Guardian of the Sands Xerath Splash art...SERIOUSLY?

Ccamang·4/3/2015, 1:58:44 PM·47 votes·11,432 views

Soo... i was rly glad to see the ingame image of the new Xer skin. Awesome looking, cool effects. However when the splash art came out then wtf?? Guardian guys are sharing one splash art. Ya I know many skins are sharing nowadays. But this...is just aweful. Ram and Skarner are kinda ok. Xer... wow he is just nothing more than a background object. HE IS 1350RP SKIN! Ppl are buying his ingame model AND THE SPLASH ART.

You might say recent Amumu is a similar case , and ya i don't like it too, but at least he has a proper concept for that. This Xer is just... kinda looks like artist forgot to draw him then added him later.

Anyway I think you can't solve this problem by just adding some color or size him up. I rly think he needs his own alone splash art. Come on Riot. He hasn't got a skin for 3 years. (Well don't remind me Zac or Yoric. There are lots of them who have many skin :P) I'm glad u made an awesome skin for Xer finally so i'm just satisfying with recall animation or some slight bugs, but splash art is just way too much for accept.

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I knew there will be no change whether i write this or not, but at least I wanted to show them there are ppl who think the changed is needed. Not sure they even read this but anyway thank you so much Riot.

(However it was interesting to see other opinions too. Real thanks for ppl who leaved comments or votes :D)**

46 Comments

A Superb Villain4/3/2015, 6:43:57 PM24 votes

He blends in too easily with the background. Atmospheric perspective is cool and all, but he should at least be visible.

http://shelbytaylorsup.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/sandstorm.png

Do you see GotS Xerath? He's right there, that clump of sand next to the sand.

aaronconlin4/3/2015, 3:21:44 PM13 votes

The splash art is fine, look at the loading screen one

Lone Old4/3/2015, 4:54:17 PM11 votes

It looks like a teaser for unknown Xerath skin. This really should be fixed. :(

Statikin4/3/2015, 2:26:25 PM7 votes

Finally! Somone addressed this issue. Yeah I do agree, he is not part of the picture enough and doesn't seem as spectacular as his skin actually is.

Sukishoo4/3/2015, 6:00:50 PM4 votes

If you are buying a skin for the Splash, then that's absolutely sad. Skins should be bought for what they bring to the champion. The new visual effects, sound effects, voices, ect are worth so much more then the splash art.

Plus, they obviously wanted to do group splashes more when they have skins sharing a theme as it cuts down on the cost and time to make multiple splashes.

Fasmodey4/6/2015, 9:30:56 PM3 votes

It looks like they will not change anything. Thanks riot.

Krigjer4/3/2015, 4:37:02 PM3 votes

I'm not sure why it matters?

You see the splash art for maybe five minutes during load time. (People like me don't even see that, we alt tab immediately)

Taliban Zilean4/3/2015, 11:27:01 PM3 votes

Yeah it really pisses me of too, it looks like a half ass done job. Like they are just rushing to make the model and saving time for the splash. Its an utter shit, with this, the april fools one, and those sivir and ashe skins also.

StellarPrime4/4/2015, 10:20:49 PM2 votes

My opinion is pretty straightforward.. 750 rp skins can have shared splashes 975 rp and above deserve their own splashes.

I am in no way saying that the art isn't good for those three skins.. but where is the line drawn?

Messaiga4/3/2015, 2:59:53 PM2 votes

I think the best part of Guardian of the Sands Xerath is they finally figured out how to make his Ultimate not look like a squirt gun. Now if they could just give similar treatment to his base particles.

Zeddicus44/3/2015, 11:46:53 PM2 votes

They did the same thing if not worse to ashe in her splash with ww. His shoulder covers a portion of her and she is just like a background piece unless you zoom in and cut him out.

Nixtarma4/4/2015, 3:04:38 AM2 votes

I am mostly happy about the skin, because I like Xerath a lot. So obviously I would like it if he got his own splash :3

Whimsy Spook4/5/2015, 12:02:28 AM2 votes

I think it looks good.

Sirsir4/27/2015, 6:42:04 PM1 votes

Theres a Xerath in there? I thought they were just busting open a ruin or something...

CursedByLight4/3/2015, 5:58:15 PM1 votes

#Lets draw them in a line, add no depth to the picture. Makes it dynamic and things. Cause you know straight lines always work out in League right?

SociopathFriend4/3/2015, 11:26:58 PM1 votes

He's given the same amount of screen space as the others. He's armor surrounding a bunch of energy- there's only so much you can do.

CALL ME JOJO4/6/2015, 7:31:47 AM1 votes

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