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Favouritism isn't just a problem at riot's skins team

Jerry SeinfeId·6/12/2019, 5:30:44 PM·4 votes·1,613 views

But also on these boards.

I don't think i need to tell anyone about the new arcade skins or the anger around em. Kai'sa is now without a doubt the queen of skins when it comes to amount of skins/champion age. And people are mad about that and claiming riot's playing favourites. But before her jhin was in this position. In one year the champion managed to get 3 skins and then riot skipped 2018 (thank god). But even in that year i never saw any thread here get any traction (if they even managed to stay above 0) when they mentionned that.

Now let's look at the dark star skins being released in this patch. He got a legendary, and everyone was happy with it. Yet this champ who had been waiting 4 years got a 1350 skin and you all seemed fine with that.

So why is it that jhin is allowed to get 3 skins in one year and then get the legendary over a supposedly neglected champ but you all get mad over kai'sa? The only difference i see between jhin and kai'sa is also the only similarity i see between kai'sa and shaco, boards don't like em.

same goes for lux, yi, ezreal, yasuo, etc...

7 Comments

woodvsmurph6/12/2019, 5:50:19 PM3 votes

It's not favoritism or not ONLY favoritism as far as skins are concerned. Some champions' characteristics are simply more flexible than others as far as skins are concerned and therefore more skins will be made for them. Compare some champs with many skins (lux, ahri, kai'sa, etc.) to others with few. Then ask yourself, which ones are easier to make a new skin for?

When you have to say... account for a giant anchor or similar item in their equipment or... they're a centaur so every skin needs to involve 4 legs - you end up having fewer options and/or needing to put more thought into designing a new skin. Rush and you end up with a crappy idea or basically a new paint job on the same skin.

And there is also the factor of popularity. If only a hundred people in the world drive a car brand, then you can bet you're not going to try popping out a new model every year. Whereas if hundreds of thousands drive your brand, then you can be more safe in assuming somebody will be wanting a new model any given year. Similar scenario with skins. More people play the champ, more profitable it should be designing a new skin for them. Sure once in awhile you might design a new mundo file skin or crabgot skin, but not every year because if it takes same or more investment to make a skin for them and you sell way fewer skins for more or less same price per skin as popstar ahri or kda kai'sa... you make way less money for the same amount of (or even more) work.

Therefore, it makes more sense and is more justifiable to have a perception of favoritism when it comes to skins.

When it comes to balancing champions or classes, that is where favoritism has no place. Sadly, not everyone gets that memo.

Dynikus6/12/2019, 6:13:32 PM2 votes

There were a lot of threads complaining about jhin when he got multiple skins in the same year, not sure what you're talking about. I also know a lot of people were pretty unhappy with jhin's darkstar skin. Not for the same reasons, but just because of the quality of the skin.

Dorans Pants6/12/2019, 8:41:36 PM1 votes

there were complains for the exact same reason. I remember it because of the joke that he can´t get any more skins because you know... four.