If skins like Elderwood Ahri are going to exist, we should be able to disable skin spell effects

Yenn·2/1/2020, 10:47:54 PM·3 votes·750 views

Charm on the base skin is pink, in contrast to every other spell being white/blue. This allows you to react to Charm more quickly, because the moment you see pink, you know she threw a Charm.

And then we have Elderwood Ahri. All of her spells are pink. It's not immediately clear whether she threw her Q or Charm, because you no longer have a visual cue, and the visuals are also very similar ignoring the color. You have to waste time analyzing the animation and speed to figure out which ability it is, which inherently makes your reaction to it slower.

Skins like this should not be in the game. It's a clear cut case of selling power, but given that they're not likely to be removed, we should at least be given the option of always using base skin spell effects.

5 Comments

Caitlyn FTW2/1/2020, 10:58:51 PM2 votes

Skins = money.

Disable skins = no point in buying = no money.

Kazekiba2/1/2020, 11:23:09 PM2 votes

Yikes, p2w skins like this + Deep Sea Thresh and Steel Lux can get fairly upsetting.

For those who don't know, DS Thresh' recall animation is near identical to his Q, likewise SL Lux auto and Q look very similar, and I have absolutely blown a flash to dodge these despite not being actually threatened. I could see OP flashing out of an Ahri Q that wouldn't have been necessary

kda akali2/2/2020, 5:44:50 PM2 votes

Her Q is blue on the first part of it before it comes back