![]() I would say it's the single biggest QA challenge we've faced from an ability perspective, on par with Yorick ult. RiotJHa has owned the QA process for the ability. How much of a pain in the ass was it to code and bug fix Wind Wall? So this skin is our team's way of paying homage to a very special part of the history of cinema." In fact, one of the early inspirations for Yasuo was Yojimbo. Leone has always admitted that his inspiration for these films were the classic samurai films of Kurosawa, such as Yojimbo and The Seven Samurai. Think "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" starring Clint Eastwood. "Reposting from an answer below: The inspiration for the skin is drawn from the classic spaghetti westerns directed by Sergio Leone. I have to ask, "Why a cowboy skin of all things?" So my response to her was that we should have a Laundry Day Yasuo skin - same exact outfit, except he forgot to wear his shirt! No word from the skins team as to how viable they think this idea is." So when he was revealed, she immediately messaged me and said WHY IS HE WEARING A SHIRT NO SHIRT DAMMIT. "Funny story - when Yasuo was originally pitched, one of our female designers demanded that he not be wearing a shirt. We’re not revealing his birth name yet, but definitely wasn’t peaceful."ĭo you already have some ideas for upcoming skins for Yasuo? In an effort to steady his wild nature, he was given the name Yasuo, which in our world (because Japan/Japanese doesn’t exist in Runeterra) means calm. Yasuo was wild when he first came to the sword school and, as was common practice for them, he was given a new name when he joined. The reason we went with a name meaning “peaceful one” for a guy who killed his own brother is in part the interesting juxtaposition, but also because Yasuo is not his birth name. The first character can be interpreted as “ease” or “peace” and the second simply as “man.” The name is fairly common in Japan, but has fallen in popularity over the last generation or two. There are a number of different characters that can be used to write it, but we went with this one: åº "Yasuo means honest or peaceful one in Japanese. ![]() ManWolfAxeBoss (Riot) responded: "Meanwhile, one of our female designers at Riot was complaining about the lack of attractive shirtless male champions in League of Legends (I guess Tryndamere wasn't hot enough for her.)" Here are some of the questions and answers from the Riot interview: ![]() Here is a recap on all of Yasuo's special abilities. Yasuo is now defined by the quest to seek out the murderer who has caused him to be falsely accused. Once in battle, however, his brother Yone is no match for Yasuo's skills and is killed. HIs brother, believing as many do that Yasuo is the killer, seeks him out. Accursed of the murder of his beloved teacher, he strikes out to find the real murderer. Yasuo is a swordsman, "a former member of an Ionian martial school and the only student to have mastered a legendary wind technique," who has a series of wind related martial arts attacks that define his character. ![]()
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