Some of you with mains that once had an overflowing cornucopia of biographical information might be making an angry face right about now. A strong short bio should cover who the champion is in the world of Runeterra, where they came from, and their personality, all while trying to avoid direct repetition of the words in the champion’s title. To do that, we aim to keep them short-ideally 80 to 100 words. In their intended form, these biographical appetizers are meant to be read quickly, in about the time it might take to queue for a game. This is why we decided to standardize the in-client champion bios last November.

Overall the experience was wildly unpredictable, and that left some champions feeling neglected and under-served. Some were extremely short and some were so long, the gist of the champion was lost. Some were not actually bios, but flash fiction. Up until recently, the information in the client was all over the place in terms of length and subject matter. This is a brief paragraph of information that describes the champion, and because it’s the only narrative description that lives in the client, it should also reinforce why you’d want to play that champion in game, from a fantasy archetype perspective. Let’s start with the shortest version and the one most players are familiar with, the client description, or what we call it in-house-the “short bio.” The Short Bio As this is one of our primary tools for communicating the backstory of a champion, we thought it might be useful to dig into what they are, why we make them, and then run through the process with our favorite Titan of the Depths, Nautilus. With Pyke’s imminent release into the watery wild, Scathlocke and I thought it’d be a good time to dive into a question narrative gets pinged on a lot-champion bios.

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