Thread:Tesla Effect/@comment-26252250-20150328051037/@comment-26252250-20150424213213

Oh yeah! When Larry Ray made the concept for Special Weapon Zac, above he had written something like "a what if scenario of him as an early prototype" or something. Which is odd since it seems Zac was the only one of his kind, and there was never another mention of other Amorphous Combatants. And since SW Zac doesn't seem kind at all, I figured that was him had he become the weapon he was meant to be, had his parents not grown a conscience.

As for these ones:

- Snow Day Ziggs is totally what he wears on Howling Abyss (I've been trying to separate the Snowdown from Christmas. The earliest skins are a pain, but Snow Day Ziggs marks the transition right after the Howling Abyss and Poros showed up. Blue and white instead of red, green, and white, and while his largest bomb has a snowman face, it's no biggie: you can't exactly make a Poro out of snow, and his current snowballs fit perfectly). I name the Snowdown skins as such, except for Freljord champs.

- Mecha Kha'Zix is totally not him but a mecha built in hsi image by Heim and Ziggs. When it came to figuring out whom of the two would pilot it, I remembered Heim's ult and Kha'Zix's evolution shtick, and it made sense Heim would pilot Mecha Kha'Zix and as such Ziggs would pilot Mecha Malphite, leaving Rumble piloting Mecha Aatrox. All this to help the Resistance/defend Bandle City, of course.

- Dragonblade Riven, like all the other Lunar Revel skins, are classified as such. I really don't want to be one of those who says "hurr Ionia is fantasy Asia duur" but... I'm starting to think that both the Lunar Revel and the Blood Moon festivals are celebrated in Ionia (the latter definitely, the former I'm not sure). If I had to guess, DB Riven is her trying to make amends to Ionians (think Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai)

- High Noon Yasuo I see as him leaving Ionia in pursuit of the Elder's killer and the trail leading him to Bilgewater (I'm convinced High Noon Twisted Fate was him before he became the Card Master proper) and he needing to blend in. I believe that all the Western/Pirate skins that ever were are what champs wear when in Bilgewater (except MF and GP, those are special cases since they are natives). And I'm pretty sure both Graves ("Another Harrowin' stopped. Frankly, I don't know how much longer our lil' island is gonna keep'em entertained.") and Twisted Fate (given he apparently doesn't come from the river equivalent of the Quarian Flotilla from Mass Effect anymore) are both from Bilgewater as well. BW is certainly not a typical "pirate town", just like Ionia is not "fantasy Asia" (because last time I checked, Karma doesn't look Asian.)

- Piltover Customs Heimerdinger is self-explanatory: He and Corki had (hope they still do) a customs shop in Piltover, and even tuned Blitz at one point (and Vi's earlier form "Ruby" would totally feel at home there.)

I've used a lot of time and brainpower for this... please notice me Riot-senpai.