Why are all of xerath’s skins terrible

Lunio·Mar 25, 2019·11 votes·6,302 views

I enjoy playing Xerath quite a bit and am always disappointed when I think about his skin options. I’ve always though battle boss Xerath would be cool, does anyone else have any good ideas?

18 Comments

DrippyBrownHoleMar 25, 20197 votes

Xerath's design is terrible, and you can't put lipstick on a pig and expect it to look good.

OleandervineMar 25, 20192 votes

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Xerath's design is terrible, and you can't put lipstick on a pig and expect it to look good.

This so much. Xerath is basically a bunch of rubble suspended by electricity. There's only so much you can do with that in it's current form.

KingMogarMar 26, 20191 votes

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

KFCeytronMar 25, 20196 votes

What are you talking about? Xerath has many unique and creative skins, including Green Xerath, Red Xerath, Orange Xerath, and Yellow Xerath.

DarkTree1Mar 25, 20194 votes

scorched earth is rad but in general yeah i can see where you're coming from. he hasn't had a skin in a while (abt 4 years) and all of his current ones are basically chromas (before he got reworked in 2014 they weren't even colour changes lol). he isn't ultra popular but i think he's scheduled for a skin sometime soon

PhâgeT4Mar 25, 20193 votes

For me the best concepts are Xerath

Dark Star
Void
Battle Boss
Pulse Fire
Cosmic Wierd concepts that might be interesting:
Elementalist Xerath (changes between elements but there is alredy Lux's one)
Human form (Xerath before the ascension)
Worldbreaker
Hextech Xerath

Crow NebulaMar 25, 20193 votes

The problem is Xerath's base design. There's only so many ways you can dress up a pile of rocks held together by lightning. Personally, I'd love for him to have a visual update so that his Shuriman Ascended provenance is more apparent.

Stars ShaperMar 25, 20191 votes

I'm sorry but if you can give X different dresses and haircut to something like Lux you can do the same with VFX effects of Xerath body and turn him into a friggin legendary champion.

xdDXDxdXDdxdxDdxMar 25, 20192 votes

i don't know, maybe they can't find inspiration from him. which i find hard to believe. maybe they were feeling lazy when they made his skins

S V Mar 25, 20192 votes

Omega Squad Xerath would be nice. Or any skin line that has him shooting Missiles. An Arcade Xerath would have neat pixel animations. A Galaxy Xerath would look trippy.

AetherArisingMar 25, 20192 votes

He could really use a Dark Star skin with those nice black-purple-navyblue colored spell effects

Around999PeopleMar 25, 20191 votes

I remember finding him fun a while back and I thought of getting a skin but then I saw how they're all so... bad. I mean jeez.

MetallikaiserMar 25, 20191 votes

His two older skins are bad. But how are Guardian of the Sands, and Scorched Earth Xerath bad? I think they are both pretty darn good.

Stars ShaperMar 25, 20191 votes

GotS Xerath is awesome but I'm biased toward it xD

All Xerath skins are old (except Scorched Earth and Guardian of the Sands), like really really old. They originally didn't even have different colors because Riot lacked the tech required to change VFX colours.

He needs a legendary tier skin badly, Dark Star, Void, Cosmic etc. are all awesome concepts but since he is not a popular champion nor the Art team seems to care about him relaly much I don't see he getting one.

mack9112Mar 25, 20191 votes

I love all his skins...

radetariMar 25, 20191 votes

Because the champ is terrible https://media.giphy.com/media/3oKIPftfxXPwJFkvba/giphy.gif

Violet FieldsMar 25, 20191 votes

The funny thing is he has one of the few skins which changes their color (Battlecast) in a 520 skin when old Battlecast Urgot costed 1350 and only changed the Q and base skin.

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