The element * gwɨnn/ gwenn is also found in * Gwɨnnohuɨβar/ Gwen- hwyfar "white spectre", which yields Guinevere, the name of King Arthur's wife, because her and Arthur's story was the basis for Isolde and Viego's story.Gwen is a Brythonic female name, from Proto-Brittonic * gwenn The answer? Gwen now has the ability to move her zone of control once, letting her chase down any enemy attempting to leave. That’s not really what 1v9 skirmisher players are looking for, so we needed a better solution for keeping enemies in Gwen’s playpen. So if Gwen had a high-CC ultimate, then she’d need to do less damage in return. But giving a high damage carry a bunch of crowd control means you’re creating a busted champion.Įvery champ in League has a power budget that includes everything from CC to team utility to raw damage output. Gwen was made to be a skirmisher, which means she should be a high damage carry.
There was another iteration where she’d spear two enemies with needles and then swap their locations.” It was really fun to play as, because your victim’s teammates couldn’t do anything to help.
“Her ult was always needle-and-thread themed, so we used that to yank her enemies back into her zone. “When I took over Gwen’s game design, I tried all of these really wild ults that were centered around her being able to keep people in her zone,” explains game designer Stash “Riot Stashu” Chelluck. And that’s when the team realized that they needed to give Gwen the tools to actually force enemies to play her game. No one wants to fight the enemy when they’re at their strongest, so the answer to Gwen’s “welcome to my thunderdome” spell was to just leave. The problem was that her enemies could just leave her zone. It’s like she’s saying, ‘I have all the fun tools and you don’t,’ then she gets to force her enemy to play her game with her on her terms.” “When Gwen started to take form, we wanted to keep this particular spell because it fit with her personality. “I’d actually been working on Gwen’s zone control spell before the rest of the team started-before peppy skirmisher was even an idea, actually,” recalls champion designer Dan “Riot Maxw3ll” Emmons. And when the team started working on Gwen, they already had one in mind. One of the ways we can give skirmishers an edge in their endless fight for the perfect 1v9 is by giving them a zone of power where they excel. So it helps if they can isolate their prey or pick fights on their own terms. What they don’t want is to jump their target and then get dogpiled by the rest of the team. They want to scrap with high-value targets and then get out to keep doing whatever it was they were doing (like stealing their jungler’s raptors). Skirmishers are League’s “1v1 me bro” mentality incarnate. But there was one particular concept that stuck out to everyone: the doll. Gwen’s original concept artist, Paul “Zeronis” Kwon, used this idea to create a spread of characters who might understand the unbridled joy of life. Things we normally ignore because, to us, they’re so mundane.” One of the perspectives we haven’t explored is someone who’s amazed by everything-even the little things like the feeling of grass or the smell of the ocean. “So we needed to make sure we found a new approach. “We have a few champions who fall on the ‘joyful optimism’ spectrum already, like Lux and Seraphine,” explains narrative writer Michael “SkiptoMyLuo” Luo. Gwen’s story started, as many champions do, with a goal: create a “peppy skirmisher.” Following Viego with a champion of similar seriousness and gloom would’ve left League feeling xX2edgy4meXx, so the team looked towards the opposite end of the edgelord scale, to joy. And then the three would live happily ever after.Įxcept that’s not how the story ended. Doll and maker would travel across the sea, experience royal life, and maybe, just maybe, marry the prince. Everything about her made by a girl who dreamed of one day going to the castle herself.Īnd maybe one day they’d get that chance. The doll’s dress lovingly crafted to match the intricate designs on the Camavoran warships in the harbor. Gwen, she’d have been called-a name that sounded so perfectly royal to her young maker. Who’s to say a Camavoran peasant girl never ran through a field of wheat with her selfmade princess doll in tow? They would’ve stayed in that golden field until day turned to night. So what’s stopping a Runeterran from having one? No matter where you’re from, no matter the circumstances of your childhood, no matter your race or identity or background. These toys, and the memories they awaken, are universal. Do you remember your favorite childhood toy? Was it a white teddy bear? Or a beefy action figure? Or perhaps a princess who reigned over Stuffed Animal Kingdom by day and fought crime by night?
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