This year's Pick 'Em icons seem backwards

Ice Weasel X·10/21/2018, 2:52:39 AM·2 votes·2,603 views

Previous years' Pick 'Em icon rewards always seemed to show a more enthusiastic poro for reaching the 34 point target.

2015 Standard https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/7/78/2015_Worlds_Pick%27em_Poro_profileicon.png

2015 Master https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/f/f4/2015_Worlds_Pick%27em_Master_Poro_profileicon.png

2016 Standard https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/c/c6/2016_Worlds_Pick%27em_Poro_profileicon.png

2016 Master https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/8/89/2016_Worlds_Pick%27em_Master_Poro_profileicon.png

2017 Standard https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/8/82/2017_Worlds_Pick%27em_Poro_profileicon.png

2017 Master https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/1/18/2017_Worlds_Pick%27em_Master_Poro_profileicon.png

2015's Master icon is nomming the scrying orb. 2016 and 2017's Master icons both have more dynamic escalations of their standard icons. For 2018, the more excited looking poro is in the standard icon.

2018 Standard https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/c/c8/2018_Worlds_Pick%27em_Poro_profileicon.png

2018 Wizard https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/5/54/2018_Worlds_Pick%27em_Wizard_Poro_profileicon.png

You could say the 2018 Wizard is just smugly observing what he already knew would happen, but the icon itself just looks plain in comparison. It's even more disappointing now that this Worlds has had so many upsets that over half of the players participating in Pick 'Ems this year aren't even going to earn 34 points.

3 Comments

420 grams10/21/2018, 3:47:56 AM3 votes

They knew everyones bracket was going to suck so they swapped them so everyone gets the better icon

ForFoxSakes10/21/2018, 5:59:46 AM1 votes

34 points isnt a whole lot when you can get 124 max, pretty low threshold already. Problem this year is unlike the last few where you just auto pick koreans to go through, this didnt happen without the SKT powerhouse so nothing was as predictable