Skins that annoy the hell out of me (and probably others)

Excitidly Insane·2/11/2016, 3:29:53 PM·1 votes·536 views

Lemme just put a disclaimer here saying that while the skins I'll list do trigger me, the concept and art surrounding them and the changes made from the base model do actually please me. It's not a "Rito sux" thread, rather "Why can't you be more consistent?"

So without further ado, let us begin MasterYi :

  1. Spirit Guard Udyr: Now apart from the fact it's a Visual Update with some bells and whistles attached, the skin itself is beautiful and really shows what Riot can do when it comes to changing everything from the base model. But, for a skin they worked on for so long, I find it a crime that, in one of his stances (I believe Turtle stance, I'll have to rush into a bot game and edit this after) his foot clips through his robe. Model clipping is something I personally despise (Looking at you Vladimir) especially if I notice it after something else has annoyed me slightly. It's like pacing through your house while being annoyed then suddenly seeing there is a fault with the tiles on your kitchen floor and it makes you say to yourself "And then THIS is wrong too!" For a skin they worked on for 6 months I believe it's almost laziness.

  2. Recall animations (or their inconsistency within skin themes): So we've all probably noticed after (I think it was Uber) that fateful Pool Party video that Ziggs is the only one without a recall in the entire PP skin range. While I admit it was a pilot skin and started the theme, they could have revised it at any time after. Snow Day Ziggs has one, so why can't they just add a simple animation of him tossing some water bombs at his rubber duckie ring? The same can be said about Arcade Sona, who in the Arcade Video Promo is seen /d instead of recalling because she doesn't have one. It was the perfect opportunity to have her input the Konami Code like she does in the Final Boss Veigar Summoner Showdown animated video. Yes it might conflict with Veigar's own recall but I personally wouldn't mind. And why, oh why does Project Yasuo have a different recall to the rest of the group? The rest of them "finish" their animation in some way, such as Zed slamming the ground to recall his shurikens, and Yasuo is just standing there on one leg. I'm slightly peeved at that because they added a recall to the pilot skin (Yasuo) but didn't keep it consistent.

  3. The Mecha Kha'Zix devalue: A while ago they added the same passive indicator to his base skin and his latest one that Mecha Kha'Zix has (Although not exactly the same and if I had to specify that I mean really ._.). It didn't annoy me that much, I didn't feel cheated and I will still use Mecha Kha'Zix regardless. What annoyed the living daylights out of me was the fact they didn't attach a sound file to it like the Mecha Kha. It didn't have to be something they would have to make, they could have just tied in his empowered auto sound to it on both his default and GotS skins.

  4. Why the hell doesn't Shen have a recall on any of his skins after his Visual Update.

I could probably find some other stuff to complain about, such as Battlecast Vel'Koz having his extra lines removed for no apparent reason, the Elderwood theme not sharing similar color schemes, and why Graves can't have a cigar (Although I know why and agree), but that's it for now.

I'm not saying I could do it, I have no clue how to animate a model but when you consider Darius to having of of the simplest recall animations across the entire champion pool then it can't be that difficult to add a lil' something to everyone.

Peace, Tyraim.

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