Here's a concise version focused on the most interesting and valuable trivia about Smolder:

Development

• Voiced by Georgie Cordova Kidder in English and Makoto Koichi in Japanese
• During development, Smolder used a recolored Monarch Kog'Maw as a placeholder model
• Originally codenamed "BabyDragon" and "Young Dragon" (YD)
• Sound effects include recordings of Riot employees' dogs:
  • Hagen (Rob Rosa's dog): auto-attacks and Achooo! ability
  • Simba (Daniel Kim's dog): emotes and Flap, Flap, Flap ability

Gameplay Features

• One of 15 champions with infinite stacking abilities
• Dragon Practice stacks permanently increase:
  • Basic ability bonus damage
  • Flap, Flap, Flap bolt amount
  • Super Scorcher Breath bolt amount and burn damage

Unique Character Elements

• Bilingual character speaking both draconic and human languages
• Dance emote references the popular "Dancing Toothless" meme from How to Train Your Dragon
• Mom's roars contain actual draconic language translations
• Calls Camavor "Camaroar" due to the kingdom's dragon influence
• Has a rare (1%) fourth-wall-breaking taunt: "Well, my mom works for Riot, and she's gonna ban you"

Scrapped Concepts

• Originally designed to gain unique bonuses based on elemental rift dragons:
  • Infernal Rift: explosion effect
  • Ocean Rift: slowing effect
  • Chemtech Rift: poison effect
  • Removed due to art resource demands and excessive randomness

The design choices, particularly Smolder's bilingual nature, were influenced by developer Kristina 'Goblin' Atanasoski's personal experience with language barriers in family communication.

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