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@Riot, Summoners Rift Skins

TwoD·12/9/2015, 11:51:20 PM·9 votes·6,101 views

Riot we have Champion skins, ward skins and poro skins but none for our map. Summoners Rift could use skins again like seasonal skins or from other skin lines.

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/d/d3/Summoners_Rift_Summoner_Platforms.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/400?cb=20140624075315

Here I have a few but good skin ideas for our favorite 5v5 map.

Snowdown Showdown Summoners Rift, this way Baron gets to take a vacation leave and get some days off. Because Poro King will take over and bring terror in the rift instead and dragon should be Frosty the Evil Snowman. Instead of ducks we get penguins. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C5thh83e_CE/VmcI7rC-TXI/AAAAAAAA1zs/T0bk6iVMnWU/s640/test1.jpg

Underworld Summoners Rift, basically Halloween/Harrowing Summoners Rift. Zombies, death and all that. Oh and ghost Urf. Instead of replacing Baron and Dragon, we get Dead Baron and Ghost Dragon.

Beach Party Summoners Rift, why a pool party when you can have a beach party? Sea giant Baron and Hydra for Dragon.

Piltover Summoners Rift, this would be pretty cool if it was actually completed...http://apollo-uploads-br.s3.amazonaws.com/1429197543596/11074509_685560231569993_9357565958683739_o.jpg

Icathia Summoners Rift, Idk how this place looks like but Void stuff I guess.

Infernal Summoners Rift, Fire lots of fire, rules this place. Nothing like magma chamber, this place should have more fire.

Arcade Summoners Rift, http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/sites/default/files/styles/scale_xlarge/public/upload/leagueoflegends_62_1920x1080.png?itok=yuJzJ6zG

[slayer-jinx-catface] Ritoplz.

8 Comments

shadowforger1112/10/2015, 4:04:22 AM3 votes

A nice concept, I think I speak for all players when I say we want Summoner's Rift Skins, but there are problems. First, would the player that has the skin override the map look for everyone or would it only affect you (which could be complicated for coding) or would you have multiple buttons in champ select that say,"Spend (X) RP for this Skin for this Game"?

Second, If two players disagreed on what the map should look like and had different ones, what then?

Finally, how much additional data would this add to our computers/ RITO's servers?

This may be one opinion, it may be a bad one, but I believe that offering any feedback is better than looking, voting, then clicking out. I hope that this comment helps this and future posts. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Mister Sunglow12/10/2015, 1:55:14 AM2 votes

Honestly I would pay a good 2k RP for a winter Summoner's Rift skin! It would be a nice addition and then less people would be using custom skins for their Rift.

Trust in Bard12/10/2015, 5:48:25 AM2 votes

I am tripping shit on the arcade summoners rift, like who the hell made that?! That is epic skills XD

Edit: It all comes down to clarity though.

EasyWay BW12/23/2015, 1:44:44 PM1 votes

PLEASE RIOT WHY YOU TEASE US WITH THE YOUTUBE VIDEOS OF OUR PAST SNOW RIFT BRING THE MAP SKINS TO LEAGUE SPICE IT UP!! let teams vote on the skin make a 3 free map skins and I guarantee players will pay for dlc map skins

ModThe Djinn12/23/2015, 5:00:29 PM1 votes

The potential issue here is that champion and skin color palettes are designed with visibility on Summoner's Rift in mind. This is something Riot has been emphasizing more and more lately, both with recent releases and visual updates.

Changing the skin of Summoner's Rift would be pretty limiting, as you'd have to make sure the new color palettes preserved that level of visibility across all existing champion skins.

Winter and Bilgewater are definitely possibilities (just port over the visual aesthetic of Howling Abyss / Butcher's Bridge), but I think something like Arcade would just be too busy and visually confusing.