you got it wrong, they are transitioning the platform to a cosmetic delivery vehicle, doubling up as advertisement slots for any buyer's.
we shall see just how worthwhile this LV hookup was when they make another link with someone.
LV, rather than getting a league team to win the world championship, got skin slots by buying them from rito.
what does that mean for balance? design direction? creativity?
probably nothing in the grand scheme cause rito have a full roster to make use of and they've been doing this skins thing forever with their own ideas.
but senna for instance, she got a LV skin just come out, couldn't be meaningfully nerfed before that.
ekko probably also got a prestige ting coming cause it's just an obvious thing to do as far as I'm concerned, he's not gonna get nerfed in a way that matters till then, maybe LV will be stacking racks on that too.
and then they'll count the money and tell their friends and this will be the new league, only pretty champions that can model an aesthetic will get to be strong.
now we wait to see the obvious boyband variant for KDA at the end of the year, probably with an ekko hookup because he's the most popular from the true dmg thing.
sett, aphelios, ekko, maybe Lee sin or sylas, and some other new champion.
or two as yet to be new champions instead of Lee or sylas.
I mean fuck it rito have worked thermself to here, they got flexibility now.
I mean shit they could even rework xin and put him in the boyband, I bet that shit prints money in China.