User blog comment:Meat Bun Pie/Regarding Champion Concepts/@comment-1330314-20141006084314/@comment-5331854-20141008102115

Word. I once did a concept for a MOBA that only two people knew about, including me. But I predicted one or two champions that way, Zac and Yasuo (and way back then, I did a "Prisilla-rework" in the LoL-forums. After some time, Elise came out).

In all three cases, I doubt Riot took inspiration from me because of the obscurity of the avaibility.

So yeah, most people don't get that ideas are very, very, VERY cheap. Prototypes, on the other hand, aren't. That explains why only very few champions were directly inspired by the community (Braum and arguably Viktor) while, at the same time, so many people claim "Oh it's so similar to mah concept Rito must creditz me!".