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Previous Abilities
Valiant Fighter
When Poppy takes non-turret damage higher than 10% current health, she reduces the excess amount by 50%.
Valiant Fighter’s damage reduction is calculated after resistances.
Devastating Blow
Active: Poppy’s next basic attack is enhanced to deal magic damage up to a cap.
(+ 100% AD) (+ 60% AP) |
Devastating Blow resets Poppy’s basic attack timer.
- Devastating Blow has no cast time and does not interrupt Poppy’s previous orders.
- An enemy target must have a minimum 688 / 1375 / 2063 / 2750 / 3438 maximum health in order to reach Devastating Blow’s maximum bonus damage (55 / 110 / 165 / 220 / 275)
Paragon of Demacia
Passive: Poppy gains bonus attack damage and bonus armor for 5 seconds every time she deals or takes damage, stacking up to 10 times.
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Active: Poppy gains maximum Paragon of Demacia stacks and bonus movement speed for 5 seconds.
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Paragon of Demacia has no cast time and does not interrupt Poppy’s previous orders.
Heroic Charge
Active: Poppy dashes to the target enemy, dealing them magic damage and carrying them along with her. If they collide with terrain, she deals them bonus magic damage and stuns them for 1.5 seconds.
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- Heroic Charge applies spell effects twice (once when Poppy hits her target and once she stuns them against a wall)
- Poppy can use Heroic Charge to go through walls (provided her target is on the opposite side when she casts)
- Heroic Charge interacts with impassable player-created terrain ( , , , )
Diplomatic Immunity
Active: Poppy focuses the target enemy champion for the next few seconds, dealing them increased damage and becoming immune to all effects not originating from her target for the duration.
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- Diplomatic Immunity blocks all damage from all sources (including true damage) except the Nexus Obelisk, Diplomatic Immunity’s target, and their respective pets.
- Diplomatic Immunity can target champion clones ( , , , ) to turn Poppy invulnerable to the champion who spawned them (and by extension the entire enemy team)
- Diplomatic Immunity’s damage amplification can be removed with (the invulnerability will remain until either Poppy or her target die)
Previous Quotes
- Upon Selection
«Valoran will know harmony.»
- Attacking
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«Fighting is serious business.» -
«I’ll settle this issue!» -
«Their defeat is non-negotiable!» -
«Let me demonstrate Hammer Diplomacy!» -
«They’ll beg for peace.» -
«If it is necessary.»
- Movement
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«If it will bring peace.» -
«Valoran will know harmony.» -
«We are in accord, Summoner.» -
«My convictions will not falter!» -
«Immediately!» -
«Agreed!»
- Taunt
«Why don’t you just lay down your weapons now?»
- Joke
«Jokes? I don’t know any jokes.»
- Laugh
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Poppy laughs. -
Poppy laughs. -
Poppy laughs. -
Poppy laughs. -
Poppy laughs.
Previous Splash Art
- 1st Classic Poppy
- 1st Noxus Poppy
- 2nd Noxus Poppy
- 1st Lollipoppy
- 2nd Lollipoppy
- 1st Blacksmith Poppy
- 1st Ragdoll Poppy
- 1st Battle Regalia Poppy
- 1st Scarlet Hammer Poppy
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- Classic Poppy
- Noxus Poppy
- Blacksmith Poppy
- Lollipoppy
- Ragdoll Poppy
- Scarlet Hammer Poppy
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Attack
Attacking
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«I can do this.» -
«Here goes everything.» -
«I hope this works.» -
«No backing down.» -
«Swinging from the heels!» -
«Sorry about this.» -
«Careful, this packs a wallop.» -
«You should probably take cover.» -
«Ready, hammer?» -
«One whomp at a time.» -
«You might wanna’ look out.» -
«Keep swinging til’ you hit something.» -
«Better get your guard up.» -
«You’re in my way.» -
«Guess we’re fighting.» -
«You are… definitely not the hero.»
- Attacking an Enemy Jarvan IV / Wukong / God-King Garen
«Sorry, your majesty.»
- Attacking the Dragon
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«This guy seems nice. I feel bad about killing him.» -
«I really don’t have anything against dragons.» -
«Nothing personal, but… I need to squash you.»
- Attacking Baron Nashor
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«Whoa! You’re a big fella!» -
«This should really be the hero’s job.» -
«Wow. That’s a lot to hammer.»
Что происходит в первой главе Poppy Playtime
Присущая куклам жуткость — вот что делает заброшенную фабрику игрушек отличным местом для страшной игры. В первой главе ужасного приключения Мак игры, вы бывший сотрудник Playtime Co., посещающий фабрику игрушек спустя годы после того, как все сотрудники внезапно исчезли. Похоже, это плохая идея! Тебе действительно стоит позволить спящим куклам лежать. Поверьте мне.
Ознакомьтесь с отличным введением в игру ниже. Что-то в старой колючей кассете VHS идеально подходит для создания жуткого настроения куклы, которая может разговаривать с детьми.
С другой стороны, вам не нужно рассматривать все игрушки как врагов. У вас есть собственные игрушки, которые помогут вам, когда вы начнете исследовать и решать головоломки на темной и жуткой фабрике. GrabPack — это набор игрушечных рук, которые вы можете привязать к себе, которые действуют как симпатичные крючки для захвата. Щелкните мышью, и ваша большая пластиковая рука будет метаться по комнате и зацепиться за что-нибудь. Щелкните еще раз, и он вернет его обратно.
Вы используете их, чтобы тянуть за ручки и рычаги, и даже можете схватиться за узел питания и растянуть наручные шнуры, чтобы замкнуть электрическую цепь, что полезно на заводе, который был закрыт в течение десяти лет. Как вы могли догадаться, просто включение света и запуск оборудования требует некоторой работы.
И, конечно, вы не одиноки. Собирая свой GrabPack и углубляясь в коридоры и офисы Playtime, вы заметите возвышающегося, ухмыляющегося часового по имени Хагги Вугги, стоящего на страже фабрики. Хагги Вагги большой, милый и пушистый, и я его ненавижу, у него широкая дружелюбная улыбка, и он абсолютный кошмар, он пушистый и милый, и хочет крепко тебя обнять! Крепкое объятие. Я бы не советовал ему позволять это.
Эта первая глава Poppy Playtime, названная A Tight Squeeze, довольно короткая, и я думаю, вы сможете пройти ее примерно за час. Головоломки не слишком сложны, и они недостаточно используют ваши крутые руки GrabPack, но их все равно приятно решать, особенно когда вы ползаете по фабрике в ожидании какой-нибудь ужасной вещи. Даже зная, что это должно было случиться, это напугало меня до смерти, когда это произошло. Мне не нравится здесь, в Playtime Co. И все же я определенно заинтересован вернуться, когда выйдут новые главы.
Ты можешь найти Poppy Playtime в Steam, а первая глава стоит пять костей.
Quotes
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«All right, team! Adventure time!» -
«Today’s the day I find that Hero!» -
«Wouldn’t be a quest without some danger!» -
«I just know the Hero’s around here somewhere!»
Enemy 4Veigar present
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Veigar: «A hero emerges! Good!»
Poppy: «I’m no hero, but I’m still gonna try!»
Enemy 3 Babbling Balladeers present
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Babbling Balladeers: «Poppy? We didn’t prepare you a villanous theme.»
Poppy: «Oh , that’s ok! You should probably run anyway.»
Allied 3 Pompous Cavalier present
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Pompous Cavalier: «Poppy! Might the Hero be on this very field? Eh?»
Poppy: «I sure hope so! Lemme know if you find ’em!»
Allied 2 Yordle Smith present
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Yordle Smith: «‘Member what I told ya?»
Poppy: «Swing low, send ’em sky high! I’ll make you proud!»
Allied 1 Yordle Squire present
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Yordle Squire: «Poppy! Poppy! I found the Hero!»
Poppy: «Yeah, where? What’re you looking at me for?»
Enemy 1 Yordle Squire present
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Yordle Squire: «Huh? Poppy? Did we switch quests?»
Poppy: «Aww. Better get outta here, Peppy!»
a Unit
Enemy 5Garen
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Garen: «For King and Country!»
Poppy: «Same! But… uh… for this side!»
Allied 4Veigar
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Poppy: «Veigar! You are soo scary!»
Veigar: «And you are very brave, Poppy, speaking to me!»
Enemy 4Veigar
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Poppy: «Wow, a real Villain!»
Veigar: «You cannot stop me, Poppy! No hero can!» -
Veigar: «I am Lord Veigar, Destroyer of Worlds!»
Poppy: «Well, I’m just Poppy. But I’m gonna stop you!»
Allied 3 Babbling Balladeers
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Poppy: «Play something we can fight to!»
Babbling Balladeers: «Don’t rush the creative process, Hammerbrain!»
Allied 6 Yordle Ranger
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Poppy: «What do you see up there, Pip?»
Yordle Ranger: «For the millionth time! Shouting ruins the recon!»
Allied 1 Yordle Squire
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Poppy: «I don’t say this often, but … don’t be a hero.»
Yordle Squire: «Pip Pip! I’ve got a new tactic!»
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«*grunts* Alright! Time to get serious!» -
«*grunts* No hero, huh? Guess I’ll finish this one!» -
«*grunts* For Demacia!»
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«Ready, Hammer?» -
«I’m attacking!» -
«Hammer!»
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Allied 3 Pompous Cavalier
«Guess he wasn’t the hero…»
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«Orlon…» -
«Oww…»
Turn timer appears
Allied turn timer
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«Yeah… I’m not sure what to do either…» -
«I can spend a whole fight wondering ‘Shield or Hammer’.»
Enemy turn timer
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«Hey, if you don’t wanna fight anymore that’s ok!» -
«Oh! I-if we’re taking a break can I practice a joke?»
Ability Casting
Using
- Hitting an Enemy with
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«Shield to the face!» -
«Left hand!» -
«Clang!»
- Upon Picking up
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«Hope it’s not dented.» -
«Got it.» -
«Shieldy.» -
Poppy giggles.
Using
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«Hammer!» -
«Comin’ down!»
Using
- Stopping an Enemy with
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«Not so fast!» -
«What’s the hurry?» -
«Nope.» -
«No getting through me.» -
«Hold up!» -
«Uh uh.»
- Triggering
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«Hold on… « -
«Keep fighting… « -
«Not like this!» -
«Not today!»
Using
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«Back off!» -
«Look out!» -
«Outta’ my way!» -
«Move it!»
- Stunning an Enemy with
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«Hold it right there!» -
«You. Sit.» -
«Freeze!» -
«Don’t move!»
Using
- Knocking Away an Enemy with a fully charged
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«Look at him go!» -
«Remember to roll!» -
«Up goes the guy!» -
«And don’t come back!» -
«And stay there!» -
«Huh. Didn’t know I could do that.» -
«Whoa. You went far.» -
«Whomp!»
- When an Enemy Ekko Uses After Being Hit by
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«Wait, you’re here? I thought you were there.» -
«Didn’t I just knock you away?»
A New Champion Approaches: Poppy, the Iron Ambassador
By Steve ‘Pendragon’ Mescon
Prepare yourselves. The tiny but mighty Poppy has joined the League of Legends! This compact little warrior packs one mean punch with her mighty hammer, . Boasting a powerful set of abilities, Poppy is ready to pulverize anyone who thinks it funny to make a short joke.
- Champion Type
Tank
- Abilities
- Valiant Fighter
Any damage dealt to Poppy that exceeds 10% of her current health is greatly reduced.
- Devastating Blow
Poppy crushes her opponent, dealing her base damage plus a flat amount and 8% of her target’s max health as bonus damage. The bonus damage cannot exceed a threshold based on rank.
- Paragon of Demacia
- Passive: Upon being hit or attacking an enemy, Poppy’s armor and attack damage are increased by a flat amount for 5 seconds. This effect can stack 5 times.
- Active: Poppy gains max stacks of Paragon of Demacia and her movement speed is increased 20% for 5 seconds.
- Heroic Charge
Poppy charges at an enemy and carries them for a short distance. The initial impact deals a small amount of damage, and if they collide with terrain, her target will take a high amount of damage and be stunned.
- Diplomatic Immunity
Poppy focuses intently on a single target, dealing increased damage to them. Poppy is immune to any damage and abilities from enemies other than her target.
General
- Poppy, the Iron Ambassador
- Poppy was the first champion released in .
- Poppy is the first and so far only post-launch champion to be priced at 1350 on release (all other champions with the same price were already present when the game officially launched in October 2009).
- Poppy is one of two champions that went into the weekly champion rotation on the day of their release. The other one is Udyr.
- Of all champion updates in the game, Poppy has gone the longest without an update to her base splash art prior to her VGU in .
- Poppy, Keeper of the Hammer
- Poppy is the first champion with full facial animation.
- Poppy is the first champion to receive splash updates to all skins.
- The splash art features the titular flower.
- Poppy’s theme resembles (instruments used include a low brass and a flute).
- Poppy’s dance references the Grunka Lunka’s dance from Futurama.
A side-by-side comparison can be seen here.
- Poppy was initially going to wear a red scarf as a ‘heroic thing’, it competed heavily with her pigtails and was deemed way too busy on her model, the scarf was trimmed down to a muffler.
- Poppy’s favorite food / candy is the lollipop.
- Poppy finds Yordles ‘too fluffy’ and disorganized, herself preferring the orderliness found in Demacia.
- Poppy is the first champion to have a form of crowd control in all of her abilities.
- Poppy is the first and only champion to have two skins released for the Snowdown Showdown event.
Skins
Original Poppy: Base Skin
1 / 25-Aug-2021
Level 1
Humility is a mark of heroism, but many historians would agree that Poppy is kind of pushing it.
Level 2
Power is a famously corrupting influence, but Poppy proves that its corruption is no match for a good heart and stubborn, steadfast obliviousness.
Battle Academia Poppy: Common SkinFeatures: This skin is available for purchase.
700 / 06-Oct-2021
Level 1
«Seems to me like you got a little more weapon there than you can handle.»»»»Huh? Oh, this isn’t mine, I’m just—«»»»Good, so you won’t mind if we take it, then!»»»»Oh! Like a practice battle? I love training!»
Level 2
«Hey, come back! I thought you wanted to fight!»
History
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Main article: Bandle City
Cave drawing of a prehistoric Yordle family (Gnar’s)
Prehistoric predator of the Yordles
Yordles come from self-contained pockets within the spirit realm, with no direct «mirror» in the material realm of Runeterra. The origin of this race on Runeterra is unknown but can be traced back to a prehistoric time when there were no civilizations on land thanks to the existence of Fizz, an amphibious yordle. Most would agree that Yordles resided on Valoran during its prehistoric times. At that time they were a nomadic race, travelling from one part of Valoran to the other. Records show they had presence in Ancient Freljord. They lived in tight neat family groups as well as near early humans. Because of their small stature, they were mostly prey for many animals. During prehistoric times they had tails and front canine teeth.
Overtime as human civilizations advanced, so did yordles’ appearances and capabilities. To easily blend in human areas, yordles at one point started using an ability called «Glamour», which gave them the appearance of short humans.
To this day, most yordles stay inside the mystical spiritual realm known as Bandle City, only venturing out on rare occasions. There are numerous gateways across Runeterra that yordles, and other knowledgeable and perceptive individuals, are able to use to get to in and out of Bandle City.
Dev Blog: The Animation of Poppy
By Paul ‘PartiestCat’ Jarvis
Hey everyone! Paul ‘PartiestCat’ Jarvis here. I was in charge of driving the style and direction for how Poppy moves and wanted to give you all a little behind-the-scenes look on how we approached the animation for Demacia’s tiniest delivery service.
- SQUASH, STRETCH, AND SMEAR
Okay, quick animation history lesson. There’s a set of animation principles that most animators follow that dictate and drive the choices we make when building out the motion for characters and they cover topics like posing, exaggeration, and visual/emotional appeal. One principle in particular — squash and stretch — is something we’ve adapted as a fundamental aspect to League’s in-house animation style. Broadly speaking, squash and stretch helps a character feel organic and alive. It’s used to emphasize weight, momentum, and speed of objects by warping and distorting their shape. When we use more extreme versions of these distortions to connect our most important ‘key’ poses, we call them smears or ‘smear frames’; single distorted frames between broad actions. Using smears helps to sell impacts on spells, attacks, or any super-quick motion. A champion’s animation needs to feel awesome in fractions of seconds, and smears help by adding texture and flavor between exaggerated motions.
Back to Poppy.
Yordles are squishy. I don’t mean that literally, but their short stature gives them lots of wiggle room for us to exaggerate how they move. Poppy has a tiny frame, so it’s also important that we can make her motion broad enough to not be hidden under her big Yordle head. Ideally, she should never look like she’s made of rubber, but her motions should have a certain extra snap to them to keep her feeling energetic and punchy.
We kept the same mindset with the motion of her hammer, but I’ll get to that below.
- EXPRESSIVE
Historically, League isn’t the kind of game that normally needs facial animation. The camera angle and distance from your champion normally means a character’s face only takes up a handful of pixels on-screen at any moment and extra detail actually makes it harder to understand what is happening. As animators, we wanted to challenge that idea, and our early tests actually showed us that her expression changes were fully readable and felt like they added a lot to her personality.
In terms of her character rig (the set of bones that allow us to move our characters around) Poppy is the first champion in League to be built from the ground up to support such a wide range of facial expressions. Every champion has a budget in terms of rig complexity, so we had to be smart about how we fine-tuned her model and facial setup. Many high-end character rigs in modern games have more bones in the face alone than all of Poppy combined, so the challenge was to give us the widest control with the least amount of resources.
Poppy’s facial rig
Just to get technical stuff out of the way, Poppy’s face is only 11 joints in all:
- 3 per eye (pupil, upper eyelid/eyebrow, and eye shape)
- 3 to shape the mouth
- 1 for the upper bridge of teeth
- 1 for the jaw
After working closely with our tech artist (and waves and waves of iteration) we landed on what you see above. We were able to get a surprising amount of flexibility out of such a simple setup!
The first thing I did with Poppy was to carve out a set of base expressions to feel out her emotional range, and then develop them until that we all felt confident about the direction. Once we had a solid foundation, we were able to focus on the expressive timing — finding punctuated moments during and after her abilities and attacks where the expressions could be clearly seen. When you only have a fraction of a second to sell an attack, communicating a clear change in mood is really important.
- …Fool me twice… HAMMER!
Poppy’s hammer is just as important as she is and we really wanted to reflect that in her animations. Why not give her hammer the same degree of personality that we give to the Yordle that wields it? We spent some time going back and forth about what kind of shapes we needed the hammer to make, which parts we wanted to push and pull, and which parts needed to twist, distort, or grow and shrink.
Squashing, stretching, and smearing is just as important for the hammer as it is for Poppy, so we needed to crank it up to 11. The head of the hammer scales to cartoonish sizes for single frames so you can really feel the force behind the swing, and the neck of the hammer bends to compensate. With a little sorcery and a lot of clever rigging we were able to build really clean smear trails for the hammer that gave us a nice, stylized alternative to motion blur. It’s a more traditional animation method that meshed really well with how we normally animate our champions.
Strategy
- Due to Poppy’s tier (and thus her ability), she’s a popular Knight used in conjunction with Sejuani, if Kayle is yet unaquireable and the Knight trait is not the primary strategy, because the other Knight’s abilities don’t have crowd control.
- If Poppy is Level 2 or higher, Keeper’s Verdict has the ability to hit multiple enemies. However, unlike most abilities that are cast in a straight line, it will target the closest enemy and go from there. This opens up the possibility of using it to protect the carries (e.g. from jumping Assassins) in the backline, simply by placing Poppy on one of the flanks next to them.
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Poppy is usually most effective to be used to soak damage up so that the carries in the team can deal their damage. Thus equipping her with defensive items like Thornmail, Warmog’s Armor and Dragon’s Claw
It is not recommended to give her offensive items, as Champions, who focus on dealing damage, could make much better use of them.
is recommended when employing her for this purpose.
Physiology
Tristana, a female Yordle
What differentiates yordles from other magical folk is that their physiology is more consistent between its members.
Yordles are sometimes sexually dimorphic and much shorter than humans; both sexes rarely exceed 1 meter tall, with most averaging between 0.5 and 0.8 meters. Their skin texture ranges from being lightly covered in fur, to moderately fuzzy, to ultimately being excessively bushy. Their hands have four digits while their feet differ greatly depending on the individual (from four to two digit feet). Their fur tones run a much broader spectrum of colors than their human counterparts; some consider this to be a sign of the yordles’ attunement to Runeterra’s magical nature; though scientists agree that this evolutionary trait is used by male Yordles (which tend to be more fuzzy) to attract females of their species (which tend to be lightly covered with fur). Their large eyes feature a large, circular iris with a vertically oval pupil, and they generally have inferior vision in the normal spectrum of light than humans. Yordles nevertheless have much better hearing, due to their large fox-like ears and are able to see into the infrared spectrum of light, whereas humans cannot. Furthermore, they are commonly characterized by their dependence on language, as well as their creation and utilization of complex tools.
Yordles do not age in the same way as beings of the material realm do thanks to being creatures of the spirit realm and therefore have different concepts of aging. In The Meaning in Misery, it was revealed Yordles also don’t die.
The yordle race have shown the possibility to be amphibious, such example would be Fizz, though it is unknown whether it is his original form or one of his choosing.
Yordles can somewhat be considered spirits due to being native to the spirit realms. They don’t need to breathe.
Due to their physiology, yordles are vulnerable to being imprisoned inside cages made of Runic Iron. Touching Runic Iron gives yordles an electrical-like shock, and will disrupt their magic.
Reproduction
It is unknown how new Yordles came to be. It appears new Yordles emerge from random wards of magic and came into certain model of family units with more «mature» Yordles.
Glamour
- Not Always As They Seem…
- Heimerdinger’s Visual Transmogrification
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In less enlightened parts of the world, a yordle’s appearance could seem frightening or unnatural to mortals. Fortunately, they are adept at blending in, and often protected by a kind of supernatural glamour—subconsciously fading from the viewer’s notice, or being masked as a less remarkable individual.
Yordles do not necessarily control their glamour, and may understand it in a variety of ways. The revered inventor Heimerdinger, for example, crafted unique technological devices for himself and Ziggs, to help them blend into Piltovan society. However, some humans are able to break this charm due to their more perceptive nature.
The Arsenal: Forging Poppy’s Hammer
By Rumtumtummers
Reworking Poppy was a chance to tune up her biggest, baddest character elements while giving her completely new play patterns. We knew the , her signature weapon, would be critical in solidifying her refreshed identity; like Jinx’s , Nautilus’ , or Riven’s , Poppy’s hammer is an integral part of both her kit and her personality. We had to get it right for both to ring true.
In short, it was hammer time.
- Small character; big impact
Poppy’s original and were designed to fit her small stature. «Before, Poppy had a Yordle hammer and a Yordle shield», explains concept artist Gem Lim. «But we wanted to do more with it.» The team realized that by choosing one primary item for Poppy to wield and over-emphasizing it, they could create a champion with a silhouette and style different from any other champion in League. «Instead of equal attention for the hammer and shield, we toned the down and made the ginormous», says Gem. «What struck me the most about Poppy was this sense of disproportionate power. She’s a small character who does big things. The hammer should communicate that.»
ChampUp played with several hammer designs while working on the Poppy update
Poppy’s new champion-smasher wasn’t custom-made to fit her; it’s a regular-sized hammer she wields with incredible power. «The new hammer is more than a weapon», Gem says. «Its humongous size contributes to her silhouette and her movement. No champion moves like her. When you see her swing that hammer, it’s so different from Sion with his or Garen with his .» Senior narrative writer John O’Bryan adds, «It’s almost like she puts all of herself into every swing.» The new hammer design contributed to Poppy’s new and each of her re-tuned abilities.
Gem emphasizes the idea of a tiny character packing a big punch: «We want people to feel that crazy disproportionate power. Like, ‘Oh, look at the cute little— ouch!’ It’s over-the-top and unexpected.»
- A hero’s journey
Poppy’s hammer is an important part of her personal journey. ‘A Hero’s Calling’, which offers players a glimpse into Poppy’s world, is centered on the hammer and what it means to her. O’Bryan elaborates, «Even she doesn’t think it’s hers. She thinks it’s a tool for someone else.» Scaling the hammer to make it a normal hammer size helps emphasize the idea that Poppy doesn’t necessarily believe the hammer is hers to wield, that somewhere in the world is a hero meant to carry it. The hammer existed long before Poppy took possession of it.
Poppy’s hammer has hints of Demacia and a human-sized scale
Though she’s been carrying the hammer for a long, long time, Poppy hasn’t yet realized that she’s what gives the hammer its strength. O’Bryan explains, «If you were to ask Poppy, she would probably think she’s nothing special. Everything she’s doing is because of this hammer she’s carrying around. But really, it’s all coming from her.» Players know one thing Poppy doesn’t: the hammer is right where it needs to be.
- The immovable object
Poppy’s new weapon is meant to emphasize core elements of her personality. «She’s purposeful», says O’Bryan. «Nothing can stop her; if you knock her down, she’s going to keep getting back up.» The team behind the Poppy update wanted to give a sense of solidity to Poppy, the idea that to get to Poppy’s team, enemies have to go through her. «When others run away, Poppy runs forward», says Gem. «She’s indomitable.»
The hammer is a symbol of Poppy’s strength, her unflinching dedication to her task, and her worldview. «Poppy doesn’t think of herself as a small character», O’Bryan says, «because she really isn’t.» Gem says, «She’s the pebble you thought you could kick, but couldn’t. There’s no one like her.»
Culture
| “ | «Yordles are the reason no-one takes us Vastaya seriously.» |
| — Xayah | |
The Yordle race have innate magic within them which helps them achieve extraordinary things usually impossible for someone of their stature. Also, they require far more social interaction with their own kind than humans do. They generally are a peaceful and amicable race, often marked with streaks of joviality and light prankishness; their moral compass is most often pointed toward goodness and benevolence. Their desire for social interaction drives them toward this ethos, as the mental health of a yordle is very much dependent on the positive company he or she keeps. This does not mean, however, that they are incapable of cruelty and evil. In fact, a yordle who is kept in isolation for too long – especially from contact with other yordles – runs the risk of becoming withdrawn and sullen. Some who already are centered more toward malevolence will become exceedingly so in due course. These yordles will often twist their desire for social interaction into a desire to seek out others to inflict pain and suffering upon them, one extreme example being Veigar, the Tiny Master of Evil. Yordles are attracted to Runeterra cultures and enjoy manifesting around certain human ideals.
