Champ Skin Model Switches - Would this be doable from a gameplay perspective

Linna Excel·Feb 13, 2014·1 votes·11 views

I had an idea for a champ skin. It was basically take one character for the kit, but give it another champ's model, most of the animations, and the VO for the theme. Basically it's a theme idea that needs one champs kit but another champs character and them.

Is that something riot would be willing to try?

I can see potential early laning feedback for the other team being an issue if you weren't paying too much attention, but I don't know if the idea would be toxic or not.

3 Comments

Sir ArmaMalumFeb 13, 20142 votes

Between swapped silhouettes, hitboxes not matching up, ability animations being overdrawn/hidden and melee/ranged mix ups I doubt this would be a good idea. There's a lot of work put into a champ to make sure everything matched up with a model, and it's a shitstorm whenever they make it to live (or PBE) when they don't. Sorry, but I don't see this working in any form....

Linna ExcelFeb 13, 20141 votes

Both champs are ranged and about the same size if that helps.

Sir ArmaMalumFeb 13, 20142 votes

As an individual skin that would work thematically, but Riot has had a precedent so far to keep champs having the same model and size with any skin. Logistically and visually it wouldn't make sense