Spirit Blossom Morgana
Spirit Blossom Morgana released as an Exalted tier skin during Spirit Blossom Beyond - Act 2 Season 2 League of Legends in 2025. In this act, a surge of wild magic triggers the Wyldbloom, tearing open the veil between the spirit realm and the material world. Restless Akana spirits spill into Ionia - Morgana and her spirit-children among them.
In Spirit Blossom, champions are reinterpreted as characters from Ionian myths and folktales told during the Spirit Blossom Festival. The team chose to develop Morgana within Spirit Blossom as it’s restless Akana spirits aligned well with the internal conflict that is core to Morgana as a champion. The beauty forward, East Asian fashion and nature inspired visuals also gave us a great canvas to play with.
The Wyldbloom narrative inspired a deep integration of organic motifs across her design and VFX, particularly wisteria and butterflies. Her flowing silks, and radiant wings gave the animation team opportunities to emphasize graceful movement.
Skin Bio: Twins, born of branch and bloom, guarded mortals from afar. But one sister yearned to feel as mortals do, and from this hunger made masked, demonic children—becoming the Grovemother. She traded places with a queen of nearby lands… but her children followed, bringing ruin and death. Now imprisoned in her grove, she still longs for the fullness of emotion.
Concept Initial Form
Concept Wyldbloom Form - Unlocks based on CCs that fill a dynamic HUD meter
Concept Ultimate Form - Temporary transformation during her R ability (Soul Shackles)
Wing concept adjustments to improve separation from dress.
Additional Wyldbloom Dress Train Concept Adjustments
Mask Concept: Ctrl-5 toggle that impacts her Q and R abilities and some non-gameplay expressions. In this alternative universe these masks represent Morgana’s children who drain and consume emotions to fuel her power.
Base Form Orthographic Concept
Wyldbloom Orthographic Concept
Ultimate Form Orthographic Concept
Q Ability (Dark Binding) VFX Concept - Binds enemies in place and deals magic damage
W Ability (Tormented Shadow) VFX Concept Base and Wyldbloom Forms - Morgana casts casts a cursed pool on an area, damaging enemies who dare stand in it. They receive magic damage over time, which increases the lower health they are.
VFX Concept E Ability (Black Shield) Base and Wyldbloom Forms - Morgana anoints an ally with a protective barrier, which absorbs magical damage and disabling effects until it is broken.
E Ability (Black Shield) VFX Concept - For Exalted Morgana we added visual celebration when the shield successfully blocked damage
Q + W Interaction VFX Concept - For Exalted Morgana we added additional flair when player successfully land combinations.
VFX Concept R Ability (Soul Shackles) - Morgana unleashes the full force of her power as she unbinds her wings and hovers above the ground. She lashes onto nearby enemy champions, gaining Move Speed. This slows and deals initial damage and, after a delay, stuns those who are unable to break away. For Exalted Morgana we added a HUD that scales in complexity with number of enemies chained.
3D Model Turnarounds - Base, Wyldbloom, and Ultimate Forms
Morgana graced the Rift on June 25, 2025, launching alongside six other champions in the Spirit Blossom thematic.
Each Exalted-tier skin serves as a love letter to players - a collaborative creation shaped with input from dedicated champion mains. For Spirit Blossom Morgana, the team built an elevated gameplay experience that amplifies the moments players love most in her core kit while placing her in a compelling new fantasy.
The Immortalized skin opens with Morgana’s base form and evolves into her Wyldbloom form as players land crowd-control abilities that fill a dynamic HUD meter. During her ultimate, she ascends into a transient third form that showcases her full power. The experience features fully custom animation, VFX, and SFX, a dynamic music system with an original score, a bespoke spawn-in ceremony, and motion-graphic splash art that celebrates her transformation.
The mask system (toggled with Ctrl+5) directly alters her VFX. Key gameplay moments reward players with layered feedback: her Q+W combo releases butterflies, successful CC spellshields trigger visual and audio flourishes, and her ultimate HUD scales dynamically based on the number of tethered enemies.
To deepen immersion, the team added small, evocative details such as ambient butterflies that shift color with her equipped mask, flowers that bloom around defeated foes she helps fell, and petals that gather and swirl as she idles. Each element reinforces her presence as a spirit both graceful and devastating