What the PERFECT Project L Roster Could Look Like (League of Legends Fighting Game)

this becomes a shock to you but I love fighting games and have my whole life well most of my life I wasn't really allowed to play video games until I was like 10. but all the fond memories of Street Fighter Arcade machines Smash Brothers with the homies or playing Mortal Kombat in our busted old laptops through totally legal means do you yield I do not but of course this is me we're talking about I specialize in absolutely adoring something I completely [ __ ] suck at and hey that reminds me of a certain other game it was a dream of mine to see my favorite Champions fight it out on the two-dimensional plane and during the League of Legends 10-year anniversary I got my wish project L was officially announced I wish I had the recording of my reaction when this was announced because I lost my mind it long last A League of Legends fighting game which everything I could have wanted I couldn't wait to play it and wait I did it would be many months many years until we'd hear even the people with the fellas over at Riot we're cooking up but in November of 2021 riding the wave of the Arcane hype train comes a brand new trailer a revamped art style 2v2 assist based combat Echo is a playable character roll back neck code oh yeah it's all coming together and of course the promise that we would not be left in the dark any longer that the game now had a solid Direction and it was time to finalize the character roster now for those uninformed from a casual player's perspective Frame data 50 hit Combos and intricate competitive scene is all well and good but what really matters at the end of the day is the characters it's why guest characters are so prominent in fighting games alien and Mortal Kombat Darth Vader and Soul Calibur yes that's real how bad even some fighting games are based entirely around it being a crossover my point is that good roster is one-off if not the most important thing to a fighting game success and project L will be no different the Champions that make up this roster will ultimately decide the overall interest and health of the game and frankly it was my biggest worry upon the initial reveal in our first preview we got Darius Ari Jinx and Katarina with Echo revealed over two years later now is this a problematic start no not at all but you might notice something very similar with all these Champions that they are all very popular in League of Legends specifically well these aren't bad picks by any means they were worrying for the roster ahead that there was a very high chance just like we see with skins there would be an insane amount of champion bias even if Champions like Lux Ezreal or Kaiser realistically would be entirely out of place in a fighting game environment that would be put in the roster anyway because popular Champion XD Do notice though how I said were because on August 1st 2022 we got the reveal that changed everything illawi was confirmed for project L why is that insane because nobody plays this freaking Champion try to ruin King she was a nobody a relic of the golden season of League lost the time for her kid was too Niche for the common League player to comprehend so why then why is allowing project L if she's this unpopular it's simple really she's a perfect fit for a fighting game and this is where my hope Rose from the grave with Malawi we now had a very decent shot project L's roster won't be filled with only popular Champions but instead the Champions that deserve to be in a fighting game and that's what I'm here to talk about today I'm here to propose what I think is the most perfect starting roster project L could possibly have a perfect representation of what the league Universe has to offer pleasing existing League fans will be a great introduction to new players but to decide the perfect roster we need to set some ground rules oh rule number one for starters we're putting our base roster at an incredibly generous 28 characters now that might not seem like a lot as that's less than 1 6 of the entire League of Legends roster but put this in perspective Street Fighter 5 while having an impressive 46 character roster today started with only 16 playable characters multiverses while adding a new character every two weeks [ __ ] Psychopaths also started with only 16 characters and Killer Instinct dwell at a great roster now released with an enormous roster of six not 16 6 28 by comparison is an incredibly generous base roster size for a fighting game these days when I suspect the actual base roster won't even come close to especially if project L plans to adapt the free-to-play model like Multiverse has just don't do a new character every two weeks that's ridiculous room number two Champion variants and diversity is very important so the goal of this roster is to be the best representation of runetera it possibly can be so by that logic we should that every region has at least one Champion representing it that a good number of room Taran species and races are all represented but there's a healthy balance of both popular and unpopular Champions and that the roster would allow for a wide selection of fighting game character archetypes you gotta have some Grapplers Rush down puppet Fighters joke characters and fine we'll put in a zoner tooth number three and this one's Bordeaux appease my ADHD brain but project L is a tag team fighter and well I like to avoid four synergies I do think it's really cool to add some encouraged pairings into the mix you know something like Jinx and VI is the zonite sister Duo uh speaking of VI she was never officially confirmed was she well I suppose we should start this roster off with roster Choice number one is why and do I really need to explain this one in fact I don't think I'd need to she's basically already confirmed to be in the game if you take a look at some of the older photos we have for project L specifically regarding the staff you can see the back wall contains a painting of both VI and Jinx a painting very much in the style of the initial teaser posters we got for the game plus there's literally no way she's not gonna be in the game guys like come on she's insanely popular especially after Arcane unique punching weapons and well she kind of already plays like a fighting game character doesn't she she's one of the few characters that feels so obvious she has to be there but see that's the sad part so many zonite champions are perfect fits Ionia 2 but with a roster so small small I had to cut it down to only a Chosen Few were already at three zonates with Jinx VI and Echo I couldn't possibly add more except there's one more that has to be there for those in the dark the people working on Project L are the people of the studio rating entertainment a fighting game Studio founded by Tom and Tony Cannon you know the founders of Evo it's only the biggest fighting game tournament in the World radiant entertainment would later go on to be purchased by riot in 2016 Midway through development of their own fighting game Rising Thunder I bring this up not only to point out how to experience the devs are or how we knew rat was working on a fighting game this whole time no I bring this up because Rising Thunder was an all robot based fighting game so you know these guys are experienced at making robot based characters for fighting games so what better robot to put in Project L than the crank himself Grappler character check electricity based Gotcha Covered no longer using the old ass busted ass big needy claws having decade old modeling and stuck with for so long give him the wild riff version sitting emote and all plus we've already seen what he can do outside of League via project f it I was that is that game still happening he's a bit of a Goofy character but sometimes we need that in fighting games and he's a perfect fit for that in my books and as I said there are a ton of other perfect fits for piltovens on Warwick Camille and Zach to name a few I'm sure we'll get more in the future but for now I think Jinx Echo Vine Blitz are as much as on as we can get right now moving from Sonic with the second most perfect pick populated place in runetera Ionia we already have Ari helping to represent visaya and a potential zoner archetype but to be honest if both Leeson and set aren't in this game then something went wrong internally back when set first launched a lot of people immediately assumed he was a guaranteed in for project L I mean look at him he's basically the definition of a fighting game champ I was skeptical though and that's because I thought it was too little too late in a fighting game like Smash Brothers for example the roster is often was decided first smash ultimate's whole pitch was its roster but we did find out for project L that this isn't the case in fact judging from several job offerings still up it's very likely the roster has still yet to be decided so for a shooting character like Seth I think his spot is guaranteed same goes really sin this man's designed to be in a fighting game environment hell who already has intricate combos in League of Legends the developers would have tons to work with for a potential moveset the only problem with adding both of these guys is that now along with blitz and VI that's for Bruiser style Punchy characters in the game already and with the roster so small we need to balance things out I never thought I'd say this as a Smash Brothers Enthusiast but we're gonna need a sword fighter [Music] and yeah no [ __ ] gastro's gonna be in this game now that I think about it at least until the other Riot Forge games comes out the main cast of the ruined King has been in every single Rune taren-based game ever held set six of TFT was revolutionaries it was the only set ever to not have yasfo present in some way shape or form and then there's ramus who's never been in a single set of TFT ever uh ramus is never going to be in TFT ever but no duh yeah so it's gonna be here he's got the unique weapon the market ability the wind powers and it already combo heavy play style he's just one of those Champions to be more shocked to not see in the game rather than actually see him speaking of obvious I think we got room for one more ionian on this list and this one's an almost no-brainer granted it was a bit of a toss-up though I could have gone with akali irelia Shan hell if I really wanted to drown myself in personal bias I could have gone with Ivan here all of them excellent picks but something came to my mind one of the coolest Parts about Ionia story-wise is its own internal conflict from the navorroy to the kinku to the shadow order there's a constant civil war between its own people and well who better to represent the Dark Side of Ionia better than said granted king would have been a great choice here too but personally it's much easier for me to imagine a fighting game moveset present rather than Kane and that could be down to the fact that Zed would basically just be Noob Saibot teleporting Shadow clone slice and dice assassinations Noob with zed before Zed was Zed which would make him y as in why was noob's role in mk11 story mode so [ __ ] worthless in any case that's the last of the ionians like I said earlier there's so many good picks here it was nearly impossible to narrow it down to so few but now we can move on to the other regions only one of which has more than two spots on this list most of them having only one so let's start with the third largest region with three picks noxus initially my pick here would have 100 been Scion however we already have Darius and when we're trying to have as a diverse roster as possible two giant noxian ax-wielding bruisermen seems a little bit redundant so sorry cyan back to the pits of Hell breaker matter where you belong however you know what is it redundant a badass demon controlling noxian warlord if any Mage was gonna be in this game Swain was the best pick in my opinion a sonar hell no fights in the front lines he's a battle mage he can set out his Ravens electrocute you maybe use his powers of vision to increase or decrease enemy players cooldowns I don't know man this pick feels too perfect to pass up on the subject of two parent to pass up severe now hold on I know what you're saying well Nick you said that cyan couldn't be included because he's too similar to Darius so why is Samira fine when Katarina's in the game well first off you're a dumb dumb for even thinking Katarina is half as cool as Samira and secondly we haven't seen Katarina since the first teaser three years ago and with roster selection still up in the air there's a good chance she might have been cut from the game altogether it's a common practice that happens in fighting games sometimes rest in peace course kids in this instance if Katarina's removal was to make room for Samira I'm completely game and if you're looking for inspiration move set wise play Dante in Marvel vs Capcom 3 for 5 seconds and it will all piece together moving on to the frail yard we have several options Ash and trynamere are probably the most obvious ones as their poster voice for the game My Counterpoint to their inclusion is they're [ __ ] boring and I don't like them but you know who Everyone likes God damn rhyme baby one of if not the most universally liked champions in all of League of Legends I like to imagine for an end screen outro animation he just gives you his hand sits you down with a campfire with a cup of hot cocoa and sapporos he'd just be a really cool guy to fight with as and against not to mention we could finally see Braum's real power he's a protector of course but he's a strong guy he's been relegated to a zero damage dealing support for far too long originally I was gonna have Udyr take the second trailer spot one because I like him a lot obviously and two because I want a representation for the freljordian demigods but you could probably tell this video is initially consented back in February because now we have modern Udyr with all the Fairly Odin demigods has power at his disposal who better to represent that aspect of rooterra than Udyr plus swamping between different stances have been a staple archetype of fighting games for decades Vegan Street Fighter 5 night wing and Injustice the entirely post MK4 Midway Mortal Kombat it offers up a special unique ways to play with uder having access to five known demigods the possibilities are endless hey maybe we'll actually get something based on the seal sister this time please answer zamasia choosing a damasian rappers a bit but for the opposite reason ioni and zhan was where they had too many perfect picks the mafia has barely any every option here feels like it would be too unwieldy or flat out boring so for my money the most interesting option here by far is probably shyvana not only because she offers something totally different to the demacian norm but she would be our Firebase character our dragon-based character and potentially a transforming stall Super Bass character going back and forth between human and dragon form depending on her power level not to mention this would be a great opportunity to give her the visual update she so desperately needs of course if the only damasian rap was a character so undamazi and it hurt to comprehend that wouldn't be very good representation I'll still lock in shyvana as a definite pick here but if I had to choose a true damasi to join the ranks I'd honestly say Fiora another sword fighter alongside yaso for sure but at least a very different kind of Sword fighter another Choice here would have been Garen but like I said with Ash and Trin he's [ __ ] boring and I don't like him Fiora would be fast and Nimble Swift but graceful the closest comparison I could think of someone like Kai from Guilty Gear lots of dashes lots of slashes lots of French and I now what you're thinking where's Shameless I thought he'd be a perfect fit for this game and yeah actually I think he would however I have a much better idea for the character that would take his place in my opinion every fighting game needs a Shang sung as character one that steals the moves of other Fighters or copies their moveset entirely 12. Omen Kirby that's just something so fun about copying your opponent's moves and throwing it back in their face Silas is a perfect fit for this right after all he steals people's alts but that wasn't enough for me I think Shang sung characters are at their best when they can copy everything about their opponent even down to their physical appearance and not only has Nico got that covered but she functions as our ixtile rap as well remember xtel guys right guys anyone anyone no okay regardless this would also present a perfect opportunity to expand her coffee abilities as in League she's landlocked to only copying her enemy's appearance like to mention like Shang sung she isn't all tricks and Illusions she has plenty of power for herself Beyond masquerading as other fighters in theory Viejo could have worked for the spot too however a vehicle can only copy his opponent's abilities when they're dead because he's [ __ ] stupid circling back to bilgewater I still can't believe allow it was actually the fifth character to be officially announced for the game in fact seeing all the love for allowed recently with project L ruined King has been kind of overwhelming it should be left in the dark for so long but allowing the Brewer people are only a small part of bilgewater there's the sunny Shores the terrifying depths and of course the legendary bilgewater Harbor and let's be honest between all that bilgewater has to offer this is down to only two real options Misfortune and Gangplank and for my money I kind of have to go with Gangplank here primarily because I think in most instances ADC chance would be a poor choice for project L not to say having more range based characters in fighting games is a bad thing because everybody already knows it is I mean did you even play against Deadshot Injustice 2 or Injustice 2 in general gaming Jinx in my opinion is the only one that really works because she'd be crazy enough to Bonk you over the head with a gun instead of shoot it but on the topic of GP he would be a phenomenal pick for this game in my opinion he would function a lot like predator and MKX or Khan Ron Ki a trap-based character laying fire in barrels all across the field ready to explode and combo together at any time I remember earlier when I said I didn't want to make too many Force 2v2 pairings but I did want to make some encouraged ones well we already got Udyr in the sentence one so why not throw in the bitter bilgewater x's in there for good measure not those ones now we're in the deep end at this point the remaining regions realistically only have room for one rep it helps that they're smaller regions but it doesn't make choosing the most favorable candidate any more difficult for targana narrowed it down to two possible options Leona and Pantheon and for my money I'm team Pantheon and that could come from the fact that Pantheon is an inspiring soldier who fought through hell and back to protect himself from the people he loves while Leona is a genocidal piggot Jokes Aside though both have equal reasons for being the initial targon rep for this game and hey I've always complained about Leona's design being so boring Harrison tour Solari followers so maybe this will be the game that finally brings her outfit up to date but I do want you to imagine something for me the fight is dead even squaring up the final battle you've built up your super meter just enough to get your super move off In the Heat of the Moment you activate it Pantheon grabs the opponent and hurls onto the ground then he leaps into the sky beyond the stars the music starts to swell and as he comes crashing back down to earth this music starts [ __ ] blasting shouldn't be in the game for that alone next up is sharima and realistically my pick here should have been one of the ascended as they represent the region the best however like lizards of runtera I think this game should be mindful of champion size as here's the only one I feel that could be translated project L smoothly but even then it might not be the best option I mean we've seen how buggy he was in League the best option in my opinion is none of the ascended it's Talia I always think back to how cool Toff was in Avatar or for a fighting game perspective how cool Tremor was in MKX something about earthbending is just such a visually powerful and interesting concept and hey that's another easy pairing Yasuo and Talia wind and stone teacher and student plus Talia is over 20 now so I'd love to see how Talia nyasa would interact with each other again post character arcs just now get talia's actual voice actor back please no hard feelings towards the Lor one they're good voice actors that just you know I take League Talia over desert Lux any day I'm glad it brought us back together Yasuo the shadow owls rep would be thresh I like to make it clear that my opinions this challenge subjective and you're fully within your right to agree or disagree but if you think that any of the Shadow house Champions deserve this spot over thresh you are objectively wrong and I know I'm not explaining this further now yordles are a bit of a touchy subject and not because there aren't cool yordles because of course there are I'm talking more from a purely fighting game scenario short characters are a bit problematic Rocket Raccoon Goku GT Yoda yes this is also real short characters in fighting games are a pain in the ass cause moves that would normally work on everyone else they avoid just by existing if a yard would be added to project L I'd say they need to pick one that works around hitboxes so no Heimer Fizz justana Teemo Etc the only yordles I could see working are Clara Rumble who are on top of mounts Poppy's big ass Hammer which you could angle in such a way to make her model larger or Nar with his mega mode transformation and for the sake of another good pairing and giving Nico a shape-shifting buddy I'm gonna go with Nar on this one not really a banal City rep but hey there's a bunch of prehistoric URLs in battle City so um uh [ __ ] the void is a tricky one though because boy doesn't really have character the most truthful and honest representation of the Void of the Mindless matter hungry monsters hellbently destroying everything around them the problem with that is that characters like Joe Cog and rek'sai aren't really characters but you know who is a character velcos one of the only two sentient voidborn we know the other one being belveth and sure belveth might work better than yields and she actually has physical attacks after all but take one look at shumagorath from Marvel vs Capcom 3 and you can see clear as day why velcas could definitely work cosmics would be a good choice too but for my money if you're adding kha'zix you have to add Rengar too and since Nico already took the extile slot I had to cut them both but hey they would make a pretty cool DLC expansion right I mean they already did it for wild Rift of course right now the void rips are actually going to be Kai Savage a Boy Can Dream Kenny now here's a pic I know you guys weren't expecting Mila it's shut up I will [ __ ] die on this hill that Nila got way more hate that she deserved and she's actually a really cool character so cool in fact that I nominate her as the representative of the Eastern neighboring regions of both carnivore and kathkan since we know neither of these regions very well nor the camera foreign Champions really even associated with their Homeland anymore I think Nila is more than a perfect fit here and hey this would be a great chance for her to truly distance herself from Samira giving her a kit that's truly all her own instead of just Samira but I work better with enchanters plus we already got our Earth fire and Airbender so why not complete the set with a water bender lastly now that we have every region covered I do think we need a few Champions who don't have ties to any region ones that really demonstrate just how crazy the world of rooterra is and for this I wanted one of three different things a demon a Celestial and a world-ending threat and I know we already have Swain and neela giving us that slice of demon representation but I think a full-on demon in the form of Fiddlesticks has to be there alternatively I think Evelyn could have claimed the spot too but Anatomy wise there's nothing in runetera like Fiddlesticks just looking at his movements in League reminds me of his Sako from Killer Instinct manic sporadic movements that truly give off the sense that something is very very wrong with this thing not to mention out of all the demons fiddle is the demon the primordial manifestation of fear and who doesn't like a good old-fashioned spooky character in their fighting game especially around this time of year as for Celestial every fighting game has to have a troll character and when you could argue Nar could fulfill this role I'm talking more about the full-on Dan level useless unorthodox pain in the ass goofy as could be troll character yeah sure trunnel that's the easy one here I'm talking about Bard cause like what the [ __ ] would he even do throw meeps at you open portals to the dimensions freeze himself in place call maduly for assistance the possibilities for wacky insane Shenanigans are endless and that's why he would be the perfect troll character and finally we're at the end every fighting game needs a Big Bad final boss and while someone like Belleville bath fiego or aatrox would be good picks I think this spot had to go to mordekaiser the penultimate big bat of runetera the evil the entire world let the band together and fight even then struggling to take him down if projectiles somehow managed to squeeze out a cinematic story mode I bet you more would make an excellent antagonist working on the sidelines until he finally awakens at the end and you as the player have to take him down once and for all and what we do already have big boy characters like Blitz and Braum already I think more would take the cake for the big boy of the game the slow-moving tanky super armor to holy hell Unstoppable Juggernaut dishing out insane damage if you so much a Slip up once thinking about more in the fighting game scenario just makes me hype and personally I think that's the best thing a fighting game can do well that's it my hypothetical roster for project L I spent a lot of time thinking this over narrowing down who I think the perfect fits would be making sure that as much of room Terrace represented as possible and most important to me making it so that an outsider or fan of league would look at project L and say damn that's a pretty cool roster of characters I'll give this game a try and like I said at the beginning this is a pretty generous base roster size but so many great picks had to be left out because there just wasn't enough room Riven Pike Warwick akali Nunu the list goes on this is just what I would think would make the best starting roster project L could possibly have but of course those are just my silly personal opinions be sure to let me know yours down in the comments do you agree with my picks do you think some critical choices were left out how if you have your own roster suggestions be sure to let me know in the comments below I'd like to read them we're approaching the end of the year with that we have a new update for the game on the horizon we still don't know how much will be announced if anything at all but I'm excited to see the future of this game and I wish nothing but the best for the hard-working people who spent so much time making sure it will be the best fighting game it can be that's all from me fellas till next time I'll see you in the next video [Music]

Channel: NickyBoi

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Keywords: games, gaming, League of legends, lol, riot games, fighting game, fgc, legends of runeterra, wild rift, tft, tekken, street fighter, mortal kombat, soul calibur, guilty gear, dragon ball fighterz, marvel vs capcom, super smash bros ultimate, killer instinct, Darius, Ahri, Jinx, Ekko, Arcane, Katarina, Illaoi, Evo, Zed, Blitzcrank, Vi, Lee Sin, Sett, Udyr, Shyvanna, Fiora, Braum, Bard, Mordekaiser, Vek'Koz, Kai'sa, Akali, Pyke, Swain, Nilah, Yasuo, Taliyah, Gangplank, Pantheon, Samira, Thresh, Fiddlesticks, Neeko, Gnar

Id: oK22gisIFoQ

Length: 23min 3sec (1383 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 23 2022