Throughout all of the LCS/Worlds games that I've seen, Lucian (ever since release) has been a very popular pick. However, I have yet to see a single pro use the Hired Gun Lucian skin. It's always Classic or Striker Lucian. Why is this??
Riotomgscuttlecrab11 votesI use the base skin because I like the sound of pewpewpewpewpewpewpewpewpewpew more than blamblamblamblamblamblamblamblamblamblamblamblam
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Variks the Loyal4 votesI know some skins are banned from use. iBlitzcrank can't be used because the hitbox on the grab can be difficult to see and dodge sometimes. But I've never heard one about Hired Gun Lucian, maybe because the shots are thinner?
ValyrianBlade2 votesseriously? ?? I typically never have problems dodging blitz but had a really bad game a few days ago against an Iblitz, I assumed he was just really good but. .. wow. Why is the skin not changed... If it's banned in competitive why is it allowed anywhere? That seems unfair?
Variks the Loyal1 votesWell if they release a skin, they can't just remove it from the servers. Some people don't even know about the visual issues and just like the way the skin looks, and pulling the skin off the live servers would cause a minor uproar, even if they refunded people who bought it. And then, they would have to do the same thing with every other skin that may have questionable visuals, like Hired Gun Lucian, so they could make it fair.
ValyrianBlade1 votesSorry, I meant more along the lines of updating the visual to better represent the hitbox.
Anahata1 votesTrue. I feel like his autos, q, and r look thinner than classic/striker. I kinda like it. I think hired gun's q is harder to dodge, especially in lane. Maybe that's just me :/
Trylobyte4 votesMaybe they just don't like it.
Redundancyy3 votesThe bullets from The Culling on the Hired Gun skin appear smaller than the actual hitbox, no real change but when you are a pro gamer visuals mean a lot to you.
RiotRiot Ve1vet6 votesWas gonna say I believe it's this. Same reason a lot of pros use Frost Queen Janna (particles feel a bit more readable)
Also sometimes its just preference :p!
exe31 votesI thought there was a list of skins that pro teams couldn't use in tournaments and that's why some skins are never used.
Jingerbeardman2 voteshired gun may also have certain aspects that label things as more revealing or not revealing enough. There are a number of skins that are banned during tournament play because of one of those 2 factors. a great example is arcade hecarim, when he is at 2 stacks multiple areas change color making it obvious he has full stacks on his q buff while his other skins are far more subtle when you reach full stacks. It is small things like this that make a skin unavailable to be used in tournaments.