How many other Skins give advantages?

uOZWKNRPrB··6 votes·5,555 views

I've been playing League for about a year now before getting into the game one of the things I research was skins. My main concern was if these skins give advantages in game play than this game would start to cost a lot of money.

After doing a bit of research I found that riot was very keen on skins not giving players special advantages. It was actually a huge selling point for riot claiming they offer the game for free and players could play for free on a level playing field.

So from time to time I like to buy a skin in support of the coolest game I've played in a while and what I stumbled across was this Kha'Zix Mecha skin. This skin makes a sound that the default skin does not. When Taste Their Fear activates the skin makes a distinct sound alerting the summoner of enemy presence.

Correct me if I'm wrong please but I feel this gives an advantage over the default skin. I've made a quick video to sample the sound and trust me in game play this is way move valuable than it seems in this short video. There is a number of time I've been on route in my jungle and heard this sound and quickly reacted to the situation. '

7 Comments

RogueWill3 votes

There are actually a bunch of skins that unintentionally gives especial benefits.

From the top of my head I can tell you a few FrostFire Annie skin would let you have invisible stuns (prior the counter). Casting your E would basically make your "stun-is ready"display invisible for your enemies (not technically invisible but it would be quite hard to see). So you could do 3 stacks then activate your E and while it was activate walk towards yoru enemy without they noticing your stun was up unless their cursos was over you.

Blitz Blitzcrank First model for his Q in IBlitz is actually smaller than the default skin and thus making you believe that you dodged it when in reality you didn't. That is the reason that skin is banned for competitive play.

Sejuani W (flail of the northern) has a distinctive animation when you first cast it, although hard to notice, it warns that next attack will do extra damage (similar to nasus cane glowing). Her Calvary bear sejuani got rid of that animation and instead got a glow on your flail making it easir for enemies to know when your W is going to " critc". Similarly her ult stun display was changed from cased in ice to chains, making it more challenging to know if you are stun or not since the display is less noticiable.

Zarkkast2 votes

I play quite a bit of Anivia and it's absurd how much easier it is to last hit with Blackfrost Anivia.

I never use any other skin because her classic auto attack animation is just awful.

Mellori1 votes

Same thing goes with Aether Wing Kayle, compared to her other/base skins. I don't play her much anymore, but when I do get her in like an ARAM or something, I can't stand trying to last hit or even auto attack in the base skins. Too clunky.

Zero Skill Tank1 votes

This is not a real Advantage, but OS Teemo skin actually Has animations, unlike other skins that have poor exuses of such, what allowed me to realize that Teemo Has more than one animation cancel.

uOZWKNRPrB3 votes

I just finished playing a game on Kha where the sound alerted me of a player coming in from the top while I was heading left. I heard the sound and looked up, how anyone can't see that as an advantage is beyond me. Sound is huge in video games.

Dankstin1 votes

I think that based on this difference, Kha should get some sort of sound effect for the passive itself because the sound indicator actually gives it more impact as you notice people caught alone. That's his thing. He bursts people down while they're alone and that crosshair is over them. He literally needs a sound indicator. That's probably why this is the preferred skin. It feels more natural.

DrCyanide1 votes

I believe they fixed it, but Zombie Brand use to hold his arms out whenever he was walking towards an enemy, even if he couldn't see said enemy because they were in a bush.

On the flip side, some skins put you at a disadvantage. It's significantly easier to dodge Battlecast Kog'Maw ultimates because it shows you how big they are.

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