Illaoi Skin Vote Results and Observation

Jivewolf·11/21/2017, 11:10:09 PM·1 votes·544 views

THIS POST DOES NOT ENCOURAGE HATE TOWARDS RIOT GAMES NOR DO I DISLIKE THE COMPANY, THIS IS MERELY MY THOUGHTS AND CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM (ALSO ITS NOT A POST COMPLAINING ABOUT THE SKIN THAT WON)

Hello everyone I am a 1 trick that managed to make it to diamond last season only using Zilean. As a 1 trick Zilean I thought all the skins Illaoi fans were offered were all pretty good and I honestly didn't have a problem with the results nor do I have a problem with the other skin options she was presented. The problem I had with the whole skin voting system was that ANYONE could vote. I thought the whole point of giving Illaoi a new skin was to honor her loyal fans not to just let anyone vote. You must be wondering why I mentioned I am a 1 trick but that's because I understand how Illaoi mains or 1 tricks feel about their champ, it's the sole reason they play the game. My friends told me which skin they voted however none of them EVER play Illaoi nor do they have any interest in playing her. I chose not to vote since at the end of they day I won't buy the skin since I 1 trick Zilean and I believe only Illaoi mains or 1 tricks deserve to vote since they will most likely buy the skin and that they identify Illaoi as "their champion". A recommendation for Riot is to only allow accounts with mastery level 5 or higher with Illaoi to vote for which skin they would like. I understand lots of people play a lot of league, may have mastery level 5 or higher with her that don't main or 1 trick her however I believe if Riot COULD do something like this in the mere future, they only allow people to vote based on the mastery of the champion receiving the skin. I just think it would be a lot more fair towards the Illaoi mains if the vote was like that and if Riot did an event similar to this where an individual champ receives a skin it would potentially make them more money.

If you have any other ways you think the vote could have taken place please comment down below and respect mine and others opinion on the matter. Thanks for your time.

4 Comments

Śhunpo11/21/2017, 11:42:20 PM2 votes

They decided that Adventurer was only going to be a 750 RP skin and Battlecast would be a 1350 RP skin. They decided they wanted more money.

Quepha11/21/2017, 11:26:17 PM1 votes

They actually sorted the votes by number of games on Illaoi and more games on her tended to correlate with even higher votes towards Battlecast.

I don't think number of games on Illaoi should be a factor but in this case it didn't make a difference.

I don't think the vote was a good idea regardless. The basic structure is still "Look at all these cool skins. We'll never make most of them." Which is bound to breed an enormous amount of disappointment. Honestly it just accentuates the massive disparity between champions like Illaoi who won't get her first skin until almost 2.5 years after her release and a champion like Jhin who is getting 2 skins within a month of each other. Everyone knows that if they were fans of a more popular champion they wouldn't have to fight among themselves over one skin and Riot would instead go out of their way to make all three skins and more.

Boulderox11/21/2017, 11:26:47 PM1 votes

didn't they have a graph that showed the votes of players that had a large playrate on Illaoi and was still battlecast... Quote: "According to the announcement, veterans of Illaoi (those that have played over 100 games as her), voted in overwhelming favor of Battlecast, which means most of her biggest fans should be very pleased with the results."

Also you cannot ostracize players that have a skin while not having the know how to play them, mystery skin is still a thing and is always a possibility.

I don't feel I have any more power as a rank 7 Taliyah than any other, it is a mixture of luck and skill that gets that rank in the end, and adding power onto it is not something that should be allowed or else it will divide the player base HARD. Everyone has a vote, and riot as we can see look at the true players of illaoi and as such they found the same conclusion.

Only trouble with the vote i feel is that it will come back to bite them, when illaoi is up for another skin (usually every year a champ gets a new skin) people will be asking where X skin was from the votes, they had it concept but not working on??? Kinda like with the zac problem a while back, and dragonslayer Swain anyone, people still are kinda piffed over that one.

Also, Boob window [sg-ahri-2]

Natsu E Dragneel12/13/2017, 3:11:24 AM1 votes

no it was rigged i have over 100 games illaoi and it wouldnt LET me vote so i call it being rigged