Unbalanced skins in gameplay

Stratixx·10/6/2018, 3:52:59 PM·34 votes·14,739 views

Skins have been used to change the way your character/abillities look like, and they are fascinating. Though, some skins have advantage over others; take for example. Teemo - little devil, omega squad, the bee teemo. When you buy these skins, they give you the ability to see the range of the blown up shroom when they pop, unlike his other skins Some skin’s abillities are really, really hard to see Aka Veigar - Omega squad, his W Vel’koz - ark light, all of his abillities Kayn - Soulhunter, both of his transformations are the same color 0.0 Now some skins have abillities that make abillities stronger or smaller then they are (making hit box a hell show) Blitz crank - I blitzcrank, his q looks too small, and has a huge hit box Lux - HALF of her skins, especially elemental; her q is too little and her e is practically invisible Use these skins to your advantage, or be wary of them, they might come into good use

Edit 1 - this is also posted in the creation section of the board

32 Comments

nm101010/6/2018, 5:04:14 PM10 votes

Did they ever fix color blind issues as well? I remember reading something about people picking Atlantian Syndra against a pro (I think sneaky) in pro games because they can’t really see her balls in river. Kind of unfair, but it was never addressed as far as I know.

Daddy Ants10/6/2018, 6:39:09 PM9 votes

I've been hearing that High Noon Lucian is P2W also.

PaffWasTaken10/6/2018, 11:44:45 PM6 votes

Lux - HALF of her skins, especially elemental; her q is too little and her e is practically invisible

I've never related so much to something here on the boards like this before

Lets have shrex10/6/2018, 4:56:36 PM6 votes

The one I have the biggest issue is Pulsefire Caitlyn, when she puts a trap inside a bush I totally can't see it

The Dreamwalker10/7/2018, 2:39:53 AM4 votes

Yea, this was discussed before. Some skins give advantages while others give disadvantages to the player.

Also, Legendary/Ultimate skins tend to give the champion a MUCH smoother AA animation. I know that is the truth with Dj Sona.

The Prog3nitor10/7/2018, 1:39:55 AM4 votes

I remember Hashinshin making a comment about how the W animation on god kind Darius played faster.

flibitydoo10/6/2018, 10:55:30 PM3 votes

Eternum nocturne, Muay Thai lee sin, god fist lee sin, and star guardian ahri have way better attack animations than their base counter part. It's very easy to read when you've hit and therefore when you can execute a move command for attack stepping when you are using those skins. It's much harder if you use base.

battlecast kog'maw is also way easier to react to his ult since it get's a very noticeable reticule before landing compared to the base kog

Jerry SeinfeId10/7/2018, 12:31:33 PM3 votes

try snowdown singed on aram.

WeaselRune10/6/2018, 9:24:24 PM3 votes

I hate that Brand zombie skin, its emote animations look/sound like skills/spells. Cant stand that, free fakeout nonsense.

Friendly Ram10/6/2018, 11:32:58 PM3 votes

what bout the steel legion lux?

L Psy Kongroo10/6/2018, 9:31:09 PM2 votes

Surprise Party Amumu's Q hitbox is literally twice the size of his base skin's.

And for some reason I find Pulsefire Ashe's ult is much harder to recognize than regular Ashe's ult.

Oleandervine10/8/2018, 7:03:32 PM2 votes

Soulhunter Kayn's demon form is teal and ethereal, and his shadow form is a deep red cloak and hat. I'm not entirely sure how you think these are the same colors, when they're direct opposite ends of each other.

FFrazien10/7/2018, 2:44:33 AM2 votes

Pulsefire Riven hard to see sometimes when she actually has activated R

Better Jungler10/7/2018, 4:45:25 PM2 votes

That new yasuo skin has a really bad issue where the colored tornadoes are probably 1/3rd smaller than the base skin tornado.. and they don't reliably show the width of the tornado.

Malak10/7/2018, 9:44:50 PM2 votes

Karthus Lightsbane is the opposite. Pay to lose since his abilities are too easy to see

MarkedOfKane10/8/2018, 5:57:42 PM2 votes

Elemental Lux is the worst offender by far. Every ability is really hard to see.

Its something I have mentioned a few times, the skins are almost getting out of hand. Like, its nice to have a flow of cool looking cosmetics, but I notice a lot of the more recent skins that have come out have advantages, whether the ability is harder to hear or the effects are harder to see. I even have the occasional moment where I mistake a champion with a skin for a different champion entirely. The team I played with had the same issue as well.

Ok sure but why10/8/2018, 6:54:12 PM2 votes

And Pulsefire TF's ult hardly makes any noise over the enemy and has a bland, unnoticeable symbol over enemy players

VexingRaven10/7/2018, 3:06:00 PM2 votes

I love how the Lux skins in particular have effects that are basically invisible but they've long-since standardized Shaco's skins to make sure the puff of smoke is highly visible. But Lux E? Nah fuck you just l2p noob.

MeowBen10/7/2018, 3:22:46 PM2 votes

Don't forget about Odyssey Yasuo , his Third q has about half the tornado size yet the same hitbox.

Tormentula10/7/2018, 4:00:31 AM1 votes

Mecha Khazix makes a beep sound when a target is isolated.

There are several skins where they generally "feel" smoother to use too. ex. I feel like when I use DB or SKT my combos are off with Elise but when I use SG, Base, BM, or Victorious it feels super smooth for me to auto cancel, auto reset, judge Q distance, etc.

and like you said, some of the skins are really hard to see.

SS Ekko is one addition i'd like to nom to your list. Syndra's justicar skin is really difficult to play around if you're a champ that takes dark harvest, because on your screen, enemy orbs kinda look like the souls just slightly brighter.

https://i.imgur.com/LrtwXry.png?noredirect

D2Vincent10/7/2018, 6:32:30 AM1 votes

Most common complaint among the Karthus mains is that Lightsbane Q is easier to see than base Q. I don't notice much of a difference tho

H1de on blue10/6/2018, 8:45:58 PM1 votes

Underworld and Pulsefire TF have really hard to see ults compared to the base skin Basically any snow day skin on the Aram map. Like Snow Day Ziggs mines ect.

Really wish they would make it so you can disable other players skins similar to how map accents are

crispy6610/7/2018, 2:09:53 AM1 votes

i made a ticket about a year ago addressing this issue and nothing happened really, i also made a post on the boards and some comments had the audacity to not consider it an issue when some people have trouble seeing some of those skin's abilities, hope one day riot adds a "disable skins" option on the client