Poro


 * Not to be confused with 

Poros are the mysterious, magical, and most-loved creatures originating from the Howling Abyss.

Lore

 * Born out of love, blinded by glee
 * Innocent, pure, magic and free,
 * Faithful, trusting; often naïve,
 * Soft, furry; their hearts hold a key.


 * Poros are equal parts truth, valor, and innocence.
 * The color that best describes poros is “very light blue, like Freljordian snow” (Pantone P 121-3 U).
 * Poros have a heart-shaped underbelly because they’re made of love.
 * A poro’s horns perk up when it’s excited and droop down when it’s scared.
 * Poros paddle through deep snow with their front paws.
 * Some believe that poros are indestructible—though at one point we animated poros to keel over and twitch if they ran into the Abyss’ fountains.
 * Poros stick their tongue out because they are incredibly warm. This is why they can survive the harsh cold environment of the Howling Abyss.
 * are frosted with Freljordian ice crystals.
 * Due to recent heroic deeds, is a friend to the poros.
 * claims that the intelligence of people drops in the presence of these creatures.
 * The leader of the Poros is known as the.
 * They share some similarities with the Watchers in terms of appearance.

The Origins of Poros


By Riot Preeti

"While wrapping up the Howling Abyss, the entire team was on the lookout for something to balance out the Abyss' cold, serious atmosphere. Unlike our other maps, the Howling Abyss had a very structural, linear cadence--it was literally a bridge without any fantasy elements, which didn't feel very League. To counter this, the whole team brainstormed about cute and fun things we could add that would remain true to League and not take away from the map's epicness. It was sort of tricky because whatever we added had to be noticeable without being too distracting--we didn't want players confusing our little critter for a minion or monster they should kill! We wanted to create something furry that looked like it could survive through harsh weather, so RiotEarp looked to mountain goats, reindeer, and polar bears for inspiration. He sketched the initial poro concept art based on a cuter version of all of those things and we ran with it! Howling Abyss is the coldest and harshest place in all of Runeterra, so you can think of poros as the manifestation of whatever warmth, happiness, and love that still exists.

After RiotOtown modeled and textured the very first poro, he and RiotCaptainLx decided to add a super huge tongue because the little guy reminded them of a puppy. Then, during the animation phase, RiotCaptainLx took it a step further and had the poro lick its whole face in one shot! With the tongue mechanic in place, he also animated the poro to run around panting with its tongue hanging out. We totally agreed that poros should pant just like that--they radiate with love, so they're extremely hot despite the Abyss' bone-chilling temperatures"!

Trivia

 * Poro was designed by RiotOtown, RiotEarp, and RiotCaptainLx.
 * In Finnish, Poro means, from *počaw;
 * The Uralic noun itself is borrowed from *paču <  *pek- "livestock, wealth" (> Sanskrit पशु páśu, Latin pecus, & English fee).
 * Playing as, when feeding a Poros with a , they will sprout mustaches (different colored depending on the Braum skin used at the time).
 * Previously, you could kill them by herding them into the spawn. Now they get fired on by the Nexus Obelisk and run away.
 * You could also have killed them with the passive of.
 * Poros got a Visual Update after Snowdown Showdown 2014.
 * Poros celebrate the Masquerade and Snowdown Showdown.
 * A group of Poros is called a fluft.
 * RiotRunaan has stated that Poros enjoy mocking and toying with the people that enter the bridge.
 * Poros are tasty but ingesting them results in a poro bursting out of the body Alien-style, "Or so the story goes".

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Porofolia
These splashes and icons were made specifically to celebrate the 2015 and 2016 Masquerade events celebrated on the Latin American and Brazilian servers. The link to the Porofolia sites can be accessed from here and here.