Reav3, the chief hero designer of League of Legends today, answered some questions from netizens about the new hero Zeli on reddit, revealing that the new hero was influenced by Filipino culture and also darkened her skin color after making the hero trailer. The details are as follows:
Q: Can you tell you if Zeli has been influenced by any culture?
Reav3 (Chief Hero Designer)
Yes, she was influenced by Filipino culture.
Q: She's filipino like Neon? (Neon is a new character in the fist-shooting game Valorante, who is also Filipino))
She was indeed influenced by Filipino culture.
Q: Can you explain why her electricity is not constantly available haha?
Haha, it's actually part of the cultural influence, our chief concept artist Lonewingy is a Filipino who told us that they often have power outages over there. So we decided to make the power outage a part of Zeli.
Q: Yes, I've heard about it too, and I think she's deliberately designed to be Filipino, just like the character who was released at the same time as Valorante, with the same look and the same skills?
Her voice actor is indeed of Filipino descent (Neon's English voice in Valorante and Zeri's English voice are both the same voice actor)
Q: She's pretty cool and can't wait to learn about her hero theme. But how should her name be pronounced?
Just like Jerry, but it was Zerry.
Q: The posts discussing the original drawing are over-exaggerated, he looks better in the game, and the hero looks very interesting.
Tell you what, the original painting that was leaked before is an unfinished old work. (The original painting you see now is likely to be old)
Reav3 (Chief Hero Designer)
We also darkened her skin a bit after making the hero trailer.
Reav3
We'll go into a bit more detail in the developer log, but it's true that from the very beginning, her hero production team and The Valorante character production team worked together to produce Neon and Zeli. Both teams contributed to both roles.
Zeli and Neon have a lot of similarities, and can be said to be "the other me in the world".
Here is also for everyone to bring you the skills of the new character Neon in "Valorante", and you jrs will see if it feels familiar.
Both neon and Zeli are of Filipino descent or influenced by Filipino culture, and the main "elements" are electricity, and both are designed by Riot August, also known as the three-ring designer. The heroes August has designed are Wei, Jinx, Nar (with Meddler), Ike, Ember, Xena, and Foyego; the heroes who have been in charge of redo include the Poodle (Callback), The Angel, Morgana, and the Monkey (with Lutzburg and Meddler). It can be expected that there will be a lot of similarities between these two heroes. This is the first time we've seen a situation in Fist of two different departments working together to develop a role, and maybe there will be more similar projects in the future.