Nilah, The Joy Unbound | Champion Theme - League of Legends

For anyone wondering or don't know, the music is based off of South Indian Hindu style of music. And the Vocals are a Hindu Southern Indian Style of singing. It's basically like the western "Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do", but in India, we have our own version of it, in which we instead say "Sa Ri Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni Sa". And in the Indian style of singing, we sing it fast and with "trippy" rhythm. And as for Nilah herself, her whip seems inspired by a real-life southern Indian blade called an "Urumi", in which it's basically a giant blade, but acts like a killer whip, making it very difficult to master and is taught last, since it can chop multiple heads at once, as well as your own. And it can come with multiple blades in one handle even. Nilah's design even seems to be based off a female South Indian Warrior. Great to see cultures being cultivated into the many masterpieces of Riot.

I wish I was Nilah, so I can still be happy as I play League of Legends.

The concepts are are always so much more interesting then the final designs to me. But I guess there are many things to work around in a 3d environment with an offset camera

I appreciate the fact that themes are still being made for the champions, even if we don't have the login screens anymore.

Man, concept arts aside, I just really wish they incorporate more of hand designs to her character, considering how much they teased her using hands.

As an Indian, this soundtrack gave me genuine goosebumps on how well it was able to capture my country’s music and fell.. and those vocal’s holy cow.. this is probably one of my favourite new themes they made..

everybody is gonna gush over her design but nobody is gonna talk about the animated splash at the end???? it looks GORGEOUS

A champion theme can never be bad if there is "AaaaaahhhhhhhAAAAHHH" in it.

Official animated Nilah "login screen" at the end, love to see it. I realize it's not gonna go on client but at least they recognize how much some of us enjoyed those

As a concept artist i love seeing the concept art ! but i ask myself why go with this one, some others are really cool too !!

People really forget that the model has to be readable from a top down view perspective Some concept designs may look cooler but it has been proven time and time again in every medium that simple designs just work better

istg why are all the concept arts better than the finished design 😩

This might be my favorite theme of the recent champs. I love the energy!

i love how the music is complementing her lore, where ashlash the lord of joy (most likely the demon of bliss) took all her emotions apart from joy, and the music sounds joyful just like nilah

The Feels of Indian Classical Music with a soulful modern-ish touch is simply perfect! Just feeling the Joy as Nilah does😌

1:00 This part of the song where the singing is so rapidly fast but it's make sense for Nilah's strong spirited actions

The vocals at 1:13 will never fail to give me chills

Whyyyy, literally all the concept design looked better than the final one 😭😭

Why did they decide to get rid of that hood/robe 😫 Amazing lore, music and splash art nonetheless. Congrats!

0:52 is like her star guardian splash, now that i noticed