New Prestige KDA Ahri skin: Red/Green color blindness

Subtle Tactician·3/27/2019, 9:18:28 PM·21 votes·10,233 views

To start I am red green colorblind which means if we were to look at a gradient, many shades of color in those spectrum's are increasingly harder for me to differentiate leading up to an area where I finally can't process that specific color and it usually defaults to a blackish color for me. For example I can't see dark green at all and I am very colorblind to many shades of red especially if they are combined or transition into a tan color. This is a very standard deficiency for red green colorblindness so many things look weird to me such as the background of this text pane~.

Now recently I saw the new Ahri skin in a plat 2 ranked game for the first time and at first I thought it was a really cool skin (which it is) but I also quickly noticed that the skin overall is kind of using a color scheme that is right within that spectrum of red/tan (orange i guess?) colors I just cant differentiate. The particle effects and everything surrounding the abilities use that same red/tan color which (bear with me here this is really hard to try and explain to someone else) causes me to not be able to distinguish the color transition from the particle effects surrounding the ability into the inside of the ability (the disco ball/heart thing in her q e). Since both abilities in this skin retain an outside spherical shape and the colors are right in that spectrum I can't differentiate very well I can't see the transition between the particle effects to a new color of the inside ability. I tried to find a picture of someone playing the skin on the opposing team because the colors are different from the person playing vs playing against but since the skin is um u know really expensive ehm~~~ nobody has it and I couldn't find a picture I could use to explain this better.

Anyway the abilities (Q and E especially and the ult a little as well but not anywhere near the same level of Q and E ) I physically can't tell the difference between them in the .3 seconds I have to react because its right within that color area I can't differentiate very well. Given If you give me a second or two to look at these abilities I can tell them apart but In that fraction of time I can't process that those colors are different fast enough for me to be able to differentiate what ability is being cast at me. So I have a proposition ~~~

I think this would be much easier for everybody and it wouldn't require you re-texturing a skin (because honestly that's a big ask and the skin really is really cool). If the skin is on the enemy team and color blind mode is enabled could the textures for the skin be loaded as the normal KDA Ahri skin instead of the prestige edition (u know with a sub option under colorblind mode that's like load different skin for possibly problematically colored skins or something along those lines)? I say if its on the enemy team because lets say I want the skin and I want to play it I'm the one hitting the abilities so I know whats being cast. Also the colors on the skin for the person playing the skin are different enough that its not near as much of an issue. Now I realize this is a huge ask but its estimated around 8% of men are colorblind and I saw that you guys did some color changing stuff for a bunch of older tf skins so I was really really hoping you could maybe just make it so the other skin loaded. The coding would be a lot easier, your art department wouldn't have to create a bunch of new textures and a decent % of your player base won't have an auto loss lane.

Lastly if anybody has any pictures of Ahri Abilities while she is on the enemy team Please feel to post them or a link below. An up vote really means a lot even if this isn't an issue you struggle with.

Thanks for reading

Sincerely,

Fearsshadow

5 Comments

Magearna3/27/2019, 10:10:43 PM3 votes

I actually think this could be a really smart idea. Maybe client side, somehow load in K/DA Ahri instead of Prestige Ahri if that was possible. I've been seeing more and more people open up about their colorblindness so I really do hope Riot throws some love your guys' way

Ahri Body Pillow3/27/2019, 11:14:38 PM2 votes

Geez. Riot really dropped the ball with this skin. This is the second biggest issue with it.

Lord Nagash3/28/2019, 6:39:09 AM1 votes

This is a serious problem that riot should have done something ages ago. I first noticed that this is seriously badly solved was when i played a 1v1 with my friend and i used arcanist Ziggs and hit all of my q shots, and i am not good at skillshots and he was plat1/2 at the time. He told me that the colorblind mode he has to use makes the skins abilities almostthe same color as the rift, and i thought that this can't be real but it feckin is.

Myrza3/28/2019, 11:46:39 AM1 votes

With all the colorblindness threads popping up, i hope it encourages Riot to add a better colourblindness mode. Right now when you turn it on, it only changes a couple things. I hope they make it so that when you turn it on, there will be checkboxes for blue, red, yellow, etc. and you can mark which things that you are colourblind to, and the client will change the colours of the skin in game so that you can see it more clearly.