Here's a concise, value-focused rewrite of Smolder's trivia:

Development and Voice Acting

• Voiced by Georgie Cordova Kidder (English) and Makoto Koichi (Japanese)
• Originally developed under codenames "BabyDragon" and "Young Dragon" (YD)
• Started as a recolored Monarch Kog'Maw during development

Sound Design

• Features real dog sounds from Riot employees' pets:
  • Hagen (auto-attacks and Achooo! ability)
  • Simba (emotes and Flap, Flap, Flap ability)
• Smolder's mom's voice combines various digital animal sounds

Gameplay Mechanics

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

Cultural Elements

• Bilingual character speaking both draconic and human languages
• Dance emote references the popular "Dancing Toothless" meme from How to Train Your Dragon
• Vol Visperi-Desinvei pact name combines old slurs for dragons and humans

Notable Features

• Has a rare (1%) fourth-wall-breaking taunt: "Well, my mom works for Riot, and she's gonna ban you"
• Super Scorcher Breath's execution sound drops in pitch with repeated uses within 5 seconds
• Early concept included unique bonuses based on elemental rift dragons (scrapped due to technical limitations)

Skin Information Shares the Heavenscale theme with:

• Diana, Ezreal, Janna, Kai'Sa, Lee Sin (Divine), Master Yi, and Prestige Ezreal

Cultural Inspiration The bilingual aspect was inspired by developer Kristina 'Goblin' Atanasoski's personal experience with language barriers in family communication.

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