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Kikirino·6/20/2014, 11:58:28 PM·1 votes·438 views

Can I voice my opinion that I am sick of female champions dressing so... slutty? I am a male and I understand that sex sells especially when a vast majority of your player base are horny guys but for guys like me it gets annoying. I want to see more female champions that can look amazing without looking like your average TV whore.

I understand that some female champions use their looks to their advantage like Miss Fortune. It is even used in her lore so it works. But what about Nami? Was it really necessary to rip back her scales on her chest to show cleavage? Can't we get more champions like Leona or Fiora? Champions that actually wear armor so they can actually appear battle ready?

Lastly, Akali has so much side boob that when she does her spin her boobs would fall out of her 'shirt'... if you can call it that. It is just excessive to an annoying degree. I am not some feminist that is hating. I am not asking you to change your current female skins or anything. Just can you make some that wear more clothes than not? If being a super attractive seductress isn't in her lore can she please look like she has some class and dignity?

If you are curious where this thread sprouted from, Caitlyn's new skin as a mini skirt wearing huntress just bugged me. I know that most of her skins are in mini skirts but who the fuck goes hunting in a skirt. I mean... really...

3 Comments

MackleDoge6/21/2014, 12:31:49 AM1 votes

I'm going to start by saying that this entire matter is actually entirely irrelevant and shouldn't matter to begin with. Companies have the right to create the content they please and design characters or appearances in the manner that they feel is best and they enjoy, if you don't like it, don't support it, but ripping on it because it doesn't suit you is absurd.

Next I'm going to hit you with the classic. Generalizing women with less clothes as "slutty" is absolutely incorrect and even more offensive then having skin designs that can be deemed as sexualized by some. Varus has little in the way of actual clothes in his default skin, why aren't you calling him a slut? Let's drop the double standards and avoid purposeful misrepresentations. You're post is full of a lot of loaded language and assumptions that I feel are really obvious and blatantly incorrect.

Finally, in regards to the Caitlyn skin, she already has a standard "realistic" hunter style skin, it's Safari. She has a full outfit with very little skin showing and has completely legged pants. The Headhunter skin, to me, is quite obviously supposed to be a more creative and sci-fi based design (but not too sci-fi, because I understand it isn't supposed to be Battlecast or like futuristic technology). Furthermore, the mini-skirt style bottom for Caitlyn skin designs is iconic to me, it is what signifies it as Caitlyn to me. The only portion that is more iconic in regards to her is her gun in my opinion. (Which, btw, lets just ignore all the great work they did on the helmet and gun and effects right?)

These things aren't issues. Constantly trying to make problems with things where there doesn't need to be one is really annoying and I don't understand why people feel the need to do it. If you don't like a product don't buy it. There are more armored skins and designed champions. They just had the new Riven and Diana skin for the Lunar Revel. Design varies and alters depending on the person or people designing and what you are designing for, that is just common sense.