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In regards to making future skins

Ryze on Roids·3/12/2019, 3:06:47 PM·3 votes·1,574 views

For the past few months, Riot has been working to give unloved champions some skins. From season 8, Heimerdinger got his legendary Dragon Trainer, Fiddlesticks and Graves received their praetorian skin, Aurelion Sol received his Mecha skin, Kled received his Halloween skin, and even Malphite got some love with his odyssey skin. Even Aatrox and Nunu got their Blood Moon and papercraft skins.

But there's still a problem: Shaco Mordekaiser Kassadin Skarner Xerath Amumu Udyr Zilean RekSai All the above champions have STILL gone over 1000 days without a skin.

Shaco Mordekaiser Kassadin Zilean Udyr Amumu RekSai All 4 of these champions were meta for a while in season 8. In mid season 8 Zilean was probably the best midlaner and support. He was fairly played and spread across all elos, and it was known how good he was. Kassadin, after receiving a few buffs without nerfs, became S tier for a long amount of time, and still results in high A tier. Mordekaiser after the addition of shield bash and the Liandry's Torment meta became the hypercarry of the botlane, and Shaco was S tier for the majority of later Season 8 (until tiamat) got nerfed. Udyr and Amumu, while never really S tier, has remained a standard jungler and consistently played through solo queue, especially after the Amumu changes. As well as this, Rek'Sai is currently the single best jungler in the game.

The essential point here is that all these champions have been meta (some of which the best in their roles at one point), and Riot with its greedy corporate wants decided to give more skins to generic champions who already had 1423567 skins anyway. Remember when Soraka got two skins in a row with Pajama Guardian and Snowdown? Plus, this was AFTER the enchanter item nerfs, meaning that Soraka wasn't even that good at the time she received the skins. Admittedly while Xerath and Skarner have not seen light in a bit (perhaps except Skarner who is massively underrated at this current moment), this doesn't mean that they don't deserve skins. All these champions have spent too long under the bridge simply because Riot has a constant boner for either badass or otherwise popular champions.

https://imgur.com/YpIg63R

Here's an example of how even the COMMUNITY wants a skin. 8 MONTHS ago, almost an entire season's worth of time, I posted a poll about whether Kassadin should receive a skin or not. As you can see, there were 92 votes for yes and not a SINGLE vote for no. This prooves how even our own community is sick of these high priority champions getting the limelight.

THE LEAK

https://imgur.com/lYN9pKK

Recently, there was a skin leak about a lot of champions to receive a skin for the season. These leaks in the past have been startlingly accurate, and some of the stuff here is starting to come true (cat vs dog vs event) If this list persists to be true, that means that Shaco and Ivern are both to get skins (along with Zilean ). This is good.

However, while there are some good parts about this leak, there's even more bad. Lux, Ahri, Xayah Rakan are all getting skins, all 4 of which are notorious for skins (Xayah and Rakan both getting 2 skins in a season???). Once again, while Riot does plan to give some skins to these skin-abandoned champions, they refuse to prioritize them as they should.

If Shaco and Zilean are to get skins, then that means only Mordekaiser Kassadin Skarner Amumu Udyr and Xerath shall be left in the over 1000 days club.

Please, if you really want to make the game balanced around everything, include skins along with gameplay.

3 Comments

Jaspers3/12/2019, 3:49:30 PM1 votes

Skins is an odd thing, that leak is probably wrong, for one Taliyah is listed so we know it's not true. Remember, even if many of these are right, that in total covers 6 patches, out of 24 over the year. There is no reason why Xerath won't get the Dark Star people want, why Morde can't get a new one with his rework and Rek'Sai get well anything.

I personally think Riot need to go through the champs who haven't had skins in a while and put real effort into giving them good skins, because at the moment, for every Lux, MF, Yi or Ahri skin released, there is a main of Xerath not spending money on the game at all.

Interesting fact of the day, Jhin has 1 less skin than Zed and more available to buy right now.

... wait sorry, not that's not interesting. That's confusing. How can one of the biggest champs in the game by popularity and merchandising and all that only have 2 skins currently available? There's no way popularity is an issue there. And you know Riot's skin making team is itching to release a new Jhin one. Gotta makes those monies. Right? Well, no it seems.

Sevens Sin3/12/2019, 6:55:13 PM1 votes

I don't think that leak is true. It's wrong about cat Zoe, they didn't get the Fizz skin name right or predict the prestige version. I don't think Ahri, Akali, A Sol, or Lissandra would get another robotic/cyber themed skin, since they don't want to have too many similar skins. And I think they've said that Ezreal will be the only male star guardian, so the Xayah/Rakan one isn't true either. They've confirmed they're doing an Ivern skin. Morde is next up for a rework, so he won't get a new skin for a while. They also want to update a few of the other champs, so they'd be low on the list for skins probably. Also Amumu got Infernal.

Tin Obliterates3/15/2019, 6:34:06 PM1 votes

It's possible that Morde will get a skin shortly after his rework comes out on live, kind of like Swain got his.