Wondering why we don't have some Alt champions as skins. For example Keep the same kit but change 
into a corrupted Rasho. New Visuals, New vo, new personality. About the same work load as legendary or ultimate tier skins. The benefit is see in this is it opens opportunity's to bring some more of the lore alive in game.
Hotarµ2 votesI think Riot has mentioned that they don't do this for clarity reasons. It would confuse new players and make it more difficult to fight said champions.
I don't really agree with their thought process and I would like to see something like this added even though it would take a ton of work.
SuicidePlank1 votesSo a Skin? What has Nightbringer Yasuo to do with the OG Yasuo? Or the God-King ones?
Hotarµ2 votesThematically those champions/skins are different but you can still tell it's the same champion. Nightbringer Yasuo still has similar animations and attacks, and Garen is still a big guy with a big sword.
I think OP is saying why not have champions changed entirely instead of just cosmetically. Like mentioned in the post, Nami wouldn't be Nami anymore. New stance, new visuals, new voiceover, new lore(?), new animations, the only similarity being the kit.
Kai Guy1 votesNami wouldn't be Nami anymore. New stance, new visuals, new voiceover, new lore(?), new animations, the only similarity being the kit.
^ this. In my example every bit of Vocal line would be specifically for Rasho.
Chembaron Yamada1 votesYou said it already in your other comment: clarity. If we release skins for champions changing them that much that they are no longer recognisable as the champion they got the kit from, it puts extreme burden of knowledge on players.
Imagine if they released a bunch of these skins, the entire enemy team is using these skins and you have to learn which one is which champion all over again. Not gonna happen, that's for sure.
Hotarµ1 votesYes, I did say that, I was just explaining it to Laufplanke because he was mistaken on what OP was talking about.
I fully understand the reason behind why Riot doesn't do it and I made that clear in the other comment when I said:
"It would confuse new players and make it more difficult to fight said champions. "
The reason I said I don't fully agree with the thought process is because it's simple to deal with and Smash Bros. is a great example of how it can be done right (through Echo fighters.) New players are the outlier in this situation and it could be combated with a simple toggle.
Sukishoo1 votesNo, what they want is more of what Heroes of Newerth has. Where it is an alternative avatar but it doesn't have anything in common with the base. Like you normally play nami as a watery female mermaid, now it'd be a firey male dinosaur or something.
SuicidePlank1 votesNo, what they want is more of what Heroes of Newerth has. Where it is an alternative avatar but it doesn't have anything in common with the base. Like you normally play nami as a watery female mermaid, now it'd be a firey male dinosaur or something.
Ye, that is a skin?
Sukishoo1 votesNo, its more than a skin.
Chembaron Yamada1 votesWith like 144 champions in the game, which you should recognise and have kinda an idea what they are doing, this would be too much. Requiring to recognise these champions additionally with another model that has nothing with their base on common would add a great bunch of burden of knowledge, completely unnecessary.
Elite4Runner1 votesWhy do this when they can just invest that time and effort in to creating a new champion?
Kai Guy1 votesbecause at 144 champions this provides a good way to splash some lore into the actual game. It also does not require as many divisions of riots teams to work. Just the skin team.
SelinaTheLeaf1 votesYou realize the skin team is already like the busiest division of them all? Not to mention it would require a lot more divisions since you're essentially putting in the same effort as a brand new champion.
Kai Guy1 votesGood point. At the very least Skin and lore team. I stand corrected. I think all divisions are busy pretty much all the time, my experience is corporations don't like employees sitting around and there is always more to be done.