@riot, a small request for the community. please consider map skins.

rubberduckie666··2 votes·446 views

i think the community as a whole would really like if they could make summoners rift, howling abyss and twisted treeline look diffrent for them.

or at least rotate the summoners rift skin seasonally, we already have a solid crisp spring/summer skin and im 100% sure the community would love a nice, warm autumn themed skin then we could round it off with something in winter to get everyone into the holiday spirit.

also remeber butchers bridge? it had a really warm colour pallet and made it really easy on the eyes, it came with some great music that made it very easy to get in the mood for a game. while on the otherhand howling abyss is a very cold colour pallet that becomes hard on the eyes after a bit granted it fits the theme of the map very well.

im sure you want to go about updateing all the old summoners rift map skins before doing this but im sure if you just put the old skins in right now and called it "the classic rift pack" it would be taken very well by the community.

(on a personal note i really liked how the old summoners rift looked, maybe im just weird ¯_(ツ)_/¯)

EDIT: please upvote for visability if you would like to see map skins

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Unpaladin2 votes

Map skins perform quite well in changing the mood/feel of the game to a degree and certainly has worth tied to it in terms of what they can do for the game. While it's unfortunate that we won't see one from Riot any time soon, at least this game has diverse and very detailed champion skins to deliver that kind of thing... to a degree. Without those it'd be really stale-looking I'm sure. We may get an official map skin after a long period of time, but as of now there's also MapSkins as an option.

A little offtopic (while still on the topic of how great map skins are), but oh jeez, MapSkins. They've released a ton of crappy champion skins and only released one map skin a few days ago after a drought of a month or more. Two patches ago, the Old Summoner's Rift ones broke, too. It was incredible how playing on Harrowing Rift was such a de-stresser for me. I'm actually a little frightened to play the game solo because it looks less like "that fun game league of legends with a neat history" and more like "the new competitive game league of legends". Snowdown Rift also somehow drastically improved my mood during the time I played Ranked in Season 5 as well. I really owe it to those skins and hopefully they'll be fixed in the near future.

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