Retextures for "Old" Champions?

Toemoya·Nov 23, 2016·2 votes·767 views

It's simple -- it's quite similar to the chroma packs that you guys release. Why don't you just retexture older champions before the VGUs are released for them. It would be nice to see these retextures for champions that won't be VGU for a loooooong time like Ahri, Yasuo, Akali, Jax, Teemo, Tryn, Ezreal(ESPECIALLY Pulsefire Ez,) Ashe, Thresh, Brand, etc. You should have a team that's dedicated to just retexturing somewhat older champions like the champions I gave as examples.

It also puzzles me why you guys don't HDfy the base skin when releasing Chroma packs like High Noon Yasuo, for example.

Please respond your thoughts of this idea, Riot. The champions I listed won't look that bad if they were retextured to suite the new style of the new champions and awesome new skins.

5 Comments

SukishooNov 23, 20162 votes

They've already done a massive retexture to older champions.

Joseph GladstoneNov 23, 20162 votes

ToemoyaNov 23, 20162 votes

They have, but they're really outdated and they only did a handful of them. I think a great example of great texture work would be the Zyra and Malz retexture during the mage update.

Valor BotNov 23, 20162 votes

More of the TUs like the ones you listed above would be cool. If they took time and resources away from full VGUs, though, then I'd prefer they prioritized those instead.

ToemoyaNov 24, 20161 votes

Right, but the main idea is because we won't be seeing VGU of the listed champions for a long time(maybe years) because we got confirmation from Riot of what their plans are(Evelyn, Galio, Warwick, Urgot, etc.) I look at the texture updates as a way to cushion the waiting time of the VGU. Example: texture updates are not hard by any means so we would be content with texture updates to bare the wait of a full rework. It's not hard and doesn't take time to retexture a model(I'm a video game digital artist, so I know how long it takes to paint low poly models, especially stlyized texture work.)