Has Riot ever thought of doing different Genders for a skin?

Guy Fox Teemo·4/30/2016, 7:47:57 PM·4 votes·4,187 views

Like a Female Yasuo skin? Or Riven as a dude?

I dunno I think these would be pretty cool legit skins, and I don't think it would disrupt much from gameplay in actual practice if thats one of the worrys the team has about making a skin in which the gender changes.

Example: http://pre08.deviantart.net/fad4/th/pre/i/2014/099/5/b/____com___reverse_riven_s_outfit_____by_elairin-d7dso3z.jpg http://img05.deviantart.net/50a9/i/2013/341/2/0/redeemed_riven___male_redesign_by_chrbr-d6x19sk.jpg

Example: http://img13.deviantart.net/72c8/i/2015/108/4/5/yasuo_female_version_by_chapogi-d7b9tcz.jpg http://orig05.deviantart.net/8d9a/f/2014/283/6/7/female_yasuo_sketch_by_lexlexy-d82a567.jpg http://pre02.deviantart.net/c879/th/pre/i/2015/086/5/0/yasuo_by_venellah-d8nc2y2.jpg

19 Comments

Mavisty4/30/2016, 8:39:55 PM3 votes

I don't think this is a too good of an idea because they have to re-animate every single thing, get more voice actresses and I'm pretty sure that its gonna lead to female skins of skins so if you make a gender switch skin might as well just make a completely new champion

Rabid Husky4/30/2016, 8:04:25 PM2 votes

like undyne said people have begged but riot said if they did it the skins would be ultimate since they would need new voice actors and new body models it would literally be a new champion just without figuring out what they do.

JayHog19924/30/2016, 8:33:56 PM2 votes

Neat idea, but skins would be harder because they need more voice actors or try to find the right ones for the genderbent versions.

ADepressedLeona4/30/2016, 7:57:06 PM2 votes

It's been suggested before. But ultimately I think they said it would be too difficult (At least that's what they said in the past if I recall correctly.)

Gunpoint4/30/2016, 9:43:02 PM1 votes

I think a huge part of it would be silhouette. A champion needs to keep the same silhouette in all their skins otherwise it would cause confusion in game. The only difference in a gender swap skin visually would be hair(mabye), silhouette, and boobs. And since you aren't really supposed to change the silhouette, why would you buy a skin that is just base skin but with boobs.

lolugosu5/2/2016, 6:14:22 PM1 votes

They don't need to re-record new voices. They can use the same voices and say they are transgendered skins. Ez, fam

Colgate Gator5/2/2016, 6:16:23 PM1 votes

I believe they did address that some time ago, that it would cause a lot of clarity issues (clarity as in being able to discern quickly who and what's going on with a simple glimpse), and that they would most definitely not be doing that, and that's not even counting how much work it'd be to actually re-model and re-animate the Champions (rigging can be tricky).