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About Kai'Sa's V-Neck suit and trying to please everyone

Razor wiind·4/6/2018, 2:26:57 PM·2 votes·1,276 views

Kaisa You wouldn't last a day in the void

Hi. Yesterday, we had an Ask Riot article including a rant about our Daughter of the Void dressing herself in an _oversexualized _ way.

Having a roster of females with always the same... silhouette can be very closeminded, not to say pretty tiring too. Taliyah is an adorable teen with an exotic yet cute face. Illaoi is strong and bulky but not without femininity. Since Riot expressed its concern about different body types on their champions, we did have a variety. And that is awesome, really! Completely banning certain body type and/or way of dressing, not so much.

Kai'Sa's low cut is not hyper-sexualized, imho. It is provocative, but not entirely without context. Think yourself as a girl living in a common city. You see beautiful people dressing nicely. For a bunch of reasons, you grow up and become one of these beautiful people too. You're on your twenties and something happens; now you have to choose a dress that you'll never get off your body. If you have the option, wouldn't you choose dressing nicely with a fancy dress? Ok that was silly, I know. But when you're creating characters, not having the freedom to make them prettier sucks. Even more when the reason is oh damn i'm saying it the forbidden words may god protect me social justice. (I'm not even getting into the women on RPGs wearing armors that don't cover vital parts thing becase 1) Kai'Sa's actually does close when she's in combat 2) The creative world would be a boredoom hellpit in so many ways if you attain 200% of yourself to this kind of thing )

My point is: having all the girls from your universe having the same sexualized body and dressing the same sexualized way is bad. Not having any, though, or molding 100% of your artistic decisions around a especific portion of your playerbase who might disapprove it, is just as bad too.

Just everyone can rant, and I'm not shaming the person who did it. Different opinions are important on such a large community. No one comes on boards to praise things, though, so maybe Riot is having an inflated perception of people who actually disliked it.

That's it for today, see ya!

26 Comments

Lenn4/6/2018, 2:36:03 PM2 votes

riot has always been willing to sacrifice some practicality in outfits to an extent to make an interesting visual design. which is good!!!! it allows for great looking characters!

like ppl whining that ashe wears a skirt in the freljord while trynd and braum are topless, cool double standard - all 3 of these designs look great, even if they might not be 100% true to reality. i have massive respect for their art/visual team and encourage them adding more cute girls and cool dudes however they see fit

Colonel J4/6/2018, 2:37:30 PM2 votes

I'm just waiting for Riot to finally release a fat girl. I'm sick of Riot pretending to care about diversity when all their women look pretty much the same save for obvious outliers like children, yordles, birds, and illaoi.

Even Overwatch has a fat chick (Mei) which proves that Blizzard cares more about diversity than Riot despite Riot talking bout how much they like diversity far more than Blizzard does. Frankly, Riot is just all talk and no action on this issue.

Busty Demoness4/6/2018, 2:45:32 PM2 votes

You know, I could defend the plunging V neck when original interpretation of her lore was actually surviving within the void.

Now, I can't even defend her suit being symmetrical or symbiotic. There is no logical reason for the suit to suddenly stop consuming her body at any point in time. The description Riot gave of Kai'Sa obtaining her suit was taking The All Consuming Blob and turning it for her own use. Think of living acid that only gains mass as it it eats away at anything biological it touches. This is mindless material that does not reason. It does not think. It simply consumes whatever biological matter it can find. What POSSIBLE quality could Kai'Sa have that enables her to subjugate it to her will?

The short answer is because Kai'Sa is a Mary Sue. And Riot not only dropped the ball on creating a compelling void character that offers a new perspective on what the void is, they used some of the most cliche story writing AND left themselves in a paradox where Kai'Sa should not exist based on her story, but does anyway.

Not to mention they also eliminated whatever was corrupting Kassadin so that he no longer has a reason to be blue-skinned. Now he's just a skilled bandit using various artifacts of power. Malzahar was mostly unchanged but even that became really bad with just minor changes.

I could have written a better backstory for Kai'Sa while keeping the previous lore intact for both Kassadin and Malzahar and even throwing a bone to the Journal of Justice with one of their articles on an event.

SEKAI4/6/2018, 2:34:30 PM1 votes

She can put on her helmet and fully cover her body, which she does so every time she ultis or you can permanently toggle that through the in-game toggle function (I believe it's ctrl+5, might need to check yourself. That function is useless on most champs but is available for certain champs or skins, such as to have Neon Strike Vi switch between putting on her sunglasses or put them on her forehead).

Also, Kai'Sa's low cut is indeed quite pointless, because there's no way she'd find a use for it or even have an idea of that in the first place. She was suck into her current void-hunting life every since a child, and taken away from basically all human interactions and forced to hunt void creatures day in and out. There is no way she'd even have a use for low cut, it's kinda just there for the sake of being there, which isn't that big of a deal but still.

Xinyuo4/7/2018, 4:29:48 PM1 votes

The people complaining about this should go back to their safe spaces.

I don't know why riot is giving in to these feminist %%%%s who are just angry no one wants to have sex with them because they look like fat cows irl.

Also, warriors tend to be fit. They aren't eating icecream while watching t.v all day

Colonel J4/8/2018, 3:26:40 AM1 votes

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The people complaining about this should go back to their safe spaces.

I don't know why riot is giving in to these feminist %%%%s who are just angry no one wants to have sex with them because they look like fat cows irl.

Also, warriors tend to be fit. They aren't eating icecream while watching t.v all day

you say that but if riot released a fat female you yourself woud get "triggered" xd