I honestly think Jax is too good a fit to pass up, especially after seeing that design from LoR.

Honestly, Draven is the perfect dude for this fighting game, like... think of how much cool shit can you do with the mechanics of throwing and picking up the spinning axes

Just here to mention that Riven was initially inspired by Fighting games gameplay. That's why she has so many options to cancel her animations. Because that's something that happens in fighting games as well and it separates good and bad players (in both Fighting games and League when playing Riven)...

The pantheon scenario gave me goosebumps

I can see why you picked Taliyah because of sizing issues, but man, Azir would be a perfect puppeteer character. They're some of the hardest to manage, but insanely rewarding characters in their respective games and would be super fun to have and would mimic how difficult Azir is in League.

Is also worth mentioning, the characters that get in the roster get a minor redesign based in the Arcane style because Project L is forged around that universe, so we'll see the Arcane version of every character that gets in.

Tbh, fiddlesticks is the only character I really need in this game, but I do have a few others I'd like to see like Warwick, kindred, and maokai because I just love their designs. I also think zac would be really cool since you could do so much with him and his moves are easily adaptable to a fighting game

I would more love to see Aatrox in project L as a strong sword user that could actually heal if he perform a good combo or after using his super ability. Which could make him unique

Fiora is a duelist. She has to be here, dueling is her whole LORE.

I personally thought Jayce would be an amazing stance change character. Arcane also gave him a bit of a popularity boost.

I think that Kindred could be really good, they are quite literally the perfect example of the puppet archetype, two characters in one that you have to learn how to use both of them together to truly master the character

Azir would be the ultimate puppeteer, with all sort of cool combos. Imagine his assist is just summoning a soldier, and when you swap, he literally does E+Q and flies in.

Mord as a grappler is something I didn't know I needed. Imagine. His pull loses range but has a HUGE hitbox. And when he pulls you he has the chance to perform a sort of PotBuster. But instead of breaking your back he just caves your skull in with Nightfall. Good times.

I just hope Zac gets in project L. That’s all I’m askin

I feel like Kassadin would be a really good fit. While he's not a Void born like Vel'Koz, he is a good example of what a void corrupted human would look like. And you could integrate his teleportation power into his playstyle, like Dhalsim in Street Fighter 5. Ca'nt wait for more news on Project L to see how close your list is :D.

We're forgetting one criminally underrated champion: I can see Nocturne being a rushdown type character. His moveset in game already resembles a fighting game character's moveset. His basic combo would be right slash --> left slash --> spin attack --> crit slash. His shadow hand thingy could be like a hadouken. His spell shield could either be a parry or a burst. His fear move would be a command grab. His ult would be his super move where he would fly and superman tackle someone.

I'd go with Camille instead of blitz. with so many punchy characters we need a few dedicated Kickers, and she'd be a great representation for pilltover. also: wonderful rival pairing with vi. apart from that I'd be pretty happy with this roster.

i like the effort you put into the icons, theyre so full of personality

I could see Diana being an incredible rushdown champ using her dashes and explosive moveset

Aphelios would be such a great pick imo. He already does like 10 million things in league with the game having only 4 abilities. Imagine what he could do in a fighting game where characters are given more moves and options in general. His theme where his sister gives him his weapons while being mute the whole time he is fighting is such a badass concept. Plus every fighting game has that one complicated character that no one understands and Aphelios would be a perfect 200 years pick.

They could always stack lulu and tristana making them into one model. That would be kind of interesting take.

Honestly they NEED Fiddlesticks in Project L. Having a strange specialist type fighting style around zoning would be amazing! Or maybe they actually make him a grappler trying to keep you in his tentacle range! This is such a great list Nickyboi!

I keep coming back to see what predictions are accurate: Braum announced July 2024

The puppeteer role is one of the most essential roles in a fighting game and i think there are so many choices to choose from… Azir, Belveth, Yorick, Ivern, Malzahar, Zyra, Shaco, and Elise. There are other champs that can be puppet characters like Lulu, Zed, Fiddle, Neeko, Orianna, Kindred, LeBlanc, and Bard. There are so many options but my favorite ideas for a puppeteer would be Bard, Kindred, Ivern and Belveth. Bard could use chimes the same way Olimar from Smash uses his, Ivern could have Daisy pop out of no where “DAISYYYY”, Kindred can fight along Wolf and would represent they/non-binary characters, and although Belveth is unliked I like her concept more of dashing around with voidlings.

I think Lissandra, Sylas, Pyke, and Poppy wouldve been amazing choices

Ok but imagine jihn as a fighter similar to happy chaos from guilty gear, he just feels so perfect as a zoner.

Okay Nicolas Lad, I like to put on videos on my television while I make breakfast in the morning and I was like "Huh, new Nickyboi vid, this is gonna be good!" And as soon as you mentioned Pantheon, I got a bit nervous, thinking "Oh crap, is he gonna blast Pantheon's theme at full volume AS HE ALWAYS DOES when he discusses Pantheon?" AND SURE ENOUGH, CUT TO ME SCRAMBLING FOR THE REMOTE AS "AAAAOOHHH HOOOOAAAHHH HAAAH HAAAAAH" BLASTS THROUGH MY APARTMENT AT 07:30 IN THE MORNING. And I'm like "Phew, hopefully that didn't wake up my husband", who usually wakes up a bit later than me. Only a few minutes after, I hear a muted "aaaooooh hoooahhh haah haaahhhhh" from the bedroom, husband cheerfully humming Pantheon's theme. Thanks, Nicky, it was an interesting morning 😂

I would personally love to see Nautilus and Maokai at some point in Project L. Maokai feels like a great representative of the Shadow Isles and Nautilus is too cool to pass on

If we get Morde, I'd adore to see Rell too, I think she could work with some insane combos with her whole ferromancy, shifting both her armor and her spear around to do the most insane movement. I'm dreaming way too much, but if Illaoi is getting so much love after being so forgotten, a girl can dream that the best support in the game will get some attention in other projects

Hear me out, Nicky PLEASE make every League champs face in this art style, it's FUCKING AWESOME. Like with Neeko having the cheeky grin, Sett looking overconfident, somehow you capture the essence of the champ with just a tiny portrait, absolutely 10/10.

I think Rell would make an amazing grappler type character. Also if the main antagonist is gonna be Mordekaiser she could finally show her true potential.

Excellent video! I Agree with pretty much every champ you picked and MAN I can't wait to see who they actually drop in the base roster.

Honestly I would love to see jhin added as a zoning/trap or just setup character. something that finishes things off or sets up traps for later

I know this isnt gonna go well, but I feel like Qiyana would fit so well in Project L. With her unique chakram weapon, multiple stances with her elements, she could be a high skill combo champion with a very sink or swim playstyle. Also the idea of her having 3 different rotating assists sound so cool.

Can we get a video about maps for project L. Like honestly there are so many cool as hell places to fight at in Runeterra. Here are some I think would be a perfect fit for the game: 1. [The death realm]: Imagen fighting on a huge floating rock while souls wander around watching you beat someones ass. With an amazing panorama look at Mordekaiser's domain and the beautiful crumbling grey sky of the death realm. 2. [Mount Targon]: I probably don't even need to explain this one but I'll do it regardless. Mount Targon is beautiful. It would be awesome to see the beautiful skies and stars above, with maybe even Aurelion watching the fight. 3. [Sett's fighting pits]: Literally perfect. 4. [The pond from the Spirit Blossom 2020 trailer]: Just in general a place with a bit of backstory for Yasuo. It would just be so nice to have some animations when your fighting in the water, like little splashes and small sprays of water. 5. [Bilgewater bays]: It would be and awesome scenery and a good spot to play some Illaoi and Gankplank. Just fighting on the docs of Bilgewater sounds cool already. Now Imagen some of the Bilgewater themes playing as well with pirates watching and cheering. 6. [The Shuriman deserts]: Again hopefully the sands have their own animation when interacted with. In general there are a lot of cool places in Shurima that could be used. Shurima just has a lot of history and many cool locations such as: Nasus library, the streets of Shurima, the Sundisc or even just some of the ruins. There are many more such as the Shadow Isles, the Void, Bandle city, Jhin's theater, Ornn's smith..... I can't name them all there are just too many. I think we have a load of awesome options for maps and I hope we can get Nickyboi's thoughts on the subject of maps.

I'm kinda surprised Twisted Fate wasn't there for the Bilgewater pick. He has a cool kit for a trap/zoner type of kit where you could set cards around the field like Answer and they'd have different effects. He'd be pretty complex but I could see it working

in my opinion sejuani would unironically fit very well, lore wise with her tribe and also gameplay wise bristle and her as a duo sound so fun

You gave me shivers just imagining Pantheon and how epic his move set could be

Looking back at old taric, his kit was based upon exploading gems around him, new taric has a passive that makes him double auto basically. Id think that be a cool concept for a character, his old stun was a point and click that looked like a ball that followed you, make that like a little zoner tool so they cant escape you as you just bash away at them

16:03 I actually got chills when Pantheon's theme kicked in

I want Ryze. A fighting game is what his gameplay was meant for. Just ask CertainlyT he said it himself. They just mixed up the files.

Bard and Zoe seem equally possible to be the troll character that also is really powerful just because. Bard gameplay-wise, and Zoe lore-wise. But one thing remains on my head. Whoever is the celestial character, if it's a troll, it MUST summon a portal to Aurelion freaking Sol during the ultimate, just for him to snap them back to the stage because he was sleeping.

I think another cool addition would be Gwen. You could use some type of ability to create stacks, to do combos with her scissors like her q and E in-game, and then her w, could be used for a parrie type ability like mario's cape in smash bros.

I just wanna say it's funny how everytime you set up a way to blast Pantheon's theme in a video it makes me that little kind of hype emotional.

this is a great starting roster! Personally I would prioritize getting Riven in just cause she was *explicitly* inspired by fighting games, it just feels cruel to leave her out. Also, as someone who does not play league and just likes looking into the lore sometimes, I'm surprised Nilah is super hated, the footage you showed looks super cool. I also wish Poppy was the yordle rep, but I get the hitbox concerns

having kindred as a puppet character would be amazing, it'd probably work similar to rosalina and luma where it'd be more of a zoning puppet, but i'd love it so much especially since riot forget about kindred T-T

What if we make sylas a very big risk award character. So first we change his super meter, make it so instead of the archetypal 2 bars, it’s something like 12 pips. And make it he only starts with 3, a good amount of his good abilities cost a pip or two, but if he lands the ability without them blocking, he gets a net positive gain. he can spends half of his pips to do an enemy super move, but the real treat is when he gets all 12. Once he does he becomes “Unshackled”. All moves are faster, or hit harder, his abilities don’t cost anymore, and after he’s done whooping ass, he can spend his entire bar to do his own special ult that just decimate the enemy, but resets him to zero pips, the only move that doesn’t cost pips that gives them could be the equivalent to Kingslayer( his w or what I like to call it, the revolutionary’s vibe check), can come out fast, but hits harder the less damage you do(cause combo mitigation), add some rush down/ grapple stuff with his chains and I think he would be an amazing fighting champ. Ps. I just realized the pips could be chain links…. I really want this now

Blitz would be a cool way to make a ranged grappler, slow and bulky but unlike broly from dbfz or Potemkin from GGS, he fights from midrange. His grapple arms would allow for some cool midrange fighting moves and unlike normal grapplers would make him bad at closerange. Just spitballing but it sounds like a really cool concept, something akin to min-min from smash, or arms in general honestly.

Very surprised he didn't mention kindred! They would be a perfect fit for a puppet character, super unique character that is really loved especially in the west. I mean, he didn't mention the puppet character as an archetype at all, integral to fighting games as whole as an archetype. A puppet character needs to happen and for my money, its either Kindred or Kled.

Sett just has to be there it’s too perfect also I’d love to see belveth, rek’sai, and Kha’zix.

LOR has fixed dozens of champions, and I think Project L could make an incredible Rell. Fix the issues with her weird skirt armour and just turn her into a complete bulldozer that just runs right through you. Imagine Rell charging you with her metal horse, only to leap off of it into the air as the metal horse latches onto her, twisting and contorting until she's encased in a tattered, scratched and very rough suit of armour, then following up her attack by slamming you into the ground with her mace. Really hope they fix Rell's design in either Project L or LOR because she has so much potential

If Veigar ends up here, I have three ideas: 1_he's the small character, but apart from being hard to hit, he is extremely weak and has to summon his LoR minions as stances and different movesets, he can add multiple ones, making veihar more powerful, but equally as vulnerable (and he stands in their heads to make himself look taller) 2_ Veigar is a hunk-of-a-yordle, just as big and buff as braum, but thats actually just all his minions under a giant cloak, as for gameplay, idk and 3_ He's on the giant mech from his LoR level 2, and acts as the big bad if we don't get Morderkaiser

Imo renekton would easily be one of the single coolest characters for project l. His passive literally works like a fighting game meter bar. His Q can be a wakeup attack/restand. His W can be used as a combo starter by burning meter and without the meter it can be a save move to create block pressure. As the most exciting parte for him i love the idea of his E working like yamchas wolf fang fist from dbfz. Since in league of he dashes through an enemy he has another one so in project l he can casually dash through the opponent and then by burning a bar of meter he just instantely makes another dash and switching sides again basicelly being an insane 50/50 mix up machine. Just the idea of comboing the opponent, using Q to bring them on their feet, dashing twice as a mixup, redoing it and the next time using only 1 dash and hitting them again has so many sick synergy options. It is incredibly fun mixing with yamcha so i imagine with someone like renekton it will even be better. Also i just absolutely love the character so 100% bias here

As a Neeko main and as a gamer that grow up with fighting games and fantasy games mostly maining magicians, i'm really happy that i'm not the only one that would love to see Neeko shine in a fighting game. Her moveset could be really creative, lots of combo routes, resets with her passive, her ulti in LoL could be one of those specials that are hard to strike but so rewarding when it does, and lets be honest, most fighting games have young-like personality characters that feel really happy and explosive during and after the fight, yeah some characters could be like that like Lux or Nunu and Willump, even some yordles like Tristana and Lulu but Neeko is at least for me far more fun and spontaneous. I really hope Riot add her even if it's as a DLC that would be a dream come true.

That thumbnail deserves heaven. I love this channel and will literally die if... I don't know. I just really love that thumbnail. Great job! Keep up the good work :)

I really think Yorick would be my Shadow Isles pick. Shovels are sword adjacent, and he's just cool as hell.

Kled would be the perfect joke character. Would also be very unique and could cover a yordle spot. Alas he was forgotten once again :pensive:

I honestly think that Lissandra would be an amazing character for this game. She has mage abilities with good offense but also at close range with pretty good defense. Liss also encaptures a lot of the freljords lore and I think she has so much potential tbh. Edit: I feel like she would play a lot like enchantress from injustice 2, idk why but I get those feels from her

I'm not playing if Bard isn't in it, you convinced me. Also the idea of Morde gives me flashbacks to Nightmare from Soulcalibur 4

I think Zoe is more likely as a joke character than Bard, mostly because Bard can't talk. Deadpool works great in MvC3 because he won't shut up and is just messing around. Zoe could do the exact same while also having plenty of portal shenanigans

i can really see Bard having like a bog standard fireball that only works if he has a meep around, and if he doesn't he just goes "nyeh" and nothing happens

17:03 desert lux, holy fuck im crying trying to hold in my laughter at 3am

riven: a fighting champion that her kit was made literally to make her as a champion from fighting game this guy: "not even remembering her"

I'm still strongly of the mind that Zac would make an amazing fighting game character if given to a creative enough team (like the project L team) - its also worth mentioning that the team making this game is a different company that Riot bought. Trust in the Cannons.

15:48 that is a cool idea. Whenever a champion uses a super the champion's theme song started playing

My idea for Zac would be that his blobs are tied to an energy bar than his hp. He has a full bar at the start and has blobs that plop out when he uses an ability he can pick it up to some of that lost energy or if he doesn't it despawns and he has to wait for his energy to regen instead.

Bruv, your vision of Pantheons EX/Ultimate move literally bought me for the whole ride of Project L! I love it! 💪

I love Lee Sin's icon hahaha. Amazing vid Nicky. About the "demon fighters" in my choice I would have put Tamh Kench, you know, slashy tongue and the ability to devour enemies.

i think there is a possibility that 1 or 2 playable champs would be unique of that game like what they done in lor with yuumi's master that would be a really good thing to see imagine playing like a darkin or an aspect that we never have seen

The people I would love to see are : - Veigar inflating himself to do grab-attacks - Gragas being a troll character - Annie calling in tibbers - I think Elise would just fit and could also partner with gnar/ neeko or shyv as a shapeshifter

For real, the best troll pick that could happen would be Rammus. Imagine the ball rolling and bouncing around, its block and taunt being core parts of its moveset, the ridiculously short range of its normal attacks and the only voiceline being "OK". It would be perfection.

I would like to point out that teemo has an animation test that was confirmed to be for project l. doesnt necesarily confirm him for the roster but it does confirm him to be considered for it, even enough to build a model and moveset.

I can't believe Aphelios wasn't even mentioned his game play is based around doing combos with guns and constantly having to switch between them and his ult even feels like a super

Yasuo announced, this aged PERFECTLY

Would like to see Yorick as a half-puppeteer, half zoner hulk of a man.

I feel Tahm Kench kit would be perfectly translated to the game, close gap w, combo continue r and long range attack q. Idk he seems like it would be fun ^^

Kindred, just kindred

I might be a little bit biased, but Ive always thought it's be fun to see Sona in a game like this or something, where we can see what she can do, kinda like how you mentioned with Braum.

I think that rell would be a good pick because it can show how much power she actually has and not just a support that heals the enemy’s with her damage. I think she’s super powerful and needs more attention

Loved the video and the list, but as a Volibear main/OTP I can't help but want The Bear™ in Project L. I know Udyr would be an amazing fit as you said, with the representation of so many of the Freljordian Gods, but I would kill to see him in action in a fighting game. Hell, thrown Ornn in too, I wanna watch them battle it out or put their sibling squabbling aside and fight side-by-side again!

if we actually get taliyah on the roster i will cry so hard 🥺

For one of Bard's moves he could create a portal that opens looking down at the top of the screen in front of Bard, from where a random assortment of items of Runeterra could fall through, it could spawn an avalanche of poros that if they fall on the enemy do damage over time, A Ziggs' bomb that that can be hit around and that when it hits someone it explodes, Pantheon's spear that just impales the enemy and then goes back into the sky and other things with each having a different functionality. Finally the most powerful thing that could come out, but the one with the least chance, is the bitting maw of a dragon that just obliterates the enemy.

I'd suppose that the roster would follow follow a rule of each champion having a sort of lore opposite. What I'm thinking is that, if whatever one-player mode PL includes is a kind of story mode, I'd expect each it to be either: 1) a common progression for all characters where all fight the same enemy and complete the same story, or 2) a specific story for each character. I think the second scenario is more likely, where if you pick Yasuo for example you'll most likely end up fighting Zed, which leaves us with 14 pairs to think about.

I feel yorick could be super cool, a heavyweight zoner kinda like DDD, using the disjointed shovel, you have cage and mist projectiles to summon ghouls to have rush down mechanics and a built in tag with maiden, maybe acting as a buff to your tag ally making them stronger

Kha would be such a great idea, all his victory quotes would just be like "damn cant wait to try out x"

Fun fact, you can find yasuos entire kit in Touhou 8.5, which is a fighting game. You might recognize the character it's taken from as none other than the ghostblade owner herself.

as a LOR player i though somone already pointed out this joke at 14:05 for anyone who dosent undestand it or dosent play lor its funny cause iloi has the overwhelm keystone in the clip ;D

My predictions: Lee Sin Udyr Blitzcrank Yasuo Zed Vi Rengar Kha'Zix Fiddlesticks Neeko Annie Braum Poppy Taliyah Fiora Draven Riven Thresh Kindred Kai'Sa Renekton Lux (Kinda made that up on the fly just to compare with the video, see you when it's out)

I hope jax makes it in, i don't really play him in league but i love the concept of the lamp wielding weapon master

i didnt even think of fiddlesticks and tbh fiddlesticks would be the best thing ever because his new design has so much stuff on that they could easily come up with a moveset

I think qiyana is a MASSIVE oversight here, an absolute combo queen.

Velkoz or zac would be so fun as well! The skins and the ideas they could do with them in this game will be insane!

I just want Morde and Renekton to make it. Most of all Renekton, even though Morde is more my favorite champion, I just think Renek would have the superior fitting moveset.

Maybe a weird pick but Annie. She fits the puppet archetype so well and developpers love the "little girl who can beat your ass" trope

And...oh, would you look at that! Yasuo got announced at EVO! No one definitely saw that coming! Ok, we honestly didn't see a full blown character reveal coming for EVO, but if anyone thought Yasuo wouldn't be on the starting roster, they have some problems to work out.

Personally, I lean far more towards Kled for our Yordle rep. Gnar being able to become big doesn’t fix the issue that he starts small. Kled also just a fun personality, compared to Gnar who is just goofy animal thing. And if you are thinking goofy Characters, Kled literally uses a Bear trap on a string. The shit they can pull out of Kled is insane to think about. Not to mention they can incorporate dismounting by giving him a counter super where your hit scares off Skarl and he just goes bananas on you himself until Skarl returns.

I would love to see zoe! A mobile trickster with ness-like yoyo tricks!

Idea for Bard ultimate move, he freezes both characters and lets the companions fight for a limited time at very low health even if one or both are dead. If Bard’s friend wins the enemy takes massive damage if not then the fate gets averted. Bard’s theme is he can change destinies and likes to travel between dimensions so it’s a bit fitting.

my man forgot the literal fighting game based champion, riven

Xin Zhao needs to be in Project L, his whole Lore is about fighting in an Arena