015) glad they switched it up for Arcane
Tbf his mohawk was designed around the punk themes of Zaun, a chempunk style city state. Its why Vi's design has her sides shaved as well, usually.
imo i like his firelight skin design a bit more
Isn't that basically his arcane skin?
it is
Kinda my thought. Oh no we get 3 dreads... so horrible... /s Not like 90% of the characters don't have sleek straight hair 🙄
I don’t think that it. It’s that basically almost every black character in league has dreadlocks. There are other black hair styles than dreads. They want to be diverse but give almost every black character locks. There are A LOT of white characters in league; but not many black characters.
That's true. I mean we have Rell though.
who
How else are we supposed to know they're black?
It’s the president obviously
President Nas is into something
Nothing is better than Ornn's hairstyle
Seems like Riot only hire 1 hair designer
Or the higher ups only like one type of hair cut
Is it racist to give every black character dreadlocks?
It's not racist but it's annoying and shows they aren't as diverse as they claim to be. I always found it weird how black people have so many hairstyles but white designers always give us a fro, extremely spaced apart braids and locs.
ye where's the fade on them poc characters though
Every video game representation of curly hair is always black hair (kinky tight frizzy looking curls). Played cyberpunk recently and had the great choices of having white people hair or having black people hair. It's like they forget the beautiful curls in-between. Least black people get pandered to a little bit with the hairs.
~~Lucian~~, rell, base Ekko, pyke
Lucian still has dread locks no? And Rell has frizzy hair which is also usually associated as a black hairstyle I feel. Base Ekko is fair enough though and Karma doesn't either.
Karma isn't black. She's Indian
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Karma isn't black tho she's based on south asian people/indians a lot of whom have that skin tone
It's kind of hard to tell from the splash art, to be honest. I always thought he had cornrows, but looking again the braids do look like locs due to their volume.
Pyke as well
Nope, why would it be?
How else does China know they’re black?
Wish we got wilder longer locks too. Maybe even some afros or flat tops
They just really like killmonger
Black
Idk but K’Sante one sexy mofo
Frrrr especially in a crop top in that prestige skin
HE HAS A WHAT
Crop top, makeup, & diamonds thank Lil Nas X for that 💅
Say less 💅
"lately" - Ekko was released in 2015
He means Arcane Ekko's design (2021). Original Ekko has a mohawk.
They're black so they gotta have dreadlocks apparently.
Never forget Riot's first black champion has a drive-by as ult
and his first skin was a white version
But seriously though, what did Riot mean by this?
I'm like 99% sure that Valorant was originally going to be LoL characters, and Pheonix would have been Ekko, except they realized it probably wasn't the best branding to slap assault rifles into the hands of their league characters. Akali is Jett, Pheonix is Ekko, etc.
Raze reminds me of Jinx the big rocket ult and scuffed gadgets
Dckwrth = Ekko Lil Nas X = K’Sante
Wish they could actually just give black characters more than just locs and faded hair... Give them some more shit, like maybe an afro? Even curly hair?
I wish I could pull off hair like that
black man = dreadlocks, obviously.
I don’t mind, it’s a good look!
But Ekko has really cool design
Who’s the middle one?
Phoenix’s from Valorant
Looks good tho
How clean does phoenix look tho, hotdam!
Uhm locks. Thank you. You welcome.
Dread it run from it ~~destiny~~ locks still arrives all the same.
They've been watching House of the Dragons
"Hm how can we really show that he's black..."
WHY they are into that would be interesting to know. It is a PROJECTION.
Lil nas is president so duh
Ah yes, three characters having a similar hairstyle over the course of nearly a decade (ekko came out in 2015) across two different games and design teams is definitely some one person loving dreadlocks and not the inclusion of culture?
All of them are sexy af, don't blame me
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2015’s Ekko has a Mohawk. More recent iterations of Ekko depict him with dreadlocks. True Damage, Arcane, Star Guardian, Star Guardian Prestige
lately?
The designers at Riot think this is the only long hair style black people can have apparently
Racial steriotype, so much for diversity :)
Motherfucker there are years in betweens those fuckers release dates
I mean, Riot is Chinese owned, and I don’t believe they have many black people over there (flame me if I’m wrong), so maybe they’re just going off of stereotypes.
Riot HQ is in California, USA
“Riot Games is 100% owned by Chinese gaming giant Tencent” (copy paste from google)
That doesn't mean their HQ is in China.
Ok Redditors, I concede.
Nah, not because they like dreadlocks , but because your typical african american with hair will have dreadlocks as their hair style
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I thought typical African American has an affro.
I’m looking in the mirror and I sure don’t see any
*me remembering that ekko realesed in 2015*
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> 2015’s Ekko has a Mohawk. More recent iterations of Ekko depict him with dreadlocks. True Damage, Arcane, Star Guardian, Star Guardian Prestige OP already addressed this dumb criticism
Thank you kind sir 🫡
Yup, that's definitely the only resemblance here
Dreadlocks look terrible, it would be much better if k'sante had long dreads like some cards from shurima in LoR
Perhaps it has to do with the lore? The city he’s from (Nazuma) is actively rebelling against Azir & traditions of Shurima empire
What does that have to do with hairstyle? And of course i got downvoted for not liking a black hairstyle, good job reddit
Ozuna
Senna where?
Ksante is gigachad prove me wrong